Panther men’s hoops have reached the postseason on a hot streak. On the week of Feb. 3 the team faced the end of their ...

Photo/Eric Haggart - Clint Kendall (left) receives the Citizen of the Year Award from Matt Corbin, past president of the Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

Panther track and field is entering the endgame. In the last two weeks before the 3A state meet Franklin has been hard at work, traveling to the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem and the WN ...

Around 90,000 cubic yards of earth, which will lower the former FHS practice field at least 13 feet, will be moved onto the now-treeless Frogtown property. Macon County Schools Facilities ...

Panther swim and dive is through to the state meet. On Jan. 31, Franklin’s best swimmers traveled to Charlotte for the 3A West Regionals, racing foes from nearly three dozen other schoo ...

A man sentenced to life in prison in the killing of a Franklin resident in 1991 was released from prison on Monday, Feb. 3. Scott Keith Quillen, 51, was convicted of second-degree murder ...