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Bunn continues its girls soccer season
Bunn continues its girls soccer season
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Bunn High School continued its 2012 girls soccer campaign with a pair of disappointing losses this week, including one in Northern Carolina Conference action.
Monday, BHS took on league foe Corinth Holders in a showdown with plenty of implications for the Class 2-A State Playoffs.

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Lady ‘Canes make All-Region
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College’s postseason accolades continued with the naming of three players to the All-Region X women’s basketball squad.
LC went 31-2 this past campaign, winning the Region X regular season and tournament championships en route to finishing third at the NJCAA National Tournament.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY PARKS AND REC WINTER VOLLEYBALL 8-11 NET BURNERS
FRANKLIN COUNTY PARKS AND REC WINTER VOLLEYBALL 8-11 NET BURNERS
(Back, l to r) Coaches Chris Perry, Chris McMullen and Brian Leonard; (middle, l to r) Carly Payton, Lucille Ketterer and Sally Ketterer; (front, l to r) Gracie Mills, Lucy Harris, Julia Perry and Madi Leonard.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY PARKS AND REC WINTER VOLLEYBALL 8-11 FAST AND FURIOUS
FRANKLIN COUNTY PARKS AND REC WINTER VOLLEYBALL 8-11 FAST AND FURIOUS
(Back, l to r) Coach Audra Gupton, Allison Lopez-Reyna, Madison Murray, Cameron Hayes and Jada Norman; (front, l to r) Abigail Gupton, Elizabeth Winstead, Chessie Foster and Emily Winstead.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY PARKS AND REC WINTER VOLLEYBALL 8-11 SUPER SERVERS
FRANKLIN COUNTY PARKS AND REC WINTER VOLLEYBALL 8-11 SUPER SERVERS
(Back, l to r) Coach Scottie Martin, Cari jones, Alexis Poyer, Moana Poyer, Crystal Ferrell and Coach Marcie Woodlief; (front, l to r) Rylee Nowell, Dakota Woodlief, Hannah Martin and Kaylee Turner.

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PLAYMAKER
PLAYMAKER
Bunn’s Shantia Vines throws out a Louisburg batter after fielding a ground ball at third base Tuesday.

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Small grain growers plan referendum
The North Carolina Small Grain Growers Association (NCSGGA) has announced that an Assessment Referendum will be held April 10.
Polling places will be located throughout the state in each county extension office. This assessment is for a six-year period for all Canola/rapeseed grown in the state.

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In the ‘Burg’ even helping children is difficult
In the ‘Burg’ even helping children is difficult
GOOD MORNING: We’re looking at the possibility of more seasonable temperatures thru Friday at least, with daytime highs expected in the mid 70’s today and Thursday, dropping back unto the upper 60’s on Friday.  Look for overnight lows in the 40’s Thursday and Friday. 

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Schools seek $1.9 million more in local funds
In the next few weeks, the Franklin County commissioners will receive a request for increased funding of about $1.9 million for schools next year.
The request is about evenly split between operating funds, $967,355, and capital outlay, $928,103.
If approved, the district’s local operating appropriation would be $12,967,355 and its capital outlay appropriation would be $1,853,103.

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Local volunteers extend helping hand to Kentucky tornado victims
Local volunteers extend helping hand to Kentucky tornado victims
The death toll in Kentucky rose to two dozen as a result of the March 2 tornadoes that ripped through the South and Midwest.
Over the weekend, missionaries from Franklin County Volunteers in Medicine went down to one of the hardest hit little communities, trying to help those who survived put back their lives the best they can.

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<i>Spring Cleaning!</i>
Spring Cleaning!
TIME TO SPRUCE UP. Spring is most definitely in the air and with the sunshine and warmer temperatures comes the urge to clean up, spruce up and get ready to be outdoors. That’s certainly true in Louisburg where a number of springtime activities and events are planned. Town crews have been doing a little sprucing up around the downtown area in recent days.

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Democrats are near commission nominee
Franklin County’s Democratic Party leadership expects to recommend a new commissioner for District 2 this week.
The party’s Executive Committee is scheduled to meet this Thursday and vote on who they want to succeed Penny McGhee on the county’s Board of Commissioners.

