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Board to revisit text amendment
Biz owners dispute
complaints
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
Cruise Arrowhead
Beach and you’ll find a
hodgepodge of residen
tial properties that hints
of economic diversity in
a densely populated rural
landscape where neigh
Schools
set to
GEAR
UP
Systems receive
$1.7M in grants
By PETER W1LUAMS
Staff Writer
Two local school districts
will split $1.7 million over
the next seven years under
a program designed to get
students on track for high
er education.
Perquimans and Eden
ton-Chowan were among
the 11 districts from across
the state chosen for the lat
est round of the GEAR UP
program. Edenton-Chow
an will receive $919,000
and Perquimans will get
$850,000.
All 11 of the school dis
tricts selected serve pre
dominantly low-income
communities. The grants
will provide help to 22,000
students and their fami
lies.
Students as young as sev
enth-grade will get help,
and the program will track
their results for the next
seven years.
In addition, the 17-cam
pus University of North
Carolina system, which in
cludes Elizabeth City State
University, will be part of
the program.
Statewide, the U.S. De
partment of Education is
investing $28.6 million for
the GEAR UP program in
North Carolina.
James Bunch, assistant
superintendent of the Per
quimans County Schools,
believes the program will
have a positive impact on
local students.
“Studies have shown
that when kids are allowed
to visit a college environ
ment, and students and par
ents are given information
about education financing
at an early age, the transi
tion to college is much eas
ier for the students and the
parents,” Bunch said.
Perquimans will hire a
GEAR UP coordinator and
one liaison to work with
the business community.
GEAR UP North Caro
lina will provide eligible
students and their fami
lies services including
academic tutoring, career
exploration, college advis
ing, college visits, finan
cial literacy workshops,
See GRANTS, 3A
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bors work as hard as they
play.
What originally began
mostly as a part-time com
munity where residents
could live along the Chow
an River and partake in
its recreational offerings
has evolved into a rural
fulltime subdivision of 700
lots with as many working
class families as retirees.
“The community has
changed dramatically It
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Dr. Kerry Hollowell, a star high school athlete at Edenton in the 1990s, finished fourth in the Deja Blue III
freediving competition in the Bahamas, recently. She dove 55 meters below the surface without taking a
breath. *
Edenton alum Hollowell
making mark in freediving
Finishes fourth in
international meet
By PAUL WHITE
Correspondent
If you’re waiting for Dr.
Kerry Hollowell to fail at
something she sets her
mind to, don’t hold your
breath.
Especially if that some
Sea rising faster on East Coast than rest of globe
Outer Banks within
600-mile ‘hot spot’
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON — From Cape
Hatteras to just north of Boston,
sea levels are rising much faster
than they are around the globe,
putting one of the world’s most
was primarily weekend
ers who came down to go
fishing,” said Jim Brock,
resident and. Arrowhead
Property Owners Associa
tion (APOA).
Caught in the crossfire
of this evolution is a cou
ple that operates a seasonal
sideline that has drawn the
ire of some neighbors and
the APOA. For more than
two years APOA board
members and surround
thing
involves
Hollowell
holding her
breath.
The one
time top high
school female
athlete at
Edenton spe- Hollowell
cializes in this as part of her
latest passion—fjreediving,
the art of remaining under
costly coasts in danger of flood
ing, government researchers re
port.
U.S. Geological Survey scien
tists call the 600-mile swath a
“hot spot” for climbing sea levels
caused by global warming. Along
the region, the Atlantic Ocean
is rising at an annual rate three
times to four times faster than the
global average since 1990, accord
ing to the study published Sunday
ing neighbors have flip
flopped their stance about
whether Danny and An
gela Dupraw’s home-based
deer processing business
violates APOA bylaws and
undermines the quality of
life in Arrowhead Beach.
Before the Dupraws
chose to move into Arrow
head Beach, they claim to
have first inquired with
the APOA about whether
or not they could operate
water at great distances or
considerable time on a single
breath.
At the recent Deja Blue
III international freediving *
competition in the Bahamas,
Hollowell dove to 55 meters
between breaths, a feat that
placed her fourth in the
world among this year’s
competitors.
See HOLLOWELL, 3A
in the journal Nature Climate
Change. *
It’s not just a faster rate, but at
a faster pace, like a car on a high
way “jamming on the accelera
tor,” said the study’s lead author,
Asbury Sallenger Jr., an oceanog
rapher at the agency He looked at
sea levels starting in 1950, and no
ticed a change beginning in 1990.
Since then, sea levels have gone
up globally about 2 inches. But in
their deer-processing busi
ness during hunting sea
son.
“We weren’t going to buy
this home if we couldn’t
have the business,” said
Angela Dupraw. “We told
them that we’re not inter
ested in the property if we
can’t have this business.”
The Dupraws, who earn
their primary living by
installing tile, said they
count on the income from
their moonlighting ven
ture.
“We need this to survive,
in the winter months,”
said Danny Dupraw. “The
tile business falls off dur
ing the winter, especially
with the way the economy
is now. It’s either feast or
famine.”
On Feb. 13, 2010 the
APOA voted unanimously
See TEXTING, 3A
$2M marked
for economic
development
Golden LEAF grant
targets Tier 1 counties
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
With $2 million hanging in the balance for
economic development through education
and community initiatives, about 60 stake
holders attended an informational meeting
in hopes of securing a piece of the action.
Held last Thursday at the College of The
Albemarle’s Edenton campus, stakehold
ers quickly learned that the Golden LEAF
Foundation would give grant priority to
Tier 1 counties, or the state’s most economi
cally distressed, amid efforts to create eco
nomic prosperity and stability. Through
grants in education and community initia
tives, Golden LEAF focuses on agriculture,
job creation and retention, and workforce
preparedness.
“The goal here is to move the economic
needle in Chowan County,” said Golden
LEAF’S Calvin Allen.
Dan Gerlach, Foundation president, Al
len and counterpart Pat Cabe took turns
encouraging stakeholders to unify for com
mon goals, instead of piece-milling projects
that would less likely succeed and waste
this financial opportunity
“We want to impact the most people - get
the most bang for the buck,” Cabe said.
“You don’t want to leave any money on the
table.”
They suggested that it would be best to
identify three to four potential grants, op
posed to several with less funding.
Cy Rich, who is spearheading the recent
ly formed nonprofit Edenton Chowan Part
nership in place of the Edenton Chowan De- 1
velopment Corporation, was among those
present at the meeting.
See GOLDEN LEAF, 4A
SUBMITTED PHOTO
About 60 stakeholders attended the first in a
series of meetings as part of Golden LEAF Foun
dation’s Community Assistance Initiative, last
Thursday.
Norfolk, Va., where officials are
scrambling to fight more frequent
flooding, sea level has jumped a
total of 4.8 inches, the research
showed. For Philadelphia, levels
went up 3.7 inches, and in New
York Cjty, it was 2.8 inches.
Climate change pushes up sea
levels by melting ice sheets in
Greenland and west Antarctica,
See RISING, 4A
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