County Commission Meeting One out of four persons in Chowan County is over the age of 60; many of these people rely on the county for varied kinds of services.

According to news reports in the Daily Advance and Virginian Pilot over the weekend of July 26-28th 2008, Chowan County may be unable to pay its bills because of a cash flow problem. After the sale of Chowan Hospital in 1998 the county had $29 million dollars in cash in its reserve account. The Board of Commissioners voted never to spend the principal of this bonanza, however now it appears that they spent it all....on new buildings (library, police/sheriff office, agricultural building, Northern Chowan community center, two new elementary schools.) This was supposedly done by County Manager Cliff Copeland, without the knowledge of the Board of Commissioners.
The county has a $1 million dollar interest payment due for the DF Walker school construction in September and there is no money to pay it. Unless extreme measures are undertaken (employee layoffs, reduced services, tax increases) the State of North Carolina will take over county finances.

Libertarian Candidate for Governor, Mike Munger, will be speaking to the Edenton Discussion Group on July 24th. This Group meets at Nothing Fancy Cafe, 701 North Broad Street at 7 pm. The meeting is open to the public. Mr. Munger is Chairman of the Political Science Department at Duke University. His name will be on every NC ballot for the November general election. For further information about Mr. Munger, please see http://munger4ncgov.com/

the 2008 People's Choice

After thousands of dollars and hundreds of volunteer hours the Chowan Arts Council, under the able direction of Brenda Russell, re-opened last Friday.

In the north alcove under a menagerie of spoof dog portraits Delores Davenport and Marcia Humphreys, a recorder duo from Hertford, treated Chowan Arts Council gallery visitors to elegant Renaissance and Elizabethan melodies.

Anyone wanting to donate goods to the responders working the Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington County Fires can help with the following goods that are needed:
Snacks: i.e. potato chips, nabs and such (individual packages)
Baby Wipes
Gatorade
Peanuts (individual packages).

All items need to be dropped off at the Public Safety Center
Lobby hours 8-5 Tuesday - Friday 6/17-6/20 and Saturday (6/21) 8-12 noon.
Patty Madry will be taking items to a receiving point on Monday (6/23) @ 9:00 a.m.

Tammy Woodley
Administrative Assistant
Town of Edenton
252-482-7352

Ocean, N.C. – North Carolina, after 20 years of failure, needs an effective program to control polluted runoff that makes thousands of acres of oyster and clam beds unsafe to eat and popular swimming beaches unsafe to swim. That’s the take-home message of the N.C. Coastal Federation’s annual State of the Coast Report, which was released today in Raleigh. The report focuses on the devastating effects that polluted runoff, now the largest source of water pollution on the coast, has had on the state’s most-sensitive waters. It explores the science of stormwater and recounts the fractured, 20-year history of regulations that the state acknowledged only in 2005 have failed to protect coastal waters.

“We know the system is broken, and we have to fix it,” Dr. Charles “Pete” Peterson says in the State of the Coast Report. He is a distinguished professor at UNC’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City and the vice chairman of the N.C. Environmental Management Commission (EMC), the state’s major environmental rule-making body.

Global warming and what we in NC might do about it was the topic at a two-hour seminar held in Manteo June 7. The informative session was the latest in a series across the state, fashioned by the very busy Veronica Butcher of the NC Conservation Network, a loose federation of 114 state groups interested in seeing that there will be a North Carolina in the future. After all, we stand to lose 12.2-million acres of the state in the next hundred years with the predicted sea rise of 1 1/2 inches.

Allan T. Smith, Superintendent of Edenton-Chowan Schools, failed to appear at the Edenton Discussion Group yesterday (Thursday, May 15). The topic was to have been about the security surveillance program at John A. Holmes High School.

The packed meeting room at Nothing Fancy Cafe was instead treated to a first hand look into the political, social and economic problems of Zimbabwe (formally known as Rhodesia) given by former Zimbabwe resident Mr. William Tunney.

No information on wither Superentendent Smith's appearance would be rescheduled was provided.

For the complete Statewide Elections Results from the North Carolina Board of Elections - http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/Chowan/1896/3901/en/summary.html - Find Chowan County on the map - Click and read the results.

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Our fundamental questions about the "pilot project" at the HIgh School have not been answered by Superintendent Smith's comments on this site nor by this week's article in the Chowan Herald.