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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.
By: 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.
By: 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.
By: 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.
By: 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.
By: 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.”
By: 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)
By: 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.
By: 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.
By: 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.
By: 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.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies served a warrant this week, charging Christopher Thomas, from his hospital bed, with murder.
Investigators allege Thomas killed Bunn High student Elvira Hernandez on May 10 as she and a cousin got off the school bus in front of Hernandez’ home on Ferrells Bridge Road.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners agreed in principle with a school board recommendation to accept the second lowest bidder for a new elementary school.
The Board of Education accepted an $11.2-million bid by D.A. Thomas Construction Co. to build a new west Franklinton elementary school.
LOUISBURG - Robert M. Hester, 36, died suddenly Saturday morning, June 2, 2007. A celebration of his life was conducted at a memorial service Tuesday, June 5, at the Louisburg High School Auditorium.
LOUISBURG - George William Whitman, 37, died Saturday, June 2, 2007 at his home. Services were conducted Tuesday, June 5, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home, Wake Forest.
RALEIGH - Viola Kate Malagisi, 64, died Saturday, June 2, 2007. A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 7, at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 1701 E. Millbrook Road, Raleigh.
RALEIGH - Donald Sanderson died Thursday, May 31, 2007 after several years of declining health. A celebration of his life was held at St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church in Raleigh on June 2.
ZEBULON - Willer Mae Alford Privette, 86, died Friday, June 1, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Monday, June 4, at Stoney Hill Freewill Baptist Church. Burial was in Pine Ridge Baptist Church cemetery.
BUNN - Mrs. Tammy Dunston Miller, 44, died Sunday, June 3, 2007. Arrangements by William Toney’s Funeral Home in Zebulon.
LOUISBURG - Mary L. Davis, 66, died Sunday, June 3, 2007 at Franklin Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, June 8, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, Louisburg. Burial will follow in the Cemetery on the Hill in Louisburg.
GRAHAM - Warnell “Nell” Strickland Pulliam, 80, of Graham, died Monday, June 4, 2007, at Pitt Memorial Hospital. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and aunt. Nell dedicated her life to loving and cherishing both family and friends. She was preceded in death by her son, Charles Denton; sister, Betsy Strickland Sauls; and a brother, Elvis Strickland.
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