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Board hears call for school funding, no tax hike
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Parents and school officials
urged the county commissioners
Monday to increase funding for
the local schools while other citi
zens encouraged the commission
ers to hold the line on the property
tax rate.
The commissioners must adopt
a balanced budget by June 30. The
board currently is holding budget
work sessions to come up with
a final version of the 2016-1017
county budget.
A public hearing on County
Manager Kevin Howard’s recom
mended budget was held during
the commissioners’ regular meet
ing Monday night. The recom
mended budget, which already has
been altered by the commissioners
in work sessions, called for a four
cent increase in the *property tax
rate to 76.5 cents and increased
current expense funding for the
public schools by $50,000.
Edenton-Chowan Schools Su
perintendent Rob Jackson pushed
for increased funding during his
remarks at the hearing.
During the extraordinarily lean
times of 2009, the school board
reduced local salaries and supple
ments for teachers and staff by 2
percent Since then, 1 percent of
that has been restored. The school
board is hoping in the coming fis
cal year to restore the remaining
1 percent.
Jackson told the commission
ers Monday that restoring that 1
percent to teacher and staff sala
ries - slated to cost $177,918 - is
the school board’s highest priority
in the 2016-2017 budget.
See BUDGET, 6A
Righteous Brothers Too
STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH
Russell Bootwright, lead vocalist for The Righteous Brothers Too, performs the Jerry Lee Upwis classic, "Great Balls of Fire,” during Saturday's
annual Music and Water Festival.
Escapee
returns
to
custody
From staff reports
The man who escaped
from the custody of a Chow
an County Jail transport of
ficer last week is facing ad^
ditional charges as a result
of the incident.
David Alan Stallings, 48,
has been charged with es
cape irom
jail, break
ing and
entering,
and larceny
after break
ing and
entering,
according
to Chowan STALLINGS
County Sheriff Dwayne
Goodwin. Stallings is being
held in the Chowan County
Jail under $200,000 secured
bond, according to Good
win.
Stallings has a court ap
pearance scheduled for July
12. Goodwin said Stallings
ran away in handcuffs while
being taken from the trans
port vehicle to the county
jail around 3 p.m. on June 1.
See ESCAPEE, 6A
Bond to recieve France’s most prestigious award
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
A retired Edenton postmaster is being
honored at a ceremony next week with the
National Order of the Legion of Honor, the
highest honor bestowed by the French.
James Bond Ls one of 12 World War II
veterans receiving the honor at a ceremony
tliat will be held at the Levine Museum of the
New South in Charlotte on June 15 at 2 p.m.
Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonapar
te, the award recognizes those who
have offered outstanding service to
the French Republic. According to a
news release, recipients of the honor j
are designated by the President of
the Republic, Francois Hollande.
Besides Bond, North Carolinians
receiving tire award include Rich
Anthony J. Buccieri of Apex, Murray
Lorber, also of Raleigh, James R. In
man from Elizabethtown, Charles J.
Jones of Jamestown, and Julius N.
Watlington of Yanceyville, as well as
Vincent Corsini of Burlington, S.C.
Bond and the other recipients be
ing honored at the ceremony are re
;ini r. Woodson oi Kaieign, Lewis h. BOND ceivmg the recognition as a gesture
HeiTon of Asheville, John W. New- of thanks for protecting and defend
nian of Mooresville, Jerome M. Schwartz of ing France and the French people with their
('harlotte, Men in E. Hogg from Wilmington, very lives during the war.
“It is a tremendous honor for me to thank,
on behalf of my country, the American vet
erans who participated in the liberation of
France more than 70 years ago,” said Consul
Genera] Denis Barbet when the announce
ment was made. “We wish to give these men
their due honor and to assure them that
the French people have not forgotten their
heroic service. We are forever grateful to
them.”
See BOND, 6A
Bethel Fishing Center is more than just a bait shop
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Editor’s note: Much more fishing
coverage mil be included in the
Summer 2016 edition of Albemarle
Magazine, which will be inserted in
next week's Chowan Herald.
Bethel Fishing Center
is a bait and tackle
shop located at the
edge of a residential subdi
vision of the same name in
Perquimans County.
Titat’s true enough.
It’s situated right on the
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Yeoplm River next to a boat
ramp in the Bethel commu
nity.
That’s true, too. And it
also might be helpful to note
Bethel Fishing Center sells
snack and other assorted
items in addition to fishing
supplies.
But you still don't know
Bethel Fishing Center until
you meet the owner and op
erator.
Mildred Henry and her
late husband, Patrick,
bought the shop 22 years
ago, she recalled in an in
terview recently, seated at
a table near the counter that
has an awesome view of the
river. Her husband died six
years ago and she has con
tinued running the business
since then.
See FISHING, 4A
STAFF PHOTO BY REGGIE PONDER
Mildred Henry is right at home behind
the counter at Bethel Fishing Center.
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