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P 8 / C 8 * * 482-4418 * * * *CAR-RT LOT* *C 002 A0111 lll"lllllll,,lllllll,llllllll,,ll,,llllllllllllll,ll,lll,ll, SHEPHERD PRUDEN LIBRARY 106 W WATER ST EDENTON NC 27932-1854 Wednesday, August 5, 2015 50* UPCOMING HOME GAMES 6AMES START AT 7PMI AT HISTORIC HICKS FIEID 1ST ROUND PETIT CUP PLAYOFFS August 6 - Petit Cup Playoffs I August 7 * If Necessary CALL FOR DETAILS! C8ll 482-4080 For Morn Information I WWWTDtlTTONSTf, AMIRS,COM Wind energy regs go back to planning board BY REGGIE PONDER Editor It will be next month at the earliest before the coun ty commissioners hold a public hearing on a planning board proposal to make the county’s wind energy ordi nance more restrictive. Last month, the Chowan County Board of Commis sioners was presented a petition with more than 600 signatures requesting that the commissioners approve recommendations from the planning board that would make the county’s wind or dinance significantly more restrictive. But County Attorney Lau ren Womble told the com missioners at their meeting Monday night that the rec ommendations submitted by the Planning Board on April 6 were not in the form of a text amendment to the ordinance. For that reason, she said, the commissioners would not be able to sched ule a public hearing on those recommendations. The recommendations would have to be drafted as a text amendment before a public hearing could be scheduled, she said. Apex Clean Energy has proposed the Timber mill Wind Energy Project along the Chowan-Perqui mans county line, which Is planned as a 300-megawatt wind energy generation fa cility. Don Giecek of Apex Clean Energy told the coun ty commissioners Monday that the Timbermill project is similar in many respects to the Iberdrola facility that recently broke ground along the Perquimans-Pasquotank line, Glecek noted that both projects arc in two different counties, arc similar in size and involve vast areas of forest and agricultural land. Giecek also rioted Gov, Pat MeGrory’s en thusiastic hacking of the Iberdrola project at the See WIND RfGS, 4A Town Hall nearly ready for SMA offices BY REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer By mid-September town officials expect the offices above Town Hall will be ready for occupancy by Standard Medical Acceptance Corpo ration. SMA, a privately held, New York-based company, specializes in valuation and collateralization of healthcare receivables for America's leading banks. The opening is expected to result in the creation of 26 jobs with an annual pay roll of $1 million, according to company officials. SMA has said it will be locating its new operations center in Edenton and plans to eventually relocate its main data processing facilities in eastern North Carolina AR. Chesson Construc tion, headquartered in Williamston, is handling renovations to the second floor space. According to project manager Adam Hughes, work on the building is progressing on schedule. He said the challenges the See TOWN HALL, 3A st/vfi photo m m 0011 ponoi k Paul Gregory hangs drywall on the second floor at Edenton’s Town Hall, which is expected to be occupied by Standard Medical Acceptance In a little more than a month. Fanners Market group launches Wednesday market STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH JoAnne Eddy checks out a watermelon as she waits in line to purchase it at the Wednesday Farmers Market that opened at the former Etna Station on North Broad Street for the first time on July 22. The opening drew a crowd to purchase produce, freshly cut flowers and other items. BY REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer a I The first ever Wednesday | Fanners Market drew more | than 200 visitors on July 29, I delighting market officials. I The market took place at *J the site of the former Etna i Station on Noith Broad ! Street, | “We felt very welcomed I to downtow'n Edenton from J! town officials to immediate | neighbors,” said Janet Mack enzie, market manager. “Ev eryone was very positive and they are looking forwatxl to seeing us each Wednesday." Mackenzie and (alyb Hare, president of the mar ket’s board of directors, said they were especially pleased to see some folks at the mar ket who had not previously boon there. “We saw a lot of new faces, people that had previously