By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County’s Parks and Recreation staff anticipate bringing a park proposal to commissioners early next year.
When Louisburg resident Edgar Owens died last January, he left in his will money for a county park.
Owens’ estate stood at about $1 million and about 80 percent of that was designated for a county park.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners approved a new assistant manager position in the current budget, but financial considerations will determine if that post is filled before the end of the fiscal year.
The position, which Harris previously filled, was eliminated in 2003 — with Harris still in it.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
In today’s volatile economic times, county staff have already begun behind-the-scenes work for the upcoming budget year.
By February, they anticipate bringing commissioners into retreats and work sessions to hammer out a 2011-12 budget in demanding economic times.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County residents are dealing with more and more wily coyotes.
And there’s nothing funny about it.
The hardy predators have been carving out a territory in Franklin County for some time now and residents say they’ve seen and heard more coyotes than any other time in recent memory.
Louisburg resident Noel Mueller
Since Nov. 3, 1980, the organization called Franklin County Retired School Personnel (FCRSP) has been working together for progress.
I have never seen so many folks with so much talent and creativity giving their time to do so many hours of volunteer work. They are just amazing, using as many as 1,000 hours of voluntary work a year to help the community and churches in the area.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Decades after Americans first got behind the wheel of their trusty motorcars, we ought not to be writing editorials like this one.
You might think that common sense would make such opinion pieces obsolete, but you’d be wrong.
Besides, whoever said common sense was common, anyway?
So, here goes:
Recently, while researching something else entirely, I came across a piece I wrote a decade ago — actually, Dec. 16, 2000.
It is as pertinent — perhaps even more pertinent — today as it was 10 years ago.
And, of course, it was ignored by the powers that be then as it will be now.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! And that greeting goes double if advance weather forecasts for the first day of the new year calling for a daytime high of 63 degrees followed by an overnight low of 50 pan out, even if it does rain a little bit.
We’ve already experienced as much or more ice and snow than normal for an entire winter season and winter has only just begun, officially at any rate. I’m ready for Spring already, although we may have a long wait in store for us before that comes about.
RALEIGH – If you seek to measure the cost of a government, its budget is a good place to start. But your search won’t end there. Only some of the costs imposed by government in any given year show up in its operating budget.
When North Carolina policymakers and journalists say “the state budget,” for example, they typically mean only the General Fund – the programs funded mostly by income and sales taxes, while leaving out federal funds, highway funds, other fees and charges, and accrued liabilities.
As Erskine Bowles steps down as President of the UNC System, North Carolina owes him our utmost appreciation. Bowles’ life to date is much like a play. Act I consisted of a highly successful career in business. Act II, and perhaps his most significant legacy, has centered on public service.
Seven nurses at Franklin Regional Medical Center were recently certified in advanced burn life support (ABLS). This certification program is provided by the American Burn Association.
The nurses who received this accomplishment are: Karla Banks, Lynn Carey, Kevin Clark, Donna Haynes, Donna Perry, Sandie Rosenthal and Norma Smithwick.
Louisburg police arrested a man accused of robbery at gunpoint.
According to investigators, Korey Deshaun High, 21, of 111 Grant Street, Apt. B, is alleged to have come across a 16-year-old and 18-year-old the evening of Dec. 22.
According to Capt. Jason Abbott, High pulled out a gun on the two victims at a home at Mineral Springs Road.
RICHFIELD, MN - Pauline “Jo” Miller, 80, died Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. A Mass of Christian Burial was Friday, Dec. 31, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Richfield, Minn., with interment following at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery.
FRANKLINTON - Funeral services for Gearline Noble, 77, who died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, were held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON —Ophelia H. Harris, 81, died Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. Arrangements by Cutchins Funeral Home, Franklinton.
LOUISBURG - William Hilliard Stallings, Jr., 81, of Louisburg died Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at Wake Medical Center. He owned and operated Stallings Milling Company for 50 years and operated Stallings Trucking Company. He was a member of Cedar Rock First Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Phyllis Gay McCool, and his sister, Ann Stallings Johnson. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at Cedar Rock First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Robert Ricks Boone officiating. Burial will follow in Trinity United Methodist Church.
SARALAND, AL - Walter T. Rex, 85, went home to be with the Lord on December 21, 2010.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUTNER -- Leesville Road’s girls basketball team didn’t even know until earlier this week that it would be competing in the South Granville Holiday Tournament.
The Pride’s opportunity only came when Wayne Country Day dropped out after heavy snowfall forced the beginning of the tournament to be pushed back from Monday to Wednesday.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FOUR OAKS -- The fact that both teams have been struggling early in the season didn’t detract from the competitive nature of Wednesday’s tough matchup between Louisburg and host South Johnston in the first round of the North-South Christmas Boys Basketball Tournament.
Musicians are notorious for writing songs about individuals.
John Lennon wrote “Julia’’ for his mother and “Dear Prudence’’ for the sister of actress Mia Farrow.
The great Bob Dylan penned “Hurricane’’ to document the legal tribulations of boxer Rubin Carter.
And the world has been waiting for four decades to learn who Carly Simon wrote the song “You’re So Vain’’ about.
High School Wrestling
WEDNESDAY
Franklinton at Louisburg 6 p.m.
WILMINGTON -- Bunn went 1-2 overall at the prestigious Leon Brogden Invitational Boys Basketball Tournament -- but BHS head coach Gerald Melton was hardly flustered after his Wildcats returned to Franklin County on Wednesday night.
“It was a good experience for us,’’ Melton said. “We played some good competition, and that will help us down the road.
CREEDMOOR -- Franklinton’s first game was a successful one during Wednesday’s opening round of the South Granville Holiday Tournament.
The Red Rams took control early and never looked back en route to claiming a 56-39 decision over the Kerr-Vance Academy Spartans from Henderson.
