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This photo was originally published July 3, 1969. These four Nash County boys won awards during the Louisburg College Basketball Camp.

Castalia's regular meeting of the town board only last twenty minutes last week.
At the meeting, the board voted to add Mildred Costen as a member of the planning board.
A Plus Disposal, the town's current trash collection and disposal company, will replace all the trash and recycling bins belonging to their Castalia customers.

The Rocky Mount Police Department is investigating a July 7 homicide on Cokey Road.
Officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 1100 block of Cokey Road. Responding officers located a single victim in the parking lot of 1108 Cokey Road. The victim, Daniel Steven Pierce, 22, of Rocky Mount, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Found property was reported on 6/30/19 at 2453 S Old Franklin Road
An injury to personal property was reported on 6/30/19 at 9070 Issette Lane
An injury to personal property was reported on 6/30/19 at 222 W Washington Street

INCIDENTS
An uttering a forged instrument was reported on 7/1/19 at 233 Kandemor Lane, Rocky Mount
An involuntary commitment was reported on 7/2/19

Nash County Planning and Inspections issued the following building permits from July 1 through 6.

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the final semester of the 2018-2019 school year.
The following students at Northern Nash High School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the final semester of the 2018-2019 school year.
The following students at Nashville Elementary School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the final semester of the 2018-2019 school year.
The following students at the Red Oak Middle School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

Nichole Philips Denny holds the first cotton bloom, along with her two-month-old son Benjamin Stewart Denny. Pictured with Nichole is her parents Carolyn and Stewart Phillips. The cotton bloom was found on Benjamin's great uncle Burt Philip's farm in the Battleboro community. They brought the bloom to the newspaper office on June 27.

Nashville's Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Nashville are hosting a free seminar presented by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office on Tuesday, July 16 at the Nashville Town Council Chambers. The seminar will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the final semester of the 2018-2019 school year.
The following students at Middlesex Elementary School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

"Then I said to them: 'You see the trouble we are in...Come, let us rebuild..., and we will no longer be in disgrace'." (Nehemiah 2:17)
One of the newspapers in which my column appears featured a letter to the editor recently in which the writer quipped, "Separation of church and state is guaranteed in the Constitution...Even the Bible supports the separation of church and state when it says, 'Give unto Caesar what it Caesar's, and give unto God what is God's.'"

Summertime in the Bible Belt undoubtedly means one thing: Vacation Bible School. As a child growing up in the 80s, VBS was synonymous with butter ring cookies and cherry Kool-Aid. I can vaguely remember wearing fancy sundresses and vying for one of three coveted spots to march in either the Bible, the Christian Flag, or the American Flag to hold during opening nightly ceremonies.

I heard about a gallery owner who called one of his featured artists and said, "I have some good news and some bad news."
The artist said, "Well, what's the good news?"
"The good news is that a man came in here the other day and was looking at your paintings. He asked whether the value of the paintings would go up if the artist were to die. I told him they would, of course. So he bought every one of your paintings."

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the final semester of the 2018-2019 school year.
The following students at Coopers Elementary School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the final semester of the 2018-2019 school year.
The following students at the Nash-Rocky Mount Early College High School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the final semester of the 2018-2019 school year.
The following students at Benvenue Elementary School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the final semester of the 2018-2019 school year.
The following students at MB Hubbard Elementary School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

The Momeyer Ruritan Club recently awarded scholarships to Tristen Edwards and Connor Vick at their meeting on Monday, June 17. Stuart Parker, President of the Momeyer Ruritan Club's Scholarship Committee presented the scholarships. Vick was unable to attend the meeting due to orientation at East Carolina University so his father, Art Vick, accepted on his behalf. Pictured above (L-R) is Art Vick, Tristen Edwards and Stuart Parker. Edwards plans to attend NC Wesleyan while Vick will attend East Carolina.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Cana Shrock has built an impressive resume' during her softball career at Nash Central High School -- but she showcased her game at a statewide level during last month's Powerade North Carolina State Games.
Shrock, who is entering her senior campaign at Nash Central, was part of the Region 1 Team that won the championship at the annual event, which was staged in Charlotte.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Nash Central High School will kick off its 2019 football schedule on Aug. 23 with a home game against the Southeast Halifax Trojans.
Nash Central's slate in the Eastern Plains Conference will begin Oct. 11 at home versus Farmville Central.
Central's complete worksheet is as follows, with home matchups listed in CAPS:

ZEBULON -- Mario Feliciano went 3-for-4 with two doubles, a triple and three RBI, Wes Rogers scored four runs while going 2-for-3, Ryan Aguilar went 2-for-4 with a two-run double in the eighth and Noah Zavolas earned the win the as Carolina Mudcats held on to win their fifth straight game 6-5 on Monday night versus Lynchburg in a Class A Carolina League baseball showdown.

NASH REC'S ANNA KING

NASH REC'S BLANTON COCHRANE