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Parker Dickens (center) was excellent in goal for the Northern Nash Fighting Knights as part of last Wednesday's home soccer meeting with the Bunn Wildcats.

TNT BELT TEST RECIPIENTS. The Nashville Academy of Martial Arts held a belt test last month, where several students received belt advancements. Two students received belt advancements in the Tiny Nama Tots (T.N.T.) class, which is for ages 4-7. Pictured (L-R) are Davis Grover, who earned a gold with white stripe belt, Sensei Allen Clark and Syloh Wilson, who earned an orange with white stripe belt.

MISSING PETS? BEWARE of the COYOTE! It is NOT safe to allow your pet to go outside by itself, especially at night. Just recently, we heard of a suspected coyote attack on a 30 pound dog in Nashville, when the owner let it out to potty. Her leg is badly hurt. Many people report being tracked by them when walking their pets or hearing their howling.

Now that all the festivities have settled down from the Olympics, it's a great chance to look back and reflect on the games of the 2016 Olympiad. I certainly enjoyed the games; whether rowing or rugby, swimming or soccer the games proved to be quite exciting. It's an amazing site to see the best athletes in the world compete against each other, proving who the best athletes and teams are on earth. There is no doubt that each person who's made the Olympics for their respective country has worked countless hours and given up much of their normal life to train for the games.

Investigators allege Shannon Anderson shot and killed Michael Cahoon inside his Pawnee Drive home, but no charges have yet been filed.

Authorities responded to the home in the gated community just after 9 p.m. on Aug. 20 to find Cahoon, 69, of Sagamore Drive, dead from a gunshot wound.

Nash County began its demolition Tuesday of buildings on Washington Street to make way for the Nash County Courthouse expansion project. Nash County hopes to begin construction in December. The $11 million expansion project is expected to take 18 months.

A Momeyer couple were recently surprised with news that a tree on their property is considered the largest of that type in North Carolina.
Paul and Sue Bass received an award from the North Carolina Forestry Service for an American Sycamore tree, which was named a North Carolina Champion Big Tree. The tree is on property they own off of Bass Road in Momeyer.
The tree stands 150 feet tall, has a circumference of 193 inches and a crown spread of 119 feet.

Nash County 4-H has postponed its GREEN Promise Banquet, which was scheduled for Saturday, August 27.
According to Sandy Hall, Nash County Cooperative Extension Director and Extension Agent for 4-H Youth Development, there were some scheduling conflicts that caused the postponement.
"The 4-H Green Promise Banquet has been rescheduled due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts," Hall said.

The FFA program at Southern Nash High School is hoping to upgrade its facilities to better serve the demands of its growing program.
On Tuesday, students, staff and members of the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education came out to celebrate a special check presentation that put the FFA program closer to its fund-raising goal.
Waste Industries donated $5,000 towards construction needed for updates to the Southern Nash High School's Agriculture Storage Facility.

Local musician Adam Stone recently received the opportunity of a lifetime as he was asked to open for Travis Tritt at Norris Creek Amphitheatre in Zebulon.
Stone performed this past Saturday night at the amphitheatre in front of 3,000 people, performing just before Tritt came on stage.
Stone said he knows the owner of Norris Creek, Don Mitchell, who called and asked if he was interested in being the opening act for Tritt.
"Obviously, I was excited but nervous," Stone said.

Visitors to Battle Park can now get a history lesson, thanks to students at Nash Central High School.
Students in Renny Taylor's AP History Class last school year created a documentary on the history of the burning of the Rocky Mount Mills during the Civil War. The documentary can be accessed by scanning a QR code that is on a sign at Battle Park.
Taylor said the documentary was done primarily by the 14 students in his class at the end of the school year.

The Nashville Fire Department is currently working to restore its 1948 American LaFrance fire pumper. The 68-year-old fire apparatus was the third piece of equipment purchased by the department. At a cost of $15,000, it served the town and county as a front line apparatus from 1948 until the 1970s. The apparatus is a 700 series model which has a 204 horsepower, 12 cylinder gasoline engine along with a 750 gallon per minute water, or fire, pump.
The American LaFrance fire engine company was one of the most successful and popular fire apparatus companies.

There is an old expression regarding medical procedures that most everyone around these parts has probably heard, and it clarifies the distinction between major and minor surgery.
Minor surgery is when someone you know is being operated on; major surgery is when you are the one facing an operation.
As someone who managed to evade even so much as an IV or regular medication for nearly half a century, I recently lived this exact frame of mind.

"When the media in the USA cannot be fair in its coverage, and instead follows a party line (no matter which party), then the freedom of the press has not only been disgraced, it has been lost!" That was a quote by Mitchell Oakley, my former publisher at my first newspaper gig in Pitt County.
And how true it is!

Dear Editor: When you're making history you become a lightening rod of sorts.
That's true of Donald Trump.
He's bested all his challengers so he attracts the attention. It goes with the territory.
Not that it really matters now, it doesn't, but Jeb Bush said of Trump, "You called John McCain a loser."