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Commissioners approve actions that limit engagement, critics say (relevance: 100%, date: Jun 4, 2025)
LOUISBURG -- Franklin County commissioners agreed to reduce their meeting schedule and update their social media policy without any discussion or public feedback.
Commissioners Mark Speed and Harry Foy tried to get the items pulled from the board's consent agenda and delayed for debate -- but the remaining members, Commissioners David Bunn, Michael Schriver, Roxanne Bragg, Logan Davis and Stuart May, refused.

Louisburg's budget draft holds taxes, provides raises (relevance: 87%, date: Jun 4, 2025)
LOUISBURG -- Town management presented council members with a $16.3 million total budget last week that gives employees a raise and keeps the tax and utility rates stagnant, but doesn't include much expansion.
If the board wants to include more employees, capital outlay and resources, it'll come at a cost, Town Manager Sean Medlin told the council during a budget session retreat on May 30.

Residents' budget requests ignored by county (relevance: 62.7%, date: Jun 4, 2025)
LOUISBURG -- A roomful of folks told county commissioners to spend more money up front on school facilities, build an aquatics center and lower utility rates for its most modest users.
At the conclusion of the public hearing on the 2025-26 proposed budget, though, county commissioners sat silent.
They have until June 30 to adopt a budget and they have one more regularly scheduled meeting -- June 16 -- prior to that deadline.

Convicted baby killer gets long prison sentence (relevance: 46.6%, date: Jun 4, 2025)
LOUISBURG -- A Youngsville man was sentenced to spend between 48 and 63 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of killing his eight-week-old daughter.
Ricky Barlow Weese Jr., will get credit for the 2,813 days he's already spent in jail awaiting trail after he was charged in 2017 with second degree murder and felony child abuse inflicting serious physical injury.
The May 31 decision came at the end of week-and-a-half long trial that saw doctors testify that Alexa Weese suffered broken ribs, a broken lower leg, a ruptured spleen and a fractured skull -- which proved to be fatal and was not accidental.

Franklin Facts (relevance: 39.2%, date: Dec 26, 2007)

Holiday Giving & Events (relevance: 20.6%, date: Nov 23, 2007)

William Wesley Young (relevance: 17.6%, date: Jun 4, 2025)
LOUISBURG, NC -- William Wesley Young, 62, of Louisburg, passed away on May 14, 2025 at Granville Medical Center in Oxford, NC. Wesley was born on August 18, 1962 to Patricia Collins and the late Wesley Arlington Young. In addition to his father, Wesley was preceded in death by his daughter, Robyn Forbes.

County has chance to improve its community engagement (relevance: 17.5%, date: Jun 4, 2025)
I hope you're not drinking a hot or cold cup of morning Joe ... or taking that first good sip of OJ, because a spit take might be on the menu ...
I actually agree with Commissioner Michael Schriver.
During our most recent meeting of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, our governing board took some actions for which folks took great exception.
You can read about them in Gary's column above, or elsewhere in your edition of The Franklin Times.

Author chronicles her cancer journey (relevance: 11%, date: Jun 4, 2025)
LOUISBURG -- National breast cancer advocate, medical tattoo artist, nurse, and founder of Pink Ink Tattoo, Tara Williamson, has announced the release of her debut book, "Finding My Gift, Through My Breast Cancer Journey."
A raw, heartfelt, and ultimately empowering memoir, the book sheds light on the emotional, physical, and spiritual path of a breast cancer survivor who transformed her pain into purpose.

North Carolina News (relevance: 10%)
North Carolina News

Commissioners change schedule in wrong direction! (relevance: 8.4%, date: Jun 4, 2025)
Don't know about you but I really hated to see May fade quietly into history.
It was a beautiful month weather wise, lots of cool days, relatively low humidity and most of us missed the serious storms that the weather prognosticators were predicting.
The first day of summer, officially, arrives in two weeks -- and who knows what it will bring. But the safe money is "betting" on much, much warmer weather and a return to humidity levels that you'll notice!