By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — Commissioners officially received a letter of resignation and recognized the long-time service of its attorney — weeks after he accepted the same post with Franklin County.
The county’s Board of Commissioners hired Pete Tomlinson as its attorney, replacing Darnell Batton who resigned from that post after nearly 20 years.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
If it seems like it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
And worse, it often has unintended consequences.
That’s exactly our fear with the latest scheme the state has cooked up to finance improvements to Interstate 95 across Eastern North Carolina.
GOOD MORNING: After a chilly weekend that saw temperatures locally dip into the teens early Monday morning, the outlook calls for mostly sunny weather today (Wednesday) and Friday with a 70 percent chance of rain on Thursday. Daytime highs around the 59-60 degree mark are expected today and Thursday before dropping back into the mid to upper 50’s on Friday and Saturday.
This is my favorite time of year.
Okay, not really, but it’s close.
It comes around every year, kind of like a season unto itself — it’s filing period time.
It’s an opportunity for those who want to make their neighborhoods, communities, towns, cities, state, region, or country better by serving the public in a representative government.
Should Franklin County offer incentives to businesses to locate here?
By:
CHRIS FITZSIMONS, NCPolicywatch
Republican leaders in North Carolina have a problem. People are beginning to understand that dismantling public education is an important part of their agenda.
And that is not a popular position. People still believe in public schools, despite years of misleading but well-funded attacks on them by the think tanks on the Right in Raleigh and Washington.
Narcotics officers seized nearly three pounds of marijuana, arrested one man and planned to charge two others during a drug raid.
According to a report by Dep. J. Hastings, Raleigh police tipped off the sheriff’s office about suspected drug sales at a home in the 3200 block of Epsom Rocky Ford Road in northern Franklin County.
When it comes to heart attacks, men and women are not created equal.
Donna Perry, Franklin Regional Medical Center’s emergency room nurse manager, says the signs and symptoms of heart attacks vary widely among the sexes.
“Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States,” Perry states.
By:
Meg Wyatt, Franklin County Cooperative Extension Agent
In 2007 a study done by the U.S. Department of Education reported that 8.1 million students between the ages of 12-18 reported being bullied at school.
Nearly one million youth reported being cyber-bullied, which has become a hot topic in our society. We as a society have an abundance of technology avenues to host such things as bullying.
The “From Whence We Came” performing arts program is being presented by Tai Miles Productions and sponsored by Bunn Middle School’s O.F.F.E.R. Program in celebration of Black History Month.
This event will take place Feb. 25 at Bunn Middle School. The community is invited to this display of music, Chicago-Style Stepping, African dance and drumming, poetry and more.
Nathan Watson and Anna Love of Louisburg are proud to announce the birth of their son, Jordan Allen Watson, born Jan. 19, 2012 at Duke Hospital in Durham. He weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and was 19.2 inches long.
Jerry and Sharon Fuller of Youngsville are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Brooklyn Hope Fuller, born Jan. 13, 2012 at Wake Med Hospital in Raleigh. She weighed 9 pounds, 10 ounces and was 23 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are the Rev. David and Teresa Blake of Louisburg.
Franklin County students who made the Chancellor’s List, Dean’s List or Honor Roll at East Carolina University in Greenville for the Fall 2011 semester are listed below.
Lindsay Harrison of Louisburg has been selected for the Dean’s List at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro for the Fall 2011 semester.
Franklin County students who graduated at ECU in Greenville during the Fall 2011 graduation ceremonies are listed below.
The Kerr Tar Area Agency on Aging in partnership with the Louisburg Senior Center will hold a Living Healthy with Diabetes workshop at the Louisburg Senior Center at 127 Shannon Village, Louisburg beginning this month. This is a highly participatory workshop that will take place once a week for 6 weeks. Each session is 2 1/2 hours, and all workshops are facilitated by trained leaders.
A Louisburg woman was found guilty of violating the town’s bee-keeping ordinance and ordered to remove the insects within two weeks.
If she fails to do so, Patricia Walker would be subject to a $50 a day fine and have to appear, again, in front of a judge.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Johnny Chavis Jr., 65, who died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg, with the Rev. Bobby Thomas officiating. Burial will follow in the Hickory Grove Church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON—Myra Salter Roberts, 83, died Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 at Universal Health Care in Raleigh. Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Feb. 12, in the Hall Wynne Franklinton Chapel by the Rev. Anita James. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery in Franklinton.
NASHVILLE - Funeral services for Josephine W. Faison, 83, who died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, were held Tuesday, Feb. 14, at Social Union Baptist Church, with the Rev. Nathaniel Bunn officiating. Burial followed in Oakland Cemetery.
WAKE FOREST - Connie Lee Horton, 85, of High Point, formerly of Wake Forest, died Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. A memorial service honoring his life will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home, Wake Forest, with the Rev. Al Thomas officiating.
FRANKLINTON - Fred Clayton, 87, died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Cremation Society of NC.
YOUNGSVILLE - Elvis B. Holmes, 71, died Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Arrangements by Bright Funeral Home, Wake Forest.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn’s shooting stars have used plenty of outside heroics en route to gaining the regular season boys basketball championship in the Northern Carolina Conference.
So why should the scenario have been any different when the Wildcats hosted second-place Corinth Holders for their Senior Night finale last Thursday at the Bunn Dome?
