RALEIGH - Fred “Pogo” Stephenson, 70, died Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 at Rex Hospital. Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 3, at Hayes Barton United Methodist Church, Raleigh. Burial followed at Historic Oakwood Cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Paul Walsh, 74, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Arrangements by Joann Marotta Funeral Home, Durham.
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January 4, 2011
LOUISBURG – Sandra Rose Pearce, 67, of Louisburg, died Sunday afternoon at her home.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
CREEDMOOR -- Between them, Franklinton head coach Clarence Walker and long-time assistant George Hale couldn’t remember the last time the Red Rams won a Christmas Boys Basketball Tournament.
That skein came to an end last Friday as the Red Rams celebrated New Year’s Eve with a 49-44 victory over Cardinal Gibbons in the championship contest of the South Granville Holiday Classic.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FOUR OAKS -- Louisburg High School continues to put itself in position to win in boys basketball action.
But the Warriors simply haven’t been able to get over the hump to date, and the result has been a winless start to the season for first-year head coach -- and former LHS player -- Dontae Lassiter.
BUNN -- Bunn High School will be hosting its 2nd Annual Franklin County Baseball Clinic, which is scheduled for January 29.
The clinic will begin in the Bunn High School Gym and move outside after lunch, weather permitting.
The cost of the camp is $35 per person, which includes lunch.
Mark Vanderslice considers the next few days as ‘halftime’ for his Louisburg College men’s basketball squad.
After three weeks to exhale -- and celebrate the holidays -- the Hurricanes are back on campus, and have only a few days to prepare for what is expected to be one of their most intense games of the year.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- A journey that began with a daily, one-block walk to the local rec fields culminated in December for Sheilah Cotten -- some 3,000 miles from her humble beginnings in Fuquay-Varina.
Cotten, the long-time coach at Louisburg College who retired in 2005, was honored as the lone member of the 2010 National Junior College Athletic Association Hall of Fame class at the annual National Fast-Pitch Coaches Association meeting in San Diego, Calif.
WAKE FOREST -- Wake Electric is providing all-expenses paid scholarships for one deserving young woman to attend the Kellie Harper Basketball Camp at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and one young man to attend the Roy Williams Basketball Camp at UNC-Chapel Hill this summer.
Franklinton senior guard Kevin ‘Rock’ Williams was outstanding for the Red Rams as they won the championship at the South Granville Boys Basketball Holiday Tournament last Friday in Creedmoor.
Nikki Bell and the Franklinton Lady Rams hoped for a strong effort Tuesday night on the road against Corinth Holders in conference girls hoops action.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FOUR OAKS -- After taking one week off to celebrate over the holidays, the Louisburg Lady Warriors were destined to need some time to shake off the rust during Wednesday’s first-round action at the annual North-South Christmas Tournament at South Johnston High School.
LHS’ opponent, however, wasn’t about to give the Lady Warriors the opportunity.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Democratic Party has called a special meeting to determine who will be the county’s next Register of Deeds.
Linda Stone is planning to retire from the position before her term is up after being Register of Deeds the past 10 years and serving in the office for 30.
Wayne Champion, second from left, continues to coordinate the Coats for Christmas effort, collecting about 300 coats to give to those in need this holiday season. The coats are collected at a number of places around the county, including libraries and businesses and Chinh Nguyen, right, with Village Cleaners, cleans the coats at no cost.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County’s Parks and Recreation staff anticipate bringing a park proposal to commissioners early next year.
When Louisburg resident Edgar Owens died last January, he left in his will money for a county park.
Owens’ estate stood at about $1 million and about 80 percent of that was designated for a county park.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners approved a new assistant manager position in the current budget, but financial considerations will determine if that post is filled before the end of the fiscal year.
The position, which Harris previously filled, was eliminated in 2003 — with Harris still in it.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
In today’s volatile economic times, county staff have already begun behind-the-scenes work for the upcoming budget year.
By February, they anticipate bringing commissioners into retreats and work sessions to hammer out a 2011-12 budget in demanding economic times.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County residents are dealing with more and more wily coyotes.
And there’s nothing funny about it.
The hardy predators have been carving out a territory in Franklin County for some time now and residents say they’ve seen and heard more coyotes than any other time in recent memory.
Louisburg resident Noel Mueller
Since Nov. 3, 1980, the organization called Franklin County Retired School Personnel (FCRSP) has been working together for progress.
I have never seen so many folks with so much talent and creativity giving their time to do so many hours of volunteer work. They are just amazing, using as many as 1,000 hours of voluntary work a year to help the community and churches in the area.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Decades after Americans first got behind the wheel of their trusty motorcars, we ought not to be writing editorials like this one.
You might think that common sense would make such opinion pieces obsolete, but you’d be wrong.
Besides, whoever said common sense was common, anyway?
So, here goes:
Recently, while researching something else entirely, I came across a piece I wrote a decade ago — actually, Dec. 16, 2000.
It is as pertinent — perhaps even more pertinent — today as it was 10 years ago.
And, of course, it was ignored by the powers that be then as it will be now.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! And that greeting goes double if advance weather forecasts for the first day of the new year calling for a daytime high of 63 degrees followed by an overnight low of 50 pan out, even if it does rain a little bit.
We’ve already experienced as much or more ice and snow than normal for an entire winter season and winter has only just begun, officially at any rate. I’m ready for Spring already, although we may have a long wait in store for us before that comes about.
RALEIGH – If you seek to measure the cost of a government, its budget is a good place to start. But your search won’t end there. Only some of the costs imposed by government in any given year show up in its operating budget.
When North Carolina policymakers and journalists say “the state budget,” for example, they typically mean only the General Fund – the programs funded mostly by income and sales taxes, while leaving out federal funds, highway funds, other fees and charges, and accrued liabilities.
