Spring Hope Enterprise

03/11/2025

SPRING HOPE — The Nash County Sheriff’s Office confirmed today via Facebook that 18-year-old Deontae Moore, last seen on Wednesday at his Pleasant Grove Church Road residence, has been located. The case, however, is still being investigated by officials with the NCSO.

03/10/2025

SPRING HOPE — About 40 people converged on Town Hall last week to hear particulars about the 2025 Spring Hope National Pumpkin Festival, in limbo since the local Chamber of Commerce ended its title sponsorship of the event in late January. “This group of people in this room — if the Pumpkin Festival can be saved — then this group of people is gonna figure it out,” Mayor Kyle Pritchard said at the top of his remarks. “And we’re going to have the help that we need, I believe, on all levels. And thank you all for being here. Thank […]

SPRING HOPE — About 40 people converged on Town Hall last week to hear particulars about the 2025 Spring Hope National Pumpkin Festival, in limbo since the local Chamber of Commerce ended its title sponsorship of the event in late January. “This group of people in this room — if the Pumpkin Fe...

03/10/2025

Margaret B. Bailey will recount the discovery of a family cemetery and James A. Bailey will give the presentation “Gold Mining in Eastern North Carolina” when the Wilson County Genealogical Society meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the Wilson County Public Library assembly room, 249 Nash St. N. The Baileys are researchers and authors known for their local history and genealogy books including “Contentnea Primitive Baptist Church: Memorials,” “Hollywood Cemetery Obituaries Middlesex, North Carolina, 1863-2024” and “Sandy Level Cemetery Burial Records.” CEMETERY SEARCH Margaret Bailey will present a detailed summary with maps of a search for the Gaston […]

Margaret B. Bailey will recount the discovery of a family cemetery and James A. Bailey will give the presentation “Gold Mining in Eastern North Carolina” when the Wilson County Genealogical Society meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the Wilson County Public Library assembly room, 249 Nash St. ...

03/09/2025

UPDATE: Click here to read a follow-up story on Bailey’s boil-water advisory BAILEY — Long after Monday’s Board of Commissioners meeting reached its end, Mayor Pro Tem Walter Wells paced the Piggly Wiggly parking lot, watching a skeleton crew of Envirolink public works technicians address a cracked water main. There were no easy answers. “I got notified around 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon that we had a leak up here on (N.C. Highway) 581 … the ground itself had mounded up and water was coming out of it, and water was running across the road, and so we knew we had […]

UPDATE: Click here to read a follow-up story on Bailey's boil-water advisory BAILEY — Long after Monday’s Board of Commissioners meeting reached its end, Mayor Pro Tem Walter Wells paced the Piggly Wiggly parking lot, watching a skeleton crew of Envirolink public works technicians address a crac...

03/09/2025

Thom Tillis looks much stronger today than he did three months ago. At least for now, he appears to have neutralized the most virulent MAGA discontent. A primary challenge may be averted. Tillis’ chance of fending off Roy Cooper is far from hopeless. With this improvement in his standing has come a reassessment of Tillis’ political talent. Observers in North Carolina long considered the senator to be a mediocrity, blessed by (arguably unearned) brute good luck. But some analysts are beginning to question this dismissive assessment. Tillis is, after all, a two-term senator, and in this hyper-competitive state, that kind […]

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03/08/2025

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released the third version of its most ambitious realignment plan since 1929 on Valentine’s Day, and impossibly, it seems to be one that all the schools in The Wilson Times’ readership area can live with. There will be one final chance for unhappy member schools to appeal at the annual board of directors meeting at the end of April, but history shows, for the most part, the third draft is the one that sticks. The move from four classifications to eight is the biggest expansion in that regard since 1929, when the then […]

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released the third version of its most ambitious realignment plan since 1929 on Valentine’s Day, and impossibly, it seems to be one that all the schools in The Wilson Times’ readership area can live with. There will be one final chance for unha...

03/08/2025

The puzzler asks, “How do you get an 800-pound elephant under a tent?” The answer is one step at a time. First, you get the trunk, then the head and so on and so on. For our present discussion, the elephant symbolizes gambling and the tent represents the state of North Carolina. Gambling is being introduced into our state one […]

The puzzler asks, “How do you get an 800-pound elephant under a tent?” The answer is one step at a time. First, you get the trunk, then the head and so on and so on. For our present discussion, the elephant symbolizes gambling and the tent represents the state of North Carolina. Gambling is bein...

03/07/2025

The Nash County Sheriff’s Office is actively searching for a missing 18-year-old. Deontae Moore was last seen Wednesday at his Pleasant Grove Church Road residence.

SPRING HOPE — The Nash County Sheriff's Office is actively searching for 18-year-old Deontae Moore, last seen on Wednesday at his Pleasant Grove Church Road residence. The missing teen is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds — he has brown eyes and black hair styled in medium-length braids...

03/07/2025

CARY —Nash Community College has been honored as a finalist in the prestigious 2024 Cleantech Innovation Awards held at the SAS Institute in Cary. NCC was the only community college in the nation to be named a finalist in the Talent Development Award category. The event united organizations, innovators and influencers from the business, government, academic and nonprofit sectors to […]

CARY —Nash Community College has been honored as a finalist in the prestigious 2024 Cleantech Innovation Awards held at the SAS Institute in Cary. NCC was the only community college in the nation to be named a finalist in the Talent Development Award category. The event united organizations, innov...

03/07/2025

State Rep. Allen Chesser wants to give North Carolina’s tipped workers and shift workers a break on their state income taxes. Chesser, R-Nash, joined House Rules Chairman John Bell and Rep. Erin Paré, R-Wake, as primary sponsors of Rep. Harry Warren’s House Bill 11, titled “No Tax on Tips, Overtime and Bonus Pay.” A Rowan County Republican who serves as […]

State Rep. Allen Chesser wants to give North Carolina’s tipped workers and shift workers a break on their state income taxes. Chesser, R-Nash, joined House Rules Chairman John Bell and Rep. Erin Paré, R-Wake, as primary sponsors of Rep. Harry Warren’s House Bill 11, titled “No Tax on Tips, Ov...

03/06/2025

As far as national civic spectacles are concerned, few, if any, rival Election Day. It’s just not possible. I mean, seriously — can you name another event quite like it? Of course not. And within the chaos, our job is to report the results as best we can — with dedication to accuracy and responsible timing. So, with that in […]

As far as national civic spectacles are concerned, few, if any, rival Election Day. It’s just not possible. I mean, seriously — can you name another event quite like it? Of course not. And within the chaos, our job is to report the results as best we can — with dedication to accuracy and respo...

03/06/2025

“Chaos.” That seems to be America’s go-to descriptor for the federal government since Jan. 20. Depending on who you ask, President Donald Trump, “special government employee” Elon Musk and their “Department of Government Efficiency” are either cutting a bunch of government waste and inefficiency or gutting a bunch of useful and necessary government functionality. Some people are very sure of […]

“Chaos.” That seems to be America’s go-to descriptor for the federal government since Jan. 20. Depending on who you ask, President Donald Trump, “special government employee” Elon Musk and their “Department of Government Efficiency” are either cutting a bunch of government waste and in...