ZEBULON - Wallace Conway Underhill, 86, died Saturday, December 12, 2009 at home.
KITTRELL - Cora Thomas Hunt Harris was born June 30, 1920, to James Hunt and Maggie Holden Hunt. She went home to the Lord on December 11, 2009.
Victoria Renée Muller and Justin Kyle Morgan were united in marriage on August 8, 2009 at 11 a.m. in the Main Street Park Gazebo in Rolesville.
The bride is the daughter of Douglas & Pauline (Winkler) Muller of Lake Royale, Louisburg formerly from Dolgeville, N.Y. The groom is the son of Steve & Debbie Morgan of Martinsville, Va., formerly from Louisburg.
Franklin County Sheriff Pat Green visited Franklinton Elementary fifth graders last Friday to express the importance of working hard and staying in school. Green explained to the students that they control their own destiny with the daily decisions they make. Green encouraged the students to set goals, apply themselves and resist pressures to join a gang or to do drugs. In addition, Green made it clear that applying yourself at a young age will make your life much easier in the future. The talk was included as part of the Reading is Fundamental program in place at Franklinton Elementary.
Louisburg School of Dance students (under the direction of Terri DeMent) who participated at the “Mike Curtis” clogging master class workshop. Mike Curtis is a member of “All That” clogging group, placing second on the finals of “America’s Got Talent.
Marinna Ann Michalski and Jeremy Shane Hunt are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Marlee Ann Hunt, born October 22, 2009 at 10:06 p.m. at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. She weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces and was 21 3/4 inches long.
Maternal Grandparents are Michael and Mary Michalski.
Paternal Grandparents are Barry and Francis Hunt.
When 3-year-old Travis Cox stepped into the ring to show his 262-pound pig in October, Matthew Cox just wanted to make sure his son didn’t get run over by other barrow.
Turns out that Travis Cox ran away from the competition, winning Grand Champion during the North Carolina State Fair.
His prize sold for $7,000 during the Sale of Champions.
Louisburg native Mary King Lee, daughter of Myrtle C. King and the late John W. King, won the honor of being chosen to dance with the Georgia Senior Follies of 2010. Performances will be in April 2010.
Lee won second runner-up in the Ms. Senior Georgia competition in August of this year. Her talent was a cha-cha. She was asked to audition for the Georgia Senior Follies and after viewing more than 60 audition tapes, she was one of 40 to be selected for the show.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Mike Rinfrette’s season -- and college career -- is over, but he can still be found on most days at one of his favorite places.
The weight room.
Only the locale has changed since Rinfrette finished up his exams earlier this month at Wake Forest University.
LOUISBURG -- One week after suffering a loss to Southern Vance, the Louisburg Warriors returned the favor last Friday at the LHS Gymnasium.
Thanks to a strong fourth quarter, the Warriors rallied to defeat Southern by a 61-54 margin.
Louisburg, coached by Chris Davis, is now 2-2 on the campaign.
GREENSBORO -- Louisburg College fell behind early and was defeated by Guilford Tech last Friday in the Lady Hurricanes’ final women’s basketball game before Christmas Break.
The hosts led by eight points at halftime and went on to defeat LC by a 68-60 score.
Louisburg College is now 8-3 on the season.
FRANKLINTON -- The Franklinton Lady Rams, with several key returnees, will begin their much-anticipated 2010 soccer schedule on March 1 with a home matchup against Granville Central.
FHS reached the third round of the Class 2-A State Playoffs last year.
Here is the complete worksheet, with home matches listed in CAPS:
CHAPEL HILL -- Listed are last weekend’s championship results for the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Football Playoffs:
Mike Rinfrette warms up for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons before their Atlantic Coast Conference football conquest at Duke University.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County’s fire marshal is investigating a blaze in a subdivision near Youngsville that might have claimed the life of a pet.
Bunn firefighters, with mutual aid assistance from Youngsville and Rolesville, responded to 70 Turtle Court — off Darius Pearce Road — to find the home engulfed in flames.
A woman who was the only person inside, was able to get out, but one of her pets, a cat, was not accounted for.
ZEBULON - Elbert Reginald Lewis, 83, an Army veteran of WW II, died Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Funeral service was Thursday, Dec. 10, at Pilot Baptist Church. Burial followed in Gethsemane Memorial Gardens.
The Louisburg Lions Club welcomed Steve Bryant, owner of the Carolina Mudcats baseball team, at a recent meeting. The Smithfield native and NCSU graduate explained his lifelong passion for baseball that led him to the 1989 purchase of the team. The Mudcats are a minor league Double-A team affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds. Bryant informed the club that this upcoming season will mark the 20th anniversary for the Mudcats at Five County Stadium in Zebulon and invited all Franklin County residents to come on out to the games. Pictured above are Lions Program Chairman Darrell Smith (left) and Steve Bryant.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
While one man’s trash might be another man’s treasure, residents near Bartholomew Park Way said they find nothing redeeming about a pile of junk that sits in, behind, and around one mobile home.
Some residents even accuse the tenant of using the property as a dumping ground.
The property is owned and being rented out by County Planning Board Member Willie Frank Bartholomew.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The state approved a request last month that will allow Novant Health to build a free-standing ambulatory surgery center on a small piece of property that the hospital’s former owners planned to use to relocate Franklin Regional Medical Center.
Before it assumed ownership of Franklin Regional Medical Center and other hospitals owned by Health Management Associates, Novant submitted an application to the state, requesting approval to build the center.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — The town’s Board of Commissioners said goodbye to some members of the old guard Thursday night, while welcoming a new member to its governing board.
Police Chief Larry Pritchett announced in August that he would retire as police chief at the end of this year.
Staff had a dinner in his honor earlier this month and presented him with a plaque on Thursday night — his last meeting as police chief.
The Franklin County School District has been awarded a $140,000 dropout prevention grant from the state to fund an Evening High School.
The school will be housed at the Creative Education Center in Louisburg on the Riverside Campus. The program is designed to offer an alternative time for students who are seeking course credit to get back on track with their studies or who are within a few credits of high school graduation and have dropped out of school. Middle school students who have fallen behind in their studies are also eligible.
By:
Gary Cunard, Times Publisher
Tales about one of Franklin County’s most fascinating characters from another era echoed through the Person Place home on the campus of Louisburg College Thursday night as part of the annual meeting of the Person Place Preservation Society.
Featured guest was David W. Hursh, whose recently completed book Good Music and Good Medicine is a biography of Mrs. Joe Person.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The N.C. Center for Missing Persons canceled a Silver Alert that it issued back in September in hope that it would help locate a missing Franklin County man.
Roger Wade Ayscue’s family and friends reported him missing this past summer after not hearing from him or seeing him before The Independence Day holiday.
Louisburg High student Lauren Joyner
On Saturday, Dec. 19, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., the Rex Blood Services Bloodmobile will be parked at the entrance to Lake Royale. Blood donations are especially critical during the holiday months. About 1 in 5 people entering a hospital will require a blood transfusion during their stay. Each year, 4.5 million Americans are saved by blood transfusions.