told us they were not able to attend Saturday's market ilue to their schedules." Hart' said. “We had lots of |>eoplo come by who wen’ on foot, on bikes, or w ith strollers.". Hare noted that Iheiv were also lots of motorists who stopp<Hl to look and purchase items and that the parking at the site was “more than adequate" for their put poses which will be helpful to market officials in plan ning for the future. Mackenzie said that ven dors who were on-site last Wednesday felt good altout t ho tun tout. “Our vendors wotv voi> ploasisl with tho truffle simv wowoivnot sun-what tno\ |HH'tsho said "Wo tin how uvor oxjxst this muiuontuin to oonlinuo right through (ho tall “ Among those shopping at tho markot that day was Joanne Kddy Kddy said she shops at the market on a lair ly tegular Isvsis on Saturdays and was glpd to s»s' it o|H'ii on Wolnesdays now tisv "I just think K's a gmtl itk'a.” stu' situ! Kddy said sh(' usually shops at t ho mat hot lot its bnwvn eggs that aio (join Ins' range ehiehotvs and (In' See MARKF1, U School officials meet with charter school parents BY REBECCA BUNCH AND REGGIE PONDER Staff Writers A handful of parents whose chil dren are scheduled to attend the cliarter school in Elizabeth City this fall took Superintendent Rob Jack son up on liis offer to meet with hint before tliat liappens. Jackson said the purpose of the meeting they were invited to on Monday night was to help par ents make an informed choice. He said the headmaster of the charter school, known as tire Northeast Academy of Aerospace and Ad vanced Technologies, had told hint ©2009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved that 22 students from the Edenton Chowan school system are plan ning to attend the charter school tliis fall. A teacher, a former teacher and her husband were among those who came to sit in a circle with Jackson and other administrators from the Edenton-Chowan Schools in the media center at John A. Hol mes High to listen, share informa tion and discuss concerns related to their decision. Deborah West, who grew up in Edenton and taught in the local sc hool system for many years, said that she left to take a job in tire Gates County school system and enrolled her son in school there. Doing so, she sard, “broke my heart.” West said prior to her decision several years ago to make a change, her son was being subjected ter See CHARTER, 4A COA announces new dean for Edenton-Chowan Campus BY REGGIE PONDER Editor College of The Albemarle's 2012 Teacher of the Year hits been tapped to beta! the college’s Edenton-Chowan Campus. The college announced Thursday that Charles lYirser has been named campus dean of the Edenton-Chowan Cam pus effective Aug. T A resident of Perquimans County, Purser has worked at COA mom tlum 14 years and most recently was an associate professor of architectural tech nology and chaired the college’s Department of Design, Manu facturing, and Industrial Tech nology. Ills siilary in the new position will be $77,0f>2 a year. Purser Ls a licensed general contractor and has t>een a vol unteor with Chowan/ Perquimans IIal>ilat for Hiunanity. Sally Francis Ke hayes, a Chowan tvsi dent who serves on the college's Board of Trust ees, siiid she had not yet had the opportunity to meet IHirser but that af PURSER lor looking over his tvsuioo was “wry interested and excited" to know ho would bo loading the Edenton-f 'howan ('ampus. Sho said t hat bases! on his ox lonsivo leadership experience at C'OA, his background as a am nninity oollogo graduate and his recognition as Teacher of tho Yoar, sho boliews ho will bring great strengths to workforce development, tho early college wnture with tho lugh school and otltor aspects oflho community "I n»s( think tlwtt I*' is JfiXUg U> Iv ;» jJN'Al rt\ktl thM\,” Kolwvws v«xl Kih'iuon Chowan Soh»*4s Siqtf'riiMoiHfcHM Rob .1^, h>HM\ S»hl l*' look* Inman) 10 w\Mk h\j? okvw'ly WMh i\«N<a as, (lw> sx'ivs'^ SWorn and <\ Y\ continue to jjtxxxx dxat ov^xa-atnv\wh«vs, “1 ant Kxokttvy Rnwanl to workup with \h 1\«n»h as xw continue txx hmki tq>txn the stnxtxjj relathxnshiit between (''olktflp of tlto AlMnatfo at>d Falentxxn <1>owan SetasxK,'* Jackson said. A An sntxh'tun havx' o^vrk'tixvxi j?txxai st^vy^ taking ooHoj?e cnttww at v\U vx+nk' still enrolled in See PUftSlR, 4A *
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