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FRANKLINTON - Anthony Quinn Neal, 46, died Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Friday, Nov. 9, at Rocky Chapel Baptist Church. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
CARY - Linda A. Fowlston, 59, died Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Friday, Nov. 9, at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, Cary. Burial followed at Raleigh Memorial Park, Raleigh.
ROCKY MOUNT - Robert Carlton Fields, 92, died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007. The family received friends at Wheeler & Woodlief Funeral Home on Friday, Nov. 9, from 12-1 p.m., with funeral services following visitation. The Rev. Stan Prewett and the Rev. Stanley Brown officiated. Committal services were conducted immediately following at Pineview Cemetery.
ZEBULON - Clarice Fowler Jones, 94, died Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007 at Duke Raleigh Hospital. Funeral services were conducted Friday, Nov. 9, at Rolesville Baptist Church. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
WAKE FOREST - Phillip Eugene Allen, 48, died Monday, Nov. 5, 2007 at Franklin Regional Medical Center after a long-term illness. A memorial service honoring his life was conducted Thursday, Nov. 8, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home in Wake Forest.
GAINESVILLE, FL - Frances S. Long, age 85, died Thursday at North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville.
By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Mike Holloman isn’t in Kansas anymore. And he’s not the least bit happy about it.
Throughout his storied coaching career, Holloman has made a habit of taking his team to Salina, Kansas, for the National Junior College Athletic Association National Women’s Basketball Tournament.
But the tradition-rich Lady Hurricanes have been derailed in each of the past three seasons by Georgia Perimeter in the district championship game -- with a berth in the nationals at stake.
FRANKLINTON -- The Franklinton Red Rams will open their 2007-08 prep wrestling schedule Friday at Carrboro High School.
FHS’ complete worksheet is as follows:
By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Even when his club faced an 11-point deficit in the second half, Louisburg College’s men’s basketball coach Aaron Denton still felt as if his Hurricanes were in good shape.
Literally.
Here’s a few area sporting thoughts as we begin to make the switch from fall sports to basketball, swimming and wrestling:
• The only term I could come up with what happened one week ago today was ‘Dark Saturday’.
LHS’ volleyball team was defeated in the state finals, while Franklin County’s three clubs were all eliminated from the state boys soccer playoffs.
By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg High looked every bit the part of a No. 1 seed during Friday’s first-round matchup against Dixon in the Class 1-AA State Football Playoffs.
The top-seeded Warriors were dominant on offense and defense -- and even threw in some effective special teams plays -- to easily defeat the visitors by a 62-0 margin at Warrior Field.
SNOW HILL -- Just 24 minutes from elimination, the Bunn Wildcats responded with a strong second half Friday to overtake host Greene Central in the first round of the Class 2-A State Football Playoffs.
BHS trailed by 10 points at the break and had been held scoreless, but the Wildcats rattled off a trio of clutch touchdowns to defeat the Rams by a 21-10 margin.
Class 1-A State Volleyball Runner-Up
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Voting in the 2007 municipal election got off to a pedestrian start on Tuesday as only two towns had contested races on the ballot.
Louisburg had a late entrant as a write-in candidate to make a four-way race for three town council seats, however, voting numbers were lagging Tuesday afternoon.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Commissioners, Humane Society volunteers and county staff were on hand Tuesday to break ground on a shelter designed to give animals a new leash on life.
Last month, commissioners approved a $1.2 million contract to build a new animal shelter next to the county jail on T. Kemp Road.
The 7,300-square-foot building will replace the dilapidated shelter next to the landfill that the county currently uses.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The mother of a pedestrian killed in August said it was a murder plot that led him to wander along U.S. 401 and into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
According to a report by Trooper T.L. Hunt, Ronald Tyrone Kearney, 34, was walking in the roadway of the two-lane highway at about 3 a.m. when he was hit by an oncoming vehicle — a sport utility vehicle driven by an EMS worker responding to a car fire call.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County Commissioners agreed to speed up their agenda Monday night, bringing back for discussion two revenue options that they originally planned to deliberate on in January.
In July, the state legislature gave counties the chance to put before voters a land use transfer tax or a quarter-cent sales tax increase as revenue options to help offset raids the state made on other county funding it will use to pick up Medicaid expenses.
Since 1992, the Franklin County Chapter of the North Carolina Social Services Association has raised funds each year to help less fortunate residents and this year is no different.
The Franklin Times would like to hear from you about your most favorite/thankful Thanksgiving Day.
Send in 200 words or less about that special memory. Add a photo, or if a photo says it all, send us a picture of that special day.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Louisburg College students, staff and officials are set to inaugurate its new president on Friday, the culmination of a week-long list of activities.
J. Michael Clyburn was named as the school’s president over the spring and summer replacing former president Reginald Ponder.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Mrs. Maedell Stokes, 83, who died Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at Perry’s Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Carl Wardrett officiating. Burial will follow in the Stokes family cemetery.
NASHVILLE - Funeral services for Tasker Richardson, 85, who died Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007, were conducted Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the Richardson Funeral Home Chapel in Nashville. Burial followed in Oakland Cemetery.
KINSTON - Joseph “Gordon” Pike, 86, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Nov. 4, at Bethel Free Will Baptist Church, Kinston, with the Rev. Archie Ratliff and the Rev. David Paramore officiating. Burial was Monday, Nov. 5, at the Pike family cemetery in Pink Hill, with the Rev. George Earl Pike officiating.
TAMPA, Fla. - Richard Allen Towers, 61, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 at Tampa General Hospital. A graveside service was conducted Saturday, Nov. 3, at Good Hope Baptist Church cemetery, with the Rev. Gilbert Brantley officiating.
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