By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- The high-wire conclusion of Bunn’s playoff thriller with North Brunswick on Wednesday left BHS veteran head coach Gerald Melton crying foul.
Literally.
North Brunswick, leading by one point, missed a pair of free throws with five seconds remaining, one of which came courtesy of a lane violation.
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College remained undefeated on the baseball season Wednesday with a 5-0 home victory against Brunswick Community College at Frazier Field on the LC campus.
Louisburg, now 13-0 overall, received another excellent pitching performance from Tim Brechbuehler, who struck out 10 batters in 7.1 innings of work.
High School Basketball
CLASS 2-A STATE PLAYOFFS
GIRLS EAST REGIONALS
AT CROWN ARENA (ANNEX)
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Defeating a team four times in one season is never an easy proposition -- especially a tall, athletic club like Warren County.
The visiting Eagles gave Bunn some trouble, but the Wildcats were still able to hold on for a 60-52 decision in Tuesday’s first-round game in the Class 2-A Boys Basketball State Playoffs at the Bunn Dome.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
RED OAK -- The roster that represented Bunn High School at Thursday’s Northern Nash Girls Soccer Jamboree won’t resemble the one the Ladycats will boast once basketball season ends.
Six BHS soccer players are currently tied up in the hoops playoffs, either as players or cheerleaders.
Heading that list, of course, is BHS junior Whitney Bunn, who is already one of the most prolific scorers in school history.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
RED OAK -- Louisburg High School promises to be young on the soccer field this spring -- while being led by a first-year coach.
LHS’ girls will be guided by Georganna Davis, who helped coach the school’s track and field program in 2011.
Davis welcomes a team with plenty of new faces, as evidenced by Thursday’s performance at the annual Northern Nash Girls Soccer Jamboree, which was held in Red Oak.
Bunn’s Brianna Gatson (left) has been a solid contributor during the 2012 playoff stretch.
Bunn’s Jaymes Kingsberry (left) wrapped up his strong career for the Wildcats following Wednesday’s home playoff setback against North Brunswick.
Louisburg electric department worker Paul Jones was part of a crew that cleaned and serviced about 30 light fixtures around downtown Louisburg on Monday.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Residents began getting their revaluation tax notices as early as Tuesday.
And the county’s tax evaluators began getting questions just as fast.
Franklin County’s tax office decided to delay revaluation from 2010 until 2012, figuring that would be enough time for the housing market to settle and reflect more reasonable property tax numbers.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Seated in the cockpit of a P-47 Thunderbolt or P-51 Mustang, dodging enemy fire, Barrie Davis was in his element — enough so that the World War II veteran earned Ace status and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
But, to those who know the 88-year-old who still looks just as much a flyboy, you would hardly learn of his accomplishments by talking to him.
More than three decades of public service will come to a close this fall.
Commissioner Robert Lee Swanson announced Monday night that he won’t seek re-election.
Swanson has represented residents in central and northern Franklin County for the past 32 years.
“It’s time for someone new,” Swanson said. “I do want to thank all the people that have supported me all these years.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Commissioner Don Lancaster admitted that providing business incentives is a game that governments are forced to play.
On Monday night, the board agreed to roll the dice, figuring that more than $230,000 in incentives will be enough to help a Youngsville business expand and keep more than 200 jobs in Franklin County.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — Dogs on the loose led police to charge a woman with animal cruelty.
The resulting investigation also led authorities to alert Social Services about an unrelated issue.
According to a report by Chief Daren Kirts, officers responded to the 100 block of W. Main Street after someone reported seeing two stray dogs running around their home on Feb 14.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
An unusual topic for a town council — health care — occupied much of the Louisburg town council’s meeting Monday night.
The council heard a report from local Volunteers in Medicine representative Beverly Kegley who explained how that organization has changed to meet today’s challenges, and then received a letter that Mayor Karl Pernell has written to Franklin Regional Medical Center congratulating hospital administrators on their planned geriatric psychology unit.
Franklinton resident Charrisse Perry
Franklin County authorities and a state agency are looking for a missing 15-year-old girl they fear could be endangered.
The N.C. Center for Missing Persons issued a Silver Alert Monday night for Naisha Monae Bowser, who was last seen at 2970 N.C. 56 East of Louisburg.
By:
Rachel Monteverdi, Franklin County Cooperative Extension Agent
“Mom, can you turn on the computer? I really need to get on Facebook!”
Mom was discouraged.
She wanted to do things differently but didn’t want to argue with her 12-year-old daughter. Jeannie was an honor student and had never gotten into trouble.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Br-r-r-r! That was a chilly but belated brush with winter that slipped across Franklin County over the weekend.
At most, the county got a dusting — and that’s stretching it — overnight between late Sunday and early Monday.
GOOD MORNING: While that bit of freezing rain, sleet and whatever we got Sunday night and early Monday morning didn’t cause any hardships out my way that I’m aware of, it apparently played havoc with traffic on the interstate highways in and around Durham and other points west of us.
Motorists need to be aware of the fact that bridges and highway overpasses are among the first places to ice over and drive accordingly, or not at all – a rule that was apparently ignored by many motorists, judging by the number of multi-vehicle pileups I saw on TV.
Amazing as it may sound, I got two Christmas presents the last two weeks.
First, I walked out of a county Airport Commission meeting meeting in record time on Feb. 14 — and it had nothing to do with getting to a Valentine’s date.
Next, on Monday night, I looked at my watch and it read 7:37 p.m. as Commissioner Shane Mitchell pounded a gavel, concluding a board meeting that began a mere 37 minutes before.
Will the commissioners use the Edgar Owens monetary gift for a new park to purchase the best possible park site or have they already earmarked the money to purchase property owned by political allies/business associates?
RALEIGH – Remember when the Republican-crafted North Carolina budget passed over Gov. Beverly Perdue’s veto last summer? Liberal activists predicted economic disaster.
By failing to extend a sales-tax increase, and by balancing the state’s General Fund with budget savings rather than tax increases, the General Assembly had supposedly damaged North Carolina’s job market by shoving tens of thousands of workers into unemployment.
Dear Editor:
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