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FRANKLINTON - Annie S. Kearney, 92, died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklinton and Franklin County officials have both scheduled special-called, closed session meetings this coming week.
And based on a letter sent out on Wednesday, both sides could be closer to resolving an ongoing water contract dispute, perhaps without litigation.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
For his final joke, Don Lancaster shared a story about a new business venture that looked bleak in the beginning.
When he started out as senior vice president and Franklin County market executive for Union Bank, he was working in a small space in Youngsville.
The success or failure of the business was on his shoulders and he felt the weight.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
HENDERSON — Advocates for more charter schools say it gives parents choices.
Those who caution against claims that charter schools are a panacea for education say choice is one of the problems with charter schools.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a Louisburg area man Friday morning after threatening his estranged girlfriend and children at gunpoint.
Members of the department’s tactical team arrested Mario Lamont Sims, 25, charging him with three counts of felony child abuse and endangerment; assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill; assault on a female; and communicating threats.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
HENDERSON — Tax reform, experts said, can help the state burrow its way out a financial recession or depression.
But it’s not what’s going to get the state out of a nearly $4 billion bind this year.
Sen. Daniel Clodfelter, co-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a tax reform advocate; Roland Stephen, associate professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at North Carolina State University;
By: GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
From giving final approval to three building-restoration grants to confronting a chicken issue, the Louisburg Town Council had a busy, diverse agenda at its Tuesday meeting.
Of the three grant projects, the restoration of the Scoggins Building at the corner of Nash and North Main streets was the largest.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A year after commissioners and staff developed a strategic economic development plan, they met this week to gauge progress.
Commissioners met last January with staff, educators, municipal, regional and state leaders to develop a plan focusing on six goals:
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
County commissioners tabled a decision about one emergency communications issue and approved changes to another that reduced the cost of a system overhaul by $1 million.
The contractor, Harris Corporation, expects to have an improved system completed in the summer of 2012.
Louisburg resident Monique Perry
Every year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people get influenza, or the flu, with many being hospitalized and some even dying from causes related to the flu. Flu activity has been increasing statewide according to surveillance reports.
The symptoms of flu are as follows:
The Kerr-Tar Regional Economic Development Corp. (KTREDC), owner and developer of Triangle North business parks, has elected officers and welcomed new board members to represent the four counties that collaborate to develop the parks.
New officers are:
By: Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Ever hear of Cathy Cruz Marrero?
Us either, at least until this week.
And that’s way too soon but that’s a gripe to be heard another day!
She is the Pennsylvania woman who was walking through a mall texting someone and managed to walk straight into a decorative water fountain.
After two and a half years of gloom, doom and depression, it’s tempting to look almost anywhere for a bit of good economic news.
But, honestly, I didn’t expect to find it under a shed, in front of tobacco barns in the middle of January -- in what felt like one of the coldest places in Franklin County one morning this week!
But there it was.
GOOD MORNING: That greeting, however, depends in large measure on whether we got through the night Friday without any frozen precipitation, or not. But anyway you look at it, it’s expected to be quite cold today with highs in the low to mid 30’s. And come next Tuesday, our weather forecast calls for something like a 50 percent chance of frozen precipitation of some type.
Dear Editor,
Material possessions have their value and, when stolen, summon the emotion of outrage and anger. After the initial act, one must come to terms with the intrinsic loss. However, the violation has many layers that last much longer. How does one restore the feeling of security once your home has been violated?
Dear Editor,
I, along with many others, would like to thank Gary Cunard, editor of The Franklin Times, for his article concerning the late Warren E. Massenburg. It was truly an excellent article. Massenburg was a man who cared about others. He spent his life trying to improve education for all of our children. He was totally dedicated to making our county the very best it could be.
Dear Editor,
I am glad that the people have decided to honor the World War II veterans, though it is too late for a lot of them to know it, but their loved ones will.
The Kerr Tar Regional Area Agency on Aging will hold a Living Healthy with Diabetes workshop at the Castalia Baptist Church, 9563 Main Street, Castalia, beginning in February. This is a highly participatory workshop that will take place once a week for six weeks. Each session is two and a half hours, and all workshops are facilitated by two trained leaders.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Marion Brown Floyd, 81, who died Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011, will be Monday, Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. at South Main Street Baptist Church.Burial will follow in the Cedar Street cemetery with Rev. David Rosby officiating.
ANGIER - Cecil Marshall, 56, died Jan. 12, 2011 at home after a long battle with cancer. He was surrounded by family.
RALEIGH - John Junius White, 75, died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011.
MIDDLESEX - Rudolph Brantley, 85, died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011.
CLAYTON - Allen Wayne Parker, 45, died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011.
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