Henry and Brenda Allen of Louisburg were reunited in holy matrimony on Saturday, May 14, at 3 p.m. at Allen Chapel Baptist Church. Pastor MacArthur Debnam of St. Stephens Church officiated. The ceremony was given by their children in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary.
50th Wedding Anniversary. Evelyn and Sylvester “Sonny” Robbins celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on April 2 with a reception at Flat Rock Baptist Church, Louisburg.
LOUISBURG - Walter James Mann, 73, died Saturday, May 28, 2011. Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 31, at First Baptist Church, Raleigh. Interment, Cypress Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
RALEIGH - Dorothy Moody Jackson, 82, died Saturday, May 28, 2011. Graveside services were held Tuesday, May 31, at Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh, with the Rev. Donnie Thomas Barbour officiating.
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Martha Mobley, Franklin County Cooperative Extension Agent
Several years ago, I received a phone call from a Cooperative Extension administrator at NC State University.
He told me explicitly to “pack your bags, I am sending you to Texas to learn all you can about the Texas Cooperative Extension’s ‘Goat & Sheep Producers Gathering,’” which was a two-day educational program packed with everything you ever wanted to learn about producing and marketing goats and sheep.
HENDERSON -- Franklin County resident Tyler Bolton has received the top baseball award this season in the Eastern Plains Independent Conference.
Bolton, a senior infielder/pitcher at Kerr-Vance Academy, has been selected as the EPIC Player of the Year after helping the Spartans reach the finals of the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association State Championship.
DURHAM -- The 15-Under Bulldogs from Franklin County recently won the Memorial Weekend Basketball Tournament of Champions, which was hosted by Mt. Zion Christian Academy.
In the championship game, the Bulldogs were 61-60 winners against the South Carolina Royals.
Trailing most of the contest, the Bulldogs rallied and pulled to within four points with 1:07 remaining in the final quarter.
GREENVILLE -- The East Carolina University baseball team will make its 25th NCAA Regional appearance and 11th in the last 13 years after earning a No. 2 seed at the Charlottesville Regional in this year’s NCAA Baseball Championships, which will be held at Davenport Field on the campus of the University of Virginia.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. -- Pedro Villarreal and two Carolina relievers collaborated on a five-hit shutout victory over the Jacksonville Suns, leading the Mudcats to an 8-0 win at the Baseball Grounds on Monday in a Class AA Southern League baseball contest.
Carolina (16-35) won its third straight for the first time this season, as Villarreal (W, 1-0) tossed six scoreless innings on just five hits in his Double-A debut.
The Tri-County Thunder 11-Under Baseball Team recently claimed the Eastern AAU Spring Super Regional Tournament in Oxford. The club boasts players from Franklin, Vance and Granville Counties and has won three of its four tourneys so far this season.
Members of the Bulldogs’ 15-Under Basketball Team are (back, l to r) Coach Jason Perry, Jacquez Bullock (Southern Vance), Nick Johnson (Bunn), Aaron Davis (Bunn), Xavier ‘Johnte’ McCoy (James Kenan) and Coach Stanley Davis; (front, l to r) Amyl Smith (Louisburg), Malik Finley (Bunn), K.J. Finley (Bunn), Jermaine Mithcell (Wake Forest-Rolesville) and Tavon Perry (Bunn).
BOYS AWARD WINNERS AT FHS. Among the boys recipients at last Wednesday evening’s Franklinton High School Athletic Awards Ceremony were (back, l to r) Aaron Cooke, Davey Marshall, Daquan Neal, Vinnie Joostema and Harrison Vaughn; (front, l to r) Joel DeCillis, Kevin Martin, Garrett Freese, Devin Hoffman and Malik Crudup.
Kim Smiley was honored with the Scholar-Athlete Award during last Wednesday evening’s Franklinton High School Athletic Awards Ceremony.
What I like about family events in nearby counties and around Franklin County is the combination of so many interesting things to view and enjoy with the family.
One such event, hosted by The Person Place Preservation Society, was the Franklin County Historic Homes Tour which took place May 14 and 15. There was so much to see, so much to enjoy, and so much to be proud of. At the tour, people could enjoy visiting some 12 homes and places that were featured.
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CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A toddler that was rushed to the hospital after being found in a neighbor’s pool is fine, but her mother could be facing trouble.
According to Franklinton Police Chief John Green Jr. and a report by Officer Terry Pearce, authorities were called in after some children found a nearly two-year-old girl floating on her back in a swimming pool in the 200 block of Cooke Street the evening of May 23.
Louisburg police had to divert traffic around S. Main Street after a gas leak was reported Wednesday morning. According to town Public Utilities Director Ray Patterson, residents at 606 S. Main Street were moving out when they decided to take a gas heater with them. They unscrewed the connection, but gas was apparently still coming from the tank when they left. Neighbors noticed the smell and called authorities.
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CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
During a hearing on Wednesday, a judge refused to reduce the bond for a Bunn area man charged with drug trafficking.
Members of the county’s Multi-Agency Narcotics Unit, along with the sheriff’s office tactical unit, arrested Jerome Usher Jr. and Rodriquez Davis after executing a search warrant at 137 Johns Drive on Dec. 9.
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CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Raleigh woman was sentenced to at least five months in jail on charges that she stole from two nursing home residents.
Judge R. Allen Baddour Jr. handed down the sentence on Wednesday, three weeks after Kelli Awuonda pled guilty to two counts of larceny from a person.
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CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Town officials are presenting residents with a proposed budget that cuts employee hours and raises taxes and water rates.
The first two meetings to gauge public input, though, have not raised much interest.
Commissioners held their first formal public hearing on the budget during its May 17 meeting.
No one showed.
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CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
BUNN — Town commissioners continued to cut away at its budget this past week, hoping to avoid a tax increase or eat into its savings account.
However, a dramatic loss in ABC store revenues makes it difficult.
Without a tax increase, town staff presented commissioners with a budget that would require using $114,172 from its savings account to balance the budget.
Louisburg College trainer Mandy Ryan
The State Highway Patrol continues to look for suspects in a hit and run accident that has left a Franklin County man in the hospital — perhaps for several months.
According to a report by Trooper P.L. Clayton, William Andrews, 69, was driving a pickup truck on N.C. 98 near Bunn on May 10 when he became part of a chain-reaction wreck.
RALEIGH - Twenty-four Triangle-area students have been awarded $1,000 scholarships from Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Carolina (RMHC of NC) and local McDonald’s owner/operators for outstanding academic achievement and community involvement. The local Scholars are among 181 students from across the Carolinas who received college scholarships from RMHC of NC and local McDonald’s franchisees.
The Student Aid Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has awarded the 2011 Alston-Pleasants Scholars Fund merit scholarship for UNC undergraduate studies to Maria Guadalupe Aguilar Noyola, salutatorian of the graduating class at Louisburg High School.
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Times photos by Donna Cunard
OFF AND WALKING. Crosscreek Charter School kindergarten student Lyric Allen and kindergarten teacher Kathryn Wilson march in the Walk 4 Water effort that is part of Project H2O. They are underscoring the fact that while Americans on average use 80 to 100 gallons of water a day, the children of Kenya must walk miles for just the possibility of obtaining dirty, disease-ridden water. Worldwide, water-related diseases are the leading cause of death for children under the age of 5.
