The Beddingfield girls and boys basketball teams will certainly have their options this seasons.
With both teams returning the nucleus of their rotations from last year, the Bruins add both size and speed as they look to challenge for the 2-A …
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Depth in bunches at Hunt
A surplus of players everywhere, experienced and new, is the most obvious connection that the varsity boys and girls basketball teams at Hunt High share this season, which begins tonight at home against Charles B. Aycock.
The Warriors of head …
Firebirds’ win biggest of Foster era
Was last Friday night’s 20-10 conquest of host Hunt in the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-AA playoffs the biggest for head coach Brian Foster in his 12-year tenure in that capacity at Southern Nash High?
“Of course,” …
Week 14’s Best
TERRON HUFFMAN, Southern Nash — His big plays crippled host Hunt in his team’s 20-10 triumph in the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-AA playoffs last Friday evening.
The sophomore back riddled a proud Warriors’ …
Knights fall to Ravenscroft
Eventually, Ravenscroft was just too much for the Greenfield girls basketball team.
The Knights hung with them through much of the first half before the Ravens took off in the second in dealing Greenfield a 66-25 loss Monday in Greenfield’s gym. …
Mistakes costly to Knights
Greenfield falls to RavenscroftThe Greenfield boys basketball team had its moments, but against a team like Ravenscroft, moments didn’t cut it.
After leading by as many as eight points in the second half, the Knights faltered down the stretch, committing several costly …
Was it necessary to publish names of accused teens?
I was reading the Wilson Times today (Nov. 20) when I noticed, on the front page, a story about some teenagers who had been caught with alcohol at a party across town and were charged, not convicted, with underage drinking. The story then noted that …
Spread out the parade
Our city had a parade Saturday. We could have attracted thousands of folks from our area if we had stretched it out past Dick’s, so people would line up for 15 blocks on both sides of the street and would be able to see a parade that deserves more …
A plan for creating new jobs for Americans
Anyone who has ever experienced unemployment understands the pain, depression and the feelings of inferiority that often accompany it. For the employed or retired, reading jobless numbers in the newspaper can’t possibly have the same impact as those …
Wilson faces a double challenge
Wilson faces two potential community crises. Each has to do with money. Each demands leadership from those who are able to step up.
The first is a shrunken United Way fund that’s some $96,000 less than it was last year. Fundraisers met the 2009 …
Museum lecture traces historic ‘Beagle Voyage’
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts the final offering of its Charles Darwin Lecture Series today — the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s landmark publication of “The Origin of Species.” Join museum paleontologist and science …
Holiday Pops concert in Goldsboro Sunday
GOLDSBORO — The North Carolina Symphony’s much-revered Holiday Pops concert will be making a stop at The Paramount Theatre in Goldsboro Sunday at 3 p.m.
Guest soprano Rozlyn Sorrell joins forces with resident conductor William Henry Curry and …
Carolina Craftsmen show this weekend
RALEIGH — More than 100 craftsmen will display their creations Friday through Sunday at the 40th annual Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild’s Fine Craft + Design Show at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds Exposition Center. One of the longest …
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Fremont
The Fremont Board of Aldermen decided to hold off on raising electric rates until a board committee can review the rates and make a recommendation at its Dec. 8 meeting.
Town manager Kerry McDuffie, the town’s finance officer and …
State forces animal shelter upgrades
The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office Animal Enforcement has been told by the N.C. Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services to replace its carbon monoxide chamber used to euthanize animals.
About six weeks ago, state regulators told officials …
Federal program targets violent and repeat offenders
Since Wilson law enforcement became involved in the federal initiative, Project Safe Neighborhoods, in 2006, between 60 to 75 offenders have been prosecuted through the federal court system.
The federal initiative, which began during the 1990s, …
Soccer clinic benefits shelter
Professional soccer goalie William Hesmer leads clinicAs the starting goalkeeper for Major League Soccer’s Columbus (Ohio) Crew, William Hesmer’s given everything he’s got to the game of soccer.
Hesmer now wants to give back to his hometown of Wilson by hosting a fundraiser for the Wesley Shelter …
Collecting rain water
A new rain water harvesting system has been installed on the Wilson Community College campus.
The system will collect water from the roof of the new student services building and store it in four cisterns buried near the building. The cisterns …
‘You can make it’
Community meal spreads hopeHelen Urie will graduate from Barton College this spring. She endured homelessness, she was preyed upon by a pedophile whom she trusted and was even locked up for being a runaway, but she can’t thank God enough for her life.
Urie was one of the …
African Children’s Choir in concert here Dec. 6
The internationally acclaimed African Children’s Choir will perform at First United Methodist Church Dec. 6 at 6 p.m.
The choir has entertained millions for the past 25 years, raising awareness of the plight of Africa’s most vulnerable, but also …
