GREENSBORO - Mrs. Kitty Beasley Edwards, 82, of Greensboro, died Saturday, March 6, 2010, at Beacon Place.
RALEIGH - Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announced that the Louisburg Rescue & E.M.S., Inc. was awarded an $18,868.02 grant through the 2009 Volunteer Rescue/EMS Fund from the State of North Carolina.
The Seby Jones Performing Arts Center will get some religion at the end of the month.
Louisburg College will host the musical performance, the “Church Basement Ladies” on Sunday, March 28.
The comedy features four distinct characters and their relationships as they organize the food and solve the problems of a rural Minnesota church about to undergo changes in 1964.
Louisburg police arrested two Bunn men alleged to have broken into a car Friday afternoon.
According to police reports, officers arrested David McMoore, 21, and Jeremy Charles Burwell, 20, both of 35 Scarboro’s Way.
The two men were charged with breaking into a 1986 Ford Mustang which was parked in the Walmart parking lot.
Crystal Morin and Justin Nickerson announce their upcoming wedding, which will be a garden ceremony to be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 10, 2010, in Louisburg.
Wilson and Elizabeth Hedgepeth celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary on March 6 with their children, family and friends.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
WENTWORTH -- Louisburg College’s season-long motto helped the Hurricanes get through the difficult times during Sunday’s Region X Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship Game against Guilford Tech.
Guilford had defeated LC twice in the regular season -- by a combined three points, no less.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
STANHOPE -- After three straight victories to open the season, the Southern Nash Firebirds were thrown a curve Monday against the Louisburg Warriors.
Plenty of them, in fact.
LHS’ Chase Ragland, a Louisburg College signee, combined his off-speed stuff with a sneaky fastball to keep the Firebirds off the scoreboard for nearly five innings.
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg High School’s Warriors began their boys golf schedule last week under second-year head coach Chris Lee.
The Warriors hosted area foes Southern Nash and South Granville at the Bull Creek Golf and Country Club in Louisburg.
South Granville won the 18-hole competition with 359 strokes.
ROCKY MOUNT -- Bunn High School alum Ashley Driver has helped the North Carolina Wesleyan College Bishops get off to an undefeated start to the 2010 fast-pitch softball season.
Driver has teamed on the mound with junior hurler Kacie Brandes, who tossed her first collegiate no-hitter on Sunday afternoon to help Wesleyan to a doubleheader sweep of Old Westbury at Edge Field.
CHAPEL HILL -- Here is this Saturday’s schedule for the annual North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s State Basketball Championships:
LOUISBURG -- The Sunday Blues have kept the Louisburg College baseball squad from having an amazing start to its Region X schedule.
In each of their first two region series -- two weekends ago at Florence-Darlington and last weekend at Spartanburg Methodist -- the Hurricanes swept Saturday doubleheaders.
GREENVILLE -- Cam Freeman’s two-run home run in the eighth inning coupled with a strong pitching performance from Seth Maness helped No. 11 East Carolina University to a 5-4 win over in-state foe West Carolina Sunday afternoon in the Seventh Annual Keith LeClair Classic at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
Louisburg College point guard Marcellous Perez makes an entry pass into the post during the Hurricanes’ victory over Guilford Tech in Sunday afternoon’s championship game of the Region X Men’s Basketball Tournament in Wentworth.
Members of the Louisburg College men’s basketball squad celebrate Sunday after winning the Region X Tournament Championship.
Louisburg College’s Jordan Davidson (with ball) powers his way to a basket for the Hurricanes on Sunday during their victory over Guilford Tech in the Region X Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship Game at Rockingham CC.
Fletcher Wynn (with ball) delivered when it counted Sunday for Louisburg College at the Region X Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Former Bunn High School standout Ashley Driver has helped the North Carolina Wesleyan fast-pitch softball squad to an undefeated start to the 2010 campaign.
Here are a few highlights from Ervin Hunt’s recent championship performance in the 189-pound weight class at the Class 2-A State Wrestling Tournament in Winston-Salem. (Above) At the decisive moment, the referee signals a pin as Hunt wins the title match with a fall against Salisbury’s Isaiah Whitaker.
Franklinton High School student and basketball player Dustin Newton (12) attempts a 3-pointer during last Wednesday’s Hoops For Haiti Student-Faculty Game at the FHS Gymnasium. The event raised $2,000 for the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund, according to Franklinton teacher/coach Lindsay Dehart.
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. - Funeral services for Margaret Richardson Evans, 81, formerly of Hollister, who died Tuesday, March 2, 2010, will be held Monday, March 8, at 1 p.m. at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Hollister, with the Rev. Linda Tayborn, pastor, officiating. The Rev. Thomas Richardson will deliver the eulogy.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
The Franklin County Board of Education will be asked to consider a resolution of support Monday night for a new building on the local Vance-Granville Community College campus site that would be home to the Early College High School.
As currently envisioned, the proposal would be to construct a 43,000 square foot building beside the campus’s most recent classroom structure.
A Warrenton woman was rushed to the hospital following this three-vehicle wreck on U.S. 401 Thursday evening. According to Trooper C.M. Garner, Amberley Rhyne, 16, of Henderson was driving the white car in the foreground south on the two-lane highway when she came upon two cars stopped, preparing to turn left. To avoid running into the back of the vehicles, Rhyne crossed the center line and collided head-on with a sport utility vehicle, driven by Carla Hehl of Warrenton.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — If low bids hold up, town officials can look to approve a business-luring sewer project well under budget.
Engineers with Davis Martin & Powell estimated it would cost $250,000 to run a sewer line from Pocomoke Road north to N.C. 56 — serving a proposed Hardee’s restaurant and open business along that corridor.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — In a meeting that lasted about 15 minutes, town commissioners moved swiftly to tackle a dam problem that’s become a thorn in their side.
During heavy rains late last year, town officials and staff realized that its aging dam was causing erosion problems that threatened to wash out Long Mill Road below.
