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HENDERSON - Willie Sue Travis Lightell, 67, died Saturday, May 7, 2011 at her home. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today (Wednesday, May 11) at Flowers Funeral Chapel in Henderson, conducted by the Rev. Sam Brewer. Burial will follow in Island Creek Baptist Church cemetery.
RALEIGH - Samuel Pretlow Winborne III, 60, of Louisburg and formerly of Raleigh, died Tuesday, May 10, 2011. A celebration of life with his family will be held at the Historic Polk House, 537 N. Blount St., Raleigh on Saturday, May 14, from 2-5 pm.
ZEBULON - Robert Grayson Fowler, 82, died Sunday, May 8, 2011 at Rex Healthcare. Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. today (Wednesday, May 11) at Union Chapel Baptist Church, 2437 Zebulon Road, Zebulon, with Pastor Greg Lawson officiating. Burial will be in the Fowler family plot in Fairview Cemetery in Franklinton with military honors.
FRANKLINTON—Maggie M. Burt, 86, died Thursday, May 5, 2011. Arrangements by Albright Funeral Home, Apex.
YOUNGSVILLE – John Hamilton Pryor, 96, of Youngsville, died Monday afternoon.
GREENVILLE - Iva Harris Wright, 96, of Greenville died on May 7, 2011 at Cypress Glen Methodist Retirement Community.
A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, May 23 at the Brown Chapel at Cypress Glen by the Rev. Karen Crutchfield, Chaplain. The family will greet friends after the service. A private graveside service will be held at the Warren Cemetery near Abingdon, Va.
A glance at Washington, the city laid out on a diamond-shaped area, is indeed a jewel to our country’s history and culture.
Washington is filled with monuments, museums, and historic buildings, so many, that if you want to see all of the cool and historic places, you need to plan your day very carefully.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Excellence in the present -- and a promise of good things for the future -- has been on display recently for the Bunn High School softball squad.
With standout senior catcher Melanie Davis out of the lineup with an arm injury, BHS has been fielding an all-underclassman lineup -- with the exception of outfielder Sara Green.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea for Mike Pearce to make the drive all the way back home to Lexington on Monday night.
Pearce, however, figured the journey would be a breeze.
And it was.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Playing down to the level of its competition has been a season-long bugaboo for the Louisburg College fast-pitch softball team.
It’s an issue that has bothered LC head coach Monica Gordy, and she would just as soon like to see it go away heading into this weekend’s Region X Tournament at Spartanburg Methodist College in South Carolina.
Larry Lindsey will reach the pinnacle of athletics in the Tar Heel State on Thursday when he is inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.
This is no small feat -- Louisburg College baseball coaching legend Russ Frazier is the only other Franklin County native who is in the Hall.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- After an early-season schedule that featured plenty of growing pains and frustration, the young Bunn Wildcats have seemingly saved their best baseball for the right time.
During the second half of the campaign, Bunn has worked its way back up the Northern Carolina Conference standings, including a few upset victories that have put the Wildcats in the thick of the playoff push in the NCC.
CHAPEL HILL -- Listed are the brackets for the Class 2-A Girls Soccer State Playoffs, which will begin this week:
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College may just as well have stayed at the Heartbreak Hotel during a visit to Alamance County for the annual Region X Baseball Tournament.
In the double-elimination format, the Hurricanes lost a pair of near-miss games, including a tough 7-6, 11-inning contest on Monday against top-seeded University of South Carolina-Sumter at the Burlington Athletic Stadium.
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Top athletes from Franklin County will participate in the Class 2-A Mideast Regional Track and Field Meet, scheduled for this Saturday at Eastern Alamance High School in Mebane.
Action will begin with field events at 11 a.m.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- The Bunn High School golf team put together one of its best seasons in recent history this spring -- with the promise of even better things in the future.
With only one senior -- leading scorer Rob Satterwhite -- the Wildcats ended Roanoke Rapids’ long-time reign as the team champions in the Northern Carolina Conference.
Members of the Bunn High School Golf Team for the 2011 season were (back, l to r) Head Coach Michael Grover, Milton Brannan, Jeff Eaton, Rob Satterwhite, Connor Jones and Assistant Coach Wayne Ruey; (front, l to r) John Ruey, Freeman Jones, Tory Fierst and John Jones. Not pictured is Assistant Coach Rocky Winstead.
Bunn High School football players (l to r) Montrel Cooke and James Bumpers read to youngsters in the K-2 Classes at Bunn Elementary School recently as part of the Week of the Young Child.
CHARLESTON, W.V. -- Freshman Jonathan Holt delivered one-out, pinch-hit single up the middle to score Joshua Lovick to tie the score in the ninth and then scored the game-winning run on a suicide squeeze by Philip Clark to complete the comeback as East Carolina (30-17, 11-10) took the Conference USA baseball series from Marshall (18-26, 5-13) by a 5-4 score at Appalachian Power Park on Sunday afternoon.
ZEBULON -- The Montgomery Biscuits aggregated 23 baserunners on Saturday night leading to a 7-1 series-clinching victory over the Carolina Mudcats before 4,976 fans at Five County Stadium in a Class AA Southern League baseball showdown.
Marisa Bellamy (left) and the Bunn Wildcats will participate in the Class 2-A Mideast Regional Track and Field Championships on Saturday at Eastern Alamance HS in Mebane.
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Regardless of how the rest of their season has gone, the Louisburg Lady Warriors seem to save their best soccer efforts for matches against rival Bunn.
Earlier in the year, LHS rallied late as Bunn held on for a one-goal victory.
The rematch came Wednesday as part of BHS’ annual Senior Night Celebration.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Commissioners expect to present a budget that includes a tax increase and furlough days, moves they say are necessary to close a $94,000 shortfall in the town’s general and utility funds.
The consensus was reached Thursday night, two weeks after commissioners rejected a staff proposal that would have cut all full-time employees back to 35 hours a week — cutting about $144,000 out of the budget, but effectively limiting town services for residents.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The North Carolina Department of Transportation awarded a contract this week for a key section of U.S. 401 around Rolesville that came in under bid.
The savings, though, will not be specifically earmarked for other improvements to the U.S. 401 corridor in Franklin County, state Department of Transportation (DOT) staff said.
The state Highway Patrol was investigating a fatal wreck on Friday.
Details of the accident were not available before press time, but the wreck was reported to have occurred on N.C. 97 near N.C. 39, near the Franklin-Wake County border.
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