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LOUISBURG – Birdie W. Walker, 86, of 404 E. Noble St., died Friday morning. A memorial service will be held at a later date in Dodge Co., Georgia.
FRANKLINTON - Lawrence Lionel “Larry” Wilder, Jr., 80, of Franklinton died Thursday, April 5, 2012 at his home.
LOUISBURG – Elsie Milton Puckett, 86, of Louisburg, passed away Thursday night surrounded by her loving family.
LOUISBURG - Harold C. Foster, 80, of Louisburg, died peacefully Thursday morning, April 12, 2012 at his home.
LOUISBURG – Matthew “Matt” Francis Elliott, 37, of Louisburg, died Friday afternoon.
TAMPA, FL - Zeb Baird Davis, 89, of Tampa, FL, passed away April 9, 2012. He was a long-time member of Palma Ceia Baptist Church.
LOUISBURG - Charlotte Wray, 86, of Louisburg died Friday, April 13, 2012, at Carebridge Assisted Living. Graveside services will be held Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at Oakwood Cemetery with the Rev. Cameron Currin officiating.
CENTERVILLE - Funeral services for Linwood James, 80, who died Tuesday, April 10, 2012, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 16, 2012 at Uniontown Disciples of Christ Church, with the Rev. Bernard Holliday officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
GOOD MORNING: NO, no, no Mother Nature! It’s “showers in April – not frost and freezing temperatures, the likes of which we were greeted by early Thursday morning.
My indoor reading outdoor thermometer was registering a chilly 29.9 degrees when I went down to pick up my morning paper shortly before dawn.
Let’s see: So far we’ve had April in March and March in April — pretty much what often happens in North Carolina in the springtime!
But, count on one thing, local strawberries will be bountiful soon — and that’s a far more accurate indication of spring than sunshine or the temperatures.
Elsewhere in this edition of your Franklin Times, you may have read a little feature about the Safe Space Variety Store in Louisburg celebrating its 10th anniversary.
In many ways. it doesn’t seem possible that the store has been around for a decade.
Yet, in other ways, it’s become such a viable part of the community that it seems like it’s “always” been here.
In response to Martha Mobley’s column of April 7, once or twice a month, I drive out of the county to get fresh produce. Strange, isn’t it, that I live in a farm community and yet have no regular access to fresh, locally grown produce. Over the years, I’ve tried to keep my money local, but our farmers’ market has done everything possible to be inaccessible.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- After two days of grueling competition, pitching was at a premium by the time rivals Franklinton and Louisburg met in the third-place game Wednesday at the Verizon Wireless of Louisburg Easter Classic Baseball Tournament.
Both clubs were coming off heartbreaking losses the day before, and both squads had depleted their pitching staffs in the process.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
TARBORO -- After escaping a jam in the bottom of the first, Bunn pitcher Taylor Longson appeared to be getting stronger as the game progressed.
But in the fourth, Jefferson Forest’s bats began to sizzle, and the result was a six-run uprising that led to an 8-3 victory over the Wildcats during Thursday’s semifinals of the 19th Annual Tarboro Easter Classic Baseball Tournament at historic Municipal Stadium.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- There isn’t a coach at a four-year school who knows the attributes of Jamie Hockaday and Lauren Saller better than Monica Gordy does.
When Gordy was in charge of the softball program at Louisburg College, she recruited Saller and Hockaday -- and they eventually chose to spend two years with the Lady Hurricanes.
WINTERVILLE -- The Louisburg College Lady Hurricane softball team dropped a pair of conference games Wednesday night as the Lady Canes were defeated 5-4 and 3-1 by Region X rival and host Pitt Community College at Winterville Park.
With the two Region X losses, Louisburg’s record drops to 19-12 overall and 9-11 in regional play.
ZEBULON -- The Carolina Mudcats scored two runs in the eighth inning to escape the Wilmington Blue Rocks (2-4) 5-3 in front of 1,044 on Wednesday night at Five County Stadium in a Class A Carolina League baseball contest.
Jake Lowery punched through the winning run for the Mudcats (4-2) with a two-out single to right in the eighth.
High School Baseball
MONDAY
Louisburg at Corinth Holders 6 p.m.
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College freshman Jasmine Phillips has earned a apot on the First Team of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II Women’s Basketball All-American Squad.
Phillips, a freshman from Hartsville, S.C., helped the Lady Hurricanes to a 30-2 overall record and a third-place finish at the NJCAA D-2 National Tournament last month in Illinois.
(L to R) Franklinton High School head coach Lester Wilder and player Matt Davis discuss strategy at third place during Wednesday’s Verizon Wireless of Louisburg Tournament action.
Bunn’s Tevin Perry rounds third base on his way to scoring a run during Thursday’s loss to Jefferson Forest in the semifinals of the Tarboro Easter Classic Baseball Tournament in Edgecombe County.
FRANKLINTON—Funeral services for Angela “Queen Ann” Waters, 40, who died Monday, April 9, 2012, will be held Saturday, April 14, at 12 p.m. at Franklinton Elementary School, with the Rev. Charles Murrell Sr. officiating. Burial will follow in the Perry’s Missionary Baptist Church cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Aileen Robinson Smith, 71, who died Thursday, April 12, 2012, will be held Tuesday, April 17, at 2 p.m. at Perry’s Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Randolph Alston officiating. Burial will follow in the Roberson-Robinson family cemetery.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
After having to farm out the International Whistlers Convention two of the last four years, organizers are whistling a different tune as they plan to host the worldwide event for a second consecutive year.
The 39th edition of the International Whistlers Convention kicks off April 18 and runs through April 22.
Up until 2007, the event had been a more than three-decade mainstay in Louisburg as artists from around the world descended n this small town to compete against the best classical and popular whistlers around.
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