Senior Halie Harris has been effective at the libero position this season for the Louisburg High School volleyball squad, which is guided by Erica Wammock. LHS went 1-2 during action this week.
OXFORD -- Bunn exploded for the final 35 points of the game and went on to defeat Oxford Webb by a 43-16 margin in a non-conference prep football matchup Friday in Granville County.
With the decisive victory, Bunn improved to 3-1 overall for the season. The Wildcats will be off next week before returning to action Sept. 24 at Nash Central.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- After spending the last two weeks in Raleigh, the Louisburg Warriors finally got to enjoy their home opener Friday at Patterson Field.
Louisburg was able to score on its initial offensive snap of both the first and second halves en route to a 33-12 decision over former league rival Southeast Halifax.
STEM -- Franklinton went on the road and churned out a 23-8 decision Friday at Granville Central.
The game was scoreless through the first half, but Franklinton got on the board when quarterback T.J. Wall delivered a 25-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Kevin Williams in the third stanza of action.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The state Wildlife Resources Commission continues to investigate a hunting incident that killed a recently-graduated Louisburg High student.
Officers have yet to rule the death of Jared Kyle Wynne an accident or criminal matter.
“Right now,” Wildlife Resource Commission Lt. John Reams said, “it’s under investigation.”
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — The last stop of a holiday DWI checkpoint proved to be the best as officers seized nearly 70 grams of marijuana from a sport utility vehicle.
Officers charged Trever Joseph Gledhill with possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver marijuana; maintain a vehicle for the sell of a controlled substance; driving while impaired; and misdemeanor simple possession of marijuana.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County residents and visitors won’t go lacking for things to do this weekend.
• Things kick off first this Friday as the Justice community celebrates two days of its Antique Tractor, Car & Engine Show.
It’s the 10th year for the northern Franklin County event.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
It looks like this year, residents won’t be suffering the ills of the past.
Drug stores and public health agencies are expecting to have an ample supply of vaccine, unlike in years past when shortages were the norm.
That was especially true when H1N1 was the scare.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Youngsville Commissioners will be looking at donating some money, swapping some land and renewing zoning laws which allow for forced annexation — not that they’re looking to do so.
The proposed property swap with resident Jim Moss is the subject of a public hearing and an action item on Thursday night’s agenda.
Debbie Duger of Louisburg, a volunteer at Franklin Regional Medical Center, leans back and relaxes while she donates blood that could help save a life. She was one of several blood donors who visited the Red Cross Bloodmobile Tuesday when it made a stop at Franklin Regional.
Bunn resident Evan Moore, 10
Nearly invisible in the highly partisan political storm that is preceding the November General Election is an important constitutional amendment that will face North Carolina voters.
At a time when partisan politics are white hot and passions are running high, it may prove difficult to get voters to focus on the more mundane, nuts-and-bolts part of state government that can, in the long run, make far more difference than any other individual race.
GOOD MORNING: First off this morning I want to say “Welcome Back” to the verbal wars and pages of The Franklin Times to Clara Wright Frazier, whose “Why Build” letter to the editor appeared in last Saturday’s edition. We’ve missed you Clara and it’s good to learn that you’ve “returned to civilization,” as you put it, even though I disagree with your reasoning regarding the building of a home for our early college high school program.
I read this past weekend a story that was most troubling.
It was about the family of a soldier who was killed in Iraq.
According to the story, the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are upset with rules of engagement they say make their sons, daughters, husbands and wives sitting ducks.
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RALEIGH – A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is being described as “surprising” because it undercuts the promise of ObamaCare to cut health care costs by reducing emergency-room visits.
I have no doubt that some politicians and activists in North Carolina and beyond have found the study’s conclusions surprising.
Novozymes, which operates a plant in Franklinton, has become a founding member of The Sustainability Consortium, a new global organization with aims to improve the sustainability of consumer products.
The company will join a diverse group of academics, governments, non-government organizations and businesses to fulfill The Sustainability Consortium’s mission of driving a new generation of products and supply networks that address environmental, social and economic imperatives.
The Ugandan Orphans Choir will be performing a free concert at Trinity United Methodist Church, 4272 US Highway 401 N., Louisburg, on Saturday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. This special concert is in celebration of Children’s Sabbath. These children were some of the neediest children in Uganda. Now, they are the fortunate few that have been rescued from a life of hunger and poverty and given the opportunity for education and spiritual development.
LOUISBURG - Jared K. Wynne, 18, died Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Arrangements are by Strickland Funeral Home, Louisburg.
LOUISBURG - Mary G. Matthews, 100, died Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Arrangements are by Strickland Funeral Home, Louisburg.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Estelle Mae Cooper, 64, who died Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, at Walnut Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Sidney Dunston officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE - Freda Robbins Leggett, 67, died Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010 at her home. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Sept. 7, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Harris Chapel Baptist Church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON - John Steven (Duck) Slade, 54, died unexpectedly Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. today (Wednesday, Sept. 8) at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 200 SE Maynard Road, Cary. Burial will follow at Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh.
YOUNGSVILLE —Harvey Allen Hall, 50, formerly of Louisburg, died Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday Sept. 9, in the chapel of Bright Funeral Home.
