By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn is at it again -- taking down taller teams with their rare blend of skill, coaching guile and opportunism.
BHS continued that trend Thursday during its 2010-11 regular season opener at home against Nash Central.
The visiting Bulldogs had size and athleticism, as evidenced by their myriad of blocked shots throughout the contest.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- Bunn didn’t drop a game until the postseason as part of its storybook girls basketball campaign in 2010-11.
But it took only one outing this winter for the Ladycats to experience defeat as they were toppled Thursday night at home in the regular season opener.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Word got out in the preseason that the Louisburg Warriors were destined to be better in 2011-12 -- and LHS did nothing to dispel that notion during Tuesday’s boys basketball opener against KIPP Pride from Northampton County.
Using their suffocating full-court defense and effective transition game, the Warriors earned an early lead and went on to stop the Panthers by a 63-23 margin at the LHS Gymnasium.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association has taken another step in its 2013 realignment process -- and it looks to include the breaking up of Franklin County’s high schools from the same conference.
The NCHSAA released its updated enrollment numbers, along with proposed conferences that were created by a computer formula that was submitted to SAS.
High School Wrestling
MONDAY
Bunn at Kerr-Vance 5 p.m.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Brett Kiger took over a young team in 2010-11, and his Louisburg Lady Warriors -- along with their coach -- continued to grow as the season progressed.
Both coach and players have one year of experience under their respective belts, and optimism is high in the LHS camp about the squad’s chances this winter.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLINTON -- Long-time coach Lester Wilder expected big things this season from his veteran Franklinton girls basketball squad.
And through three games, the Lady Rams haven’t disappointed.
FHS is now 3-0 on the campaign after a pair of wins this week.
Louisburg’s Sedalia Seda (right) heads to the bucket Tuesday night during a victory against KIPP Pride.
Bunn’s Tainasha Vines (left) tries to locate Nash Central’s Niya Syles, who is making a pass to a teammate during Thursday’s game at the Bunn Dome.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Chapel Hill man accused of robbing banks in Wake and Franklin counties appeared in local courts this week.
Whether he appears in federal court remains up in the air.
Gordon Miller, 22, appeared in Wake County District Court on Monday, facing charges of common law robbery and forgery and uttering. His case was continued until Dec. 19 there.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — A fire that charred a man’s business and residence — for the second time in just more than a year — hasn’t torched his resolve.
Stephan Bezzina, proprietor of Gigi’s House Bistro, plans to reopen — again.
“I’m still trying to figure it out,” Bezzina said this week in the aftermath of again, losing his business and apartment to fire, this time on Thanksgiving. “It really is unreal, almost surreal.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A Bunn man is slated to appear in court next week on charges that cost him his job.
A Franklin County grand jury in January indicted 27-year-old James Newton Perry on four counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor.
Those charges came two months after Bunn Police Chief Kent Winstead fired Perry after the guardian of a teenage girl brought forth allegations that the one-time officer took liberties with a girl.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
In a short but somewhat unusual Monday night meeting, the Franklin County Board of Education gave unanimous approval to the political redistricting plan known as Alternative Five which was approved a week earlier by the Franklin County commissioners
In addition, the board also unanimously passed a resolution requesting that the U.S. Department of Justice give “expedited consideration” to the redistricting plan so it can be used in the May 8, 2012, elections.
A ceremony this Saturday in Louisburg will pay tribute to the memory of a fallen U.S. Marine, a man described as a “farm boy that answered a moral compass that called him to serve his country.”
Sadly, Staff Sgt. Bobby Jack Ruddle was a member of a rifle platoon that came under fire from an organized force of the enemy around Ghango-Myron, Korea on April 19, 1953.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklinton and its community will be pressing ahead with its Christmas parade on Thursday, setting off a string of holiday celebrations this December.
Franklinton’s fire department has long organized the town’s Christmas parade but begged off the chore this year after a number of its members burned out.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
YOUNGSVILLE — Town officials hope to be closer to naming its new town administrator by the end of the year.
The permanent position has been vacant since June.
That’s when commissioners fired Brenda Robbins after an investigation revealed she was aware of criminal and managerial wrongdoing by her son, former maintenance and streets department director Joseph Patterson II.
Louisburg resident Jamie Whitley
By:
Jay Lamm, Times Editorial Cartoonist
Don’t look now but with the turkey demolished, we’re on that incredibly quick “slide” toward the Christmas holiday season.
Already Black Friday — whatever that means — is over and done.
And Cyber Monday, one of those newly forged shopping days built around computers and the Internet — is fading into history even if all the items bought that day haven’t arrived just yet.
GOOD MORNING: Well, we got a bit of rain Tuesday morning, but fortunately nothing like the deluge reported west of us like what I saw on TV in Durham and the vicinity. It’s expected to clear up and cool off a bit beginning today, Wednesday.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Another day, another Herman Cain scandal.
At least that seems to be the pace, anyway.
This week, an Atlanta businesswoman came forward, alleging that she had a 13-year affair with the married man that ended right before he announced his presidential campaign.
Do you think the actions of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners and county staff, keep industry from wanting to locate in the county?
Dear Editor:
As a resident of Lake Royale, we got the shaft on the new redistricting map. And I am speaking personally and not on behalf of the Republican Party.
Dear Editor:
Surprise, Surprise!
It is amusing to watch the Louisburg Town Council feign concern about the fate of the hospital. After years of refusing to respond to the relentless elimination of doctor after doctor, specialty after specialty, and medical service after medical service (the latest of which was stereotactic breast biopsy), they now pretend to be surprised at the recent layoffs.
The Vance-Granville Community Band will perform its fourth annual Holiday Concert on Monday, Dec. 12. The program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Civic Center on the college’s main campus in Vance County. Admission is free. Children are encouraged to attend and there will a special time devoted to them.
