STEM -- Though it may cause some early-year headaches, every coach -- regardless of the sport -- wants to see his or her team reach its peak during the postseason.
And that’s exactly what happened for the 2010-11 version of the Franklinton High School girls basketball squad.
High School Baseball
TUESDAY
Louisburg at Tarboro 4:30 p.m.
Franklinton at Wilson Fike 4:30 p.m.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Improved health and role definition have been paramount intangibles late in the season for the Louisburg College women’s basketball squad.
LC veteran head coach Mike Holloman knows his club will have to be at 100 percent in order to win the championship at the annual Region X Tournament, which begins this coming Friday at Lenoir Community College in Kinston.
HENDERSON -- The 2011 Vance-Granville Community College women’s volleyball team is starting to take shape after several current and former high school standouts signed national letters-of-intent to join the Vanguards.
One new Vanguard this fall will be Ashley Martin of Norlina, a senior at Warren New Tech High School, who has played outside hitter for the Warren County High School Eagles varsity squad.
Louisburg College second baseman Jan Valentin (left) executes a force play during the Hurricanes’ road victory Wednesday afternoon against Wake Tech CC.
Although temperatures are spring-like, Franklin County sheriff’s deputies are looking for suspects who stole a snowball.
Earnest Gupton reported on Feb. 17 that his white chihuahua, Snowball, is missing.
According to the report by Dep. D.B. Wester, Snowball was at Gupton’s Wood Church Road home on Feb. 16, but he and others did leave for a few hours.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Commissioners voted against hosting a special election to choose the county’s next sheriff.
The 4-3 vote was along party lines on a night when residents crowded the board’s meeting room, asking them to eschew politics for the good of the people.
Democrats Sidney Dunston, Robert Lee Swanson, Shane Mitchell and Penny McGhee voted against a special election, while Republican Commissioners Don Lancaster, Harry Foy and David Bunn voted for the request.
A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of documents relating to a state investigation into missing money at the sheriff’s office.
Pat Green’s attorney, Johnny Williamson, protested the move, but on Tuesday afternoon, Judge Richard Baddour Jr. ordered them released.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The executive committee of the Franklin County Democratic Party is slated to host a Feb. 28 executive session to recommend the county’s new Register of Deeds.
The party made no plans to publicize the meeting, though, in violation of the N.C. Democratic Party’s Plan of Organization.
Linda Stone is sent a retirement letter to the state in January, making her departure effective on Feb. 28.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Commissioners balked at a nearly $200,000 project to improve communications and safety for first responders.
The $193,000 project would have provided law enforcement officers, fire fighters and rescue squads with a multitude of information via mobile digital systems.
The system also would have provided information, such as GPS, which is currently not available.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The trial against a Louisburg man accused of causing injuries sustained by a sheriff’s deputy began on Monday.
Louisburg police arrested Joe Williams on Feb. 27, accusing him of inciting unrest that sent James Williamson to the hospital suffering severe head injuries.
Prosecutors and his defense attorney spent Monday afternoon picking a jury to hear the case.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Angela and Joel Mooney have been working on their organic green thumbs for about two years now.
The most important thing to sprout up, though, is their five-year-old son, Steven.
The Mooneys began planting seeds at their Youngsville-area home to provide affordable organic food for their son, who has epileptic and autistic symptoms.
The Louisburg town council got basically good news from Dale Place, its auditor, Monday night although the recent examination of the books uncovered some problems which auditors said need to be remedied.
In a nutshell, the 94-page audit indicated that Louisburg enjoyed a year-ending fund balance of $1,334,767, an increase of $181,262 over the preceding year.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
The North Carolina public meetings and public records law offers residents about one-third of the protections they deserve, and recent events in Franklin County prove that.
Actually, part of the law is pretty good — with the exception of all the loopholes about “personnel” issues. In government, virtually everything can be construed to be about personnel on some level, so that’s a huge loophole that must be tightened.
GOOD MORNING: After unseasonably high temperatures in the mid 70’s Monday, the weather returned to more seasonable like levels on Tuesday following a light sprinkle of rain just before dawn. Our best chance of rain now appears to be on Friday, however, when temperatures are expected to rebound to around 70 once again.
Lazy.
Noisy.
Disrespectful.
Rude.
Disengaged.
Stop me when I get to an adjective that, at one time or another, you haven’t used to describe a teenager.
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Many people are confused about the economy. They hear reports of the economy improving. Factory output is up, retail sales have gained and the stock market has been roaring.
Recently, it was even announced that the broadest measure of the economy – gross domestic product – had returned to its pre-recessionary level.
RALEIGH – I’ve had a conceptual breakthrough.
For more than 20 years, I have debated left-wing politicians and commentators on education policy. As an advocate of greater choice and competition, higher academic standards, and more efficient expenditure of education dollars, I have argued that these policies will boost student achievement, parental satisfaction, and economic competitiveness while reducing costs to taxpayers.
Dear Editor:
While the county commissioners are looking into changing laws to have a special election, they need to look into the laws and in hiring practices in the county.
A new Vance-Granville Community College scholarship will carry on the legacy of a husband and wife who both made key contributions to the college in its first two decades. The Julian and Elsie Gray Pernell Academic Achievement Scholarship honors Mr. Pernell, who was the college’s original program head of Light Construction (today called Carpentry) and later chair of the college’s Trades and Industries division, and Mrs. Pernell, who was the first faculty member at Vance County Technical Institute, as the college was then known, in 1969.
Pruning is essential for overall plant health and development as well as increasing fruit production. Extension specialist Bill Cline will be giving a demonstration on proper pruning techniques on blueberry bushes in North Carolina on Monday, Feb. 28, at 2 p.m. at Vollmer Farm, 677 NC Highway 98E, Bunn.
Vance-Granville Community College has announced that 333 students earned Dean’s List honors for the fall semester that ended in December 2010.
To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student had to maintain a 3.5 grade-point average and have no grade lower than “B” while carrying at least 12 semester hours, according to VGCC Vice President of Instruction Dr. Angela Ballentine.
