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Nash-Rocky Mount Schools has released its Honor Roll lists for the fourth semester of the 2016-2017 school year.
The following students at Benvenue Elementary School made the A or A/B Honor Roll.

The Joint Veterans Committee (JVC) of Nash and Edgecombe Counties honored two marines on Saturday during their monthly flag raising ceremony.
A United States flag, which flew over The Veterans Memorial at Jack Laughery Park in Rocky Mount, was taken down and presented to the family of William S. Murray, MSGT. U.S.M.C., Ret. The flag flew over the park for the past month in honor of Murray's service.
His family, which includes daughter Vicky Bissette, of Elm City, said they were pleased to be able to honor Murray.

Nashville's Chamber of Commerce hosted their annual meeting on Tuesday night and presented awards for Beyond the Call of Duty and Business of the Year.
Jo-Anna Skorupski was presented the Beyond the Call of Duty Award while The Nashville Graphic was presented the Chamber's Business of the Year Award.
Chamber Board Member Cliff Joyner presented both awards.
"Beyond the call of duty recognizes and focuses on those that may deal with the Chamber in their job or position but that person goes beyond what they have to do," Joyner said when presenting the award. "The 2017 recipient does just that."

BUSINESS OF THE YEAR - The Nashville Graphic received the Nashville Chamber of Commerce 2017 Business of the Year Award Tuesday night during the chamber's annual meeting.

A Nashville man has been charged with first degree murder in connection with a shooting in Rocky Mount last week.
Barwon Farmer, 19, was arrested and charged with shooting 16-year-old Javius Delshaun Murphy on July 12.
According to a press release, the Rocky Mount Police Department responded to a shooting at 601 Colby Court around 4:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they found Murphy, who had been shot. Murphy died at Nash General Hospital as a result of his injuries.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has vetoed House Bill 205.
The bill was titled, "An Act to Amend Provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act Relating to Prisoners and to the Rebuttable Presumption Regarding Newsprint Employees; To Modernize Publication of Legal Advertisements and Notices; To Allow Guilford County and Any Municipality in Guilford County to Use Electronic Means to Provide Public Notice in Lieu of Publication; And to Allow Guilford County to Opt to Post Legal Advertisements and Notices on the County Web Site for a Fee with Monies Collected to Be Used for Local Supplements for Teacher Salary and Other County Needs."

The mayor's seat is up for grabs in Middlesex and will now be a contested race, as Becky Strickland has filed for the seat.
Strickland, who is a regular at board meetings and during public comments, filed on Tuesday for the mayor's seat, which is currently held by LuHarvey Lewis. Lewis has already filed for reelection to the seat.

Nash County Commissioners approved a rezoning request in Southern Nash County at their regular meeting on July 10.
The request, made by Rebecca W. Coleman, was to rezone a 10.5 acre portion of a tract located at the northeast corner of an intersection of W NC Highway 97 and Southern Nash High Road from A-1 Agricultural to RC-Rural Commercial. The property is located immediately adjacent to the Stanhope Community Volunteer Fire Department at 4416 W NC Highway 97.

The Nashville Chamber of Commerce recognized Dylan Bunch (left) during the annual meeting for his service as president of the board for the last three years. Michael Coleman (right) will serve at the chamber's president for the upcoming year.

Nashville Chamber of Commerce President Dylan Bunch (left) and incoming Vice-President Mary Grace Daughtridge (right) presents a $500 scholarship to Anna Scott Wingfield during the chamber's annual meeting.

Garrett Shearin knew she had found the perfect spot to open her business, The Painted Teacher, the moment she walked in the doors at 205 W. Washington Street.
The building was the former home of Strick's Clothing and still maintained its rustic charm.
On May 13, the Saturday of Nashville's Blooming Festival, Shearin opened up her boutique.

The Town of Nashville will host a ground breaking ceremony on Friday morning for the Stoney Creek Sewer Outfall.
The ceremony is scheduled to take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Elm Street Lift Station, located at 225 West Vale Street, Nashville.
Along with the town, the ground breaking is also being hosted by the Golden Leaf Foundation, NC Commerce, Carolina Gateway Partnership, Stocks Engineering, Hartigan Management, Turn Key Contractors and Carolina Innovative Food Ingredients.

If you really need to know, yes, it is hot enough for me.
I have never really understood why some people ask everyone they know that question. But I do know that if I had a dime for every time I'd been asked it, well, I'd have a lot of dimes.
"Is it hot enough for you?" seems out of place really.

Small, successful communities like Nashville are hard to come by these days.
For a small community to be a success, it must have dedicated people. Those people must be at all levels; in the town hall, on the board, in the businesses and in the community.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. True. But, it also takes a village to make a community thrive.

The Nashville Graphic staff and I were deeply humbled to be honored with the Nashville Chamber of Commerce 2017 Business of the Year Award Tuesday night.
It seems like just yesterday I sat in the chamber's first reorganization meeting back in 1990 and had just come on board here at The Graphic as well.
Nashville, and the chamber, have come a long way since then. We have seen community leaders come and go. We've watched historical landmarks torn down and new buildings erected for new businesses and expanded government.

FOUNTAIN VISITS NASH -- This photo originally published in The Graphic on August 29, 1974. Congressman L.H. Fountain stopped in Nashville during a tour of the county. Pictured left to right are: Nash County Superior Clerk of Court Rachel Joyner, Henry Fisher, John Ed Davenport who was a State Representative at the time, Rep. Fountain, Frank Adams, Alda Jones and Margaret Braswell Doughtie.

A Pinteops man was sentenced last week to 262 months months in prison for selling heroin.
Quincy Andre Jones, 38, was sentenced in federal court last Wednesday, July 12 by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm J. Howard. Jones was sentenced to 262 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.