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Franklin County residents will have plenty of opportunities to recognize and remember those who lost their lives during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
• First, the county’s Firefighters Association will host a morning and early afternoon ceremony at the Louisburg Fire Station on Wade Avenue.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Eight months after former sheriff Pat Green resigned his post amid allegations that he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners agreed to move forward with plans to name a permanent sheriff.
The board admitted, though, that it will be doing so without knowing what a State Bureau of Investigation probe has uncovered, or who, if anyone else, might be implicated.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners agreed to wait another month to discuss radio towers.
Currently, if an applicant wants to erect an emergency communications tower, they have to receive a conditional-use permit — which requires a number of obligations, including a public hearing and other activities that would alert the public of the action.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — Police Chief Daren Kirts made his second public plea in three months, asking commissioners to find money to fund his department.
Its a request, he said, that can’t continue to be denied.
“I need help,” he told the board during its regular meeting on Thursday night.
“I can’t maintain public safety at this point.”
By: GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
A new business is well on its way to opening a new facility in Franklin County near Century Link south of Youngsville.
The company, Smith/Packett Med-Com, LLC, is planning an Alzheimer’s care facility with the total cost of construction pegged at about $2.5 million.
Franklinton resident Carolyn Francis
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
After months of trying to figure out ways to renovate the old county jail, Arts Council members determined that the flesh is willing, but the finances — not so much.
Commissioners, community leaders and civic groups have bandied about a new use for the old jail for years.
Last summer, the Franklin County Arts Council decided it would take another look at the jail and its potential uses, exploring a private/public partnership to rehabilitate the building.
By: Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Tomorrow, Sunday, marks the 10th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks on our nation that have spawned two wars, expended untold billions of dollars, cost an incalculable number of lives and perhaps changed more lives than any single event since World War II.
It’s time for us to make sure all the batteries are charged, the disks are empty and the lenses are clean.
Today marks the unofficial beginning of the fall festival scene here in Franklin County and that means one thing, lots of photos to take!
The Justice Tractor Show began Friday and continues through today offering shutterbugs and the curious alike a great many opportunities to peer at equipment from a bygone era.
GOOD MORNING: Tomorrow, Sunday, Sept. 11 will be the 10th anniversary of the disastrous attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in our nation’s capital.
Like I recalled just a couple of weeks ago concerning the Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, I remember how, where and when I learned of the attack, only the news of that came via radio as opposed to TV.
Dear Editor,
Jay Lamm’s cartoon in the Sept. 4 edition of the Times is too good to pass up writing about, and then the picture of the uprooted tree at Oakwood Cemetery in Asher Johnson’s column ... that was definitely Irene.
The mayor leaves big stumps when he goes in with a chainsaw and clean cuts.
Dear Editor,
You are right about your newspaper coverage of Franklin County, and you are also right about the other things you wrote about in your Sept. 3 “My Turn.”
Even when readers disagree or dislike what is written in your publication, they are very fortunate to even have local coverage.
Youngsville police arrested a Henderson man who led officers on a chase through Wake Forest.
According to a report by Youngsville Police Lt. M.L. Little, he was patrolling on U.S. 1 when a car going southbound went by at 80 mph. According to the report, the driver, later identified as Jeremy Bagby, 29, did not have the car’s headlights on.
The Franklin County Cattlemen’s Association will meet on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 6:30 pm at Meadow Lane Farm, in the Mapleville Community.
A local food “hamburger” meal will be served.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Tommy H. Perry, 61, who died on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, will be today (Saturday, Sept. 10) at 3 p.m. at Perry’s Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Randolph Alston officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
WARRENTON - A funeral service for Bettie Mae Richardson, 88, who died on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, was Friday, Sept. 9 at Mt. Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Al L. Cooper Jr. officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON - MSG Leo Joseph VanDeusen I, 83, Army retired, died Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 at home. He was born on July 15, 1928 in Livingston Manor, NY.
GARNER - Thomas Henry Carter Sr., 95, died Sept. 7, 2011, at Wake Assisted Living.
ZEBULON - Jan Hopkins Pearce, 57, died Sept. 5, 2011. She was preceded in death by her father W. H. “Buggar” Hopkins.
RICHMOND, VA - Lola Mae Jeans Clifford, 77, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, September 4, 2011.
RALEIGH - Pauline Strickland Wall, 84, passed away on Thursday morning, September 8, 2011. Born in Franklin County, Louisburg, NC, she was the daughter of the late Morris and Mattie Strickland.
On Saturday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m., Branson comes to town with Ozark Jubilee’s “Legends of Country Music,” featuring the hits of some of the greatest classic country artists of all time.
This show features the music of George Jones, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Conway Twitty, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow and many more.
Plans are shaping up for the first fire/rescue/police Siren Cook-Off Contest.
The United Way of Franklin County event will be Oct. 8 at the Louisburg Moose Lodge, and local teams from fire, rescue and police departments will be competing for community support (based on ticket sales), best BBQ pork, best chicken and best sauce – all to be judged. The ladies’ auxiliaries will be entering a best cake competition.
North Carolina has been awarded with the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program by the USDA.
This grant program will enable students at Laurel Mill, Louisburg and Franklinton Elementary schools to have their fruits and vegetables and eat them too!
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