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Troop Breakfast
PHOTO COURTESY WILLIAM "BUD" STINSON
At a predeployment breakfast Monday at the National Guard Armory in Williamston, Max Graybill, commander of the American Legion Edward G.
Bond Post 40 of Edenton (k), accepts a token of appreciation from Capt. Sam Barrow, company commander. Barrow is the town planner for the
Town of Edenton. The unit will be in Kosovo for a year. Post 40 served breakfast to the troops before they left Monday. See story 6B.
Car charging station could draw visitors
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Now that spring has finally ar
rived town officials are hoping that
the installation of tut electric car
charging station will help draw visi
tors who own them.
Town Utilities Director Glenn
Andersen said he firmly believes
that once people start to be drawn
here because there is a place in the
downtown parking area at Colonial
Park where they etui pause in their
travels to charge their vehicles,
they’ll stay for a while.
“While they’re waiting for their
ear to charge they'll go through
the park to look at the water, en
joy the boats going by, then walk
up the street to do some shopping,
get something to eat,” Andersen
said. “'Hus could really benefit the
town.”
A local electric car owner, Dr.
Chris Ford, agrees with Andersen
that the presence of the car charg
ing station holds a lot of potential if
marketed correctly.
“I travel a lot and I’ll be doing
something to occupy my time,” he
said of waiting for his car to charge
See CHARGING, 4A
STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH
Chris Ford checks the connection between his Tesla Model S and the new electric car charging station
installed in the parking area at Colonial Park at the downtown Edenton waterfront.
Three wounded in Saturday morning shooting
From staff reports
Three young men were
shot in North Eden ton
early Saturday morning,
according to police.
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Police responded
around 2 a.rn. Saturday to
a shooting in the 900 block
of North Oakum Street.
Officers located 21
year-old Avondre Blount
of Edenton, who had suf
fered gunshot wounds to
his neck and back. Blount
was transported to Vidant
Chowan Hospital and air
lifted to Sentara Norfolk
General Hospital, where
he was reported to he in
serious but stable condi
tion.
Police also discovered
that Devontay Bond, 25, of
Farmville, had suffered a
gunshot wound to the leg
and Jeraniic Stanley, 25,
of Edenton, had suffered
a gunshot wound to the
arm.
Bond and Stanley were
treated and released from
Vidant Chowan Hospital.
The exact cause of the
shooting has not been de
termined at this time and
information Ls that mul
tiple witnesses were pres
ent at the scene. This is
an ongoing investigation
and the Eden ton Police
Department is asking for
help from anyone witness
ing tliis crime.
Individuals with infor
mation about this case are
urged to call Sergeant Lau
ra Wilkins of the Edenton
Police Department at 252
482-9884 or 252-482-5144.
Your information will be
kept confidential.
The Edenton Police j
Department asks that you
report all suspicious activ
ity. Call 252-4824444 or
911 if it’s an emergency
situation.
Schools
eye hike
in local
funding
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
The Edenton-Chowan
Schools are seeking $1 mil
lion more in local funding
in the upcoming 2015-2016
fiscal year than the schools
received from the county in
the current year.
The school board de
cided last week it would
go ahead and present its
budget requests to county
commissioners by the April
2 deadline rather than wait
until a joint meeting set for
mid-month.
Their reasoning was that
giving the materials to the
commissioners prior to
their planned joint meeting
on April 13 would given the
county’s elected officials
extra time to review the
proposed 2015-2016 budget
and think about how to re
spond.
Unlike in earlier years,
the document contains not
only the school system’s
proposed current expense
request and its proposed
capital outlay request, it
also contains a proposed
technology-specific budget.
Another difference is a pro
posed three-year mechani
cal systems capital outlay
plan that will als*> be a part
of the submitted document.
In his budget message,
Superintendent Rob Jack
son said that the proposed
local budget request “will
allow us to continue provid
ing the educational services
expected by our commu
nity and essential to our stu
dents’ success in colleges
and careers.”
See FUNDING, 3A
County
cool to
tighter
wind regs
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
The Chowan County
Board of Commissioners
Monday received - but took
no action on - a report from
the Chowan Planning Board
calling for much stricter
regulation of wind energy
facilities in the county.
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The report from the Plan
ning Board calls for six ad
ditions or changes to the
county’s existing wind en
ergy ordinance:
■ A property value guar
antee that would compen
sate property owners within
two miles for any property
value losses due to an indus
trial development
■ A setback requirement
that each industrial wind
turbine be at least one mile
from the property line of
See WIND POWER, 4A
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