LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Flonnie Richardson Coley, 85, who died Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, will be held today (Wednesday, Feb. 23) at 2 p.m. at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg, with Minister Lester Bostic Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in the Pleasant Grove Church cemetery.
LOUISBURG – Addie Lee Ransdell Strickland Cash, 92, died Sunday afternoon, Feb. 20, 2011. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. today (Wednesday, Feb. 23) in the Ransdell family cemetery, with the Rev. Jared Pemper officiating.
GREENSBORO - Funeral services for Peggy Leak, 52, who died Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, in the Richardson Funeral Home chapel in Louisburg.
WARRENTON - Funeral services for Kelvin M. Jones, 56, who died Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at Coley Springs Missionary Baptist Church, with Bishop Ed Edwards officiating. Burial will follow in the Jerusalem Baptist Church cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Avis “Necie” Holden Burgess, 46, who died Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg, with Evangelist Linda Pettiford officiating. Burial will follow in the Roland Chapel church cemetery.
LOUISBURG – Betty Lou Brogden Cash, 79, of Louisburg, died Sunday afternoon.
The annual Small Farmer of the Year luncheon will be held on March 23 at noon in Greensboro on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University. There will be a van leaving the Franklin County Extension Center, 103 S. Bickett Blvd., Louisburg, at 8:40 a.m. for this event.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn expended just about every ounce of energy in its possession while rallying from a near-impossible deficit.
And that was exactly the problem for the Wildcats during their title-game matchup last Friday against Roanoke Rapids in the Northern Carolina Conference Boys Basketball Tournament at the Bunn Dome.
FAIRMONT -- Franklinton traveled almost to the South Carolina border for its first-round game against Fairmont in the Class 2-A Girls Basketball State Playoffs.
The journey was well worth it for FHS, which continues to play well late in the season.
The Lady Rams pushed ahead early and never looked back en route to defeating host Fairmont by a 36-25 margin.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Maybe Chuck Mann should be careful of what he wishes for.
Or maybe this was the best scenario that could have happened to Mann and his Bunn High School girls basketball squad.
Earlier in the week, Mann was bemoaning the fact that his Ladycats have had few challenges as part of their undefeated regular season.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Who says history can’t repeat itself?
The Bunn Ladycats were certainly in the mood for a bit of retrospect Monday as they hosted Cedar Ridge in the first round of the Class 2-A Girls Basketball State Tournament at the Bunn Dome.
BHS defeated Cedar Ridge last year at home en route to making regional competition.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
NEWPORT -- Eight Franklin County wrestlers -- including six from Louisburg -- will be heading to the states following last week’s successful outing at the Class 2-A East Regional Individual Wrestling Tournament at Croatan High School.
Louisburg High’s six state performers will be standouts Smiley Mueller (152), Braulio Rayo (103), Trey Griffor (119), Darrian Brown (125), Tyrell Robinson (Heavyweight) and David Pearce (160).
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- In order to make yet another deep postseason run, the smallish Bunn Wildcats will have to slay plenty of giants on the road to Fayetteville for regional competition.
Act One came Monday against a tall-timber Carrboro club that was destined to challenge the Wildcats with their superior height advantage.
ROCKY MOUNT -- After 24 games played this season, North Carolina Wesleyan College’s men’s basketball team had seemingly all of its goals resting on game number 25.
When the Bishops hosted Ferrum College last Saturday, they knew that the USA South Regular Season Conference Championship, the right to be the No. 1 overall seed in the USAS Conference tournament this week and the opportunity to avenge the squad’s only conference loss this season all hung in the balance.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College had an athletics free-for-all last Saturday as four teams -- men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball and fast-pitch softball -- were all in action on campus.
Here’s a look at how each club fared in those and other games from the weekend:
GREENSBORO -- The Greensboro Coliseum will be the site this weekend for one of the largest single high school sporting events in the Southeast.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s annual state wrestling championships are scheduled for three days, starting Thursday night and running all day Friday and Saturday, bringing together over 600 of the state’s best prep grapplers for competition over three days.
Franklinton’s Tamara Williams (right) drives against Bunn’s Chepirah Neal (left) during last Friday’s matchup.
Bunn’s Jaymes Kingsberry (right) takes to the lane for two points during the Wildcats’ home loss last Friday in the title game of the Northern Carolina Conference Tournament.
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February 20, 2011
A judge held off on deciding whether to release state documents related to an investigation into missing money at the sheriff’s office.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Town staff and commissioners updated residents on plans to end a murky water dispute it has with Franklin County.
While much of the night rehashed the months-long stalemate, there was one bit of good news — the town is expected to consider a new county proposal during a closed session on March 1.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Commissioners appointed its planning and zoning director as its interim manager after Larry Carver resigned the permanent post on Tuesday night.
The board hired Carver on an interim basis in December 2007 and signed him to a two-year contract in 2008 that was renewed on a monthly basis for his part-time service to the board.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Because of financial constraints, town officials held off on spending money on a project that could save them money down the line.
On Tuesday night, Town Manager Larry Carver advised the board that it could apply for a $27,000 grant from the N.C. Rural Center.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
While a State Bureau of Investigation probe swirls around the sheriff’s office, county commissioners plan to discuss a measure that could determine how the department’s next leader is chosen.
At the same time, auditors have advised county staff on better ways to provide oversight of sheriff’s office finances — which is at the heart of the SBI’s investigation.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
The Franklin County Board of Education unanimously recommended Thursday night that the county commissioners hire Scotia Construction Co. to provide a new modular building for the Early College High School program.
Scotia, of Cary, was the lowest of six bids received by the school system. Their base bid was $1,275,000, but the final bid, including four alternates that school officials wanted, was $1,290,500. That puts the cost at about $112 a square foot for the building.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Habitat for Humanity is looking for new members to provide a renewed foundation for an organization that has been worn down, recently.
If the five-member group is not able to generate enough interest to help it either build or renovate a home a year for deserving families, it will not meet new, international requirements and would be forced to close.
