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ROCKY MOUNT - Funeral services for James “Dick” Evans, 81, who died Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, will be held Tuesday, Dec. 6, at noon at the Church On the Rise, with the Rev. Howard Kendrick officiating. Burial will follow in the Gardens of Gethsemane.
CASTALIA-Edith Inez Gupton Griffin, 88, died Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 at Louisburg Nursing Center. Lancaster Funeral and Cremation Services is handling arrangements where the family will receive friends Saturday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Red Bud Baptist Church with the Rev. Corey Wilson officiating. Interment will follow in the Gupton family cemetery in Wood.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA-Charles Lamb Gilliam, 90, died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011 at home. Funeral service will be held Saturday, Dec. 3, at 2 p.m. at Galilee Episcopal Church in Virginia Beach, Va.
RALEIGH - George Frank Dale, 63, died Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. A memorial service will be held Sunday, Dec. 4, at 3 p.m. in the Wynne Center of Brown-Wynne (300 St. Mary’s Street), with family to receive friends following.
FRANKLINTON —Edith Whitaker Conyers, 85, died Wednesday evening, Nov. 30, 2011, at Franklin Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in the chapel of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service, 504 E. Mason Street in Franklinton, with the Rev. Clyde Waiden officiating. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Cora Mae Harper Hayes, 79, died Monday evening, Nov. 28, 2011 at Hospice of Wake County in Raleigh. A memorial service will be held Saturday, Dec. 3, at 11 a.m. at Duke Memorial Baptist Church, with Pastor Jake Dorak officiating. Burial will be held at a later date.
FRANKLINTON —Roger N. Hedgren, 71, died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Arrangements by Bright Funeral Home, Wake Forest.
FRANKLINTON - Samuel Lee “Sammy” Watson, 62, died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. He was born in Granville County and was the son of the late Myrtle & John Edny Watson, Sr.
As precious as time is, we still hear people complaining about Thanksgiving coming and going too fast, and Christmas arriving too early. I have even heard people say, “I can’t believe Christmas is here, the same old thing, the same old music.” We all know what will cure all of those thoughts, right?
Jess Burnette annou-nces the birth of his little sister, Charity Raylyn Burnette, born Nov. 16, 2011 at Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson. She weighed 7 pounds and was 19 inches long.
The proud parents are Jesse and Cathy Burnette of Louisburg.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn is at it again -- taking down taller teams with their rare blend of skill, coaching guile and opportunism.
BHS continued that trend Thursday during its 2010-11 regular season opener at home against Nash Central.
The visiting Bulldogs had size and athleticism, as evidenced by their myriad of blocked shots throughout the contest.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn didn’t drop a game until the postseason as part of its storybook girls basketball campaign in 2010-11.
But it took only one outing this winter for the Ladycats to experience defeat as they were toppled Thursday night at home in the regular season opener.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Word got out in the preseason that the Louisburg Warriors were destined to be better in 2011-12 -- and LHS did nothing to dispel that notion during Tuesday’s boys basketball opener against KIPP Pride from Northampton County.
Using their suffocating full-court defense and effective transition game, the Warriors earned an early lead and went on to stop the Panthers by a 63-23 margin at the LHS Gymnasium.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association has taken another step in its 2013 realignment process -- and it looks to include the breaking up of Franklin County’s high schools from the same conference.
The NCHSAA released its updated enrollment numbers, along with proposed conferences that were created by a computer formula that was submitted to SAS.
High School Wrestling
MONDAY
Bunn at Kerr-Vance 5 p.m.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Brett Kiger took over a young team in 2010-11, and his Louisburg Lady Warriors -- along with their coach -- continued to grow as the season progressed.
Both coach and players have one year of experience under their respective belts, and optimism is high in the LHS camp about the squad’s chances this winter.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLINTON -- Long-time coach Lester Wilder expected big things this season from his veteran Franklinton girls basketball squad.
And through three games, the Lady Rams haven’t disappointed.
FHS is now 3-0 on the campaign after a pair of wins this week.
Louisburg’s Sedalia Seda (right) heads to the bucket Tuesday night during a victory against KIPP Pride.
Bunn’s Tainasha Vines (left) tries to locate Nash Central’s Niya Syles, who is making a pass to a teammate during Thursday’s game at the Bunn Dome.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Chapel Hill man accused of robbing banks in Wake and Franklin counties appeared in local courts this week.
Whether he appears in federal court remains up in the air.
Gordon Miller, 22, appeared in Wake County District Court on Monday, facing charges of common law robbery and forgery and uttering. His case was continued until Dec. 19 there.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — A fire that charred a man’s business and residence — for the second time in just more than a year — hasn’t torched his resolve.
Stephan Bezzina, proprietor of Gigi’s House Bistro, plans to reopen — again.
“I’m still trying to figure it out,” Bezzina said this week in the aftermath of again, losing his business and apartment to fire, this time on Thanksgiving. “It really is unreal, almost surreal.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Bunn man is slated to appear in court next week on charges that cost him his job.
A Franklin County grand jury in January indicted 27-year-old James Newton Perry on four counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor.
Those charges came two months after Bunn Police Chief Kent Winstead fired Perry after the guardian of a teenage girl brought forth allegations that the one-time officer took liberties with a girl.
By: GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
In a short but somewhat unusual Monday night meeting, the Franklin County Board of Education gave unanimous approval to the political redistricting plan known as Alternative Five which was approved a week earlier by the Franklin County commissioners
In addition, the board also unanimously passed a resolution requesting that the U.S. Department of Justice give “expedited consideration” to the redistricting plan so it can be used in the May 8, 2012, elections.
A ceremony this Saturday in Louisburg will pay tribute to the memory of a fallen U.S. Marine, a man described as a “farm boy that answered a moral compass that called him to serve his country.”
Sadly, Staff Sgt. Bobby Jack Ruddle was a member of a rifle platoon that came under fire from an organized force of the enemy around Ghango-Myron, Korea on April 19, 1953.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklinton and its community will be pressing ahead with its Christmas parade on Thursday, setting off a string of holiday celebrations this December.
Franklinton’s fire department has long organized the town’s Christmas parade but begged off the chore this year after a number of its members burned out.
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