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The Ch Herald pedigjda>,May6,1998 Published in the most beautiful little city On the North Carolina Coast V0l.LXV.No.18 500 1 Gang-like fights flare, result in assaults, arrests BY SEAN JACKSON Staff Writer What began as a dispute be tween high school students late last month, erupted into a se ries of violent confrontations throughout the town during a recent six-day span. Although police are still in vestigating to determine if sev eral recent assaults are all re lated, by Sunday 10 teenagers had been arrested, according to Edenton Police Chief Greg Bonner. Petitions for arrest on 1 assault charges allegedly com mitted by two 15-year-olds are 'I also pending, Bonner said. Though police feel that one | incident which sent a 17-year I old Edenton male to Chowan ! Hospital for treatment is re I lated to a previous fight, an ; attack upon another Edenton | teen last Monday afternoon I remains a mystery. As a result j of injuries sustained during a | beating last Monday, Larry f Boatwright remains in Pitt j County Memorial Hospital. Bonner, however, did not la Downtown arbors may 'be removed BY SEAN JACKSON Staff Writer ■ If you’ve walked through downtown Edenton lately, chances are you’ve encoun tered the territorial bumble bees hovering around South Broad Street’s six brick arbors. However, if town officials have their way about it, those arbors will come tumbling down in the near fyture, paving the way for an update of the crumbling benches under the arbors as well, thus leaving the bees (and pedestrians) to seek shelter elsewhere. During the Edenton Town Council’s committee meeting last week, the council discussed tearing down the arbors in the wake of complaints about the arbors’ inconsistency with the appearance of downtown His See ARBORS On Page 3-A Three plans for hospital are received With the deadline for propos | als expired, the leasing of Chowan Hospital has narrowed | down to three candidates, while ! a fourth candidate awaits a ver diet on a possible deadline ex I tension. Monday morning, Chowan j County Manager Cliff Copeland l revealed that Pitt County Me j morial Hospital, Carolina Health Corporation (a joint ven . ture formed by Albemarle Hos pital and Sentara Health Sys tem) and Brentwood, Tenn. based New American Health care had submitted proposals by last Thursday's deadline. Copeland told the Chowan County Board of Commission ers that Province Healthcare, also based in Brent wood, Tenn., was unaware of the April 30 deadline and has requested an opportunity to submit its own proposal. “They were just not aware that the process was under way,” Copeland said during the commissioners’monthly meet ing. Copeland said that the See HOSPITAL On Page 3-A bel the separate assaults as cases of gang violence, but called the incidents cases of “retaliation” between youths in east and west Edenton. “Some of the persons were residents of housing on the west side of town, and some of them were residents of the east side of town,” Bonner said Monday. “As a result, you had friends of both parties that were involved in the (initial) fight that were keeping the fight alive by hav ing youths on the east side as sault youths from the west side and vice versa.” The first incident began last Wednesday at John A. Holmes High School, shortly after the school day ended, and subse quently escalated into a fight behind the adjacent Edenton Chowan Recreation & Parks Department building on North Road Street. After responding to the scene at approximately 3:30 p.m., po lice questioned Lloyd Little john, 17, about the incident. Although Littlejohn did not See FIGHTS On Page 7-A HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME AT MAY PLAY DAY Many local craftspeople were on hand at May Play Day offering those attending many beautiful things to see and purchase. Mrs. Louise Harrell was one of those showing off her sewing and cross-stitch expertise. In addition to crafts, there were children's games, music and food. The annual community festival is sponsored by the Rocky Hock Ruritans and the Rocky Hock community. Harriet Jacobs in 1894 Former slave will be honored with marker Author, abolitionist Harriet Jacobs an 'important figure1 The dedication of a North Carolina Highway historical marker commemorating the life of Harriet Jacobs will take place Friday, May IS, from 11 11:45 a.m. at the Historic Edenton Visitor Center, 108 North Broad Street. Dr. Jeffery Crow, director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, will be the key note speaker. Jacobs (1813-1897) was a writer, abolitionist and re former who was born a slave in Edenton. After escaping to the North and obtaining her free dom, she published the story of her life, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Her self, in 1861. The book helped to build Northern sentiment for emancipation during the Civil War and was probably the only slave narrative to deal with sexual oppression as well as oppression of race and condi tion. On May 17, 1997, Harriet Jacobs was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, located at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, NC. The Harriet Jacobs Highway historical marker was ap proved by the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee Dec. 5, 1997, and is the eighteenth marker to be placed in Chowan County. The marker was pro posed to the North Carolina See SLAVE On Page 7-A Edentonians may get three percent reduction on utilities BY SEAN JACKSON Staff Writer Effective in June, Edenton residents may see a three per cent reduction in their electric bills as a result of a decrease in town’s retail rates. The decrease is due an esti mated $104,000 in savings to the town as a result of a 5.6 percent wholesale rate reduction — starting May 1 — from the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power A g e n c y (NCEMPA) and a contract with an other energy supplier. That rate decrease, said Edenton Town Manager Anne-Marie Knighton, will result in a three percent savings to town retail customers on June 1 for en ergy usages during the month of May. According to an example sheet presented to the council at their monthly committee meeting, the average customer using 1,000 kWh (kilowatts per hour) on a monthly basis would save nearly $33 per year as a result of the new, lower rate. Under the new rate, the town will charge 8.75 cents per kWh as compared to 9.024 cents per kWh — for the first 1,500 kWh used. A similar cost decline occurs for electric usage in excess of 1,500 kWh. Knighton said the town and its electric consumers could expect more savings as a result of a contract with the South eastern Power Administration (SEPA) which is operated by the federal Corps of Engineers. In signing a 20-year contract with SEPA, the town will be able to purchase 775 KW (kilo watts) per month of power at a cost of $3.83 per KW compared to $15 per KW of NCEMPA en ergy. 7 feel like it is really in our best interest to buy power that that price.' Anne-Marie Knighton Town Manager Town of Edenton “I feel like it (contract with SEPA) is really in our best in terest to buy that power at that price,” said Knighton. According to Knighton, the town can purchase 775 KW per month from SEPA at a cost of nearly $3,000 compared to the $11,625 per month charge for 77b KW it would pay NCEMPA. The town cannot purchase more than the allot ted 775 KW from SEPA, but Knighton said the town will save $104,000 annu ally from the con tract. The town will have the option to pull out of its contract every five years depending on the effect poten tial deregulation of energy sup plies has on electric rates. This was good news to the council’s utilities committee chairman, Willis Privott. “I’m gun shy about something we’re not able to get out of,” said Privott. Knighton said that deregula tion will most likely take until See UTILITIES On Page 7-A HELPING THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED The Edenton Lions Club recently held a dinner at the American Legion Building for a group of visually impaired residents of Chowan County. Helping out were Lions Club member Jack Revels, Sharity Jordan, Betz Blowe and Sam Cox, club president. A
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