The Wilson Times
PNC funds new Head Start playground
A new outdoor play and learning environment at Brentwood Head Start will give preschool children more opportunities to do interesting educational activities in the outdoors while at the same time learning about science and developing...
Collins Aerospace packs meals for community
Volunteers from Collins Aerospace, in partnership with the United Way of Wilson, packed 12,378 meals in just 1 1/2 hours, to help with food insecurity in Wilson. There were more than 65 volunteers at the...
Chamber hosting Small Business Month events in May
Throughout May, the Wilson Chamber of Commerce will celebrate small businesses in the community with Small Business Month. The celebration will span the month, with a banquet, small business tour and ribbon cutting rodeo scheduled....
Barrett’s Printing moves into new home
When the city of Wilson’s vision for a baseball stadium in downtown Wilson included obtaining the building where Barrett’s Printing House has stood for decades, Margaret Barrett Ward took the opportunity to start fresh downtown....
Golden Falcons top Demons 15-4
C.B. Aycock roared to an eight-run lead over the first two innings and went on to a 15-4 defeat of host Fike High in Tuesday’s 3-A Quad County Conference varsity...
Still rewarding: Five Points Vikings get their rings
A coach can be a positive influence in a young athlete’s life for years. Sometimes, that goes both ways. When Bill Shreve asked Wilson Parks and Recreation Department director Burt...
Warriors hand Wildcats first QCC defeat
Hunt High may or may not still have a shot at the 3-A Quad County Conference baseball title but the Warriors are making some noise late in the season after...
Hunt turned back by East Wake, 7-4
Hunt High’s hopes of climbing into the upper half of the 3-A Quad County Conference softball standings were dealt a setback Tuesday, April 23, with a 7-4 home loss to...
Warriors whip East Wake again to maintain QCC lead
With some key 3-A Quad County Conference varsity girls soccer matchups looming next week, Hunt High handled its business at home Tuesday, April 23, with a 9-0 defeat of East...
AREA ROUNDUP: Greenfield rips Coastal for 4th win in a row
Greenfield School collected its fourth straight varsity baseball win with a 16-2 conquest of Coastal Christian in 2-A/3-A Coastal Plain Independents Conference action Tuesday at Ralph Hodge Family Field. The...
Moms make heartfelt march against drugs
Chanting “We are tired of going to the graveyard, we don’t want drugs in Wilson and we are tired of all the opioid overdoses,” members and supporters of Moms on...
4-H livestock show tops $400K
Financial support for the 73rd annual Wilson County 4-H Livestock Show and Sale hit a new plateau with more than $400,000 in sales Thursday. “Steers went lower than in the...
4-H’ers show progress with hogs and steers
Libby Grayson Bass doesn’t have a name for her pig, but her friends call it “the big pig.” The 14-year-old Community Christian School student is one of 98 competitors in...
Our Opinion: Sheriff seeks vital search tool; Wilson Energy costs spike
THUMBS UP to Sheriff Calvin Woodard for recommending an equipment upgrade that would prevent inmates from smuggling drugs and other contraband into the Wilson County Detention Center. Woodard asked county...
Our Opinion: Heckler’s veto rears ugly head to silence speech
From North Carolina to California, political hot potatoes such as immigration and Israel’s war with Hamas have become a convenient excuse for schools to suppress student speech. Central Davidson High...
Our Opinion: Moms on a Mission takes aim at overdose epidemic
THUMBS UP to Moms on a Mission members and supporters who marched from the nonprofit’s Nash Street office to the Wilson County Courthouse steps to raise awareness of fatal drug...
Third-party candidates: America’s fortune-tellers
“I’m going to put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain,” presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says, “so that any American — every American — can look at every budget...
We’ve ended NC’s sexual assault kit backlog
This month, my office announced a milestone that has been more than six years in the making: North Carolina has ended the backlog of older sexual assault kits. This achievement...
Peace on Earth Day: Direct action against nukes
In the middle of the night on Easter Sunday, April 22, 1984, eight people — all religious pacifists — got out of two cars on a dark Orlando road ready...
