The Wilson Times
Second primary early voting ends May 11
Early voting began Thursday morning for North Carolina voters in the second primary election at the Wilson County Health Department at 1801 Glendale Drive and the Wilson County Board of Elections at 112 Douglas St....
Outreach ministry feeds those in need
This story appears in the inaugural edition of the Times’ new magazine, Wilsonian. Laura McNair and husband Kenneth McNair are on a mission to fight hunger and food insecurity in the community through Hearts 2...
Vaughan’s Jewelers: 75 years, three generations, countless smiles
This story appears in the inaugural edition of the Times’ new magazine, Wilsonian. In April of 1949, Harvey Vaughan opened a small shop in downtown Wilson that specialized in watch repair, musical instruments and vinyl...
See ‘Beauty in the Common Place’ at The Edge
The gallery at The Edge will welcome local artist Susan Harris with her latest exhibition “Beauty in the Common Place.” The collection of mixed media art will be on display at The Edge from May...
Garden Party moves indoors this year
Preservation of Wilson is bringing the beauty of the outdoors inside for its 2024 Garden Party. Come Sunday, May 5, from 2-4 p.m. to the Wilson Arts Center, 204 Nash St. S., and wander through...
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...
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...
When conservatives balk at scrutinizing public spending
For many years, it’s been a mantra on the political right that state government should be “run like a business” — a business that’s lean and efficient, and in which...
NC has good reason for early Law Day celebration
We’ll have to wait until May 1 for the official commemoration of Law Day in the United States. But North Carolinians have a good excuse to celebrate three days early....
