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ROCKY MOUNT -- Southern Nash continued its late-season push in the Big East Conference girls standings by securing a team victory Monday at Northgreen Country Club.
The Ladybirds, led by medalist Elisabeth Collie, closed with 158 strokes -- three shots ahead of runner-up Wilson Fike.

ROCKY MOUNT -- North Carolina Wesleyan College celebrated its 2017 Homecoming last weekend, culminating with the Department of Athletics' Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday night in Everett Gym.
On campus Saturday morning, Wesleyan's baseball and softball teams each enjoyed good turnouts for their annual alumni games, which were followed by a pair of key USA South soccer match-ups on Youth Day at Scalf Field.

RED OAK -- Legendary Northern Nash High School girls basketball coach Grover Battle has been selected to serve as an assistant coach for the North Carolina Team at the annual 2018 Carolinas All-Star Basketball Classic.
The event, which is in its 21st year, features the top high school seniors in North Carolina against their counterparts from South Carolina.

RED OAK -- Northern Nash continued its season-long dominance during the latest Big East Conference Cross Country meet, which was held last Wednesday on NNHS' home course at Red Oak Middle School.
NN's boys were once again paced by individual winner Jordan Richardson, who used his home-course advantage to roll to the conquest.

FRANKLINTON -- Northern Nash and Franklinton played one of the closest Big East Conference girls tennis matches earlier in the season, with the Lady Knights nudging FHS by just one match in Red Oak.
But the rematch wasn't expected to be as tight as the Lady Rams were performing without two of their rotation players due to other commitments.

BUNN - Even though Southern Nash had defeated Bunn by five goals back in August, both coaches expected much tighter proceedings during last Thursday's boys soccer rematch on the BHS campus.
SN coach Carlos Barron knew Bunn had displayed improvement as the campaign progressed, and he wondered how his club would responded to a non-league challenge after a long string of tough Big East Conference events.

A Nashville family has started the county's first Corn Maze just outside the Nashville city limits.
M&H Edwards Farm Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch opened up this past weekend and will stay open each weekend through November 4.
Having a corn maze has been a dream of Mike Edwards for a while, said his wife, Hope.

Nash County Clerk of Court Rachel Joyner was honored last month at the North Carolina Conference of Clerks of Superior Court.
Joyner was surprised with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award, one of the highest recognitions a North Carolinian can receive.
The award was presented by the Honorable Andrew Whitley, Wilson County Clerk of Superior Court on September 21 on behalf of North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.

Nashville's Planning Department, along with the Police Department, are studying ways to further alleviate traffic around Nashville Elementary School in the afternoons.
The issue was brought before Town Council on Tuesday night during the board's regular meeting.

Organizers of the Spring Hope Pumpkin Festival have changed things up a bit for the 46th annual event.
This year's event will go back to the one-day format festival goers enjoyed many years ago.
Saturday, October 7 will be a day packed full of Pumpkin Festival fun, said Chris Wheaton, Chairman of the festival.

The superintendent of the newly created Innovative School District (ISD) visited the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education on Monday night to further discuss what it would mean if Williford Elementary School were on the final list to be included in the new district.
Dr. Eric Hall heard from school board members about the impact pulling Williford into the ISD would have on students, teachers and the community.

Nash County Commissioners approved a solar farm in the Bailey area, despite objections from numerous neighbors.
A quasi-judicial public hearing on the solar farm lasted five hours.
Pamela Sabattus requested the solar farm on 35 acres of land she inherited from her father on Mount Pleasant Road.

The Nashville Graphic is introducing three new officers of the Nashville Police Department this month as part of an "Officer Spotlight" series. This week's article features Officer Miguel Angel Salazar.

The N.C. Department of Transportation has closed a bridge in Nash County for safety reasons and will replace it next year.
The department closed the bridge over Little Sapony Creek on Old Bailey Highway, a few miles south of Nashville, on Monday after inspectors identified a structural problem to one of the sections of the bridge that helps support beams and girders.

Danny Vester, of Spring Hope, will be displaying his latest pumpkin, a 1,237 pounder, at this Saturday's Spring Hope Pumpkin Festival. Vester recently won second place at the Yadkin Valley Pumpkin Festival in Elkin with his pumpkin. Vester will show his pumpkin at the Spring Hope Pumpkin Festival and then plans to take it to the North Carolina State Fair, which will begin next Thursday, October 12.

By now, many of you will have heard about the latest transgression committed by the First Lady, Melania Trump.
In keeping with tradition, the First Lady sent a box of books of her choosing to ten selected school libraries across the country. Trump chose to send out books by Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.

In this week's Graphic, there's an article on Ms. Rachel Joyner being the recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award.
The Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award is a pretty special award and you have to be a pretty special person to get it.
Ms. Joyner definitely qualifies as a special person.

Dear Editor - There is a time and place for everything! A football game is not the place to protest anything other than football.
To try and bring attention to something other than the sports event that the fans have come to be entertained by is out of place.

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD STARS -- This photo was originally published in The Graphic on July 16, 1981. The Nash County 13-year-old Junior Babe Ruth League All-Star team was pictured (front row, left to right): Brent Small, Tony Hendricks, Bryan Marlowe, Timothy Strickland, Patrick Joyner and Carlton Small. Back row: Mike Boykin, Tony Nichols, Ryan Tanner, Jeff Morgan, Steven Burgess, Jeffrey Epps and Coach Paul Draper.

The man wanted for robbing Bass Brothers in Momeyer last month was arrested this weekend after committing another robbery in Zebulon.
Bryan Keith Mullen was arrested in Franklin County over the weekend for a robbery he committed in Zebulon.
Through investigation, it was determined that Mullen was also responsible for the robbery at Bass Brothers in Momeyer on Friday, September 15.

INCIDENTS
An obtaining money/property by false pretense was reported on 9/25/17 at Wal-Mart, 1205 Eastern Avenue
An embezzlement was reported on 9/25/17 at L&L, 1001 E. Washington Street

A breaking, entering and larceny, damage to personal property and larceny was reported on 9/25/17 at 7418 NC 4
A felony larceny was reported on 9/25/17 at 9971 E NC 97
A sell or deliver marijuana was reported on 9/25/17 on I-95 northbound at the 132 mile marker

Nash County Planning and Inspections issued the following building permits from September 25 through 29.

Spring Hope may need to change its water and sewer rates to maintain a sustainable system.
Project Manager Engineer of Envirolink Cecil Rhodes and Kevin Varnell of Stocks Engineering presented the water and sewer rate study, which commissioners can use to make future decisions regarding water and sewer rates.

Downtown Nashville will be a colorful place on Saturday morning, as the second annual Missions Color Run is set to take place.
The color run is sponsored by Church on the Rise.
Children's Pastor Larissa Cockrell said already, over 80 runners had signed up for the 5K race.