Crimewatch
EDENTON POLICE
department
ARRESTS
■ Oct 20 - Jose Radolfo
Pacheco, 18. of North Oa
kum Street was charged
with one misdemeanor
count of underage con
sumption.
■ Oct. 15 - Michael Mar
cel White, 40, of Valentine
Avenue, was charged on
one misdemeanor violation
of a protective order and
one misdemeanor count of
cyberstalking.
■ Oct. 14 - Anthony
Overton II, 29, of Park Av
enue, was arrested on one
misdemeanor count of
drunk and disruptive behav
ior, one misdemeanor count
of disorderly conduct and
one misdemeanor count of
assaulting an officer.
■ Oct. 14 - Deondre
Dra'Shaun Copeland, 20,
of West Peterson Street,
w as arrested on one mis
demeanor count of injury
to personal property, one
misdemeanor count of dis
orderly conduct and one
misdemeanor count of fail
ure to appear.
INCIDENTS
■ Oct 18 - Discharg
ing firearm into occupied
property and ii\jury to per
sonal property on Johnston
Street
■ Oct 17 - Larceny on
West Freemason Street
■ Oct 14 - Hit and run
on North Broad Street
■ Oct 14 - Larceny from
a person on North Broad
Street
■ Oct 14 - Iryury to per
sonal property at All Sea
sons Realty, disorderly con
duct and failure to appear
on North Broad Street
■ Oct 13 - Robbery, as
sault and assault with a
deadly weapon with intent
to kill or inflict serious in
jury on North Broad Street
■ Oct 7 - Assault with
a deadly weapon with in
tent to inflict serious injury
on the comer of Blast Albe
marle and North Oakum
Streets
CHOWAN COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
ARRESTS
■ Oct 18 - Jesse Wayne
Bass, 33, of Pocahontas
Trail, was placed on a 48
hour domestic hold after
being charged with one mis
demeanor count of assault
on a female.
■ Oct. 18 - Michanda
Brendayn Felton, 25, of
Greenhall Road, was ar
rested on one misdemeanor
count of failure to appear.
■ Oct 18 - Megan Renee
Lapage, 35, of Norfolk, Va,
was placed on a 48-hour
domestic hold after being
charged with two misde
meanor counts of simple
assault.
■ Oct 5 - James Doug
las Elliott HI, 31, of Mexico
Road, was arrested on one
misdemeanor count of in
jury to personal property.
INCIDENTS
■ Oct 24 - Larceny on
Oneida Trail.
■ Oct 21 - Possession
of illegal substance at Pete
Thompson Juvenile Home,
110 Sub Station Road.
■ Oct 20 - Hit and run
at Jim’s Deli on Rocky Hock
Road.
■ Oct. 17 - Burglary
(forcible entry) and larceny
from building on Surfside
Drive.
■ Oct 10-Criminal dam
age to properly (vandalism)
on Elm Grove Road.
Perquimans board hears final testimony on Apex CUP
BY PETER WILLIAMS
The Perquimans Weekly
Nearly 50 hours of testi
mony spanning three months
wrapped up Sariirday morning
with an hour-long session be
fore the Perquimans County
Commission.
The debate is over the
future of what could be the
tallest wind power project in
the country. The Perquimans
County Commission set aside
30 minutes for each side to
make closing arguments Sat
urday. The actual deliberations
will take place in November,
after the election but before
new members of the board
take office. That hearing is set
to start Nov 14 at 4 p.m.
Apex Gean Energy, a Char
lottesville, Ya-based firm,
wants to build 105 wind mr
bines up to 600-feet tall over a
15.000-acre site that spans the
Bear Swamp area of Perqui
mans and Chowan counties.
“It's too big," said attorney
Chad Essick, then he asked
“why should Perquimans
County be the testing ground
for the tallest turbines m
.America’ Essick and Keith
Johnson of the Raleigh law
firm Poyner Spnull were hired
by local residents who op
pose the project. “These are
the folks that are paying the
price."
Even before the dosing
arguments started, the com
mission went into close ses
sion to consult their attorney.
