Nash County News

An array of items are scheduled for discussion Monday during Nash and Edgecombe counties Board of Commissioners meetings.

John Faulkner operates radio equipment during the Amateur Radio Field Day at Nash County Emergency Operations Center.

The positive news didn't last long. The unemployment rate for the Twin Counties region shot up once again in May after dropping slightly in the month of April.

A former first sergeant with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol in New Bern has been promoted to the top spot in the agency.

SHARPSBURG The town will be keeping its current administrator after all. Sharpsburg commissioners voted at their regular meeting last week to renew Town Administrator Robert Masters' contract.

SHARPSBURG Sharpsburg residents will have a chance tonight to give town commissioners their two cents on the proposed 2009-10 budget.

The Nash County Board of Commissioners moved last week to tap reserve funds to restore to public schools half the $800,000 it recalled earlier this year.

Authorities ended a brief chase of a reportedly stolen vehicle Sunday afternoon by forcing the teen driver off the road.

Angela Jones, left, helps her daughter Victoria Coley, 17, register for the summer job program with Joblink Intake Specialist Frince Williams, far right, on Wednesday in the Thomas S. Fleming building at the Edgecombe Community College Tarboro campus.

KENLY Longtime council member Scott Turik will not run for re-election this November.

Police in Emporia, Va. arrested a man and rescued his common-law wife and her daughter after police here issued an amber alert for the child.

Scotty Edwards is not a vain person. When he learned in April he had Hodgkin's disease and would have to undergo chemotherapy, he knew losing his hair was a possibility.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 North Carolina Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service.

The Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners will likely set the 2009-10 county budget, and the new 86-cent property tax rate, at Monday's meeting in Tarboro.

The death of Darrell Bass May 30 in Covington has left an array of questions for investigating officers and sad times for family members.

Slightly more students attended private schools in Nash County this year, and less students attended private schools in Edgecombe County, according to data released this week by the N.C. Department of Administration.

Along with the regular business at its monthly meeting Monday, the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners heard from NCDOT engineers and Martin County Community Action about major projects for the county.

One man is in the hospital after deputies say he helped tie up a man and his wife during a robbery at their Nash County home.

Nash County officials say three suspects went to a home on Monday with the intent to rob the homeowners.

Nash County will collect about 10 percent more in property taxes next fiscal year in the budget approved Monday by commissioners.