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Breaking News: Flash flood in Spring Hope leaves two dead (relevance: 100%, date: Aug 7, 2025)
NASHVILLE - A man and a woman are dead, the victims of flash flooding Wednesday in Spring Hope.
While the victims' identities have not yet been officially released by the Nash County Sheriff's Office, the two were reportedly from Louisburg: 55-year-old Raymond Evans Jr. and 24-year-old Lottie Alston, a 2020 graduate of Franklin County Early College High. They were driving a silver 2002 Honda Odyssey minivan around 2:15 Wednesday afternoon in the area of 687 North NC-581 when the vehicle was swept off the right side of the road about 35 yards into a ravine during flash flooding.

New Nash Community College mural supports first responder mental health (relevance: 93.5%, date: Aug 6, 2025)
ROCKY MOUNT - A summer camp project for local middle school students may leave a lasting impression on first responders, with a message for firefighters and police officers who use the Nash Community College fire burn building near the Police Officer Physical Agility Test Field.
The side of the Burn building, used each year during NCC's Firefighter Academy, now is covered by an immense piece of "graffiti art" featuring a yellow sun burning on a blue background with the words "You Are Not Alone."

Truck buying seemed like a cross-cultural experience (relevance: 67.1%, date: Aug 6, 2025)
Last week, I wrote about how Old Unreliable finally bit the dust, taking a deer and my credit card balance with it.
While that old Dodge served my dad and his pugs for a generation, it was not so kind to us. If a truck could smoke two packs of Marlboros a day, lay out of work twice a week and get in the occasional fight at the Waffle House, it would have been this one.
The truck was ruled totaled and I told my youngest son, the primary driver of the vehicle, that we'd try to take our time and find the right vehicle.

A week filled with significant, notable events - and people (relevance: 64.5%, date: Aug 6, 2025)
At times, I feel I was born in the wrong decade - especially when looking back at all of the people of Nashville who taught me so much are now gone. In my younger days, I spent far more time with locals 30 plus years my senior.
I truly treasure the many hours spent hanging out with folks like Betsy Valentine Fuller, Mary Hobbs McIntryre, Chris Johnson, Ms. Rachel Joyner - to just name a few.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR (relevance: 23.2%, date: Apr 18, 2006)

Remediation continues at Red Oak Landfill (relevance: 20.4%, date: Aug 6, 2025)
RED OAK- Rough grading of the land surface at the Old Red Oak Landfill, a "Superfund" contamination site, is presently underway, the seventh of ten remediation steps required by NCDEQ.
'Superfund" is the nickname for a federal act created in 1980 to allow EPA to clean up contaminated sites presenting unique risks to the environment and to human health, requiring specialized equipment and training to safely remediate.