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Saturday was Halloween and all across Franklin County ghosts, goblins and assorted other mythical creatures of the night. . .and fright. . .reigned supreme for a few hours. Greeting youngsters and their parents at the Youngsville Halloween festival (left photo) was a witch that some alleged was distantly related to Margaret Stallings of Youngsville. In contrast to the witch was a little pumpkin, 18-month-old Josh Layton Skiler from Youngsville. In the third photo, Stephen Scott applies his artistic talent to the neck of Pam Cash when she visited downtown Franklinton for that community’s annual Frankenfest. In the last photo, “Queen Bee” Sue Guerrant and beekeeper husband Bill Lord greet children who were out Trick or Treating in Louisburg.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners agreed to let residents have a say in whether they use a quarter of a million dollars to bring an Israeli manufacturing company to town.
Already, the state’s One North Carolina Fund has agreed to provide Palziv North America with a $250,000 grant to help the company set up and operate inside of the HON office manufacturing plant — which is ceasing operation at the end of the year.
Sheriff’s deputies confirmed on Monday that a vehicle found submerged in a rock quarry was reported stolen the night before.
According to a report by Dep. Doug Murphy, Ernest Zapetis III reported on Sunday night that someone stole his 2005 Cadillac STS from his home on Baron Circle in Youngsville just off U.S. 401.
It was found Monday morning submerged in a rock quarry about 20 miles away.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
For 21 years, Martha Shearin served as the county’s Register of Deeds, helping people record births, marriages, land deals and deaths.
Helping residents with such critical points in their life, friends said, was an appropriate political and personal outlet for Shearin.
She died Monday at the age of 73.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A former Franklin County school system superintendent announced this week that he will be taking his talents to the Nation’s Capital.
Durham Public Schools Superintendent Carl Harris resigned his post, announcing this week that he has accepted a job with the U.S. Department of Education.
Before going to Durham, Harris served as Franklin County’s superintendent from 1999 until the end of 2003.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Although turnout is generally low for municipal races, a steady number of residents turned out to cast ballots for the area’s next mayors, town council members and commissioners.
By 9:25 a.m. on Tuesday, 79 people had cast a ballot in races for the town of Louisburg.
According to Board of Elections Director Amy Southerland, 69 people cast their ballots early through one-stop voting leading up to Tuesday’s general election.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Chuck Murray is still lamenting the one that got away.
However, he’s decided to fish, rather than cut bait after finishing sixth at the 2009 BASS Federation Nation National Championship that ended Oct. 30 in Tavares, Fla.
He was just 2.5 pounds shy of qualifying for the BassMaster Classic, essentially bass fishing’s top draw with a half a million dollar purse.
Mae W. Wheeler of Franklinton recently retired as the administrative assistant for Vance-Granville Community College’s Franklin County Campus. Wheeler’s colleagues held a retirement celebration for her on Oct. 23.
Under various titles, Wheeler has been the administrative assistant for the dean of Franklin Campus, Bobbie Jo May, since August 1992. Prior to joining VGCC, Wheeler worked for Franklinton City Schools as a clerical assistant from 1985 through 1992.
St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church of Inez will have three services in celebration of its 118th church anniversary.
The following speakers and their congregations have been invited as follows: Friday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m., the Rev. McArthur Mitchell, pastor of St. Stephen Baptist Church, Spring Hope; Saturday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m., the Rev. Robert Farmer, pastor of St. Stephen Baptist Church, Tarboro.
A Louisburg man suffered minor injuries after running off the road, hitting a fence and causing a 1998 Buick to slide along its side. Trooper C.M. Garner said Felix Guadalupe Diaz Jr. lost control of the car in a curve during the 2:50 p.m. accident on Sunday on Duke Memorial Road. According to the report, no citation was issued in the accident.
BUNN - Oswald Conyers, 71, died Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Nov. 3, at Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church in Bunn. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
WAKE FOREST - Grace Rachel Davis, 83, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009 at her residence. Graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, Nov. 4) at Good Hope Baptist Church cemetery.
RALEIGH - Max Pender Haithcock, 75, died Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 at Rex Hospital. A memorial service was held Tuesday, Nov. 3, at Maple Springs Baptist Church, Louisburg.
FRANKLINTON —Carolyn Dowdy Denson, 75, died Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 at her residence. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home, with the Rev. David Averett and the Rev. Don Ward officiating. Entombment followed in Pine Forest Memorial Gardens.
ZEBULON - Ruby M. Hendricks, 90, died Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 following a brief illness. Funeral services were Monday, Nov. 2, at Massey Funeral Home. Burial followed at Gethsemane Memorial Gardens.
RALEIGH - Shirley P. Holliday, 72, died Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 at Duke Raleigh Hospital. Funeral services were held Sunday, Nov. 1, in the chapel of Bryan-Lee Funeral Home in Raleigh.
ZEBULON - Lucy Jones Faison died Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 at Rex Healthcare. Funeral service was conducted Tuesday, Nov. 3, at Zebulon Baptist Church, with the Rev. Jack Glasgow officiating. Entombment followed at Bethlehem Baptist Church cemetery, the Faison Mausoleum, Knightdale.
EVERETT, Wash. —Joshua Kain Althiser, 29, died Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009. A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Nov. 9 at New Hope Worship Center, 7428 Pearces Road, Louisburg.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for James Harvey Alston, 77, who died Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Richardson Funeral Home chapel in Louisburg, with the Rev. Spencer Davis officiating. Burial will follow in the Edwards Grove cemetery in Warrenton.
LOUISBURG – Timothy Alan “Timmy” Robinson, 47, of Louisburg, died Tuesday morning at his home.
LOUISBURG – Martha Denton Shearin, 73, of the Wood Community, died Monday morning at her home surrounded by her loving family.
CLAYTON: Karen M. King, 44, passed away on November 1, 2009. A funeral service will be held Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at McLaurin Funeral Home Chapel.
Finally, a little good news on the local economic front where, for months, the news has been uniformly bad.
According to both local and state officials, Franklin County may land a new manufacturing facility that could take over the soon-to-be-vacated Hon plant on NC 56 just west of Louisburg.
The company, which is based in Israel and is to become known locally as Palziv North America, will make thermoplastic cross-linked polyethylene foam.
GOOD MORNING: I guess I can say without fear of contradiction that Fall has fell, fall, fallen or whatever, and the color that adorned the trees just this past week has been replaced by a mass of fallen brown leaves and pine straw, etc., covering everything, not the least of which is the floor inside my garage that I’ll have to eventually get up. 1.) If things ever dry off, and 2.) If I’m unable to cajole someone else into doing it for me.
Don’t get me wrong, however. I’m not fussing on account of the rain (we got about 2 inches), but it has certainly compounded the task of getting the leaves up.
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