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AMAZING YEAR!
AMAZING YEAR!

FRANKLINTON -- One of the greatest girls basketball seasons in Franklinton High School girls basketball history is complete -- but the best may still be to come for the Lady Rams.
That's because FHS will return three starters and several key bench standouts from this year's club, which went 25-2 while advancing to the third round of the Class 3-A State Playoffs.


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Red Rams, Wildcats earn Big East honors
Red Rams, Wildcats earn Big East honors

FRANKLIN COUNTY -- The 2022-23 Big East Conference boys basketball season proved to be a three-way dance as Northern Nash, Franklinton and Rocky Mount competed fiercely for league supremacy -- and both NN and FHS would eventually qualify for the Elite Eight of the Class 3-A State Playoffs.
But Northern Nash went stag in the Big East this winter -- and that certainly didn't bother the Fighting Knights and their loyal followers.


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Bunn leaders clear way for emergency radio tower site
Bunn leaders clear way for emergency radio tower site

BUNN -- Town commissioners approved a text amendment that clears the way for Franklin County to build an emergency radio tower at Bunn High.
The new site is still expected to put the county's radio system overhaul behind schedule, but it ends the stalemate between county and Bunn leaders about the tower's location.
"... This is critical, of course, to life-saving emergency services," said County Manager Kim Denton, who attended Monday night's planning board meeting, prior to action taken by town commissioners on Tuesday.


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Gov's push for public education makes a stop in Franklin County
Gov's push for public education makes a stop in Franklin County

LOUISBURG -- Gov. Roy Cooper's 'The Year of Public Schools' tour took him to Louisburg Elementary School on Tuesday morning.
He wants those who hear his call to fully fund public education to take it to the General Assembly for action.
"Let's go forth and let's continue to build coalitions across our state of people who are going to tell the Legislature that we have to do better," Cooper said to parents, educators, town and county leaders who listened to his message inside the school's library.


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Tax assessments through the roof

LOUISBURG -- The much-anticipated Franklin County property tax revaluation forms began arriving with a thud this week -- and the concerns began almost immediately.
According to the tax office, all real property has been appraised according to North Carolina state law -- and the new value is supposed to represent the true market value of the property.


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County to begin using opioid funds

LOUISBURG -- By consent agenda, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners approved the first expenditure of lawsuit proceeds intended to curb the opioid epidemic.
Consent agenda items do not require discussion and no board member pulled the item aside for details during the board's March 4 meeting. Commissioners Michael Schriver and Danny Pearce were not in attendance, but the consent agenda, including the opioid settlement expenditures, were approved by unanimous decision.


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Girls flag football Ok'd for Louisburg

LOUISBURG -- A new athletic opportunity -- 7 on 7 girls flag football -- will be available soon at Louisburg Magnet High School following a unanimous action by the Board of Education Monday night during a meeting when it was learned that the district may have a chance to get out from under U.S. Justice Department restrictions that have been in place since the late 1960s.
LMHS Athletic Director Erica Wammock brought the flag football idea to the school board, noting that it is backed by both USAF Football and the Carolina Panthers.


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Committing to bypass, other capital projects to cost Youngsville taxpayers

YOUNGSVILLE -- Youngsville has many projects coming down the pike, the most significant of which is a bypass around downtown.
If taxpayers are committed to that congestion-alleviating solution, as well as big-ticket items for public works, parks and recreation and the police department, they'll have to support a tax increase above revenue neutral, officials and staff said.
"... We all know it's going to cost, including everybody sitting around this table," Mayor Fonzie Flowers said during the board's budget work session on March. 8.


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Budget to juggle a host of immediate, long-term Youngsville capital projects

YOUNGSVILLE -- Besides kicking around the big-ticket item of funding a bypass, town officials and management talked about a number of capital projects that will impact their bottom line.
During a March 8 budget work session, Town Manager Nathan Page and department heads for law enforcement, public works, parks and recreation, and others presented commissioners wit a variety of projects they'd like to see funded.


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FRANKLIN FACE
FRANKLIN FACE

Wrestling legend Moses Iraton


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Music critic to speak at college

Music critic and journalist David Menconi will be on the campus of Louisgurg College on Thursday, March 21 to discuss North Carolina's substantial role in popular music.
The 2019 Piedmont Laureate, Menconi is a journalist and author in Raleigh.
He spent 34 years writing for daily newspapers, 28 of those years at the Raleigh News & Observer. Before that, he spent five years at the Boulder (CO) Daily Camera.


