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The Wilson Planning and Design Review Board decided 15 housing units per acre was too much to call the standard for one of the city’s densest zoning designations. In a 4-3 vote Tuesday night, board members declined to amend the city’s Unified Development Ordinance and instead decided to keep the maximum density for urban residential zoning at nine units per […]

Hunt High School senior Quinton Price thought he could handle the challenge behind the wheel of the golf cart. But after he put on a pair of goggles, hit the gas and tried to navigate the course, he quickly realized the opposite.  “I did not have it,” Quinton said. “It was blurry. I couldn’t see. The cones in the back […]

Frederick Douglass Elementary School has been named a NC STEM School of Distinction, making it the first school in Wilson County to earn the designation.  The school was notified by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction about the honor that exemplifies excellence in science, technology, engineering and math education. The school will be recognized in the fall by the State […]

Wilson’s Big Lots store is one of many across the state that will reopen after Variety Wholesalers Inc., a Henderson-based retail store company and the parent company of Roses, purchased the brand in January. “That one will be in our third wave of reopenings,” Jeff King, vice president of sales and marketing for Variety Wholesalers, told the Times. King said […]

Two heavily traveled Wilson roads will be resurfaced this month, according to North Carolina Department of Transportation Public Relations Officer Andrew Barksdale. Nash Street, from Atlantic Christian College Drive to the intersection at Ward Boulevard, and Tarboro Street, from the intersection at Ward Boulevard to the intersection at Forest Hills Road, will take “about a week” each to be resurfaced. […]

A Wilson woman faces multiple charges after police say several hundreds of flower arrangements were stolen from graves at three different cemeteries.  The Wilson Police Department was notified on March 19 regarding a larceny that occurred at Maplewood Cemetery, according to officials. Wilson Cemetery Commission leader Heather Goff, who manages the city’s cemeteries, told police that there were “several hundred […]

Customers were caught off guard Monday when they found out Wilson’s license plate agency was permanently closed. N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles officials said the closure was due to the death of the contractor.  The agency was located at 4000 Ward Blvd., Suite D, at the Toisnot Village Shopping Center. NCDMV is now seeking applicants for a new contractor to […]

Gov. Josh Stein has named two District Court judges for the 8th and 9th Prosecutorial districts.  Tia Hudgins Taylor will serve as District Court judge for the 8th Prosecutorial District, which covers Wilson, Nash and Edgecombe counties.  Taylor will fill the vacancy created by District Court Judge William Solomon’s retirement, Stein said in a Monday news release.  Taylor most recently […]

The 65-year-old dam at Lake Wilson will be renovated to improve its non-concrete structure following an assessment from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Dam Safety Division. Public Works Director Bill Bass for the city of Wilson said the project, which will remove trees and fortify the structural integrity of the earthen part of the dam, is required by […]

Wilson County officials are working to educate residents about property tax relief programs that could help lower their tax burden.  “This has been a big initiative among the commissioners and the tax office to provide more education on property taxes and programs such as property tax relief,” said Crawford Bolton, Wilson County’s tax administrator. North Carolina offers three types of […]