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Police chief requests officer recruiting incentives

Mia Overton

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

The Franklin Police Chief came before the Town Council on July 5 to ask that the town consider a more aggressive recruiting program for new officers. The Franklin Police Department is authorized for 17 sworn positions and currently has six vacancies.

Photo/The Wilson Times A Honda Odyssey van is vacuumed after gunfire shattered its back window at the Gillette Athletic Complex on Sunday morning.

Shooting at All-Star game: ‘Everybody was scared for their life’

News Staff

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Will Woolever - sports@thefranklinpress.com Mia Overton - editor@thefranklinpress.com Franklin’s All-Star Little League baseball team was on the field when shots were fired at the Gillette Athletic Complex in Wilson on Sunday morning, July 10.

Photo submitted Jerry Sutton (right) served on the SCC Board of Trustees from 1983 to 2015. He participated in the swearing-in ceremony for his grandson Cory McCall (left) in 2019. They are pictured with SCC President Don Tomas.

Sutton dedicated to rural communities

Mia Overton

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Macon County lost one of its longtime native residents last week; a man who made a difference in many ways throughout the county and Western North Carolina. Jerry Sutton died on June 29, 2022, at the age of 85. After graduating from N.C.

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Otto woman killed in wreck

Mia Overton

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

An Otto woman was killed in a three-car wreck June 29 on Hwy. 441 (Georgia Road). Trooper J.D. Gass said the N.C. Highway Patrol received a call at 4:20 p.m. about the wreck just north of the old Otto School.

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New principals named for MMS, MEC

News Staff

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

The Macon County Board of Education approved the appointments of two new principals at the June 30 meeting. Mark Sutton was named principal of Macon Middle School, where he had served as interim principal since April.

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Town approves tax increase

News Staff

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Carter Giegerich for The Franklin Press The proposed fiscal year 2022-23 budget for the Town of Franklin passed almost unanimously on June 21, with Town Council member Mike Lewis casting the one dissenting vote.

Photo submitted Youth Conservation Corps members take a break from their work on the Bartram Trail.

Students hit the trail for summer work experience

News Staff

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Carter Giegerich for The Franklin Press For many students, the promise of a month-long summer work program spent shoveling dirt and busting up rocks might not be too enticing. For this year’s Youth Conservation Corps cohort working on the Bartram Trail, though, it’s four weeks of paradise.

Photo submitted The Macon County Recreation Park pool workers wear the new protective sun shirts provided to them through donations received at the June 14 County Commissioners meeting.

They’ve got it covered

Mia Overton

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

While many people attending the June 14 Board of County Commissioners meeting were divided on one issue, they also showed community spirit in coming together to help the workers at the county pool. MaryAnn Ingram shared with the commissioners what a good job the pool workers do each day.

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Library funding draws divided crowd

Mia Overton

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

With more than 20 people wanting to address the Board of County Commissioners on June 14, the meeting was moved from the regular meeting room to one of the larger courtrooms.

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Police chiefs review FPD operations

Mia Overton

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The N.C. Association of Chiefs of Police conducted an assessment of the Franklin Police Department over several weeks beginning in March and presented their report at the June 6 Town Council meeting.