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Wright’s Center to celebrate 35 years of service
A nonprofit day health care facility that serves area residents in their golden years as well as disabled adults is celebrating 35 years of service this week. The Wright’s Center, which is in the 500 block of West Raleigh Boulevard, will have an annual anniversary and an annual fundraising gathering at 6 p.m. Friday at the R.T. McCarter Fellowship Center in the 200 block of South Glendale Avenue. Former U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-1st District, will speak. ...
Police investigate shooting with injury
Police are conducting a probe into an inadvertent shooting of a woman at Rolling Meadows Apartments in the South Rocky Mount area earlier this month. Officers responded to the 100 block of Boyd Court around 11:30 a.m. on April 12, and found Katelyn Hudson, 22, had sustained minor injuries to both legs from shrapnel, according to police. In a preliminary investigation, police said several people, including Hudson, had gathered outside around the office area of the apartment complex, and someone’s firearm malfunctioned and discharged, causing Hudson’s injuries. Hudson was taken to UNC Health Nash for treatment and eventually was released, police said. The person who had been carrying the firearm has not been identified, police said.
Haliwa-Saponi Powwow honors legacy of Dalton Lynch
People from Warren County and beyond traveled to Hollister this past weekend for the 59th Annual Haliwa-Saponi Powwow, The Blooming of the Dogwood. The Powwow is held on the third weekend in April each year to commemorate the Tribe’s receipt of state recognition on April 15, 1965. While the...
Company gets $450k state grant to help start operations in Rocky Mount
A grant request to help a business intending to launch a food distribution operation in Rocky Mount was among those to make a statewide list of 31 successful proposals by local governments for a total of nearly $11 million in funding, Gov. Roy Cooper’s office said in a news release Friday. According to Cooper’s office, a $450,000 grant is going to help support a project locally of Goshen House & Trading, which is a processor and distributor of frozen, dairy and dry African, Caribbean and...
Letter: The big picture
The Doom and Gloom Band is striking up quite a tune these days. Before you join their chorus, please consider whistling another tune. Yes, we have trouble, but our town is not all bad. We have many homegrown established companies that do business on a national and international basis. For example, Barnhill Contracting, Boddie-Noell, Daughtridge Sales, Eagle Transport, Health View Capital Partners, Lambert Splicing, Wildwood Lamp, and down the road we have Braswell Family Farms and Edwards Crane. Capital Broadcasting continues to invest millions right...
Rocky Mount police looking for man believed to have cognitive impairment
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WITN) - The NC Center for Missing Persons is asking citizens to be on the lookout for a man believed to have a cognitive impairment. According to police, 56-year-old Carl Moore was last seen walking away from the home on the 600 block of Colby Court Road in Rocky Mount.
Halifax County drug dealer sent to federal prison
Raleigh —Katoe Harris Sr. also known as Big Katoe, was sentenced in federal court in Raleigh on April 17 for the following charges:. Possession with Intent to Distribute a Quantity of Cocaine Base (Crack) Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. These charges stemmed from...
Historic Princeville spotlighted in AfroPoP Earth Day Documentary
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange ends season 16 with a spotlight on a historic town fighting to survive environmental pressures. NEW YORK — AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, the acclaimed series from Black Public Media (BPM) and WORLD, closes out its 16th season on April 22 — Earth Day — with a documentary film exploring the urgent effects of climate change on one North Carolina community. Produced and directed by filmmaker Resita Cox, Freedom Hill debuts on AfroPoP on Monday, April 22 at 8 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. Central) on WORLD and streams on the WORLD and Black Public Media YouTube channels.
Facility earns rave reviews from fans, families, tournament organizers
Cali Green had paced just a few steps from sipping her cup of coffee in the lobby of the Rocky Mount Event Center on Saturday when the questions began coming her way. “Excuse me, do you know where the tournament desk is?” a man asked. “Can you help me find the athletic trainer?” an athlete inquired. ...
SOFTBALL ROUNDUP: Ladybirds clinch Big East regular-season title
The Southern Nash softball team improved to 17-0 on the season and 11-0 in Big East Conference play with a 10-0 victory over Northern Nash on Tuesday. The win clinched an outright Big East 2A/3A Conference championship for the Ladybirds and also the number one seed in the Big East Tournament, which will begin next week. Southern’s Sarah Ewers got the start on the mound and pitched a five-inning no...
SPORTS ROUNDUP: SWE baseball rallies past Chargers
SouthWest Edgecombe trailed 2-0 but put together a four-run top of the seventh inning to defeat Ayden-Grifton in an Eastern Plains 2A Conference game on Friday. The Cougars improved to 5-3 in the EPC and 10-6 overall, while the Chargers fell to 4-6 in league play and 12-7 overall. Parker Gay (double), Chase Taylor (RBI), Turner Cooke (double, RBI), Blayde Hinton (double, RBI) and Derrick Davis (double, RBI) had the...
Hunnicutt: Stats show challenges in county
Nash Community College President Lew Hunnicutt told Rocky Mount Rotarians last week that he and his team have a mantra: “If you stay local and study local, you will succeed locally.” One of the community college’s commitments, Hunnicutt said, is finding ways to keep young people in the area to fill the local workforce needs “because let’s face it, I’m looking out at the crowd. We’re not getting any younger.” ...
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