Stantonsburg News

As Americans celebrate their freedoms today, Iraqis are also enjoying greater independence than they've had in decades.

It took almost three hours for Stantonsburg police, two volunteer fire departments, EMS, Wilson County Emergency Management, a safe technician and two local welders to free a man's hand from a safe Tuesday morning.

Supporters of Hope Station's ministry in Wilson celebrated Friday the opening of the nonprofit organization's new facility, which they hope will enable it to better serve those in need.

A man reported missing by the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons was found about 7 p.m. Friday in Virginia, according to Greene County Sheriff Lemmie Smith.

Starting next school year, all children entering kindergarten in Wilson County Schools will take a skills test to determine what extra help or interventions are needed to help them be successful in a regular class.

Taylor Blake Desrosiers of Wilson will take part in the National Young Scholars program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. The program inspires students in second, third, fourth and fifth grades to explore, invent, learn and think creatively.

Her debut novel about life on an eastern North Carolina tobacco farm was named Best First Novel of the Year by USA Today in 1983.

Sharpsburg Sharpsburg commissioners will consider several items tonight related to their effort to rehabilitate the town's sewer system and will also consider entering into a new contract with the current town administrator.

Each month the Wilson County Board of Education releases its personnel list, which shows employees who have been hired or resigned from the system during the past month.

SNOW HILL The Greene County Museum will this month host "An Evening with Author Louise Shivers." Shivers, a Stantonsburg native and writer-in-residence at Augusta State University in Georgia, is the author of award-winning novels "Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" and "A Whistling Woman." "Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" was adapted to the big ...

Outsider or visionary art refers to the works created mostly by self-taught artists from outside the traditional world of fine art, said Susann Hood, who helped coordinate the show.

Ashley Michelle Amerson and Ryan Paul Sebastian, both of Wilson, exchanged wedding vows May 16 at Peace Church.

Zorria Barnes could feel the money in the bottom of the chest filled with water and ice.

STANTONSBURG The Stantonsburg Kiwanis Club recently chose Jerry Overman Boykin's yard for their May Yard of the Month.

SHARPSBURG Sharpsburg commissioners will have two meetings this week to discuss the town's 2009-10 FY budget.

Former Miss Wilson pageant winners will be celebrated with a parade through downtown Wilson Saturday morning starting at 10:30. The event kicks off a day of activities with Theater of the American South.

NASH COUNTY The Nash County Republican Party Executive Committee has recommended Kevin Lewis to continue serving as the Republican member of the three-member Nash County Board of Elections.

The town of Stantonsburg is moving to replace Tommy Darden as a commissioner by June.

The Wilson County Board of Education Monday approved principal appointments for the 2009-2010 academic year at various schools.

Tommy Darden said the Stantonsburg Town Council "fabricated" a story to kick him off the town's governing board, and he now wants the truth about what is really happening to be made public.