A TROOPER. Outgoing Chamber Chair Michael Schriver presented Candace Lenderman with the organization’s Director of the Year award for her dedicated service.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
WENDELL -- This is one time when Coach Gerald Melton and his Bunn Wildcats don’t mind having a lonely feeling.
Not when it means the Wildcats are alone at the top of the Northern Carolina Conference boys basketball standings.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
WENDELL -- Almost halfway into the Northern Carolina Conference girls basketball schedule, one team stands alone at the top of the standings.
It’s the Bunn Ladycats.
This shouldn’t be a surprise, as Bunn is the defending NCC regular season and tournament champion.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
WARRENTON -- Third place was at stake in the Northern Carolina Conference when upstart Louisburg traveled to Warren County for a key girls basketball showdown Thursday night.
Bunn (1) and Franklinton (2) are currently entrenched at the top of the league standings, but LHS had a chance to make a big move into third with a victory.
BUNN -- The Bunn Youth Recreation League is currently accepting signups for its upcoming Baseball/Softball/T-Ball seasons.
Registration will be held each Saturday from 9 a.m.-noon and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 6:30-8 p.m. through Feb. 25.
Former Louisburg High School boys basketball coach Chris Davis (left), now at Corinth Holders, has his Pirates in the mix for one of the top spots in the Northern Carolina Conference this season.
High School Wrestling
TUESDAY
North Johnston at Franklinton 6 p.m.
Bunn at Roanoke Rapids 6 p.m.
Bunn’s Tavon Perry (right) drives to the basket during Wednesday’s decision against Corinth Holders.
Bunn’s Danyel Smith (with ball) tries to evade Corinth Holders’ Samantha Gibson on Wednesday.
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested an auto shop worker accused of taking a car on test run to use crack.
According to a report by Dep. Joel Anderson, an employee with Victory Tire and Auto Service near Youngsville called 911 the afternoon of Jan. 16 after another employee, Scott Sherrell, took a car slated for repairs out on a test drive but had not returned after four hours.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Youngsville officer charged with stealing lottery tickets resigned this week.
Agents with the State Bureau of Investigation arrested Jeremy Montejano on Jan. 12, alleging that he stole lottery tickets and tried to cash them.
Police Chief Daren Kirts placed Montejano on unpaid leave on Jan. 13.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Though it was a Saturday, class was in session during the town’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
During the service at First Baptist Church, Maurice Kearney shared an assignment he got from his own pastor at Pope Chapel United Church of Christ.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Police arrested a man accused of trying to make a quick buck — off his mother.
On Dec. 14, Charles Layton reported that someone stole a television set from his mother’s Layton Street home.
The report also indicated about $100 in damage to a back door frame.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Before Martin Luther King Jr. died, he expressed a “Dream” where his children would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
From King’s death in 1969 to the world we live in today, there has been much progress and many strides made toward achieving King’s dream, said the Rev. Shane Benjamin, the speaker during Monday’s celebration of King’s life and legacy.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County’s unemployment rate remained under double digits, but it was one of 26 counties that continues to see an uptick in the number of those looking for work.
Through August and September, Franklin County’s unemployment rate was at 10 percent before falling to 9.7 percent in October.
Laurie Lee is the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission’s Board Audit and Pricing director. A story in the Jan. 14 edition of the Times incorrectly identified her title. The Times regrets the error.
Louisburg resident Mike Epps
LOUISBURG - Alice Faye Phillips Wester, 74, died at William G. Dunlap Hospice House on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 2 p.m. at Strickland Funeral Home in Louisburg, with burial to follow in the Maple Springs Baptist Church cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service.
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 to follow in the Pernell family cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE—Funeral services for Katie Mae Williams, 62, who died Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, at New Birth Apostolic Church, with Bishop Robert Locklear officiating. Burial will follow in the Mitchell Church cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for McKinnie “The Bull” Steed, 97, who died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, will be held Thursday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. at Walnut Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Timothy Walker officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Lois Brown Wheless, formerly of Louisburg, died Dec. 10, 2011. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at Louisburg United Methodist Church. Visitation will be held at the church after the service.
LOUISBURG – Laura Parrish McGregor, 80, died Sunday morning, Jan. 15, 2012. A graveside memorial service will be held 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at Middle Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Wake County.
BUNN - Jean Manning Pipkin, 66, died Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, at her home. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church with Pastor Mark Tondee officiating. Burial will follow in Oakdale Cemetery in Spring Hope.
FUQUAY-VARINA - Ruby Johnson Ransdell, 98, died Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 16, at Fuquay-Varina Presbyterian Church. Entombment followed at Wake Chapel Memorial Gardens.
