Source: WILSON TIMES, 7/13/18


THUMBS UP to Wilson County farmers who pooled their money and labor to repair the Silver Lake dam, a fix that’s already begun transforming the dry lakebed into a reservoir for agriculture and a scenic spot on the county’s northern end. As reported in Tuesday’s edition of The Wilson Times, farmers Johnny Barnes, Zacky Bissette, Jerome Vick and Todd Glover joined forces to make the $110,000 repair. All four men previously used Silver Lake to irrigate their farmland, and the precious natural resource evaporated when flooding from Hurricane Matthew caused the earthen dam to break in October 2016.

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