ZEBULON -- The Tennessee Smokies broke a 2-2 tie with a run in the top of the eighth to defeat the Carolina Mudcats 3-2 in front of a crowd of 6,871 fans at Five County Stadium on Sunday night.
Tennessee (43-26) broke a scoreless game in the top of fifth when Tony Thomas homered off Carolina starter, James Avery and the Smokies took a 1-0 lead.
Mallori Williams and the Franklinton Lady Rams returned to their Northern Carolina Conference girls tennis schedule Tuesday with a road match at Warren County. (Times photo by Geoff Neville)
Ravenscroft’s Lewis Stocks picks up yardage during last Friday night’s contest against the Franklinton Red Rams. The Ravens rallied to secure a 28-24 road decision over the Red Rams in non-conference gridiron action at the FHS Football Field.
Franklinton High School defenders (l to r) Kendrick Teasley, Justin Puett and Ezel Rogers gather round Ravenscroft quarterback Quinn Billerman during last Friday’s non-conference gridion matchup, which was staged at the FHS Football Field.
CASTALIA - Martha Vines Cooper of Brooklyn, N.Y., formerly of Castalia, died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Funeral service will be held Sunday, Sept. 5, at 2 p.m. at William Toney’s Funeral Home, Spring Hope. Interment will follow at the Vines family cemetery in Stem.
FRANKLINTON — Joseph Douglas Wilson, 76, died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 at Britthaven in Louisburg. Funeral services were Friday, Sept. 3, at Flowers Funeral Chapel in Henderson, conducted by the Rev. Sam Brewer and the Rev. Clyde Waiden. Burial followed in the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON—Mary F. Scott, 82, died Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Arrangements by Cutchins Funeral Home, Franklinton.
LOUISBURG - Lula Elizabeth Pearce Cash, 93, of Louisburg, died Thursday, September 2, 2010 at Hillside Nursing Center. She was born in Franklin County, the daughter of the late Annie Wheeler Pearce and S. Talmadge Pearce. Mrs. Cash was a long-time member of Flat Rock Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School and helped with Vacation Bible School for many years and was a charter member of William B. Barrow Chapter #39 Order of the Eastern Star.
WakeMed Health & Hospitals announced this week that Raleigh Cardiology Associates (RCA) and WakeMed have signed an agreement that brings RCA together as part of WakeMed’s hospital-based physician practice, known as WakeMed Faculty Physicians.
Pictured above, from left, Ed Wheeler, past chairman of the Franklin County Agriculture Board, was presented a plaque by incoming chairman, Steve Mitchell, for his leadership and dedication to agriculture in the county while serving on the county’s Agriculture Board. The presentation was made at the board’s September meeting.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Country 102’s sound, unique for its country twang and local color, turned to static this week.
Aug. 31 marked the last broadcast for the FM station as Curtis Media group pulled the plug after six years of ownership.
“It was six years of losing money,” said Don Curtis, founder of Curtis Media Group, which bought the station from Mollie Evans and the Evans family back in 2003.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Police arrested two Louisburg residents accused of targeting downtown businesses, the bulk of which occurred last weekend.
Investigators arrested Damon Latez Evans, 17, and Altee David Williams, 26, on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, respectively, charging them with five counts of breaking and entering and larceny.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
Such are the limitless boundaries of J. Enid Drake’s influence that a young boy he once displayed compassion toward — albeit almost 50 years ago — would return one day to become the print caretaker of Drake’s magical life story.
J. Andrews Smith -- known as ‘Jerry’ to his close friends and ‘Duck’ to even closer friends — was a resident at the Free Will Baptist Children’s Home in Nash County when Drake was a coach at Middlesex High School.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Youngsville teenager was sentenced to at least a year in jail, the result of a plea in a case that began with allegations of sexual battery.
Joshua Kyle Jackson, 19, pled guilty to second-degree burglary in Franklin County Superior Court this week.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Proprietors of a new medical clinic will introduce themselves to the Franklin County community this weekend.
Beckford Centerville Medical Clinic will begin serving residents in the immediate and adjoining areas beginning in October.
The practice, which will serve patients with and without insurance, will try to fill the needs of rural, family health care.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Sen. Richard Burr’s campaign train stopped at Louisburg High School on Wednesday, giving impromptu civics and history lessons along the way.
For the past few weeks, the United States senator has been crisscrossing the state, making time to stop in Louisburg.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
County infrastructure and planning staff will ask that commissioners not extend the approval period for development projects that lay dormant because of the recession.
The item will be on the Franklin County Board of Commissioner’s agenda this coming Tuesday night.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
The Franklin County Committee of 100 approved a loan maintenance agreement between the town of Louisburg and the committee on Thursday morning.
The agreement provides for the Committee of 100 to administer a U.S. Department of Agriculture loan of $50,000 to Louisburg Gardens nursing home.
Former Bunn resident Bobby Britt
Sheriff’s deputies arrested break-in suspects following a chase earlier this week.
According to a report by Det. Kevin White, he was patrolling Hart Road on Aug. 30 in the vicinity of a residence that had previously been broken into when he came across a suspicious vehicle.
This motorcycle sustained only a few scratches after Virginia Ortiz Garcia, 40, made a left turn from Jolly Street onto Bickett Boulevard, pulling into the path of the bike’s rider, David McCracken, 44, of Louisburg, who is in the background on the stretcher. He was taken to the hospital, but his injuries were not life-threatening. Garcia was charged with making an improper left turn.
Boy, we certainly hope that the special advisory panel Gov. Bev Perdue appointed to make recommendations on the Highway Patrol is an all-volunteer bunch!
Looking over the first of their few recommendations is a cause for pause — and literally begs the question: Isn’t this all just common sense?
GOOD MORNING: One might think that what with current troubles at the SBI and SHP, that we had trouble enough here in North Carolina, but that was before Hurricane Earl posed a threat to Cape Hatteras and other areas along the Outer Banks Thursday night.
Horrors! Getting old is for the birds — especially the supposed “getting mellow” part of aging to say nothing of the out-of-touch part.
Apparently I’m becoming a victim.
Long disparaged because of a propensity to fire off a stinging one-liner on occasion, I actually found myself hesitating on a nearly perfect opportunity this week.
