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GREATEST EDITION
ponders
rental
rules
Town, county plan defines
short-term rentals, seeks taxes
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff Writer
Edenton Town Council
had a heady agenda for
Monday’s work session
that was filled with pro
posals and projects that
Chowan County will be
hearing about for the rest
of the year.
Let’s start with a pro
posal to regulate rental
housing and follow up
with the renewed zeal by
Chowan County to collect
occupancy taxes.
Council eventually will
consider an ordinance that
seeks to regulate short-
term rentals, which may
be more familiar to most
as Airbnb — those quick
stay-over places that may
be a mother-in-law suite,
a few rooms in a house,
maybe even the house it
self.
Formulated by the
UNC-Chapel Hill School
of Local Government and
See RENTAL, 3A
Board of
Elections
ready to
work
Filing for Edenton
election starts July 5
From Staff Reports
The Chowan Comity
Board of Elections has
been assembled after
Gov. Roy Cooper picked
John E. Guard to serve as
its chairman last week.
The board was sworn in
on Feb. 19 without Guard,
who was appointed Feb.
20. The board includes Dr.
Robert G. Reiheld, vice
chairman, Lynn Patin,
Jerard I. Perry and Linda
Tiller, secretary.
In other election re
lated news, filing for the
Edenton municipal elec
tion begins at noon July 5
and ends at noon July 19.
No one can file until the
filing period opens.
Election day is Nov. 5.
One stop will start at 8
a.m. Oct. 16 in the regu
lar office of the Board of
Election (BOE) and ends
at 1 p.m. Nov. 2.
Four offices are up for
election: council-at-large
seat, the 1st ward seat,
See ELECTIONS, 2A
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‘Edenton’s newsman,’ community servant dies
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff Writer
Edward Nelson “Pete”
Manning, 89, a former, long-
time publisher of the Chow
an Herald, died at his home
in Edenton on Feb. 21.
For more than 50 years,
Manning was Edenton’s
newspaperman, doing ev
erything from delivering pa
pers, working as a linotype
operator, serving as general
manager and publisher. He
Manning lived
life of service
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff Writer
Former Editor’s note:
One of Chowan County’s
great ones has passed away
— Pete Manning — for
mer publisher/editor of the
Chowan Herald.
A lot of’people, many fa
miliar faces, attended Man
ning’s calling hows Sunday
at Edenton Baptist Church.
He was buried at Beaver Hill
Cemetery. „ J \ . ■
Town Manager^ Anne-Ma
rie Knighton was among
those in the l/mg line of
folks waiting in line to talk
to family members at the
church’s fellowship hall. She
was hired when Manning
was a leading member of
Town Council.
Pharmacist, businesslead
er and downtoum ice cream
counter icon Jim Blount
was in line as was local legal
eagle John Morehead, Tour
ism director Nancy Nicholls,
jewelry maker extraordi
naire Margaret Attkisson,
and many others. On each of
the tables within the church’s
fellowship hall, there were
copies of last week’s edition
of the Chowan Herald.
How does one explain who
Manning was?
Born in 1929, Manning
was a part of that genera
tion that didn’t take any
thing for granted and val
ued hard work. A self-made
man, Manning started his
long career by sweeping the
floors at the newspaper of
fice where he would become
publisher' many years later.
By all accounts, Manning
was a devout Baptist, who
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$500,000 grant to help
renovate boat-making plant
Daedalus Yachts to
create 50 news jobs
BY NICOLE BOWMAN-
LAYTON
Editor ••
The state has awarded the
town of Edenton a $500,000
grant to help a local yacht
maker renovate its 38,000-
square-foot plant and create
50 new jobs.
The North Carolina Rural
Infrastructure Authority an
nounced Feb. 21 that Eden
ton will receive the grant
through the Building Reuse
program to assist Daedalus
Composites, a yacht design,
engineering and manufac
turing company that is also
known as Daedalus Yachts,
in renovating its existing
plant at the town’s airport
park at 109 Anchors Way
was active in public
affairs at both the lo
cal and state levels.
Former Chowan
Herald publisher
Bud Amburn, who
worked closely with
Manning for many
years, said he had
lost a dear friend.
MANNING
But things didn’t immediate
ly start off well, he said.
