By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn’s scheduled wrestling meeting with North Raleigh Christian Academy on Thursday was tape delayed.
Literally.
Before the match, it was discovered that mat tape -- which is necessary to seal down the three pieces to make one wrestling mat -- was unavailable at the Bunn Dome.
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg College, under first-year head coach Mike McGuire, will begin its 2012 baseball season on Feb. 4 with a home doubleheader against Catawba Valley Community College.
First pitch is scheduled for noon at Frazier Field on the LC campus.
LC’s complete ledger is as follows, with home games listed in CAPS:
FRANKLINTON -- Three players scored in double figures as Franklinton earned its first boys basketball conquest of the season Tuesday.
The Red Rams overcame a slow start and went on to top Northern Vance by a 52-41 margin at the new FHS Gymnasium.
High School Wrestling
WEDNESDAY
Roanoke Rapids at Louisburg 6 p.m.
Franklinton at Corinth Holders 6 p.m.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Of all the players on Louisburg College’s football roster, few -- if any -- appreciate the opportunity to compete on that level as much as Sam Kidd.
After graduating from Morganton Freedom High School, Kidd took several years off from college and began to earn a regular paycheck as a construction worker.
Bunn’s Jaymes Kingsberry looks for an open teammate during Tuesday’s victory at Northern Nash.
Northern Nash’s Jasmine Griffin (left) grabs a rebound.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Investigators arrested one man this week and are looking for two more accomplices accused of robbing a delivery driver at gunpoint.
Police arrested Percy Dion Crudup, 19, on Monday morning, alleging he was part of a trio of suspects who robbed a 20-year-old Domino’s employee.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners tabbed an interim county attorney Monday night after saying goodbye to its long-standing counsel.
Louisburg attorney Darnell Batton has served as the county’s attorney for nearly 20 years, but announced in October that he was resigning the position on Jan. 1.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The federal government continues to investigate a single-engine crash helmed by the county’s airport director.
According to local and federal reports, Triangle North Executive Airport Director Steve Merritt was at the controls of a single-engine kit-built plane that went down at the end of the runway at Crooked Creek Airport — a small, private airstrip on Whippoorwill Lane between N.C. 39 and N.C. 98 in Bunn.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
The true cost of war and service to our country was in sharp focus Saturday at the National Guard Armory in Louisburg as the U.S. Marines — along with a congressman and several members of the community -- paused to honor the family of a young marine who paid the ultimate price.
Pictured (Above): SOLEMN PRESENTATION. Two U.S. Marines, Sgt. Michael S. Wagner and Staff Sgt. Joshua M. Jarman, present roses to Terry Lancaster in memory of her father, Staff Sgt. Bobby Jack Ruddle, who was killed in the Korean War. The rose is the symbol for Marines’ mothers, wives and daughters since it has both the flower and the thorn. The bouquet of red roses represents love, the lone white rose, loss, according to Marine Sgt. Angel J. Velasquez, who narrated the ceremony. The Lancaster family includes (seated, from the left) Don, Logan, Ramsey and Terry. Flowers also were presented to Ramsey, and Logan received a memento of the event.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The case against a former Bunn police officer accused of taking indecent liberties with a minor was put off until next month.
James Newton Perry was slated to appear in court during the superior court session that began on Monday, however, the prosecutor in the case had a death in the family.
Mr. and Mrs. Claus, the happy couple, are the stars of the show on Saturday during Youngsville’s Christmas parade.
Youngsville’s Cassie Garner, 4
Having questions about foreclosures, collections, government benefits or renter rights?
North Carolina Legal Aid in partnership with the Franklin County Department of Aging and the United Way of Franklin County is hosting a Legal Aid Rural Connect Forum on Dec. 12 at the Louisburg Senior Center.
Franklinton police responded to a call of shots fired, but could find no evidence or witnesses to the event.
According to a report by Officer A.J. Bishop, he and Sgt. K.J. Hornaday were on patrol the evening of Dec. 3 when they were dispatched to a call of shots being fired in the area of Sterling and Mill streets — an area that police are familiar with.
Kristina Dawn Robinson and Brian Keith Bawcum were married on Oct. 15, 2011 during a 4 p.m. ceremony conducted at South Henderson Pentecostal Holiness Church in Henderson. The traditional double- ring ceremony was officiated by Pastor Frank Sossamon.
The bride is the daughter of Delores and Ernest Robinson of Henderson.
Robert and Jennifer Waring of Wilmington are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Emily Rees Waring, born Nov. 9, 2011 at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington. She weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces and was 21 inches long.
The ever-popular Letterman will bring their Christmas Show to Louisburg College at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16.
Tony Batala, Donovan Tea and Mark Preston will sing a variety of holiday songs and their iconic letter sweaters are even expected to make a brief appearance.
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
It was a fitting use of the National Guard Armory in Louisburg on Saturday when our nation remembered the sacrifices of a fallen warrior.
Staff Sgt. Bobby Jack Ruddle was a young Marine who none of us will ever know but his family — his daughter and two grandchildren — are people many of us know and who have deep roots here in Franklin County.
GOOD MORNING: Today, Wednesday, December 7, 2011 marks the 70th Anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed, “A Day That Will Live In Infamy,” and plunged the United States and me, too, into WW11 roughly 17 months later.
As I have noted on numerous occasions, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first heard the news.
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners had nine items on their agenda — the last of which was a closed session to discuss three matters.
They spent about an hour in open session.
They spent about two hours meeting behind closed doors.
Three Franklin County residents have announced their intentions of running for the NC Senate District 18 seat in 2012. If the election were held today, who would get your vote?
By:
Chris Ftizsimon, NC Policy Watch
Here is some extra holiday advice you will need this year, thanks to the General Assembly.
It’s probably not a good idea to argue with a stranger over a parking space at a state park or confront a reckless cyclist on your local greenway. They might have a loaded handgun hidden in their belt.