The .Apex hearings have been
conducted in a manner more
consistent with a court trial
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Perquimans County Commissioners listen to closing arguments Saturday morning on the Apex Clean Energy Timbermill Wind project at the
Perquimans County Courthouse Annex. The final deliberations will take place Nov. 14 at 4 p.m.
with witnesses that had to be
sworn in and cross-examined.
A court recorder has been
m attendance to take legal
transcripts of what was said at
the three hearings in August,
two in September and two
more earlier last week. The
Issue is the commissioners
need copies of all of the tran
scripts in hand before final
deliberations in case there is a
disagreement about what was
said. As of last Monday, only
the first three transcripts were
available.
When the final arguments
wrapped up, Janice Cole,
the chair of the commission,
thanked both sides for their
part in the process.
“You have worked hard
for your clients,” Cole said.
“It’s a hard decision and the
board will have to deal with
it.”
Industrial-scale wind proj
ects are allowed under the
county’s land use ordinance
as a “conditional use.” That
means there is an extra level
of review. The commission
will have to determine that
the project does not (A) en
danger public health, (B)
meets thb conditions of the
ordinance, (C) does not in
jure property values and (D)
is in harmony with the area
Henry Campen, the lead
attorney for Apex, contends
the Apex application proved
its point on all four issues.
One of the goals in the
county’s land use plan is to
preserve farmland Campen
claimed Timbermill does just
that Each turbine requires
about a half-acre of land for a
base. That means just about
50 acres of the 15,000 acre
site will be disturbed and the
rest can be used to grow tim
ber or crops and hunting on
the site will still be allowed
Campen went point-by
point on each of the four
criteria and claimed Apex
has shown that they met
the standards. He also ques
tioned some of the witnesses
presented by the opponents.
One of them, Mike McCann
talked about property values.
Campen claimed McCann had
never visited North Carolina
before getting involved in the
opposition’s case this summer
and has only been licensed to
appraise property in the state
for four months.
Johnson, speaking for the
opposition raised the issue of
average noise vs. maximum
noise, especially when the
noise is at night when people
are trying to sleep.
Johnson said the World
Health Organization (WHO)
has a 40-decibel standard for
evening hours. He said more
than 300 people would be sub
ject to levels higher than that if
the Apex project is allowed to
move forward.
“This is the first big red flag
that the project is too big,”
Johnson said.
The county’s ordinance
sets a maximum noise level
at 55 decibels, but doesn’t
break down to day or morning
hours.
“There is a place for this
project, but from a noise level
it’s not here,” Johnson said.
“There is too much at risk.
They (Apex) need to be sent
back ... on the noise side"
Essick said Apex has not
presented proof that property
values won’t be hurt.
“That’s not our burden to
show it, that’s their burden,”
Essick said.
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CEEG seeks volunteer weather spotters
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Chowan and Perqui
mans County residents
with an interest in sign
ing up to become volun
teer rainfall spotters are
encouraged to register
for training that will take
place next month.
The training is sched
uled for Saturday, Nov. 19,
from 10-10:45 a.m. and will
take place at the Shepard
Pruden Memorial Library
in downtown Edenton.
To reserve a spot in
the training class email
the sponsoring organiza
tion, the Chowan Eden
ton Environmental Group
(CEEG) at ceeg2007@
gmail.com for a confirma
tion notice. The training
program and a related
equipment loan are open
only to residents of the
two counties.
CEEG spokeswoman
Colleen Karl of Edenton
said the organization a
handful of dedicated na
tional CoCoRaHS (Com
munity Collaborative
Rain, Hail and Snow net
work) volunteer weather
spotters but is seeking
some additional ones par
ticularly in areas of the
county where there is lit
tle coverage at present.
“As we all know, it can
be raining in town and not
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is important for national
weather forecasters as
they use small differ
ences in rainfall amounts
to refine their short- and
long-term weather predic
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“The importance of ac
curacy in rainfall forecasts
is significant especially
as it relates to the recent
flooding experienced dur
ing Hurricane Matthew,”
Karl added.
Karl said that the CEEG
has invited the NC State
Climate Office to conduct
CoCoRaHS training in
Edenton for as many as
10 new volunteers.
“We will provide a year
ly loan of a CoCoRaHS
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