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PATRICIA ANN DAVIS PENDERGRASS (relevance: 100%, date: Jun 30, 2025)

NASH COUNTY BLOOD DRIVES (relevance: 93.9%, date: Jul 2, 2025)
Rocky Mount
JULY 7: 1:30 p.m. - 6 p.m., St. Paul Baptist Church, 1151 N. Winstead Avenue
JULY 10: 2 p.m. - 6 p.m., Northside Community Church, 1660 Beaver Pond Drive
JULY 14: 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Shenandoah Baptist Church, 3894 Shenandoah Road

NC Governor signs Chesser's bill into law (relevance: 79.3%, date: Jul 2, 2025)
RALEIGH- Governor Josh Stein has signed a foster care bill sponsored by Rep. Allen Chesser into law. House Bill 612, the Fostering Care in NC Act, became law Thursday, June 26th. It is designed to speed up the process to get children in DSS custody into permanent, safe care, whether through reunification with family, kindship care, guardianship or adoption.
Representative Allen Chesser, the first primary sponsor of HB 612, said the governor's signing was the culmination of "months of work on a long-recognized needed change to our state's foster care system.

New chair appointed to Nash County Board of Elections (relevance: 71.5%, date: Jul 2, 2025)
NASHVILLE - Nash County's Board of Elections has a new chairman, thanks to a state appointment.
John Check, Republican, was appointed June 24 by Dave Boliek, State Auditor and Republican, to replace Kelly Shore, Democrat; Shore will remain as a Board member.
The appointment, along with others done at the same time for all NC counties, is currently allowed but there is an ongoing legal battle over permitting the State Auditor to maintain control of state elections board appointments.

CASTALIA FIREWORKS & FESTIVAL IS JULY 4TH (relevance: 71.3%, date: Jul 2, 2025)
The Town of Castalia will host its annual Independence Day Celebration on Friday, July 4th. Most activities will be held at the community park. Food trucks and craft vendors will open at 10 a.m. The parade will take place on Main Street/Hwy 58 at 11 a.m. Street closures are from 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. The opening ceremony will be at 3 p.m. with a welcome from Mayor James Alston, the National Anthem. The guest speaker is Judge Anthony Brown who also served as Grand Marshal.

Nashville welcomes new K-9 "Jade" (relevance: 36.8%, date: Jul 2, 2025)
NASHVILLE - Beautiful, friendly and unassuming, "Jade," a Black Lab, has joined the ranks of the Nashville Police Department as its newest K-9, partnering with handler Officer Bryson Gibson.
While Jade may look like any other fit Labrador Retriever, Jade's training can transform her in seconds to a kind of canine superhero, when her drug detection and tracking abilities activate. Those are her specialties: Narcotics detection in vehicles and buildings, and Tracking fugitives or missing persons.

Nash County can, and should do better (relevance: 32.7%, date: Jul 2, 2025)
Last week's release of inspection reports at the Pet Connection Center (Nash County Animal Shelter) absolutely made my temperature rise as I read through the many issues found.
As mentioned, many times, right here in this column - local people rolled up their sleeves back in 2010 to build a non-profit, Nash County Animal Friends of NC, to lobby and help reduce euthanizations at the Nash County Animal Shelter. The group worked tirelessly to fund and lobby for affordable spay and neuter programs.