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This past Sunday Peachtree Baptist Church congregation, family, and friends met to worship our Lord and pray for those lost and injured in the two mass shootings, one in El Paso, Texas and the other on Dayton, Ohio. We prayed for the families and friends of these people. We prayed for the people in this country that do not know or worship the Lord and that we would come back to Him.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Funny how the pendulum swings in high school football in a short period of time.
Two years ago, Nash Central was an offensive juggernaut -- and rode that excellence all the way to the second round of the Class 2-AA State Playoffs.
It was a record-breaking season for the Bulldogs as far as numbers on offense are concerned, but the next spring saw the graduation of several standouts, including quarterback Travis Griffin.

The North Carolina School Board Association will aid the Nash-Rocky Mount School Board of Education in their search for the school system's next superintendent.
Board members unanimously agreed to use the School Board Association's search service following a presentation by Allison Schafer, Director of the Legal Department for the NC School Board Association.

Nashville's Town Council agreed on Tuesday to move forward with abandoning the Aviation Lift Station.
The project has been on the town's "to do" list since 2006, when the Wooten Company was hired by the town to evaluate the town's water and sewer systems and determined that the Aviation Lift Station needed to be eliminated with construction of a gravity flow sewer line.

Olbin Romero looks outside the window of the Nash County Smokehouse at the Castalia Community Fun Day, which was held at Castalia's park.

The Town of Nashville's latest hire will begin work next week.
Lee Brown was hired as the town's new Public Works Director at a salary of $70,038. He will start in the new position on August 13.
Brown replaces Jamey Baines, who worked with the town for 18.5 years.

The Youth Pastor's Coalition (YPC) is hosting its annual School Prayer Walks this year and still searching for churches and other organizations to pray over schools.
This is the fifth year the YPC has hosted the prayer walks.
The YPC is made up of youth pastors from all denominations and backgrounds.

Nash County Commissioners granted approval for the largest solar farm thus far in Nash County on Monday morning.
The 692-acre solar farm is a part of eight tracts of land and will be located in Southern Nash County, on the east side of S NC Highway 231, the south side of Frazier Road and both sides of portions of Prophecy Road, Old Nash Road and Valley Road.

Deputy Brooks Heath wasn't supposed to be in the Spring Hope area last Tuesday evening but the Snow family is grateful he was.
Heath, who was off-duty at the time, was on the way to pick up his daughter, when he saw a young boy frantically running down the road in his pajamas. His parents were following behind him.

The Oak Level Ruritan Club recently presented four youth with scholarships at their monthly meeting. Pictured (L-R) is: Haley Brown, Victoria Thompson and Robert Simmons. Brown is the daughter of Ricky and Kim Bowen and the granddaughter of Diane and Rodger Bowen and will attend East Carolina University; Thompson is the daughter of Lee and Yvonne Thompson and the granddaughter of Jim and Mary Boehm and will attend Wesleyan College; Simmons is the son of Lisa and Aaron Simmons and the grandson of Helen and Terry Hayes.

Pictured above, Khania Davis exits the Nash County Smokehouse.

Ruby Aydlett shows the rocket she built during H.D. Cooley Library's Summer Reading Finale held recently.

Our family got in one last trip this past weekend, a kiss goodbye to the summer.
Well, only to the summer as a "break" -- I'm sure we have a good eight weeks of the heat left.
But, with my wife in a new job, a child preparing to return to college, kids heading back to school, and me starting a new job next week, this was our last chance.