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Department, Assistant Chief Jeff Fields, who died suddenly.
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HISTORIC ATTRACTION. This new Civil War Trails marker has been installed
on the campus of Louisburg College as part of an initiative of the Tar River Center
for History and Culture at the school. It becomes part of a regional system that
includes more than 1,000 sites across the South, sites that have become a huge draw
for tourism. This marker commemorates the 1865 encampment of Union troops that
had been part of General Sherman’s Army of the Tennessee. After the war, many of
these soldiers passed through Louisburg on the way to Washington for a parade of
the Grand Army of the Republic. In the photo above, contractor Jason Shaffer checks
the marker as he completes its installation.
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Action Committee, led by County
Commission Chair Sidney Dunston.
It targeted, she asserts, the black
community and reinforced stereotypes that the African-American community needs to be told what to do.
“You’re here to represent all of us,”
she said. “... You sent it to them as if
African-Americans don’t know who
to vote for.”
Washington made her comments
during the public comment section
of the board’s meeting, but before
she could continue, commissioners
and County Attorney Pete Tomlinson
halted the proceeding. They advised
Washington that Roberts Rules of
Order, which govern county meeting
protocol, did not allow for personal
accusations and attacks against a commissioner during the comment section.
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room license from its Louisburg hospital to an as-yet-unbuilt Same Day Surgery Center near Youngsville.
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state agency that handles Certificates
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filled with pulsing sounds and fitness
fanatics, burning calories to choreography that incorporated samba, mambo
and merengue. They were some of the
first steps toward a summer fundraiser
to benefit a firefighter and Assistant
Fire Chief Jeff Fields who died Dec.
25, 2013, however, friends and the
fire community have worked to keep
his spirit alive through a fire scholarship — the Jeffrey L. Fields Memorial
Scholarship.
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grow from 1,072 to 1,090 and the
number of students eligible for free
and reduced price lunches spiral from
53 percent to 62.4 percent.
And, she told commissioners, taxpayers were getting a good return on
investment since 74 percent of students exceeded state standards, SAT
scores increased from an average of
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town’s first since 2010. Officers found
David Lee Wilkins Jr. lying in the yard
of a home on Church Street, dead from
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create new jobs, immediately, but it
would help keep 567 jobs in Franklin
County and offer the chance for job
creation into the future, county staff
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for more time to address a “terse” state
treasurer’s letter alleging the town has
serious financial problems, but the
consensus following a discussion was
that residents should expect to pay.
Sharon Edmunson, director of the
fiscal management section within the
State Treasurer’s Office, sent the town
a letter on April 30, outlining a list of
NOTE BURNED. Louisburg paid off the debt on its sewage treatment plant
and officials formally burned the note last May in celebration. Here, Mayor
Karl Pernell holds the burning note while (from the left) Town Clerk Carolyn Patterson, Council members Tom Clancy and Joe Shearon, Town Manager
Mark Warren, Council member Mary Johnson, Police Chief Rick Lassiter, Assistant Town Manager Tony King, Council member Bill Williamson and town
attorney Ben Williamson witness the ceremony.
I’ve talked to,” Franklinton Police
Chief John Green Jr. said. “It appears
it’s a case of being in the wrong place
at the wrong time.”
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“Last of the First.” But whatever the
title Franklin County’s Tim Gilliam’s
career closely mirrored the Franklin
County Medical Services organization
over the last three-plus decades.
Back in 1977, Franklin County
began its first salaried, full-time Emergency Medical Services organization,
which became known as Franklin
County EMS. Back then, the EMS service employed five full-time people
who were on call 24 hours a day, seven
days week, providing emergency aid
and transport for the entire county.
And Tim Gilliam was one of those
first five as were Mead Bunn, Furman
Burnette, Ricky Dement and the late
Pete McGhee. All have since retired,
but Gilliam forges ahead toward his
retirement which he planned to begin
in September after nearly 40 years.
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provide nearly $1 million to help two
industries expand.
The money isn’t expected to help
issues that led the state to believe the
town has a financial crisis on its hands.
The letter, based on an audit of the
2012-13 fiscal year, states the town’s
water and sewer fund is in poor financial condition.The state alleged the
town reported no cash in the water
and sewer fund.