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Cherry Hill concert Sunday

Violinist Eric McCracken and pianist Robert Buxton will present a program of classical music at Cherry Hill at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17.
The duo will perform works by Fritz Kreisler, J.S. Bach, Mozart, W.G. Still, and Cesar Franck.
McCracken is a recent retiree from the North Carolina Symphony which he joined in 1975.
He made several solo appearances with the symphony and was assistant concertmaster for one season.


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Editorial Cartoon: Dems
Editorial Cartoon: Dems

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Springing forward while looking back at 1970
Springing forward while looking back at 1970

Now that we've all "sprung" forward into springtime -- you did remember or you'd be way out of sync with the rest of us, right? -- it's time to get outside and enjoy what promises to be increasingly nice weather.
Of course, it comes with work -- remember the lawn, the garden, the flower beds and countless other chores -- but it's hard to beat that Carolina sunshine and blue skies, at least until the humidity arrives and the temperatures soar.


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Government: Sometimes it can move fast, but often, it's slow
Government: Sometimes it can move fast, but often, it's slow

It's not in the best interests of myself or those that read this column that I take sides.
And I won't.
But, I have to imagine that after the Franklin County Board of Commissioners meeting on March 4, there are some folks looking at county leadership sideways.
So, let me recap:


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Important detail missing in news story

Dear editor: There was an omission in Carey Johnson's story about the fire at the business in Louisburg on Feb. 26. It mentioned only Louisburg and Justice Fire Departments in the article.
My husband and some of his fellow firefighters from Bunn Fire Department were also there working for hours alongside the other firefighters.


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Edotorial Cartoon: GOP Warehouse
Edotorial Cartoon: GOP Warehouse

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Fire cause undetermined

LOUISBURG -- The cause of a fire that destroyed a Louisburg business is officially closed as undetermined.
Fire crews from Bunn, Louisburg and Justice responded during the early morning hours of Feb. 26 to the blaze at 211 S. Bickett Boulevard, finding the front and back of Clifton Auto Sales fully engulfed in flames.


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FHS Topped By Nash Central
FHS Topped By Nash Central

ROCKY MOUNT -- Getting off to a good start in league play is paramount to long-term success during the softball campaign -- and that fact was on the collective minds of both Franklinton and host Nash Central during Thursday on the NCHS campus.
The winner of the showdown was destined to gain some early-season momentum, and that club would prove to be the homestanding Lady Bulldogs.


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Rudolph Collins

Louisburg, NC--Funeral services for Rudolph Collins, age 67, who died on Sunday, March 10, 2024, will be held on Saturday, March 16, at 3 p.m. from the Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Louisburg with Pastor Dean Jones officiating.


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Wanda Hicks

Franklinton, NC-- Wanda Hicks, 74, of Franklinton, died Friday, March 8, 2024 in Louisburg, NC. Wanda was born on July 8, 1949 in North Carolina to the late Aubrey Watson and Ollie Fox Buckner.


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BABY GIRL CARMEN ESME GRACE EVANS

MACON, NC -- Funeral services for Baby Girl Carmen Esme Grace Evans, age 15 months, who died on Saturday, March 2, 2024 were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 10, from the Mt. Hebron United Holy Church in Louisburg with Elder Ron Clifton officiating. Burial followed in the Walnut Grove Church Cemetery.


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JIMMY NATHANIEL MANGRUM

FRANKLINTON, NC -- Funeral services for Jimmy Nathaniel Mangrum, age 76, who died on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, will be held at 12 p.m. Saturday, March 16, from the Greater Ransom Way of the Cross Church in Henderson with Pastor, Bishop Michael R. Alston, Sr. officiating. Burial will follow in the Church Cemetery.


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SHIRLEY M. WILLIAMS

RALEIGH, NC -- Funeral services for Shirley Mae Williams, 86, formerly of Louisburg, who died on March 6, were held 11 a.m., Tuesday, March 12 at Richardson Funeral Home Chapel in Louisburg.


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Lucille Carolyn Mitchell Gooch

Wilton, NC--Lucille Carolyn Mitchell Gooch, 90, of Wilton passed away Sunday, March 10, 2024, at her home surrounded by her children.


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