RALEIGH -- The 2012 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame honorees chronicled sports; played high school, college and professional football; played and coached basketball in college and in the pros; coached and played baseball and basketball in college; officiated college football; water-skied; played basketball for a NCAA championship team and coached high school football.
RALEIGH -- The Raleigh Hot Stove League will stage its 62nd annual banquet January 24 at the McKimmon Center on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh.
A silent auction will begin at 5:15 p.m. with the banquet to follow at 6 p.m.
Former major league outfielder Doug Glanville will be the headline speaker.
Bunn’s Aaron Davis (with ball) is challenged by Nash Central’s Jalen Hendricks during Wednesday night’s non-conference boys basketball contest.
(L to R) Franklinton sophomore Charity Snelling tries to drive against Bunn’s Tainasha Vines during Wednesday’s Northern Carolina Conference girls basketball game at the Bunn Dome.
FRANKLINTON—Murtha Richardson Young, 97, died Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011 at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh. Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 30, at Hawkins Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Franklinton, with the Rev. W. S. Taylor officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Youngsville man accused of trying to set his girlfriend on fire is slated to appear in court during the next superior court case management session.
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested Gary Normand on March 5, shortly after they allege he assaulted and tried to kill his girlfriend, Chloe Reynolds.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Louisburg woman’s death apparently led to a small fire on Christmas day.
According to Louisburg Fire Chief Timmy Smith, Vivian Toney, 44, was cooking Christmas dinner late in the evening on Dec. 24 when she apparently fell ill.
According to Smith, it appeared that Toney had retired to her room while cooking and had a heart attack.
Contractors have been working on the Sheetz convenience store location since the fall and its starting to look like a gas station, with the covers for the gasoline pumps erected.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Police are using interviews and surveillance footage to piece together a convenience store altercation that sent a man to the hospital.
Proprietors of the Snackers convenience store downtown called police just after 9 p.m. on New Year’s Eve when as many as four people got involved in fisticuffs.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Franklinton man accused of helping a convicted murderer flee to Virginia is slated to appear in court during the next superior court session.
Police arrested Rashawn Arrington on Sept. 21, 2010 — a day after investigators allege he shot and killed Jesse Montague Jr.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A former Franklinton High School teacher is slated to appear in court this month on charges of assaulting a student.
The mother of a 17-year-old student took out warrants against AJ Piper on Oct. 11, alleging that Piper grabbed her son and pushed and shoved him against a wall.
Bunn resident LaKai Saunders, 7 years
LOUISBURG – Earl Horace Hartsell Jr., 84, died Thursday night, Dec. 29, 2011. There will be no service.
NASHVILLE - Carl Braxton Creekmore, 84, died Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. Funeral service was Saturday, Dec. 31, at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Nashville, with the Rev. Paul Arnold and the Rev. Roy Parker officiating. Burial was in Forest Hill Cemetery.
LOUISBURG – Ellis Wester Young, 81, of Louisburg, passed away Sunday morning.
CASTALIA - Carl Wilson Rice, 93, left his earthly life Tuesday, January 3, 2012. He resided in Justice, NC all of his life, until recent months where he resided at Franklin Oaks of Louisburg. He was born July 29, 1918 in Franklin County.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Welcome to 2012!
Hopefully, it will be a huge improvement over 2011, even though we’ll have Presidential election campaigns to endure for most of the year — and post-voting analysis of them for the final two months or so.
All that brings up a critical point that can be raised now that the Iowa fiasco is over.
Why do any of us pay any attention whatsoever to what is going on in Iowa?
GOOD MORNING and Happy New Year! While I can’t say we rang in the New Year Saturday night, we certainly said goodbye to 2011 in grand fashion.
Daughter Julie and Rodney White, along with grandson Ryan White, hosted a big family get-together at their home on Bethlehem Church Road down in the southern tip of Franklin County Saturday evening that drew quite a bunch of us.
Someone brought it to my attention that Santa Claus had already brought me a lump of coal.
If you don’t remember, I wrote in a Christmas column that I wanted the jolly fat man to bring me fewer closed sessions in this new year.
So, 2012 still has that new car smell — it was only three days old at the time — and the Franklin County Board of Commissioners had already planned to meet in closed session to discuss a personnel matter.
Will Franklin County’s economic fortunes begin to look better in 2012, with more industry and jobs?
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies recovered some of the service gear reported stolen from a Louisburg officer’s home.
According to a report by Dep. W.J. Wiggins, a woman who was keeping an eye on Louisburg Officer Travis Lincoln’s home reported a break-in back in May while he was away.
The Franklin County Farm Service Agency Office would like to announce the 2011 Franklin County Committee Election results for LAA 1, which includes the townships of: Hayesville, Franklinton, and Louisburg. We would like to congratulate Edward Wheeler as the elected member of the Franklin County FSA Committee and Henrietta Renn as the elected first alternate.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- The second half of the 2011-12 Franklin County prep basketball season started with a bang Tuesday -- and with a game destined to have long-term implications in the Northern Carolina Conference standings.
That’s when undefeated Franklinton traveled to Bunn for its biggest test of the campaign to date.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
DURHAM -- Over the holidays, Bunn boys basketball coach Gerald Melton discovered that a pair of long-time friends weren’t necessarily in the giving mood.
Not when standings supremacy was at stake at the Spartan Christmas Challenge, which was held last Wednesday through Friday at Southern Durham High School.
