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Family, lawmen reach out for information
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The mother of a 39-year-old
Holiday Island woman who has
been missing for more than three
weeks is pleading for the public
to come forward with informa
tion about her daughter.
Arlene Murin said Karen Bosta
was last seen in Edenton on May
30. Her daughter’s car was found
the following week in a parking
lot in Edenton. Despite their ef ¬
forts, lawmen said they have few
clues as to what happened.
Perquimans County Sheriff
Eric Tilley said based on where
the car seat was pushed back on
the 1997 Lincoln Continental ‘she
didn’t put it there.” The car was
found in Gaslight Square, a large
parking lot near the Historic
Chowan Courthouse.
Bosta is about 5-foot-3 and
140 pounds and the seat was ad
justed for somebody much taller
than that.
Bosta’s family is offering a
$2,500 reward for information.
“If anybody saw who dropped
off the car, please come forward,”
Murin said. “It didn’t just appear
in the lot, somebody drove it
there.”
Both the Perquimans County
Sheriffs Office, the Chowan
County Sheriffs Office and the
Edenton Police Department have
been involved.
See INFORMATION, 8
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Arlene Murin
(left) is pictured
with her
daughter Karen
Bosta in 2013.
Bosta has been
missing since
May 30 when
she was last
seen in Edenton.
Deer
harvest
debated
BY REGGIE PONDER
Chowan Herald
A group of deer special
ists from the N.C. Wildlife
Resources Commission told
a gathering of deer hunters
last Wednesday that it might
be time to reconsider the
deer seasons in North Caro
lina
The deer management
forum at Swain Auditorium
in Edenton was the fifth of
nine the Wildlife Resources
Commission is holding
across the state.
The biologists at the
meeting Wednesday ac
knowledged the current
seasons were established in
a much different time, when
the state was in deer resto
ration mode. The areas are
purely administrative areas,
not necessarily reflecting
the habits and characteris
tics of deer.
The biologists said their
understanding is that the
current seasons are not re
ally the best biological fit for
the deer population.
If there is a change in
See DEER, 2
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
A truck lies in a ditch off U.S. 17 north of Winfall June 17. Several vehicles were involved.
Field smoke blamed for wreck
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Smoke from a burning
wheat field was blamed
for a six vehicle accident
June 17 on U.S. 17 north of
Winfall.
N.C. Highway Patrol
Trooper J. Jacobs said
none of the driver’s were
cited for the accident and
there were no serious inju
ries.
“With an incident like
this it’s hard to determine
who slowed down more
than somebody else,” Ja
cobs said.
The traffic was headed
southbound, and he said
it appeared that all of the
drivers did slow down
from the posted speed of
55 miles per hour. Four
passenger vehicles and
two commercial trucks
were involved.
Jacobs said one of the
trucks suffered the worst
damage of the six vehicles
involved. It went into a
ditch and appeared to have
a broken axle.
A day after the accident,
two Perquimans County
Sheriffs cars were sta
tioned on either side of an
adjacent field while it was
burned.
Sheriff Eric Tilley, who
was in Caldwell County
on business the day of the
first fire said he got a call
from the farmer asking for
the assistance.
“He asked if we could
do it, and I said ‘sure,”’ Til
ley said.
Tilley said his office
does get similar requests
from farmers from time to
time.
Farmers bum wheat in
See WRECK, 2
Winfall
tax rate
unchanged
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The Town of Winfall has
approved a budget for next
year that will hold the line
on property taxes at 41
cents per $100 in property
value.
Given Winfall’s prop
erty value of $50 million,
and an estimated collec
tion rate of 97.5 percent,
property taxes will gen
erate about $208,500 of
the town’s general fund
budget of $514,000. Sales
taxes - $115,000 - make up
the next largest revenue
source.
General government
makes up $214,000 of the
expenses the town faces.
Public safety in the form
of police and fire protec
tion will require about
$179,800.
The town’s sewer opera
tion is operated as a sepa
rate department. The total
budget is about $219,000,
which includes $60,000 in
debt service.
On Monday the Town
See TAX RATE, 8
Hostetler selected as Hertford’s Rotarian of the Year
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Wes Hostetler (left)
shares a story with
Tom Hartley, the
2013-14 Rotarian
of the Year for Area
2. Hostetler was
honored Tuesday
night as the Hertford
clubOs Rotarian of
the Year. He has
also been selected by
the area leadership
within District 7720
as the Area Rotarian
of the Year.
From Staff Reports
Wesley Hostetler, a mem
ber of the Hertford Rotary
Club since 1998, has been
selected as Rotarian of the
Year by the local club as
well as the top Rotarian for
the area and the district.
District 7720 covers
northeastern North Caro
lina and has 1,700 members
among 45 clubs. An awards
event was scheduled for
Tuesday night.
Hostetler is a retired high
school administrator and
that has been active in his
support of education.
He’s volunteered as a test
proctor and was fully en
gaged in the Harlem Ambas
sadors charity basketball
game held last spring. When
Perquimans Central School
needed support, he helped
with that, Rotary officials
say.
Hostetler is a Paul Har
ris Fellow and a sustaining
member of the Rotary In
ternational Foundation. His
level of foundation giving,
new member recruitment,
club event participation and
attendance at meetings is
consistent and exemplary,
particularly as the club’s in
formal song leader, Rotary
officials say. He has also
been a long time volunteer
for the Volunteers In Tax As
sistance (VITA) program.
Hostetler is also active in
the community, his church,
Hertford United Methodist,
and serves on the church
council. He formerly served
on Chowan Hospital Board,
See HOSTETLER, 2
Rider hopes to raise
money, awareness
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Mandy Whitehurst’s goal
is to ride 250 miles on her
bicycle to raise money to
fight childhood cancers.
But with the heat index
topping the 100-degree
mark, sometimes that ride
has to happen indoors.
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As of Monday Whitehu
rst, who lives north of Win
fall had ridden 206 miles to
ward her goal. Some of that
has been inside her house
on a stationary bike.
“Some days I do it inside,”
she admits, although she’s
been on trips outside that
were as long as 20 miles.
She’s been riding seri
ously for about a year and
when she saw information
about the Great Cycle Chal
lenge she decided to take
the plunge. Her son Gavin
See WHITEHURST, 8
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Cayce Copley and Samantha Midgett
recently captured the regional AAU beach
volleyball championship in Kernersville.
Local teens to compete
in volleyball nationals
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A pair of Perquimans County
teens are headed to California
next month to compete for a na
tional championship.
Cayce Copley, 13, and Saman
tha Midgett, 14, recently captured
the regional AAU beach volleyball
championship in Kernersville.
They will be advancing to the 14-
and-under nationals at Hermosa
Beach, Calif. July 9-13.
Beach ball is similar to tradi
tional indoor volleyball with some
major differences. In indoor play
each team has six people on the
court at one time with other play
ers on the bench. Players who
might be strong in one position
but weak at another can be sub
stituted in and out as they rotate
around the court.
In beach volleyball, it’s just Co
pley and Midgett out there and
there are no substitutions and the
surface is the court is sand, not
hardwood.
Midgett said she likes it that
way.
“I like it being just two people,”
Midgett said. “There is more ac
tion. You are constantly moving.
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