Drew C. Wilson

Armed with youthful enthusiasm, elbow grease and willingness to serve others, more than 600 students, faculty and staff fanned out across Wilson for Wednesday’s annual Barton College Day of Service. Volunteers did a range of tasks from cleanups and paint jobs to helping with basic improvements at 40 locations. Barton College President Doug Searcy said the event has been a […]

Ministers and officials urged members of the African-American community to make their collective voices heard on Election Day Nov. 5 no matter what their affiliation. The comments came at a get-out-the-vote gathering at St. John AME Zion Church last month. Rev. Michael S. Bell, presiding elder at the church, told members and guests on the occasion of the 156th anniversary

When floodwaters from Hurricane Floyd hit Joseph Knight’s home in 1999, it made a lasting impression. Knight, then about 7, lived near Toisnot Park on Fleming Street in a neighborhood ravaged by flooding as Toisnot Reservoir overflowed its banks. “Going through that hurricane as a kid and remembering how it felt, it became personal to me to want to have […]

After eluding law enforcement for almost two weeks, a Wilson man with outstanding warrants has been arrested by the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office and charged with a recent breaking and entering and larceny at the Papa Jack’s Store and Grill. Trabis Sentell Alston, 44, last known address on Lincoln Street in Wilson, was taken into custody Monday morning, according to […]

Police say a Wilson man has been charged with sex crimes following an investigation. Jarvis Dee Matrix Price, 30, of the 1600 block of Kent Drive North, faces one count each of committing a statutory sexual offense by an adult and taking indecent liberties with a child. The Wilson County Department of Social Services contacted police on April 29 to […]

Liz Dunster watched as relief supplies were loaded into a small, single-engine airplane at Adventist World Aviation in preparation for another flight to storm-stricken areas of western North Carolina.

Locally grown mums raised on Wilson County’s Williams Plant Farm are on display at the North Carolina State Fair for the 15th year in a row. “We took about 1,500 eight-inch pots to the state fair,” said Michael Williams, a grower at Williams Plant Farm. “We took about half yellow, purple, orange and white. Yellow and orange are the two […]

Do you like the thrill of a good scare? Haunted Fairgrounds: Fright Night at the Fair continues Saturday night at the Wilson County Fairgrounds. The thrills and chills run Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7 each night. Tickets are $20. No one under 8 years of age is permitted. See the cast of 40 characters in five scary venues […]

When the first images of Hurricane Helene’s devastating impact on the North Carolina mountains beamed into Richie and Jamey Fulghum’s house in Wilson, they both wondered, “What can we do?” “Everybody is giving money and all this stuff, and I said ‘I love to cook, and that is the best way I know to help,’” Richie Fulghum said. “I have […]

Artist Ashley Fabrizio can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Since August, Fabrizio has been putting brush to brick on a mural on the Wilson County Tourism Development Authority building at 228 Goldsboro St. S. in downtown Wilson. “I finally see the finish line, but with an artist and their art, artwork is never finished to us. […]