“When I became editor/
publisher in 1964, Pete was
immediately bitter; he had
was a strong advocate for his
church — one of the finest
in Chowan County or any
where for that matter.
In person, Manning was
humble, forthright and a car
ing person who could talk to
anyone.
I had the pleasure of meet
ing Manning last year when
former county commission-
er John Mitchener made the
invite and accompanied me
to Manning’s home cm West
Eden Street — one of those
lovely homes with a historic
sign that has a date on it.
Mitchener was an essen
tial part of the equation, be
cause Tm shy and he likes to
talk, so I was hoping that he
and Manning would share
stories; that they did.
To pay tribute to Man
ning, we’re reprinting that
story from May 2018.
For my part, Manning in
spired me, as do some of the
ghosts (Edwin Bufflap and
Rebecca Bunch) who haunt
this office on late nights, that
it’s not the size of the paper
that counts most, but that
it’s the newspaper’s commit
ment to the community it
serves. If you get that right,
business will take care of it
self and you may be success
ful if you work hard.
RIP Mr. Manning
Pete Manning’s life was
dedicated to a noble aim
— publishing the Chowan
Herald.
“You’ve got to want to do
this kind of work — it can be
hard let me tell you — but I
epjoyed the work and serving
the community,” said Man
ning who retired in 2002.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
A yacht is shown under construction at Daedalus
Yachts in Edenton. The town of Edenton was awarded
a $500,000 state grant on Feb. 21 to help Daedalus
renovate its 38,000-square-foot plant. State officials say
the grant will help Daedalus create 50 new jobs.
Drive. bon fiber composites, plans
Daedalus, which special
izes in thermoformed car- See PLANT, 3A >
been promised the
opportunity of some
day having an own
ership position,” he
said. “I assured him
that I wasn’t made
aware of such dur
ing my negotiations
to purchase The
Chowan Herald.”
Despite that initial hiccup,
Amburn said he and Man
ning “immediately bonded.”
For the next 20 years, there
was never a harsh word be ¬
PHOTO BY MILES LAYTON
Former Chowan Herald Publisher Pete Manning holds up a copy of the newspaper he
devoted 54 years of his life too.
For 54 years, Manning
worked at the paper during
its Golden Age. Books filled
with past editions of the
Chowan Herald bear this out
with the newspaper’s cov
erage of local government
news, church announce
ments, civic groups, lots of
school news, farm reports
and much, much more.
Manning spoke of the im
portance of how local news
paper, a business where
people have a stake in the
community, is vital to the
tween them, he said.
“His dedication to the
craft was evident as he
moved from Linotype oper
ator to ultimately top man,”
Amburn said. “We were al
ways co-equals, never own
er-employee.”
John Mitchener, a former
county commissioner and
former Edenton-Chowan
Board of Education mem
ber, said he recalls Manning’s
work for the paper when his
own father, who also was
community it serves. Toward
that end, Manning provided
a very solid blueprint as to
how newspaper can survive
and thrive. He insisted that if
these principles were applied
today, the newspaper would
continue to grow and thrive
into the next century.
“Treat people right,” he
said.
Apprentice to
publisher
Manning began his news
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NEW FACILITIES
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Charlie Creighton (center), CEO of Colony Tire, speaks
to the crowd gathered at the grand opening of the
new warehouse and corporate office Friday. Scott
Creighton (left), president of Colony Tire, waits for
his turn to speak. More about the new facilities will
appear In a future edition.
named John, was mayor of
Edenton in the 1960s.
“Pete’s ‘Chowan Herald’
was welcoming, fair and
accessible to anyone who
reached out to him,” Mitch
ener said.
Mitchener, whose fam
ily operated a pharmacy in
Edenton for years, said los
ing his friend “hurts.”
“Pete brought out the best
in others while retaining in-
See NEWSMAN, 5A
paper career at the Chowan
Herald when he was 16
years old by sweeping the
floor, stoking the coal fur
nace and doing janitorial
duties every afternoon after
school. He moved up to run
ning a hand fed job printing
press and then the newspa
per press.
A John A. Holmes alum
nus, Manning was promoted
to linotype operator. Put sim
ply, those were machines that
See MANNING, 5A