DAMAGE: (Top) A large crane is used to carefully remove a huge Hickory tree from the Justin Bunn Home in Louisburg. (Bottom) Much of Edgewood Drive was without telephone and TV cable as the result of downed trees and limbs. |
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Breaking News: Fast-moving storm sweeps across county
A swift storm with destructive winds swept through Franklin County Thursday evening, smashing at least one house, toppling trees and dragging down power lines.
No injuries were reported, though.
County Emergency Services Director Jeff Lewis and Sheriff Jerry Jones were out Friday morning, assessing damage in the county.
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Parents heard
One of the most unpopular proposed changes in a Franklin County School policy in a long time went down to defeat quickly on a unanimous vote Monday night after parents complained at the meeting and more than 300 more made their opposition known through e-mails to the school system.
The policy would have changed the “bell times” (hours of operation) for the district’s middle schools by one hour and was designed to maintain the efficiency of the school bus fleet.
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GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher |
Class of ‘13 launched!
THE NEXT CHAPTER. The county’s three high schools held their graduations this past Saturday. Above, Bunn High grads, from left to right, Mikayla Babbitt, Abigail Aurilio and Megan Arnold celebrate by blowing bubbles.
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School board accepting applications for vacancy
Just minutes after it adopted a new policy on how to deal with a school board vacancy, the Franklin County Board of Education Monday night began doing just that.
Last month, long-time school board member Dannie Williams resigned from his at-large seat and said his resignation would help clear the way for him to seek employment with the county schools.
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GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher |
Bunn hikes sewer rates, workers’ pay
BUNN — Commissioners approved a 2013-14 budget that raises sewer rates and employee salaries.
But one has nothing to do with the other, town officials said.
By a 2-1 vote, the board approved a $1.1 million spending plan that keeps the tax rate at $.68 per $100 of valuation and gives town employees a three-percent raise — the first in at least six years.
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CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer |
Judge orders teen tried as a juvenile
LOUISBURG — A Youngsville teenager who investigators said masterminded a plot to kill her mother will have her case handled in juvenile court.
The man investigators said she convinced to go along with the plot and pull the trigger couldn’t get his bond reduced.
Police arrived at a home on Shearin Court during the early morning hours of Aug. 16 to find Rhonda Maclean suffering from a gunshot wound.
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CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer - 1 opinion posted |
Macon makin’ COG’s future complicated
FRANKLIN COUNTY — The town of Macon’s decision to withhold just more than .05 percent of a $311,000 federal bill sent a regional organization scrambling to collect checks filled with stipulations that required everyone to pay before cash changed hands.
That, though, didn’t stop Youngsville’s town administrator from writing a $1,608 check to the Kerr Tar Council of Governments before Macon officials made their decision.
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CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer |
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