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By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- It wasn’t a coincidence that some of the top players on the Bunn Yellowjackets’ summer baseball team starred against the Bunn High diamond squad during regular season action.
Jeff Lester, head coach of the Yellowjackets, was a BHS assistant, and he took notice when an opposing performer fared well versus the Wildcats.
ZEBULON -- A brilliant first start for Carolina Mudcats (17-20) pitcher Chris Volstad was spoiled in the eighth inning, amounting to a 3-1 Jacksonville Suns (26-11) victory at Five County Stadium Sunday in a Class AA Southern League baseball event.
FRANKLINTON -- Franklinton High School will host the Red Ram Relay Boys Soccer Jamboree on Aug. 15 at the Franklinton Recreation Park.
RALEIGH -- Kyle Prairie, Director of Ticket Sales for the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, has announced the team’s mini-season ticket plans for the 2007-08 season. Partial season ticket plan-holders can opt for a 24-game plan, or choose between three different 10-game plans.
By: By Charles Alston, Times Correspondent
RED OAK -- Last year at this time, Northern Nash’s Tyler Joyner had his mind on football as the Knights kicked off their practice season. He played middle linebacker.
Dear Franklin County Resident:
As you know, Transportation plays a vital role in the economic prosperity of any region. In order for an area to grow, adequate transportation must be provided to support employment centers, travel and tourism, field to market agricultural demands/needs and the movement of goods and services.
Did you know:
• Almost 60 percent of Franklin County residents commute daily to Wake County for work, mostly using US1 and US401. This means we’re dependent on these roads to keep our economy going.
• The State of North Carolina faces a $65 billion projected shortfall in transportation funds over a 25-year timeframe (from 2005-2030) based on state and federal tax revenues that determine how dollars are coming to NCDOT for transportation needs.
• Our population has grown from 30,000 people in 1980 to 56,000 today. More people means more cars and more traffic. This growth is likely to continue and we will be near 90,000 by 2030!
Because of the importance of our roadways, the State’s budget shortfall on roadway funding and our population growth, the County, Franklin County Towns and partners are developing an updated transportation plan for Franklin County.
The purpose of this plan is to identify solutions to roadway and other transportation problems and to help keep traffic in Franklin County moving!
It may take some time to fund these projects, so we need your help in deciding which types of projects should be a priority and how they should be funded.
Since roadways and other transportation facilities are such an important issue in our County to maintain our great quality of life, we need YOUR input!
Please take a few minutes to fill out the attached survey and mail back to us or return to this envelope by SEPTEMBER 14, 2007.
This survey is anonymous and the County will not have your name associated with the survey unless you want us to.
Thank you for your participation and please call Tammy Davis at (919) 496-2909 with any questions or if you wish to receive more information about this transportation plan!!!
Sincerely,
Patrick Young, Director
Franklin County Planning and Inspections
Click Here To Download Survey
MAIL SURVEY TO:
Franklin County Planning Department
215 East Nash Street
Louisburg, NC 27549
OR, GO ONLINE TO FILL OUT SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/franklincounty
By: Alica Eller / LifeStyle Correspondent
As most of us are aware, translating from one language to another is not as easy as it might seem.
There are so many words that differ in meaning according to the context. And, furthermore, it is difficult many times to catch the emotional context, making it hard to give the perfect translation.
One of those words used often in Spanish is the word “ya,” which when translated into English, for example, context is everything.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin Regional Medical Center will appeal a decision that has halted plans to move to Youngsville, staff said this week.
On Wednesday, the state Division of Facility Services denied the hospital’s request to relocate its 70-bed facility from Bickett Boulevard in Louisburg to the corner of U.S. Highway 1 and N.C. Highway 96 just north of Youngsville.
In the decision rendered by project analyst Michael McKillip, FRMC’s move would negatively impact disenfranchised residents in central and northern Franklin County.
By: By JOHN BENNING, Times Intern
ZEBULON — Looking at 7-month-old Ethan Benoit’s angelic face and watching his eyes flit around the room, it is difficult to think such a beautiful child could be in the midst of excruciating pain.
