LOUISBURG - Bobby “Bob” Ray Casey, 72, died Wednesday evening, Feb. 24, 2010. Funeral service will be held Sunday, Feb. 28, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home. Entombment will follow in Pine Forest Memorial Gardens.
What would we do without holidays and special occasions? How could the business world do without selling special merchandise related to celebrations? The questions can just keep on coming, making us realize that life would probably be pretty boring and insignificant without them.
All of us enjoy holidays and celebrations that make us think of spiritual matters, being thankful, family members, historical occasions, important people, New Year, and love.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A last minute filing by a former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy means Sheriff Pat Green will see some competition for his post this spring.
Sen. Doug Berger will also face spring competition from a Butner Democrat and long-time Granville County commissioner.
Green, who is seeking his second term as sheriff, declared for the post on the first day of filing — Feb. 8.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners will be asked Monday night to help a Louisburg-area business expand its operation and hire new employees.
It’s the same rest home that was the site of a rape and has been cited by the state Department of Health and Human Services for deficiencies.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County’s tobacco farmers are reeling from recent cuts to tobacco contracts, leaving them scrambling and putting a major economic development engine in turmoil.
County Cooperative Extension Agent Will Strader said area tobacco farmers have been dealing with uncertainties since the Tobacco Buyout in 2004, but the industry has been sustainable.
Workers prepare to set a new First Citizens Bank sign on Thursday morning. The sign replaces one that was smashed to bits following a wreck in front of the Bickett Boulevard business in January.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
As more Internet cafes sweep through the area, Franklinton officials are considering a moratorium on the establishments.
In recent months, businesses known as Sweepstakes Internet cafes have begun to dot the Franklin County landscape, with two in Louisburg, one in Youngsville and another within that town’s extra-territorial jurisdiction.
A Schloss woman avoided serious injury after the Ford Mustang she was driving rolled onto its top Wednesday afternoon. Sheila Branch, 41, had to be removed from the car, right, after she was pinned inside the vehicle during the wreck at about 12:20 p.m. According to Trooper C.M. Garner, Branch was traveling south on Person Road when she entered a curve. The road was covered with mud produced by logging trucks leaving a nearby work site.
Bunn resident Jasmine Neal, 10 years
Louisburg College’s Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) International Honor Society inducted 32 new members during its induction ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the Frances Boyette Dickson Auditorium.
The new members were welcomed into PTK, the International Honor Society of two-year colleges, by Advisor Louise Mitchum and the 22 current members.
The Franklinton Elementary School honor roll for the second nine week grading period includes:
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies are looking for suspects who stole more than $14,000 in equipment from a Pilot man.
According to a report by Dep. D.B. Wester, Ralph Kermit Knotts III of 109 Pilot Bypass Road reported on Wednesday that someone had stolen a trailer from his residence — between the evening of Feb. 22 and 8:30 a.m. the next day.
Knotts told investigators that he did not see anything unusual the evening before the theft.
Carvel Cheves (left) is shown with his grandsons, Ted Noe and Jacob Noe, this past Tuesday night after winning the Bunn High School Future Farmers of America reverse raffle. The Kubota Utility Vehicle was provided by Louisburg Tractor. Cheves and his grandsons are looking forward to utilizing the prize. In all, 160 tickets were purchased for $100 each for the event.
Member of NC Meat Goat Producers Inc. are encouraged to bring their goats and sheep for a collection pick-up at the weigh station off of Highway 56 West near Louisburg.
The event is slate for March 7 at 1 p.m.
The Louisburg town council unanimously agreed Friday morning to waive any objection to the change of ownership of a piece of property in its industrial park.
The land, known as lot 5, has been owned by a company that in turn is owned by Chinook Sciences, LLC, a New Jersey Limited Liability Company, which owns and operates a metal processing business at 424 T. Kemp Road, Louisburg.
A soldier from Youngsville was killed this week during the war on terror.
According to reports, Daniel T. O’Leary, 23, sustained fatal injuries during a vehicle accident on Tuesday.
O’Leary was an 82nd Airborne Division Paratrooper.
O’Leary was a motor transport operator with Company F, 307th.
Political theater might be okay in the theater — maybe.
But it’s a mighty poor way to run the country.
There has been no clearer evidence of that fact than Thursday at the joint health care forum that was an endless display of purely partisan posturing by political leaders from both political parties.
GOOD MORNING: Relief that the last vestiges of that January 29/30 snowfall and the snow that followed it the next weekend had finally disappeared was decidedly short-lived as far as I’m concerned as a result of that bone-chilling March-like wind that blew in to replace it Thursday.
Up until yesterday, we still had lingering patches of icy snow on the ground at our house dating back to January and if I had to make a choice between the two, I’d choose neither of the above.
Nineteen years! And counting.
Seems impossible to believe but it will be 19 years ago Monday, March 1, when I took a deep breath, clicked the ballpoint pen in my hand and signed on the line where the lawyers said I was supposed to sign.
In seconds, I became the new publisher/owner of The Franklin Times — and completed my escape from “Corporate America” that had been my life for two decades.
RALEIGH – As one of the nation’s chief political battlegrounds for decades, North Carolina has never lacked for breaking news or interesting trends. At the present moment, with so much going on, it may be helpful to consider North Carolina’s political future by asking three big questions:
Dear Editor:
I would like to inform Carolyn H. Hudson, first of all, my name is Julet, not Julie, thank you. I guess when you get old, your eyesight, along with other things, start to fade. Yes, I want to be one of those old folks. I totally agree with the fact that President Obama should not be excused from criticism. I did not state that he should.
Dear Editor:
Our county has truly been blessed by the late Edgar H. Owens gift of $800,000 to the Franklin County Recreation Commission for the erection of a park. It is a gift for all our people. Edgar sets out how he wants the funds used for the park.
LOUISBURG - Joseph Alvin Faulkner, 76, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 at Care Bridge Rest Home. There will be a private funeral.
BUNN – William Owen Gupton, 70, died Monday, Feb. 22, 2010.
