Athletes shine at Friday’s Special Olympics
By Olivia Neeley
olivia@wilsontimes.com | 252-265-7879 | May 10, 2024
Hunt High School senior Nazire Williams couldn’t stop smiling as he carried the torch and lit the cauldron to signal the start of Wilson’s annual Special Olympics spring games. Nazire was one of more than 100 athletes who competed during Friday’s big event at Fike High School. Cheers erupted from...
Elm City church makes hundreds of dresses for Malawi girls
By Christopher Long
clong@wilsontimes.com | 252-265-7821 | May 10, 2024
ELM CITY — A group of diligent seamstresses and volunteers at Elm City Methodist Church have teamed up over the past year to make hundreds of dresses and bags out of whatever fabric they could get their hands on for children in Malawi. “There is a lot of human trafficking...
Trail project takes huge leap forward
By Scott Bolejack
sbolejack@johnstoniannews.com | 919-424-1776 | May 10, 2024
SMITHFIELD — Plans for a trail in Wilson’s Mills have received a $3.3 million boost. Johnston’s Parks and Open Space Program learned in April that it had received a federal Carbon Reduction Program grant. “Last month, we came before y’all to get permission to put in the grant application,” Parks...
This Selma land is ready for industry
By Scott Bolejack
sbolejack@johnstoniannews.com | 919-424-1776 | May 10, 2024
SELMA — A 53-acre tract in Selma is shovel-ready for industry. The land, near Sysco, is Johnston County’s first Smart Site, meaning it’s certified ready to welcome an industry. “In today’s competitive landscape, the ability to offer shovel-ready sites for development is not just an advantage, it’s almost a necessity,”...
Wegmans acquires naming rights for Flaherty Park ‘fitness court’
By Justin Thompson
jthompson@wakeweekly.com | May 10, 2024
Town officials and local leaders will gather May 13 at Flaherty Park to celebrate the renaming and re-branding of an outdoor fitness center after its naming rights were recently purchased by a much-loved grocery retailer. The town says the Wegmans Outdoor Fitness Court, “allows users to leverage their own body...
May 11 is the last day to vote early in the 2024 Second Primary
From staff reports | May 10, 2024
Eligible Wake County voters have two more days to cast their ballots at any of the three available Early Voting sites. Visit WakeVotesEarly.com for an interactive map to the nearest site, full schedule, details about each site, a current wait time tracker and more. “Early Voting offers voters the flexibility to choose...
Ladybirds live on, get past Eastern Alamance
By Tom Ham
Special to The Enterprise | May 11, 2024
A base hit, a walk, an error, a base-running mistake or a mental blunder could have been the difference in Friday’s NCHSAA 3-A second-round playoff encounter between undefeated Southern Nash and Eastern Alamance, which won 3-A championships in 2019 and 2022, on the Southern Nash diamond. But Southern Nash avoided...
Ladybirds blank Red Rams on Senior Day
From staff reports | May 10, 2024
Six seniors were honored for the Southern Nash High girls soccer team before the Ladybirds celebrated their seniors the right way with a 3-0 defeat of visiting Franklinton in Thursday’s regular-season finale. Southern Nash, 15-5 overall, and Franklinton, both 3-A teams, tied for third in the 2-A/3-A Big East Conference...
Community members join letter carriers, Food Bank to help ‘stamp out hunger’
From staff reports | May 9, 2024
May 11, letter carriers in the area will collect financial contributions and non-perishable food donations to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, along with regular mail pick-up and drop-off. Donations can also be made securely online at FoodBankCENC.org/StampOutHunger. Residents can simply set their non-perishable food donation next to the...
Who was arrested
From staff reports | May 8, 2024
Butner Public Safety April 23, a vehicle chase occurred in Butner, and ended in Stem after the suspect wrecked his vehicle. The suspect then ran on foot and was apprehended after a brief foot chase. The suspect, Chad Lee Boyd, 37, of Stem, was transported to the hospital for minor...