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the worst. DOT released a preliminary
report on highway projects across
the state and the two-lane road that
runs through Franklin County scored
poorly.
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22.5 out of a possible 70 points. It
was the highest-scoring project in the
county.
The second portion of the 401 fourlaning from Royal to Louisburg came
in third with 20.7 points.
The second-ranking project was an
improvement plan for Bickett Boulevard in Louisburg that would include
bike lanes, sidewalks and a grass
median along a portion of the bypass.
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two clear winners in the sheriff’s race
and gave an incumbent a slight win,
unofficially.
Incumbent Sheriff Jerry Jones
nabbed the Republican party nomination with 1,964 votes, garnering 54 percent of the vote to beat out challenges
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description was outlined by Franklin
County Schools Supt. Lisa Martin at a
joint meeting of the Franklin County
commissioners and the county school
board.
She detailed the last five years of
Franklin County school history on her
way to asking the county to increase
funding for schools by $1.1 million in
the upcoming fiscal year.
She noted the last five years have
seen the student population increase
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brand, expanded into the former
tobacco warehouse on Golden Leaf
Drive (behind Bojangles) in Louisburg. The company hit its full production stride after months of relocating
from a much smaller location near
Bunn.
Jack Pyritz and his wife, Patty, purchased the business from Bobbie and
Eric Batchelor about a decade ago.
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in Louisburg, out of the Batchelors’
garage, when they began packing and
selling local honey.
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scheduled a work session and public
hearing to get input on a 2015 spending plan that dipped into the county’s
savings account, but didn’t raise taxes.
The $73.27 million budget is
$605,000 less than the total amount
— county, state and federal dollars —
the county expects to spend during
the current fiscal year, but the county
expected to spend about $200,000
more of its own money in 2014-15.
The budget pulled $3.4 million
from the county’s reserves to balance
the budget.
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firsts. Ten students walked across the
Vance-Granville Community College
Civic Center stage, grasping high
school diplomas. Two of them earned
Associate in Arts Degrees. One of
them earned an Associate in General
Education - General Science Degree.
The Franklin County Early College
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schools will get free breakfasts and
lunches during the school year as part
of a program adopted unanimously by
the county Board of Education. Called
the Community Eligibility Provision,
the federal program has now been
rolled out in all 50 states after being
tested in a few the last several years.
A school is eligible for the program
if 62.5 percent of its students qualify
for free and reduced price lunches.
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greatly exceed that threshold.
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five highest schools and averaging,
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schools, according to Jama Stallings of
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(51.02).
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rehab to look forward to, but he wouldn’t
change his actions. Terry Perry was cooking breakfast for a friend, Ransom Bennett, the morning of June 14 when he said
he smelled something funny.
When he checked he found the source
of the smell. Then, there was an explosion.
“I felt the explosion,” Perry said from
Chapel Hill, where he is being treated at
the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center.
But, rather than run, seek shelter and
mitigate his own pain, he rushed to the
other side of the house, where Bennett
was. Bennett gets around with the aid of a
wheel chair. “I went into fireman mode,”
Perry said. “I wanted to go back and get
him out.”
Bennett’s home sustained damage, but
he escaped without injury. Perry, though,
suffered burns on his arms and legs.
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adopted a $73 million budget that didn’t
include a tax increase, a library in Centerville or a water rate reduction. It did give
employees a bit more money in their paychecks and it won’t take as significant a
cut in the budget as it could have.
July
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compliance services for exceptional children’s programs.
Brown was reassigned as the principal
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on West River Road.
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the death of her newborn.
Authorities allege the baby was born
alive and preliminary autopsy reports
indicate the umbilical cord was cut too
close and the baby girl bled to death.
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court date has been set, though.
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the power agency.
The $1.2 billion purchase would lower
wholesale electric rates for all 32 Power
Agency members.
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of turning it into a county park.
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and Country Club, which has been in
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asking price.
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agreement was made before an appraisal
was done and was voted on by a commissioner with alleged family ties to the
property.
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in 1942 and currently has 31 members.
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sales price up to $3.2 million.
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to keep the bell from falling through the
roof in the event of a fire or other calamity.
