Bunn High School veteran Ashley Denton (with ball) grabs a rebound for the Ladycats during their road basketball conquest last Friday against the Louisburg Lady Warriors.
Louisburg College’s Jeremy Atkinson (with ball) heads to the basket while being defended by Vance-Granville’s Ryan Branch during last Saturday afternoon’s Region X men’s basketball contest, which was held at Aycock Rec Center in Henderson.
Bunn’s Quinton Cannady (center) loses his footing while being defended by Louisburg’s (l to r) Aaron Perry and Marcus Davis.
LOUISBURG - Paul Eugene Walsh, 74, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, at UNC Chapel Hill. A memorial service will be held at a later date.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The executive committee of the Franklin County Democratic Party will go into a meeting Tuesday night with at least four candidates to replace Linda Stone as Register of Deeds.
And while more folks can step forward on the night in question, the goal is to leave the meeting with one recommendation to the county’s Board of Commissioners.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Consultants released a study designed to spur agriculture in the region, concluding that two-thirds of the ideas studied were not economically feasible.
The one that was feasible, establishing a regional humane slaughterhouse, will require money that has yet to be procured and leadership that has yet to be established.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
“We want to be sure we treat you as you,” said Dr. David Seaman shortly after he joined Franklin Regional Medical Center’s medical staff this week. “We can be small and do things right,” he said.
Dr. Seaman is nationally board certified in general surgery and also specializes in vascular surgery.
At Franklin Regional, he said, his goal is to treat patients as people, not as numbers or as mere sources of revenue.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The chambers at the General Assembly are pretty wide.
But there’s no getting around the fact that the budget — a nearly $4 billion shortfall — will leave room for little else in a session set to begin on Jan. 26.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County emergency staff is bracing, again, for more wintry weather.
More than 70 counties were under a winter weather advisory through Saturday morning, as meteorologists were predicting anywhere from a dusting to an inch of snow in the area for Friday night.
However, emergency staff were more concerned about the storm that could hit the area on Monday.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Bunn’s Board of Commissioners is expected to start the new year by discussing the need to fill a vacant post.
Carolyn Files was elected to the board in 2005 to serve a two-year term.
When the board switched to four-year terms shortly thereafter, she ran in 2007 and was elected to a four-year term.
She passed away in November with two years left on her term.
Louisburg resident Gentry Pearce
Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Littleton man who tried to drive through a checkpoint.
According to reports, Craig Lesak, 44, had good reason to avoid law enforcement.
Sgt. Bennett Manson charged him with driving while impaired after Lesak, who said he drives commercial vehicles for a living, registered a .07 blood-alcohol level.
Chief Billy J. Brewer Sr. (left) congratulates firefighter Davey Malone (right) on being recognized as the 2010 Firefighter of the Year for the White Level Fire Department. The presentation was made at the department’s Christmas party on Dec. 4.
RALEIGH — Sheena Pitt, a resident of Bunn, was among more than 150 students from Peace College who made the fall semester Dean’s List.
Air Force Airman Joshua N. Blatt graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Math can really make things interesting.
Especially when there is a dollar sign in front of all those numbers, and, especially, when the issue is tax money in a tight, tight economy.
That’s why we found parts of an interview with two highly placed state officials so enlightening this week.
There was a flicker of positive hope in the otherwise dismal meeting of the Franklin County Board of Education Monday night where the topic was the budget — or, more precisely, the budget calamity that’s on the horizon.
Unfortunately, the few hints of positive developments that I saw had nothing to do with finances.
The most positive development was the audience filled with principals, assistant principals, a few teachers and other staff.
GOOD MORNING: Well, It looks like we dodged the bullet, so to speak, in regards to receiving any precipitation of the frozen variety Wednesday night and Thursday morning, although we did get a bit of rain as evidenced by the water in the mudholes in my driveway Thursday morning.
RALEIGH – Now that outgoing President Pro Tem Marc Basnight has announced his retirement from the North Carolina Senate, lawmakers ought to make a firm commitment never to allow another politician like Basnight to rise to power.
Just to be clear: I like the man personally and wish him well in his retirement. What I mean is that never again should a single state lawmaker be allowed to exercise the kind of power Basnight enjoyed in Raleigh for nearly 20 years.
By:
Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policywatch
The latest update about the plans by the new Republican legislative leadership to address the state’s $3.7 billion budget shortfall is that there is no real update, despite more public statements and media appearances by top GOP leaders.
The headline of Thursday’s News & Observer looked promising, “GOP leaders plan ways to cut billions.” Maybe we would finally hear a few specifics about where the cuts would be made.
BIRTHDAY KISS. Mattie Lindsey of Franklin County celebrated her 95th birthday at Smithfield Bar-B-Q in Wake Forest on Dec. 12 with her youngest daughter, Ann Gupton; oldest son, Danny Lindsey; and youngest son, Barron Lindsey; grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; also her brothers and sisters. Her youngest brother, Owen White, is shown giving her a birthday kiss, which made her day. (Submitted photo)
GREENSBORO - Joe Cannon Moore died Friday, Dec. 24, 2010 at Moses Cone Hospital. A memorial service is planned for Jan. 29 at 1 p.m. at Franklinton Baptist Church, with burial at Fairview Cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Hugh Arthur Alston, 82, who died Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. today (Saturday, Jan. 8) at Cedar Rock Baptist Church, with burial following in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Oscar Glenn “O.G.” Spell Jr., 90, died Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. today (Saturday, Jan. 8) at Wendell United Methodist Church, 129 N. Main St., Wendell, with the Rev. Ellen McCubbin officiating. Inurnment will be at Gethsemane Memorial Gardens, Zebulon, with Masonic rites by the Wendell Masonic Lodge and presentation of the U. S. Flag by the U.S. Army on behalf of a grateful nation.
