Bailey News

Q. I am a wealth manager, and it seems that I may lose a rather large account due to something called the Bailey Act.

Victoria Rose Parker, a senior at Southern Nash High School, was the state runner-up in the NC Society Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen essay contest.

By KEN MURCHISON A new restaurant could be opening soon in Bailey. The town's board of commissioners Monday followed the planning board's advice and unamiously rezoned a piece of property on Deans Street from residential to commercial-special use district so Mary and Richard Wilson can open a restaurant, The Leaning Tree, in a former residence.

North Carolina is celebrating its agricultural heritage with the 2012 Got to Be N.C. Festival at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.

By KEN MURCHISON Proposed new middle school attendance zones would basically split Spring Hope in half, with some students still going to Southern Nash Middle with others going to Nash Central Middle School.

Lenoir county commissioner Chris Humphrey, a conservative Republican, filed Monday to run for the N.C. Senate in District 10, which encompasses Sampson County.

By KEN MURCHISON There are only a couple of contested county commissioner races facing voters in the May 8 Democratic and Republican primaries next Tuesday.

By KEN MURCHISON Two Democrats are facing each other next week in the race to represent N.C. House of Representatives District 7. Incumbent Angela Bryant of Rocky Mount is being challenged by Bailey resident William Duke Hancock, II.