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Nash Community College recently awarded the 2009-2010 Jimmy and Mary Charles Holmes Memorial Scholarship to second-year Criminal Justice student Gary Macovitz of Louisburg. He is the first to receive the scholarship, which was established in 2008.
Upon graduation, Macovitz plans to pursue a career in juvenile justice or crime scene investigation. He has been a volunteer with Guardian Ad Litem in Franklin, Vance, Granville and Warren counties for the past few years.
The town of Louisburg’s Electric Department has been honored for having no lost-time accidents during 2008 by Electri-Cities, the town’s source of electrical energy. It’s not exactly a first-time honor for the local electrical workers. Louisburg’s department has had only two years since 1981 when there was time lost because of an accident. This year, electric department employees were presented a safety plaque during the regular Monday night town council meeting. Shown here are (left to right) Utility Director Ray Patterson, Colt Dickerson, Larry Perry, Mike Ayscue, Paul Jones, Jim Shill, the director of safety and training from Electri-Cities who presented the award, Donald Grice and Dominick LaFella. (Submitted photo)
Vance-Granville Community College recently announced that a new scholarship has been established in honor of J. Pratt Winston and in memory of his wife, Gwendolyn Blackwell Winston. The Winstons are well-known Granville County business leaders who founded Winston International Ltd. in Oxford. Gwen Winston died earlier this year.
Bethany Sledge, a seventh-grade student at Bunn Middle School, won a recent local poster contest sponsored by the Pilot Lions Club.
Sledge’s poster was among more than 375,000 entries submitted worldwide in the 22nd annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest. Lions Clubs International is sponsoring the contest to emphasize the importance of world peace to young people everywhere.
The Franklin County Solid Waste Task Force (SWTF) recently sponsored “Big Sweep” events in two locations in cooperation with the N.C. Big Sweep organization’s annual cleanup.
Louisburg College students volunteered to clean up on North Main Street in Louisburg. This event netted a total of 30 bags of trash and eight bags of recyclables. Twenty students participated, including many football players, along with Louisburg College President Mark La Branche, Representative Lucy Allen, SWTF member Betty Edwards, Keep America Beautiful Director Ed Shearin and Nicholas Shearin.
You might recall a Sept. 17, 2005 Franklin Times article about the golf team at Louisburg College (LC). At that time, Charles Sloan, LC golf coach, had two exchange students playing on his team.
From Halmstad, Sweden was Jens-Roberts Berntson, and from Saltillo, Mexico was Josue Garza Corralas. Both were foreign students who helped the college win some victories. Garza was a co-captain for the Louisburg College golf team from 2005-2007.
Sh-h-h-h! Don’t say this out loud or at least, don’t say it very loudly.
Over the last several days, several public officials who are supposed to be in positions where they know this kind of thing, are saying that there are some “green shoots” becoming visible in Franklin County’s economy.
Following a long, brutal “winter” of economic problems, job losses, business closing, foreclosures and related stresses and strains, any bit of good news on the economic front is more than welcome.
It’s the silly season!
With “Black Friday” less than a week away -- and in a year when retailers are anticipating another bleak holiday shopping season -- some of the big guys are pulling out all the stops.
One retailer -- and you would instantly recognize the name -- shipped preprints (those advertising pieces that are included in newspapers) recently with several pages of instructions and warnings about security.
GOOD MORNING: A 10 percent chance of rain today (Saturday) that increases to a 70 percent chance on Sunday and Monday.
So much for the weather, which we can’t do anything about anyway, now here’s what’s happening: While awaiting action on the county’s application for US 401 funding, the County US 401 Action Committee is pondering its next step.
At a meeting Thursday night at Louisburg High School, the committee decided to investigate the cost and avenues of possible funding for an absolutely vital aerial survey of the route that can only be conducted while leaves are off the trees, that would give the county a year-long head-start on getting any authorized improvements underway.
RALEIGH – We are nearing the end of the year before a key U.S. Senate race with some awfully familiar items in the news.
