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Vance-Granville Community College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa inducted 101 students into the international honorary society of two-year colleges on April 18. This was the largest group ever inducted since the Alpha Sigma Chi chapter began at Vance-Granville.
North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy cooperatives have earmarked more than $500,000 for classroom-based projects through its funding of the Bright Ideas Education Grant Program for 2006-2007. Teachers can learn about the program and apply online at www.ncbrightideas.com.
The third annual Fox Hunters Relay For Life Red Bud Church Hunt was Saturday, April 22, at Tri County Fox Preserve in Castalia, owned by John Stevenson.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Former Lt. Deputy Pat Green bested his former boss in a three-way primary race for the Democratic nomination for sheriff, while Bunn Police Chief Kent Winstead won the Republican sheriff’s nomination.
Garnering 48 percent of the vote, Green collected 2,677 votes to 1,421 votes for fellow challenger and former Lt. Joe Lynch.
Incumbent Sheriff Jerry Jones received 1,439 votes.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Residents voted down a $45-million bond on Tuesday, leaving school and county officials with the challenge of finding how to deal with growth and aging facilities.
Unofficially, the vote was 3,770 no votes to 3,500 yes votes. The tally becomes official during a later canvass.
The bond would have included money for a new high school in the Franklinton and Youngsville area, and other school improvements.
By: By KATHY HARRELSON, Managing Editor
AnnMarie DellaMorte didn’t like what she found in her granddaughter’s school bag the night before Election Day.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies and the State Bureau of Investigation are looking into another racially-motivated vandalism.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The Louisburg Board of Adjustment approved a conditional use permit last week, clearing the way for a youth organization to use school property.
The newest classroom building has been in use at Vance-Granville Community College’s Franklin County Campus since January. The college officially dedicated the building in ceremonies April 26.
Franklin County and college officials participated in the dedication, which was attended by state Rep. Lucy Allen of Louisburg and others from the county.
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WAKE FOREST - James Otis Black, 69, died after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, April 29, at Mitchell’s Funeral Home in Orlando, Fla.
DURHAM - Theodore Vincent Cassidy (Major USMC - Ret.), 71, died Tuesday, April 25, 2006. A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at Holy Cross Catholic Church, 1400 South Alston St., Durham. Friends will be received in the church from 1-2 p.m. Saturday.
WENDELL - Percy Clarence Holt, 79, died Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at his home. Funeral services were conducted Friday, April 28, at Gethsemane Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.
ZEBULON - Shirley Stallings Martin, 91 (Pilot Community), died Saturday, April 22, 2006 at Guardian Care. Funeral services were conducted Monday, April 24, at Pilot Baptist Church. Burial was in the Stallings family cemetery.
WENDELL - Bobby Joe Allmon, 57, died Friday, April 21, 2006 at home. Visitation was held Monday, April 24, 6-7 p.m. at Strickland Funeral Home, Wendell, and a Celebration of Life Service followed at 7 p.m. Private inurnment was at Gethsemane Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.
WAKE FOREST - Charles “Eddie” Woodlief, 51, died Friday, April 21, 2006 at his residence. Funeral services were held Monday, April 24, at Oak Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Michael Bass officiating. Entombment followed in the church cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Linda Smith Gupton, 61, died Thursday evening, April 27, 2006. A graveside service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Monday, May 1, 2006 at Lancaster Memorial Park.
LOUISBURG – Seba Carlton Strickland, Sr., 78, of 864 Ransdell Rd., died Wednesday at his home. Seba was a son of the late William Seba and Ella Geneva Denton Strickland and a native of Franklin County.
LOUISBURG - Mary Catherine “Cathy” Radford, 57, of Louisburg died Thursday, April 27, 2006, in Franklin Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:00 p.m. from Centerville Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Robert Boone and the Rev. Leo Bennett.
LOUISBURG - Sybil Barker Shuping, 89, died after a brief illness on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at Rex Nursing Care Center in Apex. For the past two years, she has been a resident of Magnolia Glen in Raleigh. Born March 16, 1917 to John Sydney Barker and Annie Honeycutt Barker of Fuquay-Varina.
By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG - Everybody has noticed the improvement that the Louisburg High School girls soccer team has displayed this spring.
Even the referees.
ROANOKE RAPIDS - With Roanoke Rapids far in first place, the main attention in the Northern Carolina Conference standings surrounds the duel between Franklinton and Bunn for the second spot.
What’s at stake is much more than simple Franklin County bragging rights, as the NCC only has two team berths available for the Class 2-A Mideast Regionals (scheduled for May 9 at the Davis Love III-designed Preserve at Jordan Lake).
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