LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College’s always-successful women’s basketball program will open its 2010-11 season with a home game on Nov. 2 against Clinton Junior College.
The Lady Hurricanes’ complete schedule is as follows (home games are listed in CAPS):
ZEBULON -- The Carolina Mudcats and Mobile BayBears locked in a pitcher’s duel on Saturday night as Five County Stadium as Josh Collmenter and Scott Carroll locked horns and both pitched into the seventh inning however, it would Mobile taking advantage of their chances as they defeated the Mudcats 2-1 in a Class AA Southern League baseball event.
Carolina (24-31) had great chances to score in the first two innings but came up empty.
Members of the Louisburg High School boys soccer squad walk off the field before the heavy rains came Monday afternoon at Nash Central.
(L to r) Youngsters John Allen Faulkner (7 years), Riggan Faulkner (10) and Landon Mize (5) reeled in these impressive catfish during a recent fishing expedition at a private pond in Franklin County. (Photo Submitted)
Southern Nash’s Trendell Lynch takes to the air and literally flies into the end zone for a touchdown during last Friday night’s prep football game at Franklinton.
WILSON - David Barrett Lloyd, 29, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Funeral service will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 22, at Joyner’s Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park, with Pastor Israel Campbell officiating.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Markeith D. Kearney, 18, who died Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, will be held at noon today (Saturday, Aug. 21) at the Louisburg High School auditorium, with the Rev. Melvin Jackson officiating. Burial will be in the Alston family cemetery.
HOLY SPRINGS - John Owen Truelove, 73, died at home on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. The family will receive friends from 12 to 2 p.m. today (Saturday, Aug. 21) at Macedonia Baptist Church, Holly Springs. A funeral service will be at 2 p.m., conducted by the Rev. Danny Jarmon and the Rev. Ken Wheeler. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
What started as a “gripe session” at a meeting of the Franklin County Medical Society Tuesday night seemed to evolve into initiatives toward improving medical care in Franklin County.
The meeting, held at a Wake Forest restaurant, at first focused on what medical care is now available in the county with Dr. Robert McLaurin, chair of the society, touting not only the Franklin County Cancer Center that he owns and operates but also the skills of surgeon Dr. Chad Caldwell who has announced that he is accepting a position in Granville County at the end of the month.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Arts Council cut ties with two stalwarts this week.
First, board members discussed the retirement of the group’s founder, Allen de Hart.
And the Arts Council also severed its official ties with the International Whistlers Convention on Thursday night.
Both decisions leave the immediate future of the 38-year-old International Whistlers Convention teetering.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The chair of the Franklin County Arts Council will present county commissioners with a proposal for a public/private partnership he hopes can salvage an area landmark and turn it into a community centerpiece of history, culture and art.
At its last few meetings, county commissioners have discussed the future of the old jail building on Nash Street, which has sat dilapidated for years.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Town officials released a memo to town residents this week, hoping to take the sting out of utility rate increases and improve community relations.
A handful of residents on Tuesday night expressed their bewilderment at the increases, raising some people’s utility bill by nearly 50 percent.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Although Franklin County plans to use school bond money to add space for the Early College Program, the decision should not jeopardize plans for that site in the future, staff said.
By unanimous decision on Monday, commissioners agreed to use excess money from the 2008 voter-approved $53 million school bond to build a modular classroom building on county-owned land behind its Emergency Services building on N.C. 56 — which sits next to VGCC.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A drowning earlier this week is serving as a reminder to guard against swimming dangers.
Rising Louisburg High senior Markeith Kearney died Monday when he and a group of friends went swimming at a friend’s pool on East River Road.
Kearney, who could not swim, was apparently splashing around in the pool, but friends thought he was just playing around.
Bunn HS soccer follower Lily Schuette
It has been four years since I attended a Chilean Reunion. You may recall the fun my sister and I had back in 2006 at the Virginia United Methodist Assembly Center at Blackstone. We experienced an amazing rush of happiness upon seeing friends we had not seen for a long time.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Louisburg man on drug and gun charges.
According to a report by Dep. Joel Anderson, DeMario L. Wilson was a passenger in a car that Sgt. James Davis stopped during the early morning hours of Aug. 16 because of an insurance stop.
Anderson said that Wilson acted suspiciously from the beginning, prompting officers to ask him to step out of the vehicle.
The United Way of Franklin County has opened its grant cycle to receive applications from Franklin County teachers who have an innovative project idea that goes outside the scope or a normal classroom day.
Each grant is up to $1,500. The UWFC board of directors has increased the amount available this year to $30,000, much in part to community designated dollars for the program and support from Novozymes in education programs locally.
It’s official. No surprise, but official.
The International Whistlers Convention is no longer part of the Franklin County Arts Council.
If you’re a long-time local resident, this probably seems a lot like 1994 all over again but with a different ending.
At the risk of oversimplifying this somewhat complex issue, it just seems like it was the proper time for the two groups to go on their separate ways. And separate they did on a vote Thursday night by the Arts Council Board of Directors.
Okay, you’re probably asking by now, what’s the “back story” to the long report beginning on page 1 of this edition involving our hospital, doctors and community leaders?
It’s actually pretty simple but it does have a lot of parts.
Some of it involves communication.
GOOD MORNING: It appears that Gov. Beverly Perdue may have taken State Sen. Doug Berger and Rep. John May off the hook, so to speak, at least so far as the matter of overdue state tax refunds are concerned.
You may recall that Saturday I asked what our two local representatives in the State General Assembly planned to do about this “sad state of affairs in Raleigh.”
Dear Editor,
On July 29, citizens from our area were able to express their opinions at a public hearing regarding the proposed Southeast High Speed Rail corridor. On behalf of the Franklinton Board of Commissioners, I shared our continued opposition to the current proposal, about which we have great concern.
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the entire Franklinton Police Department, we wish to extend our sincere appreciation for your contribution to our “2010 National Night Out” event. The donations of prizes were a real “crowd pleaser.”
The Franklin-Granville-Vance Smart Start will begin working with local primary care professionals to identify children at-risk for developmental delays as part of the Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) program. ABCD is a national program that trains primary health care professionals to use standardized tools to identify children who are at-risk for developmental delays and refer them to services.
