Thursday, December 26, 2024
SPRING HOPE — The Spaulding Family Resource Center wrapped its 2024 coat drive last week, providing a host of area children with warm winter apparel. “We were able to bless 60 children-families between Spring Hope, Middlesex and Bailey elementary schools,” Spaulding Program Director Corliss Newkirk said of the project, which...
Even if he ends up playing on Sundays, the 2024 high school football season for Southern Nash High senior Tylik Mitchell will forever be bittersweet. By midseason, Mitchell was the top rusher in the state, across all classifications, and the Firebirds were 6-0 until disaster struck. First a concussion interrupted...
WILSON — The Wesley Shelter received a load of donations Monday from Red Oak Grove Baptist Church in southern Nash County’s Stanhope community just in time for Christmas. Linda Piatt, who dropped off the clothing, toiletries and diapers, said this was the church’s second year giving to the domestic violence...
NASHVILLE — A local agricultural mainstay has finalized plan’s for a New Year’s Eve extravaganza. Braswell Family Farms, a fourth-generation egg and feed producer, announced plans last week for its second annual Egg Drop, which will take place from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 at The Nashville Junction, 723 S....
The release of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s first draft of its next realignment — an unprecedented move to eight classifications starting in 2025 — brought different reactions from Wilson member schools and Southern Nash High. The first proposal in a process that will stretch into March before...
Even if he ends up playing on Sundays, the 2024 high school football season for Southern Nash High senior Tylik Mitchell will forever be bittersweet. By midseason, Mitchell was the...
The release of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s first draft of its next realignment — an unprecedented move to eight classifications starting in 2025 — brought different reactions...
The Southern Nash High School Athletics Hall of Fame Committee has announced its inaugural class, highlighting eight of the most prolific players and coaches in school history. “The creation of...
Bloodsucking leeches, coffin-shaped tablets and a mechanical “lung” are among the more than 5,000 items on display at the Country Doctor Museum in Nash County. The museum’s collection, spread across...
A historic, flood-prone North Carolina community will become more resilient as a result of FEMA approving an $11.2 million grant. Princeville, located below the Tar River, has experienced repetitive flooding...
WILSON — A Thursday groundbreaking ceremony for a baseball stadium that will serve as the Carolina Mudcats’ future home was about more than throwing dirt — it was about celebrating...
On March 13, 2023, Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order that removed college degree requirements from most jobs in state government. “You don’t necessarily need to have a degree...
More than 40 years after its release, an exchange in the opening scene of Warren Beatty’s Academy Award-winning film “Reds” floats to the front of my mind whenever I think...
2025 is right around the corner. The changing of the year has always been bittersweet for me. I have loved my years, and I hate to see one end. On...
