YOUNGSVILLE -- Public utilities staff blamed excessive rainfall and snow saturation combined to overwhelm the county's sewage system, resulting in a spill -- the 24th in 13 months. According to staff, 13,500 gallons of sewage spilled into an unnamed tributary of Richland Creek on Thursday. Including Thursday's notification, in just over a calendar year, the county has reported 24 spills totalling more than 490,500 gallons of sewage.
LOUISBURG - Claudia Estelle Arrington Wardrick, 90, died Monday, March 2, 2015. Funeral services will be held on Monday, March 9, at 1 p.m. at the Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Castalia. Burial will follow in the Wardrick family cemetery.
RALEIGH - Theodore Roosevelt Clifton, 86, died Monday, March 2, 2015. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, March 10, at 1 p.m. at St. Delight United Church of Christ in Louisburg. Burial will follow in the church cemetery,