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Businessman Waff was dedicated to Chowan
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
The news of Paul Waffs
death traveled fast on Sun
day within Chowan County.
Near and far, people start
ed talking about what a great
man he was, beloved by all.
“I can’t believe he is gone,”
said Edenton town manager
Anne-Marie Knighton in a
tear-strained voice. “I’m go
ing to miss him. He’s done
so much for everyone, for
Chowan County, for Eden
ton.”
County Commission
Chairman Jeff Smith grew
up alongside Waff in Chow
an County.
“He was a great guy,
he would do anything to
help you out,” Smith said.
“I never heard anyone say
anything bad about him. He
was just asset to the conun
to all northeast North Caro
lina. He’s really going to be
missed.”
Waff, who still had a spry
step in his 60s, had a stroke
on Sunday morning while he
was in the Outer Banks.
“He’s done so much for everyone, for Chowan
County for Edenton."
Anne-Marie Knighton
Edenton town manager
He was taken to Sen-
tara General Hospital in
Norfolk,Va., where he was
pronounced dead around 6
p.m. Sunday.
Visitation will be 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m. Thursday at Miller
Funeral Home and Crema
tory at 735 Virginia Road,
Edenton. The Rev. Malone
Gilliam, of St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church, will officiate
the memorial service that
will start at 11 a.m. Friday
at Edenton United Method
ist Church. A reception will
immediately follow in the
church’s Family Life Center.
WAFF
There will be a private
burial Friday in the Waff
Family Cemetery.
Waff served president of
Waff Contracting of Eden
ton, which was known far
and wide as a general con
tractor for commercial and
industrial work, specializing
in pile driving and marine
construction.
As examples of its many
projects, the company used
pieces of the old “Chowan
River” bridge to build the
magnificent marina that sits
by Colonial Park. The com
pany built Wharf Landing,
See WAFF, 3A
Primary
election
closes
Tuesday
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Primary election is ahead
Tuesday, May 8.
Due to the press deadline,
results will not be published
in the May 9 edition.
However, please see the
Chowan Herald’s Facebook
page or Twitter feed to learn
the immediate results which
will be published not only in
the Daily Advance the day
after the election, but within
the Chowan Herald at a lat
er date.
Polls will open at 6:30 a.m
and close at 7:30 p.m. Tues
day.
North Carolina holds
semi-closed primary elec-
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Chowan Middle sixth-graders and their chaperones pose on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building Monday in Washington, D.C. To see more
photos from the field trip, see page 6B.
See ELECTIONS, 2A
Salary
plan needs
more study
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Representatives of the
Cary, NC-based MAPS Group
that has been conducting a
salary study for town em
ployees has been asked to go
back to the drawing board
and present salary range
comparisons between Eden
ton and other nearby munici
palities.
During their April 23 work
session town council mem
bers expressed surprise and
disappointment that the sal
ary comparisons were based
on locales not in our imme
diate area or of comparable
size to Edenton such as Tar
boro and Selma, NC in John
ston County.
Bulldogs visit the nation’s capitol
BY NICOLE BOWMAN-
LAYTON
For the Chowan Herald
WASHINGTON, D.C.
— Chowan Middle’s sixth-
graders had a long day at
school Monday.
Getting up in the wee
hours of the morning, the
youths, along with almost
80 adults, teachers and
chaperones, took a long bus
ride to the nation’s capital
to take in the sights. They
wore color-coded brace
lets that corresponded with
their buses and when they
would take a tour of the
U.S. Capitol.
The trip was made pos
sible through the help of the
community. An anonymous
donor paid for the fouf bus
es, while Vidant Chowan
Hospital donated more than
220 granola bars to ensure
everyone had breakfast.
Chaperone Meredith
lynch spent her birthday
accompanying her son,
Fletcher, on the field trip.
Joy Harvill accompanied
her daughter Molly and
helped get several sixth-
graders to the school in
time for the trip.
Some of the buses arrived
in Washington earlier than
scheduled, so their passen
gers explored the National
Mall, taking in the Lincoln
Monument and World War
II Monument, among other
famous national treasures.
From there, the buses
took them to Ford’s Theater
to watch the play, “One Des
tiny.” The play was about
what happened at the the
ater on April 14,1965, when
then-president Abraham
Lincoln was shot there.
Across the street from
PHOTO BY JOY HARVILL
Art on display within the Rotunda.
the theater was an exhibit
on Lincoln. Included was
a four-story pyramid of
books, all about our coun
try’s 16th president.
The next stop was the
area near the U.S. Capitol.
The students were split into
two groups and explored
different areas of the com ¬
plex, one visited the Library
of Congress while the other
group visited the Capitol.
See BULLDOGS, 2A
See SALARY, 4A
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Steinburg, Twiddy
vie for Senate seat
BY JON HAWLEY
For the Chowan Herald
Does North Carolina’s Senate District 1 need
experience or a new start?
That’s the question facing Republican voters
in the May 8 primary election, where three-term
state Rep. Bob Steinburg, R-Chowan, is effec
tively running for a promotion to a Senate seat
covering almost twice as many counties as he
now serves. He’s opposed for the seat by Clark
See SENATE, 8A
STEINBURG
TWIDDY
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Goodwin, Hunter
compete for House seat
BY JON HAWLEY
For the Chowan Herald
The two Republican candidates for the open seat in state
House District 1 have different backgrounds but a similar fo
cus: to tackle the many pocketbook issues facing residents of
rural communities.
Candice Hunter, of Perquimans County, and Eddy Good
win, of Chowan County, are running to serve the reconfig
ured House District 1, which includes their counties as well
See HOUSE, 9A
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