Recent Articles

"Women make up over 54 percent of registered voters in North Carolina but hold less than 25 percent of all appointed and elected offices."
This finding is included in the "2015 Report of The Status of Women in N.C. Politics."
Dr. David McLennan, professor of political science at Meredith College in Raleigh, has updated his original report.

Nash County Commissioners rejected all bids received for the landfill expansion project after bids came in double what was budgeted for the project.
Health and Human Services Director Bill Hill reported to commissioners that three bids were received for the county's landfill expansion project. The county had budgeted $400,000 for the project, Hill said, with $346,000 of that earmarked for construction.
"We received three bids," Hill said. "They were way over our estimates, over the engineer's estimates and over our expectations quite frankly."

A Nashville woman was charged with embezzling over $2,000 from the Parent Teacher Organization at Coopers Elementary School.
The Nash County Sheriff's Office recently charged Ashley Bone Wallace, 35, of Benton Road, Nashville, with one count of forgery of instrument and one count of embezzlement. Both charges are felonies.

Over 20 speakers voiced their opposition to the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Tuesday night during the first of three listening sessions.
The first session was held at Nash Community College. A second session was held on Wednesday, August 16 in Northampton County and the third will be held on Thursday, August 17 in Lumberton.

A Nashville man is facing three charges of indecent liberties with a child.
The Nash County Sheriff's Office arrested Joaquin Perez Trejo, 21, of EP Taylor Store Road, and charged him with three counts of indecent liberties with a child.
According to warrants, the male victim was under the age of 16.

A Whitakers man was charged with three counts of indecent liberties with a child and one count of first degree force sex offense.
James Bennette Smith, 49, of NC Highway 48, Whitakers, was arrested by the Nash County Sheriff's Office after investigations revealed he had inappropriate relations with a juvenile girl.

Nash Central High School marching band members welcomed a new band director recently during the school's annual band camp.
Ryan Minster replaces longtime band director Leo Nieves, who served 14 years as the school's band director.
Minster comes to Nash Central High School from Perquimans County High School, where he served as band director for three years.

Over 60 people joined the Sierra Club, Sound Rivers and 350 Triangle for a trip down the Tar River on Saturday, August 5, paddling past the survey marks for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline to highlight how bad they feel the project could be for North Carolina's waterways and wetlands.
A project of Duke Energy and Dominion Energy, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia and North Carolina. In North Carolina alone, the pipeline would cross over 560 waterways.

Providence Bank and CB Financial Corporation, parent company of Cornerstone Bank, recently announced the signing of a definitive strategic merger agreement.
In the transaction, CB will merge into PB Financial Corporation, Providence's to-be-formed holding company and Cornerstone will merge into Providence, creating a community banking company with approximately $400 million in assets, $311 million in loans, and $332 million in deposits based on publicly reported financial information as of June 30, 2017.

School has not even started yet and already, local organizations are working to meet the needs of students.
Missions of Faith, along with the Pay it Forward Civitan Club, recently took items to Nash Central Middle School that were collected for students.
Evangelist Laura Pippin, who serves as the President of Missions of Faith, said the stop was one of many to come.

The violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, brought back some vivid and frightening images for me. Specifically, the Greensboro Massacre in the fall of 1979 flashed to mind.
I was 10 years old and remember being scared when Communists, Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan clashed, and five people ended up dead. My naïve, young self just couldn't imagine how people could hate other people so much, based solely on how they were born.

I'll be honest, I don't have a lot to say in this week's space.
I'm at a loss for words.
The events unfolding in our country have me experiencing so many emotions.
I'm sad. I'm angry. I'm ashamed. I'm hurt. But most of all, I'm scared.

August 14th through the 18th is National Community Health center Week, when we celebrate our good fortune in having a healthcare safety-net right in our own community; Harvest Family Health Center and CFHC Dental Center.
At this time of year, I like to reflect on the changes I have seen as a member of the Board of Directors of Carolina Family Health Centers, lnc. (CFHC) and the important work of Community Health Centers across our State and across America.

MOVIE OF NASHVILLE -- This photo originally published in The Graphic on August 1, 1974. Milo Holt of Siler City is pictured setting up a projector to show a movie that was made in Nashville in September of 1939.

The former Chief Financial Officer of Eastpointe Human Services was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for embezzlement.
William Robert Canupp, 58, of Richlands, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard on August 9 in federal court to 42 minutes in prison and three years of supervised release and restitution in the amount of $731,180 for conspiracy to commit federal program fraud, wire fraud and tax fraud. Canupp pled guilty to the charges on March 17, 2017.

INCIDENTS
An obtaining money/property by false pretense was reported on 8/10/17 at Wal-Mart, 1205 Eastern Avenue
A fraud - credit card/automated teller was reported on 8/7/17 at 1201 Eastern Avenue
A larceny by employee (embezzlement) was reported on 8/10/17 at Wal-Mart, 1205 Eastern Avenue

A deceased person was reported on I-95 Northbound
A violation of a domestic violence order and kidnapping was reported on 8/6/17 at 10321 Lancaster Store Road
A cardiac arrest was reported on 8/6/17 at 11976 Ward Road
A fraud was reported on 8/6/17 at 5495 Lancaster Store Road

Nash County Planning and Inspections issued the following building permits from August 7 through 11.

The design process for the future home of the Nash-Rocky Mount Early College High School will soon be underway though the finished project is still probably over a year away.
Shannon Davis, Director of Maintenance for the school system, provided an update to the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education last Monday night at the board's regular meeting.

The Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education recognized Renny Taylor, the 2016-2017 Nash Central High School Teacher of the Year and the 2016-2017 Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools (NRMPS) district Teacher of the Year for receiving another honor. Taylor was recently named the 2017 North Carolina History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Taylor will find out next month if he is selected as The National History Teacher of the Year, and that award will be presented by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner during a ceremony in New York City on November 8, 2017.

The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) recently announced that Heather A. Perry, of Bailey, was selected to become a member of the esteemed organization.
The Society recognizes top scholars who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, scholarship and community commitment. The announcement was made by NSHSS Founder and Chairman Claes Nobel, senior member of the family that established the Nobel Prizes.