By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- The 2010-11 high school sports season will officially kick off Tuesday afternoon with a boys soccer matchup between host Bunn and Northern Nash.
The ball is expected to be dropped at 4:30 p.m. for the non-conference contest.
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- The Angel Johnson Benefit Golf Tournament will be held Sept. 18 at the Zebulon Country Club.
Angel Johnson is a Bunn resident who is in need of a liver transplant. Angel is currently on a waiting list and will have the transplant as soon as possible in Atlanta.
High School Football
FRIDAY
Southern Nash at Franklinton 7:30 p.m.
C.B. Aycock at Bunn 7:30 p.m.
HENDERSON -- Vance-Granville Community College recently held its first “Boot Camp” for student-athletes.
The three-day series of sessions focused on improving the students’ non-athletic skills, with topics including study skills, time management, career exploration and managing money.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. -- Lee Mitchell homered and drove in four runs to lead the Jacksonville Suns by the Carolina Mudcats 8-5 at the Baseball Grounds on Thursday night in a Class AA Southern League baseball matchup.
Mitchell tripled in the first two runs of the game against starter Travis Webb (L, 6-8) in the first inning, then socked a tie-breaking homer with a man on in the fifth as the Mudcats (21-26) fell into last place in the Northern Division.
CHAPEL HILL -- Seven more outstanding individuals in the annals of state prep athletics have been selected for induction into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
Lindsay Johnson (right) and the Louisburg Lady Warriors are expected to compete for supremacy this season in the Northern Carolina Conference volleyball standings. LHS will open next weekend at the Heritage Tournament in Wake County.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
“There is a lot going on -- either turned over, dug up or moved around.”
With those words, architect Jon Long gave the Franklin County Board of Education a little good news Monday night during a meeting that also included a frightening warning about the financial future facing the schools.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
The actual cost of a proposed modular building for the Early College High School will be more than double the $490,000 cost of the modular building itself, according to school officials. The Franklin County commissioners said recently they prefer a modular structure over more expensive stick-built construction.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
In a move that caught many by surprise Monday night, Mary Vollmer resigned from the Franklin County Board of Education citing “personal reasons.”
Vollmer, who represents the most southern region of Franklin County, has been a school board member about six years.
She said that she is moving to Raleigh and “I don’t feel I can give the students the kind of representation they need.
Sammy Teague, nine, takes a tumble down a giant slide set up at Franklinton’s National Night Out on Saturday afternoon. Teague’s dad, John Teague, donated the slide and bouncy house for children to use during the community event.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
While rumors swirl about the future of the Murphy House site, one of its owners remains grounded in economic reality.
“Right now, there is nothing going on with it, at all,” said Johnny Sledge.
The restaurant at the corner of Bickett Boulevard and Wade Avenue in Louisburg has been closed since Mother’s Day.
A woman living just over the Franklin County line died in a car crash Monday morning.
According to a report by Trooper Eric Hunt, Manda Salter, 56, of 5817 Rocking Chair Drive, was killed when she pulled out of her subdivision onto N.C. 96 into the path of an oncoming pickup truck.
Salter was pronounced dead at the scene.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Denton’s had just one night to share in their new house before it all came burning down on Monday.
And while smoke and flames destroyed their house, help from the community has built up their spirits.
“We have had everybody in Pilot come by and call,” said Richard Denton. “We’ve gotten more clothes in the past hours than we know what to do with.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Organizers hope a new date and a new hook brings out more equine enthusiasts this year.
The 16th Annual Franklin County Horse Farm Tour will take place this Friday — the first time in its history that it won’t be on the weekend.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
When George Harris has something cooking, it usually draws a crowd.
The Franklinton resident hopes that continues as he and and his nonprofit corporation, Franklin County Sunday School Baptist Training Union, have a few things in the works to help bring the community together.
National Night Out visitor Natalie Greene
Ashley Lynne Person and Christopher Thomas Bailey were united in marriage on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 at 5 p.m. at Benson Chapel in Louisburg. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Tom Goebel. Following the ceremony, the bride’s parents hosted a reception at Greenhill Country Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Thrower of Franklinton announce the engagement of their daughter, Catherine Belle Thrower to Gerald Edmund Cobb. The groom is the son of Forestine Cobb of Greensboro and the late Jesse Calvin Cobb of Raleigh. The wedding will take place at Manassah Chapel Baptist Church in Franklinton on Sept. 4.
Stacy and James (Jimmy) Cornelison were married June 29, 1940 in Bennettsville, S.C. A reception celebrating their 70th Wedding Anniversary was held at Center Cross Baptist Church in Asheboro, where the couple are members, with approximately 75 family members and friends attending.
Franklin County Early College High School held an orientation session and open house on Aug. 3 at Vance-Granville Community College’s Franklin County Campus. Students started classes on Aug. 4, marking the beginning of the first full year for the school, which opened in January. The high school is the newest of the four early college programs that VGCC operates in partnership with four local school systems.
It’s certainly not time to break out the bubbly.
In fact, the result was both frustrating and depressing.
After 40 years of waiting and enduring state promises and hints that the improvements to U.S. 401 in Franklin County were just around the corner, the state’s new ranking system appears to be just more of the same.
Promise and delay. Promise and delay!
GOOD MORNING: Hot enough for you yesterday? If not, the forecast calls for partly cloudy and more of the same for the balance of the week.
WASTED MONEY? Not so, Kelevra. To begin with it was $17,000 - not $25,000 that was spent on that aerial (mapping) flyover of U.S. 401 you referred to in your recent letter to the editor. The remaining $8,000 of the $25,000 the county had contributed for the survey has been returned by the state, and rather than being a waste, it represents yet another step forward in getting the vital highway upgraded.
Hey, remember the swine flu?
Exactly.
Last spring, you couldn’t get away from news of the pandemic, which, I’m assuming because pigs got offended and got a lobby, was renamed the H1N1 virus.
And then, everyone and their mother tried to get the vaccine.
