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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Nixon asked Commis
sioner Ellis Lawrence to
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