By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Police are using interviews and surveillance footage to piece together a convenience store altercation that sent a man to the hospital.
Proprietors of the Snackers convenience store downtown called police just after 9 p.m. on New Year’s Eve when as many as four people got involved in fisticuffs.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Franklinton man accused of helping a convicted murderer flee to Virginia is slated to appear in court during the next superior court session.
Police arrested Rashawn Arrington on Sept. 21, 2010 — a day after investigators allege he shot and killed Jesse Montague Jr.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A former Franklinton High School teacher is slated to appear in court this month on charges of assaulting a student.
The mother of a 17-year-old student took out warrants against AJ Piper on Oct. 11, alleging that Piper grabbed her son and pushed and shoved him against a wall.
Bunn resident LaKai Saunders, 7 years
LOUISBURG – Earl Horace Hartsell Jr., 84, died Thursday night, Dec. 29, 2011. There will be no service.
NASHVILLE - Carl Braxton Creekmore, 84, died Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. Funeral service was Saturday, Dec. 31, at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Nashville, with the Rev. Paul Arnold and the Rev. Roy Parker officiating. Burial was in Forest Hill Cemetery.
LOUISBURG – Ellis Wester Young, 81, of Louisburg, passed away Sunday morning.
CASTALIA - Carl Wilson Rice, 93, left his earthly life Tuesday, January 3, 2012. He resided in Justice, NC all of his life, until recent months where he resided at Franklin Oaks of Louisburg. He was born July 29, 1918 in Franklin County.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Welcome to 2012!
Hopefully, it will be a huge improvement over 2011, even though we’ll have Presidential election campaigns to endure for most of the year — and post-voting analysis of them for the final two months or so.
All that brings up a critical point that can be raised now that the Iowa fiasco is over.
Why do any of us pay any attention whatsoever to what is going on in Iowa?
GOOD MORNING and Happy New Year! While I can’t say we rang in the New Year Saturday night, we certainly said goodbye to 2011 in grand fashion.
Daughter Julie and Rodney White, along with grandson Ryan White, hosted a big family get-together at their home on Bethlehem Church Road down in the southern tip of Franklin County Saturday evening that drew quite a bunch of us.
Someone brought it to my attention that Santa Claus had already brought me a lump of coal.
If you don’t remember, I wrote in a Christmas column that I wanted the jolly fat man to bring me fewer closed sessions in this new year.
So, 2012 still has that new car smell — it was only three days old at the time — and the Franklin County Board of Commissioners had already planned to meet in closed session to discuss a personnel matter.
Will Franklin County’s economic fortunes begin to look better in 2012, with more industry and jobs?
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies recovered some of the service gear reported stolen from a Louisburg officer’s home.
According to a report by Dep. W.J. Wiggins, a woman who was keeping an eye on Louisburg Officer Travis Lincoln’s home reported a break-in back in May while he was away.
The Franklin County Farm Service Agency Office would like to announce the 2011 Franklin County Committee Election results for LAA 1, which includes the townships of: Hayesville, Franklinton, and Louisburg. We would like to congratulate Edward Wheeler as the elected member of the Franklin County FSA Committee and Henrietta Renn as the elected first alternate.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- The second half of the 2011-12 Franklin County prep basketball season started with a bang Tuesday -- and with a game destined to have long-term implications in the Northern Carolina Conference standings.
That’s when undefeated Franklinton traveled to Bunn for its biggest test of the campaign to date.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
DURHAM -- Over the holidays, Bunn boys basketball coach Gerald Melton discovered that a pair of long-time friends weren’t necessarily in the giving mood.
Not when standings supremacy was at stake at the Spartan Christmas Challenge, which was held last Wednesday through Friday at Southern Durham High School.
I’ve never been a big fan of picking winners in sports I cover -- mainly because it was a necessity during my days at a newspaper in Savannah, Ga., back in the early 1990s.
Not only was it a job prerequisite to offer my prep football selections every week in print, but a final score was also posted.
SECOND PLACE. The Honey Badgers took second place overall in the recently completed Franklin County Parks and Recreation Department Adult Co-Ed Volleyball League. Pictured are (back, l to r) Caleb Lewis, Nick Brezinski and Matt Green; (front, l to r) Allison Pittman, Rebecca Green and Scottie Goodwin. Not pictured are Mary Brezinski and Brad Morring. (Photo Submitted)
Diamond Graham and the Franklinton Lady Rams looked to stay unbeaten Tuesday night at Bunn.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to continue discussions about a new county attorney.
Long-time county attorney Darnell Batton announced his resignation in October after nearly 20 years of service.
Paramedics rushed a Louisburg woman to the hospital following a two-vehicle wreck on N.C. 56 near Dogwood Road. According to a report by Officer T.W. Allen, Johnny Hight, 27, was driving east on N.C. 56 when he apparently got distracted by a passing law enforcement vehicle, Allen said. He then ran into the back of a pickup truck driven by Anthony Little of Greenville.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County commissioners will again be presented with change order requests regarding a $10.7 million overhaul of its radio station.
During the meeting on Tuesday night, they expect to get more answers.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Judges and attorneys will use the first week of January to figure out how some long-standing civil cases will go forward in the new year.
Resident Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood will host administrative sessions across the district beginning on Jan. 3, with Franklin County’s session slated to begin the morning of Jan. 4.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Teen pregnancy rates dropped to an historic low across the state, including a precipitous drop in Franklin County.
According to numbers released in December by the State Center for Health Statistics, a division of the State Department of Health and Human Services, fewer than 5 percent of girls across the state ages 15 to 19 got pregnant.
