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Nashville's Chamber of Commerce is looking to help fund a local youth's education.
The Chamber recently announced its Education Scholarship, which will officially begin in the Fall.
But applications are being accepted now.
The scholarship was the idea of Chamber President Dylan Bunch.

Nashville's Town Council decided not to allow residents to have beehives on their property during their regular meeting on Tuesday night.
The issue of beehives was brought to the board's attention last month by Charles Vester, a resident of the Birchwood Subdivision. Vester requested the board consider changing their ordinances to allow citizens the opportunity to have beehives at their residences.

SEASON STARTS -- Nashville Parks and Rec celebrated its Spring Sports Opening Day Saturday. The event kicked off with a visit from Muddy the Mudcat and the first pitch was tossed out by Nashville Town Manager Hank Raper.
Pictured above, Acme Cleaners T-Ball player Bryson Lewis gets a few pointers from Coach Bo Brown.

Nash County Commissioners took a moment to recognize Chairman Robbie Davis before getting down to business on Monday.
Davis was recognized with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award at Monday's regular business meeting.
The Order of the Long Leaf Pine is one of the most prestigious awards given by the Governor of North Carolina. The award is given to those with exemplary service to the State of North Carolina as well as to their communities.

Nash County Commissioners spent part of the first day of a two-day retreat with department heads discussing ideas that stemmed from a department head retreat.
Several committees were formed during the department head retreat and those committees presented reports to the board last Thursday afternoon.
The first committee was Building Employee Morale.
Patsy McGhee, Grants & Intergovernmental Relations Administrator for Nash County, gave some ideas and suggestions that came from the committee.

Nashville's Town Council met on Friday for an all-day retreat, highlighting revenues and expenditures for the current year as well as for the upcoming fiscal year.
The retreat was held for council members to offer additional input for the upcoming 2017-2018 budget. The board held its first retreat in February.
Town Manager Henry Raper went over revenues with the council, providing figures for the current fiscal year as well as a budgeted figure for the upcoming fiscal year, a projected figure for the upcoming fiscal year and a forecasted figure for 2018.

The town board of Red Oak voted Monday at its regular monthly meeting to adopt a resolution that would officially transfer ownership of the dormitory from the town to the Red Oak Area Historic Preservation Society.
Also, at Monday's meeting the board heard a couple presentations. The first was by Andrew Clements, who presented an update on his Eagle Scout project to redo the "Welcome to Red Oak" signs. The project will cost around $6000 to complete. The signs will possibly somehow incorporate the Town's seal.

As soon as the town board of Castalia's regular monthly meeting was called to order, there were disagreements. Town Commissioner Patsy Fisher would not accept the minutes of the previous regular meeting and two special meetings before changes were made. Fisher stated that she had asked about setting fees for the rental of the park in a previous meeting and had been told that the Park Committee was taking care of it.
"There's nothing in there [the minutes] about it, and before I go any further - the Park Committee cannot set fees for the park," Fisher explained.

Nash County Commissioners made a special trip to the Gold Rock area on Monday afternoon, following their regularly scheduled board meeting.
Commissioners were driven to Gold Rock by Chief Deputy Brandon Medina, of the Nash County Sheriff's Office, and were later joined by Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone.
The Gold Rock area has been a topic of conversation among commissioners, who have expressed concern about the amount of crime and the appearance of the area.

A rezoning request that was denied last month by Nash County Commissioners was approved on Monday, after the owner brought a revised request back to the board.
The request, by William Brian Colbert and Kimberly Colbert, was to rezone 89.5 acres of land on the west side of S NC Highway 58 on Cabin Path Lane from R-40 Single Family Residential to A-1 Agricultural (Conditional Use).

Easter is quickly approaching and several events are planned across the county for youth to take part in.
The Town of Nashville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department will host its annual Easter Egg Hunt on Monday, April 17 at Glover park.
The first hunt will begin at 10 a.m., said Marguerite Bishop, Director for the Town of Nashville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department.
Elementary aged youth and younger are encouraged to participate. Participants will be broken up into three age categories.

Nash County Planning and Inspections issued the following building permits from March 27 through 31.

I was SO ready to write this column this week. Daddy only lets me do this once a year, and if you know me, you know I have a lot to say. All the time.
I finally got access to a computer this year, at school and at home, and honestly, my head just about exploded. Technology is everything: with the exception of soccer and basketball, if it doesn't happen on a Mac, I'm not that interested.
Speaking of which, I'm hoping to go to a coding camp this summer at the College where Daddy teaches. The class is how to make video games.

I spent a majority of my Saturday at Nashville's Glover Park.
It was opening day for baseball and t-ball!
I was doing double duty that day. Half of me was covering the event and the other half was being a cheerleader for two of my boys, who are playing on one of the t-ball teams.

Dear Editor: I recently read editorial opinions from a newspaper based in the Piedmont TRIAD and one based on the coast dealing with partisanship in the races for District and Superior Court judges. As I read the opinions the main thought that came to mind was just how naïve are the members of these newspaper's editorial boards.

ENTERTAINING LIONS -- This photo was originally published in The Graphic on July 9, 1974. The Essence, a musical group composed of students from Southern Nash Senior High School, performed for the Nashville Lions Club at the Nashville United Methodist Church. Pictured, left to right, are Phyllis Taybron, Rosita Williams, Linda Pridgen, Danny Hedgepeth, Wayne Cooper, James Wilkins and Meg James.

A fugitive from Virginia was captured in Nashville last week following a vehicle chase.
Nash County Sheriff's Office Sergeant C. Boyd, who is assigned to the Highway Interdiction Team, attempted to conduct a stop on a black SUV last Wednesday. According to the Sheriff's Office, the distance of the black SUV to the other vehicle was around 1/2 to one car lengths behind the other vehicle.
The SUV exited off I-95 and traveled onto US 64 Westbound.

INCIDENTS
A possession of drug paraphernalia was reported on 3/27/17 at Murphy Express, 1151 Eastern Avenue
A larceny was reported on 3/27/17 at Murphy Express, 1151 Eastern Avenue
An obtaining money/property by false pretense and larceny was reported on 3/28/17 at Wal-Mart, 1205 Eastern Avenue

A harassment was reported on 3/19/17 at 7097 Hunter Ridge Road
A fraud was reported on 3/19/17 at 1702 Timberlane Drive
A possession of marijuana and simple possession was reported on 3/19/17 at Old Bailey Highway and Pine Drive
A larceny of a firearm was reported on 3/19/17 at 16606 Watson Seed Farm Road

The Spring Hope Chamber of Commerce plans to possibly add a license plate agency for the town.
Spring Hope Chamber of Commerce President Mary Penny Kelley said the chamber is applying to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to run the license plate agency.
"We've heard a lot of feedback from our citizens that they would use that and they thought it would bring a lot of people in from out of town to come to Spring Hope," she said.

Nash County Ruritans met last month at the Momeyer Ruritan Club for their 58th annual meeting.
The meeting included election of officers for 2018, a presentation of Rudy Bears, recognition of special guests, and a moment of silence for Ruritans who have passed away.
Bob Alford led the "In Memoriam" service at the start of the meeting. Nine Ruritans have passed away over the past year, including one from the Coopers Ruritan Club, four from the West Mount Ruritan Club and four from the Oak Level Ruritan Club.