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the Peanut Festival and more, visit dailyadvance.com.
COMMUNITY
Mayberry coming to Rocky Hock Baptist Church, Oct.
4-6 - A5
SPORTS
Both the John A. Holmes girls tennis and boys soccer
teams split recent matches - Bl
CHURCH
Bohls complete medical missionary trip to Africa -
B3
Regulator Marine expands, now has 213 employees
Boatmaker hosts open house
for $7M expansion project
BY NICOLE BOWMAN-LAYTON
Editor
More than a decade after the
plans were first drawn up, Regu
lator Marine is celebrating com
pletion of its $7 million expan
sion project.
The boat maker recently held
an open house to showcase its
plant improvements, which in
clude two new structures and
renovations to its current facility
on its 25-acre site on Peanut
Drive in Edenton. About 200
people attended the event.
Addressing attendees in the
company’s new two-story as
sembly building, Regulator Pres
ident Joan Maxwell said some
odds and ends are still being
completed, but otherwise, the
plant is operational.
Regulator originally had plans
to start construction of the im
provements in 2008, said
Maxwell, the company’s co
-founder. In fact, the company al
ready had the plans drawn up.
“We were ready to start con
struction in 2008, and then along
came this thing called a reces
sion,” she said. “So at that point,
our focus was not on building,
but on survival. Thanks be to
God, Regulator not only just sur
vived, the Lord sent more than
enough orders.”
By 2016, the company began
to feel confident enough to again
See REGULATOR, A6
NICOLE BOWMAN-
LA YTON/CHOWAN
HERALD
Regulator
Marine Co
founder and
President Joan
Maxwell talks
during the
open house as
employees
work on boats
behind her
Sept. 18.
Sound Baptism
Public favors
keeping high
school in town
PHOTO COURTESY SHANNON SHOLAR RAY
Edenton Baptist Church Pastor David Brooks baptizes Savannah Byrum on Sunday in the Albemarle Sound.
While the waters and the experience revitalize the soul, an added bonus was the Sound's water temperature
was quite divine. Nine were baptized: Savannah Byrum, Vincent Byrum, Alex Smith, Grayson Smith, Jimbo
Parrish, Emma Parrish, Bailey Rinehart, Reagan Privott and Carson Ray.
Edenton celebrates
the US Constitution
Tea Party NSDAR hosts
annual ceremony
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff writer
Constitution Day offered
a patriotic feeling of well-
being Saturday at the 1767
Chowan County Court
house.
Sponsored by the Eden
ton Tea Party Chapter of
the National Society of
Daughters of the American
Revolution, the annual
event started with the post
ing of the Colors by JROTC
cadets from John A.
Holmes High School —
their uniforms smartly
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Cape Colony
Church of
Christ Pastor
Thomas Biggs
was honored
Sunday for his
60 years of
service to God
and commu
nity.
pressed, Colonial attire at
attention alongside mod
em fare.
Anne Rowe, regent for
the Edenton Tea Party
chapter of NSDAR, wel
comed a crowd of between
50-60 people gathered to
celebrate the nation’s
founding.
Martha Smith led the
Pledge of Allegiance and
Deacon Frank Jones, a
Navy veteran, led the open
ing prayer, an homage to a
prayer offered at the Con
stitutional Convention
those many years ago.
Alex Cohoon played the
See CONSTITUTION, A3
PHOTO COURTESY SANDRA LANCASTER SPERRY
Terrence Boyle, Chief United States District Judge of
the United States District Court for the Eastern District
of North Carolina, gave the keynote speech during the
Constitution Day program Saturday at the 1767
Chowan County Courthouse. The event is organized by
the Edenton Tea Party Chapter of the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Pastor celebrates
60 years of ministry
Thomas Biggs serves Cape
Colony Church of Christ
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff writer
Pastor Thomas Biggs
celebrated 60 years of ser
vice to God on Sunday at
the pulpit where he has
spent nearly half of his life.
Think about that for a
moment — six decades —
that means Biggs, 89, has
been preaching the Word
since Dwight Eisenhower
was president. He has
served at Cape Colony
Church of Christ for 43
years — since the Presi
dent Jimmy Carter admin
istration. That’s a lot fish
See PASTOR, A3
County commission, board
of education held forums
BY NICOLE BOWMAN-
LAYTON
Editor
Members of the public
spoke in favor of keeping
a Chowan County high
school in Edenton on
Tuesday during a forum
in John A. Holmes High
School auditorium. Feel
ings were mixed as to
whether to start from
scratch — building an en
tirely new school — or
using the “bones” of the
current school build in
the 1950s.
A total of 31 people —
mostly retired educators,
business owners and
Holmes’ alumni — spoke
before a joint meeting of
the Chowan County
Commissioners and
Edenton-Chowan School
Board of Education and a
crowd of 300 people at
the John A. Holmes High
Regional Fair to
be held Oct. 1-5
STAFF REPORT
The 73rd Chowan
Comity Regional Fair is
coming to the American
Legion Post 40 grounds
Oct. 1-5.
Tickets are $8 for those
36 inches tall or higher. A
daily wristband for rides
are $20 at the Midway
Ticket Box. The midway
closes at 11 p.m. each
night except Saturday,
when it closes at mid
night.
The fair kicks off Tues
day, Oct. 1, with car load
night pricing. For a total
of $60, all passengers in a
car (six people maxi
mum) who are buckled
into individual seat belts
will receive gate admis
sion and unlimited rides.
You will be given a ticket
with the number of buck-
led passengers in your
INSIDE
For more, including
speeches from Thursday's
forum, see Page A4.
School auditorium.
The group has been
meeting for several
months to discuss the
feasibility of building a
new high school or reno
vating the current one,
John A. Holmes High
School. This is the first
public meeting the com
mittee has held regarding
the school.
Another public forum
on the location of a new
high school will be held
at 6 p.m. Thursday,
September 19, at the
Northern Chowan Recre
ation Center Gym on Vir
ginia Road.
Commission chair
See SCHOOL, A2
car as you drive up to
turn into the ticket booth
to purchase a “Car Load”
ticket. Any passengers
over the 6 count limit will
have to pay regular gate
admission price.
Fun with Produce,
sponsored by the Junior
Fair Board, will feature
the opportunity to see
pumpkin volcanoes and
other interesting things, it
will be held from 4-9 p.m.
Tuesday.
Laura Davis will per-
form at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday
on the main stage.
Wednesday will be Stu
dent night, with elemen
tary, middle and high
school students admitted
for half price.
The Hog Showmanship
Show will be at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the show
See FAIR, A2
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