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ROCKY MOUNT -- The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA), in conjunction with Wells Fargo, has announced the final standings in the Wells Fargo Conference Cup competitions for the 2018-2019 sports season.
The Wells Fargo Cup award, sponsored by Wells Fargo and the NCHSAA, recognizes the schools that achieve the best overall interscholastic athletic performance within each of the state's four competitive classifications.

NASH COUNTY -- Wilson Fike and Wilson Hunt led the way in the annual Big East Conference Wells Fargo Conference Cup standings for the 2018-19 school year.
But Southern Nash and Northern Nash were also solid in the standings, which are based on all-points accumulations in every sport during the campaign.
Wilson Fike, thanks to a strong spring sports stretch, held off Wilson Hunt for the overall championship with 191 total points.

STANHOPE -- Southern Nash High School will kick off its 2019 football schedule on Aug. 23 with a home game against the Warren County Eagles at historic Firebird Stadium on the SNHS campus.
Southern Nash's complete ledger is as follows, with home games listed in CAPS:

Trey Whitley and the Nash Central Bulldogs were the winners of the Eastern Plains Conference Baseball Championship this spring.

Elisabeth Collie and the Southern Nash Ladybirds were the winners of the Big East Conference softball championship -- and also earned points in the Wells Fargo Conference Cup Standings in the Big East.

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A well loved music teacher was killed in an accident on Monday morning.
Reginald Stewart Jeffreys, 58, of Burlington, was walking on a sidewalk around 10:30 a.m. on June 17 near an intersection in Burlington when he was struck by a vehicle driving southbound on the northbound side of the road.
The driver was identified as Nathaniel Jeremiah Newton, 28, of Burlington.

Nash County District Court Judge Anthony Brown wants to help families caught up in the devastation of addiction.
Brown presented a program he hopes to start, Family Drug Treatment Courts, in Nash County to Nash County Commissioners on Monday.
Brown said the state no longer provides funding for these courts anymore, however, there are grant funding opportunities he hoped to take advantage of.

Eleven youth were taught life skills at a new Nash County 4-H summer camp.
The "Home Economics with a Twist" camp was held June 5 and 6 at the Nashville Community Building.
Nash County 4-H Program Assistant Amy Ormond said the idea for the camp came after she had learned that a similar camp was held in another county.

The Municipal Service District Advisory Board for the Town of Nashville is accepting applications to fill a vacancy on the board.
The five-member Municipal Service District (MSD) Advisory Board was created in January 2017, a few months after Nashville's Town Council approved setting up a Municipal Service District in the downtown area, where a special tax would be imposed on those in that district.

A Greenville police officer has named his K-9 after a Nash County officer who lost his life in the line of duty.
William Groseclose was a young officer serving in Kinston on June 9, 2011 when Nash County Deputy/US Marshal's Service Task Force Officer Warren "Sneak" Lewis III was killed while trying to serve a warrant at a Kinston residence in connection with a murder investigation.

Pictured above, Scarlet Cox pets a horse before getting a chance to ride during a 4-H Horse Camp last week at Wanda Bunn's Horse Farm. Pictured below, Logan VanHouten cleans a horse stall while at Horse Camp.

Nash County 4-H Program Assistant Amy Ormond gives a demonstration on ironing to youth during a Home Economics Summer Camp held earlier this month.

The Nashville High School Class of 1957 recently held their 62nd year reunion on April 27, 2019 at the Nashville Exchange in Nashville.

Dianne B. Baines of Nashville, owner and operator of Dianne's Hair Fashions for nearly 50 years, passed away June 15, 2019. She was born August 24, 1952.
She was preceded in death by her father, Johnnie Raymond Brannan Sr. and mother, Ruth Brannan.

Rebecca Rose Ceglia, a graduate of Nash Community College, is the 2019 recipient of the Dr. Dallas Herring Achievement Award. She was selected from student and graduate nominees from across North Carolina's 58 community colleges. The North Carolina Community College System recognition coincided with North Carolina Community College Excellence in Education Month, as proclaimed by Gov. Roy Cooper, for the month of April.

Nashville's Cooley Library hosted its Summer Reading Program kick-off last Saturday with ScienceTellers. Pictured, Sheryl Davis, of ScienceTellers, helps Mariam Nesser, Cadence Sisson and Mason Tant (L-R) make an alien hand after telling a story about an alien.

Sisters Natalya Richardson and Zaniyah Adams (L-R) pour a liquid into a container for a science experiment during a Science Tellers presentation last Saturday at Cooley Library.