A volunteer with the American Wildlife Refuge holds two Eastern Screech Owls that have been in their care. The American Wildlife Refuge-Raleigh Raptor Refuge, which is based in Rolesville, recently visited Royal Elementary School for a schoolwide assembly.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The International Whistlers Convention began Wednesday afternoon.
The competition, though, began Thursday morning as about 40 of the adult whistlers took to the Frances Boyette Dickson Auditorium stage at Louisburg College.
“We have some great whistlers here,” said Allen de Hart, who founded the county folk festival that became the International Whistlers Convention.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Franklin County grand jury indicted four people charged with robbing a Franklin County man and stuffing him in a truck.
In January, sheriff’s deputies arrested and charged Chad M. Batie, 28, Charles Perry Jr., 26, and Nicholas Morris, 30, with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree burglary and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Representative Glen Bradley introduced a bill this week that he hopes will cut regulatory red tape that’s holding back job creation.
With the aid of Reps. Harry Warren, John Torbett and Kelly Hastings, Bradley filed House Bill 587 — an Act to Promote North Carolina Job Growth through Regulatory Reform.
Above, Special Olympians, from left to right, Austin Schneller and Malek Cooke light the Olympic torch with some assistance from event organizer Wendy Vavrousek. Friday marked the fourth consecutive year for the event. Festivities were held at the Bunn High School football field.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A pending lawsuit has stopped the public woofing about allegations that lapses in animal control procedures led to the death of a public pet.
It did not stop the county’s Animal Advisory Board, though, from trying to tackle another ongoing problem — rabies control.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Resident Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood has ordered Franklinton and Franklin County to try and settle their water dispute through a mediated settlement, a routine court request to keep the matter out of the courtroom.
Unless the two sides agree to invite a mediator to a jointly scheduled meeting on April 20, though, that meeting won’t meet Hobgood’s decree.
If it’s looking a lot like spring, it’s strawberry season in Franklin County.
And with the season comes the annual Franklin County Strawberry Festival that has been planned for Friday, April 29, this year. As usual, it will be held at the Franklin County Farmers Market shelter in Shannon Village Shopping Center in Louisburg.
Bunn resident Walter Haynes
The Greater Franklin County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Mulberry Cove Antiques & Gifts on April 1. Marsha Lebo, owner, left, assists her son, Joseph, in cutting the ribbon, as Jenna Lebo, Rick Lebo, Darrell Smith, First Citizens Bank, and Louisburg Mayor Karl Pernell look on.
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Louisburg-area man, alleging he was responsible for two break-ins.
Willie Williams IV, 24, was charged with two counts of breaking and entering and two counts of larceny.
Both incidents are alleged to have involved the same victim.
Above, Do it Center in Bunn recently opened its doors for business. The store not only carries typical hardware products, but also a wide selection of electrical, plumbing, paint, fencing, farm and ranch and pet supplies. They also offer computer paint matching, key cutting, window glass and screen repair, propane tank filling, feed, seed and more.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
One afternoon this week at Louisburg High School, the doors were open and two facilities were on display for all to see.
They were a metal working workshop and a woodworking workshop that were provided by the latest bond issue passed by Franklin County voters.
For those of our readers who are of a “certain age,” suffice it to say that these facilities are a far cry from what we may remember from our high school days.
GOOD MORNING: In spite of this roller-coaster type weather we’ve been experiencing for the past several weeks, the hummingbirds have apparently gotten tired of waiting for the weather to make up its mind and returned.
Both Allen Shearin, of Louisburg, and Times publisher Gary Cunard, who lives out on the Mort Harris Road East of Louisburg, reported spotting hummers on Tuesday.
Spring is officially here.
The hummingbirds have arrived in Greater Metropolitan Mapleville — and all is set for springtime, officially.
The first two of the little feathered critters seemed to arrive late Tuesday afternoon, at least that’s the first time they were noticed. And they wasted no time filling up on sugar water after their long journey back to the Tar Heel state.
It is time to face up to the need for top to bottom education reform in this state. North Carolina spends billions of dollars annually on an unwieldy and ineffective three-headed education animal that worked to some success in the past but won’t propel us into twenty-first century education excellence.
Last summer while most of my college-aged peers were taking on part-time jobs and heading to the beach, I had the amazing opportunity to study in northern India thanks to a scholarship from the Phillips Ambassadors Program.
The program, which was founded by former U.S. ambassador Earl Phillips, is designed to encourage fruitful engagement between Americans and the dynamic cultures, societies and economies of Southeast Asia.
As government budgets tighten up in North Carolina, some officials are learning new skills. In the photo above, Franklin County Manager Angela Harris learns the proper technique for using a chop saw in the new Louisburg High School carpentry shop that was part of an open house Tuesday. Keeping a watchful eye on her efforts is instructor Willie Tabron (at right) while others, including (from left) former congressman Bob Etheridge, County Finance Director Chuck Murray, Franklin County Schools director of Career and Technical Education Laureen G. Jones, Principal Freda Clifton and School Board chair Paige Sayles await their training session.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Care Centers on the Raleigh Campus and at Cary Hospital have both been honored with quality awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
WakeMed Raleigh Campus and WakeMed Cary Hospital feature the only certified Stroke Centers in Wake County.
Chad and Jody Ray love the concept of the annual Franklin County Spring Farm Tour.
More than just for business, the event gives them, as with other local farmers, so much more that is important to them. So when they learned that this event was cancelled this year – they and their friends at Vollmer Farms got creative and got busy.
A slot at the Franklin County Adult Day Program in Louisburg has been a lifesaver, both for Peggy Seymour and her daughter, Brenda Lewis. When Seymour could no longer live alone, Lewis knew she would take care of her mother. Seymour started attending the Franklin County Adult Day Program in February 2006.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and Franklin County’s Department of Social Services is joining communities around the country, raising awareness about the problem.
The county’s DSS will use a pinwheel garden as a symbol of child abuse prevention, representing community efforts to provide children with safe, stable, nurturing relationships they need for healthy development.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Ozell Cleopus Perry Sr., 79, who died Monday, April 4, 2011, will be held at 1 p.m. today (Saturday, April 9) at Perry’s Missionary Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
KITTRELL - Mary Catlett Alford, 82, died Thursday, April 7, 2011 at her residence. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in the chapel of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service, Franklinton, with the Rev. Clyde Waiden officiating. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery.
