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NASHVILLE- Infinity Cabinets, a Bailey-area business, has been approved for expansion under a conditional rezoning amendment.
Nash commissioners approved a site plan amendment March 10 for the company, located at 9340 Winters Road west of Bailey and north of US Highway 264 Bypass.

You may have seen in the news last week that a pair of astronauts that had been stranded in space are being retrieved by a private company. It's pretty amazing.
I avoided reading too much about the story because of the anxiety it caused. Astronauting has to be the worst job in the world and I wonder why so many of my childhood friends wanted to be astronauts.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to go to the International Space Station for 10 days and then return.

As you can imagine, when thumbing through the archives each week for a Backward Glance photo, I always come across quite a bit of interesting history. Honestly, it takes quite a bit of discipline to just match up a negative with the edition and not sit for hours reading. Looking through The Graphic's historical archives can be as addictive as social media is today.
Last week, Nancy and I pulled the 1949 archive for The Graphic's coverage of the 1949 Samaria school bus accident. (See story today).

Across the land this week the press is observing National Newspaper Week, October 18.
It is a week, perhaps, in which it is not altogether improper for newspapers to stop and pat themselves on the back for the important job they are doing in helping to keep the public informed, in promoting worthwhile projects, in working for better communities and a better nation.
But it is also a week in which the press should take new stock of its responsibilities.

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on March 19, 1964.

Addition (covered) 1967 Red Oak Rd., Nashville; $120,000
Addition (covered); 3119 Bass Rd., Nashville; $79,000
New single family dwelling; 3165 Wollett Mill Rd., Battleboro; $430,000
Multi-sectional; 13140 Thrasher Ct., Zebulon; $35,000

The Nashville Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Citizen Award winner and Junior Achievement Award recipient will be presented at Nash Arts Center, downtown Nashville, on April 3, 2025. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. The program begins at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
This year's keynote speaker Nashville native Mike Raley.

Many people have asked me through the years, "What made you decide to start writing devotions"?
It started after I took a course called "Experiencing God." It was an eye opener! For the first time in my Christian life - which was comparatively short at that time - it planted the notion with me that God had more planned for me than I thought. Like most of us, we just don't give him the chance to work through us.
That Bible study series brought me down to earth. You see, when I became a Christian, I expected God to do great things through me. But how could he?

The cross is not a symbol of defeat. It is a banner of triumph. Paul makes this point even more powerfully in Colossians 2:13-15.
In this section of Colossians, Paul refutes false teachers who claim Christ is not enough to make salvation complete. Colossians 2:8 warns: "See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ." Paul issues this warning because of the sufficiency of Christ.

The Outdoorsman Banquet at Red Oak Baptist Church was well attended on Saturday, March 8! Guests enjoyed dinner and dessert and special guest speaker, Mike Tison, who gave a humorous and inspiring message. Funds from the tickets will go to support the people in western NC. Mike Tison also shared a message on Sunday, March 9 during the morning worship service. Thanks to all who made the event a success.
Several churches from the area attended the Area wide WMU Spring Meeting at Dortches Baptist Church on Monday, March 10.

Ernesto L. Monfiel, Ernesto Linares Monfiel, Aida Cuestas and Aida Lisseth Cuestas Mejia to Ninfa Doris Reyes Salinas; 13135 Eagle Ridge Drive, Zebulon; $32,000
Steven D. Espelien, Cynthia J. Espelien, Julie G. Nygren, Thomas L. Espelien and Steven D. Espelien to Bradford S. Grubbs and Rachel Lee Rivers; 13.52 acres
Fellowship of Praise Church of God, Inc to Bob W. Nichols and Margie J. Nichols; .010 acres in Stony Creek Township
Jane E. Berry, Thomas Harrison Berry, Henry Benjamin Roberson Jr. and Valerie Winslow Roberson to Janice Davis Roberson; 1013 Avondale Avenue, Rocky Mount