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FRANKLINTON —Edith Wall “Tabbie” Ross, 84, died Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, Sept. 29) in the chapel of Hall Wynne Funeral Home, Franklinton, with the Rev. Clyde Waiden officiating. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery.
WAKE FOREST —Thelma Eleanor Jones Griffin, 96, formerly of Louisburg, died Saturday Sept. 25, 2010 at Hillside Nursing and Rehab Center in Wake Forest. A private interment will be held at a later date.
LOUISBURG - Mary Guagenty Matthews died Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. A funeral service will be held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Louisburg on Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 5 p.m.
BRONX, NY - Funeral services for Viola Wilson, 77, formerly of Vance County, who died Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, were held Saturday, Sept. 25, at Allen Chapel Baptist Church. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON —Lillie Mae Reagan, infant daughter of Danielle O’Neal and Christopher Reagan, died Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh.
WAKE FOREST - Sadie Mae Watkins, 89, died Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010 at Hillside Nursing Center. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. today (Wednesday, Sept. 29) at the Falls Community Church cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE-Leslie A. “Speck” Freeman, 61, died Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Funeral services were held Monday morning, Sept. 27, at Harris Chapel Baptist Church. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Margaret M. Pearce, 82, daughter of the late Troy McCune Pearce and Lizzie Alford Pearce, died Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Funeral service was Monday, Sept. 27, at Bunn Methodist Church. Burial followed in Bunn Cemetery.
RALEIGH - Arthur Theron Strickland, 95, died Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. A local service was held Saturday, Sept. 25, at Springmoor Retirement Community. He will be interred with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on Dec. 30, 2010 at 9 a.m. In order to be a part of this service, it is imperative that attendees arrive by 8:30 the morning of.
FRANKLINTON - Odelle Barwick Taylor 90, of Franklinton, (formerly of Seven Springs, NC) died Friday, September 24, 2010. She was preceded in death by her husband, H. Ray Taylor, Sr.; her parents, Ben and Penny Barwick of Seven Springs, NC; sisters, Ruth Benton and Martha Raye Holland.
LOUISBURG - Louis Thurman Perdue, 72, a lifelong native of Franklin County, died peacefully on Friday, September 24, 2010, at Duke University Medical Center after a lengthy illness. He was a lifelong farmer and member of Trinity United Methodist Church. He was the son of the late Thurman Hight Perdue and the late Mary Helen Cottrell Perdue, born on June 16, 1938. He was preceded in death by a sister, Martha Ann P. Peoples, and a brother, Philip Sterling Perdue.
CONWAY, S.C. - Benjamin Elexy “Benjie” Edge, Jr. of Conway, S.C., died September 27, 2010 at his residence. He was a native of Conway and the Hand Community, and the widower of the late Jean Lowell Johnson Edge (formerly of Louisburg, N.C.) and a son of the late Benjamin Elexy Edge, Sr. and Charlotte Anna Bourne Edge. Mr. Edge was the owner of the Edge Stables and a retired farmer. He was a Trustee on the North Myrtle Beach School Advisory Board (1974-1986), a Trustee on the Grand Strand Career Center Advisory Board (1975-1985), and Past Chairman (1984-1986) of the Grand Strand Career Center Advisory Board.
Michael and Sandra Pearce, parents, and David Pearce, big brother, are proud to announce the birth of Gentry Grace Pearce, born July 15, 2010 at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount. She weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Walmart is helping 10 teachers at Louisburg Elementary School to purchase classroom supplies as part of its Teacher Rewards program. Nationally, Walmart and Sam’s Club locations are awarding more than 45,000 educators with $100, infusing $4.5 million to schools across America.
Vance-Granville Community College has announced that 13 students earned Dean’s List honors for the Summer Semester that ended in August. To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student had to maintain a 3.5 grade-point average and have no grade lower than “B” while carrying at least 12 semester hours, according to VGCC Vice President of Instruction Angela Ballentine.
Nine students at Kerr-Vance Academy have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams.
The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams.
So, President Obama wants children to stay in school longer each day.
It’s about time that someone woke up to that major problem in the American education system!
We build giant, multi-million dollar buildings and then buy fleets of school buses, labs full of computers, etc., and then use them — at most — 180 days a year. Show us an industry or other business that could survive with that business plan.
GOOD MORNING: Whoopeeeee!!! It rained, and it rained, and it rained some more. According to the little rain gauge on my front porch Tuesday morning, we had received a total of 3.8 inches since Saturday. And, if I’m not mistaken, that amount represents our total rainfall not only since Saturday, but for the entire month of September as well.
The Internet.
When it was first introduced, it was suppose to bring worlds together with the click of a mouse.
Of course, after seeing our own website bloggers hash their issues out in the blogosphere, under the anonymity that the Internet provides, I wonder is it doing more to rip us all apart.
Last Week’s Poll
Worth the effort?
With funding lined up to build a connector road from US 401 to the airport hub site, do you believe the Triangle North Industrial Park will ever amount to anything substantial?
RALEIGH – I am, by nature, an optimistic fellow.
Despite North Carolina’s summer dry spell, for example, I haven’t given up on my lawn. I still get out the mower each weekend, check the gas and oil, crank up an audiobook, and spend exactly five minutes trimming the patch of crabgrass that is the only green and growing part of my front yard.
Students enrolled in Bioprocess Technology courses at Vance-Granville Community College recently had the opportunity to see for themselves the next steps they could take in their education.
Students from both the college’s main campus in Vance County and the Franklin County Campus traveled to the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE) at North Carolina Central University in Durham on Sept. 1.
Louisburg College welcomed 15 new members to Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) International Honor Society during its induction ceremony on Thursday, September 2, in the Frances Boyette Dickson Auditorium.
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