The Wilson Times
Students explore jobs in shadow program
Members of the Wilson Youth Council showed up for work April 9 at 10 jobs ranging from engineer to chef. WYC hosted its fourth Job Shadow Day matching professionals with members pursuing an interest in...
Are you hitting your fitness goals?
This story appears in the inaugural edition of the Times’ new magazine, Wilsonian. Barton College’s Director of Exercise Science Lauren Biscardi and Assistant Professor of Exercise Science Charlie Ottinger know a thing or two about...
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...
BARTON ROUNDUP: Bulldogs win 2 elimination games Friday
DUNCAN, S.C. — Barton College survived a pair of elimination games Friday in the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas softball tournament, downing Belmont Abbey 4-2 and knocking off Young Harris...
Firebirds hit the ‘8s’ in beating Bruins 18-0
Eight hits, eight walks and eight Beddingfield errors added up to an 18-0 win for Southern Nash in the second of two games Friday in the Wilson Tobs High School...
MIDDLE SCHOOL: Lady Chargers work past Hilltop Christian
FUQUAY-VARINA — The Wilson Christian girls soccer team climbed the hill on U.S. Highway 401 on Friday and came down with a 3-1 victory over Hilltop Christian. Reagan Sherrod scored...
AREA ROUNDUP: Cyclones wrap up regular season with comeback win
AHOSKIE — The Community Christian School baseball team shooky off pesky host Ahoskie Christian to claim an 8-6 victory in the final regular-season game Friday. Sophomore Tyler Spivey worked six...
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...
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...
