LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College will host this weekend’s Region X Men’s and Women’s Soccer Championships, with LC serving as the top seed in each event.
In men’s action, the Hurricanes will hit the field Saturday at 2 p.m. in the semifinals against a play-in winner at Ronald May Field.
At the same time, two play-in winners will meet in the other semifinal at Cameron Field.
The men’s championship will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at May Field, with the winner advancing to district competition.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg opened its stint in the Class 2-A State Volleyball Playoffs with a matchup against a familiar foe -- the Durham School of the Arts Lady Bulldogs.
LHS and DSA used to be rivals in the Tar-Roanoke Athletic Conference -- and the schools had some memorable matches before the Bulldogs moved up to the Class 2-A level in 2005.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. -- For the second consecutive week, the Louisburg College Hurricanes faced a tough football test on the road.
LC was coming off a lopsided setback at South Alabama, but that wasn’t as unexpected, considering the fact that the Jaguars are a probationary Division I program.
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Here are last weekend’s individual and game winners from The Franklin Times’ Football Contest:
Franklinton’s Jamen Allen (top of photo) tackles Bunn’s Josh Height after Height blocked a kick.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The H1N1 flu clinic hosted by the Franklin County Health Department will take place on Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. at the department located on Industrial Drive in Louisburg. For more information about the clinic, contact the health department at (919) 496-8110 or (919) 496-2533.
The county’s health department will host an H1N1 flu clinic this coming week.
The seasonal flu vaccination is considerably harder to get, at least from the public health agency.
The county will host its H1N1 clinic on Tuesday.
The clinic will target relatively healthy people between the ages of 2 and 24.
Talk about numbing numbers!
We finally received a summary of the applications for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) funds that have been filed by states and organizations within the states.
You probably remember that Franklin County is seeking just shy of $66 million in TIGER funds to four-lane U.S. 401 from NC 96 to NC 56 in Louisburg.
Gangs.
You’ve heard a lot about them in the national media and, increasingly, at the local level.
But despite all that attention -- and gang symbols appearing on buildings and signs around Franklin County -- many folks don’t seem to realize just what is happening.
Your Franklin Times has run many stories and photos about the situation in recent months but, somehow, the impact has been muffled.
On Oct. 9, I was invited to participate in a parade to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. This parade took place at L.B. Yancey Elementary School in Henderson. The event was organized by Consuelo Allen, a very good friend of mine who is the Spanish teacher at the school.
In 1934, President Roosevelt proclaimed Oct. 12 as Columbus Day (El Dia de Cristobal Colon). Since then, we celebrate it in the Americas, in Puerto Rico, Central and South America, and Canada. Many schools observe this day on the second Monday in October.
A Louisburg High School teacher who was accused of making an inappropriate comment to a student last school year has been suspended with pay this month, pending an investigation.
Neither school system staff nor school officials would say what type of complaint precipitated the decision to suspend wrestling coach and auto mechanics teacher Phil Mueller with pay on Oct. 14.
One of Franklin County’s most famous -- some might say flamboyant -- natives, Soupy Sales, has died at age 83.
Sales was born Milton Supman in Franklinton on Jan. 8, 1926 but spent much of his later youth in Huntington, W.Va., where he later earned a master’s degree in journalism from Marshall University.
A comedian from the golden era of television, Sales entertained generations of Americans with his off-the-cuff, wacky antics.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Water plant supervisor Richard Hinkle passed the baton of leadership this week as the town’s water plant is under new management.
Hinkle will remain on staff in a service capacity.
Frank Efird comes to the town’s water department as its new superintendent, bringing 20 years of experience, the past five as Pittsboro’s superintendent. He began work in Franklinton on Thursday.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Friends say that until the end, Joann Beal held on to her Connecticut accent.
But she made Franklin County and the Bunn community her home and worked tirelessly to leave it and the world better than how she found it.
Beal died Tuesday at the age of 72.
Until the end, friends say, she was continuing her efforts to help those less fortunate.
Walmart, which is slated to open its new Louisburg store next week, says the relocation will create 170 new jobs. Total employment is 300, according to the company.
The new store, which is 156,000 square feet, will open to customers at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 705 Retail Way in the town’s new shopping center at the intersection of U.S. 401 and NC 56. A ribbon cutting is planned for 7:30 a.m.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Leaving the Franklinton Town Hall Annex, Ray Gilliam had his hands full, holding on to his service weapons, a badge and an engraved plaque.
But since Oct. 1, his plate was officially cleared after he retired from the Franklinton Police Department after nearly 20 years of service, most recently as chief.
Soccer referee Frank Foxx
The Board of Directors of Union Bank, which has branches in both Louisburg and Youngsville, named June Manning as chief financial officer at its September meeting.
Union Bank, a community bank based in Oxford, previously used outside consultants to oversee the bank’s risk management and budgeting functions, which are now under Manning’s direction. Manning is an original employee of Union Bank and President Thomas Combs said it was always the plan for her to move into the CFO position.
GOOD MORNING: This time next week we’ll be preparing to say good-bye to Daylight Saving Time for 2009 and hello to Eastern Standard Time for the next several months — the second Sunday in March to be exact.
You know the rule: Fall back in the fall and spring forward in the spring. What all this means is that the extra hour of daylight we’ve been enjoying in the evenings all spring and summer is going to be moved around to morning until next March.
Dear Editor,
I recently received an e-mail that I had seen at least once before. This time I really dug into it. It was about a Virginia preacher. He referenced Genesis 47:13-26. I believe it was a very moving sermon.
RALEIGH – When it comes to the political relationship between Washington and Raleigh, the old saying applies: he who gives can also take away.
President Barack Obama’s Big Give to Gov. Beverly Perdue and other North Carolina politicians was a massive federal bailout. Faced with a big state budget deficit, Perdue and lawmakers were forbidden by the state constitution to issue public debt to paper it over. Their only legal options were to reduce spending or raise taxes. The Obama administration gave them a third option – let Washington issue the debt. Over the next two years, some $3 billion of North Carolina’s budget will be financed through this extra-constitutional borrowing.
Former Governor Easley is the subject of investigation by the State Board of Elections and a federal Grand Jury. The FBI lists government corruption as its fourth highest priority, just behind counterterrorism, espionage, and cyber crime. North Carolina has had far too many public officials accused of wrongdoing in recent years, prompting the question whether people are more corrupt today than forty, fifty or sixty years ago or whether we just hear more about it?
WAKE FOREST — Novozymes served as the catalyst for a fundraising event that brought in more than $4,100 for a local youth organization.
The Novozymes President’s Cup Golf Tournament is held annually in the fall as a benefit for a designated local charity and this year they chose the Franklin County Boys and Girls Club.
Aaron A. Martin, state executive director for the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in North Carolina, announced that USDA is now issuing $8,395,950 in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) payments to eligible producers in North Carolina. More than $1.7 billion in CRP payments is being made on 31 million acres across the country.
Adam Strickland Keith took the oath of office and was sworn in with all the rights and privileges to practice law in the State of North Carolina by the Honorable J. Henry Banks (center) at the Franklin County Courthouse, Hobgood Annex on Oct. 12, surrounded by family, friends and colleagues. He was introduced to the courts by Attorney Thomas Clifton and took the oath using a Bible held by his father (right) and belonging to his grandfather, Joseph L. Strickland.
