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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019
COSTUMES COME OUT FOR BOOK
CHARACTER DAY, HALLOWEEN — A2
NEWS
Council learns status of efforts to revise town-owned
property covenants - A5
SCHOOL
Chowan Middle School inducts 7th- and 8th-graders
into new Beta Club - A6
CHURCH
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church EYC hosts chili cookoff,
raises funds for mission trip - B3
EDENTON EPICUREAN
Cheryl Orr shares her easy-to-make recipe for pecan
cheese wafers - B5
Lack of funds may delay shelter upgrades
Gates didn’t include
capital funds in budget
BY NICOLE BOWMAN-
LAYTON
Editor
Due to a financial prob
lems, Gates County only
budgeted operating funds
for the Tri-Gounty Animal
Shelter. Without the
county’s annual contribu
tion of capital improve
ment funds, Phase II of the
shelter’s facility upgrade
may be on hold.
The Chowan County
Board of Commissioners
learned of the problem
Monday during its regular
meeting at the Public
Safety Building.
The shelter, located off
NC 32, serves Chowan,
Gates and Perquimans
counties and is funded by
all three counties. They
share the cost of the shel
ter’s operating budget and
a separate budget for capi
tal improvements, which
funds repairs and other fa-
cility maintenance. Com
mission Larry McLaughlin
first brought up the prob
lem when discussing the
Capital Improvement Plan
Committee’s activities.
According to County
Manager Kevin Howard, he
and his counterparts in
Gates and Perquimans
plan to meet in the near fu
ture to discuss the funding
shortfall and how to rem
edy the situation.
Commissioner Bob
Kirby asked whether the
shelter’s partnership agree
ment would cause Chowan
and Perquimans counties
to pay more to cover the
shortfall, with Gates
County owing both corm-
ties for its share.
Ron Cummings added
that if something like that
happened over the course
of a number of years, Gates
County would fall further
behind on their payments.
Howard said he did not
know at this time. His
meeting with the other
county managers hopefully
will address the commis
sioners’ concerns.
In other matters, board
Chair Patti Kersey intro
duced a program review
proposal, which the com
missioners approved.
Under the plan, Howard
See SHELTER, A5
Commissioners honor
Chowan’s veterans
Veterans Day activities
kick off Friday, Nov. 8
By NICOLE BOWMAN-
LAYTON
Editor
The Board of Commis
sioners honored
Chowan County’s veter
ans during its Monday
meeting with a resolu
tion and proclamation.
The board passed a
INSIDE
Edenton Tea Party NSDAR
acknowledges veterans’
service, sacrifice - B4
resolution honoring and
celebrating American Le
gion Edward G. Bond
See VETERANS, A5
Library
to offer
hotspots
Middle-schoolers can
access internet at home
BY NICOLE BOWMAN-
LAYTON
Editor
Shepard-Pruden Memo
rial Library will offer mid
dle school students the
chance to connect to the
internet at home to do
their school work.
The library is part of Pet
tigrew Regional Library,
which received a $105,000
grant through the North
Carolina Department of
Natural and Cultural Re
sources to try to fill the
“homework gap.” The
“homework gap” is when
students are assigned
homework that requires
access to the internet, but
do not have internet access
at home.
Because the middle
school aged students are
most likely to be affected
by this gap, the Pettigrew
Regional Library, consist
ing of the Shepard-Pruden
Memorial Library, Wash
ington County Library,
Perquimans County Li
brary and Tyrrell Comity
Library, purchased 175
hotspots that are available
to check-out to the middle
school students in these
counties. The hotspots au
tomatically connect to the
closest wi-fi tower and pro
vide free access to the stu
dent. Each hotspot has 500
MB of data available on a
daily basis. The data is fil
tered so that the student
has access to only the safe
data on the internet.
The process involves the
school, the student, then-
parent and the library. The
See HOTSPOTS, A3
Perquimans officials OK zoning for housing
Development to be near
Albemarle Plantation
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff Writer
HERTFORD —
Perquimans County Com
mission unanimously ap
proved a zoning request
that would permit the cre
ation of a new housing
PHOTO COURTESY KIM ULLOM
Yadi Chavez (left) and Mijonta Stanley were crowned homecoming queen and
king respectively during Thursday night’s football game between John A. Holmes
High School and Manteo.
