The Wilson Times
Christine Mitchell named a Kenan Fellow
Christine Mitchell, district STEM coordinator for Wilson County Schools, has been named a 2024-25 Kenan Fellow. The Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership at N.C. State University made the announcement. The fellowship includes a three-week...
‘Butt sniffing’ charges land man in jail
Wilson police say a Rocky Mount man has been charged with multiple counts of sexual battery and stalking after repeatedly sniffing a woman’s posterior for sexual gratification. Terrance Charles Bynum, 31, of the 4200 block...
Police: Man caught with fake money at Target
Wilson police say officers caught a Wake County man with a large amount of counterfeit cash after he tried to spend the fake bills at Target. Tyriek Rahkel Satterwhite, 25, of the 6500 block of...
Athletes shine at Friday’s Special Olympics
Hunt High School senior Nazire Williams couldn’t stop smiling as he carried the torch and lit the cauldron to signal the start of Wilson’s annual Special Olympics spring games. Nazire was one of more than...
Elm City church makes hundreds of dresses for Malawi girls
ELM CITY — A group of diligent seamstresses and volunteers at Elm City Methodist Church have teamed up over the past year to make hundreds of dresses and bags out of whatever fabric they could...
Tigers top Eagles 2-1 in 1-A second-round thriller
One by one, heroes emerged for the Wilson Prep baseball team Friday night against an upset-minded Warren County in the second round of the NCHSAA 1-A playoffs. The Tigers needed...
Ladybirds live on, get past Eastern Alamance
STANHOPE — A base hit, a walk, an error, a base-running mistake or a mental blunder could have been the difference in Friday’s NCHSAA 3-A second-round playoff encounter between undefeated...
NCCSA ROUNDUP: Lady Chargers advance to soccer, softball finals
It won’t be a spring sweep for Wilson Christian Academy. which is hosting Saturday’s North Carolina Christian School Association 2-A championships in baseball, girls soccer and softball, but the Lady...
Moore hurls Hunt past WJ, into 3rd round
BENSON — Hunt High may have finished fourth in the 3-A Quad County Conference varsity baseball regular season but the Warriors are the QCC champions of the postseason after eliminating...
Eagles fall in OT in CAASC championship game
The best season in the brief history of Sallie B. Howard School varsity girls soccer ended the same way it began — with a loss. The Eagles, in just their...
Lady Chargers blank Calvary Christian in NCCSA 1-A/2-A quarters
Host Wilson Christian stormed into the semifinals of the North Carolina Christian School Association 1-A/2-A softball playoffs with an 11-0 conquest of Calvary Christian of King on Thursday, May 9,...
‘Let’s play ball’: Officials break ground on stadium
Thursday morning’s groundbreaking ceremony for the downtown baseball stadium was about more than throwing dirt — it was about celebrating the next chapter in Wilson’s history. “Wilson is on the...
Playwright phones home to talk to Playhouse cast
Cast members and “[title of show]” production staff got the thrill of a lifetime after Sunday’s show at the Edna Boykin Cultural Center. Playwright Hunter Bell, who played himself in...
Camera catches bear on stroll in Wilson
A security camera at a Wilson business captured video of a black bear walking by early Tuesday. Katy Surtees of Tobacco Processors Services LLC said the bear was caught on...
Our Opinion: Senators can make NC the 20th state to call convention
The N.C. House has done its part to rein in federal overreach and restore fiscal discipline to a deficit-addicted Congress. More than a year later, it’s the state Senate’s turn...
Our Opinion: Top teacher and principal set a sterling example
THUMBS UP to Wilson County Schools’ 2024 Teacher and Principal of the Year honorees. District officials recognized Beddingfield High’s Jenny Hayes as Principal of the Year on Thursday and surprised...
Our Opinion: Congress dithers while NC fortifies immigration law
North Carolina is about 1,500 miles from the United States’ southwestern border with Mexico, but migrants, asylum-seekers and guest farmworkers regularly find their way to the Tar Heel State, as...
This graduation season, student debt relief still feels out of reach
College is expensive — and for most Americans, higher education is still largely unaffordable. The cost of college continues to rise at rates that salaries and income aren’t keeping up...
Congress shuns passenger safety in FAA reauthorization
The summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the terrifying sequence of near-disasters that occurred during the past year and are keeping...
Don’t let Congress widen the digital divide
Nearly a third of Americans who don’t have broadband say the reason is because it costs too much — and unfortunately, Congress is prepared to let that figure rise dramatically....
