BUNN - Larry Donnell Baker, 51, died Monday, Feb. 12, 2007. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today (Saturday, Feb. 17) in the Harris Funeral Home Chapel, 122 W. Barbee St., Zebulon. Burial will follow in the Pleasant Grove Annex, Wendell.
LOUISBURG - Lawrence Franklin Hale, 69, died Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 13, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Friday, Feb. 16, at Alert Pentecostal Holiness Church. Burial followed in the Pernell family cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Ruby Marshall Colbert, 70, died Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 13, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Thursday, Feb. 15, in the chapel of Strickland Funeral Home in Louisburg, with the Rev. Brian Autry officiating. Burial followed at Red Bud Baptist Church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Ethel Medlin Strickland, 84, died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Feb. 13, at Pilot Baptist Church. Entombment followed in the Medlin family cemetery.
WENDELL - Irene Crawford, 88, died Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Feb. 13, in the Strickland Funeral Home Chapel in Wendell. Burial was in Gethsemane Memorial Gardens.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners are set to break a tie of sorts this Monday as plans to halt subdivision development around the airport have gotten mixed results from two commissioner-appointed boards. Last month, the county’s Airport Commission agreed by a 4-3 vote to support a six-month residential development moratorium.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
Franklin Regional Medical Center filed its application for a certificate of need this week, taking its first official step toward leaving Louisburg. Staff at the state Division of Facility Services confirmed that it received FRMC’s application on Thursday.
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CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
The guest speaker at the African American Caucus’ first meeting this year said green will be the important color this coming election cycle.
The Democratic Party political action group was formed in 2003 with a goal of drawing more African Americans into the political process.
On Thursday night, Anthony Lorick Young, an entrepreneur with a background in political organizing and fund-raising, asked those gathered at the party headquarters to make certain their leaders provide support in the African- American community.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
Jim Black’s departure from the General Assembly and guilty plea to corruption this week prompted the county’s two legislative leaders to reflect on his fall. Black resigned his post within the state’s General Assembly on Wednesday and pleaded guilty on Thursday to a federal corruption charge.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
A report released by a transportation advocacy group reveals that the number of substandard bridges across the state is declining. A rating of more than 5,000 bridges, from the most substandard to the best bridges, has Franklin County bridges listed in the middle.
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By CAREY JOHNSON / Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners will be looking to provide funding for work and play at Monday night’s meeting. Commissioners will host two public hearings on Monday night to gauge the public’s interest in providing incentives that will help two companies expand.
Franklin County Democratic Party precinct meetings are:
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By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
WELDON — Carrying a nine-game winning streak -- and recent victories over tough league foes Southeast Halifax and Weldon -- the Louisburg Lady Warriors entered the Tar-Roanoke Athletic Conference Girls Basketball Tournament as a potential favorite.
But the Lady Warriors didn’t live up to the expectation and fell to Southeast -- a club they had handled relatively easily two weeks ago -- by a 51-45 in the TRAC Tourney Semifinals Thursday night at the Weldon High Gymnasium.
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By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- With a victory Friday night, the Bunn Wildcats would have clinched their third consecutive 20-victory season.
To BHS boys basketball coach Gerald Melton, this journey was the most improbable.
By far.
And it’s not completed yet.
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By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn’s Ladycats prefer a frenetic, uptempo and almost furious style on the basketball court.
But heading into the Northern Carolina Conference Tournament, the Ladycats looked a bit drowsy will going through the final week of the regular season.
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By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Lost amid the hoopla of Lee Fowler Day was a league order of business for the Louisburg College women’s basketball squad. Fowler, the North Carolina State University athletic director, was on hand Tuesday to present awards to LC’s top student-athletes during halftime of the Lady Hurricanes’ home matchup against Region X rival Clinton Community College.
LOUISBURG -- Listed are Tuesday’s student-athlete award winners from Lee Fowler Day on the campus of Louisburg College. Fowler, the athletic director at North Carolina State University, was on hand to present medals to LC’s honorees.
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By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Education authorized its attorney Monday night to make a counteroffer on property to build a new elementary school. School Board Attorney Boyd Sturges presented board members with a contract to buy 35 acres just off Bert Winston Road for $35,000 an acre, but educators took issue with three measures of the contract:
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By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Contractors have begun laying the groundwork on plans to bring two more eateries to Louisburg. Crews have put up the shell of a building on one lot along Golden Leaf Drive that developer Johnny King Jr., wants to build into a new Mexican restaurant. Next door, Tri-Arc Foods is bringing a Bojangle’s restaurant to town.
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By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
While state legislators still wrestle with how they’ll come down on a potential hospital move, some residents have penned their hopes on having Franklin Regional Medical Center stay in Louisburg.
Former Clerk of Court and current community activist Ralph Knott has begun a petition to keep the hospital in town.
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By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A natural gas provider expects to have all its lines installed by the end of the summer. Louisburg officials entered into a franchise agreement with PSNC Energy in 2005 to provide natural gas in town. The work began with commercial lines along N.C. Highway 56 and Bickett Boulevard Since that time, lines filtered into residential neighborhoods.
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By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Investigators continue to look for a second man suspected of armed robbery and assaulting a law enforcement officer last week.
Jollee Bedford, 23, accused of wrestling over a gun with Deputy Crystal Mitchell as she was being dragged by his getaway car, turned himself in on Friday afternoon.
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By NANCY HUX, From Five-County Mental Health
It was about 6:30 on the morning of July 24, 2006 when my phone rang. I had become accustomed to my phone ringing at any hour of the day, but always knew that an early morning phone call usually was not good news. It was my brother who had been the “night shift” for Mom for the past year and a half. As he was getting ready for work and preparing for his 7:30 “shift change,” Mom was three steps ahead of him.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for William C. Burgess Sr., 88, who died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, will be Saturday, Feb. 17, at Richardson Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson officiating. Burial will follow in the Perry’s Missionary Church cemetery.
CHARLOTTE - Allen Wilder Kemp, age 102, formerly of Charlotte, died Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007. A memorial service was conducted at the Forest Lawn West Cemetery Chapel on Feb. 8, with the Rev. Dr. W. Carter Lofton officiating.