Two years ago, several prominent North Carolina Democrats passed on the chance to challenge Sen. Elizabeth Dole. While Democratic insiders were looking at polling data and national trends suggesting she was beatable, they couldn’t get well-known politicians to take the plunge.
By all accounts, 2010 should be another 1994 for Republicans. That year the GOP won the majority in the North Carolina House for the first time in almost a century and was approaching parity in voter registrations. But infighting, the inability to raise large dollars to conduct viable campaigns and sometimes lackluster candidates have always prevented Republicans from ever taking control. Will next year be different?
It’s time to take the pulse of the patient again. In this case, the patient is the North Carolina economy, and the diagnosed condition is the recession.
By many standards the recession is the worst – both in the nation and in our state – in more than 70 years. Record declines in wealth, spending and jobs have made this recession one for the books. In fact, economists are now calling it the “Great Recession.”
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies are investigating allegations that a domestic dispute erupted into a fit of road rage and gunfire.
According to reports by Dep. Keith Jones, he was dispatched to a domestic dispute at 124 Browns Way the evening of Nov. 16 and Latashia Tucker told him that Tray Perry had come by her house to pick up his children.
Tucker told authorities that she denied Perry that opportunity because he appeared to be drunk.
In response, Tucker said she and Perry began to argue and had a physical altercation.
Wilbert Wilkerson, representative of D&J Automotive, presents a $500 check to Michelle Smith, recreation director with the Franklinton Recreation Department. Also present were Smith’s children, Cameron Smith, 9, and Baylee Smith, 6. The donation was part of the Chevy Youth Basketball program. In support of Franklin County youth basketball, D&J Automotive also provided the recreation department with basketball kits filled with equipment bags, practice pinnies, coaches’ clipboards, scorebooks and T-shirts.
RALEIGH - Cynthia “Cindy” Graham Currin, 56, died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 at her home. Funeral services were held Friday, Nov. 20, at First Assembly of God, Raleigh. Burial followed in Brier Creek Memorial Gardens.
KITTRELL - Funeral services for Larry Perry, 53, who died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, will be conducted at 2 p.m. today (Saturday, Nov. 21) at Concord Baptist Church, with the Rev. Samuel Blalock officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
PERTH AMBOY, NJ—Funeral services for Zenora Yarborough McKnight, 84, formerly of Louisburg, who died Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, will be conducted from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Allen Chapel Baptist Church, Louisburg. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Bobby Wess Jones Sr., 75, died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 at his home. Funeral services were conducted Friday, Nov. 20, in the L. Harold Poole Funeral Service chapel in Knightdale, with Dr. Alfred Wright officiating. Burial followed in the Jones family cemetery, Rolesville Road, Wendell.
WAKE FOREST - Inez Davis Wheeler, 86, died Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Funeral services were held Friday, Nov. 20, at Mary’s Chapel Baptist Church. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Cynthia Ann Pozzi Pena, 50, died Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. today (Saturday, Nov. 21) at Strickland Funeral Home, 211 W. Third St., Wendell.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Bill Alston, 94, who died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg. Burial will follow in the Mary Helen Jones cemetery.
The Franklinton Elementary School’s honor roll for the first nine weeks includes the following students:
By: GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Even though his team was up by 18 points -- just a few minutes into the game -- head coach John Meeks was hardly overwhelmed by the performance of the Louisburg College men’s basketball squad.
Meeks wanted to stress to his players a long-time basketball fundamental -- that you never showboat against an overmatched opponent.
That’s what Meeks felt like the Hurricanes did at times during Thursday’s 99-35 home decision over the Mount Olive College Junior Varsity at historic Holton Gymnasium on the LC campus.
WAKE FOREST -- Deficiencies can be exposed even in the biggest of blowouts.
That was evident Wednesday as the Louisburg College Lady Hurricanes drubbed Wake Tech by a 71-37 margin in a women’s basketball showdown at the historic Southeastern Bapist Theological Seminary Gymnasium.
Louisburg rolled the convincing victory against the first-year program, but LC head coach Mike Holloman was hardly thrilled.
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