Friday / Weekend Open Lines


Meet Me in the Street is TONIGHT!

2012’s first of three free  “Meet Me in the Street” concerts is scheduled for Friday, May 11.  Featured band will be The Konnection Band, a well-known, six member local band, that presents a variety of rock, funk, R&B, beach and country music . The free concert will take place on Breckenridge Street from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The Vance County Farm Bureau is having a BBQ Plate Sale to benefit Relay for Life on Friday May 11, 2012 from 11:00am – 2:00pm.  Cost is $7.00 per plate and includes BBQ port, boiled potatoes, cole slaw, bread and desert.  More detail here

If you’re in Louisburg today, check out the Franklin County Strawberry Festival

Or if you’re traveling North today, do a u-turn and stop by the NC Welcome Center on I-85 to see what they’re doing for National Tourism Week.


Spring continues its awesome display beginning tomorrow in Rochester, New York.  There, for the next 10 days at Highland Park, some 400,000 people will gather to see and smell 500 different varieties of lilacs in bloom, displayed in a setting designed by America’s famed landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmstead.  This is the world’s largest display of its kind.  Unlike many events, the Lilac Festival is free and will feature entertainment, special shows for children, a parade, and a 10K race.  To supply all the plants for home gardens and landscaping, horticulture is an $11.6 billion business in the U.S.  You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.


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