Saturday, February 22, 2025
ROCKY MOUNT — More than 800 runners will descend on the Rocky Mount Sports Complex when “Tackle the Tar,” a 5K obstacle course race, returns May 17 presented by the Rocky Mount Rotary Club. Drawing participants from 60 North Carolina cities and across the United States, Tackle the Tar raises...
The Institute for Future Agricultural Leaders, sponsored by the Nash County Farm Bureau, is accepting applications for its 2025 symposium. Rising high school seniors are eligible to attend the council, scheduled for June 15-20 at three area institutes — N.C. State University, North Carolina A&T State University and the University...
MIDDLESEX — Police say they used a Taser to subdue a Nash County man who walked away from a traffic stop and into a grocery store. Officer S. Whitfield arrested 38-year-old Isaac Elisha Watson of Middlesex around 5:50 p.m. Feb. 12. Police said Watson failed to comply with lawful orders...
North Carolina Department of Transportation maintenance crews got an early start in the southern end of Nash County on Monday, treating thoroughfares with brine ahead of winter weather expected to arrive Wednesday. “They are using seven trucks that spray the brine, and they have over 20 employees in Nash County...
NASHVILLE — A trio of Rocky Mount men were arrested Thursday in a rash of car break-ins across Nash County. Deputies charged Rashad Moore, Khalil Sanders and Kamari Taylor in a traffic stop near Sunset Avenue and Halifax Road after a state trooper spotted them in a car suspected of...
ROCKY MOUNT — More than 800 runners will descend on the Rocky Mount Sports Complex when “Tackle the Tar,” a 5K obstacle course race, returns May 17 presented by the...
“Hurry up and wait” is an apt description for many high school basketball teams this week as many conferences in the Times readership area have divided the schedules for postseason...
ROCKY MOUNT — Back-to-back losses — one unsurprising and the other disappointing — knocked the Southern Nash High varsity girls basketball team out of the running for second place by...
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...
The puzzler asks, “How do you get an 800-pound elephant under a tent?” The answer is one step at a time. First, you get the trunk, then the head and...
Conventional wisdom has photogenic North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson as a rising star among state and even national Democratic officeholders. Despite Donald Trump’s November victory, Jackson won the AG...
Time Magazine ran a cover picture of Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk with the presidential flag and the United States flag framing him. A picture is worth a...