“Imagine the worst case of arthritis you can, and then multiply that by one hundred,” Shane Benoit, 36, Ethan’s father, said.
“That’s the pain Ethan’s going through.”
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
DURHAM — Franklin County attorney Charles Davis will spearhead a criminal contempt prosecution next month against disgraced former District Attorney Mike Nifong.
Setting the hearing date, though, was a practical matter as Nifong’s apology provided an emotional spark during Thursday’s preliminary hearing on charges that he lied during his prosecution of three former Duke lacrosse players.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
ROANOKE RAPIDS — Randy Parton took center stage Thursday night, surrounded by a steel, new-age platform, strobe lights, a smoke machine, high-tech screens and his well-oiled Moonlight Bandits band. And there was a spotlight, too, appropriate for a man at the center of a development project designed to spur vitality in a town and region devastated by mill shop closures.
By: BY MASON RIZZO, Times Intern
A Franklinton man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for drug trafficking and firearm possession. Derrick Jomell Perry, 33, of 1755 W. River Road, Franklinton, was sentenced in Greenville to serve 230 months, or 19 years and 2 months, on July 20 following his January drug charge conviction.
By: BY MASON RIZZO, Times Intern
It’s plenty hot outside, but Christmas came early this year for Deryl and Tim Garrity. The Wake Forest residents won $200,000 on Wednesday after buying a winning Powerball lottery ticket.
KILL DEVIL HILLS - Margaret Huggin Johnson, 90, died Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at Britthaven of Outer Banks. A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m. today (Saturday, July 28) at Louisburg United Methodist Church.
BUNN - Vernon Cevie Smith Jr., 59, died Sunday, July 22, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Thursday, July 26, at Pine Ridge Baptist Church. Burial was in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - William M. “Bill” Brown, 79, died Wednesday, July 25, 2007. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today (Saturday, July 28) at Hopkins Chapel Baptist Church, 4525 Hopkins Chapel Road, Zebulon. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Willis W. Boykin, 57, of Zebulon died Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at Duke University Hospital. Funeral services were conducted Friday, July 27, at Joyner’s Funeral Home, with the Rev. Reuben Cason officiating. Burial followed in Bailey Town Cemetery.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Funeral services for Michael Lee Gupton, 55, formerly of Louisburg, who died Wednesday, July 25, 2007, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday, July 30, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg. Burial will follow in the M. H. Jones cemetery.
FRANKLINTON - Thelma L. Massenburg, 47, died Monday, July 23, 2007. Arrangements by Cutchins Funeral Home Inc.
LOUISBURG - Eugene Tracy “Chick” Williams, 87, died Friday, July 27, 2007 in Louisburg Nursing Center. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 29, in the chapel of Lancaster Funerals and Cremations, 804 N. Bickett Blvd., Louisburg. Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery with military rites.
By: BY MASON RIZZO, Times Intern
Andrew Duke of Louisburg was one of 48 children selected to attend Red Hat High Summer Camp. Duke, 14, was the only youth selected from Franklin County to attend the week-long summer camp for rising eighth- and ninth-graders that teaches students how to use animation software.
By: BY MASON RIZZO, Times Intern
A Louisburg teenager is recovering at Duke Hospital after being shot in the chest by a 16-gauge shotgun around 5:30 on July 20. Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Elliott Pinnell said the 15-year-old was a victim of an “accidental firearm discharge.”
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin Regional Medical Center has initiated a medical response team designed to address medical needs before they become critical. The hospital set up a Rapid Response Team at the beginning of the month. The program allows any and all hospital staff to notify the team of a non-intensive care patient’s condition if they feel or think the patient is heading toward a more serious medical emergency.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners gave staff permission Monday night to take the final part of a $30-million school bond to the bond market. Voters approved spending $30 million in general obligation bonds for school renovations and additions in 2004.
By: By JOHN BENNING, Times Intern
Crosscreek Charter School in Louisburg is combining its two locations into a single facility. Originally, kindergarten through grade five was taught at 306 Sandlewood Drive and grades six through eight were held just off of US Hwy. 401 on Fox Park Road.
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