The Wilson Times
Fire displaces 4 people
An accidental fire Thursday night destroyed a church storage building, two nearby campers and a car and damaged two adjacent homes northeast of Wilson. A couple, their 3-year-old and an elderly disabled woman were displaced...
Early voting in second primary ends May 11
Early voting in North Carolina’s second primary election began Thursday at the Wilson County Health Department and the Wilson County Board of Elections office. Interim Director Tasha Bell of the Wilson County Board of Elections...
Pelican’s to open near original Wilson location
Pelican’s Snoballs is relocating from Tarboro Street to 3100 Downing St. SW, just down the road from its original location on Forest Hills Road. Mike Davis owns Wilson’s two Pelican’s locations. The other is located...
Deed transfers: Wilson County transactions from April 15-19
The following deed transfers for the week of April 15-19 have been recorded in the Wilson County Register of Deeds Office: From Vera Kay Murphy to Charles Nelson Murphy Jr., Pamela Murphy Puryear and Jon...
Community Briefs: Spring bazaar is Saturday
The Loyal Leisure Senior Club will hold its 2024 Spring Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Reid Street Community Center, 901 Reid St. E. The bazaar will feature games,...
MIDDLE SCHOOL ROUNDUP: CCS completes unbeaten season
GREENVILLE — Community Christian School wrapped up a second straight unbeaten girls soccer season with a 4-0 triumph at Greenville Christian on Thursday, April 25. The Cyclones finished 8-0 and...
Pearsons rule all-Fike QCC doubles final
Siblings Snyder and Collins Pearson took home what they hope is the first of several achievements this spring for their Fike High boys tennis team when the brothers claimed the...
AREA ROUNDUP: Abazan gem sparks Bruins past Eastern Wayne
GOLDSBORO — Sophomore Fernando Abazan had the best performance of the season on the mound for his Beddingfield High baseball team Thursday night with a one-hit shutout of host Eastern...
Bruins, Firebirds square off in Tobs Varsity Classic on Friday
The 2024 season’s final Wilson Tobs High School Varsity Classic, which was originally the first, hits Fleming Stadium with nothing but good weather in the forecast for the five games...
BC splits first-day games at CC softball tourney
DUNCAN, S.C. — Senior pitcher Miranda Holmes notched her 20th win of the season as Barton College opened the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas softball tournament Thursday, April 25, with...
Bruins’ ‘back-ups’ do the job in Neuse 6 championships
With senior jumper Asun Pender and junior distance runner Rebecca Balkcum out while nursing injuries in Wednesday’s 2-A Neuse 6 Conference track and field championship meet for host Beddingfield, some...
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: Noncompete rule should prompt NC to set state policy
A Federal Trade Commission rule to ban worker noncompete agreements could mean significant changes to the labor market in North Carolina, one of only a dozen states without laws that...
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...
Invest budget surplus in NC’s public schools
Your North Carolina legislators — who work for you — will soon have the opportunity to decide how to spend $1 billion. The Office of State Budget Management recently announced...
The nuclear age is already over
Either nuclear weapons kill us or we move beyond them, soon. Via mass death or the building a new security system, the nuclear age is finished. The nuclear deterrence system...
Overdose crisis cries out for justiceFree Access
John F. Kennedy once proclaimed that “success is everyone’s baby, while failure is an orphan.” However, I am convinced that as a community, we share in each other’s successes and...
