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Culpepper is excited about new challenges BY SEAN JACKSON The Chowan Herald Culpepper Bill Culpepper didn’t want to go out like the aging, slow, beatable Muhammad Ali did. He wanted to go out instead like Rocky Marciano. At the top of his game. So Culpep per stepped down from his North Carolina House District 2 seat on Jan. 3, when he was sworn in to a post with the state Utili ties Commission. The Edenton attorney had served in the leg islature for 13 years, while practicing law in his home town for more than three de ■ cades. It was, Culpepper said last week, simply a time for a ca reer change. a; “I accomplished everything I set out to do and more,” he said. After Culpepper arranged for the House to meet at the 1767 Chowan County Court house last spring, he felt he’d f * reached the pinnacle of his political career. He’d served as chairman Of the House rules committee for more than a de cade. He developed a close re lationship with House Speaker Jim Black, who turned the gavel over to Culpepper during the House’s trip to Edenton last May. “I consider myself to be so lucky,” Culpepper said. He’d seen other representa tives stay in office too long. He • didn’t want to overstay his wel come. And, Culpepper says, he will still work with the politi cians that were once his col leagues as issues arise. “I’m not going to be too far from it,” he said. Gov. Mike Easley appointed Culpepper, 58, to the seven member commission. Culpep per said he told Easley he See EXCITED On Page A2 INSIDE Calendar.C2 Church....C7,8 Classifieds.D1-4 Editorials.A6 o Obituaries.C6 School.C5 Society...C3 Sports.B1 -4 Contact us Call 482-4418 ©2006-The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved Facilities needs for school system are reviewed, OK'd Boyce: Plan represents ‘broad stroke’ attempt to anticipate future needs BY EARLINE WHITE The Chowan Herald Tentative plans for the fu ture of Edenton/Chowan schools, in the form of The NC Public Schools Facilities Needs Survey, have been con sidered and approved by the Edenton/Chowan Board of Education. The survey is man dated every five years by the. North Carolina legislature. The Needs Survey 2005 pro vided a detailed look at the planning that may come into play before the year 2014. Fol lowing approval of the local school boards and County Commissioners, the plan is then submitted to the State Department of Instruction. The needs addressed in the re port will not dictate funding 1Barline White photo School Supt. Dr. Allan Smith talks about future facilities needs for the local schools daring a presentation to the board of education. from the State, but give an idea of which areas to focus on in identifying future projects. Assistant Superintendent Rob Boyce presented the plan to both the local school board and the County Commission ers, who also unanimously ap proved the plan. Boyce explained, “The plan is made of three basic compo nents - average daily member ship (attendance), capacity, and cost summary. For the last 25 years the attendance rate See NEEDS On Page A2 Honoring Dr. King's legacy / Speakers praise use of non-violent approach Members of the Dr. Martin bother King Jr. Choir of Edenton sing during Monday’s celebration honoring the life and legacy of the slain Civil Rights leader. The group recently changed its name from the Albemarle Community Choir in his honor. Sean Jackson photo Riddick, Belfield urge mantra of love, serving others in working through struggles BY SEAN JACKSON The Chowan Herald Althea Riddick grew up one of eight children in rural Gates County. But she didn’t let life’s struggles keep her from having a successful ca reer in education: Riddick, vice-president of College of The Albemarle, used her time Monday as the keynote speaker at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration in Edenton to let her roughly 250 listeners know that she has adhered to the slain civil rights leader’s teachings. In addition to striving to help end discrimina tion and injustice in her own world, Riddick be lieves King was right when he said love is humanity’s greatest treasure. “That’s what we don’t have enough of,” Riddick said. “Love.” A graduate of COA, and Elizabeth City State and East Carolina universities, Riddick told the crowd she planned to quote King liberally dur ing her 16-minute address. “I’m going to say things you’ve heard before,” she said, “but you need to hear it” again. King fought against the injustices he saw in a segregated South for nearly two decades before he was assassinated in 1968. Along the way he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, helped pave the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that ended discrimination at the polls, and led a historic march on Washington, D.C. He would have been 77 on Sunday His legacy is not one to be forgotten, Riddick said. But there are those who feel the struggles King sought to end for some Americans is no longer an issue. To those people, Riddick offered: “Then maybe you’ve never struggled.” Many African-Americans and other minorities in the U.S. have enjoyed successful careers and See PRAISE On Page A2 Watson says board is willing to hear concerns BY SEAN JACKSON . The Chowan Herald A group of area county managers have pre sented their concerns to the Northeast Partnership’s executive board regarding the agency’s top official, Rick Watson. Although he declined to discuss the details of that closed-session meeting in Edenton on Jan. 12, Watson indicated the conference was in line with the Partnership’s protocol of listening to a public board’s concerns about the agency., Partnership officials. Watson said Tuesday, would be willing to meet with any board — be it a group of county managers or community college trustees — that wanted to discuss a matter with the regional economic devel opment agency. “We would listen to any suggestion they had,” Watson said. “Any group that has a recommen dation, we’d be mbre than happy to listen to them.” Watson’s plan to leave the partnership in 2007 for a job with Moonlight Bandit Productions ini tially drew media scrutiny. After his October announcement that he would continue to stay on with the Partnership while helping promote Randy Parton’s theater project in Roanoke Rap ids, the county managers called a meeting to discuss just whom Watson would be working for during his last 18 months with the Partnership. Watson See WATSON On Page A2 'Family'facing federal drug trafficking charges BY EARLINE WHITE The Chowan Herald An ongoing crackdown on mid-to-high level drug suppliers in Chowan County has resulted in a second round of Federal indictments, this time taking in a “family” of drug dealers living on Wildcat Road. William Bond, 60, Jermaine Andre Bland, 29, and William “Boo Boo” Marquie Bland, 25, of 506 Wildcat Road were arrested on January 4-5 for distribution of “crack” cocaine. Together the men had a combined total exceeding 170 grams of the drug. “This joint effort by the State Bureau of In vestigation, the Chowan County Sheriff’s Office and the Perquimans County Sheriff’s Office is just, part of the continuing endeavor to rid Chowan County of drug suppliers,” Investiga See CHARGES On Page A2 MEET „ . 3rd Annual ^ Sunday January 29,2006 BOB FELLER r Edenton Steamers N^!*3o^*C* Hail of fame Pitcher Fundraiser Clambake F°'Z?a&mm
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