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Nashville's Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department is offering three different summer camps for youth of all ages.
The first camp is an Environmental Camp, which has been hosted in year's past. Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Director Marguerite Bishop said the camp has been successful in year's past and continues to grow.

A South Carolina murder suspect was apprehended in Nash County during a traffic stop last Thursday night.
Deputies with the Nash County Sheriff's Office Highway Interdiction Team initiated a traffic stop on a white Nissan Altima on I-95 southbound near mile marker 141.
Deputy P. Hufton approached the vehicle and spoke with the driver, who provided false names.

Nash County 4-H'ers are selling tickets to participate in a special type of BINGO.
The Nash County 4-H Send-a-Kid-to-Camp program will present their first ever Cow Patty BINGO fundraiser on June 14.
The event will be livestreamed on Facebook beginning at 6 p.m.

Retirement wasn't an easy decision for Sgt. Steve Glover.
After agreeing to stay on a few extra weeks to help with the Blooming Festival, Glover officially retired from Nashville's Police Department on May 31.
Nashville's Town Council recognized Glover for his service Tuesday night. Council also approved a resolution declaring Glover's service side arm surplus and gifting him the weapon in exchange for $1.

Nashville's Business and Professional Women (BPW) are offering a taste of something new this year, as it presents a new fundraising event for its scholarship program.
The First Annual Taste of Nash County is set for Tuesday, June 11 from 4 until 7 p.m. at Nash Community College.
Tickets are $15 each.

The Nash County Sheriff's Office squashed rumors last week that a human hand was discovered at the site where the body of Sarah Denise Patterson was found.
According to the Sheriff's Office, local social media pages were reporting a human hand had been discovered at the site where the body of Patterson had been found off of West Old Spring Hope Road.

At it's regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, the Town Board of Castalia approved next year's budget, and heard two presentations - one from Emilio Reyes and another from Floyd Brake.
No one from the public was present for the public hearing on the budget and it was approved unanimously.

The Nashville NC Chamber of Commerce will be awarding a $500 Education Scholarship to two graduating high school seniors in July this year to help with college expenses. Funding for the scholarships is provided from advertising on the chamber's website.

Two residents are concerned about drivers speeding where they live and want commissioners to take extra action to make the area safer.
Peggy Leggett and her husband moved to their home on South Walnut Street in November of 2018. She said since then, there has been two serious accidents in that section.

I'm willing to bet most of the regular readers of this column know well the story of D-Day and its significance to modern world history.
The 75th Anniversary is this week, and as I heard one of the participants in the upcoming ceremonies say, this is the last time to make a big deal about D-Day with some of the participants still around.

This week, I attended the funeral of a retired teacher/principal who passed away.
It was obvious by the full church that Jill Lynn Sutton was loved and remembered by so many.
Mrs. Sutton was the principal of Coopers Elementary School when I came to the Graphic in 2006. I believe she served for five years at Coopers before her retirement.

This photo originally published in The Nashville Graphic on July 25, 1968. Don Glisson was pictured teaching the fundamentals of tennis to local youth in Nashville. The lessons were open to all ages, including adults at the Nashville tennis courts.

In every age, wherever people have built communities, the danger of fire has loomed on the periphery. Calm summer evenings and quiet wintery nights have been spliced by the sound of a fire station alarm. Men and women from all walks of life have scrambled to the call, harnessing equipment and mustering courage to rush to the aid of those in need. And the majority of those men and women are volunteers.

A traffic stop on Highway 264 led to the arrest of a Greenville man on drug charges.
Nash County Sheriff's Deputy C. Patterson initiated a traffic stop around 1 a.m. on Saturday, June 1 on a vehicle for a violation. The stop was initiated on US 264 near mile marker 29.

INCIDENTS
An intoxicated and disruptive and trespassing was reported on 5/25/19 at L&L14, 479 W Washington Street
A driving while impaired was reported on 5/26/19 on US 64 in the Eastbound Lane near the Red Oak Road exit

Nash County Planning and Inspections issued the following building permits from May 27 through 31.

To ensure the safety and security of employees and the general public, the city of Rocky Mount has implemented new initiatives.
Residents and city employees will now be greeted by a security officer located on the first floor of the Frederick E. Turnage Municipal Building (City Hall).
Employees are required to display city issued identification badges on their clothing.

NNHS - Datrone Arrington

NNHS - Jaylin Wilkins, TaRod Brown and Dorquez Flowers

NNHS - Meera Sinno and Brandon Ellis

NNHS - Brianna Lawrence and Dominique Lyons

RMHS - Tierra Freeman and Malia Mansel

RMHS - Amaya Dickens, Ka'Leese Jones, Za'Narra Phillips and Tamera Joyner

NCHS- Kaleb Merritt, Danielle Wanuz and Gabby Saal

NCHS - Destiny Bridges and Mecca Johnson