Wilson County News

The road back to your normal life can be quite challenging after a stroke. Medical research says the longer it takes to get help, the less likely a patient is to fully recover.

The Fourth of July just wouldn't be the same without loud and colorful explosives to celebrate our freedom.

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.

Boyd Reynolds got a jump start on the analog-to-digital television transition that went into effect nationally June 12.

Eastern North Carolina, and Wilson County in particular, has a long, proud history with the East Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

"I love you for coming," Peggy Beaman said to me Wednesday afternoon as I left the Lucama Community Building, full from a meal of chicken pastry, barbecue pork, coleslaw, boiled potatoes, green beans and mouth-watering strawberry cake.

The state's budget deficit has reached $4.7 billion, Gov. Bev Perdue said Monday during her visit at South Central High School.

When some families go to write the checks for their biggest monthly bills, day care is often right up there with the mortgage payment and car payment.

Greene County has always loomed large in author Louise Shivers' mind. Shivers' father was born outside Snow Hill, and ancestors of hers called the rural county home.

Children and adults will celebrate the 5th birthday of Ms. Rail Rose, a concrete sculpture, Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Wilson train station.

Those who work to protect abused children have teamed up to help close gaps in the system by sharing information about child abuse cases.

After a deluge Tuesday morning led to flooding and road closures in Wilson, thunderstorms today and Thursday could keep things soggy until a quick warm-up later this week drives temperatures into the high 90s.

Several counties across central North Carolina are under a flash flood watch until tonight, and officials in Wilson have already closed several flooded roads because of the heavy rains this morning.

The 60th annual North Carolina Women's Amateur Championship, which begins its three-day run at Wilson Country Club this morning, is viewed as "the tournament" for women's golf in the state by WCC head golf professional Reid Hill.

Clean-up is underway in parts of Eastern Carolina Monday evening after severe thunderstorms rumbled through.

The four people who were arrested and charged in connection with the gunning down of Christopher Derrick Allen in Lamm Park have been indicted by a Wilson Grand Jury.

Wilson County has its first confirmed case of the H1N1, also known as swine flu, with another possible positive case pending.

Health officials say that the H1N1 virus, first called swine flu, is still spreading in North Carolina with 51 confirmed cases thus far, and that the virus is getting closer to Wilson County.

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.

City and county officials, joined by faith, education and business leaders, began working Thursday to make sure every Wilson resident takes part in the federal 2010 Census.