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Smithfield backs industrial park
SMITHFIELD — The Town Council last week cleared the way for an industrial park on the west side of t...
Town to replace water meters in West Smithfield
SMITHFIELD — The town on Jan. 19 will begin changing out water meters in West Smithfield. During the...
In vaccine rollout, 2 numbers important to remember
As the Johnston County Health Department rolls out its COVID-19 doses, remember these two numbers: 1...
Johnston’s jobless rate ticks up
Johnston County’s jobless rate climbed to 5.3% in November from 5.2% in October, the N.C. Employment...
UNC Health offering vaccine in Smithfield
SMITHFIELD — UNC Health has begun offering the COVID-19 vaccine to adults 75 and older. Those are th...
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Smithfield backs industrial park
Town to replace water meters in West Smithfield
In vaccine rollout, 2 numbers important to remember
Johnston’s jobless rate ticks up
UNC Health offering vaccine in Smithfield
Johnston lawmaker gets powerful committee post
Pandemic reshapes high school sports
As vaccine rollout begins, ‘rest assured you have a place’
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Spring Hope Enterprise
Winslow takes oath of office in state House
Virus vaccine making the rounds in Nash County
Nash County Sheriff's Office bans chokeholds
Man charged in Rocky Mount hit-and-run death
Rocky Mount-Wilson airport triples aircraft numbers
Vocal ensemble holding virtual auditions
Remembering Spring Hope's lovers' lanes
Lift voices in prayer for nation's new leaders
The Wilson Times
Black Creek inspires outdoors clothing brand
The road from Montgomery, Alabama, to Black Creek is one Devoski Boyd came to know well from an earl...
Barton College adds new coronavirus measures
Barton College students are returning to campus for spring semester classes this week with additional mea...
Rocky Mount-Wilson airport triples aircraft numbers
ELM CITY — The number of aircraft based at the Rocky Mount-Wilson Regional Airport has tripled in th...
College, nonprofit offer free construction course
The Wilson Community Improvement Association stands to benefit when participants complete a construc...
Imagination Station installs new air conditioning system
You know you’re in a small town when air conditioning installation makes the news. But it was good n...
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Pandemic reshapes high school sports
PRINCETON — While Johnston students have returned to remote-only learning, high school sports contin...
All-GNRC cheerleading team announced
The hard work of countless cheerleaders from football through basketball season did not go unnoticed. On the All-Greater Neuse River Conference team, 11 cheerleaders were honored for Eleven chee...
All-GNRC indoor track
For the winter indoor track season, Cleveland captured a pair of Greater Neuse River Conference titles to land atop the standings. In the girls standings, the Rams edged out Clayton for the conf...
Community Sports
Clements prevails in Limited Late Model Division at SNMP
LUCAMA — Brandon Clements scored his first Southern National Motorsports Park Limited Late Model win since 2012 in spectacular fashion, holding off Tony Grady in a breathtaking duel in …
McCarty edges Pulliam in instant classic at Southern National
LUCAMA — Bobby McCarty edged out Lee Pulliam to score the victory in a thrilling green-white-checkered finish in Sunday evening’s Solid Rock Carriers Classic at Southern National …
Columns
Cawthorn cries freedom, then plays censor
His name may be a nod to the Founding Father and fourth president, but Rep. Madison Cawthorn is no J...
Windy weekend, stable temps and mostly sunny days
Stable and close to seasonable weather conditions are expected in the Wilson Times area through Tues...
What’s your definition of ‘savior’?
Savior. That word was on my mind this morning. So I looked it up in Merriam-Webster’s online diction...
Take me out to the ball game — please
I am a longtime subscriber to the New York Times, not for its politics, which are not my own, but fo...