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Kids and Cops’ awarded grant for 2014
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
• Chowan County’s Kids
and Cops program got an
early Christmas gift on
Dec. 19 when the Albe
marle Community Trust
announced it had chosen
the program as one of its
grant recipients for the
coming year.
The trust is the giving
arm of Albemarle EMC,
a Hertford-based electric
co-op that also serves cus
tomers in Chowan County.
A total of $60,000 in grants
will be awarded accord
ing to Chris Powell, direc
tor of public relations for
Albemarle EMC. Powell
was on hand for the check
Privott
touted by
Town
council
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
When Mayor Roland
Vaughan opened the Dec. 10
monthly town council meet
ing, it wasn’t with some
words about the evening’s
Insteld,
he indicat
ed that the
early part
of the eve
ning would
be dedicat
ed to the
swearing in
of new and
returning council members
and celebrating the decades
of service given to the town
by retiring Councilman Wil
lis Privott
“Welcome all of you to
this festive, celebratory
meeting," Vaughan said as
he addressed an audience
filled with the family mem
bers and friends of the new
and outgoing council mem
bers.
Vaughan praised Privott
for his love of community
* that the mayor said had
been apparent in Privott’s
often-voiced concern for
citizens and the impact the
council’s decisions would
have on them.
“It is that same spirit of
community that helps make
Edenton the special place it
is,” Vaughan said.
Chamber Director Win
Dale thanked. Privott for his
support of that organization
over the years. Destina
tion Downtown Executive
Director Jennifer Harriss
echoed the sentiment. Both
presented Privott with spe
cial gifts in honor of the oc
casion.
“Ya’ll are trying your best
to make me ciy,” Privott said
as he accepted their gifts.
Privott was also present
ed with a miniature version
of a framed portrait of him
that will hang in the lobby
at town hall that is being re
named for him to honor his
agenda
PRIVOTT
See PRIVOTT, 2A
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All Rights Reserved
presentation. Accepting
the $5,000. check were
Chowan Middle School
Principal Tanya Turner
and Chowan County Sher
iff Dwayne Goodwin. CMS
School Resource Officer
Ricky Winebarger and
other law enforcement of
ficers joined children who
participate in the program
on the front lawn of the
middle school for the pre
sentation.
Goodwin said he came
up with the idea for the
program because he real
ized that just talking with
kids about core values like
honesty, respect and team
work wasn’t enough.
See GRANT, 3A
The Grinch Can’t Steal Christmas
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STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH
The Grinch draws grins from those watching the Christmas Parade as he prances along the parade route.
See more photographs of the Edenton Christmas parade on page 2A.
New districts adopted by county
From staff reports
The new electoral dis
tricts for county commis
sioners and school board
members have been ad
opted.
At a joint meeting last
week of the Chowan Coun
ty Board of Commission
ers and Edenton-Chowan
Board of Education, both
boards unanimously ad
opted the redistricting
map as presented by a
joint working group from
the two boards.
No one from the public
spoke during the joint pub
lic hearing on the new map
that was held Dec. 16.
The new map contin
ues the tradition of school
board districts and county
Commissioners in midst of county manager search j
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
The Chowan County Board of
Commissioners plans to discuss
an interim county manager ar
rangement at its Jan. 6 meeting.
County officials have begun in
terviewing candidates for the posi
tion of county manager but do not
, expect to have anyone in place
by the time County Manager Zee
Lamb assumes the post of county
PHOTO BY MICHELLE MADDOX. EDENTON-CHOWAN SCHOOLS
Law enforcement officers and students that participate in the Chowan County Kids and Cops Program gathered
on the front lawn at Chowan Middle School Thursday afternoon for a check presentation (at right in photo) where
Chris Powell, public relations director for Albemarle EMC, presented a $5,000 donation to CMS Principal Tanya
Turner and Sheriff Dwayne Goodwin in support of the program.
commissioner districts be
ing the same.
The new map moves
1,105 residents from the
2nd District to the 3rd Dis
trict.
The county has three dis
tricts, each of which elects
two members, and also has
one at-large member.
The 1st District is the
northern portion of the
county, the 2nd District is
in the southern and central
areas of the county around
Edenton, and the 3rd Dis
trict includes most of the
town.
The new district map
was developed by county
staff in consultation with
a small group of county
commissioners and school
board members.
manager in Nash County on Jan.
1.
Board of Commissioners Chair
man Keith Nixon said last week
that the search for the next county
manager is just getting started.
“We have just started the pro
cess,” Nixon said. “We really
haven’t gotten very far on it.”
The county will continue ac
cepting applications for county
manager until the position is filled,
Nixon said.
The change was re
quired because of popula
tion shifts as indicated by
the 2010 census.
Under a ‘5 percent rule’
used by federal officials,
population of electoral
districts for local officials
are not supposed to devi
ate more than 5 percent.
In other words, no district
is supposed to be more
than 5 percent bigger — or
5 percent smaller — in
population than any other
district.
Since the population
of Chowan’s three elec
toral districts were roughly
3,900; 5,000; and 5,900,
Chowan needed to add
about 1,000 people to the
smallest district and re
duce the largest district
by about the same number
of people. That resulted
in moving 1,105 residents
from the 2nd District to the
3rd District.
The new map maintains
the 3rd District, which
roughly corresponds to the
town of Edenton, as a ma
jority minority district in
keeping with an agreement
the county reached in the
late 1980s.
Of the residents being
moved from the 2nd Dis
trict to the new 3rd Dis
trict, 529 are white, 564 are
black and 12 are reported
in the census as being of
another race.
The population of the
new 3rd District will be
roughly two-thirds black
and one-third white.
Nixon said he isn’t concerned
about not having an interim coun
ty manager appointed at this time
since the first week of January
typically is a slow time for county
government.
Nixon noted he is authorized to
sign checks himself.
The board likely will appoint
someone at the Jan. 6 meeting to
serve as interim county manager,
according to Nixon.
Lamb announced in November
Permit for
historic
building
approved
■ Demolition comes with
delay, conditions l
BY REBECCA BUNCH L
Staff Writer £
The Edenton Preservation
Commission voted unani
mously at its Dec. 17 meet
ing to approve a request by
the Chowan County com
missioners for a demolition
permit for the old County
Office Building on East King
Street.
However, they have de
layed the county’s ability to
execute the permit for 365
days and attached a series of
requirements to the permit
that the county must meet to
the satisfaction of the pres
ervation commission before
the permit can be used.
County Manager Zee
Lamb repeated at the meet
ing what county commis
sioners have said previ
ously — that the county has
no plans to tear down the
former hotel building con
structed in 1926. *"
Rather, Lamb said, the
county simply wants to have
the option to do that as, a
last resort In the interim,
he said, the county remains
hopeful that developers who
have expressed an inter
est in the property through
Preservation North Carolina
will decide to move ahead
with restoration. . *
In the event that doesn’t
happen, though, Present
tion Commission members
said they wanted to make
sure that other historic
buildings adjacent to the site
such as the 1767 Chowan
Courthouse are protected
See PERMIT, 3A
that he would leaving to take the
Nash position.
Lamb said he has ei\joyed his ji
two years as Chowan’s county II
manager but is looking forward Jf
to the challenge of a larger coup?
ty. Nash’s population is around I5
96,000. ■ ' :§:
The contract with Nash County
calls for Lamb to come aboard at a l: ]
starting salary of $156,800 a year.
Lamb’s salary in Chowan is J
$116,000. 1
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