RALEIGH -- Antonio Robinson scored eight of his team-high 20 points in overtime as Louisburg College outlasted Cape Fear CC by a 75-69 margin on Monday in men’s basketball action.
The event as part of the day-long MLK Classic at the new Wake Tech CC Gymnasium, which is located South of Raleigh.
Bunn’s Antonio White (bottom) tries to get out of the tight hold of a Dinwiddie wrestler as part of last Saturday’s Firebird Duals Wrestling Tourney, which was staged at Southern Nash High School in Stanhope. Bunn will return to action this Thursday evening with a non-conference road tri-match against the Wilson Fike Golden Demons.
Louisburg College’s Latrice Phelps (left) clamps down on Spartanburg Methodist’s Gina Patton during last Friday evening’s women’s basketball contest at Holton Gymnasium.
Louisburg College women’s basketball coach Brett Vana encourages his club during last Friday’s home decision against Spartanburg Methodist.
LOUISBURG - Helda Ray Perdue, 85, died Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2012, at Louisburg Nursing Center. Graveside services will be held Saturday, Jan. 14, at 2 p.m. at Bunn Cemetery, with the Rev. Mark Cottrell officiating.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — A town officer has been placed on leave while the state Bureau of Investigation probes allegations of fraud that was apparently a family affair.
According to the state Department of Justice (DOJ), the SBI alleges Jeremy Montejano stole lottery tickets and tried to cash them during a nearly two-year-long period that began in November 2008.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Prompted by theft, the town’s governing board is looking at ways to shore up oversight in its ABC store.
And they’re getting help from the state’s Alcohol Beverage Control Commission.
ABC Commission Director Laurie Lee led a workshop about ABC rules and regulations as part of the town’s planning retreat on Wednesday.
Louisburg firefighters responded to a fire call at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Pruitt Lumber Company to find straw on fire. The straw was attached to a trailer near lumber on the site along N.C. 56, but it did not spread to the wood at the company.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Girl Scout campsite is back in play.
Edgar Owens died in January 2010 and a month later it was revealed that he had left 80 percent of his estate — about $800,000 — to the county so it could buy land for a park.
In his will, Owens requested that the county use the money to buy land for a park and name it after his parents — calling it the V.E. and Leila H. Owens Recreation Park.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — If negotiations prove fruitful, Franklinton could get out of the business of managing a water and sewer system.
During a two-day retreat this past week, Town Manager Tammy Ray presented the board with a proposal that would turn over the operation, management and maintenance of the infrastructure to Envirolink.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
Franklin County is getting a new business, the Economic Development Commission was told at its Thursday morning meeting.
Custom Dynamics, a Wake County company, is purchasing a four-acre tract and is planning to build a 15,000-square-foot building soon, according to the county’s economic developer, Ronnie Goswick.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — A company that drew the community’s ire with startling ballistics testing last Father’s Day did enough to quell their neighbors’ concerns that commissioners approved a permit on Thursday night that will let them continue to shoot high-powered rifles on-site.
County resident James Davis
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Airport board didn’t have enough members to conduct business this week, but those present said the prospect of business is looking good.
The seven-member board did not have a quorum for Tuesday’s meeting, but Airport Manager Steve Merritt did update the board about activity at Triangle North Executive Airport.
Louisburg police arrested a man accused of stealing a donation jar.
According to a report, someone at the McDonald’s restaurant on Bickett Boulevard called police the afternoon of Jan. 11 to report that a black man wearing all black grabbed a donation jar and ran out of the store.
Officer Travis Lincoln arrived on scene, spotting the man, later identified as Daniel D. Epps, 23, walking near a path on Bunn Road.
A female Terrell Lane Middle School student has received a 365-day suspension from school for her alleged involvement in a bomb scare at the school this week.
School officials said a note suggesting there was a bomb planted in the school was found in a rest room — and after a brief investigation, the girl reportedly confessed that she had written it.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
It’s slowly becoming that time of the year again — a time when our penny-pinching ways contribute to a tragic annual rite of spring.
It’s still a long time until spring flowers sprout and the trees regain their leaves, but evidence of this long-neglected problem has already made the front pages of area newspapers.
First, a pop quiz aimed especially at those who have watched their fair share of football in recent days.
If you happened to watch my beloved Steelers (who played like the zombie version of lame old men) or the snoozer of a contest where Alabama whupped up on a seemingly drugged LSU team, you were subjected to countless versions of a new TV technique.
At least I think it’s a new technique although I’m no expert on TV graphics.
GOOD MORNING: As Times reporter Carey Johnson stated in our MIDWEEK edition, it’s been almost 7 years since 29-year-old Larry Green was struck by a car at Ingleside and mistakenly declared dead, but Green apparently lives on and so do the consequences of that accident.
RALEIGH – Over the past couple of weeks, events inside and outside of North Carolina have eliminated many uncertainties about the 2012 election.
In other words, the political table has been set – by which I don’t mean to suggest that the 2012 election will resemble some kind of genteel dinner party. Perhaps a better analogy would be a tension-filled family reunion, or even a spirited food fight in a middle-school cafeteria.
Five Broadway stars are giving away the chance to join them on stage in Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway show at Louisburg College in the Seby B. Jones Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3. Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway concert features Broadway stars of Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Jekyll and Hyde, Fiddler on The Roof, Wonderful Town, Tarzan, Cats, The Woman in White and It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues singing the finest hit songs of the last 100 years of Broadway musicals.
Who does not like deer? They are beautiful, symbolic, have an artistic value as well as an economic one, as they connect directly to human economy.
The Sami of Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula of Russia and other nomadic peoples of northern Asia use reindeer for food, clothing and transport.
Freda Clifton, principal of Louisburg High School, announces the Honor Roll for the first six-weeks grading period.
To be named to the A Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 93. To be named to the AB Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 85.
The Kerr-Vance Academy Headmaster List and A/B Honor Roll for the second quarter and first semester have been announced. The following Franklin County students were included.
