By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A case alleging animal control and its staff were responsible for the death of a family pet will continue.
However, a claim seeking more than $40,000 was dismissed.
Attorneys for Jessica Ruiz filed a lawsuit on March 21, claiming that Animal Control Director Graham Stallings, officers and staff failed to follow procedures and protocols that led to the death of the family’s five-month-old labrador-pit bull mix named Rocky.
A Lake Royale man is slated to appear in court next month on charges that he shot his girlfriend in the head.
Jessica Ashworth, 24, was treated for her injuries and released from Pitt Memorial Hospital.
Gary Edwards Robinson Jr., 21, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
Last Saturday, Nov. 5, the Franklin County Animal Shelter and the County Animal Advisory Board jointly sponsored a shelter adopt-a-thon.
The $25 adoption fee was waived for the day and a dozen dogs and cats found new homes.
Call for Artists!
The Franklin County Arts Council is seeking artists of all mediums for our upcoming juried exhibition opening Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 and closing Jan. 2, 2012.
Artists are asked to email images for up to three works to FCACGallery$@gmail.com for review.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLINTON -- Franklinton’s boys soccer season came to a close last Saturday, but all was not lost for the Red Rams.
After being unable to obtain a shot on goal in the opening half, Franklinton made some tactical shifts in the second half -- and the Red Rams were able to come up with a pair of goals.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- To long-time Louisburg College women’s basketball observers, seeing Mike Holloman watch early-season games from a perch on the training table seemed a bit odd.
After all, Holloman will go down as one of the country’s most decorated junior college coaches. His tenure at LC included one national championship and over 500 victories before he stepped down in the off-season to concentrate full-time on his duties as the school’s Athletic Director.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Just when things appeared to be the gloomiest, the Bunn Wildcats turned to a pair of season-long friends -- big plays and turnovers -- to seize control of last Friday’s first-round home matchup against North Brunswick in the Class 2-AA State Football Playoffs.
The Wildcats have been an opportunistic bunch this fall en route to earning a share of the Northern Carolina Conference championship.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- A familiar foe -- and a vastly different result -- awaited the Bunn Wildcats during their second-round home contest last Saturday in the Class 2-A Boys Soccer State Playoffs.
Bunn’s opponent was Corinth Holders -- a Northern Carolina Conference rival that took the Wildcats to the limit in a pair of matches during the regular season.
PITTSBORO -- Franklinton reached a milestone last Friday -- and advanced in the Class 2-AA State Football Playoffs in the process.
FHS’ 29-7 road conquest at Northwood was indeed one for the ages as the Red Rams became only the third team in school history to win 10 games in a season.
NASH COUNTY -- Here are last weekend’s results from Round One of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association State Football Playoffs
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLINTON -- A pair of teams very familiar with the Middle Athletic Conference football championship met Monday with yet another title at stake.
Bunn came in looking for its third crown over the past five seasons, while host Cedar Creek was the defending MAC grid champ.
RALEIGH -- Four volleyball champions were crowned last Saturday at the annual North Carolina High School Athletic Association Volleyball Finals at Reynolds Coliseum.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklinton residents chose a new town representative, ending the tenure of one of the board’s longest serving members and starting the political career of a former law man.
And Bunn residents will welcome a former member back to the board, as Linda Pippin garnered enough votes for one of the two available seats as in incumbent fell.
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November 8, 2011
Franklinton residents chose a new town representative, ending the tenure of one of the board’s longest serving members and starting the political career of a former law man.
And Bunn residents will welcome a former member back to the board, as Linda Pippin garnered enough votes for one of the two available seats as in incumbent fell.
By:
Chris Harris, Special to The Times
Agriculture plays a very important part of our lives and most of us don’t even realize it.
From all of the food we eat, to the clothes we wear, the materials that make household objects, everything is directly related to agriculture.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — Police continue to look for a suspected bank robber.
According to investigators, a woman wearing a red toboggan, black jumpsuit and dark shades walked into the Suntrust Bank on S. College Street at 2:20 p.m. on Thursday.
The suspect, according to Police Chief Daren Kirts, handed a teller a note demanding money and intimated that she had a gun.
The last chance to cast an early ballot runs out at 1 p.m. on Saturday, giving way for the general election to begin in earnest on Tuesday morning.
Voters in Bunn, Youngsville, Louisburg and Franklinton will cast ballots in towns with contested races.
There will be no competition in Centerville as the mayor’s seat, held by Margaret Nelms, and all of the commission seats, held by Henry Nelms, Rex Foster and Amy Denton, are up for grabs.
Lacie Steffensen prepares one of the 500 plates that the Franklin County Cattlemen’s Association was hoping to sell during a fundraising campaign on Friday. Association president Traci Nachtrab, background, gets excited about the prospect of raising money, which will go toward scholarships, including the Senator James Speed Endowment.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A consultant who took part in a clandestine meeting with Democratic party officials to discuss redistricting maps has been reprimanded.
The fact that the meeting took place at all, though, still has the county’s Republican party rankled.
Attorneys with Mel Black and Associates, the Raleigh firm the county hired to develop new district maps, said this week that Kevin LeCount’s actions were not appropriate.
The contentious redistricting issue at the state level cleared one hurdle this week.
But opponents of the plan continue to throw up roadblocks.
According to reports, the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday decided that they would not oppose the newly drawn maps.
By:
PATRICK O’NEILL, Special to The Times
RALEIGH — About three decades ago, Debra Scott saw an ad in a magazine for a kit to make a simple cross-stitch pattern of a bear. The kit cost a buck. She ordered it and so began a career in stitching that has garnered Scott at least 14 ribbons and three major awards at the North Carolina State Fair.
This year, Scott, who turned 50 on Oct. 25, picked up another blue ribbon for a small cross-stitch that took her about a month to complete.
White Level’s Savannah Neal
The Red Clay Ramblers will appear at the Seby B. Jones Performing Arts Center on the Louisburg College campus at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11.
Now in their 40th year, the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers are a North Carolina string band whose repertoire reflects their roots in old-time mountain music, as well as bluegrass, country, rock, New Orleans jazz, gospel, and the American musical.
Franklin County was well represented this year at the NC State Fair in Raleigh.
4-H’ers from Franklin County entered the 4-H hay bale decorating contest, entered homemade crafts, chickens, rabbits, and exhibited their cattle, sheep, and goats!
There were 36 4-H’ers who exhibited animals throughout the 12-day event. Youth ranged in age from 5-18 and brought home approximately 200 ribbons for their livestock shows.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
After meeting for more than eight hours, Franklinton and Franklin County did not resolve their ongoing water dispute.
But they haven’t given up, either.
The two sides met in a joint session to take part in a court-ordered mediation on Thursday at the Franklin County Courthouse.
