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STANHOPE -- As the crow flies, Southern Nash High School is located not far away from Wake County.
But SNHS veteran football coach Brian Foster, who has been affiliated with the school for nearly a quarter-century, can't remember exactly when the Firebirds competed in Wake County -- either in jamboree or regular season fashion.
Southern Nash used to play an annual grudge match against East Wake -- with plenty of spirited games -- but that rivalry is currently on hold.

STANHOPE -- Regular season success clashed with playoff glory when the Big East Conference football coaches convened for their annual preseason poll as part of the league's annual Media Day on Tuesday at Southern Nash High School.
When predicting a preseason favorite in the Big East, coaches pondered whether Southern Nash's regular season championship could trump Rocky Mount's journey toward a state playoff runner-up finish.

RED OAK -- Northern Nash High School's volleyball team was supposed to begin its 2017 season on August 16 at non-conference opponent at Bunn.
But the Bunn Dome is unavailable due to floor repair, so the teams will switch sites for their home-and-home series.
The Aug. 16 event will be at Northern Nash, w hile the Aug. 28 contest will be staged at Bunn.
Northern Nash's complete ledger is as follows, with home matches listed in CAPS:

WINSTON-SALEM -- Monte Harrison went 2-for-3 with a run and a double, but the homestanding Carolina Mudcats were held to just one run overall and four hits by Hector Perez and Sebastian Kessay of the visiting Astros in a 9-1 series finale loss to Buies Creek on Sunday afternoon in a Class A Carolina League baseball showdown at Five County Stadium.
Perez (6-4, 2.73) struck out six and scattered three hits over six scoreless innings for the Astros (66-47, 29-14).

TOURNEY BASKETBALL CHAMPS. The Hester and Tucker Bulls recently won the Nash County Recreation and Senior Services 2017 Summer Youth Basketball Tournament. Pictured are (back) Coach Damian Tucker; (middle, l to r) Jeffrey Moore, Jimoni Hines, N'Yles Hines, Randall King, Thomas Copeland and Sebastian Evans; (front, l to r) Nicholas Tucker, Tommie Pitts, Jackson Lynch and Jermia Walker. (Photo Submitted)

ELM CITY -- Here are the results from last Saturday's action at County Line Raceway:

NASH COUNTY -- Listed are updated results from the Nash County Recreation and Senior Services Summer Basketball League:

A Southern Nash player prepares to hand the ball off to a teammate during a recent Firebirds' football practice session on the SNHS campus in Stanhope.

Nash County was one of two counties in the state recently selected to participate in a pilot program that will help treat opioid addiction.
Major Dennis Wooten, of the Nash County Sheriff's Office, presented the Medicine Assisted Treatment, or MAT's, program to Nash County Commissioners on Monday during their regular meeting.

The central office at Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools has been consolidated, Superintendent Dr. Shelton Jefferies announced on Monday to the Board of Education.
Jefferies presented the reorganizational structure, which showed a reduction of five central office professionals from 2015 to now.
"Our district is going through significant reorganization and restructuring," Jefferies said.

The Nash County Sheriff's Office recently announced the acceptance of three deputies into national recognized academic institutions.
Lieutenant Christopher Cary, Captain Curtis Moore and Lieutenant Miste Strickland were accepted into different programs whose goal is to enhance managerial training.
Cary was accepted into the upcoming FBI National Academy, which will be held in Quantico, Virginia.

A Nashville man was arrested last week and charged with sex offenses involving a child.
Nashville Police Officers served a warrant on 68-year-old William Junior Rigsbee, of Nashville, last week at the request of the Rocky Mount Police Department.
According to Corporal Michael Lewis, of the Rocky Mount Police Department, the incident was reported to police in May.

The Nash County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man thought to be responsible for a break-in at the L&L Food Store on Red Oak Road.
Deputies responded to a break-in at the L&L, located at 1765 Red Oak Road, Nashville, on Friday, July 28.
Through investigation, detectives discovered Frederick Allan Battle was the person responsible for the break-in and may have fled North Carolina, possibly heading to Florida. Battle may be with his girlfriend, Skylar Birth, and a minor child.

What started as a family reunion has grown into a community event on a Castalia farm.
The Sumler Acres Family Estate will be the home of the Caviar and Cornbread Music Festival on August 18 and 19.
Nekia Brooks-Norton said the family reunion style music festival was developed as a way to celebrate the community.
Norton lives in Raleigh but inherited part of a Castalia farm property. Norton said her great grandfather Addison Sumler purchased the property in 1922.

Family and friends of Herb Stallings made sure he had plenty of Carolina blue to celebrate his birthday last week.
Stallings, of Rocky Mount, is a proud alumni of UNC and wears his powder blue jacket whenever he gets the chance.
Stallings is possibly one of the oldest alumnus at the university. On Friday, August 4, he celebrated his 102nd birthday.
Family and friends came by Autumn Care of Nashville, where Stallings is currently staying, to help celebrate his big day.

The regular monthly meeting of the town board of Castalia was called to order at 6:04 pm Tuesday, and adjourned at 6:18 pm.
There was no unfinished or new business. After the minutes of the last meeting were approved, the board briefly discussed the Freeman property, one of those that had been sent letters of notice to clean up. The letter had been sent after the July meeting, and since it has not been the allotted 30 days yet, no further action was taken.

The Nash County Support Group for the Blind is sponsoring its second annual Krispy Kreme fundraiser.
The group is selling coupons for a dozen Krispy Kreme Doughnuts for $7.
This is the second year the group has hosted the fundraiser.
The support group provides support for those who are visually impaired.

Nashville Elementary School is planning its second annual Hometown Heroes 5K for Saturday, September 16 but this year's event will include more family fun to go along with the run.
Carrie Morningstar, who serves as Chair of the Playground Committee, said this year's event will actually start on Friday, September 15 with an event on the school's ball field. That event will be held from 6 until 9 p.m.

Nash Health Care's Board of Commissioners have appointed Dr. Ian B. Buchanan, MD, MPH, as the interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Nash Health Care until a permanent CEO can be named.
Nash Health Care CEO Larry Chewning announced his retirement to the Board of Commissioners last month.
Sources reported that Chewning was asked to leave the hospital system but given the option to retire.

The majority of the regular monthly meeting of the town board of Red Oak was spent discussing speed detecting radar signs. The idea was initially brought up at last month's meeting. Quotes were gathered to discuss at Tuesday's meeting. Radarsign, a company based in Georgia, offered the most attractive product. A mobile sign that is lightweight, theft proof, and about half the cost of similar solar powered models, was discussed at length. The company has offered to send a representative to do a demonstration of the technology and answer any questions from board members.

Okay, I'll admit it sounds bad when I say I yelled at a senior citizen the other day. So let me try to explain.
I found myself in an adjacent county running errands and realized I was short on victuals. With my boys in tow, we headed to the grocery store and looked for a parking space.
We found one adjacent to the cart return.