Corey Friedman

THUMBS UP to the start of Minor League Baseball fever in Wilson with our soon-to-be home team scheduled to announce its name and mascot on Friday. The Milwaukee Brewers organization will rebrand its Single-A club in a public unveiling ceremony set for 2 p.m. at the Wilson Industrial Air Center. Currently known as the Carolina Mudcats, the team will have […]

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s historical realignment to eight classifications took a big step Tuesday with the release of average daily membership figures for each member school. NCHSAA officials will use the attendance data to retool competition classes for the 2025-26 school year. All four current 3-A schools in The Wilson Times readership area — Fike, Hunt, C.B. […]

ROCKY MOUNT — Maternal mental health conditions are the most common complication of pregnancy and birth, affecting nearly 800,000 families annually in the United States. This means 1 in 5 mothers will be affected by anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder and/or psychosis, which can develop at any point during pregnancy or postpartum. Three quarters of mothers never receive treatment […]

We haven’t even recuperated from the intense and exhausting elections earlier this month, yet people are already talking about the 2026 elections. Count on them being largely a referendum on Trump. The president-elect has indicated he intends to deconstruct, reduce or at least drastically change federal programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration and education. These changes might please the […]

In this season of Thanksgiving and Christmas, good tidings and giving are on many minds, but an online video surfaced on a local television station this week that was the complete opposite of good tidings and giving. In North Raleigh, a Hispanic work crew was working on the road or water lines within the right of way of a neighborhood […]

SHARPSBURG ­— Mayor Robert Williams is officially out of office after the town’s Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to accept his resignation in an emergency meeting Wednesday. In an email to Town Attorney Brian Pridgen, Williams cited medical issues as the reason he stepped down. “The purpose of this meeting was solely to accept his resignation,” Pridgen said. “The mayor […]

Despite the sound defeat Vice President Kamala Harris suffered in the 2024 presidential election, she’ll likely remain in the public eye. In her Nov. 6 concession speech, she admitted that she planned to stick around. “I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign: the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity […]

We all grow up being indoctrinated with rules that limit us. The purveyors of this information are not malicious. They are simply passing along what they themselves have been taught. You are probably aware of one or more of the following rules. Decide for yourself if you have been limited by any of them. • Don’t rock the boat — […]

Each Southern Nash swim team placed fourth out of five teams Thursday in a 2-A/3-A Big East Conference meet. Carlee Beckham had a first-place finish for the Ladybirds, while Emma Batchelor made a runner-up showing. Scoring points individually for the Firebirds were Samuel Finn, Cole Edwards and Noah Craft. Northern Nash won the boys meet with 89 points, followed by […]

NASHVILLE — Town Council members voted Tuesday to sell 55 acres of land along Cooke Road to in-state produce outfit Ripe Revival. Purchased for $150,000, the parcel is currently part of the West Nashville Commerce Center; ultimately, it will be home to Ripe Revival’s “innovation campus.” “We are excited to welcome Ripe Revival to Nashville, a community with a proud […]