By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — While there was a bitter cold outside Saturday, there was nothing but warmth inside the offices of the local Rolling Thunder chapter as they took up two efforts to better the lives of veterans.
First, the organization awarded its raffle winners, part of a fundraising effort the group uses to assist a number of veterans organizations.
Bunn and Alert held Franklin County’s last two Christmas parades Saturday. Above, Fred Stewart dresses Xero, an American bulldog, in his Christmas best before the Bunn Christmas parade on Saturday morning.
A Youngsville man was killed in a head-on collision on Saturday, making him one of at least 15 people mortally wounded on North Carolina roads last week, the Highway Patrol said.
According to a report by Wake Forest police, Robert Ernesto Harris, 37, was driving a Honda at about 3 a.m. when he collided with a van on the U.S. 1 northbound exit ramp to N.C. 98 bypass.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A subcommittee of the county’s airport commission is set to begin interviews this week, moving to fill its vacated director’s slot.
The airport commission has also tasked its attorney with drafting rules of operation that will help direct airport staff, as well as tenants and businesses on the grounds.
Rob Southerland resigned the airport manager’s position in October to renew his commitment to the Air Force.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklinton Mayor Elic Senter hopes to engage a segment of the population that isn’t exactly the electorate, but they will be the town’s future.
Taking a page from Wake Forest Mayor Vivian Jones’ playbook, Senter is proposing to create a Youth Advisory Council — giving the town’s youth a direct voice into town politics and practices.
Novozymes will conduct an emergency ammonia alarm test on Friday, sounding an alarm from 10 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. that won’t require any action from the public other than being vigilant.
Novozymes regularly tests its emergency response procedures for the storage and use of anhydrous ammonia on site.
The alarm and drill will give the company a chance to practice what it would do in a real emergency.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
No sooner than the Franklin County Board of Education got organized for next year than it basked in good news in the form of an audit report that was called “as good as you can get.”
The school board re-elected Paige Sayles as chairman and elected John May as vice chairman, setting the stage for next year.
And then Mark Soticheck II, a CPA with the accounting form of Dixon Hughes of Raleigh, told the board that his firm was issuing a “clean, unqualified opinion” about the state of the school system’s books.
These students who attended Bunn High School received their high school diplomas Monday night at the meeting of the Franklin County Board of Education. Holding their brand new diplomas are these now-official graduates of Franklin County Schools, all of whom were presented diplomas by Board Chairman Paige Sayles and Superintendent Eddie Ingram (on the left) and Bunn High School Principal Robin Faulkner (right). Receiving their diplomas were (left to right) Mark Antthony, Robert Stewart, Robert Anthony Denning, Daniel Faircloth, Mark Glenn Mitchell and Kenneth Stanley.
Teshay Merritt is all smiles after he received his high school diploma Monday night at the Franklin County Board of Education meeting. He received his diploma from board Chairperson Paige Sayles and Superintendant Eddie Ingram, on the left, and Franklin High School Principal Charles Fuller.
Louisburg High School’s Javier Granados
ALONG FOR THE RIDE. Allison Moore, left, gives Maggie Hill a wagon ride during the Bunn Christmas parade. (Times photo by Donna Cunard)
Vada Grace Tharrington, left, and Taylor Tharrington bundle up during the Alert Christmas parade on Saturday.
Scott Pleasants lets a Christmas-decorated Lulu peek out during the Alert parade.
A man who Franklinton Police thought might be a suspect in a series of car break-ins turned out to be someone who was scared of authority.
For his actions, Stevie Conneil Pender, 37, was charged with resisting, obstructing and delaying a police officer.
According to a report by Sgt.. W.B. Bulloch, he and Officer Kevin Watt were on patrol during the early morning hours of Dec. 8 when they came upon two black men dressed in all black walking west on College Street.
The highly qualified, well organized folks who toil daily in the business and finance office are a nightmare for newspaper reporters and editors.
But at the same time, they are an absolute jewel for the taxpayers!
This year, the outside accountant hired to audit the Franklin County School District’s books issued a “clean, unqualified opinion” about the district’s books for the last fiscal year.
GOOD MORNING: Got questions about the $25,000 authorized by the County Commissioners for an aerial survey or other matters pertaining to widening U.S. 401 in Franklin County?
The U.S. 401 Citizens Action Committee (a sub-committee of the county’s Committee of 100) meets at 7 p.m. tonight (Wednesday) at Louisburg High School. It’s free and open to the public. Be there!
There are many reasons why people cast the ballots they do.
It may be out of strict party allegiance.
It may come down to views about abortion.
Sometimes it may come down to: ‘hey, I know that guy and I believe he would do well in office.’
It may even be a choice of the lesser of two evils, or three, or four, depending on how many people are running.
And for the uninformed voter, it may come down to Eeny Meeny Miny Moe.
$25,000 for 401 pics?
Should the commissioners have given the Hwy. 401 Citizen’s Action Committee $25,000 for aerial photographs of Hwy. 401?
Being 66 years of age and an avid reader of newspapers, as long as I can remember, I think I have read every story and news item printed over these years. Over this time it is amazing and sad, to me, to see the slow changing of our political climate. We the citizens, vote these people into office with the idea they will represent us in Washington or at home and do what is right for us and the great country of AMERICA. This I’m afraid is going to be USE TO BE GREAT COUNTRY. If you look at the laws that are passed and the pork barrel that goes with each bill, plus the never ending wars, it is slowly draining this country of any hope of getting out of debt.
LOUISBURG - Hattie Dunston Alston, 81, died Saturday, December 12, 2009. Funeral services will be conducted today (Wednesday, Dec. 16) at 1 p.m. at Jones Chapel Baptist Church with Rev. Anthony Sanders officiating. Burial will follow in the Ellis family cemetery.
KITTRELL - Cora Thomas Hunt Harris, 89, died Friday, December 11, 2009. Funeral services will be conducted today (Wednesday, Dec. 16) at 1 p.m. at the Richardson Funeral Home chapel in Louisburg. Burial will follow in the Harris family cemetery.
WAKE FOREST - Lieutenant Harry Philip “Flip” Kissinger, VI, 35, died Friday, December 11, 2009 at WakeMed surrounded by his family.
WAKE FOREST - Patricia Thomas Bennett, 74, recently of Wake Forest, died Friday, December 11, 2009 following an extended illness.
ZEBULON - Linda Lou Harrington Bouren, 60, died Friday, December 11 2009 at home surrounded by family.
