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By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG - Louisburg High has officially entered recent unchartered territory in the Class 1-A State Softball Playoffs.
Unless you’re LHS head coach Erica Wammock.
Back in 1998, Wammock, then a sophomore, was part of a Lady Warriors’ club that reached the state finals. Louisburg hasn’t made it as far as the third round since then.
KING -- Melanie Lovin always knew the potential was there for her Bunn High fast-pitch softball team to make a deep run in the Class 2-A State Playoffs.
It was just a matter of putting all of the pieces together.
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By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Even though he was almost one foot shorter than his opponent, Louisburg freshman phenom Chase Ragland stood toe-to-to with Camden’s Preston Dodson for the first four innings of last Friday’s third-round contest of the Class 1-A State Baseball Playoffs.
GREENSBORO -- Bunn High School senior April Cooke capped off her impressive career with another solid performance at last Friday’s Class 2-A State Track and Field Meet.
BUNN -- Jamie Richardson has always considered hers to be a two-fold purpose as the head softball coach at Bunn Middle School:
Teach her players to have success on their current level, and also develop them so they are key contributors once they join the program at Bunn High.
CHAPEL HILL -- Listed is Tuesday’s schedule from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association State Baseball Playoffs:
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. -- Ryan Bear homered and drove in four runs, with Brett Hayes adding a two-run shot as Carolina snapped a personal six-game losing streak against Jacksonville, downing the Suns 9-4 on Sunday afternoon at the Baseball Grounds in a Class AA Southern League diamond matchup.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
County management will present commissioners on Monday night with a $76-million proposed spending plan for 2007-2008 that proposes to raise the tax rate by 5 cents per $100 of valuation.
BUNN - Rosa Lee Baker Allen, 65, died Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today (Saturday, May 19) at Gethsemane Baptist Church in Bunn. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
PHILADELPHIA — Funeral services for Mrs. Geanie Evans Hawkins, 91, formerly of Louisburg, who died Saturday, May 5, 2007, will be conducted at 3 p.m. Monday, May 21, at Hickory Grove Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the McGee family cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Eileen Dennis Perdue, 89, died Thursday, May 17, 2007 at Louisburg Manor after several months of declining health. A celebration of life will be conducted at 3 p.m. today (Saturday, May 19) at Hickory Rock Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Lancaster Memorial Park.
SPRING HOPE - Lucille Person Mullen, 94, died Thursday, May 17, 2007. A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. today (Saturday, May 19) at Oakdale Cemetery in Spring Hope.
FRANKLINTON - Lawrence Broughton “Bud” Kelbaugh, 66, died suddenly Monday, May 14, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Thursday, May 17, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home, Wake Forest. Burial followed in South Granville Memorial Gardens in Stem.
RALEIGH - Sallie Stewart Thompson died Sunday, May 13, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Thursday, May 17, at Imani Metropolitan Community Church, Durham. Burial followed in Carolina Biblical Gardens, Raleigh.
FRANKLINTON - N. Carolyn Joyner, 62, died Wednesday, May 16, 2007. Arrangements by Cutchins Funeral Home.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Commissioners said they needed more information before they could approve an agreement its police chief signed to bring in a K-9 officer. Their indecision on Tuesday night, though, doesn’t take the dog off the streets.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
Louisburg police arrested two people following a DWI stop that nearly led to a riot Wednesday night. According to a police report, Officer Anthony Holtz spotted a car driving backward on Cooper Street at South Main Street.
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By KATHY HARRELSON / Managing Editor
Take a second look at that fellow bagging up groceries next week when Farmer’s Foods opens in Louisburg. It just might be the company founder, Johnny Farmer. “I don’t mind being involved. You have to be,” Farmer said.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
A Franklinton woman did her own police work this week, believing she’s solved a mystery that she and her family grappled with for more than six months.
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By MASON RIZZO / Times Intern
BUNN — Hard work and dedication have paid off for North Carolina Department of Correction’s Lt. Larry Dunston.
The 36-year-old is one of 12 named as a N.C. Corrections Officer of the Year at a ceremony May 9 in Apex.
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By MASON RIZZO / Times Intern
A Louisburg man has been charged with solicitation to kill his wife, following a history of domestic abuse. Lt. Tim Strickland of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department arrested Robert Buck, 81, of 55 Harvest Lane, around 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Town officials pledged to craft an ordinance that seeks to eliminate gang graffiti in town. School Principal Charles Fuller, Police Chief Ray Gilliam and Sheriff Pat Green said that’s a good start.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — For the second year, the community will rely on the allure of an old-time hangout to have fun in the present. The Youngsville Area Business Association is hosting the second annual Lake Donna Party tonight, May 19, in downtown Youngsville.
LOUISBURG — Because of a much narrower margin for error, teams don’t often get a chance to overcome an early wake-up call in the postseason. Thankfully for the Louisburg High Lady Warriors, they had an opportunity to erase a slow start during Tuesday’s first-round home contest against Cape Hatteras in the Class 1-A State Softball Playoffs.
LOUISBURG -- For the first time in four seasons, the Louisburg High baseball team is heading into the third round of the Class 1-A State Playoffs. LHS earned that honor Tuesday with a 4-1 home victory over Jamesville at Warrior Field.
