BY REBECCA BUNCH Staff Writer The town council by a 4-2 vote has possibly brought an end to the hope expressed by many in the community that a brew pub could be established on the downtown waterfront. The vote came during a coun cil’s April 12 meeting on a motion made by Councilman Steve Biggs, who chairs the administrative committee. Voting against the motion were “Selling is a much better deal than being a landlord.” Roland Vaughan Mayor council members Sambo Dixon and Jimmy Stallings. Prior to the vote Mayor Roland Vaughan took a brief leave from his official responsibility of chair ing the meeting to walk to the po dium and make apleaforthe coun cil to deny the motion and allow Raleigh businessman John Glover to purchase the former Northeast Commission building so the brew pub could locate there. After offering a brief history of attempts to agree on what to do with the property, Vaughan said he felt the funds derived from the sale of the property that has an ap praised value of $282,000 could be used for an important cause such as helping the local Boys and Girls Club relocate to a larger space in town. For him, the mayor said, the de cision came down to one thing. “Selling,” he said, “is a much better deal than being a landlord.” “We don’t need to be a land lord,” Stallings agreed. Vaughan noted that Glover already had personal ties to the community through the Conger family that owned the building for generations. Glover, he said, want ed to be a part of the community through bringing a new business here and had the means to do so. Some members of the council, though, were not swayed by the support of the mayor, Dixon and Stallings for the sale. Bob Quinn said he had a num ber of questions that remained un answered relating to the proposed sale of the property. “I do not feel satisfied with the answers I have gotten,” he said in declining to support the building’s sale. See BREW PUB, 2A Boogie on Broad a SSKSSZZZZ?*' rf <- 1 nH' ifT in .. '"t" Ifci 111 - ^ U- '5iTv*r- jra&C**, ■*•-• r^' ' -jjaiioSiiiiiMifir STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH \ Dr. Chris Ford dances with his daughter during Boogie on Broad Friday night. The event was held to complement the Easels in the Gardens fundraiser being held over the weekend by the Cupola House Association. See more Boogie on Broad photos on 3A. Davis rallies Democrats, stands against HB2 From staff reports Speaking Sat urday morn ing at the County Meeting of Chowan Democrats in Edenton, Sam Davis ex horted Democrats to stand against “the narrow-mind ed and regressive legisla tion being forwarded by Republic-airs in our General Assembly”, and to vote out Bob Steinburg, the current incumbent. Davis said Steinburg, R-Chowan, Ls part of the problem. “We need someone who represents us, not someone who votes lockstep with the Republican Party, no mat ter what the consequences are,” said Davis, a Pasquo tank County Democrat who is challenging Steinburg for 6 0 ©2009 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved the 1st District seat in the N.C. House of Representa tives. In particular, Davis re ferred to Steinburg’s sup port of HB2 as having “nothing to do with public safety, and everytiiing to do with enacting legislation that further discriminates against minority popula tions, forbids the filing of civil suits against employ ment discrimination in local and state courts, and pro hibits local municipalities from setting hourly wage rates liigher than the state established minim urns.” Davis talked about the strength of his local roots in Tyner, and the working ethic which has been a part of his growing up in north eastern North Carolina. “I particularly remember my mother, upon reading of so cietal unkindness and cul tural changes she deemed negative, would say ‘What’s this world coming to?’ In the reality of unparalleled SUBMITTED PHOTO Sam Davis speaks to Chowan Democrats, Saturday. At the County Meeting of Chowan Democrats In Edenton, Davis told Democrats to vote out Bob Stelnburg, current incumbent, claiming he Is part of the problem. negative actions by our General Assembly, today I say the same - what’s this world coming to?” "Hie 43 convention at tendees responded enthu siastically to Davis’ urging to support him and get out the vote on Nov. 8 “to elect Democrats across the re gion and bring the General Assembly back into bal ance and reject the dis See DAVIS, 2A Autopsy: Wood died of overdose From staff reports The previously unex plained death of a Chow an County teen last fall has been ruled a drug overdose in a report re leased Monday by the . State Medical Examiner’s Office. Jesse Alexander Wood, 18, who was last known alive around 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 30 and found dead on Oct. 1, was found to have toxic levels of co caine and methadone, 1 according to the autopsy performed by Dr. Karen L. Kelly. “Given the investiga tive, autopsy and toxico logical findings, it is my opinion that Mr. Jesse Wood’s cause of death was due to the combined j toxic effects of cocaine and methadone,” Kelly wrote in the report. The report also indi cates Wood had a history of abusing prescription medications and cocaine. It states that methadone and klonopin were found in his room. Officials seek aid from COA BY REGGIE PONDER Editor Chowan County offi cials are asking the Col lege of The Albemarle to use some of the money it is receiving from the recently passed NC Con nect Bond to shore up the two-story former D.F. Walker School Building on COAs Edenton-Chow an Campus. Chowan Commissioner Keith Nixon said at the commissioners’ meeting Monday night that he un derstood COA officials already have some nuyor projects in mind for the money - including the li brary on the Elizabeth City Campus - but that he also underst ood the college was planning to do some work on all of its campuses. 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