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The town of Youngsville and its Woman’s Club is preparing for a bigger and better second year to its Arts in the Community Festival. “It has grown,” said Ellen Woodlief, one of the organizers of the event.

Rebekah Taylor, daughter on Ron and Paula Taylor, will be performing at Cherry Hill in the Inez community on Sunday, April 2. Her performance, to begin at 3 p.m., will include music by Schubert, Mendlelssohn, Chopin, and Mozart.

The “Wedding Doctor” will make a house call to Vance-Granville Community College to teach a class on wedding planning and decoration.

Christopher Scott Southard, a Franklinton resident and member of Boy Scout Troop 530, was awarded Scouting’s highest award - Eagle Scout - on Sunday, March 19, at Franklinton United Methodist Church.
Southard, 18, began as a Cub Scout while in the fourth grade.

Airport commissioners continue plans for a transition in management, tabbing a subcommittee to oversee the switch. The airport’s current operator, First-in-Flight Aviation, is expected to have either sold out to a county-approved operator by April 1 or the county is expected to take over its own operations by then.

Fifty-four Franklin County School juniors representing the three high schools along with four chaperones recently had the opportunity to attend the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) High School Day located at Progress Energy and the RBC center in Raleigh.
The theme for the 2006 MEAC High School Day is: “Practice Prepares You for the Game ... Education Prepares You for Life.”

Organizers and retailers are preparing for a crush when lottery tickets go on sale Thursday.
The North Carolina Education Lottery and its contractor, GTECH Corp., began shipping out more than 100 million tickets to retail outlets across the state in order to begin selling them at 6 a.m. on Thursday.
Moe Maweri, who runs Four Star Grocery on N.C. 401 north of Louisburg, said he can’t wait.

Franklin County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a vandalism as a possible hate crime. According to authorities, a passing motorist noticed that one of Joe Lynch’s campaign signs was spray painted with what was intended to be a racial slur.

DISTRICT CHAMPS. The Louisburg High School Quiz Bowl team won in district competition in Louisburg on Saturday. Above, Kerry Neto holds the district trophy following more than two hours of general knowledge questions in rounds with Lee Senior High School and Northern Vance High School teams from District VII. See more photos inside. LHS moves on to state competition April 22.