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.
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested a couple during a dispute that investigators allege put a child and motorists in danger.
Damon Ashley Poole, 37, was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, and resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Even as the two-time Northern Carolina Conference Player of the Year, Montrel Cooke has needed to share the ball -- and the scoring responsibilities -- for the Bunn Wildcats during the 2011-12 boys basketball season.
That’s because upstart sophomore Deshawn High has developed into an elite-level performer to give the Wildcats a lethal one-two combination in the backcourt.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLINTON -- Should Franklinton win the Northern Carolina Conference Girls Basketball Tournament, the conquest will definitely be earned on the defensive side of the ball.
That’s nothing new for FHS veteran head coach Lester Wilder during his historic tenure at the school.
And it’s a trend that has continued at the NCC Tourney, which is being hosted by the Lady Rams at the new FHS Gymnasium.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- When everyone talks about how it seems like forever since Bunn lost a girls basketball game, it’s not an overstatement.
BHS hasn’t lost in the 2012 calendar year, and the last Ladycats’ setback came on Dec. 27.
Since then, the on-fire Ladycats have reeled off 16 in a row, including a 50-18 conquest of North Johnston during Thursday’s semifinals of the Northern Carolina Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Franklinton.
Franklin County’s realignment pleas apparently fell on deaf ears during last month’s regional meeting in Greenville.
During that event, representatives from Louisburg, Franklinton and Bunn expressed their desire to accept an original realignment plan, which was conceived last November by computer at SAS.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Fitting that the updated men’s basketball digs at Holton Gymnasium will now be known as the J. Enid Drake Locker Room.
After all, nobody has spent more time inside that room than Drake, the Hall of Fame coach whose career at LC spanned over five glorious decades.
High School Basketball
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By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Halfway through the league schedule, Louisburg College is clearly the team to beat in the Region X women’s basketball standings.
The Lady Hurricanes have yet to be played to a tight game in region action this year -- and even blew out defending champion Patrick Henry by 32 points last Saturday.
Scott Wilder (Class of 1994) explains the impact Coach J. Enid Drake had on his life as part of Wednesday’s locker room dedication at Holton Gym. (Times photo by Geoff Neville)
Mecca Hicks sinks a free throw for Franklinton.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
BUNN — A family that has called a house between Youngsville and Bunn home for the past 20 years is now stuck in a hard place.
A fire tore through the house with a metal roof on Sunday morning, leaving four people without a place to stay this week.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Youngsville man accused of trying to set his girlfriend on fire and burn their house down is slated to appear in court this week.
An apparent medical issue kept Gary Normand out of court in January, but he is slated to appear in court on Wednesday to face charges that he tried to kill his girlfriend, Chloe Reynolds.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
A portion of Riverside school campus in Louisburg has been named to the National Register of Historic Places following a years-long effort by the county school board and, more specifically, member Bernard Hall.
The campus was formerly the Franklin County Training School - Riverside Union School and for many years Louisburg Elementary School was part of the campus. Much of the campus has now been converted into the schools’ administrative offices.
The filing period began Monday with a handful of folks running for office — at least one for the first time.
Roger Lytle, who began the community group, We The People, filed to fun for the County Commission At-large District 7 seat, facing off against Shane Mitchell, who also filed for re-election.
Commissioner Sidney Dunston filed for re-election to represent residents in District 1.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County officials were notified that they could be facing an emergency in a year — they’ll be faced with spending money to make money.
County Emergency Communications Director Christy Shearin advised commissioners last week that the North Carolina 911 Board has proposed a series of new standards for emergency dispatch centers.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Franklin County judge asked to referee a dispute that could unseat a Durham district attorney will hold the gavel on the matter for at least another week.
At the end of January, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood suspended Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline, ruling that that was enough preliminary evidence to support claims that Cline was unfit for office.
Louisburg resident Diane Rogers
