By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- When he took the job over the summer, new Louisburg High School girls basketball coach Brett Kiger emphasized that his program wouldn’t miraculously turn into a contender overnight.
That fact was accentuated last Friday night as the Lady Warriors, in Kiger’s first game, were defeated 44-25 at home against perennial area powerhouse Southern Vance.
CHAPEL HILL -- Listed are last Friday’s semifinal results and this weekend’s championship schedule for the North Carolina High School Athletic Association State Football Playoffs:
ROCKY MOUNT - First Annual Coleman-Pitt Post 58 American Legion Baseball Camp is set for Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 28 and 29 at Nash Central High School.
It will be open to students in grades 6-12.
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Listed is the 2010-11 College Football Bowl Game Schedule:
FRANKLINTON -- Thanks to a head-to-head tie-breaker, the Northern Vance Vikings were able to earn the team championship last Saturday at the Red Ram Duals at Franklinton High School’s Gymnasium.
Northern Vance and Louisburg both went 4-1 overall, but the Vikings topped the Warriors during their match. NV was also upset against Kerr-Vance Academy.
Bunn High School sophomore guard Whitney Bunn passes the ball during the Ladycats’ home hoops victory last Friday against the Nash Central Lady Bulldogs.
Nash Central’s Nate Pittman (with ball) tries to find an open Bulldog while being defended by Bunn’s Deshawn High during last Friday night’s showdown at the Bunn Dome.
Robin Faulkner, principal of Bunn High School, announces the Honor Roll for the 2010-11 first six-weeks grading period. To be named to the A Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 93. To be named to the A-B Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 85.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
STANHOPE -- Playing up one classification level and with a shorthanded roster, the Franklinton Lady Rams were unable to effectively match up Tuesday night against the host Southern Nash Ladybirds.
Southern, in its season opener, broke open a tight game in the third period and went on to defeat Franklinton by a 33-25 margin at the SNHS Gymansium.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Rocky Mount man avoided jail time this week, pleading guilty to a lesser charge of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle for his role in a 2009 automobile crash.
Ronald Bruce Hicks, 65, made the plea Tuesday afternoon in Franklin County Superior Court, accepting responsibility for his role in the death of Jessica Lynn Dixon.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies are looking for suspects who shot into a Pilot home this week.
Bunny Williams said he doesn’t know if investigators will ever find the perpetrators, but he’s definitely glad the bullet didn’t find him or his wife on Wednesday afternoon.
Above, Santa Claus came to town Thursday night as the star of Franklinton’s Christmas Parade. It was cold for old Kris Kringle, but his reindeer didn’t have to worry about route-altering winds during the parade.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested a White Level woman this week described by the community as a terror.
Deputies arrested Phyllis Hazel Courtney, 62, on Wednesday after alleging she walked onto Alton Leonard’s T Model Jones Road property and began hitting him with a large wooden stick.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The number of Franklin County workers grew slightly last month, decreasing the unemployment rate by 3-tenths of a percent.
Franklin County joins 65 other counties that saw the number of employed workers increase. The county’s unemployment rate dipped to 8.7 percent in October.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners will be tasked with selecting new leadership positions Monday night before delving into an agenda that features key decisions on emergency communications.
Emergency communications director Christy Shearin is slated to advise commissioners about two proposals designed to boost emergency communications.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A World War II veteran and long-time resident was selected to represent Franklin County in the North Carolina Veteran’s Park that will open this coming summer in Fayetteville.
On Monday, an artist will cast a mold of Clifford Gilliam’s hand — which will be on display with 99 other veterans representing every county in the state at the memorial park.
By:
Joseph S. Baisley, Public Information Officer Franklin County Schools
Melissa Yeazel, assistant principal at Bunn High School, has been named the 2011 Franklin County Schools Assistant Principal of the Year.
Yeazel began her teaching career at Bunn High School in 1997 as a mathematics teacher.
Louisburg College sports fan Maggie Delikat
A former Louisburg insurance agent is slated to appear in Franklin County District Court next year on charges of embezzlement.
A criminal investigator with the state Department of Insurance (DOI) arrested Judy W. Allen, 54, in October, charging her with one count of agent embezzlement.
Michael Perry Gupton (left), associate broker with South Shore Realty, and Pam Cottrell Young (right), office manager of Rustic Building Supply, have recently been named to the BB&T Louisburg Local Advisory Board. Both Gupton and Young are lifetime residents of Franklin County and active in the community.
Vance-Granville Community College’s Franklin County Campus held an open house, called the “Pre-Registration Premiere,” on Nov. 10. The name of the event referred to the fact that registration for the upcoming spring 2011 semester started the following Monday, Nov. 15. The semester begins Jan. 5.
Joanne Carpenter of the Rocky Ford community recently presented the book “On Old Marlborough Road” to The North Carolina Room at The Richard H. Thornton Library in Oxford. The book tells the story of the experiences of two Upton, Mass., families during the Civil War.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Brace yourself, you’re going to be reading and hearing a lot about education funding in coming months — and much of it is going to be difficult to fully grasp.
As we have been suggesting for months, North Carolina’s budget crisis is likely to hit the classrooms hard next fiscal year.
Unfortunately, Franklin County will not be the exception to the rule.
I can’t help it, but three questions popped immediately into mind as this controversy over WikiLeaks swirled around over the last several days.
WikiLeaks is the web-based (naturally!) outfit that leaked a virtual treasure trove of U.S. diplomatic messages that have proven embarrassing to this nation.