Historic preservationists opposed the
move and expressed further disdain after
county staff refused to tell them where
the bell is being kept. A committee has
been formed to determine how the bell
can be re-incorporated on the courthouse
grounds as part of a static display.
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fire inside a home on P.G. Pearce Road.
Three adults and two children, ages 7 and
4, escaped the blaze.
September
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care practices, citing a lack of patients as
the reason. Those offices were: Novant
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closed its doors on Oct. 17.
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Novant. Reyes, who had been practicing
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and 2008, respectively.
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helping residents and farmers improve
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injured responding to a fire call.
The tanker Gupton was driving overturned as the 2,500-gallon tanker began to
shift. Gupton, a 2008 Bunn High graduate
was remembered as a budding bedrock
member of the community.
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the title.
“... I will forever be grateful to many
people because there were tremendous
sacrifices made for me to be here today,”
Henderson said. “People who have kept
the faith and have not given up the struggle to this day, I honor them.”
Henderson has been with the clerk’s
office about 13 years, most recently as a
deputy assistant clerk for the superior
court division.
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facility to an emergency room and a
couple of in-patient beds.
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gency and outpatient services, including
surgery, imaging, laboratory, rehabilitation, infusion and the geriatric behavior
health unit.
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plot would be developed into a sports
complex, complete with a new football
stadium, soccer, baseball and softball
fields.
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commerce.
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hike its baseball recreation fees by 22 percent. The move, staff said, was necessary
to offer the type of program necessary and
improve and upgrade facilities.
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exact cause of the problem and develop a
solution.
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Williamson ended his police career
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Sports A
True Triple Threat
By GEOFF NEVILLE
Times Sportswriter
track and field career at Coker College
in South Carolina
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- A bit of
history was made as part of a successful sports season in Franklin County
during the 2014 calendar year.
The county’s three high schools
teamed up to all win state individual
track and field titles for the first time,
while Youngsville provided a clean
sweep of Dixie Youth summer baseball tournaments.
Franklinton also made its deepestever appearance in the boys soccer
state playoffs as part of an amazing
campaign.
Here is a look at the Top 10 athletic
happenings in Franklin County in
2014:
For the first time, Youngsville won
the Dixie Youth District Baseball
Championships on all three levels
-- Coach-Pitch, Minor League and
Major League.
Each club advanced to the state
tournament, and the Coach-Pitch AllStars took second place to advance
to the Machine-Pitch World Series in
Arkansas.
Youngsville went 6-2 at the nationals to earn the runner-up spot and cap
a tremendous summer.
Before the appearance, a Youngsville squad had never participated in
the Dixie Youth World Series event.
3. Sweep Masters
2. Elite Eight
10. Bolton Drafted
Franklin County native Tyler Bolton
was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 33rd Round of the
Major League Baseball Draft.
Bolton, a pitcher, reported to the
Class A Missoula Osprey and posted
a 3-3 record with a 6.42 earned-run
average. He was selected as the Pioneer League’s Pitcher of the Week in
early August.
Before being drafted, Bolton had
played at East Carolina University. He
prepped at Kerr-Vance Academy and
was a long-time standout for the Louisburg Recreation Department.
9. NCC Champs -- Again
Chris Cullom’s first season as Bunn
High School’s head baseball coach
was a successful one as the Wildcats
repeated as the Northern Carolina
Conference champions while compiling a 21-4 overall mark.
Bunn reached the third round of
the Class 2-A State Playoffs and saw
senior pitcher Christian Sledge tabbed
as the NCC Pitcher of the Year.
Sledge signed to continue his career
at Chowan University.
Spencer Brickhouse, a current junior
standout at BHS, verbally committed
to East Carolina University.
Bunn has now won three league
crowns in a row, and a solid core will
return this spring.
8. College Stars
A myriad of Franklin County
natives are excelling on the collegiate
level.
Included on that list is former Bunn
star Tarik Cohen, who has tabbed as
the MEAC Co-Player of the Year last
fall as a member of the North Carolina
A&T football squad.
Cohen just completed his sophomore campaign.
Another member of Bunn’s Class of
2013 is Whitney Bunn, who is shining
as a sophomore women’s basketball
player at Furman University. She was
recently saluted as the Southern Conference Player of the Week.
