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SHEPHERD PRUDEN LIBRARY
106 W WATER ST
EDENTON NC 27932-1854
482-4418
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Hearing on TimbermiU permit set for Ang. 22-23
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
The Chowan County Board of
Commissioners will hold a hear
ing on the application for a condi
tional use permit for the proposed
Timbermill Wind Project Aug. 22
and 23 at the Northern Chowan
Community Center.
The hearing is slated to begin at
6 p.m. each of the two days.
Charlottesville, Va.-based Apex
Clean Energy Inc. has proposed
the 300-megawatt wind energy fa
cility in Chowan and Perquimans
counties.
The county held an informa
tional meeting for the public Aug.
2 at its office building on Freema
son Street At that meeting County
Attorney Lauren Arizaga-Womble
explained the process that will be
followed at the board’s quasi-judi
cial hearing on the permit applica
tion.
The hearing will generally fol
low the rules of evidence, Arteaga
Womble told the audience at the
meeting.
Arizaga-Womble said that so
far the county had not been con
tacted by any attorney represent
ing opponents of the application.
Any attorney representing oppo
nents of the application should
contact the county as soon as
possible to aid county officials in
planning the logistics of the hear
ing, she said.
HDR, the company that Chowan
County has hired to assist county
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staff in reviewing the Apex appli
cation, will have staff present at
the hearing, according to Arizaga
Womble.
As the hearing progresses the
board will be able to examine wit
nesses and attorneys for the ap
plicant orfor an opponent of the
application will be able to cross
examine witnesses, she said.
There will be an opportunity for
the presentation of rebuttal testi
mony, she said.
In order to participate in the
hearing you must be found by the
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k STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH
Steve and Betty Tyler and their son Kelsea enjoy the view from the historic 1&86 Roanoke River Lighthouse on the downtown
Edenton waterfront Sunday afternoon during the National Lighthouse Day celebration. The Tylers were visiting from Dunbar, SC
near Charleston.
Many tour historic Roanoke Lighthouse
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Logan Gilbert got to cel
ebrate his fifth birthday
in an unusual place on
Sunday - in Edenton’s Colonial
Park in the midst of large num
bers of families coming to the
historic 1886 Roanoke River
Lighthouse to celebrate Nation
al Lighthouse Day.
At the end of the day, officials
said, 147 adults and 32 children
had toured the lighthouse.
While Logan was more inter
ested in ei\joying his party, his
dad Eric took a few minutes to
talk about his family’s love of
lighthouses.
“We've climbed the light
house at Chincoteague,” he
said, adding that his family was
excited to have the chance to
learn more about Edenton’s
lighthouse.
James and Abigail Stanbeiy
and their nephew Zac Bare of
Miller’s Creek in Wilkes County
said they had been on vacation
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Environmental group partnering with NOAA
BEBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Volunteers from the Chowan
Edenton Environmental Group
have begun a unique partner
ship with the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administra
tioa
The effort, designed to pro
vide the agency’s Charleston,
S.C., office with valuable in
formation about the presence
of blue green algae in Chowan
County waters. To provide the
information, CEEG members
have received special training
to identify five of the more com
mon species of blue green algae
in these waters that will allow
them to continue year-round
sampling of the water that they
begun doing last Wednesday.
Colleen Karl is one of those
leading the effort
“Every week we will be tak
ing samples and using a special
digital microscope to view the
images which we will be able to
transmit as photographs along
with a report concerning the
samples we took,” she said.
The microscope was pur
chased by the CEEG using grant
funds from the North Carolina
Community Foundation. Each
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PHOTO COURTESY
OF CEEG
This digital
picture taken
with the CEEG
microscope
shows
Anabaena
sp. (Genus
and species)
observed from
a water sample
taken at the
Edenton town
dock on the
morning of
Aug. 3. The
magnification
is 400x.
Lost Colony
Center seeks
OK to dig
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
A nonprofit that investigates the history of
the Lost Colony has requested permission to
conduct archaeological research on county
owned land at Bennett’s Millpond.
