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ZEBULON -- Joseph Daris started the 10th with a triple to deep right-center and Ryan Gebhardt brought him in with a game winning single to left while leading the Carolina Mudcats to a 4-3 walk-off win against Potomac at Five County Stadium on Tuesday night in a Class A Carolina League baseball game.
The Mudcats (13-17) had a 3-2 lead going into the ninth, but a misplay between Gebhardt and first baseman Joey Meneses between second and first allowed the Nationals (16-13) to score the tying run and force extras.

Vance-Granville Community College recently held its annual Athletics Banquet on the VGCC campus in Henderson. Among the honorees were (above) Kara Reese (Volleyball Most Outstanding Player).

Vance-Granville Community College recently held its annual Athletics Banquet on the VGCC campus in Henderson. Among the honorees were (above) Tyrek Beverly (Men's Basketball Vanguard Leadership Excellence Award).

Cherry Hill's spring concert series, A Celebration of the Piano, reaches a crescendo May 22 with the performances of Andrew Willis and six of his most gifted graduate students from UNC-Greensboro. Dr. Willis, professor of Music at UNCG, is known for his work with various keyboard instruments and his commitment to the study, performance and teaching a wide range of repertoire. In past performances at Cherry Hill and on the Greensboro campus, Dr. Willis and other professors of music have presented the biannual Focus on Piano featuring immersion into the life and compositions of one composer.

Like many small towns in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of North Carolina, Louisburg developed a noteworthy tobacco market in the last 10 years of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century.
This was the result of a confluence of agricultural trends, the rise of tobacco manufacturing in the state, and a significant improvement in transportation facilities.
Tobacco had been grown in North Carolina since colonial times, but the perfection of the flue-cured, bright-leaf tobacco process prior to and after the Civil War increased the crop's popularity.

PILOT - Pansy Denton Bunn from the Pilot Community in Franklin County passed away peacefully at her home on Tuesday. She will long be remembered for her character, love of people, and love of the Lord Jesus Christ.

LOUISBURG - Donna Bobbitt Yow, 54, died Sunday afternoon, May 8, 2016 at her home. A memorial service will be held 6 p.m. today, Thursday, May 12, at Grace Baptist Church. The family will receive friends starting at 5:30 p.m. prior to the service.

CREEDMOOR - Funeral services for Halas "Ann" Fogg, 70, who died Saturday, May 7, 2016, will be held Saturday, May 14, at 11 a.m. at Shady Grove Baptist Church in Louisburg, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson, eulogist. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Fred Perry Jr., 90, who died Tuesday, May 10, 2016, will be held Saturday, May 14, at 2 p.m. at Rocky Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Louisburg. Burial will follow in the Cemetery on the Hill.

LOUISBURG - Funeral services for TyQuan Rashad "TuTu" Holden, 21, who died Saturday, May 7, 2016, will be held Friday, May 13, at Haywood Baptist Church in Louisburg, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson, eulogist. Burial will follow in the Concord church cemetery in Kittrell.

ROCKY MOUNT -Funeral services for Christine Lynch Cannon, 66, who died on Friday May 6, 2016, will be held Friday, May 13, at 12 p.m. at Pine Chapel Baptist Church in Hollister, with the Rev. Robert Hedgepeth officiating. Entombment will be at the Live Oak Freewill Baptist Church cemetery at a later date.

HENDERSON - Jeffrey Kyle Watkins died Sunday, May 8, 2016 at Maria Parham Medical Center. A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Fuller Chapel United Church of Christ, with the Rev. Tammy Ayscue officiating. The family will receive friends following the service in the fellowship hall. At other times they will be at the home of Gail Watkins, 4451 Kelly Road, Henderson.

YOUNGSVILLE - Everette Gay Hicks, 71, of Youngsville, passed away at his home Monday night.

LOUISBURG - Edwin Randolph Strickland, 70, of Louisburg, passed away Sunday morning.

LOUISBURG - John Royster Foster, 79, died Saturday morning, May 7, 2016. A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends immediately following the service.

LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Hudie Sybil Deneen "Neen" Harris, 51, who died Wednesday, May 4, 2016, were held Monday, May 9, at Allen Chapel Baptist Church in Louisburg, with Pastor Stanley Dunston officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA - Funeral services for Alma Richardson Lynch, 87, formerly of Hollister, who died Friday, May 6, 2016, will be held Thursday, May 12, at 12 p.m. at Pine Chapel Baptist Church in Hollister, with Pastor Robert Hedgepeth officiating. Burial will follow in the Pine Chapel Memorial Garden Cemetery.

LOUISBURG - Pansy Cardwell Hunt, 85, died Thursday night, May 5, 2016. A funeral service was held Sunday, May 8, in the chapel of Strickland Funeral Home. A private family burial was held at Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery.

LOUISBURG - Doreen Doyle Andrews, 85, died Wednesday, May 4, 2016, at her home. A memorial service will be held Saturday, May 7, at 3 p.m. at Centerville Baptist Church with the Rev. Dougald McLaurin officiating. The family will receive friends immediately following the service.

CASTALIA - Alice Hale Pernell, 68, died Thursday, May 5, 2016. Funeral service will be held Monday, May 9, at 6 p.m. in the chapel of Cornerstone Funeral Home with Pastor Billy Henry officiating. Visitation will follow the service.

DACULA, Ga. -- A Louisburg man whose multi-state crime spree led to his arrest in Georgia last summer was arrested this week after slinking away from a prison work detail and assaulting an officer with his own baton.
David Gill Jr., 25, was arrested Wednesday morning after authorities allege he assaulted an officer who tried to arrest him on a fugitive warrant for escape.
The officer required 10 staples in his head as a result of the altercation.

What a great weekend -- and that's not a reference to the weather.
It was a weekend full of free, fun, often hilarious entertainment -- and the Democrats are going to have to kick up their game several notches if they hope to compete with the reality show that has become Republican politics this year.
Whether it's at the national level with The Donald and a cast of wannabes or at the state level with Poor Pat and a General Assembly led by the Keystone Kops shooting themselves in the political foot, they have pushed politics to new levels of hilarity.

LOUISBURG -- A developer urged Franklin County leaders to prioritize improvements to a Youngsville pump station that, if left in its current state, could jeopardize a development that could grow the town by almost 40 percent.
David Lazzo told county commissioners on Monday night that a 174 lot Wynn Homes development on 70-acres of Cross Street has been approved by Youngsville's Board of Adjustment.

Little Ellia Brown shows off her long-jumping form recently at the Franklin County Special Olympics held at Franklinton High School.