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On Saturday, March 9, 2019 at approximately 7:36 P.M., Nash County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the 200 block of Old County Home Road in Nashville for a call for service regarding a missing person report.
The missing person, Diana Alejandra Keel, 38-year old Hispanic Female, was last seen by her husband, Lynn Keel, on Friday, 03/08/2019.

DURHAM -- Defense may be a lost art in today's world of basketball, but its still-potent ways were on display last Saturday evening courtesy of Durham Hillside.
The homestanding Hornets seemingly had an answer for every move on offense that was made by Southern Nash in the clubs' third-round meeting in the Class 3-A Boys Basketball Playoffs.

A Nashville native is returning home to serve as Nashville's Finance Director.
Nashville Interim Town Manager Leonard Barefoot announced the hiring of Russell Langley on Tuesday night at the board's regular meeting.
Langley was hired to serve as an Assistant Finance Director under Interim Finance Director Melonie Bryan. Bryan will train Langley in the coming weeks and he will then take over the role of Finance Director.

The town board of Castalia spent most of their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday in closed session to discuss personnel matters. After the closed session the mayor announced that the board had decided to rescind the employment offer for the position of town clerk extended to Maxine Perry due to an unsatisfactory background check. Town Commissioner Sylvia Mann stressed that the incident on the report was not recent, something that happened over twenty years ago.

Several Nash County Scout Troops hosted their Pinewood Derbies this past Saturday. A district-wide event will be held on Saturday, March 9 at NC Wesleyan College.
Pictured above, Camden Tippette, of Nashville Troop 76, eyes his derby car before a race on Saturday. Nashville's race was held at Nashville United Methodist Church, where the pack meets.

Nash County Cooperative Extension has received grant funding that will empower families to better combat the opioid crisis.
The "Empowering Youth and Families" Program is a 12-week program for parents and youth ages 10 to 14. The program will begin this month.
The grant is through the Rural Health and Safety Education Program and SAMHSA.

Security in elementary schools was again brought to the attention of school board members at their regular meeting on Monday.
Bo Brown came before the board in December to speak about his concerns for safety in elementary schools.
Brown was back on Monday, asking the board to take action. Brown said with the sale of the O.R. Pope school for rougly $200,000, the money could be used for capital purchases.

Nashville Planning Director Julie Spriggs hopes to begin updating the town's ordinances, with help from the Planning Board.
Spriggs brought two such ordinances before the Planning Board last week to review.
Spriggs said many of the town's planning ordinances were written in the 70s and 80s. She said she wants to work with the Planning Board to get the ordinances updated and into 2020.

Just over a year after a fire destroyed a long-time funeral home in Nashville, the owners are making plans to rebuild.
The fire at Richardson Funeral Home on Alston Street happened on Tuesday, January 2, 2018. The fire destroyed the building and it was considered a total loss.
Nashville Fire Chief Chris Joyner said it appears the fire started in a bathroom of the building, possibly from a hot water heater, but he added that was not determined for sure.

The O.D. Moore Scholarship Foundation is hosting its annual Gospel Jubilee on Saturday, March 16.
The Jubilee is set for 2 p.m. at the O.D. Moore Building, located at 806 S. Alston Street in Nashville.
Hattie Dunn said the event is a competition that will raise money to fund scholarships for local youth.

Former Nashville Police Chief Tom Bashore was presented his service weapon on Tuesday night by Nashville Mayor Donald Street.
Bashore retired as the leader of the police department on December 31 after serving for six years. He spent a total of 21 years in law enforcement and another 23 years in the military.

Third graders at Coopers Elementary School received a special visit from Sparky the Fire Dog recently. The visit was a part of an annual award's presentation, where Coopers Fire Fighters present plaques to winners of its Great Escape contest. Each year, during Fire Prevention Week, fire fighters visit the school and speak with students about fire safety.

I'll admit that even though the term "toxic masculinity" has been around for a long time, I'd not heard of it until recently.
The first definition that came to mind was memories of late night runs with my buddies to Taco Bell. That friends, I can assure you, resulted in a lot of toxic masculinity.
But, that's a different kind of toxic masculinity than the buzzword of today.

"Well if Johnny jumped off a bridge would you?"
Many parents have used this exact phrase in response to their kid asking them if they could do something because "Johnny did it."
Today's answer from the kid would probably be yes because apparently technology has made our kids gullible and maybe not-so-smart. Or maybe it's just the tremendous amount of peer pressure these days. Either way, it's a bit scary!

DERBY WINNERS -- This photo originally published in The Nashville Graphic on April 1, 1971. The Nashville Cub Scouts competed in a Pine Wood Derby. Winners, left to right, were: Tommy Whitfield, first place, Gregg Wallace, second place, and Chris Reges, third place.

A shooting in a Rocky Mount nightclub left two females seriously injured, a suspect on the run, and a bar without ABC permits.
ALE special agents were contacted by the Rocky Mount Police Department after officers responded to a shooting at Studio 169 Lounge, located at 169 S Wesleyan Boulevard, late Saturday night. The shooting began in the VIP area of the nightclub after an altercation between female patrons. One patron was struck by gunfire and another was injured while crawling through broken glass in an attempt to escape the shooter.

Nash County was among numerous counties where ALE special agents participated in a statewide operation over the weekend.
Special agents arrested over 123 people for alcohol, drug, firearm and gambling charges on Friday and Saturday night during a statewide crackdown in partnership with local, state and federal agencies.

INCIDENTS
A forgery and uttering a forged instrument was reported on 2/25/19 at Walgreens, 703 W Washington Street
A larceny and damage to property (vandalism) was reported on 2/27/19 at 410 Woodfield Drive
A breaking and entering a motor vehicle was reported on 2/27/19 at 124 Wheeless Drive