By:
In Our Opinion DONALD J. HALL JR., Guest Editorial
To ensure its future, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) must do more than seek short-term fixes to its long-term financial problems. Year after year, the USPS continues to raise postal rates to cover its growing expenses without adequately addressing its significant underlying organizational and operational issues.
Instead, it is offering to cut service by eliminating Saturday mail delivery.
We all love a bargain!
But the latest extreme couponing craze is affecting more than consumers’ pocketbooks. Some of the couponers are outright stealing area newspapers to multiply their savings at the check out.
Daily newspapers are getting hit hard. Recently, if you want to purchase a Sunday edition, you often have to go inside the store and ask for it due to the high theft from newsstands and counter sales.
GOOD MORNING: Burrrrrr! It appears to me that fall has indeed fallen. The outdoor thermometer in my front yard was reading 52.5 degrees at 6:22 Friday morning for quite possibly what might have been the high for the day ‘cause later, when I left the house shortly before 8, it was reading 51.3.
All of that aside, however, we’re looking for a bit of rain today, Saturday, with highs in the low to mid 50’s, possibly dropping into the mid 30’s by Sunday morning.
Simple solutions, plain speaking and common sense are usually the best approach. The advice “when in doubt, don’t” fits into those parameters and a good course to follow when considering the extraction of large natural gas deposits.
The De Hart Botanical Gardens, one of the tourist attractions in Franklin County, is featured in the November edition of Our State magazine. With photos of late summer flowers, the article covers some of the nearly 50 years of historic development in the 88-acre nature preserve.
In the Gardens’ beginning, it was called Greencroft Gardens by its founders, Allen de Hart and his wife, Flora.
Wayne Champion, LUTCF and master agent with Franklin County Farm Bureau Insurance, has received the NAIFA Quality Award from the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA), the industry’s leading trade association.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklinton and Franklin County officials have scheduled a joint session for a court-ordered mediation.
The Nov. 3 session could provide a resolution to a 13-month water dispute between the two governments.
Before the 1:30 p.m. session begins at the Franklin County Courthouse, county commissioners are scheduled to meet in closed session to discuss strategy.
Safe Space Inc. of Franklin County sponsored a daylong law enforcement training session Oct. 25 at the Louisburg Police Training Center. The training was paid for by a grant from the N. C. Governor’s Crime Commission and attendees were given training credit from the NC Justice Academy.
Patients and family members at Franklin Regional Medical Center now have the opportunity to participate in the daily report conversation between nurses and other health care providers that traditionally took place in a secluded conference room or other “private” area, far away from the patient.
FRANKLINTON —Ben Louis Barnette, 54, died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 at Hospice at the Meadowlands in Hillsborough. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, with the Rev. Carl Hunter officiating.
ZEBULON - Tony Russell Weathers, 62, died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 at his home. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Dausey Hopkins family cemetery, Fowler Road in Zebulon.
MIDLOTHIAN, VA - Funeral services for Derek Perry, 45, who died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, in the Richardson Funeral Home chapel in Louisburg. Burial will follow in the Concord Church cemetery.
KITTRELL - James Robert Johnson, 61, died Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at Good Samaritan Baptist Church, White Oak Road, Garner. Interment will be at Maplewood Cemetery, Clayton.
LOUISBURG – Robert L. “Bobby” Ward, Jr., 68, of Louisburg, passed away Wednesday morning at his home.
Bobby was a son of the late Robert and Iredell Ward. He was preceded in death by his brother, Jimmie Ward.
Franklin County Arts Council invites you to join the festivities at our annual general meeting and end of year celebration on Nov. 17 from 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
The event will be held at the FCAC Building, 106 Justice St., Louisburg.
Winston, Williams, Creech, Evans & Company, LLP, Certified Public Accounts, of Oxford recently successfully completed a rigorous system peer review of its accounting and auditing practice. The peer review was performed by another independent CPA firm who qualified under the Peer Review Program’s requirements for service as a peer reviewer.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Survivor Region X made an appearance at Cameron Field Wednesday and, through 45 minutes, the Louisburg Lady Hurricanes were poised to be voted out of the league’s annual women’s soccer tournament.
But favored LC was able to stave off elimination, blindsiding Wake Tech with a second-half goal to defeat the Eagles by a 1-0 margin in first-round action at Cameron Field on the LC campus.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- In Coach Stuart Brown’s estimation, it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing that one of the greatest streaks in Louisburg College men’s soccer history came to a close Wednesday.
LC hadn’t given up a goal in its past nine matches -- a span that dates all the way back to Sept. 24.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Given the topsy-turvy, competitive nature of the season, it should have been expected that the final outcome of the Northern Carolina Conference boys soccer standings would come down to the last day on the schedule -- and beyond.
After all the results were sorted out, Bunn, Franklinton and Roanoke Rapids closed in a three-way tie for the No. 1 position in the always-tough league.
LOUISBURG -- The once-beaten Louisburg Hurricanes will play their final home game of the 2011 football season today when they host Northeast Conference rival Nassau Community College.
Kickoff is scheduled for noon at Patterson Field on the campus of Louisburg High School.
LC, coached by John Sala, will carry a 7-1 mark into the contest. Nassau CC is 6-2 overall.
High School Football
FRIDAY
Class 2-A State Playoffs TBA
Class 2-AA State Playoffs TBA
Louisburg College’s Carlos Reyes hurries to the ball during Wednesday’s soccer victory against Cape Fear.
Nicolas Breitenbach, pictured with his buddy and mom, Kim, is the Miracle League of Franklin County Player of the Week. Nicolas is a 6-year-old student at Youngsville Elementary. He loves bubbles and swimming. Between his Mom and Granddaddy, Paul Parenty, Nicolas gets to take in all the action during the game.
(L to R) Franklin County Miracle League Director Donna Wade and player Amanda Brame accept a check that was presented by the Walmart Distibution Center in Henderson. Amanda is the daughter of Missy Brame, who works at the center. (Photo Submitted)
Louisburg College took first place at the annual Greater Franklin County Chamber Golf Tournament, which was held Oct. 5 at Bull Creek Golf and Country Club. Team members were (l to r) John Fogg, Charles Sloan, Trent Becker and Jonathan Pearce.
