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By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklinton and its community will be pressing ahead with its Christmas parade on Thursday, setting off a string of holiday celebrations this December.
Franklinton’s fire department has long organized the town’s Christmas parade but begged off the chore this year after a number of its members burned out.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — Town officials hope to be closer to naming its new town administrator by the end of the year.
The permanent position has been vacant since June.
That’s when commissioners fired Brenda Robbins after an investigation revealed she was aware of criminal and managerial wrongdoing by her son, former maintenance and streets department director Joseph Patterson II.
Louisburg resident Jamie Whitley
By: Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Don’t look now but with the turkey demolished, we’re on that incredibly quick “slide” toward the Christmas holiday season.
Already Black Friday — whatever that means — is over and done.
And Cyber Monday, one of those newly forged shopping days built around computers and the Internet — is fading into history even if all the items bought that day haven’t arrived just yet.
GOOD MORNING: Well, we got a bit of rain Tuesday morning, but fortunately nothing like the deluge reported west of us like what I saw on TV in Durham and the vicinity. It’s expected to clear up and cool off a bit beginning today, Wednesday.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Another day, another Herman Cain scandal.
At least that seems to be the pace, anyway.
This week, an Atlanta businesswoman came forward, alleging that she had a 13-year affair with the married man that ended right before he announced his presidential campaign.
Do you think the actions of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners and county staff, keep industry from wanting to locate in the county?
Dear Editor:
As a resident of Lake Royale, we got the shaft on the new redistricting map. And I am speaking personally and not on behalf of the Republican Party.
Dear Editor:
Surprise, Surprise!
It is amusing to watch the Louisburg Town Council feign concern about the fate of the hospital. After years of refusing to respond to the relentless elimination of doctor after doctor, specialty after specialty, and medical service after medical service (the latest of which was stereotactic breast biopsy), they now pretend to be surprised at the recent layoffs.
The Vance-Granville Community Band will perform its fourth annual Holiday Concert on Monday, Dec. 12. The program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Civic Center on the college’s main campus in Vance County. Admission is free. Children are encouraged to attend and there will a special time devoted to them.
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a stabbing suspect.
Officers were called out to the American Legion Post in Franklinton after shots were reportedly heard at the location during the early morning hours of Nov. 27.
The location, authorities said, had apparently been rented out for a party that evening.
Miles “Brennan” Davis, Jr., a junior at Franklinton High School, has attained the Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank of Eagle Scout. He earned 22 merit badges over the last five years and participated in numerous service projects as a member of Troop 303 in Wake Forest.
For his Eagle Project, Brennan organized and implemented a Safety/Emergency Preparedness Fair on Sept. 24.
FRANKLINTON —Mattie White Lindsey, 95, died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011 at Franklin Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Oak Grove Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for James McKinley Hunt, 61, who died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, at Haywood Baptist Church, with the Rev. Douglas Harris officiating. Burial will follow in the M. H. Jones cemetery.
WARRENTON—Funeral services for Ernest Wilson Harris, 74, who died Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, will be held at noon Saturday, Dec. 3, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg, with the Rev. James Harris officiating. Burial will follow in the Cemetery on the Hill.
NORFOLK, Va. - Funeral services for Willie Lee Johnson, 68, formerly of Louisburg, who died Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Allen Chapel Baptist Church, with the Rev. Sidney Dunston officiating. Burial will follow in the M. H. Jones cemetery.
KITTRELL - Funeral services for Annie Greene Cheatham, 78, who died Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Haywood Baptist Church, with the Rev. Luther Coppedge officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
ROLESVILLE - Kenneth V. Pearce, 86, died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Rolesville Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON— Sandra Ann Daley, 58, died Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011 at Duke Health Raleigh Hospital. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Wake Forest.
FRANKLINON - Willie E. Jones, 60, died Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Arrangements by Cutchins Funeral Home, Franklinton.
WENDELL - Lois Underhill Bullock, 75, died Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 at Wake Med in Raleigh. Funeral services were held Monday, Nov. 28, at Wendell Presbyterian Church. Burial was at Central Baptist Church cemetery.
ANGIER - Edna Barbour Bradley, 85, died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. A graveside service was held Sunday, Nov. 27, at Pine Forest Memorial Gardens, Wake Forest.
RALEIGH - Sarah Elizabeth “Bettie” Cheatham Vogler, 85, died at home on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. At Mrs. Vogler’s request, a private graveside service was to be held at Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh.
LOUISBURG - Ernest Earl May, 68, of Louisburg died Monday, November 28, 2011, at his home. Graveside services will be held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. at Lancaster Memorial Park with the Rev. Jimmy Carpenter officiating.
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