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Preservation panel delays demolition decision
BY REGGIE PONDER
■ . Editor
Chowan County’s applica
tion for a demolition permit
for the former county office
building on East King Street.
will lay on the table until the
next meeting of the Eden
ton Historic Preservation
Commission.
The Historic Preservation
Commission voted unani
mously at its meeting Mon
day afternoon to table the
county’s demolition permit
request for the former office
bqilding, also known as the
historic Hotel Hinton.
The motion by member
Bill Shultz called for ta
bling the matter until the
commission’s meeting next
month. Shultz said he needs
to see engineering studies
and have more information
before making a decision on
the county’s request
Preservation commission
member Iibby Pope said
Edenton is very historic and
this is an important historic
structure.
“I’m violently opposed
to tearing the hotel down,”
Pope said.
County officials empha
sized at the meeting Monday
that they hope to sell the
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property rather than tearing
the building down.
Chowan County Manager
Zee Lamb told the preserva
tion commission that the
county is trying to sell the
property and is in serious
negotiations with One po
tential buyer.
Chowan County Board of
Commissioners Chairman
Keith Nixon reiterated that
the board hopes to sell the
property.
“I do hope it sells,” Nixon
said.
Nixon said it might even
come down to the last hour
and the county could get an
offer on the property that
would be worth consider
ing.
The county is simply be
ginning the process of ap
plying for the permit, Nixon
said. He told the Chowan
Herald later that county of
ficials understand the pro
cess could take up to 18
months. It is a time-consum
ing process that is just now
starting, Nixon said.
Several speakers urged
the preservation commis
sion to reject the demolition
permit application — or at
least delay it until additional
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Lighting up the Sky
I BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
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i Y i'^he promise of the
! I largest fireworks
i JL show ever sponsored
1 bythe Chowan-Eden
ton Optimist Club drew
between 4,000-5,000 people
to the downtown Edenton
waterfront on July 4 to
er\joy the show.
Optimist President Da
vid LaFon said he thought
the club’s annual Fabulous
Fourth of July celebration
was a big success.
“I think everything went
great,” LaFon said. "The
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; from the July 4 celebration
in Downtown Edenton-4A
community pulled together
and helped us reach our
goal of having the biggest
fireworks show we’ve ever
had in honor of Edenton’s
300th anniversary.”
New events this year in
cluded face painting and a
softball toss, LaFon noted.
But it was the fireworks
show that drew the most
interest, he said.
“I think the crowd was
a little bigger than in previ
ous years,” LaFon said.
Mike McArthur, who
chairs the fundraising
committee for the event,
agreed. He said that sup
port for the celebration,
which cost $31,000, was
stronger this year than in
previous years. He said he
thought that could have
been because people were
excited about having a big
ger than normal fireworks
show in honor of the
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PHOTO BY WAYNE
WOODBURY
Fireworks light up
the sky over the
Edenton Bay on
July 4.
Curtin
files for
Fourth
Ward seat
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Neighborhood activist
Lori Arm Curtin has filed as
a candidate for the Fourth
Ward seat on the Edenton
Town Council.
Also,
in
cumbent
Third Ward
Council
woman
Norma
Simpson
has filed
for elec
tion to the
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seat after being appointed
to fill the unexpired term of
Councilwoman Phyllis Brit
ton, who died in December.
Simpson was sworn-in in
February.
Curtin, 48, who ran as a
write-in candidate in 2009;
said she had planned to file
and run whether Council
man Willis Privott decided,
to retire from the council or
not.
Privott, the current coun
cil member from the Fourth
Ward, announced last week
that he would not be seeking
reelection. He has served on
town council since 1980.
Curtin said she thinks
Privott has done a good job
as a member of the town
council.
“I think that Mr. Privott
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Rocky Hock farmer sees first cotton blooi
BY REGGIE PONDER
' Editor '
The Carroll Peele farm
reported the first cotton
bloom of the 2013 growing
season in Chowan County.
Peele’s son-in-law, Paul
Ward, discovered the bloom
In a field on Rocky Hock
Landing Road July 2 and
reported it to Katy Shook at
the Chowan County Coop
erative Extension office.
; TTiat same day, Peele no
ticed several blooms in an
other field on the farm.
$■;; Ward said having an
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earlier crop really doesn’t
make much of a difference
in terms of yield.
It’s mainly a fun thing to
see who will find the first
cotton bloom, he said.
“It’s just a big deal to see
our first cotton bloom in the
area,” he said.
The early bloom is a di
rect result of early planting,
Ward explained.
“It was some of the first
planted,” Ward said of the
cotton on his father-in-law’s
farm.
• Ward said they planted
the cotton April 30. Cotton
typically is planted in May,
he Said.
Sometimes early-planted
cotton will run into prob
lems due to cooler weather,
but that was not the case
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PONDER;
Carroll
Peele a
his 13
year-ok
grandst
Ben Wa
kneel
beside
a cotton
plant wl*
the first
cotton
bloom
reported
this seas
in Chow
County.
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