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Water fight now in hands of judge
After a 16-month dispute, Franklinton and Franklin County attorneys had their day in court last week.
Neither side knows exactly if or when they’ll have to do it again.
Attorneys presented Judge Paul Gessner with about 10,000 pages of discovery and a few thousand pages of depositions — each trying to convince the Wake County judge to see their side in a water dispute that has cost more than $200,000 in attorney fees so far.

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Franklin Faces
Franklin Faces
Madison Harding and Maggie Riley

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Mild winter and rain means more mosquitoes
The combination of a very mild winter, regular rainfall, and gradually lengthening day length is leading to more mosquito activity.
We need to take mosquitoes seriously as they can transmit three different diseases in North Carolina:  West Nile virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, and La Cross encephalitis.

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Local volunteers hope to sweep podium while taking part in river cleanup competition
Franklin County and the City of Louisburg look to repeat their gold medal performance as Riverkeeper Cup Cleanup champions on Saturday, March 31.
This year competition stiffens as Granville County enters for a chance at winning the coveted Riverkeeper Cup, given to the community that collects the most trash by weight. Each year a new champion has been crowned.

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Alleged kidnapper is also hit  with sexual assault charges
Alleged kidnapper is also hit with sexual assault charges
Ryan Brown has not posted a $1 million bond, but that didn’t stop him from making a trip to Craven County earlier this week.
Brown was transported to a jail there on Saturday where he was slated to appear in district court on Monday to face charges of first-degree kidnapping and first-degree burglary.

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Deputies arrest man on federal counterfeit charges
Sheriff’s deputies arrested an area man on federal counterfeiting charges.
Investigators said more arrests could follow.
Vernon Emmanuel Williams Jr. was arrested on March 15 pursuant to a federal indictment on charges of conspiracy to counterfeit U.S. currency.

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Day of Prayer
Day of Prayer
PRAYER TIME. The 13th Annual Prayer Day for Farmers USA, sponsored by local churches, businesses and farmers, was observed Sunday, March 11, hosted by the Vollmer Farm of Bunn. The two-hour program included gospel singing, prayers, agriculture-related topics, free food, fun and fellowship.

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Critical budget debates promise to be confusing
It seems that every year or two we write this editorial -- but this year is a bit different.
This year you really MUST pay attention to the government budget process both at the local and state levels.
That’s true because so much is at stake this year -- and because so much of the information we all will be fed will be incorrect or incomplete. (And that’s being as kind as possible because, to be honest, some of the information will be intentionally misleading.)

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Taking justice into one’s own hands always a risky proposition
Taking justice into one’s own hands always a risky proposition
I remember when I was a kid, we had Neighborhood Watch signs up all over my community.
To be honest, I never knew what that meant.
What I did know was that there were people in my neighborhood that looked out for folks.
There was Ms. Stroud who lived behind us.

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Student completes Vance-Granville Community College diploma before high school graduation
Student completes Vance-Granville Community College diploma before high school graduation
When Timothy D. “Danny” Walsh of Oxford graduates from J.F. Webb High School in June, he will already have earned a college diploma.
He recently completed all the requirements for a diploma in Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Technology from Vance-Granville Community College.

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PEGGY A. BRAXTON
MIDDLESEX – Peggy Sue Alford Braxton, 64, died Saturday at home with her family. Funeral service was held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, in the Strickland Funeral Home Chapel, with entombment following in Gethsemane Memorial Gardens, Zebulon.

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PAUL B. WRENN SR.
CASTALIA - Paul Bryant Wrenn Sr., 85, died at his home Sunday, March 25, 2012. A service to celebrate his life and honor his military service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 28, at Forest Hills Cemetery, with the Rev. Wray Wheeless officiating.

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ZENAYIJA “NAY NAY” FREEMAN
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Zenayija “Nay Nay” Freeman, age 9, who died Saturday, March 24, 2012, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 31, at Faith Missionary Baptist Church in Louisburg. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

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