“This is the most exciting unsolved mys
tery in North America,” Fred Willard of the
Lost Colony Center for Science and Research
Inc. told the Chowan County Board of Com
missioners at the board’s Aug. 1 meeting.
Willard appeared before the board to ask
permission to begin negotiations with the
county attorney on the details of a contract
between the county and the Center.
At the urging of Commissioner Keith Nix
on, the board tabled the matter. Nixon said
he would like to look closely at how much
the county has spent so far this year on legal
expenses before agreeing to authorize addi
tional county attorney time to work on this
project
Willard explained that research on the
Eleanor Dare Stone, which he has come to
believe is authentic, has determined that the
message on the stone .indicates the remains
of Eleanor Dare’s husband, Ananias, and
daughter, Virginia, were buried at what is
now a county-owned site at Bennett’s Mill
pond
Willard said he works closely with Phil
McMullan, who has written a book about the
Lost Colony, and with other volunteers.
The message of the Dare Stone is that
Ananias Dare and Virginia Dare were buried
four miles east of the mouth of Rocky Hock
Creek, which falls on county-owned prop
erty at the millpond, Willard said.
Willard emphasized that the research
is very longterm and it is likely to be years
before anything substantial comes of an ar
chaelogical dig at the site.
Archaeology is very slow and very hit or
miss, Willard said This dig is a very longterm
project, he said
Under Willard’s proposal the county
would own any artifacts found but the Cen
ter would require the artifacts to be curated
in a way that would make them accessible
to researchers.
The Lost Colony Center for Science and
Research would have rights to movies and
other productions based on the research,
Willard said.
Willard asked for permission to begin ne
gotiations with the county attorney on the
details of a contract between the county and
the Center.
Commissioner Alex Kehayes asked how
the archaelogical dig would affect access to
the millpond for fishing and picnics.
Willard said there would be no effect at all
on those recreational activities at the mill
pond
State senator enjoys up-close glimpse of history
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Sea Erica Smith-Ingram
was excited to be among
the cheering throng when
Hillary Clinton accepted the
Democratic Party’s nomina
tion for president week be
fore last in Philadelphia.
Smith-Ingram, the
Northampton County
Democrat who represents
Chowan and seven other
northeastern North Carolina
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counties in the N.C. Senate,
was a delegate to the Demo
cratic National Convention
and participated in the his
tory that was made there.
“It was awesome to be
there and see history being
made,” Smith-Ingram said
last week of her role as a
delegate at the convention,
which marked the first time
a major party in the United
States had selected a wom
an as its presidential nomi
nee.
Smith-Ingram was in
Edenton Aug. 2 to visit the
Summer Reading Program
for children at the Shepard
Pruden Memorial library.
She said she also found
it exciting to be present
as people from acros? the
country became aquainted
with the Rev. William Bar
ber – already famil
iar to North Carolinians
because of his leadership of
the state’s NAACP and the
Moral Mondays movement
“He preached to the na
tion,” Smith-Ingram said,
grinning.
Because Smith-Ingram
faces no Republican oppo
sition on the ballot in No
vember she does not have
to campaign in order to re
main in the General Assem
bly. But she will do plenty of
campaigning between now
and the General Election
on behalf of Clinton and the
Democratic Party’s candi
dates for other seats in the
General Assembly.
Smith-Ingram said she
believes Clinton’s historic
campaign for president will
energize voters and work to
the advantage of Democrat
ic candidates in the state.
She said she expects the
Democrats to pick up seats
this year in both the N.C.
Senate and the N.C. House
of Representatives.
“This presidential cam
paign will help us up and
down the ballot,” she said.
Because North Caro
lina is regarded as a criti
cal background state in this
year’s presidential election,
Smith-Ingram said she ex
pects Clintion and vice pres
idential nominee Tim Kaine
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STAFF PHOTO BY
REGGIE PONDER
Sen. Erica
Smith
Ingram, D
Northampton,
visits the
Summer
Reading
Program at
the Shepard
Pruden
Memorial
Library.
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