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By JOHN BENNING / Times Intern
BUNN — There aren’t many of the old, country general stores around anymore. But Karen Patterson and her husband, William, have kept Winstead Grocery in Bunn open for the new generation to see a piece of history.
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By MASON RIZZO / Times Intern
FRANKLINTON — A cache of rifles and shotguns was reportedly stolen from a home some time between May 26 and 28. Sgt. P. A. Johnson and Deputy F. T. Wheless of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office investigated.
A Louisburg man is slated to appear in court later this month on sexual assault charges involving a 4-year-old girl. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Maron Ranalld Levister, 29, of 1001 S. Main St., on May 24. The arrest was the result of a probe launched by a Franklin County Department of Social Services child protective services investigator.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
Dozens of students and residents turned out Wednesday for Spirit Day at a local restaurant where half of that night’s profits — and maybe more — will be donated to a Bunn-area family mourning a loss. Bunn High student Elvira Hernandez, 17, was gunned down on May 10 after getting off a school bus.
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By MASON RIZZO / Times Intern
Franklinton High School Assistant Principal Dr. Pascal Mubenga is resigning from his position effective June 30. Mubenga, originally from the Congo, is taking the principal position at Jones County Middle School.
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By JOHN BENNING / Times Intern
The new Louisburg bike trail may be linking up with a newly proposed 65-mile trail running through Henderson, Franklinton and Youngsville. On the eve of National Trails Day, state officials announced plans last week to add a 65-mile hiking and biking trail to the state’s trails system, with the proposed trail passing right through Franklin County.
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By MASON RIZZO / Times Intern
A Louisburg man has been charged in an armed robbery after holding up The Pantry Kangaroo station off Bickett Boulevard early Wednesday morning. David Lee Freeman of Hazlewood Apartments off Sandlewood Drive was arrested on East Nash Street at 1:33 a.m. by Louisburg Police Officer Anthony Holtz just five minutes after a clerk called to report the robbery, Louisburg Police Chief Rick Lassiter said.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Ernest “Bay” Thomas, 77, who died Tuesday, June 5, 2007, were conducted Friday, June 8, at Perry’s Missionary Baptist Church, with Elder James Alston officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Mark Anthony Watson, 35, who died Monday, June 4, 2007, will be conducted at 1 p.m. today (Saturday, June 9) at Our Fathers House of Deliverance (Timberlake Grove), with the Rev. James Alston officiating. Burial will follow in the Perry’s Church cemetery.
RALEIGH - James W. Wilson Jr., 85, died Monday, June 4, 2007 at Rex Hospital Hospice Unit in Raleigh. Memorial services were conducted Friday, June 8, at First United Methodist Church of Cary. Inurnment was at Oakwood Cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Bertha Mae Gowans, 93, died Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Funeral services will be Sunday, June 10, at 2 p.m. at Perry’s Missionary Baptist Church, Louisburg.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Earlie Wilbert “Hair” Williams, 67, who died Thursday, June 7, 2007, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, June 11, at Perry’s Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Randolph Alston, eulogist. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
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Sept. 6, 1931 – June 7, 2007
LOUISBURG – Lucille Harris Winstead, 75, of 1569 NC Hwy. 98 W., died Thursday morning at her home. Lucille was the daughter of the late Samuel Daniel and Hazel Terrell Harris. She was preceded in death by her husband, Closs Winstead; her granddaughter, Amy Marie Winstead; and brother, Bobby Harris.
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By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
BUNN — Maghan Place and Kimani Yarborough took home top honors at last Tuesday’s Bunn High School Athletic Banquet. Place, a junior who starred in volleyball and softball for the Ladycats, was tabbed as BHS’ Female Athlete of the Year. She also has a sterling 4.3 grade-point average.
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By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Even though he is the head coach at Bunn High School, Henry Jones had no qualms with guiding the Louisburg Lightning 17-under Junior Olympic volleyball squad. Especially since his daughter, Molly, was on the seven-person roster, along with six of her Louisburg High spike teammates.
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By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Always strong on the basketball court, Kimani Yarborough learned that he had another inherent talent during his four years at Bunn High School.
Football.
Yarborough sparkled on both stages at BHS, earning All-Northern Carolina Conference honors in each sport.
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By Geoff Neville / Sports Column
Organizers are calling it ‘The Big Event,’ and that’s exactly how the folks at Louisburg College are treating what has been promised to be the most attended athletic reunion in school history. A weekend of festivities is planned for Sept. 28-30 on the LC campus. Each former living LC athlete has received a flyer in the mail, urging them to participate in the event.
BUTNER -- The Reynolds Basketball Academy will host its second annual summer basketball camps the weeks of June 11-14 and June 18-21. The first camp is for boys and girls ages 6-11, while the final camp is for boys and girls ages 12-18.
Hundreds of residents and visitors turned out for the 17th annual Tar River Festival on Saturday. Clear skies prevailed.
Event host, the Greater Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, reported the crowds were not as large as expected but were steady all day.
“We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day,” Chamber Executive Director Stephen Barrington said. “We had beautiful skies throughout the event.”
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By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Louisburg police and area narcotics agents have arrested nearly two dozen people as part of an ongoing operation to weed out drugs.
Since Feb. 27, the Louisburg Police Department and agents within the Franklin County Multi Agency Narcotics Unit have conducted an undercover drug operation that has resulted in 150 criminal drug charges against 43 people.
SWEET SUMMER. Bunn Elementary students took a break from the heat and EOG tests last week, finding shade under the playground slide. The last day for Franklin County schools for the 2006-07 school year is Friday. Graduation will be Saturday, June 9, at Louisburg College. From left are Justin Brantley, Dylan Timberlake, J.D. Rice, Christian Gutierrez and Armani Bullock. (Times photo by John Benning)
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By MASON RIZZO, Times Intern
Everyone who remembers Rob Hester said he had a heart of gold.
Hester, 36, of Louisburg, whose coaching touched many lives here, died unexpectedly Saturday after experiencing chest pains, Gina Clark, a close friend of the Hester family, said.
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By JOHN BENNING, Times Intern
With high school graduation just around the corner, not all students will walk across the stage.
Those who drop out of school do so for a variety of reasons, but “very seldom, practically never, do they do it because they do not have the academic ability to complete high school,” said Cherry Ayscue, the 11th- and 12th-grade guidance counselor at Louisburg High School.
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By JOHN BENNING, Times Intern
To most, digging through 200-year-old trash isn’t a summer adventure.
But head out to Rose Hill Plantation this Saturday for a vistors’ day and see how much fun it can be.
It’s all part of what a group of anthropology and archaeology students and researchers are doing to reconstruct what 19th-century life was like on the plantation, which is just south of Louisburg on U.S. Highway 401.
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By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The state Highway Patrol added another charge against a teenager responsible for a recent head-on collision.
The law enforcement agency had already charged Krystal Beth Roberts, 17, with careless and reckless driving and driving left of center following a May 25 wreck near Mort Harris Road where Roberts’ car crashed head-on into a Louisburg Police car driven by Officer Brenda Hawkins.
