ZEBULON - Jestine Lucas, 76, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010.
LOUISBURG - T. Allen Gardner passed away in Louisburg, N.C. on August 27, 2010. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Griffin Gardner; his two sons and their families: T. Allen Gardner, Jr., his wife Karen and their son, T. Allen Gardner, III; and Donald Griffin Gardner, his wife Lara and their two children, Viviane Dare Gardner and Theodore Griffin Gardner. Also surviving are his brother, James P. Gardner and his wife Anita.
WARRENTON - Selby Glenn Benton, 88, passed away peacefully with family at his side on Thursday morning, August 26, after several months of declining health.
LOUISBURG – Thelma Clifton Murphy, 89, of Louisburg, died Sunday morning.
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Louisburg woman for assaulting her boyfriend with knives.
Deputy Frederick Heisler responded to a domestic dispute at 101 Oakside Court the evening of Aug. 19, finding Walton Sullivan, 24, of Zebulon, walking in the area with blood on his shirt.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Southern Nash’s Victory Tour through Franklin County continued last Friday with a short journey to Bunn.
The Firebirds brought plenty of offensive ammunition -- and fans -- to tangle with the Wildcats in the renewal of the clubs’ backyard rivalry.
RALEIGH -- Louisburg’s strong 2009 football season began with a clutch home victory against Ravenscroft.
The Ravens, this time playing on their own field, returned the favor last Friday.
Connor Gonet, the son of Ravenscroft veteran head coach Ned Gonet, scored four touchdowns as the Ravens rolled to a 36-18 decision over the Warriors at Stefanou Field.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- New coach Ken Smith had waited to see some improved play from his Louisburg Warriors’ soccer team -- and he got his wish during the second half of Monday evening’s home opener against the Southern Vance Runnin’ Raiders.
But Louisburg’s upgraded work was foiled thanks to a later Southern Vance goal, as the Raiders left Joyner Park with a tight 3-2 conquest in the non-conference contest.
We aren’t the champions, my friend. But we’ll keep on picking ‘til the end.
Yes, we will certainly keep trying to share with everyone our ill-fated prognostications.
After offering our horrid Atlantic Coast Conference gridiron selections, we turn our attention to the National Football League.
The hope is to continue to improve with our picks, as there is certainly nowhere to go but up for either one of us.
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Listed are last week’s North Carolina high school football results:
By:
KELLEN HOLTZMAN, Henderson Dispatch
HENDERSON -- Friday night’s matchup between Northern Vance and Franklinton at Viking Stadium proved to be a game of inches.
A missed point-after touchdown off the upright in the third quarter and an offsides penalty late in the fourth damaged Northern’s chances of getting its first win in a 7-6 loss to the Red Rams.
WILSON -- The Bunn Ladycats prepared for Northern Carolina Conference play on Monday with a non-league volleyball showdown at Wilson Fike.
Bunn finished off its season sweep of the Lady Golden Demons with a convincing 25-13, 25-13, 25-14 decision at the historic Fike Gymnasium.
PEARL, MISS. -- Mississippi starting pitcher Randall Delgado pitched six perfect innings in leading the Braves past the Carolina Mudcats 6-2 at Trustmark Park on Sunday night in a Class AA Southern League diamond showdown.
Delgado (W, 2-5), a 20-year-old Panamanian, was making his seventh start at the Double-A level.
The Granville Bulls won the USSSA Summer Slam 12-Under Baseball Tournament, which was held last weekend in Mechanicsville, Va., which is located just outside of Richmond.
Several Bunn defenders team up to bring down Southern Nash’s Tracey Coppedge during last Friday’s non-conference high school football matchup on the BHS campus.
RALEIGH -- Louisburg’s strong 2009 football season began with a clutch home victory against Ravenscroft.
The Ravens, this time playing on their own field, returned the favor Friday.
Connor Gonet, the son of Ravenscroft veteran head coach Ned Gonet, scored four touchdowns as the Ravens rolled to a 36-18 decision over the Warriors at Stefanou Field.
RALEIGH - Horace Sygmund Pace, 94, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 at his home. Funeral services with military honors will be held at 11 a.m. today (Saturday, Aug. 28) at Montlawn Funeral Home chapel. The family will receive friends immediately following the service. Burial will be private.
LOUISBURG - T. Allen Gardner, 71, died Friday, Aug. 27, 2010.
RALEIGH - Roberta Walker Jeffries died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. Funeral services were held Thursday, Aug. 26, at Lea Funeral Home. Interment followed at the Baptist Grove Church cemetery.
ZEBULON - George Stephenson Currin, 90, died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 at Guardian Care. Funeral services were held Thursday, Aug. 26, at Hephzibah Baptist Church, Wendell, with the Rev. Bill Sanderson officiating. Entombment followed in the church cemetery.
These three youngsters were among those attending a Children’s Camp this summer that was sponsored by Safe Space, Inc., and funded by the North Carolina Governors’ Crime Commission. Safe Space held three weekly camps for children 7 through 15. The children who attended were from families involved in domestic violence or were referred by Juvenile Services.
Shown above, left to right, are the Franklinton Lions Club officers for the year 2010-2011: George Harris Jr., chaplain; Bill Day, secretary; Ann Goswick, Tail Twister and Lion Tamer; and Frank Edwards, president. Not pictured: Mark McArn, treasurer, and George Buck, vice president.
You still have a little time to comment on one of the most ridiculous government boondoggles to come along in many a year.
But you’d better hurry! More about that in a moment.
In the meantime, it’s important to understand that this concept of creating a network of so-called high speed rail service across the U.S. is running into a good dose of American common sense.
As this was being written a host of workmen — at least nine — swooped in on the Nash Street/Bickett Boulevard intersection just north of our office and began work on a storm drain ... which wouldn’t make news except that they had to take down the rat’s nest of signs everyone has been making fun of recently.
