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482-4418 Wednesday, May 16, 2007 50c The pain of putting down pets COMMUNITY, C1 Kaye Spivey makes life easier at Britthaven INSIDE, A3 Budget seeks to add new teachers Positions would replace those lost during cutbacks BY REBECCA BUNCH Editor “Heavy emphasis on per sonnel.” That’s how Dr. Allan Smith, superintendent of the Edenton-Chowan Schools, describes the school system’s proposed budget for the 2007 2008 school year. It would have the school system expanding spending by $180,723 to meet a state mandated 5 percent salary increase for1 teachers and a 2.5 percent raise for other school staff. The school system will also have to spend an additional $53,078 to meet a state-man dated rise in health benefits. With those items out of the way, the school system’s bud get also reflects its “continu ing commitment” to gradu ally raising teacher supple ments to the state average of 5 percent, Smith noted. “Teacher supplements in the Edenton-Chowan Schools have historically been in the lowest quartile in compari son to other school systems across the state,” Smith noted in his annual budget message. “Last year the supplements were increased from two per cent to two and a half per cent. This is not sufficient and we must do better,” he said. “An increase to five percent is estimated to require an ad ditional $231,142 in recurring dollars. We are committed to increasing supplements each year until the goal of at least the state average is achieved.” The 2007-2008 proposed budget calls for the school system to increase the supplements by at least 1 per cent — from 2.5 percent to 3.5 — at an estimated cost of $92,457, Smith said. Priorities in the budget proposal also include three teaching positions. “However,” Smith said, “it should be noted that two of the three are to replace posi tions lost two years ago (a middle school reading teacher, and a high school English teacher). “The third position, for an elementary cultural arts in structor, has been included to partially meet the state-man dated physical activity and See BUDGET, Page A2 ► 02006 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved / ,, • v. Student charged with having gun on campns Copeland allegedly brought stolen .40 caliber to Holmes BY SEAN JACKSON v Staff Writer Chowan County Sheriff's Of fice officials have confiscated a second handgun after an inci 'iSSSS&lHiie Contributed An era will soon end at Mitchener's Pharmacy. The business was opened in 1906 and moved to its current location in 1914 by "Doc" ' Mitchener, grandfather of the current owner. John Mitchener III BY EARLINE WHITE Staff Writer For three generations the Mitchener family has known the most intimate details of our lives — what soap we use, what medi cations we take, from what ail ments our children suffer. After 101 years in the business, Mitchener’s Pharihacy will end a chapter in Broad Street history, closing its double glass doors May 21 when the business will transfer to CVS in Edenton. Mitchener plans to work at the local CVS branch until December, helping make the transition of his life-long customers easier. , Mitchener, 66, says that despite the business’,profitability, it is simply time to move on. Local artist shares her talent to raise funds for Relay BY REBECCA BUNCH Editor Local artist Ashlee Birck head finds special joy in her art when she thinks of can cer survivors — after all', her beloved grandparents are among them. Now, she’s decided to do something very special to dent where a student brought a weapon to John A. Holmes High School last week. “The second gun was recov ered as part of an ongoing inves tigation,” Sheriff Dwayne Good win said. “It, too, is one of the guns taken from Bob’s Gun Shop and Coins last Wednesday night,” Goodwin added but declined to comment on where or how the A tradition John A. Mi'tchener, III, has seen the face of downtown Broad Street change dramatically in the years he has spent behind the counter inside the store. He began his career at the young age of 10 when he and his broth ers worked in their father’s phar macy tending the comic book rack every Saturday. That was back when the park ing lot (known then as the back yard) was the stomping ground for mules and carts. And on a hot July afternoon, the “gifts” of the animals permeated the entire community, Mitchener laughs. A man carried blocks of ice into the cellar for shaving (for drinks at the fountain). Through the front and back door old friends help others beat the disease during the annual Chowan Perquimans Relay for Life which takes place this week end. Birckhead is donating a framed print of her most popular work, a blue crab, for a raffle to benefit Relay. One lucky winner will get to enjoy Ashlee’s signed and gun was recovered. A number of guns taken from Bob’s Guns on Highway 17 re main unrecovered since the break in. Their value is an esti mated $3,000. Terrence Copeland, 18, of 1204 Sandy Terrace in Lynnhaven Trailer Park, was caught behav ing in a peculiar manner on video survelliance at Holmes Thursday morning, prompting entered, discussing the issues of the day — weather, sports, bun ions. Trees lined the middle of Broad Street, and the northern end of the shopping district stopped with Mitchener’s Phar macy Since then a lot has changed — race relations have improved, Medicaid rules have given phar macists across the country head aches, and the state health depart ment regulations on soda foun tains have strengthened. Mitchener worries about the fu ture of rural downtowns, where foot traffic is diminishing due to lack of essential services, such as grocery stores and pharmacies, like his own. But as far as the business’ fu See CLOSING, Page A2 > ELSEWHERE Local graduate foregoes gifts for donations to fight cancer Page B4. numbered drawing, beauti fully framed with natural barn wood by her lifelong friend, Butch Byrum. Birckhead, who works part-time at the Chowan Herald, happens to have Down Syndrome. Recently she and her mother, artist and teacher Susan Birckhead, sat down to talk about this special piece of art. See RELAY, Page A2 > deputy and school resource of ficer Kenny Townsend to call Copeland in for questioning. An unloaded .40-caliber hand gun was found in Copeland’s possession along with an empty ammunition clip. “Copeland’s suspicious activ ity was caught on camera and he was pretty much takeiynto cus Copel^nd See HOLMES, Page A2 ► Town eyes new, stiffer graffiti law Property owners, businesses could face removal costs BY SEAN JACKSON Staff Writer Town officials want to send a message that ' gang-related graffiti won’t be tolerated here, and they want local businesses victimized by the spray paint-wielding culprits to help. The Edenton Town Council is considering a new ordinance that would force the graffiti to be removed in a timely mat ter. Council discussed the is sue last month, after review ing graffiti ordinances from the cities of Rocky Mount and Tarborro. Town Attorney Hood Ellis is drafting a local ordinance, Town Manager Anne-Marie Knighton said. Council could approve the new ordinance at its May 29 meeting, she Knighton added. “The thing we like about the Rocky Mount or dinance is it makes it unlawful for anybody to place graffiti on public or private property,” Knighton said. The town already charges such offenders with vandalism, but the new ordinance would be more specific about the nature of the unlawful action. The individual charged would be respon sible for the cleanup. If that person is under 18 years old, then his or her parent or guardian would be responsible for the cleanup, Knighton said. In addition, if no charges are filed against a suspected individual for placing graffiti on pub lic or private property, the owner of the build ing would be responsible for removing the graf fiti, Knighton told local officials Monday. Property owners would have seven to 10 days to remove the graffiti. After that period expires, the town would remove it at a charge to the prop erty owner, Knighton said. Birckhead, Byrum and her painting - o.'-t ■ v-. INDEX A Local > Opinion..A6 Land Transfers.A5 ,4 #414/#,.4 \ B Sports/School Recreation News.B1 NASCAR...B2 School...B4 i . . Community News Upcoming Events ...,.C2 Society..............C4 Obituaries...C6 Church....C7,B D Classifieds Buy/Sell/Trade.D1 Service Directory...... D2 Employment.. D4 Aces heading to state finals SPORTS, B1 ANNIVERSARY SUPPER MAY 19, 2007 WPS *ggw?!!3Wpi!«®f?:-^R®»-->??s «sjjge$fS®!£*&***?&«!!*. «;?•■
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