Our Opinion: Booze blunders hasten ‘last call’ for ABC system
North Carolina’s obsolete alcohol sales bureaucracy was dealt tandem blows this month as its chairma...
Our Opinion: Why is Lucama’s mayor alienating a state lawmaker?
More than two dozen North Carolina cities and towns pay lobbyists to advocate for their interests in...
Our Opinion: Constitution Day celebrates principles that define America
It’s invoked in immigration debates, campus speaker controversies, gun law logjams, copyright clashe...
Our Opinion: Wilson fire hires reflect well on city leadership pipeline
THUMBS UP to two veteran Wilson firefighters who will advance their careers after recent selections ...
Our Opinion: 9/11 attacks united Americans at devastating cost
Editor’s note: In observance of Patriot Day, The Wilson Times is republishing two editorials written...
Our Opinion: Sheriff’s office quickly captured murder suspect
THUMBS UP to the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office and its law enforcement partners for capturing a dou...
Our Opinion: Video lottery bill ignores unregulated sweepstakes games
North Carolina legislators seem to be OK with gambling just so long as the House — the one that meet...
Our Opinion: Dick’s Hot Dog Stand serves 100 years of smiles
THUMBS UP to Dick’s Hot Dog Stand, an iconic Wilson restaurant preparing to celebrate its 100th anni...
Our Opinion: Leave student phone searches to parents, police
School board members don’t have to vote against a policy allowing student cellphone searches because...
Our Opinion: First day of school a rite of passage worth celebrating
THUMBS UP to the start of another school year in Wilson County. Traditional public school students ...
Our Opinion: Split-county legislative districts are better for Wilson
Census figures showing dubious dips in population for Wilson and Wilson County may be a setback for ...
Our Opinion: Can civic boosters counteract Wilson’s census undercount?
THUMBS DOWN to disappointing U.S. Census Bureau figures that suggest the city of Wilson and Wilson C...
Our Opinion: Protect charter school students' civil liberties
Families’ fight against a discriminatory dress code will continue, but a court ruling in the case co...
Our Opinion: National Night Out an opportunity to strengthen Wilson
THUMBS UP to National Night Out, which returns to Wilson on Tuesday after a pandemic-induced pause i...
Our Opinion: Compromise can solve our state’s employment crisis
It’s time for North Carolinians sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses hobbled by pub...
Our Opinion: Countdown to Barton football kickoff begins
THUMBS UP to ongoing construction at Barton College’s Truist Stadium that will allow Barton to roll ...
Our Opinion: Wilson council has time to wade into public pool dialogue
Before the Wilson City Council decides the fate of our community’s public pools, swimmers and other ...
Our Opinion: Buried public records call for criminal probe
When someone in Lucama decided to break the law, he, she or they took every anti-open government cli...
Our Opinion: Lawmakers, be good sports and kindly butt out
When legislators have a vested interest in the outcome, no institution is safe from their meddling —...
Our Opinion: Foundation grants will make Wilson healthier, happier
THUMBS UP to the Healthcare Foundation of Wilson, which is pouring more than three quarters of a mil...
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We have a close friend from the wayback days of Fike High in 1963 who recently fell on his way to th...
Braswell-Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Shannon Carroll and Glenda Barnes Carroll of the Black Creek community announce...