FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Listed are last weekend’s individual and game winners from The Franklin Times Football Contest:
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Everything about the weekend was enjoyable to Louisburg College women’s basketball coach Mike Holloman -- except for the ending.
Still, Holloman’s Lady Hurricanes were able to pick up a pair of victories against solid opponents -- though LC was in survival mode down the stretch of Sunday’s tourney finale against Allegany College.
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Here are last week’s results and this week’s schedule for the Class 2-A and Class 2-AA State Football Playoffs:
REIDSVILLE -- They haven’t lost a game since 200, so why should the Reidsville Rams start now?
Reidsville, a 17-time state football champion, took another step toward No. 18 by rolling past the Bunn Wildcats last Friday in the second round of the Class 2-AA State Playoffs.
The Rams are now on a 45-game winning streak after handling Bunn by a 66-6 margin.
East Bladen’s Rasheem Smith turned this simple screen pass into a touchdown for the Eagles, who went on to defeat Louisburg last Friday in football playoff action.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The holiday season is close at hand, but county finance staff have welcomed an early Christmas present.
Through three months, the county’s sales tax collection is ahead of budget by a total of about $150,000.
“We’re showing small signs of growth,” said county Finance Director Chuck Murray. “That’s good news for us.”
According to finance statistics, the county has collected $751,279, $727,612 $712,316 through the first three months of the fiscal year beginning in July.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Whether or not charges against a former medical examiner proceed in state court will be determined by a three-judge appellate court.
Attorneys for Dr. J.B. Perdue argued in appeals court this week that Perdue is entitled to sovereign immunity, as well as public official immunity in the case.
The family of Larry Green filed a lawsuit in Franklin County Superior Court in December of 2007, claiming that Perdue, Franklin County and a host of firefighters and paramedics were responsible for poor health care which resulted in Green’s crippled state.
Franklinton Public Utilities Director Raymond Bragg, above, and his staff put up Christmas decorations along Main Street, which will be the site of the town’s Dec. 3 parade.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
There was a pinch of good economic news in the air Thursday morning as the Franklin County Economic Development Commission endorsed efforts to land a new company, learned that the county unemployment rate has stabilized and even dipped a little and was told that county staff members are ready with a new “toolbox” of ideas to help existing business and industry.
The EDC board endorsed a $750,000 matching grant application that county staff is helping prepare for Palziv North America, a company that is considering locating a new plant in the former HON building on NC 56 just west of Louisburg.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
Palziv North America, Franklin County’s newest prospective industry, reaped up to another $20,000 in incentives Wednesday morning not long after receiving $250,000 from the county in an attempt to lure a factory here.
The state announced earlier this month that it would provide a $250,000 grant through its One North Carolina Fund to bring Palziv’s North America headquarters to the HON building on NC 56 just west of Louisburg -- a grant that Monday night was matched by Franklin County.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A group of local leaders met for the first time on Wednesday with the goal of getting everyone in Franklin County counted.
For months, now, U.S. Census Bureau agents have been attending town, county and civic meetings trying to get the word out about the upcoming 2010 census.
Part of their effort has been urging communities to form Complete Count Committees because local people have the insight necessary to preach the importance of the census to their neighbors.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — The town’s board of commissioners worked through a fairly uneventful agenda Tuesday night, highlighted by an agreement that will bolster the town’s code of ordinances.
The town’s Code of Ordinances was adopted in 1989 and was last amended in 2006.
Since the original document was adopted, most significantly, the town switched to a town council-manager form of government, streamlining the line of authority within town government.
Louisburg College student Tyjaura Walker
Nash Community College recently awarded the 2009-2010 Jimmy and Mary Charles Holmes Memorial Scholarship to second-year Criminal Justice student Gary Macovitz of Louisburg. He is the first to receive the scholarship, which was established in 2008.
Upon graduation, Macovitz plans to pursue a career in juvenile justice or crime scene investigation. He has been a volunteer with Guardian Ad Litem in Franklin, Vance, Granville and Warren counties for the past few years.
