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' Kehayes, Steinburg post GOP primary victories
| Voter majority favored
marriage amendment
§ By RITCHIE E. STARNES
• ‘ Editor
Chowan’s candidates fared
si victoriously in last Tuesday’s
C primary election.
Republicans Alex Kehayes,
Bob Steinburg and Eddie Good
- win all finished as top vote get*
; ters in their respective races.
f| Steinburg amassed the most
f| votes in Chowan with 1,050 to
Goodwin’s 989 among a 29 per
m
Quinn:
Too many
rentals
Neighbors fear
sinking values
By REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Already facing growing
Resentment from neigh
bors worried about plum
meting property values,
developers of a proposed
low-income housing proj
ect are under attack about
whether Edenton can sup
port more rentals.
Edenton Councilman
Bob Quinn peppered the
Raleigh
based Ev
ergreen
** ^Construc
tion with
statistics
| that dif
f e r e d
sharply
from the Quinn
company’s
marketing study. Neigh
bors of the proposed 50
unit multi-housing devel
opment fear a low-income
I project will adversely im
| pact their property values.
Evergreen wants multi
family townhouse and gar
den-style units to be built
on an 11.64-acre tract on
Coke Avenue.
At the Town Council’s
May 8 meeting Quinn
questioned the findings
l; of Evergreen’s marketing
study that support plans
for more low-income rent
als in Edenton. He said that
% he could not understand
: t the need for the develop
jf ment and said he believed
|f the proposed new housing
f§ would damage property
ft values in the community
“Below standard hous
ing units requiring town
I action could be the result
I if marginal landlords are
| faced with newer, subsi
I dized units,” Quinn said.
| “This would affect the val
ue of property throughout
II Edenton.”
Quinn added that the
M high number of existing
4 low-income housing units
and vacant rental proper
ties were a‘cause of con
cern to the town, in par
| ticular those located near
the proposed new develop
! ment.
I “The proposed Ever
I green property will affect
t
See LOW-INCOME, 4A
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cent voter turn
out. Local con
servatives were
not the only
victors as state
voters shared
Chowan’s major
ity perspective
in favor of the
constitutional
amendment that bans same-sex
marriage.
In the race for county commis
sioner whereas only one local
could win, Kehayes defeated Tim
Phelps by a 484 to 340 margin, or
a 59 to 41 percent disparity, to be
Kehayes
Goodwin collects most
statewide votes
STAFF PHOTOS BY BRETTA. CLARK
Eddy Goodwin, the first-place finisher in Tuesday’s Republican primary for North Carolina secretary of state, inspects the land
in Chowan County where he was planting peanuts, last Thursday.
Runner-up Gardner files for runoff
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
A relatively unknown political
figure from tiny Chowan County'
surprised many last Tuesday night
after collecting the most votes en
route to winning 76 of the state’s
100 counties for the office of secre
tary of state. Despite the feat, his
hardest work lies ahead.
Current Board of Commission
Chairman Eddy Goodwin, or sim
ply Ed after dropping the “dy” for
the statewide campaign, garnered
245,006 votes, or 36 percent of the
total vote, in the GOP primary,
edging runner-up Kenn Gardner’s
203,276 votes.
“Even people ‘round here said
‘you couldn’t win something like
that,”’ Goodwin said Thursday
morning.
On Monday, Gardner filed to chal
lenge Goodwin in a runoff, which is
set for July 17. Nonetheless, Good
win remains confident that he’s in
the driver’s seat.
Colony Tire sells retail stores to Munro Muffler
Focus turns to
commercial, wholesale
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
Area service center Colony Tire
has agreed to sell its retail stores
to Monro Muffler and Brake in
exchange for the purchase of a
commercial tire business.
After rejecting bids from Mon
ro for several years to part with
come the next commissioner for
District 2, Seat 1.
Both political newcomers, Ke
hayes attributed his victory over
Phelps to establishing name rec
ognition early in the contest.
“When the voters go to the
polls, it’s important that they
recognize your name,” Kehayes
said.
In addition to name recogni
tion, Kehayes ran a grassroots
campaign that included 61'
fashion tactics. With his wife’s
encouragement, he also began
See VICTORIES, 3A
Eddy Goodwin walks behind a tractor planting peanuts Thursday. Goodwin next
faces a runoff bid to be the GOP nominee for secretary of state.
Goodwin, among four candidates
originally vying to become the first
Republican elected as secretary
of state, said he reached out last
its retail stores, Colony Tire con-.
firmed Tuesday that it will sell 18
of its retail centers across North
Carolina. In exchange, Colony
will acquire the commercial tire
facilities previously part of the
Tidewater-based Kramer Tire,
which Monro purchased in April.
Charlie Creighton, president
of the family-owned Colony Tire,
said the opportunity for both
companies to focus on what they
See COLONY, 2A
Wednesday to the other three GOP
candidates, including Gardner. At
See GOODWIN, 3A
STAFF PHOTO BY
RITCHIE STARNES
Bob
Steinburg
(right) looks
at election
returns with
supporter
Harvey
West at
Steinburg’s
home in
Edenton.
School
lunches
increase
10 cents
By REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Lunches in the Edenton
Chowan school system will
be more expensive next
year.
The Board of Educa
tion voted unanimously at
its May 7 meeting to raise
school lunch prices by 10
cents per student begin
ning with the 2012-13 school
year. Breakfasts, which
currently cost $1 per stu
dent, will not be affected.
Karen Tynch, child nutri
tion director for the school
system, said the current $2
per meal local children pay
is less than the $2.51 the
U.S. Department of Agri
culture recommends that
school systems charge stu
dents for full-price meals.
That figure is equal to the
amount that the USDA
pays for free lunches mi
nus the paid lunch reim
bursement.
Tynch said that federal
officials are encouraging
school systems to slowly
edge their meal prices to
ward that figure.
The additional funds re
alized from the increased
price of lunches will help
schools meet new, im
proved federal nutrition
standards for school sys
tems, she said. Those stan
dards focus on increasing
the amount of fruits and
vegetables included in stu
dent meals.
Superintendent Allan
Smith said prior to the vote
that school officials hated
to see the cost rise. A 10
cent increase might not
seem like much but on a
daily basis, he said, but “it
adds up.”
Tynch said that current
ly about 70 percent of the
students in the local school
system are eligible for free
and reduced price lunches.
See INCREASE, 2A
PHOTO BY RITCHIE STARNES
The family owned Colony Tire has sold its retail stores to Monro Muffler & Brake
with the exception of its Edenton location (above) at the corner of Broad Street
and Coke Avenue.