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Wednesday, November 5; 2014
One-stop voting total surpasses 2010 figure
From staff reports
More people voted dur
ing the early voting pe
riod in this year’s General
Election than voted early
in the 2010 mid-term elec
tion - even though fewer
days of early voting were
held.
The number of
hours was compara
ble to 2010, howev
er, since there were
Election results
were not available
by presstime for
the Chowan Her
several 12-hour days
of early voting this time
around.
Voters also went to the
polls in their precincts on
Tuesday, to cast ballots.
aid.
You can read the elec
tion results in today’s
Daily Advance and on the
Daily Advance website.
Democrats accounted
for half of Chowan’s one
stop voting total with
1,265 votes, just 10 votes
fewer than the 683 Repub
lican and 592 unaffiliated
votes combined, which
totaled 1,275.
Chowan Elections Di
rector Rebecca Lowe said
the 2,541 total early votes
was an increase of 159
votes cast compared to
the last mid-term election
in 2010 when there were
2,382 one-stop votes cast.
Early voters in Chowan
expressed particular in
terest in the race for dis
trict attorney, N.C. House
and U.S. Senate, and in
the proposed constitu
tional amendment that if
approved, would allow
defendants in non-capital
cases in Superior Court to
waive their right to a jury
trial.
At the top of the ballot
See ONE-STOP TOTAL, 4A
Reunion Honors McGee
STAFF PHOTO BY REGGIE PONDER
Coach Jerry McGee speaks with 1960s era John A. Holmes High School alumni (l-r) Jim Elliott, Tom Phillips and Walter Holton
at a recent event to honor McGee. See page 6A for story and more photos.
Appraiser
hired for
Commission
building
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Edenton town officials have hired a
Greenville-based firm for the appraisal
of the Waterfront building that formerly
housed the Northeast Commission.
The town council hired Moore and Pin
er after the firm submitted the low bid in
the town’s search for an appraiser for the
building, which is located at 119 W. Water
Street.
The action came after a special meeting
that preceded the regular monthly town
council work session on Oct 27.
The commission, now known as the
Northeast Alliance, recently relocated its
offices to Williamston.
The other two firms that submitted bids
to the town for performing the appraisal
were Shackelford & Associates, also of
Greenville at $2,500 (income-based), and
Josh Tunnel Appraisal Service of Eliza
beth City, at $4,500 (income and cost) or
$3,750 (income only).
Mayor Roland Vaughan said at the
council’s special meeting that a thorough
appraisal would provide the means for
the council to decide the future use of
the building. Previously the town had
been leasing the building to the Northeast
See BUILDING, 4A
STAFF PHOTO BY REGGIE PONDER
Dee Spruce, director of Albemarle Pregnancy Resource Center,
welcomes people to the Albemarle Area Agency Mixer, which
was held Oct 27 at Leon Nixon Catering.
Agencies mix, mingle, learn
about each other’s roles
From staff reports
The Albemarle Area Agency
Mixer on Oct 27 gave represen
tatives of different agencies that
work with children the opportu
nity to get to know each other
and leant more about what the
other agencies do.
There were 74 people who
attended, representing 45 agen
cies. The event, held at Leon
Nixon Catering on Virginia Road
in Edenton. was sponsored by
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the Transformation Zone grant
and the East Carolina Behav
ioral Health Chowan County
Collaborative Committee.
“When I was inviting someone
to the event, I described some of
the goals and tried to get them to
visualize what it would be like to
know where to send a family for
help, and instead of handing out
a brochure, being able to have a
personal contact that could be
called and appointments set up
so that the family walking out
of an office had hope that there
was actual help for them,” said
Sarah Williams, implementa
tion coach for Chowan County’s
Transformation Zone grant The
See MIXER, 4A
In homestretch, Hagan stumps Edenton
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Sea Kay Hagan visited Edenton
last week during the homestretch
of early voting before Tuesday’s
General Election.
Hagan, a Democrat, was in a
tight race with Rep. Thom 111118,
the Republican speaker of the N.C.
House of Representatives. The
election was held Tuesday and
the Chowan Herald went to press
before election results were avail
able.
In an event intended to promote
early voting, Hagan urged a crowd
of more than 100 supporters here
Thursday to show the rest of the
nation “North Carolina is not for
sale.”
Hagan told the audience at Noth
in’ Fancy Cafe and Market that the
Koch Brothers want to “buy this
Senate seat” so Thom Tlllis can do
their bidding in the U.S. Senate.
Hagan, who entered the build
ing to the strains of Katy Perry’s
“Roar,” had the crowd repeat the
slogan: “North Carolina is not for
PHOTO BY JOHN COLLINS
Sen. Kay Hagan D-NC, laughs while speaking with Cora Parsons of
Edenton during a campaign meet-and-greet at the Nothin’ Fancy
Cafe & Market, Thursday. About 100 people attended the gathering
hosted by the Chowan County Democratic Party.
sale.”
Hagan said she has sponsored
a bill in the Senate called the “Dis
close Act” that would require pub
lic disclosure of all contributions
to Political Action Committees, in
cluding the so-called super PACs.
Tillis has said he opposes such
measures, Hagan said.
Edenton was Hagan’s first cam
paign stop on Thursday. After her
visit here she headed south to
See HAGAN, 4A
Commissioners table board appointments
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
The Chowan County Board of Commissioners this
week renewed its call for citizens to apply for vacan
cies on appointed boards and commissions such as
the Planning Board and Northeastern Workforce De
velopment Board.
The county commissioners were scheduled to
make appointments to the Chowan Planning Board
and Northeastern Workforce Development Board
during the commissioners’ meeting Monday night
But on a motion by Commissioner Jeff Smith,
the board voted unanimously to table the appoints
ments.
Only one application had been received for each
of the vacant positions. Smith said he would like to
get more than one application before making the ap*
pointments to the boards.
Commissioner Alex Kehayes asked how the coun
ty could get more applications for vacancies on the
appointed boards.
See APPOINTMENTS, 4A
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