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NASH COUNTY -- The Nash County Recreation and Senior Services Department will be offering the following youth events this summer:
• Summer Basketball for boys and girls ages 9-12 will be held at Spring Hope Elementary School.
Registration will be $35 until May 31 and $45 for late registration.
Ages are as of June 1.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The league-leading Wesley Men Yankees rode the 16-strikeout pitching of Tevin Jones, Mason Johnson and Travis Gamache to a hard fought 8-4 win over the Pizza Inn Marlins in Wednesday night City of Rocky Mount Youth Baseball action at the Rocky Mount Sports Complex.
The Yanks got just enough from their offense to overcome 2-0 and 4-2 Marlins' leads as they posted 6 fourth-inning runs in etching the final margin.
Jones, Johnson and William Grover checked in with 2-3 plate performances, with Jones (2) and Grover collecting RBI doubles along the way.

Nashville's Town Council decided on Wednesday to move forward with hiring a new Library Director for Cooley Library.
The decision was made during a special called work session on Wednesday afternoon.
At a previous work session, Town Manager Hank Raper had brought forth an idea to place the leadership of the library under Parks and Recreation Director Marguerite Bishop.

The Rocky Mount Rotary Club delivered over 1,000 new books to Red Oak Elementary School on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. The books were donated in support of the NC READS initiative of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and will be distributed to students at the beginning of the summer.
NC READS targets reading for preschoolers and children up to grade five, with the goal that every child may have five books to own and read over the summer months.

Nash County Commissioners were presented with a $90 million budget on Monday.
The proposed budget is $851,000 less than the current fiscal year budget.
County Manager Zee Lamb said the property tax rate is proposed to stay the same at 67 cents, despite the revenue neutral rate being 69.5 cents due to revaluation.

The Town of Nashville recently paid off the remaining balance of a $1.38 million loan, leaving its general fund debt free.
Town Manager Henry Raper said the payoff was part of the town's goal of becoming completely debt free and paying for capital purchases up front.
During the 2015-2016 fiscal year, town council voted to pay off the remaining $494,758.73 balance on the police/fire complex.
This year, council members discussed paying off the Cooley Library loan, which still had a $1,164,146.15 balance.

Despite forecasts of a messy day that threatened to wash out Nashville's Blooming Festival, the day turned out to be bright and sunny.
Cindy Puckett, one of the organizers for the event, said the weather forecasts did hurt attendance some for this year's event but she was pleased that no rain drops fell on Saturday.
"I was very pleasantly surprised at how many showed up," she said. "(The weather forecast) didn't keep the faithful ones away."

A Nashville woman was the recipient of a Bloodhound puppy that will be used for search and rescue missions.
Just in Case Bloodhounds out of Virginia recently donated a litter of seven Bloodhound puppies to various police departments. One puppy was donated to the Nash County Sheriff's Office. Two others were donated to members of the Coastal Carolina Search Team.
Donna Ritterpusch, of Nashville, was the recipient of one of the dogs, Denali-Nash.

A new rebranding effort was recently announced by NC State and NC A&T for the NC Cooperative Extension.
As part of the rebranding, a new logo was rolled out in local Extension centers across the state, as NC State and NC A&T adopted a new marketing strategy to grow awareness and engagement for NC Cooperative Extension.

Nashville Town Council held a special called meeting on Wednesday afternoon to finalize budget preparations.
Discussions were anticipated to include Cooley Library and what to do about the leadership of the library. At a recent budget work session, Town Manager Henry Raper brought forward the idea of not hiring a new Library Director and instead putting those duties under the town's Parks and Recreation Director. The plan also included promoting a library employee to a supervisory position to help oversee the libraries functions.

Students at Nashville Elementary School continue to celebrate the school's new playground, as a portion of phase two was installed this past weekend.
Carrie Morningstar, a teacher at Nashville Elementary School who also serves as the chair of the Playground Committee, said half of the money had been raised for phase two and it was decided to go ahead and purchase pieces so that students, particularly fifth graders, could enjoy the new equipment before the end of the school year.

The Nash County Sheriff's Office was among several stops for Gary Fogel and Dean Martindill, of Orange Park, Florida, last week as they made their way to Washington, DC in honor of Police Week.
President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation in 1962 that designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week.

Pictured (L-R), Ed Bissette, Ag Commissioner Steve Troxler and Bobbie Joe Fisher, Chair of the Soil and Water Conservation District Board, talk during the annual luncheon last week at Rose Hill.

Pictured (L-R) Ethan Bulluck, playing Lumiere, Sarah Phillips, as Mrs. Potts and Elijah Whitley, as the Beast, rehearse a scene from "Beauty and the Beast" on Monday. Nash Central High School will present the musical Thursday, Friday and Sunday at the Imperial Centre in Rocky Mount. The play is directed by Chorus/Drama Teacher Joanna Hale.

While it may seem like it was just yesterday that the nurse was telling the doctor to "hurry up before you miss this," and Kristi was so juiced on epidermal that she suggested "having a couple more before we leave" [imagine a slurring, 80s sitcom drunk voice here], but it was actually 10 years ago that Lowell entered the world.
The boy was in a hurry, and much like now, he had little patience for lollygaggers.

The predicted weather for this past weekend gave Blooming Festival organizers quite a scare but in the end, the weather turned out to be quite the opposite of what was predicted.
And what a beautiful day Saturday turned out to be!
This year's Blooming Festival was a great event, I thought, even though attendance may have been a bit down.

50 YEARS - Northern Nash High School's Class of 1967 will celebrate its 50th class reunion this weekend. This was the first graduating class at Northern Nash, consisting of 200 students. The seniors received diplomas in a commencement held June 5, 1967 in the school's gymtorium. Dr. Thomas A Collins, then president of North Carolina Wesleyan College, delivered the commencement address.

INCIDENTS
A possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of heroin and possession of cocaine was reported on 5/8/17 at E US 64 at the 463 mile marker
A larceny after a breaking and entering and breaking and entering a residential was reported on 5/8/17 at 302 E Church Street
A driving while impaired was reported on 5/8/17 on First Street Extension