ROCKY MOUNT — Paced by a championship performance from Jesus Raya in his weight class, the Southern Nash High wrestling team amassed 122 points and finished third among 16 teams in Saturday’s Grant Wilder Memorial Invitational at Rocky Mount High. The Firebirds claimed seven place-winners, with Zach Coble taking second. Posting third-place finishes were Daniel Medina, Pedro Vargas and Dakota […]
2017-12-04
Getting their crown back
Defensive-dependent WCA girls win Charger Christmas Classic for 1st time since 2014It wasn’t the field-goal shooting. It wasn’t the free-throw shooting. It wasn’t valuing the basketball. It wasn’t the decision-making.
Had to be the defense.
The Wilson …
Demons pull away to beat SW Edgecombe 77-64
PINETOPS — Senior Jayvon Green came off to score seven points in the second quarter as the Fike High varsity boys basketball pulled away from host SouthWest Edgecombe for a 77-64 triumph Friday …
Demons produce 3 champs at Pierce-Davis Memorial
BETHEL — Seniors Blake Edwards and Linton Holmes and sophomore Aaron Bancroft of Fike High each won weight-class championships Saturday at the 26th Pierce-Davis Memorial Tournament at North …
Ladybirds lose at Nash Central
ROCKY MOUNT — Victory once again eluded the Southern Nash varsity girls basketball team Friday as the Ladybirds dropped a 50-42 decision at former 3-A Big East Conference rival Nash …
Falcons place sixth at Wilder Memorial
ROCKY MOUNT — Senior Austin Doyle, at 106 pounds, and junior Devin Maldonado, at 113, each advanced to the championship match in their respective weight class to lead Charles B. Aycock High to …
Lucas, Townes key Southern Nash win
STANHOPE —The clutch efforts of seniors Jalen Lucas and Demetrius Townes in the final two minutes lifted the Southern Nash High varsity boys basketball team to a 48-43 nonconference win …
Lady Bulldogs fall 77-74 in OT
The chances were there for the Barton College women’s basketball team to pull out a win in Saturday’s NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas game against Erskine in Wilson Gym, but the Lady …
Bulldogs ground Flying Fleet 70-61
Host Barton College held Erskine to 20 points in the first half and parlayed that into a 70-61 NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas men’s basketball victory Saturday in Wilson Gym.
The …
National League soccer returns to Gillette
Players from Utah Celtic FC ‘01 and New Jersey Stallions ‘01 Freedom teams compete in a Girls 17U White Division match Saturday at Gillette Soccer Complex as the US Youth Soccer’s National League made its 11th season debut in Wilson. More than 120 teams competing in five age divisions played four games each in Wilson and Rocky Mount. The National […]
Area Calendar, Dec. 4-5
Monday, December 4
High School Varsity Boys Basketball
Community Christian at Kerr-Vance Academy, 7 p.m.; Greenfield at Cape Fear Christian, 7 p.m.; North Johnston at Rosewood, 7:30 …
Americans can bake hamburger buns
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at Chicago’s Cloverhill Bakery that netted 800 illegal alien employees can be looked at two ways.
First, management at the bakery, which makes …
‘Scalia Speaks’ offers Supreme insights
Gifts this time of year usually are for opening on Christmas Day. The son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Christopher, has instead allowed an early viewing of his gift to …
Was Keillor swept up in witch hunt?
America is in the middle of an agonizing reappraisal of sexual conduct. What constitutes sexual harassment or assault? Where is the line that separates acceptable, or merely rude, actions from …
Consumer protection is no laughing matter
As Congress struggles to enact legislation that will bring tax relief to the rich and obliterate health care for the not-so-rich, another battle is brewing beneath the Swamp; the never-ending …
Thousands line Nash Street for Christmas parade
Mild temperatures made for a satisfying setting for the annual Christmas parade through downtown in Wilson on Saturday.
A light sprinkling of rain toward the end of the hour-and-a half convoy of …
Man accused in Wayne, Wilson break-in cases
PIKEVILLE — Authorities say a man wanted for a string of break-ins in Wayne and Wilson counties was apprehended on Friday.
Wayne County sheriff’s deputies arrested 29-year-old Melvin Brandon …
Nine bricks of heroin seized in police raid
Police say they’ve kept nine bricks of heroin off the streets with a Friday raid of a Wilson man’s home.
Officers in the Wilson Police Department’s Special Operations Division seized a …
Morris Newkirk
GOLDSBORO — Morris Newkirk, 60, of 109 Melodie Lane in the Dudley community, died Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. Arrangements are incomplete and are being handled by Haskins Funeral Home of Goldsboro.
‘He wanted us to do more’: Friends, admirers: Follow Howard Jones’ example of volunteerism
Howard Jones changed thousands of lives because he believed in the power of hope.
The OIC of Wilson’s founder and president also never gave up on those who had given up …