And Johnathan Alston, another
Established in 1983
FIRST LADIES. (L to R) Bunn’s Tainasha Vines and Franklinton’s Charity
Snelling pose after winning championships at the Class 2-A State Track
and Field Meet last May in Greensboro. (Times photo by Geoff Neville)
Bunn grad, caught a touchdown pass the final game at BHS for long-time
for the North Carolina State Wolfpack coach Gerald Melton.
in the St. Petersburg Bowl.
Melton resigned later in the school
BHS alum Ty Howle served as a year and is now the head coach at East
graduate assistant for NC State this Wake.
past season.
While at Bunn for 15 seasons,
Melton won 270 games and guided
7. Soccer Success
Louisburg College has a rich history the Wildcats to five conference chamof heroics in men’s soccer, and this pionships and four regional appearyear would provide a similar scenario ances.
Melton returned to the Bunn Dome
for the Hurricanes.
Under new head coach Martin Dell, in December as his Warriors claimed
the Hurricanes would earn region and the Bunn Christmas Tournament.
district championships en route to Before the championship game,
making yet another appearance at the Melton received a ball to commemorate his career.
NJCAA National Tournament.
Deshawn High starred for Melton’s
LC went 1-0-1 at the nationals to
close with an impressive 20-2-2 over- final team at Bunn and was selected
as the Northern Carolina Conferall mark.
ence Player of the Year. He is now a
6. National Return
Shay Hayes stepped into a pressure- member of the Louisburg College
packed situation when she accepted men’s basketball squad.
4. Sanders Passes
the position of women’s basketball
In September, Franklinton High
coach at Louisburg College ahead of
School mourned the loss of long-time
the 2013-14 campaign.
LC was coming off a national cham- track and field coach Trent Sanders,
pionship, and Hayes helped lead the who passed away in his sleep.
Sanders’ final season was a hisLady Hurricanes back to the nationals
after a Region X Tournament Cham- toric one as senior Charity Snelling
won the Class 2-A State High Jump -pionship.
Using the ‘TOE’ Factor -- Team marking the first time in history that a
Over Everything -- LC defeated Guil- Franklinton athlete or team claimed a
ford Tech in March to take the region state crown.
Franklinton’s boys won the Northcrown at Wake Tech CC in Raleigh.
Hayes was tabbed as the Region X ern Carolina Conference Championship, and Sanders was saluted as the
Coach of the Year.
NCC Coach of the Year.
5. End of an Era
FHS was also the county champion
Bunn’s loss to Northside Jacksonville in the third round of the Class for both the boys and girls.
Snelling signed to continue her
2-A State Playoffs would prove to be
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1. Glory Days
In the span of just over 24 hours,
Franklin County made history at the
Class 1-A and Class 2-A State Track
and Field Championships in Greensboro.
Louisburg’s Vanisha Wilshire got
things going by earning a Class 1-A
state title in the triple jump -- marking the first track crown for LHS since
2000.
One day later, Franklinton’s Charity Snelling and Bunn’s Tainasha
Vines were dominating just a few
yards away from each other at the
Class 2-A event.
At the high jump pit, Snelling
soared to an emotional state championship -- Franklinton’s first in any
sport in school history.
As Snelling was earning her historic
crown for FHS, Vines was winning the
title in the long jump and triple jump.
The stretch marked the first time
each Franklin County school won a
state track and field individual title in
the same season.
Snelling is now at Coker College
in South Carolina, while Vines and
Wilshire will be back this spring.
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Franklinton made its deepest run
in boys soccer postseason history as
the Red Rams reached the Elite Eight
before dropping a 1-0 heartbreaker at
perennial powerhouse Carrboro.
For FHS, the campaign highlight
came one game earlier as the Red
Rams advanced with a thrilling
sudden-death overtime victory over
Southwest Onslow.
Senior veteran Jacob Woodburn
scored the winning goal for Franklinton.
Earlier, FHS won the NCC Championship and Isaac Walker was tabbed
as the league’s Coach of the Year.
Franklinton’s Leon Gruchmann
was the pick as the NCC Most Valuable Player, while teammate Cory
Halterman was the NCC Defensive
Player of the Year.
FHS went 21-3-1 overall en route to
the Elite Eight.
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