State championship aspirations are very much in play for several athletes from The Wilson Times readership area as the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A track and field championships are set to be contested today on the campus of North …
2012-05-18
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WILSON ARTS CENTER: “Wilson Collects” continues to June 3. Also showing will be the Wilson Active Artists Association Juried Exhibit and the Greenfield School Juried Young Tar Heel Historian’s Exhibition in Lowe …
Busy day of playoff action awaits area
The 2012 high school track and field season for The Wilson Times readership-area schools ends today with Fike, Hunt and Southern Nash represented in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A Championships in Greensboro.
Otherwise, only three …
Lee ready to make presence known at Div. I NCCU
Area athletes in collegeApproaching his third season of collegiate baseball, former Hunt High standout Zack Lee is anxious to get that “chip off his shoulder.”
The “chip” surfaced as a freshman at Francis Marion (S.C.) University of the NCAA …
Barton track quartet tabbed All-Region
Paced by the dual Conference Carolinas championships of sophomore Ericka Skinner, the second-year Barton College track and field program had a total of four athletes named to the NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region team, as announced by the U.S. …
Barton recruit wins NCISAA 1-A crown
PINEHURST — Barton College men’s golf signee Edward Thomas III of Cameron captured the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association 1-A individual championship in runaway fashion Tuesday afternoon at Talamore Golf Resort.
After …
Varnell takes gold at Swift Feet meet
RALEIGH — Wilson Track and Field club’s Jacob Varnell claimed first place in the Youth Boys Division 1,500-meter run on Saturday at the Swift Feet meet, a Junior Olympic developmental meet on May 5.
Varnell, a second-year member of …
Answering the call
For three generations of Rock Ridge family, volunteer firefighting is the family businessFirefighting has changed since April 1961, when the Rock Ridge community organized and chartered its first volunteers to run the fire department.
Back then, the fires were literally not as hot, there was no GPS system to get them to where the …