Spring Hope News

By KEN MURCHISON About 60 Spring Hope residents poured into the community building Aug.

A kindergarten student at Spring Hope Elementary School was not quite ready to be left by her mother on the first day of school Monday.

As the Democrats and Republicans hold their conventions this week and next, television pundits keep insisting that the presidential nominees must make clear what they propose for America.

Cody Wells of Spring Hope caught a 4-1/2 foot sand bar shark while fishing with his father off the North Carolina coast on Wednesday last week.

The Spauld ing Family Resource Center will offer a series of programs and services in September on the topic of diabetes.

By ROSE CUSHING I have always had a big soft spot in my heart for horses. My high school graduation gift was a black Tennessee Walking horse mare whose name was Midnite.

By KEN MURCHISON Southern Nash won just two games last football season, but head coach Brian Foster and his young Firebirds hope to improve on that this year.

By KEN MURCHISON If all goes as planned, there should be a Bojangles in Spring Hope sometime this winter.

Nash County elections officials could open a third one-stop, early voting site in Spring Hope for this fall's elections if they get state funding.

By ROSE CUSHING Cathy Gould, of Spring Hope heard a news report about several Clydesdales that had been rescued from an abusive situation.

A Spring Hope woman was arrested on arson charges early Monday. Sadie Leigh Whitley, 34, of Green Road, was charged with setting fire to a mobile home at 314 S. Ash St.

ROBERT SKINNER, JR. A funeral service was held Aug. 25 at Shingleton Funeral Home for Robert Lee Skinner, Jr., 78, of Wilson, who died Aug.

Tractor show Duke Memorial Baptist Church: Sponsoring the 8th annual Justice Community Antique Tractor, Car and Engine Show Sept.

In preparation for what officials say could be the biggest voter turnout in modern history, the N.C. State Board of Elections is encouraging counties to open additional early voting sites, even offering to foot ...

By ROSE CUSHING One month after deciding not to rent out the building occupied by Second Choice Consignment, Middlesex town board changed its mind.

Getting ready - Spring Hope Elementary School kindergarten teacher Mary Young puts the finishing touches on a bulletin board in her classroom Tuesday.

Even though it sometimes seems like summer just began, Nash County students will go back to school next week, and school staffs are already hard at work preparing for them.

The Spring Hope Lions Club played host this week to District Governor Alex Than nikkary of Roanoke Rapids, who was making his official visit as part of appearing at all the Lions Clubs in District 31-J, which ...

By KEN MURCHISON An unsafe driving violation led to drug and weapons charges for a Bailey man.

By ROSE CUSHING The farmers market in downtown Spring Hope has been such a good thing.