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V 482-4418 Wednesday, June 15, 2011 50* K-9 deputy kills family’s dog Labrador allegedly attacked officer By RITCHIE E. STARNES Editor A family is distraught after a I Chowan County sheriffs K-9 dep 1 uty fatally shot their dog while serving a subpoena at a neighbor ing house. Deputy Edward Brian “Scoot | er” Basnight shot the Labrador around 3 p.m. Friday after the dog | broke loose from a cable, charged f and grabbed hold of his ankle, ac cording to Sheriff Dwayne Good | win. 1 -----— SYCAMOREFUNDRAISER r- •?> ->:-*>..v , . •,•*'••’ .w.wfc «»,. -i ±: STAFF PHOTO BY LESLIE FOREHAND Three-year-old Holden Ford, safe in his mom Erica’s arms, gets a friendly nudge from an Arabian horse belonging to Al and Chloe Cox during a fundraiser at their home, Sycamore, on Sunday afternoon. Organizers said 250 tickets.were sold for the $35 per plate event. Proceeds will help with the cost of restoring the interior of the Roanoke River Lighthouse on the Edenton waterfront. Organizers call fundraising event a success By REBECCA BUNCH | Staff Writer m fundraiser held Sunday Bk afternoon at Sycamore, ^mthe home of A1 and Chloe Cox, raised $8,750 (before expenses) to help furnish the ) interior of the Rqpnoke River I - Library will close on Saturdays 1 Hours are affected by county funding By REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer | The Shepard-Pruden I Library in Edenton will soon be changing its hours | of operation so that it can resume opening on Mon : days. However, since it did | not receive a requested in crease in funds of nearly $70,000 from the county, the library will be open | shorter hours on Fridays and closed on Saturdays so || that it can be open on Mon days and still stay within |§ its operating budget of $142,076. 3 Linda VanSistine-Yost, 02009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved t fa \ ■ t Goodwin said once Basnight had walked about 25 feet away from his vehicle, the deputy saw the dog charge and break his cable. “The dog was bee-lining for him. Scooter tried to get the dog to turn the other way,” Goodwin said. “The dog grabbed hold of his ankle and pants leg when Bas night shot him.” Goodwin defended Basnight's actions. “I don’t think he had any choice in the matter,” Goodwin said. “I don’t know if there’s anything he could have done differently. I know Scooter wishes there was something he could have done dif ferently” Lighthouse oh the Edenton waterfront. Organizers said 250 tickets were sold for the $35 a plate event and that they hoped to meet their target goal of $5,000 after expenses are paid. Major expenses connected with the event were underwritten by head librarian, announced Friday that as of July 1 the library would be closed on Saturdays. It will however, be open later on Mondays Bennie Holley, owner of the 10 year-old dog named Blackie, said he believes a trained K-9 officer could have handled the situation without killing his dog. Holley said his property is clearly posted with “Beware of the Dog” signs and that Blackie was on his land when Basnight shot twice. “If (Basnight) had blown his horn, someone would have come to his vehicle,” Holley said.. . Goodwin countered that Bas night said he never saw the signs and that the dog never barked be fore charging. See DOG, 2A Chowan Animal Hospital. A cook team headed by Ernest Knighton of Edenton — assisted by Bill Schultz, David Herr and John Nicholls — prepared the food for the event. Live entertainment was provided by musical duo Mike and Tuesdays — opening at 10 a.m. and closing at 7 pjn. in an effort to better serve the needs of library patron,. at SUBMITTED PHOTO A Chowan County deputy shot this 10-year-old Labrador, Blackie, after the dog broke loose from a cable and attacked the officer, Friday. and Lynn (otherwise known as Mike Molloy and Lynn Dail). Gregg Nathan, executive di rector of the Edenton Histori cal Commission, termed the fundraiser “very successful.” Don Herr, who attended the See SYCAMORE, 2A STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH ' Rosa Sylvester spends some quality time at the library on a recent Saturday morning with her son Miles, 7. Scenes like this will become a thing of the past when the library’s new hours go into effect July 1. In order to reopen on Mondays, the library will be closed on Saturdays. The library will be open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thurs days. On Fridays, the li brary will be open from 10 >a.m. until 3:30 p.m. VanSistine-Yost said the action was made in an ef fort to keep the library open later at the begin ning of the week when the most people visited. “Our busiest days come at the beginning of the week,” VanSistine-Yost said. “Our new hours re flect that." VanSistine-Yost noted that the library’s operat - ..-A ing budget for the coming year remains at the same level it has received for the past two years. The library had requested, but did not receive, additional funds from the county for the 2011-2012 fiscal year that would have allowed the library to reopen on Mondays without cutting hours on other days for the first time since the county’s budget crisis. VanSistine-Yost said the library requested $210,000 fi*om the county The li brary would at least have liked to see funding re stored to its 2008-2009 level of operation, which was $174,500, she said. But, VanSistine-Yost said, the library’s only other option if it wanted to restore service on Mon days was to cut hours later in the week. Friends of the Library President Sharon Adams also described the change in hours as necessary. See LIBRARY, 4A Norway honors local veteran By REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer World War II may seem like something that hap pened a long time ago to many Americans. But in the hearts and minds of some grateful Norwegians, the memo ries are as fresh as yesterday Recently, the Norwe gian gov ernment honored some ' of their coun try’s heroes, the survivors of the 99th Battalion of the U.S. Army Among those honor ees was Bob Chapman of Edenton. Chapman, a na tive of Saginaw, Mich., was accompanied to Washing ton, D.C. by his daughter, Leslie Lippincott, also of Edenton. Chapman and 13 others See VETERAN, 3A Chapman Schools must return $1.3M Owens: Opponents distort numbers By PETER WILLIAMS The Daily Advance Area school districts will have to return nearly $1.3 million more to the state’s coffers next year under the budget plan approved by state lawmakers last week. Of the five school dis tricts in the area, the Eliza beth City-Pasquotank Pub lic Schools will receive the largest “discretionary” cut to its funding. Based on projections from the N.C. Department of Public In struction, Elizabeth City Pasquotank will have to return $1.7 million to the state next year — $500,000 more than the $1.2 million it returned this year. Camden, the smallest ' school district in the area, will see its repayment to .SeeSCHOOlS,^
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