By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLINTON -- Taking advantage of every opportunity is paramount during a pitcher’s duel in a fast-pitch softball game.
That’s why Bunn High School head coach Melanie Lovin was thrilled with her club’s offensive execution during Thursday’s road matchup against Northern Carolina Conference foe Franklinton.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLINTON -- Bunn used the comeback route to defeat Louisburg in Northern Carolina Conference baseball action Wednesday evening.
One day later, the Wildcats took a different tact against Franklinton -- but still achieved the same result.
GREENVILLE -- UNC-Wilmington scored six runs in the final two innings and walked out town with a 15-13 win over No. 23 East Carolina Wednesday night at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
With the win the Seahawks improve to 14-10 and snap the Pirates’ (17-9) eight-game winning streak.
High School Baseball
LOUISBURG EASTER TOURNAMENT
At LOUISBURG COLLEGE
Bunn High School’s J.W. Harrah lifts a home run to left-center field during the Wildcats’ home baseball victory Wednesday evening versus conference rival Louisburg.
Franklinton High School shot put artist Ebony Cotten heaves an attempt during the Lady Rams’ track and field meet Wednesday versus Bunn.
Louisburg pitcher Gray Ayscue throws the ball to first base to retire a Bunn batter during Wednesday evening’s game at the BHS Baseball Field.
Residents in House District 49 must begin looking for new representation after Gov. Beverly Perdue appointed Lucy Allen to a vacated position on the North Carolina Utilities Commission this week.
From Staff Reports
Residents in House District 49 must begin looking for new representation after Gov. Beverly Perdue appointed Lucy Allen to a vacated position on the North Carolina Utilities Commission this week.
By:
Gary Cunard, Times Publisher
It looks as if the 2010-11 Franklin County Schools’ budget is going to look basically like the current year’s budget.
Acting quickly and unanimously Monday night, the Board of Education put its stamp of approval on a budget that would increase current expense categories by $340,059 over the current year and bump the request for capital outlay funds by $146,673.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Sheriff Pat Green didn’t establish a satellite office in Iraq, but when Sgt. Robert Legnante was last deployed there, he felt just as connected to the sheriff’s office as anyone.
Because of the office’s commitment to him and his family while he was deployed, Legnante recommended the office receive a Patriot Award from North Carolina Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, an organization of the Department of Defense.
Above, Chandler Winstead plucks a colorful gift from the Youngsville Library grounds during an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday afternoon.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklinton police are investigating a shooting that’s turning out to be more of a mystery than usual.
Emergency communications received a call at about 2:45 p.m. on Friday from Zachery Poole who said he was suffering from a gunshot wound.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — Little Kamdyn Linley Hays couldn’t wait.
Doctors figured she’d be ready for her debut on April 30.
Family and friends planned a baby shower this past Sunday, figuring that they had given themselves plenty of cushion before her birth.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
With the flick of 22 pens last week, President Obama signed health care reform legislation that would expand coverage to 32 million Americans who were previously uninsured.
And while the full impact of the legislation is not slated to be felt until 2014, health care officials have not wasted any time trying to figure out what it will mean.
Charlotte native Jennifer Westfall is the new public relations and marketing specialist at Franklin Regional Medical Center in Louisburg.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Vance-Granville Community College recently sent a group of volunteers to Research Triangle Park to continue the college’s tradition of helping UNC-TV with the public broadcasting network’s on-air “Festival 2010” fundraiser. Students and staff members traveled to the UNC-TV studio on March 21 and worked the phones for several hours, all the while proudly wearing their VGCC Vanguards T-shirts.
The Louisburg Rescue Squad members pictured above recently took the EMT-Intermediate class. Back row (standing) are Megan Brewer, Milli Hendrickson, Devan Finch, Jennifer Vroman, Larry Varner and Megan Williby; front row (kneeling) are Calvinata Alston and Jarad Nobles. Louisburg Rescue and EMS (formed in 1948) was the first rescue squad in Franklin County and is the second or third oldest rescue squad in the state of North Carolina.
Kaitlyn Elizabeth Connelly of Youngsville participated in the Governor’s Page Program in Raleigh. Kaitlyn spent a week gaining valuable life experience and providing administrative support as a page for the Office of the Governor for the week of March 22-26.
There was a wake-up call for many of us in that spectacular fire that virtually destroyed the Chatham County Courthouse last Thursday afternoon and evening.
Amazingly, there were no injuries reported even though the historic structure was occupied at the time the fire broke out — and even though firemen faced a very dangerous task in trying to deal with the blaze that sent flames flickering high into the late afternoon sky.
GOOD MORNING: It looks like pretty smooth sailing weather wise at least thru Saturday with sunny skies and temperatures in the 80’s Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
MORE THAN ONE DARRYL WRIGHT? I’m getting two entirely different pictures in regards to the Bunn-Pilot area man who’s running against veteran Sheriff Pat Green in the May 4th Democratic Primaries.
Score another point for puttering around on the computer.
In my lifetime, the term research has gone from meaning spending countless hours inside a quiet, dusty library to clicking a few keys to gain access to the information super highway.
I guess it’s only right that the same sort of transition would exist in police work.
Last Week’s Poll
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Are you glad healthcare reform passed?
No other economic statistic receives as much attention as jobs. As well it should, because without jobs, households and families couldn’t buy and spend, and the economy would collapse. Therefore, most people judge the condition of the economy by one simple test – are jobs increasing?
