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By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners approved spending nearly $7,000 to lure tourists to Franklin County, but not before debating the merits of applying public money to private interests.
By: By JOHN BENNING, Times Intern
PILOT — A piece of American tradition was celebrated this past weekend at the Pilot Lions Club Park.
The 14th annual Pilot Lions Club Rodeo was Friday and Saturday and drew around 1,500 spectators each night.
Profits go toward the Pilot Lions Club’s various community outreaches and charitable donations.
An 18-wheeler headed south on U.S. Highway 1 struck a white Subaru on Tuesday morning. The car was making a left hand turn into the Embarq parking lot on Fish Stallings Road. The Subaru driver was taken to WakeMed, and the truck driver was also taken to a hospital. The state Highway Patrol is investigating. Details of the wreck and names of those injured were not immediately available. (Times photo by Mason Rizzo)
By: By MASON RIZZO, Times Intern
A Franklinton man has been charged with misuse of the 911 system, resist delay and obstruction of a public officer and robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Fire crews from Pilot and Bunn doused this vehicle fire that fully engulfed a pickup truck cabin on Monday afternoon. Firefighters responded to U.S. 64 West, one mile east of N.C. Highway 39, to find the late-model pickup truck in flames.
YOUNGSVILLE - Donna Elam Hicks, 44, died Monday morning, June 18, 2007. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 21, in the chapel of Strickland Funeral Home, 103 W. Franklin St., Louisburg, with the Rev. Butch Gordon officiating. Entombment will follow at Lancaster Memorial Park.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Hazel Mae Alston, 62, who died Saturday, June 16, 2007, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, June 22, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Emma Solomon officiating. Burial will follow in the Cemetery on the Hill.
LOUISBURG - Orchyd Murphy, 62, formerly of Jamaica, N.Y., died Tuesday, June 12, 2007. Funeral services will be conducted at noon today (Wednesday, June 20) at Wake Chapel Baptist Church, Bland Road, Raleigh. Burial will follow in Raleigh Memorial Park.
HAW RIVER - Annie Yarborough Moon Hendry, 79, formerly of Louisburg, died Monday, June 11, 2007. A graveside service was conducted Thursday, June 14, at Graham Memorial Park, with the Rev. James L. Rosser officiating. The Rev. Chris Allman was soloist.
WAKE FOREST - Ernie “Puco” Bradshaw, 32, died suddenly Saturday morning, June 16, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, June 19, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home, Wake Forest, with the Rev. Gary McNair officiating. Burial followed at Pine Forest Memorial Gardens.
FRANKLINTON - Fonza D. Harris, 95, died Friday, June 15, 2007. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. today (Wednesday, June 20) at Rock Spring United Church of Christ, Creedmoor. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Arrangements by Cutchins Funeral Home, Franklinton.
Three Franklin County students have been accepted at ECPI College of Technology in Raleigh, according to Gloria R. Hicks, director of student affairs.
By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY - This season’s heroics from Jimmy Tanner and Crawford Bolton weren’t just appreciated by Franklin County baseball fans.
The rest of the state took notice, too.
Louisburg’s Bolton and Bunn’s Tanner have been selected as All-State performers by the North Carolina Baseball Coaches Association.
By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- For the third straight year, the Louisburg High Warriors are the kings and queens of the Tar-Roanoke Athletic Conference for the 2006-07 season.
Once again, LHS has been honored with the Wachovia Cup from the Tar-Roanoke Athletic Conference.
By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Bunn’s April Cooke and Jimmy Tanner have picked up Northern Carolina Conference Player of the Year honors in their respective spring sports.
Cooke, a senior, was a versatile performer for the BHS track and field team and claimed second place in the long jump at the Class 2-A State Meet in May in Greensboro.
Tanner, also a senior, led the state in strikeouts while helping the Wildcats to the NCC championship. Bunn made the third round of the Class 2-A State Playoffs.
The nice folks who stage the Dixie Youth Softball postseason tournaments threw me a huge curve ball this year.
In 2006, the local D-Y District 5 Tournaments were staged later in June.
ZEBULON -- The Carolina Mudcats (28-42) ended the first half of the Class AA Southern League baseball season on a positive note with a 5-4 victory Sunday over the Chattanooga Lookouts (29-41) at Five County Stadium.
Marshals are, from left front, clockwise: Brian Gribbon, Eddie King, Catherine Lewis, Heather Thomason, Chris Limer, Olivia Davis, Zachary Wilson, Melissa Brannan, Tabitha Hunt and Morgan Collins. The group kept Bunn High graduates on a timely pace to accept their diplomas during graduation ceremonies at the Louisburg College auditorium on June 9. (Times photo by Carey Johnson)
FHS marshal’s at June 9 graduation are, from left, front row: Jessica Hayes and Victoria Loveland; middle, Kaitlyn Averette, Colby Moore, Ashley Mikulski and Magen Parker; back, Tyshia Hedgepeth, Kameron Elliot and Andrew Trotter. Not pictured is FHS marshal Landon Vick. (Times photo by Mason Rizzo)
Marshals from LHS are, first row: Efrain Valencia, Emily P. Ayscue, Meagan Brewer (chief marshal), Jared Nobles; second row: Kai Lucas, Kassie Allen (sophomore usher), Katie Lattimer, Jordan Eaves (sophomore usher) and CJ Alston; third row: Kelli Wardrick, Tameka Alston, Meghan Ayscue, Nikki Gupton and Emily Williams; back row: Jessica Person, Heather Joyner, Andrea Gill, Amanda Kearney and Emily Lynn Ayscue. (Contributed photo)
By: Times photo by John Benning
GREAT JOB. Diane Marks, left, administrative assistant to the superintendent, gets a hug from Dianne Carter, Franklin County Schools director for elementary education, before accepting her Superintendent’s Service Award earlier this week during an honors ceremony.
By: By JOHN BENNING / Times Intern
Only seven of the 58 community colleges in North Carolina can say they have met all 12 of the state’s success standards. Vance-Granville Community College is one of them. VGCC has met or exceeded all of the state’s Community College Performance Standards, and this year earned a “superior” rating.
By: By KATHY HARRELSON / Managing Editor
Six months can go by fast for a new sheriff.
In Pat Green’s case, it has felt like half the time with double the work.
Three murder investigations, a high-profile drug bust, a manhunt that spilled over from Nash County and ended in the arrest of a murder suspect and reorganization of a department that has included an overhaul of the jail are just a handful of challenges the sheriff has faced since taking office.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
Commissioners have asked staff to present a matrix of budget scenarios, ranging from a proposal that includes no tax increase to one that includes a 5-cent hike. County Manager Chris Coudriet presented commissioners with a budget proposal last month that included a 5 cents per $100 valuation tax increase.
By: By JOHN BENNING / Times Intern
The preliminary results of the 2007 end-of-grade tests have been tabulated, and it’s looking like Franklin County has made good progress this year. But tougher math standards are leaving some parents worried that their child will be retained. Based on grade level averages for each middle and elementary school, 77 percent of the county’s grade levels improved their math scores since last year, and 57 percent saw better results in reading comprehension.
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