COVID spike modifies Wilson council meeting
Wilson resumed in-person meetings in May, but an uptick in cases caused officials on Tuesday to tran...
Wilson County DSS earns award for COVID response
The Wilson County Department of Social Services has received an achievement award from the National ...
Outbreaks strand some students at home with minimal learning
RALEIGH — Within his first week back at school after a year and a half, 7-year-old Ben Medlin was ex...
Avoiding another failed school year
There’s no sugarcoating it: More that 50% of North Carolina’s schoolchildren failed to achieve grade...
Biden's mandate goes too far
RALEIGH — I got the COVID-19 vaccine shortly after it became publicly available. I did so because I ...
Test scores show declines in all areas
Superintendent Lane Mills said it could take five to seven years combined with a laser focus to rega...
COVID cases grow, more kids getting sick
Cars are once again lining up at Wilson Immediate Care as residents seek a COVID-19 test. Physician ...
Vaccinations, masks create safe learning environments
As a pediatrician serving eastern North Carolina, as well as a father to school-aged children, I tru...
Biden's vaccine mandate isn't about COVID-19
“We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin,” President Joe Biden said as he announced his...
Lying leaders can’t be truth police
If you think the federal government should act swiftly to remove coronavirus fibs and falsehoods fro...
Southern Nash High leads school district in virus cases
NASHVILLE — Southern Nash High School is leading its school district in new COVID-19 cases since the...
Data: Majority of K-12 students failed state exams
RALEIGH — The majority of North Carolina public school students taking standardized state exams in r...
Private, charter schools track COVID-19 trends
While Wilson County Schools and other school districts provide regular updates on their COVID-19 fig...
Pandemic produces new private school; preschools expand to offer kindergarten
Students at the new Level Up Academy did what most others do on the first day of school. They learne...
COVID-19: Technocracy flowered, then failed
History is littered with social and political movements which, while failing to survive as movements...
Vaccinations are the path to normalcy
As we enter the final days of summer, our state is seeing a significant increase in COVID-19 cases, ...
COVID-19 sends students back to remote learning
The entire sixth grade at Springfield Middle School has transitioned to remote learning because of C...
Cooper: Vaccinate to help state ‘turn final corner’ on pandemic
NASHVILLE — Gov. Roy Cooper encouraged North Carolinians to get a lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine while ...
To help end overdoses, NC must expand Medicaid
Behind the headlines of COVID-19 deaths, the story of North Carolina’s drastic increase in fatal dru...
COVID cases still rising in Wilson County
COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise in Wilson each week. The county is now averaging 31 newly conf...
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Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Shannon Carroll and Glenda Barnes Carroll of the Black Creek community announce...
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Mr. and Mrs. David Matthews Clark of Wilson announce the engagement of their daughter, Anna Narron C...