Bunn’s Marisa Bellamy grabs a rebound as Franklinton’s Tamara Williams defends during last Friday’s game.
Louisburg College’s Tucker Coward (left) avoids being doubled up at second base off a fly ball during last Saturday afternoon’s diamond action at Frazier Field.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Lillian Massenburg Brodie, 87, who died Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, will be held at noon Saturday, Feb. 18, at Walnut Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Norwood Brodie, eulogist. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON— Annie Belle Piper, a former resident of Garden Walk in Henderson, died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Funeral services were conducted Friday, Feb. 17, at Westwood Pentecostal Holiness Church in Henderson, with the Rev. Cleveland Harrison and the Rev. Bobby Piper officiating. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery in Franklinton.
HENDERSON (Epsom Community) — Jean Patterson Wester, 62, died Tuesday, Feb.14, 2012 at her home. A private graveside service was held Wednesday, Feb.15, at New Bethel Baptist Church cemetery, conducted by the Rev. Robert Collier.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
RED OAK — Hours before roosters thought about crowing, local, state and federal authorities huddled inside the Red Oak Fire House, figuring out how they were going to shine light on a sneaky problem — sex offenders who flaunt the rules of the registry.
The result was Operation Sentry, a teaming of the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force, Franklin, Nash and Warren county deputies, and probation officers from across the region.
The case against a man accused of attempted second-degree murder continues.
Gary Normand was arrested in March after investigators alleged he tried to set his girlfriend on fire before burning down their Youngsville home.
Prosecutors have offered Normand a plea, which includes jail time, and he appeared in court Thursday with his attorney, Buzzy Gardner.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Attorneys and a property owner are close to completing a purchase that will allow the county’s airport to expand.
In January, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners agreed to buy 64 acres adjacent to Triangle North Executive Airport, which is located on Airport Road between U.S. 401 and N.C. 39
The deal is not yet finalized, Airport Director Steve Merritt told airport commissioners on Tuesday.
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.
