By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Every day was sunny this fall with the Louisburg College men’s soccer program -- thanks to sophomore midfielder Jagdeep ‘Sunny’ Makh.
Makh, who hails from England, transferred to LC to be reunited with Stuart Brown, who had coached Makh at Belmont-Abbey College before taking over at Louisburg.
GRIDIRON CONTRIBUTOR. Steve Chromy (center) accepts a plaque on behalf of Poplar Springs Baptist Church for its contributions last fall to the Bunn High School football program. The ceremony took place last Thursday at the Bunn Dome at halftime of the Wildcats’ home boys basketball game against Nash Central. Organizations were honored for helping fund pre-game meals and other needs for BHS football.
Bunn High School’s William Hall (right) picks up Kerr-Vance wrestler Connor Wade on his way to a pin as part of Monday’s tri-match mat event in Henderson.
NASH COUNTY -- Here is the schedule for the 2011-12 College Football Bowl Season:
RALEIGH -- North Carolina State University baseball coach Elliott Avent has announced the signing of 15 players to national letters of intent during the November 2011 signing period.
Avent is a Nash County native who grew up in Aventon and graduated from Northern Nash High School.
Avent later went on to serve as an assistant coach at Louisburg College under the legendary Russ Frazier.
By:
Meg Wyatt, Franklin County Cooperative Extension Agent
Boy am I still stuffed and Thanksgiving was a week ago!
Now that Thanksgiving is in our rear view mirror, we are pressing onto another holiday, Christmas!
Christmas is a wonderful time of year if you can ignore the anger and frustration of shopping, putting up trees and especially the lights, or cooking for 500 parties and family members.
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Times photos by Carey Johnson
SHOW STOPPERS. The Helping Hand Mission Band was definitely a crowd favorite as plenty along the parade route followed the Raleigh crew, listening to the band’s inspired music and popular dance steps.
A total of 27 youth from Granville, Franklin, Vance, and Warren counties participated in the 2011 Area 4-H Pullet Show and Sale at the Lion’s Den in Warrenton recently. The 13 youth from Franklin County did an excellent job preparing for the show and participating in the event and “made their families and 4-H Agent very proud!” said 4-H agent Meg Wyatt.
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Times photos by Carey Johnson
FLOATING ALONG. Above, Christmas parade revelers ride along on a float entered by engineers Davis, Martin & Powell and local business C-Tron Inc. during Franklinton’s Christmas parade on Thursday night.
A ceremony Saturday in Louisburg will pay tribute to the memory of a fallen U.S. Marine, a man described as a “farm boy that answered a moral compass that called him to serve his country.”
Staff Sgt. Bobby Jack Ruddle was a member of a rifle platoon that came under enemy fire in 1953.
At the time of his combat death, Staff Sgt. Ruddle was a married man and the couple was expecting their first child, a daughter he did not live to see.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The county’s airport director is at the center of a crash investigation being probed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
According to Franklin County Sheriff’s Capt. E.H. Smith, Triangle North Executive Airport Director Steve Merritt was flying a plane just before 11 a.m. on Nov. 20 when the craft went down in a wooded area of a subdivision about 300 yards to the right of the airport.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Prosecutors handed over more than 2,000 documents and photos, providing defense attorneys with their first look at the foundation for the Attorney General’s office case against former sheriff Pat Green.
The information was turned over as part of the routine pre-trial discovery phase where attorneys can get a hold of pictures, forensic evidence or any other raw evidence to build a defense.
Parade watchers braved the cold to get a glimpse of Santa Claus, the star of any Christmas parade. But to make sure he was still beloved, the man in red threw out plenty of candy for those who lined a downtown street for the parade.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The case against a former Youngsville department head was continued in court this week as defense attorneys wait on evidence from the town.
Town officials fired Joseph Patterson II as its streets and maintenance director in June after investigators allege he was guilty of criminal and managerial wrongdoing.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners is expected to get an update on one business and take action in their ongoing efforts to attract more industry.
And they’ll probably do so under different leadership.
The first order of business on Monday night’s agenda is to elect new officers.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Organizers of the resurgent Special Olympics program are looking for a home run this coming spring.
After former Parks and Recreation Director Robert Yeatman was named as a Special Olympics coordinator back in 2007, the games returned to Franklin County in 2008 after a seven-year absence.
In that time, differently-abled athletes have competed in running and track and field events, testing their mettle in individual contests against youngsters, locally, regionally and across the state.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
With about as many performances as days remaining in the calendar year, to save their voices, the Victorian Carolers usually don’t rehearse much during December.
But when an engagement at the White House is looming, the group can make an exception.
The Louisburg-based group held a rehearsal on Thursday night before getting ready to depart to Washington, D.C., where they will perform for visitors and others at one of the most famous addresses in the world — 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
MacKenzie Lassiter, 6 months old
Louisburg College will host a special dedication of “Windows for Education” on Saturday, Dec. 3, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. in Benson Chapel, located on the College’s campus at 501 N. Main Street, Louisburg.
The project, sponsored in large part by the United Methodist Men of Cary and First United Methodist Church of Cary, focused on three historic campus buildings: Main (1857), Davis (1913), and Franklin (1927).
Police arrested two Louisburg High School students charged with fighting.
School Resource Officer Sgt. Joe Sherrill arrested Tryquanta Stokes, 17, and Tyrone Reyolds, 16, the morning of Nov. 28.
According to the report, the two were involved in a fight on school grounds.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Last Saturday, we suggested that the political redistricting of Franklin County smelled like a dead fish.
That wasn’t the best analogy. A better one might have been a rotting onion, because as you pull off each layer, what’s underneath is worse.
The entire process raises questions about a redistricting plan that seems to have been deeply mired in misrepresentation, mistakes, misinformation and confusion.
GOOD MORNING: It’s December already, the Christmas countdown is underway, and this coming Wednesday, Dec. 7, will mark the 70th anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged our nation and eventually me too into WWII.
The first day of winter is less than three weeks away, although we got a pretty good idea of what that’s going to feel like this past Wednesday.
The holiday season is usually a time when strange things happen but this year is taking the cake.
In case you’ve been napping, here are a few of this week’s highlights ... or low lights, depending on your sense of humor:
A murder suspect is suing his alleged victim’s father for talking bad about him.
RALEIGH – Although fans, foes, and disinterested observers may differ about the causes, I suspect they would all agree that Beverly Perdue has had a rough first term as governor of North Carolina.
Unfortunately for her, the events of the past few days have only made things worse.
