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The filing period continued this week and two more local folks threw their hat into the political ring.
Commissioner Don Lancaster filed for re-election, trying to earn another term as the representative for District 5.
And businessman Michael Schriver, who ran for a Senate seat before, filed to run for Senate District 18 — putting him up against Incumbent Doug Berger.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A family dealing with a tragic loss will be able to focus on what they’ve gained next weekend — the unyielding support of the community.
R.J. Horne died from a sudden illness last month, leaving behind a wife and two sons, ages five and 23 months.
A Louisburg woman has two weeks to remove a honey beehive from her residence or face more court trouble — including the potential for jail time.
Following a roughly four-hour court hearing on Tuesday, District Court Judge Quon Bridges found Patricia Walker guilty of violating the town’s ordinance against beekeeping.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners will be asked to provide an incentive to help turn around business prospects.
K-Flex USA is considering expanding their business to consolidate its warehousing and manufacturing at its Nomaco Drive location in Youngsville.
“Right now,” said Richie Duncan, the county’s existing industries coordinator within the Economic Development office, “they are using multiple sites for warehousing.
Cameron James Whitley of Zebulon was named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2011 semester at East Carolina University in Greenville.
The Dean’s List is composed of the names of all full-time undergraduates who make at least three and one-half grade (quality) points per credit hour (3.5) on all work taken with no grade below C and no incomplete grades.
Richmond, Va. — The cashier at Southern States might ask you to part with an extra dollar this month.
But don’t worry. It’s not inflation on the rise. It’s for a good cause.
Southern States is supporting the National FFA Organization by selling FFA emblems for $1. The campaign takes place Feb. 24 – March 18.
Franklin County Sheriff Jerry Jones, blue shirt, went along on a few compliance checks, as U.S. Marshals and local officers checked nearly 300 sex offenders, making sure they lived at residences listed on the sex offender registry.
Franklin County Sheriff’s Det. Susan Handel holds up a picture of the man that officers were looking for on Wednesday morning. It turns out that the man, Robert Phelan, had moved to Wilson and did not register in that city. He was cited for that, among other violations.
Scott Parker, U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District, center talks about how successful Operation Sentry was during a press conference in Bunn on Thursday. The goal, he said, was to make communities safer by making sure sex offenders were following the law.
By: Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Here we go again with local taxpayers about to be steam-rollered by yet another unfunded state mandate.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, an unfunded state mandate is when the state requires a town or county to do something that costs money but doesn’t provide the money.
One of the latest of these mandates is the possible requirement that counties maintain a backup 911 center that is fully operational just in case the regular 911 center becomes inoperable.
GOOD MORNING: It looks like we may get a bit more badly needed rain this weekend. Daytime temperatures are expected to range in the low to mid 50’s with overnight lows around 43 on Saturday night, 29 Sunday night.
HERE WE GO AGAIN: It’s the same old refrain that we all heard back when the county’s first emergency dispatch center was proposed years ago.
It came as a bit of a surprise Monday night to learn that the West River Road school campus, part of it at least, is finally on the National Register of Historic Places.
Frankly, I thought efforts to earn that much-deserved designation had withered on the vine, but it turns out school board member Bernard Hall has been quietly bird-dogging the selection process for years.
Most of us can name one or more teachers who made a significant, maybe life changing contribution to who we have become. For me, it was my seventh grade teacher, Joyce Zeh. Turns out most others in that class felt the same, so we decided to reconnect with her and each other. When I told folks about my seventh grade class reunion, their faces registered disbelief. Why seventh grade, they would ask?
Dear Editor:
I was stunned to learn that the U.S. Postal Service is about $18 billion in the red. I don’t know if that is an accurate number, but like a lot of us, I rely on the USPS (United States Postal Service) to mail anywhere from 8 to 15 pieces of mail (including paying bills) per month.
DURHAM - Terence B. Hawkins, 56, died Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, at Durham Regional Hospital in Durham. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Feb. 18, at 1 p.m. at South Main Street Baptist Church, Louisburg.
ENFIELD - Funeral services for Joseph Richardson, 73, who died Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at Faith Baptist Church, with the Rev. Linwood Richardson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
WAKE FOREST - Louis “Bubber” Willard Pearce, 77, died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 at home. Funeral services were held Friday, Feb. 17, at Bright Funeral Home in Wake Forest. Burial followed in Gethsemane Memorial Gardens, Zebulon.
ZEBULON - Lee Norman Sprague of Raleigh died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 at his residence at the Coventry House in Zebulon. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, at Floral Garden Park Cemetery with Tom Slaughter officiating.
CLAYTON - Herman “Glenn” Wooten, 54, died Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 following a trucking accident. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at McLaurin Funeral Home.
ZEBULON - Joyce Barlow Gibson, 68, died Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 at Rex Hospital. The family will receive friends from 1-2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18, at Montlawn Funeral Home in Raleigh, with services to follow at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel. A family burial will follow at Montlawn Memorial Park.
RALEIGH - Charles Frederick Odom, Sr., 65, of Raleigh died Wednesday February 15, 2012. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:00 at New Bethel Baptist Church, with the Rev. Jon Owens officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
BANNER ELK, NC (Boone) - Dr. Martha Ray Lumpkin died on October 18, 2011, at her home in Banner Elk, NC after a few years of declining health. She was born in Franklin County, NC on April 24, 1926 to the late Willie Lee Lumpkin & Margaret Ray Pollock.
BUNN – Charlie Leon Wilder, 69, of Bunn, died suddenly Wednesday February 15, 2012 while on a delivery for Pender Nursery in Greenville, SC.
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