Residents and visitors were treated to a taste of the country on Saturday and Sunday as part of the Franklin County Farm Foods & Crafts Tour & Local Food Festival & more tour. Ten Franklin County farms were on display, along with the foods, arts and crafts of local farmers and artisans. The goal of the tour, organizers said, was to connect people with agricultural opportunities in Franklin County. Above, Tyler Kurth, foreground, shows off a strawberry at Strickland’s Strawberry & Produce Farm, one of the stops on the tour, with his mother, Kirsten, in the background.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Members of the county’s agriculture community expressed their support for a long-time cooperative extension agent hoping to be the department’s new leader.
Seven farmers and members of the county’s Agriculture Advisory Committee asked commissioners to support Martha Mobley as the agency’s new director.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners took action Monday night that gives staff the authority to dispose of abandoned manufactured homes.
The county will be able to take advantage of a $40,000 grant that can be used to deconstruct, dispose and recycle materials from identified structures.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Commissioners agreed Mon-day night to move forward with a plan that could bring improved emergency communications to the county.
Commissioners and staff have a long history of trying to procure better service, going back to the early 2000s when the county spent $700,000 to upgrade its radio communications system to address radio and pager dead spots within the county.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
A teenage hangout, built in the 1950s and long gone since its heyday, still brings people together each year in downtown Youngsville.
The Lake Donna Party, in its fifth year, is a community event put on by the Youngsville Area Business Association (YABA).
It hosted a crowd of about 500 Saturday night.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Boys and Girls Club in Franklin County has formed a partnership with the United Way of Franklin County, Time Warner Cable and a Raleigh cycling team to promote the health and benefits of peddle power.
The Raleigh All Star Cycling Team has long worked with the Boys and Girls Club in Wake Forest, sponsoring races to benefit the club and hosting events to promote cycling.
Austin House grabs hold of a dream catcher she purchased from a vendor at Fun in the Sun, a spring festival held by the Franklinton Chamber of Commerce on Saturday. Festivities were scaled back a bit this year when the carnival vendor was not available.
Bunn resident Chris Lewis
Colton Gibbs, from Edward Best Elementary School, was awarded second place in the N.C. Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts poster contest.
The contest is open to third- through sixth-grade students and the state event was held April 30 in the offices of the NC Division of Soil & Water Conservation in Raleigh.
The Louisburg Lions Club recently enjoyed a program presented by Gail Yashar, Family Services supervisor with Duke Homecare & Hospice. Franklin County is one of the many communities served by this organization. Standing, left to right, are Lions President Phil Mueller, Ms. Yashar, and Lions program chairman Walter McDonald.
Ralph Davis and Gwen Wood were married on May 8, 1960. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary May 8, 2010, with family and friends, at a dinner party hosted by their children, Dawn Davis and Pamela and Adam Nelms, and their grandchildren, Madison and Emma Nelms. (Submitted photo)
Kala Bacon of Louisburg graduated from Navy boot camp in Great Lakes, Ill., on May 7.
She is the daughter of Donnie and Penny Autrey and a 2008 graduate of Bunn High School. She is studying to be a machinist mate.
Students from Franklin County who made the Fall 2009 Dean’s List at N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro are as follows:
A Louisburg woman and her two grandchildren escaped serious injury Monday morning after a downed tree forced the truck she was driving off the road and into a group of trees. Emergency responders said Donna Arnold, 57, was traveling north on U.S. 401, just before the Cascine Plantation, when a tree fell, shattering the windshield and obstructing Arnold’s view.
prank
noun
a practical joke or mischievous act.
That’s the official definition of a prank.
By contrast, here is the definition of a threat:
GOOD MORNING: When you come to think of it, the large majority of us have a lot to be thankful for every morning that we wake up, but that was especially true here in Franklin County last week when an alert “community member” discovered an apparent plot by perhaps as many as three students at Terrell Lane Middle School here in Louisburg to assault one of their teachers with knives while surfing a social networking website and, thank God, blew the whistle on them, thereby possibly preventing a great tragedy.
The idea of manufactured homes is always a touchy matter.
One person’s castle could be another person’s eyesore.
For some time now, city/county Code Enforcement Officer Griff Gardner has been the beholder.
After Monday night, he could also be the bearer of good news.
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A Zebulon-area toddler who captured the hearts of Franklin County residents and those beyond died this past weekend.
Ethan Benoit, who battled a rare genetic skeletal disease, died on Sunday according to family and published reports.
Benoit was three.
Funeral arrangements were not complete by press time.
Louisburg police are looking for a suspect who assaulted a pizza delivery person.
According to a report by Officer R.J. Harris, Christy Renee Holden, a Domino’s Pizza employee, was in the parking lot of the In & Out Store on S. Main Street when someone assaulted her at about 10:15 p.m. on Saturday.
ZEBULON - Alice Pope Wall, 94, died Sunday, May 16, 2010. Funeral service will be at 3 p.m. today (Wednesday, May 19) at Strickland Funeral Home Chapel, 211 W. Third St., Wendell.
FRANKLINTON— Robert Edward “Bo” Perry, 81, died Friday afternoon, May 14, 2010 at Wake Medical Center. Funeral services were Sunday, May 16, at Franklinton Baptist Church, with the Rev. David Averette officiating. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery.
ANGIER - Doris Finch Zacny, 87, died Sunday, May 16, 2010. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. today (Wednesday, May 19) at Bryan-Lee Funeral Home chapel in Angier, with burial to follow at the Angier Primitive Baptist Church.
BUNN – Cory James Wells, 30, died Sunday morning, May 16, 2010.
