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LOUISBURG, NC--Funeral services for Debora E. Steward, age 54 who died on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, will be held on Wednesday, June 23, at 2 p.m. from the Richardson Funeral Home Chapel in Louisburg, NC. Burial will follow in the Hargrove Family Cemetery. Min. Margaret Conway, officiating.

LOUISBURG, NC--Funeral services for William A. Perry, age 55 who died on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, will be held on Tuesday, June 22, at 11 a.m. from the Freedom and Deliverance in Louisburg, NC. Burial will follow in the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery in Bunn, NC. Rev. Russell Miles, Officiating.

LOUISBURG, NC--Funeral services for Ruby Harris Wilkins, age 95 who died on Friday, June 18, 2021, will be held on Thursday, June 24, at 2 p.m. from the Rocky Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Louisburg, NC. Burial will follow in the Jones Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Timothy Johnson, officiating.

RALEIGH -- William "Bo" Henry Allen, III, 74, died Sunday, June 13, 2021 at his home in Raleigh.

LOUISBURG -- Funeral services for Joseph "Joe" Rodwell, 69, who died on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, will be held on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 2 p.m. at the Richardson Funeral Home Chapel in Louisburg.

KITTRELL -- Memorial services for Inez Taylor, 76, who died on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, will be held on Saturday, June 19, 2021 at noon at the Richardson Funeral Home Chapel in Louisburg.

LOUISBURG -- Tony Luther King, 56, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday evening surrounded by his family. Tony was preceded in death by his father, William G. King. Visitation will be held on Saturday, June 19, 2021, at 11:00 AM with funeral service to follow at 1:00 PM at Faith Baptist Church in Youngsville.

LOUISBURG -- There was a bright side of having to navigate a global pandemic for the class of 2021, Julia Grace said: senior skip day was a breeze.
"... While this year has been challenging, it has not all been negative," the Bunn High valedictorian told the graduating class of 173 inside the Louisburg College auditorium on June 11.
"We have grown and learned from our experiences," she said.

LOUISBURG -- As is their tradition, after walking across the stage to grab their diploma, each of Louisburg High Schools nearly 120 graduates grabbed their class flower -- a white rose.
This year, that walk, that rose meant a bit more, said Louisburg High School's salutatorian, Enya Jones -- who quoted Christy Ann Martine's "Flower in the Desert", an ode to strength and beauty under perilous conditions.

FRANKLINTON -- During the height of the pandemic, NASA launched Perseverance to seek out signs of life on Mars -- sending the rover more than 218 million miles to the red planet.
Franklinton High School valedictorian Cassandra Bell said perseverance has carried the class of 2021 just as far.

LOUISBURG -- Sheriff Kent Winstead said, personal reasons, not politics, is why he'll be stepping away from law enforcement when his term expires in the fall of 2022.
A budget disagreement with Commissioner Danny Pearce, he said, has nothing to do with his decision.

LOUISBURG -- The Franklin County Board of Education came face to face with two problems that confront most of the rest of the county Monday night -- rising grocery and construction prices.
And, the board also learned that the COVID-19 pandemic, while receding, is still with Franklin County Schools where one staff member and five students have recently tested positive.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY -- A Wake County man is slated to appear in Franklin County court later this month on child sex offense charges.
Benito Torres-Torres, 19, was charged June 11 with statutory rape of a child less than 15.
Deputies responded to a home in the western part of the county after getting a report of a sexual offense.

BUNN -- The State Highway Patrol has identified the second person killed in two separate wrecks two weekends ago.
According to a report by Trooper R.M. Goodacre, Michael Scott Dzengeleski was riding a Suzuki motorcycle on Seven Paths Road on June 6 when he ran off the road to the right and struck a tree.

Franklin County's future as a rural, pastoral place where farms and rural landscapes predominate got just a little dimmer last week, trashed by politicians who want development at any cost and local residents who either don't care or were too apathetic to stand up and be counted.
Franklin County's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) was passed on a split, 4-3 vote last Monday with all four Republican commissioners voting in favor of it.

Five hundred, seventy-three.
According to commencement programs provided for Franklin County Early College High, Louisburg High, Bunn High and Franklinton High schools, that's how many students took part in graduation festivities starting May 26 and wrapping up this past Saturday.

Students at Louisburg High School completed their commencement activities this past week.

Students at Franklinton High School completed their commencement activities this past week.

Across North Carolina, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit it rapidly and radically altered how we work, learn and connect with friends and family. Broadband internet instantly became critical for residents to learn and work remotely, find jobs and even access telemedicine.
The pandemic showed us that many North Carolinians lack the access, financial means, devices or skills needed to fully participate in today's digital society.

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President Biden said, and I quote, "When I was first elected vice president with President Obama, the military sat us down to let us know what the greatest threats facing America were."

BUNN - Parker Haake has created a mini-dynasty during his tenure as the Bunn High School wrestling coach.
After rolling through their regular season toward another Northern Carolina Conference championship, the Wildcats soared once again during last Wednesday's NCC Championships at the South Granville High School Gymnasium in Creedmoor.