STAFF REPORT
Stanley, Chavez crowned
Mijonta Stanley and
Yadi Chavez were
crowned homecoming
king and queen during
halftime of Thursday’s
football game between
John A. Holmes and Man
teo.
They were crowned by
last year’s king and queen
NaKevin Hill and Kimora
Miles.
The 2019-2020 home-
coming court includes:
* Freshmen: (Donell)
DJ Capehart, Shamiya
Leary;
* Sophomores: Nyquan
Twine, Daniyiah Bunch;
* Juniors: Cameron
Grimstead, Camilla Miles;
* Seniors: Parker Clay
ton, Richardo Riddick,
(Mitjonta) Jonta Stanley,
Hutch Winborne,
development by Albemarle
Plantation. „
During Monday’s meet
ing, commissioners lis
tened to arguments pro
and con as to whether they
should
approve
Perquimans Development
Company’s plans to trans
form 1,500 acres of farm
land into a 30-year phased
development that may
Homecoming 2019
DDE: 24 new
businesses in
historic district
NICOLE BOWMAN-LAYTON/CHOWAN HERALD
John A. Holmes Principal Steve Wood, king of the
parade, leads chants with the school’s faculty and
staff during the homecoming parade Friday along
Broad Street.
Charleah Beasley, Yadi
Chavez, Megan Gainey
and Ashley Rose.
Earlier in the day, the
See HOMECOMING, A3
eventually have 2,400 resi
dential units, 273 of which
are townhomes/condo-
miniums. Associated com
mercial development may
include a hotel with up to
80 rooms and two restau
rants that would each seat
up to 125 people.
Bobby Masters, an exec
utive with Perquimans
Development Company,
INSIDE
For details on the John A.
Holmes football game against
Manteo, see Page Bl.
shared his insight as to the
scope of the development.
“I’ve been involved in
this business for 30 years
and I probably can’t name
one conununity where all
the density that was origi
nally approved was actu
ally built out,” said
Masters, general manager
See HOUSING, A2
Program notes $14M in
public, private investment
SUBMITTED REPORT
Destination Down
town Edenton, Inc. is an
award-winning, accred
ited NC Main Street Pro
gram and is an affiliate
of the National Main
Street Center. DDE is
happy to announce its
2019 cumulative NC
Main Street statistics.
Since 2005, DDE has
been sending annual sta
tistics to the NC Main
Street office. Cumula
tive statistics are re
leased each year in ef
fort to show incremen
tal growth occurring in
NC’s Main Street com
munities.
Downtown Edenton
has experienced a net
gain of 24 new busi
nesses within the down-
town historic district.
This is evidenced by the
increase in retail on side
streets and businesses
locating on the second
floor above Edenton’s
historic storefronts.
Downtown Edenton’s
relatively small historic
commercial district has
experienced over
$14,412,153 in public
and private investment.
Elections results online,
in next week’s paper
STAFF REPORT
Are you wondering
where the Town election
results are in this week’s
Chowan Herald?
We thought you might
be.
We always strive to
provide election results
as soon as possible.
However, we were still
at work Tuesday night
compiling the vote totals,
long after our weekly
press time. They are, of
course, on the Daily Ad
vance website, www.dai-
lyadvance.com and on
our Facebook page.
Don’t worry. We will
still have the results in
next week’s paper. But
Edenton has benefited
from many historic re
habilitation tax-credit
projects and helped ad
vocate and lobby to
keep the NC tax-credit
program.
DDE’s robust Facade
Grant program has con
tributed financial and
design assistance to
many of its 35 facade
improvements. DDE has
partnered with the
University of North
Carolina - Greensboro
School of Design’s Main
Street fellows program
that has assisted with
several of Downtown
Edenton’s facade en
hancements.
The Main Street ap
proach to downtown de
velopment was started
by the National Trust for
Historic preservation in
1980. While the main
street principles have
varied slightly over the
years, Main Street uses
historic buildings as a
catalyst for economic
development.
Downtown Edenton’s
Main Street program op
erates within the his
toric commercial dis
trict Within the overall
Edenton Historic
See DDE, A3
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