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P8/C8******CAR-RT LOT**C 002 A0038 II I •IIII'IIIHII'I' I I'III■III I I.,I„,II SHEPHERD PRUDEN LIBRARY 106 W WATER ST EDENTON NC 27932-1854 JRALD 482-4418 Wednesday, July 25, 2018 75* Land use plan to be revised before vote BY MILES LAYTON Editor During ajoint session Mon day, Edenton Town Council and the Chowan County Commissioners agreed to table a proposed updated 2018 Coastal Area Manage ment Act Land Use Plan un til consultants can complete the final revisions. The draft plan was pre pared by the Durham based consulting firm CodeWright. Town Council and com missioners asked the firm to make all the essential chang es outlined in the final draft before any final decision is made whether to adopt the plan. Mayor Roland Vaughan said he would like to see a finished document before making any decision to move forward. County Commissioner John Mitchener said it would be best “to do the thing well and not rush the calendar.” Officials at the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management in February 2016 began requiring a 30- year projected population be a part of all Land Use Plans. The community last adopted a Land Use Plan in 2008 — a year that many local policy- makers don’t exactly hold dear. Bureaucratic dictates aside, the plan is a fore cast — a snapshot — filled with government statistics and much more as to what Chowan County may be like in the future. The document serves as a tool for investors, government-types, business owners, perhaps families — all of whom are considering whether to invest longterm in Chowan County. In March when Town Council and commissioners reviewed an earlier draft, they made suggestions and asked for revisions. One of the sticking points with that draft was that it presented population projections that showed a “dramatic popula tion decline” locally between now and the year 2050. Critics of the latest plan contend that while more optimistic projections are included from the U.S. Cen sus data, it still paints a nega tive picture of the county’s growth during the next three decades. The consultants say the plan was created using state and federal statistics to determine future trends such as population growth. CodeWright’s Principal Chad Meadows said population is declining in eastern North Carolina, particularly rural areas, however, the decline should not be considered as a “throw your hands up and pack your bags” moment. No one will deny that the region’s population has changed, but the plan seems only to focus on migration away from Chowan County and does not take into con sideration net migration into the county. Mitchener noted that many people from various corners of the nation like what Edenton and Chowan County have to offer, so they SeeLAND,6A Steinburg defends sponsorship BY JON HAWLEY For the Chowan Herald A majority of Currituck County commissioners say they weren’t aware the county paid ■!«■■ afirmowned ; by Rep. Bob 1 Steinburg L^.|S« to sponsor | a basketball L tournament I k — and sev- HIH era! also op- STEINBURG posed the expense. Steinburg, who owns the WolfeStein Group, is adamant that the arrange ment is both legal and ethi cal. County Manager Dan Scanlon has said the same, and that Currituck vetted the contract as it would any other. He also had authority as manager to approve the contract without commis sioners’ approval, he ex plained. Last year, Scanlon signed a $50,000 agreement with the WolfeStein Group to buy naming rights and promo tional services for an NCAA basketball tournament. That tournament is the “Visitcur- rituckobx.com Battle in the Blue Ridge” that’s scheduled at the US Cellular Center in Asheville over Thanksgiving weekend. Had commissioners been asked for approval, how ever, it’s not clear a majority would have given it. Com missioners Paul Beaumont, Mike Hall, Kitty Etheridge and Bob White claimed in interviews this week they knew little or nothing about the sponsorship before it was approved in Decem ber 2017. Chairman Bobby Hanig and Vice Chairman Mike Payment said they were aware of and support ed the deal. Commissioner Marion Gilbert did not re turn a request for comment this week. “I was completely un aware of this,” Beaumont See STEINBURG, 2A Like us on Facebook at /THECHOWANHERALD '89076 1 '44813 1 0 ©2018 The Chowan Herald All Rights Reserved PHOTOS BY MILES LAYTON/CHOWAN HERALD Governor Roy Cooper shook hands and talked with employees as he toured Regulator Marine on Friday. Gov. Cooper ‘cares about the little towns’ BY MILES LAYTON Editor Governor Roy Cooper toured Regulator Marine and had lunch at the Downtown Soda Shoppe dur ing his visit to Edenton on Friday. In contrast to many politicians, Cooper was punctual for the 12:30 p.m. visit to Regulator Marine, even a bit early when he arrived around 12:25ish at the plant that is growing by leaps and bounds in terms of sales and reputation. Earlier, Coo per had been touting the state’s new Finish Line grants during a visit to the College of the Albemarle cam pus in Elizabeth City. Following the Governor’s stopover in Chowan County, he traveled to Windsor for meetings. After tours of duty in the Legisla ture, Cooper served four terms as the state’s Attorney General before moving to the Governor’s Mansion. No matter what your politics, no one could deny that Cooper was courteous and kind to folks as was befitting the longtime Democratic politico who grew up in rural Nash County where he worked in to bacco fields during the summer as a teenager. Among the notables who joined Cooper during his visit to Edenton were Mayor Roland Vaughan; Jen nifer Harriss, director of Destina tion Downtown Edenton; Ron Wes son, a Bertie County commissioner and candidate for the state House See COOPER, 4A Governor Cooper shakes hands with Nancy Morgan and talks with Elizabeth Huff, a retired guidance counselor for John A. Holmes High School when he stopped for lunch at Downtown Soda Shoppe. Bulldogs score new principal From Staff Reports Edenton-Chowan Schools an nounced Tuesday that Alton Campbell has been named principal of Chowan Middle School. Campbell says goodbye to the Ea gles, where he has served the past two years as principal at Northeastern High School in Elizabeth City. Their loss is the Bulldogs gain when CAMPBELL Campbell starts Aug. 23 — a few short days from when school starts bright and early Monday morning Aug. 27. Campbell replaces John Lassiter who is now principal of Hertford Grammar School in Perquimans County. See PRINCIPAL, 6A UPCOMING HOME GAMES Historic Hicks Field FMI Call 252-482-4080 www.edentonsteamers.com Family’s treasure discovered BY MILES LAYTON Editor Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series de tailing letters discovered re cently in the attic of a nearly 200-year-old home on East Church Street. A few weeks back, J. Daw son Tyler was busy work ing to restore the McNeider House when he discovered an old cigar box filled with letters in the attic. Dawson, an ardent pres ervationist, leads Edenton’s Down East Preservation Construction and Design LLC — a company that has restored many of the area’s JULY 26 @ 7PM VS PENINSULA PILOTS EDENTON OPTIMIST CLUB NIGHT THROWBACK THURSDAY BULL DURHAM PHOTO BY NICOLE BOWMAN An old cigar box found in the attic of home built in 1819 reveals a bit about a local family’s history. historic homes. Bond and John Small way The letters Tyler found were written between Nellie See TREASURE, 6A JULY 27 @ 7PM VS HOLLY SPRINGS SALAMANDERS CHRISTMAS IN JULY KIDS RUN THE BASES JULY 28 @ 7PM VS PENINSULA PILOTS LIVE PREGAME MUSIC KIDS RUN THE BASES
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