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Youth from Church on the Rise's GO Ministries ride on a colorful float during the Blooming Festival.

The Southern Nash High School Jazz Band performs during the Blooming Festival parade on Saturday.

The Nash Central High School Marching Band participates in the Blooming Festival Parade each year.

Doris Moore of Nashville is crowned the 2018 Blooming Festival's Mother of the Year while surrounded by her family.

The Super Shot is always popular at the Blooming Festival.

Shades of Harmony always gets the day kicked off right.

Hardee's Furniture in Sharpsburg has been awarded the "Eastern North Carolina La-Z-Boy Comfort Studio of the Year" for 2017. The award was presented to Hardee's Furniture by La-Z-Boy Executive, Della Crone, for being the largest volume dealer in Eastern North Carolina. Hardee's Furniture has been serving Eastern North Carolina for over 37 years.

Downtown Live!, the summer concert series presented by PNC and hosted by the City of Rocky Mount, will be held on the Imperial Centre lawn beginning Thursday, May 24, 2018 with subsequent events every other Thursday through Sept. 13, 2018. Doors open at 5 p.m., and music starts at 6 p.m.
The season begins with the Legacy Motown Revue performing on Thursday, May 24, followed by The Fantastic Shakers on June 7, 2018.

Clara Danforth (above) won first place at Nashville Elementary's Talent Show recently. Top contestants were invited to perform at the 2018 Nashville Blooming Festival.

Raylen Harell

Allie O'Leary singing accompanied by Kaleb Merrit

Jayla Williams

Rachael Gray

Positive Percussion Power - Nashville Boys and Girls Club Bucket Drummers

Rev. Richard Joyner has been appointed to the Rocky Mount City Council to represent Ward 3.
"The privilege to serve is what I am happy about," stated Joyner. "I still have close relationships with Ward 3, and I have not only served Rocky Mount, but the eastern part of North Carolina. I look forward to serving with the entire city council."

The town board of Castalia had a visitor at its regular monthly meeting last week.
The board was introduced to Susan Phelps the new Rural Economic Developer for Nash County. She explained that her position was created to help small towns and rural communities develop and retain businesses. She said the Carolina Gateways Partnership focuses on larger industrial type businesses, and the City of Rocky Mount has its own business development staff, but that many small towns and other parts of Nash County were being over looked.

Graduates of Red Oak High School celebrated the Red Oak High School's 100th alumni event with 262 members attending. The oldest class with members still living is the class of 1935. The class with the highest attendance is the class of 1963, 83 percent of their class attended the event. The Alumni awards a scholarship to a deserving young person who is related to a family of Red Oak High School.

"And because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them." (Acts 18:3)
Last month, I celebrated my 65th Birthday. That prompted a lot of questions for me about where I am in my Christian walk.
The closer I got to 65, the more I realized there were a lot more years behind me than ahead of me.

Children, by nature, are quick to pick up on things. Some things are good and we are thankful they are taking note and asking questions, while others are not so good and we bemoan the fact they are so attune to such things that we'd prefer go unnoticed in their sponge like minds.
For the believer in Christ, the follower of the Way, the being sanctified child in the Spirit, we should celebrate the fact that children want to learn.

Mother's Day! Oh , what a glorious occasion! On a beautiful spring morning Peachtree folks gathered at the church for worship. To honor Mothers, the men of the church prepared and served a delicious breakfast to the ladies of the church. They served it in the Fellowship Hall and even did the dishes.
Sanctuary flowers were given by JoAnn Blankenship, in loving memory of her mother, Ann Savage, and her grandmothers, Minnie Savage and Dolly Downey.

The Down East Radio Reading Service (DERRS) held its Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on the evening of April 10.
Joe Warner, chairman of the board, opened the evening by welcoming volunteers, board members, and special guests to the event. Stephanie Brown, director of Volunteer Services, thanked each of the volunteers for their countless hours and efforts in DERRS' mission - to share local newspaper stories and events over the air with fellow residents in the tri-county area who are blind or print-impaired.

Children from Nash Community College's Betsy B. Currin Child Development Center celebrated the United Way "Live United" coloring contest campaign at a coloring event with NCC President Dr. Bill Carver. Artwork will be displayed in the college's Business & Industry Center lobby.

News flash! The Hometown Favorites Cookbook is now $5 each! All proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in their search for a cure. You can contact Audrey or Suzy Pearce if interested or come by Rocky Mount Medical Park Pharmacy to purchase a book.
Welcome Jesse and Virginia Perry to the family at Red Oak Baptist Church!

ROCKY MOUNT -- Few outcomes are more gut-wrenching in sports than a penalty kicks loss in soccer -- especially when so much is at stake.
Suddenly, a team's fate is set to be determined by what is basically a skills competition, and that certainly wasn't the exclamation point Nash Central High School wanted to put on its historic 2018 girls soccer campaign.

ELM CITY -- When Red Oak Middle School took an early -- and what appeared to be insurmountable -- advantage, Coach Kristian Cox warned his players that things weren't going to be easy the rest of the way.
Cox's words proved to be the understatement of Red Oak's amazing year, which ended in disappointment last Thursday with a 15-14 loss at Elm City in what will certainly be remembered as one of the wildest tournament championship games in the history of the Tri-County Conference baseball scene.