By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — Commissioners decided to wait until the spring thaw to determine how it spends money to repair roads and sidewalks.
Town Clerk Brenda Robbins advised the board that it had $35,254.44 available through the state Street Aid Program to improve roads, sidewalks and build new ones.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Area farmers are keeping an eye on food safety legislation designed to boost governmental inspection powers and prevent widespread contaminations.
Wording that makes small farms exempt from the legislation — which some say could drive up food costs — remains in tact, much to the delight of a growing segment of Franklin County farmers.
Bunn resident Mekhi Hendricks, 4 years
Franklin Regional Medical Center was recently awarded a Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) award for Most Outstanding Improvement for 2010.
This recognition was awarded to hospitals in North Carolina that showed the most improved overall SCIP performance, meeting the nationally recognized best practices for surgical patients.
The Farm Service Agency County Committee Election was held on Dec. 6. This year’s election was held in Local Administrative Area 2, consisting of Cedar Rock, Cypress Creek, Gold Mine and Sandy Creek townships.
Henry Nelms was re-elected to the county committee for a three-year term. He will assume his committee duties on Jan. 1.
On Nov. 30, the U.S. Department of Agriculture designated Franklin County and 41 other counties as natural disaster areas due to losses caused by drought and excessive heat that occurred May 1 – Oct. 1, 2010.
“President Obama and I understand these conditions caused severe damage to a wide variety of crops and prevented farmers from harvesting these crops,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood and Chief District Court Judge Dan Finch called this lineup of assistant and deputy clerks of court the lifeline of the judicial system. The group was sworn in for service on Monday, right after Clerk of Court Alice Faye Hunter took the oath of office in Franklin County Superior Court.
Debbie Williams, administrative assistant to the Franklin County Board of Education and student assignment manager for Franklin County Schools, received the Certificate of Excellence for successful completion of the Professional Certification Program requirements of the Superintendents and Board Assistants of North Carolina Public Schools at the North Carolina School Boards Association Conference in Greensboro in November.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Sometimes those who make the biggest difference are those who do it anonymously — for all the right reasons — but who never get the credit they really deserve.
Yet they make a difference, sometimes without even realizing how big a difference they have actually made.
Such is the case here in Franklin County this week.
Some folks don’t understand the shudder I experience about every time the word Facebook is spoken.
Nor do they understand why some of us want nothing to do with this social networking stuff that can cause a great deal of grief if you aren’t very, very careful!
Truth is, most folks are not very careful -- and get more careless the longer they use the service.
GOOD MORNING: If I owed someone a cold day and they wouldn’t accept this past Wednesday in payment thereof, they’d just have to go unpaid as far as I’m concerned.
When I went down to pick up the paper shortly after dawn, my outdoor thermometer was reading 14.5 degrees and it never got out of the 30’s all day. And the heck of it is that it ain’t even winter yet. According to my calendar, winter doesn’t officially begin until Dec. 21.
Madam Speaker, I rise today to address the House. I will be leaving Congress at the conclusion of this term, and I want to take a few minutes to speak to my colleagues and to the people of North Carolina’s Second Congressional District – the people whose hopes and dreams, whose fears and apprehensions, whose challenges and opportunities have been my first and only priority every day for the past 14 years.
Dear Editor:
I am proud that Karl Pernell is the mayor of Louisburg. He is dedicated and totally committed to do all he can to help our town grow. He spends a great deal of time trying to improve our government. There is no question but that he has the support of our citizens in Louisburg. He certainly does not deserve the criticism he is receiving from The Franklin Times.
William Harris, principal of Louisburg Elementary School, announces the Honor Roll for the first nine weeks grading period. To be named to the A Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 93. To be named to the A/B Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than an 85.
Kim Ferrell, principal of Long Mill Elementary School, announces the Honor Roll for the first nine weeks grading period. To be named to the A Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 93. To be named to the A/B Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than an 85.
Jim Harris, principal of Franklin County Early College High School, announces the Honor Roll for the first six weeks grading period. To be named to the A Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 93. To be named to the A/B Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than an 85.
Freda Clifton, principal of Louisburg High School, announces the Honor Roll for the first six-weeks grading period. To be named to the A Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 93. To be named to the AB Honor Roll, a student must make no grade lower than 85.
BUNN - Funeral services for John “Earl” Crudup, 54, who died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, will be held at 1 p.m. today (Saturday, Dec. 11) at Faith Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Greg Hall officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON —Krystal Jeanette Strother, 28, died Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. today (Saturday, Dec. 11) at Grove Hill Methodist Church by the Rev. Tommy Robertson. Burial will be in the Strother cemetery.
ZEBULON - Ronnie Michael Edwards, 61, died Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Graveside services were held Thursday, Dec. 9, at New Knightdale Baptist church cemetery, with the Rev. Tim Rabon officiating.
BATTLEBORO – Bennie M. Billings, 76, of Battleboro, died Wednesday afternoon.
Bunn Parade
The Bunn Christmas Parade will be held Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. Contact Christy Pippin, (919) 497-3129, or Linda Pippin, 496-4831, for more information.
We are in the middle of Advent, and we continue to look at the “reason for the season,” so to speak.
It is not easy to let go of consumption and consumerism. As I mentioned in last week’s Saturday article, the ideas of Mckinley, Seay, and Holder, authors of Advent Conspiracy, can be very valuable in our daily lives.
Raleigh author Gary Pearce, whose book “Jim Hunt,” a biography, was published this fall, visited Louisburg Monday evening to autograph copies of his work. Pearce, shown here (on the right) at the Coffee Hound Bookshop in downtown Louisburg, was autographing a book for State Rep. John May as they discussed politics in North Carolina.
