Thursday, April 17, 2025
Senior Police Officer Humza Ismail was named the Wilson Police Department Officer of the Year at an awards program Wednesday at Wilson Community College. Ismail, who graduated from the Wilson Community College Basic Law Enforcement...
Wilson County’s 911 telecommunicators are being recognized this week for the critical role they play in emergency response. As part of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, the center has been decked out in circus decorations...
A Barton College undergraduate student has left campus and returned to their home country after learning that their Student and Exchange Visitor Information System record had been terminated. “Barton officials remain in touch with the...
Five-year-old Bryson Whitley used all the weight on his tiny frame to roll a heavy bowling ball down the lane toward 10 pins at Westview Lanes. Bryson was perhaps many years from bowling a perfect...
Bishop Justin Barnes has fond memories of his childhood singing and speaking inside what was then Christ Temple of Praise, led my Bishop M.K. Smith. “In my fellowship as a young kid, I would sing...
It was a day to celebrate partnerships and opportunity Friday as Johnson & Johnson symbolically broke ground on a $2 billion state-of-the art biologics manufacturing facility under construction in the...
For residents of Wilson’s Newton Park neighborhood, Wednesday’s storm resulted in falling trees, downed power lines, demolished carports and smashed porches. “We heard a whoosh come through and the wind...
Forest Hills Middle School students were evacuated Wednesday morning after a part of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning unit broke and caused a smoke smell in the building, school...
THUMBS UP to 102 hardworking Wilson County kids who put hulking hogs and snorting steers through their paces in the show ring, earning a combined total of $360,000 in the...
THUMBS UP to the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office for equipping dozens of local law enforcement officers to defend our furry and feathered friends from harm. Sheriff Calvin Woodard partnered with...
Charlie Nowak’s way of describing Wilson’s distinctive down-home charm will elicit plenty of grins, groans, guffaws and involuntary nods. “When I moved to Wilson, I moved here because I liked...
I want to thank all the wonderful employees at Wilson Medical Center who helped me during my stay, March 5-6, for a heart catherization. Everyone who registered me, everyone in...
I was pushing my precious cargo of eggs and coffee to the checkout line in Costco when suddenly I heard this loud male voice: “Watch where you’re going, lady. You...
North Carolina’s motto is a Latin phrase: Esse quam videri. Popularized by the ancient Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero, who likely first read the Greek version from Plato...
Abortion continues to be political discourse. It is common to use phrases like reproductive health, reproductive rights and the right to choose, and whatever else someone can come up with...
“Charlotte’s Web” was performed in 2008 at Howard Chapel on the campus of Barton College while the Edna Boykin Cultural Center was closed for structural repairs. The stage manager at...
The General Assembly has launched a bill and a series of hearings with the ostensible purpose of ensuring efficiency in state programs. House Majority Leader and Oversight Committee Chair Brenden...
