The Wilson Times
Wilson native receives Military Engineer of the Year honor
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Washington has selected Lt. Cmdr. Genevieve Flatgard, Facilities Engineering and Acquisition Division director for Public Works Department Washington, as the 2024 Military Engineer of the Year. The award is...
Farmers hope high yield will offset labor, fuel costs
Farmer Ronald Lamm got on his knees to unclog a mechanical transplanter. Farmworkers sat ready to insert tobacco seedlings into eight rows of a dusty field southwest of Sims. “As long as all the plants...
Senior Awareness Day set for May 16
One of the biggest events of the year for older and disabled adults will be held in person again. “We are so excited to be back in person for Senior Awareness Day 2024,” said interim...
Schools, community college budgets include pay raises
Wilson County Schools and Wilson Community College presented their annual budget requests to county commissioners Monday. Commissioners and departments have met for several weeks to review budget presentations, which include capital projects. Wilson County Manager...
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...
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...
Knights’ Kirby ready to hit the court at Mount Olive
Adding an extra year of high school is not something a lot of teenagers would consider doing, but after a near-catastrophic leg injury as a freshman, Greenfield School senior Matt...
AREA ROUNDUP: Demons slug Spartans again
Fike High posted a baker’s dozen in its first turn at bat and coasted to its second 3-A Quad County Conference varsity softball win with a 20-4 three-inning domination of...
MIDDLE SCHOOL: Forest Hills girls, Springfield boys run to county crowns
With three of her teammates behind her in the top five, Forest Hills Middle’s Autumn Trimiar ran to the Wilson County Schools girls cross-country individual title while leading the Bucks...
Farris & Thomas Law Student-Athlete of the Week: Lin Scott, Wilson Christian Academy
Wilson Christian Academy senior Lin Scott produced some record-setting performances on the track last week, making him this week’s Farris & Thomas Law Attorneys Student-Athlete of the Week. Lin broke...
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....
