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By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
While rumors swirl about the future of the Murphy House site, one of its owners remains grounded in economic reality.
“Right now, there is nothing going on with it, at all,” said Johnny Sledge.
The restaurant at the corner of Bickett Boulevard and Wade Avenue in Louisburg has been closed since Mother’s Day.
A woman living just over the Franklin County line died in a car crash Monday morning.
According to a report by Trooper Eric Hunt, Manda Salter, 56, of 5817 Rocking Chair Drive, was killed when she pulled out of her subdivision onto N.C. 96 into the path of an oncoming pickup truck.
Salter was pronounced dead at the scene.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Denton’s had just one night to share in their new house before it all came burning down on Monday.
And while smoke and flames destroyed their house, help from the community has built up their spirits.
“We have had everybody in Pilot come by and call,” said Richard Denton. “We’ve gotten more clothes in the past hours than we know what to do with.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Organizers hope a new date and a new hook brings out more equine enthusiasts this year.
The 16th Annual Franklin County Horse Farm Tour will take place this Friday — the first time in its history that it won’t be on the weekend.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
When George Harris has something cooking, it usually draws a crowd.
The Franklinton resident hopes that continues as he and and his nonprofit corporation, Franklin County Sunday School Baptist Training Union, have a few things in the works to help bring the community together.
National Night Out visitor Natalie Greene
Ashley Lynne Person and Christopher Thomas Bailey were united in marriage on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 at 5 p.m. at Benson Chapel in Louisburg. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Tom Goebel. Following the ceremony, the bride’s parents hosted a reception at Greenhill Country Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Thrower of Franklinton announce the engagement of their daughter, Catherine Belle Thrower to Gerald Edmund Cobb. The groom is the son of Forestine Cobb of Greensboro and the late Jesse Calvin Cobb of Raleigh. The wedding will take place at Manassah Chapel Baptist Church in Franklinton on Sept. 4.
Stacy and James (Jimmy) Cornelison were married June 29, 1940 in Bennettsville, S.C. A reception celebrating their 70th Wedding Anniversary was held at Center Cross Baptist Church in Asheboro, where the couple are members, with approximately 75 family members and friends attending.
Franklin County Early College High School held an orientation session and open house on Aug. 3 at Vance-Granville Community College’s Franklin County Campus. Students started classes on Aug. 4, marking the beginning of the first full year for the school, which opened in January. The high school is the newest of the four early college programs that VGCC operates in partnership with four local school systems.
It’s certainly not time to break out the bubbly.
In fact, the result was both frustrating and depressing.
After 40 years of waiting and enduring state promises and hints that the improvements to U.S. 401 in Franklin County were just around the corner, the state’s new ranking system appears to be just more of the same.
Promise and delay. Promise and delay!
GOOD MORNING: Hot enough for you yesterday? If not, the forecast calls for partly cloudy and more of the same for the balance of the week.
WASTED MONEY? Not so, Kelevra. To begin with it was $17,000 - not $25,000 that was spent on that aerial (mapping) flyover of U.S. 401 you referred to in your recent letter to the editor. The remaining $8,000 of the $25,000 the county had contributed for the survey has been returned by the state, and rather than being a waste, it represents yet another step forward in getting the vital highway upgraded.
Hey, remember the swine flu?
Exactly.
Last spring, you couldn’t get away from news of the pandemic, which, I’m assuming because pigs got offended and got a lobby, was renamed the H1N1 virus.
And then, everyone and their mother tried to get the vaccine.
Last Week’s Poll
Modular classrooms?
Do you agree with the County Commissioners’ decision to build a 12-unit modular classroom building on county property behind Emergency Services to house the Early College High School?
Worries persist about the economy. Although the economy is in better shape than it was a year ago, unemployment is still high, family budgets are still tight and confidence about the future isn’t very good.
Progress is being made in very small steps, and some economists openly talk about a return to recessionary conditions (the “double dip”) within a year.
Dear Editor,
Many thoughts came to mind as I read the Aug. 7 article of the foster parents charged with abusing an 8-month-old. As the District Administrator for the Guardian ad Litem Program and a member of the Franklin County Child Fatality team, I know these articles raise a lot of feelings and may have folks wondering what they can do.
WAKE FOREST —Randy Gene Lewis, 62, died Friday, Aug.. 6, 2010. Funeral service was held Tuesday, Aug. 10, at Hudson Funeral Chapel.
YOUNGSVILLE —Donald Charles Lake Sr., 61, died Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, at Saint Eugene Catholic Church, Wendell. Burial will be at noon Friday, Aug. 13, at the Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery, Spring Lake.
SPRING HOPE - Elizabeth Cooper, 80, died Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. today (Wednesday, Aug. 11) at Pilot Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Cooper family cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE —Hazel Eddins Hobbs, 70, died Saturday morning, Aug. 7, 2010. Funeral services were held Monday, Aug. 9, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home in Wake Forest. Burial was at the Rolesville Baptist Church cemetery.
NASHVILLE - Funeral services for William Earl Leonard, 63, who died Thursday, Aug. 5, were held Monday, Aug. 9, at First Timothy Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Willie Hedgepeth officiating. Burial followed in Oakland Cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Etta Theo Shillinger, 88, died Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, at her home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13, at Corinth Baptist Church, with the Rev. Brent Farrar officiating. A graveside service will be held Saturday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m. at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hendersonville.
LOUISBURG —Funeral services for Frances Kingsberry Eaton, 83, who died Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13, at Old Liberty Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Charles Anthony Murrill Sr. officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
WHITAKERS —Funeral services for Frank Langley, 44, who died Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, at White Oak Baptist Church, with the Rev. Donnie Daniels officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
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