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Franklin County Clerk of Court Alice Faye Hunter, center, swears in Brandi Davis, left, as the new register of deeds as her husband, District Court Judge John Davis, holds the Bible. Commissioners accepted the Democratic Party’s executive committee recommendation during a meeting on Tuesday night. Davis began her duties on Wednesday. Davis takes over the post from Linda Stone, who retired with about a year and a half left on the term, which expires in 2012.
FRANKLINTON — Town officials are looking for residents who are interested in helping the town balance its budget.
It’s part of an effort to better include the public in budget discussions.
That breakdown was first brought to light late last year when residents appeared at a board meeting to protest an increase in utility bills.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Youngsville commissioners are hosting a planning session that they hope will draw residents and new ideas.
Commissioner Cat Redd came up with the proposal in January, giving residents, town staff and officials a forum to discuss issues facing the town, as well as figuring out solutions.
The result was a planning session scheduled for Tuesday night.
Do you have pesticides at your home or farm that you no longer need or use?
If your answer is ‘yes’, then you’ll be interested in the Franklin County Pesticide Collection Day on Thursday, March 10.
The collection will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Franklin County Farmers Market in Louisburg.
Bunn softball legends Melanie Davis, Mike Lovin
Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Louisburg area man on gun and drug charges.
Raymond Earl Neal, 23, of 170 Grandview Drive, was charged with possession of a weapon of mass destruction, possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana.
By: Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
We’ve said this before but it’s time to say it again.
North Carolina legislators must not balance the state budget on the backs of the state’s youngest, most vulnerable residents.
Yet, from what we’re hearing from Raleigh, that’s part of the proposed solution to years of uncontrolled, minimally regulated state spending — spending that often was followed by an almost complete lack of accountability.
Twenty years!
About 10 a.m. Tuesday, marked 20 years to the day after I hitched my little wagon to The Franklin Times on March 1, 1991, and began an amazing journey that, fortunately for me, hasn’t yet ended.
That morning so long ago, the papers were signed in the conference room of the old First Citizens Bank at the corner of Nash and Bickett, the 1970s-era gem that was demolished to make way for what is there now.
GOOD MORNING: The outlook for today (Saturday) is for partly cloudy weather with highs in the mid to upper 60’s, turning a tad cooler on Sunday with something like an 80 percent chance of rain. We need it.
NOT BUYING IT: If it turns out that former sheriff Pat Green’s story that he spent upwards of $90,000 to help the feds break up a huge narcotics ring involving a county commissioner and two senators as he claims is true, a lot of us, me included, are going to wind up with egg on our faces.
Dear Editor:
I thoroughly enjoyed campaigning for appointment as register of deeds.
This was the ideal campaign — four days from start to finish.
Dear Editor:
Four months later?
Four months after the election, and Mrs. Ellmers finally makes an in-district appearance where she promptly demonstrates how out of touch she is with middle class families and how confused she is about the budget process. Mrs. Ellmers, if the president’s budget is passed, or any budget for that matter, there would not be a government shutdown as you have stated.
The U.S. 401 Citizens Action Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 10, at the Louisburg Training Center on Johnson Street.
Committee member Gary Faulkner is to update the group on the latest Department of Transportation plans and schedules for the various sections of the highway from the Neuse River in Wake County to Louisburg.
BUNN – James Thomas “J.T.” Finch, Jr., 85, of Bunn, died Thursday morning, March 3, 2011. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. today (Saturday, March 5) in the chapel of Strickland Funeral Home, with the Rev. Melton Tyson and the Rev. Tom Brown officiating. Burial will follow in Lancaster Memorial Park.
BUNN - Lillian C. Heggins, 85, died Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6, at Gethsemane Baptist Church, Bunn, with Elder Jimmy Stallings officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 3-7 p.m. today (Saturday, March 5) at William Toney’s Funeral Home, Spring Hope.
NASHVILLE - Funeral services for Emma L. Earl, 90, who died Wednesday, March 2, 2011, will be held at 1:15 p.m. Sunday, March 6, at Union Hill Baptist Church, with the Rev. John Neal officiating. Burial will follow in the St. John Church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Lester Marlon Hales, 69, died Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Funeral services were held Friday, March 4, at Hephzibah Baptist Church, Wendell. Entombment was in Gethsemane Memorial Gardens, Zebulon.
RALEIGH - Kathleen (Betty) Bond Gargis, 83, died Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 2, in the Wynne Center at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, St. Mary’s Street.
WENDELL - Bonnie Strickland Finch, 62, died Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 at Rex Healthcare. Funeral service was Thursday, March 3, at L. Harold Poole Funeral Service Chapel, Knightdale, with the Rev. Aaron Wallace and the Rev. Bobby Richardson officiating.
RALEIGH - Helen Elizabeth Wright, 80, died Tuesday, March 1, 2011. A Funeral Mass will be said at 12:30 p.m. today (Saturday, March 5) at the Catholic Community of St. Francis of Assisi, 11401 Leesville Road, Raleigh. Entombment will follow at Raleigh Memorial Park Mausoleum.
WAKE FOREST - Robert Newell McGhee, 78, died Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at the Carolina House in Wake Forest. Funeral services were held Friday, March 4, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home, with the Rev. Tom Lamm officiating. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery in Franklinton.
LOUISBURG – Willard Ernest Rowe, 87, went to be with his Savior and Lord Wednesday morning. He was the only surviving child of 11 brothers and sisters. He was born to William Ernest and Mary Elizabeth Nelms Rowe on May 17, 1923. He was born again on April 12, 1952. He married Daisy Brantley, the “jewel” of his life, on October 6, 1944.
The board of directors of the Franklin County Community Foundation is accepting grant requests for community projects funded from its community fund, according to Bob Powell, grants committee chairman.
Funds are available for nonprofit organizations that serve Franklin County. Priority will be given to programs that target the needs brought on by the ongoing economic downturn.
Army Reserve Pvt. Darrell E. George has graduated from One Station Unit Training (OSUT) at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo., which included basic military training and advanced individual training (AIT).
During basic military training, George received instruction in drill and ceremony, weapons qualification, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army doctrine, history, principles and traditions.
As the planning continues for the 38th International Whistlers Convention on April 6-10, an additional event is scheduled for artists in Franklin County.
On Friday, April 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, April 9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Art Show will be displayed in the lobby of the Jones Performing Arts Center on the Louisburg College campus.
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