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WENDELL – Jean Glover Roberts, 82, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. The family will receive friends Saturday, Jan. 21, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., at Strickland Funeral Home, 211 W. Third St., Wendell. A memorial service and the disbursement of her remains will be held at her home place in Wilson.
FRANKLINTON —James Thomas Jefferies, 60, died Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 at Franklin Oaks of Louisburg. Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Jan. 15, at Kinches Chapel Christian Church, Franklinton, with the Rev. Willie R. Nixon III officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The host sponsor for an annual banquet touting new business and growth provided a glimpse of its own expansion.
The state Department of Health and Human Services Certificate of Need Section in October issued Franklin Regional Medical Center the approval it needed to build a 13-bed geriatric psychiatry unit.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
It’s been nearly two years since Franklin County was willed nearly $1 million dollars to find a park to meet a dead man’s last request.
Now, they’re back at square one.
On Tuesday night, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners rejected a proposal to use $979,000 to buy and maintain the old Girl Scout campsite as a new county park — stating they had too many concerns about the site.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A man who has brought warmth, laughter and spirit to the community for years did more of the same on Thursday night when he was named the Greater Franklin County Chamber of Commerce’s Citizen of the Year.
Wayne Champion was the center of attention after taking to the podium to receive the honor, but he said he didn’t stand there alone.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners went back the way they came when choosing its new county attorney.
Pete Tomlinson served as the county’s attorney from 1988 until 1992, giving way to Darnell Batton.
After Batton resigned his post at the end of last year, the board, on Tuesday night, selected Tomlinson as its new county attorney.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Commissioners said they aren’t on a mission to stop panhandlers.
They just want to keep the roadways safe for those who travel and cross them.
Because of that, the board dropped any plans to craft a regulatory ordinance.
Instead, they will let Sheriff Jerry Jones and his office continue to address panhandling on a complaint-driven basis — using the issue of safety as a means to clear streets.
By: GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
The Louisburg Town Council voted to change direction Tuesday evening, ending an unusual public-private partnership that was created in an effort to bring a new Franklin County office building downtown.
Instead, changing political winds and the economic malaise of the last few years has apparently put that project on indefinite hold and the council decided to buy out its private partner.
Former Youngsville officer Jeremy Montejano, who was arrested in a stolen lottery ticket case, is 24 years of age. Stories previously written in The Franklin Times incorrectly listed his age. We regret the error.
County resident Matthew Costa
Donna Wade, Miracle League, left; Michael Anderson, Blessings, Inc, center; and Dale Byrns, United Way/Franklin County Schools, right, were presented with the Greater Franklin County Chamber of Commerce’s Helping Hands Award by outgoing Chamber Chairman Michael Schriver during the organization’s annual meeting and banquet
Outgoing Chamber of Commerce Chair Michael Schriver presents Mary Davis of Eyecare Associates with the organization’s Small Business of the Year award.
By: Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
The proposal to purchase the old Girl Scout camp and convert it into a county-owned park is comatose since the idea didn’t receive a second at this week’s county commission meeting.
If someone will attach a Do Not Resuscitate tag, the county can begin looking for a more suitable location.
The park is being funded largely by a bequest from the late Edgar Owens, a local businessman who left the county nearly $1 million for a park, preferably one with a “fishing hole.”
GOOD MORNING: There was/is a 70 percent chance we’d get a bit of rain last (Friday) night and/or this (Saturday) morning and Sunday as well, with daytime highs in the low 60’s Saturday, dropping back to 49 or 50 on Sunday before climbing back into the high 60’s to near 70 on Monday.
But you know how that goes – what you see is what you get.
Let’s see if any of this makes sense.
Since the early 1980s, we’ve been hearing talk of a Star Wars missile defense system that is supposed to discover, target and destroy incoming strategic missiles targeted at our country.
Begun by President Ronald Reagan in March, 1983, it’s impossible to determine how many billions of dollars have been spent on a system which we hope will never be used.
The Youngsville Woman’s Club has announced that it has partnered with the Franklin County and North Carolina Arts Councils by sponsoring a series of Grass Roots Arts Workshops called “Bringing the Arts to Youngsville 2011-2012.”
The goal of this endeavor has been to create an avenue for arts education, thus fostering knowledge and appreciation of art forms used from earlier generations, as well as exploring the cultural diversity within our communities.
Diane Brownstone , director of the Brownstone Book Fund, a private non-profit funded by the Brownstone Family Foundation, has chosen the Franklin County Library, through the State Library of North Carolina, to receive a gift of 100 children’s books.
Her interest in children’s services at the library stems from the public library of her youth.
ZEBULON - Eliza Todd Heath, 97, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Funeral services were held Friday, Jan. 20, at Zebulon First Baptist Church, Zebulon.
WAKE FOREST - Carlton Lee Nelson died Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Franklin County. A service celebrating his life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at Hope Lutheran Church, 3525 Rogers Road, Wake Forest.
LOUISBURG – Marvin Leon Pernell, 75, died Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 at Franklin Regional Medical Center. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Jan. 17, at Alert Pentecostal Holiness Church, with the burial following in the Pernell family cemetery.
CASTALIA - Owen Richardson, 87, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. Arrangements by William Toney’s Funeral Home, Spring Hope.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Fred Simmons, 87, who died Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Clinton Chapel AME Zion Church in Pollocksville, with the Rev. C. B. Chadwick officiating. The Rev. Michael Burden is pastor. Burial will follow in the Simmons family cemetery.
LOUISBURG – Mrs. Margaret Watkins Edwards, 87, died January 16. She was preceded in death by her husband, R. C. Edwards Jr.; her parents, Maylon E. Watkins and Mary Etta Tharrington Watkins, and stepmother, Helen Parrish Watkins, as well as brothers, M.E. and Charles Watkins, and sisters, Mary Helen Watkins and Mildred Cook.
A BETTER VIEW. Newly installed Chamber Chairman Joe Jones, right, and outgoing Chair Michael Schriver share a laugh as Schriver jokes about getting older and the need for spectacles.
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