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THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 17,2020
Town cancels Christmas parade
Wm’ston board also votes 3-2 to reopen Perry Park building
SARAH HODGES STALLS
Enterprise & Weekly Herald
WILLIAMSTON - A decades-old
Christmas tradition has be
come the most recent victim
of the COVID era.
Originally scheduled for
Dec. 3, the fate of the Wil
liamston Christmas Parade
came before the town board
at the Sept. 14. meeting.
Acknowledging she did not
have a vote, Mayor Joyce
Whichard-Brown adamantly
explained, “I’m definitely
against having it.”
Discussions followed re
garding the close quarters
participants and attendees
would be subjected to for the
duration of the parade.
Allen Overby, Williamston
Parks and Recreation Direc
tor, spoke as a member of the
planning team.
“Our recommendation is
not doing it,” he said.
At the conclusion of discus
sions, Commissioner A1 Ches-
son made a motion to cancel
the Williamston Christmas
Parade for this year. Com
missioner William Coffield of
fered a second to Chesson’s
motion.
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SARAH HODGES STALLS / Enterprise & Weekly Herald
A decades-long tradition in Williamston - the town Christmas parade - has
been canceled this year due to concerns over COVID-19.
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County commissioners didn’t fill a request by the town of Williamston to help fund the demolition of the Mitchell
Building.
County declines
Commissioners don’t fill request to help
demolish Mitchell Building, citing precedent
SARAH HODGES STALLS
Enterprise & Weekly Herald
WILLIAMSTON - The Martin
County Commissioners heard
a request for assistance dur
ing the September meeting
which brought questions, but
no agreement to render aid.
The town of Williamston
submitted a request to the
county commissioners for
the county to contribute to
the demolition of an eyesore
on Main Street known as the
Mitchell Building.
Along with a written re
quest, Williamston Town Ad
ministrator John O’Daniel
presented the request during
the Sept. 9 meeting.
The town took ownership
of the Mitchell Building in
August when the previous
owner offered the property.
See REQUEST, 10
Grass
clippings
on roads
Legal, unsafe
or both?
SARAH HODGES STALLS
Enterprise & Weekly Herald
WILLIAMSTON - Is it illegal
to allow grass clippings to
be blown onto the roadway
when mowing?
This question has been a
hot topic on social media
channels in recent weeks.
Motorcycle riders like
Tim Pope have especially
voiced concerns about the
dangers grass left in the
road can bring.
Pope, who has ridden
motorcycles since the
early 1980s, doesn’t feel
the general public realizes
what a safety hazard grass
piled on the roadway can
cause.
“If there’s a lot of grass
on the road, especially if
you are coming around a
curve and can’t slow down,
it’s just like bring on ice,”
See GRASS, 5
Parents plead for return to classrooms
SARAH HODGES STALLS
Enterprise & Weekly Herald
WILLIAMSTON - Pleas for a re
turn to some form of normal
education setting were the
theme of the public com
ments section of the Martin
County Board of Education’s
Sept. 14 meeting.
Per policy, board members
do not respond to public
comment during the meeting;
however, participants were
reassured their concerns
were heard and would be tak
en into consideration.
Megan Haslip, a mother on
a kindergartner and a third
grader in Martin County
Schools, shared the struggles
and frustrations she has seen
her children experience in
cluding online learning for
a kindergarten student who
can not yet read.
“Virtual should be an op
tion,” she told the board.
Haslip also shared virtual
learning has come with not
just an emotional price for
her children but a financial
hit of $500 a month to ensure
care for the children during
See CLASSROOMS, 10
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