The town of Louisburg’s Electric Department has been honored for having no lost-time accidents during 2008 by Electri-Cities, the town’s source of electrical energy. It’s not exactly a first-time honor for the local electrical workers. Louisburg’s department has had only two years since 1981 when there was time lost because of an accident. This year, electric department employees were presented a safety plaque during the regular Monday night town council meeting. Shown here are (left to right) Utility Director Ray Patterson, Colt Dickerson, Larry Perry, Mike Ayscue, Paul Jones, Jim Shill, the director of safety and training from Electri-Cities who presented the award, Donald Grice and Dominick LaFella. (Submitted photo)
Vance-Granville Community College recently announced that a new scholarship has been established in honor of J. Pratt Winston and in memory of his wife, Gwendolyn Blackwell Winston. The Winstons are well-known Granville County business leaders who founded Winston International Ltd. in Oxford. Gwen Winston died earlier this year.
Bethany Sledge, a seventh-grade student at Bunn Middle School, won a recent local poster contest sponsored by the Pilot Lions Club.
Sledge’s poster was among more than 375,000 entries submitted worldwide in the 22nd annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest. Lions Clubs International is sponsoring the contest to emphasize the importance of world peace to young people everywhere.
The Franklin County Solid Waste Task Force (SWTF) recently sponsored “Big Sweep” events in two locations in cooperation with the N.C. Big Sweep organization’s annual cleanup.
Louisburg College students volunteered to clean up on North Main Street in Louisburg. This event netted a total of 30 bags of trash and eight bags of recyclables. Twenty students participated, including many football players, along with Louisburg College President Mark La Branche, Representative Lucy Allen, SWTF member Betty Edwards, Keep America Beautiful Director Ed Shearin and Nicholas Shearin.
You might recall a Sept. 17, 2005 Franklin Times article about the golf team at Louisburg College (LC). At that time, Charles Sloan, LC golf coach, had two exchange students playing on his team.
From Halmstad, Sweden was Jens-Roberts Berntson, and from Saltillo, Mexico was Josue Garza Corralas. Both were foreign students who helped the college win some victories. Garza was a co-captain for the Louisburg College golf team from 2005-2007.
Sh-h-h-h! Don’t say this out loud or at least, don’t say it very loudly.
Over the last several days, several public officials who are supposed to be in positions where they know this kind of thing, are saying that there are some “green shoots” becoming visible in Franklin County’s economy.
Following a long, brutal “winter” of economic problems, job losses, business closing, foreclosures and related stresses and strains, any bit of good news on the economic front is more than welcome.
It’s the silly season!
With “Black Friday” less than a week away -- and in a year when retailers are anticipating another bleak holiday shopping season -- some of the big guys are pulling out all the stops.
One retailer -- and you would instantly recognize the name -- shipped preprints (those advertising pieces that are included in newspapers) recently with several pages of instructions and warnings about security.
GOOD MORNING: A 10 percent chance of rain today (Saturday) that increases to a 70 percent chance on Sunday and Monday.
So much for the weather, which we can’t do anything about anyway, now here’s what’s happening: While awaiting action on the county’s application for US 401 funding, the County US 401 Action Committee is pondering its next step.
At a meeting Thursday night at Louisburg High School, the committee decided to investigate the cost and avenues of possible funding for an absolutely vital aerial survey of the route that can only be conducted while leaves are off the trees, that would give the county a year-long head-start on getting any authorized improvements underway.
RALEIGH – We are nearing the end of the year before a key U.S. Senate race with some awfully familiar items in the news.
Two years ago, several prominent North Carolina Democrats passed on the chance to challenge Sen. Elizabeth Dole. While Democratic insiders were looking at polling data and national trends suggesting she was beatable, they couldn’t get well-known politicians to take the plunge.
By all accounts, 2010 should be another 1994 for Republicans. That year the GOP won the majority in the North Carolina House for the first time in almost a century and was approaching parity in voter registrations. But infighting, the inability to raise large dollars to conduct viable campaigns and sometimes lackluster candidates have always prevented Republicans from ever taking control. Will next year be different?
