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The Golden LEAF Foundation has awarded a $35,000 grant to the Tar River Land Conservancy in Louisburg. The Golden LEAF grant will assist with a regional effort to develop and market a paddle trail system along the Tar River in Granville, Vance, Franklin, Nash and Edgecombe counties.
Beloved tiger Rajah, from the Youngsville zoo, will find his new home at the Carnivore Preservation Trust (CPT), a sanctuary for big cats and other exotic animals in Pittsboro. Van Eure, an avid supporter of the former Triangle Metro Zoo in Youngsville and owner of the Angus Barn restaurant in Raleigh, is adamant about not letting her old friend go hungry.
Following is a list of real estate transfers amounting to $5,000 or more in Franklin County for the time period Dec. 15-18, 2006, as recorded in the office of the Franklin County Register of Deeds.
By: By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG — Smiley Mueller and Jackson Ellis were two of the loneliest athletes in Franklin County last year. As members — and the only members — of the first-year Terrell Lane Middle School wrestling team, Mueller and Ellis practiced together and went to matches together, but they had no teammates.
CLAYTON — Bunn finds itself in a familiar position at the Clayton News-Star Holiday Invitational
Basketball Tournament.
The title game.
By: By Geoff Neville / Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Add another accomplishment to Kerry Neal’s growing list of accolades from his football career at Bunn High School. Neal, a senior end, has been selected as the Northern Carolina Conference Defensive Player of the Year following a vote of the league’s coaches.
It’s officially crunch time for The Franklin Times’ Football Contest. With four different picks remaining, Johnson and Neville are tied at 3-3. But since I’m the defending champion, I need to only go 5-5 to keep the beloved old-school ‘Ironside’ stapler.
Johnson took a 3-2 lead Wednesday after UCLA collapsed in the fourth quarter, helping Carey’s beloved Florida State Seminoles rally for a victory.
By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY - Mike Rinfrette isn’t the least bit surprised by Wake Forest’s amazing football ascension this season.
Why should he be? Rinfrette all but predicted it a few years ago, when he told all of his friends that the Demon Deacons were one of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s rising powerhouses.
That was when Rinfrette, a Bunn native, signed with WFU after leading the Wildcats to a 12-1 campaign in 2004.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Lottery officials and state leaders expect a lottery shortfall, leaving school systems to figure out how to cover those gaps.
According to North Carolina Education Lottery Executive Director Tom Shaheen, the lottery is on track to generate $75 million less for education than originally predicted.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — In a business noted for death, Sadie Cutchins helped keep a legacy alive when she took over the family funeral home decades ago.
Her son, town Commissioner Joe Cutchins Jr., was able to relive her efforts recently when he penned her Profile in Courage — an article that appeared in a national mortician’s publication in September that honored living legends.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The county’s health department will be working double time in the coming year to help reverse what state and national health officials are calling a devastating trend of obesity.
According to the state Department of Health and Human Services, Franklin County, along with Nash and Wilson counties is first in the state for the percentage of people that are overweight or obese.
RALEIGH – Two telemarketing companies will have to change their ways and stop bothering North Carolina consumers with illegal telemarketing tactics, Attorney General Roy Cooper has announced.
RALEIGH —The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is the first driver license agency in the United States and Canada to pilot a new design feature for licenses which enhances security, protects against document fraud and aids law enforcement.
Eight cadets graduated Dec. 19 from the Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) course at Vance-Granville Community College. After passing the state certification exam, all eight are authorized to work in any law enforcement agency in North Carolina.
In support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation has donated $20,000 to Safe Space in Louisburg.
By: By Richard Moore, N.C. State Treasurer
RALEIGH – As North Carolinians cross items off their holiday gift lists and prepare to make their New Year’s Resolutions, State Treasurer Richard Moore reminds people to include saving in their goals for 2007.
If you’re brimming with the holiday spirit, consider putting some of your energy and joy into making the holidays happier and safer for seniors in your community. This time of year can be especially difficult for elderly residents. Instead of celebrating with loved ones, many seniors are lonely, ill or disabled. They are often isolated and highly vulnerable to charitable scams and theft.
Until recently, Greg Foster was a third-generation tobacco farmer and a second-generation logger.
Today, Foster is among a growing number of North Carolina farmers to see economic promise in wine grape production.
Girl Scouts from across Pines of Carolina Girl Scout Council’s 20 counties set out to blanket the community.
They collected and donated more than 5,500 new and gently-used blankets to area women’s shelters, homeless shelters, foster homes, animal shelters, and other local community organizations.
LOUISBURG - Josephine Hight Harris, 80, formerly of Asheville, died Friday, December 22nd, in Louisburg, NC.
LOUISBURG - Bettie Ruth Bailey Kennedy, 90, of Louisburg died Saturday, December 24, 2006, in Franklin Regional Medical Center, Louisburg. Born November 30, 1916, she was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbert Whitley Kennedy; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Ernest (Mary Lou Harris) Bailey; sisters, Eileen Bailey, Beulah Cooley and Christine Keith; brothers, E. Norris Bailey and Reece Bailey.
LOUISBURG – Louise Lewis Driver, 75, of 507 Ford Circle, died Sunday morning.
LOUISBURG - Willie R. Massenburg, 69, died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006 at his residence.
He was born in Franklin County to Robert and Mada H. Massenburg.
ZEBULON - Louis “Pete” Terry Bagwell, 63, died suddenly Friday evening, Dec. 22, 2006. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Dec. 26, at Pilot Baptist Church. Burial followed in the Williams family cemetery.
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