FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Listed are scores from Week Five of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Football Season:
RALEIGH -- After a crazy day, a huge reward finally arrived for the Louisburg College football team.
Early last Saturday, LC wasn’t even sure if its home game against Northeast Conference foe Lackawanna College would be played.
The contest was slated for Franklinton High School, but LC officials were informed that the field at FHS was unavailable due to recent heavy rains.
GREENEVILLE, TENN. -- Catawba College posted its first win of the season, defeating host Tusculum 23-21 in South Atlantic Conference football action last Saturday afternoon at Pioneer Field in the Volunteer State.
Former Louisburg High School standout Lakeem Perry had a big day for the Indians with one interception, one fumble recovery, one sack and nine total tackles.
ROCKVILLE, MD. -- Things didn’t go as planned for the Louisburg College Lady Hurricanes during their road soccer matchup last Saturday against non-conference foe Montgomery-Rockville in the Maryland portion of suburban D.C.
After playing a scoreless first half, the Lady Hurricanes gave up a quartet of unanswered goals of the closing 45 minutes of action and were defeated by a 4-0 margin.
Clifton’s Bail Bonds won the 2011 Franklin County Parks and Recreation Adult Co-Ed Softball League Summer Tournament Championship.
Louisburg College’s Ian O’Brien (right) sends a header for the Hurricanes during their home soccer matchup on Saturday afternoon against Mercer Community College from New Jersey.
Roanoke Rapids’ A.J. Alston tries to avoid several Bunn defenders during last Saturday’s football game.
Franklinton’s Tank Yarbrough (with ball) picks up yardage for the Red Rams during their road victory Monday night at Northern Carolina Conference rival Louisburg. With the win, FHS is now a strong 6-0 to start the campaign.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- The season is only six weeks old, but the Franklinton Red Rams have already clinched a winning record for the 2011 campaign.
Franklinton, however, is seeking much loftier goals following an undefeated start that continued Monday with an impressive road conquest at Northern Carolina Conference foe Louisburg.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- There’s been a huge turnover at the top of the football standings in the always-competitive Northern Carolina Conference.
Four of them, as a matter of fact.
Taking advantage of a quartet of miscues from defending champion Roanoke Rapids, the opportunistic Bunn Wildcats put together a dominant second half and went on to top the Yellow Jackets by a 35-14 margin in a key NCC matchup on Saturday at the BHS Football Field.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Nobody has been immune to the upset bug this season in the Northern Carolina Conference volleyball standings -- and that includes long-time league titan Bunn.
Tuesday afternoon, the Ladycats traveled to Corinth Holders, an upstart second-year program in Johnston County that displays plenty of promise for the future.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners are scheduled to meet Monday afternoon, moving closer to appointing the next sheriff.
Chief Deputy Elliott Pinnell tendered his resignation as interim sheriff, effective on Oct. 9.
The next day, he will begin work with the Duke University Police Department.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Fitted with vests, tactical masks and Glocks, officers scoured Franklinton High School looking for a shooter.
In crouched positions, they walked hallways and scanned classrooms, looking for their target.
And when they did, it was, essentially, shoot or be shot.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
If you had too many cups of Middle Eastern coffee, you might develop a case of the jitters.
Fortunately for a team of spellers from Louisburg Elementary School, they didn’t have any jitters because they knew how to spell the name of the cup that the Arabic coffee usually comes in — a demitasse.
That knowledge propelled them to a victory in the United Way of Franklin County’s Spelling Bee — one of the kick-off events for the organization’s campaign season.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — A resident said police need to boost patrols to fortify safety in the community.
Michael Hurt made those comments during the public hearing section of a town commissioner’s meeting on Tuesday.
Hurt said the community has been shaken by shootings and believes more police visibility would help.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Water plant supervisor Frank Efird gave the town his last update on Tuesday.
Efird, who took over the town’s water plant in October 2009, has tendered his resignation.
His last day will be Sept. 30.
“I’ve enjoyed my time here,” Efird said after the meeting, noting that he had the opportunity to work with dedicated employees, including former supervisor Richard Hinkle.
Bunn resident Brian Perry
Parents will soon have a local option for pediatric care in Louisburg.
Dr. Cornelius Cathcart has announced that his practice will be opening a local office, hopefully in mid-October.
Dr. Cathcart currently has offices in Henderson, Oxford and Butner and, as a result, his name is a familiar one to many parents who have had to travel to take their children for pediatric medical care.
Johnny C. King Jr. was honored by being awarded the Pilgrim degree, the highest degree in the Moose organization, by the Louisburg Moose Lodge on Saturday. It’s estimated that only one in 5,000 members of the Moose earn this honor — and King is the second from the local lodge to win the coveted gold-colored jacket that goes with the award. (The first went to the late Tom House.)
A group of teams showed up Thursday night to take part in the United Way of Franklin County’s Spelling Bee inside the Franklinton High School cafeteria.
From left to right, Martha Eskridge, William Harris, Mary Allen, holding the Spelling Bee “Bee Trophy”; Judy Stover, Max Kilpatrick and Lisa Micco made up the winning Louisburg Elementary School team. Stover, the school’s assistant principal, said teamwork and camaraderie were the keys to the team’s victory.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
As painful as it is to suggest, now is the time for Franklin County to hire a consultant.
What the commissioners need is an expert — with no ties to Franklin County — to help figure out the best way to handle the increasingly tangled mess at the Sheriff’s Department.
Nothing less than the safety of the county demands that the commissioners stop all these secret — and essentially pointless — meetings and forge a solution to a long-standing problem.
Almost fell out of my chair the first time that I heard about a new, local project that is not seeking grant money.
What? No grant money? Can someone actually do something without grant money?
Apparently they can because they are well underway.
GOOD MORNING: Fall has fallen. It fell at precisely 12:01 a.m. yesterday (Friday) morning, although it apparently didn’t make any noise when it hit. If it did, I didn’t hear it. On top of that, it’s not like it was unexpected, as temperatures locally have been mostly on the mild side in recent days.
