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Edenton: Drawings for park improvements not final designs
EDENTON — Edenton officials are advising residents that “rough drawings” for several town parks now available online are just that — rough drawings. They’re not the final designs of the park improvements the town plans to make. Edenton’s parks are scheduled to receive $500,000 in upgrades thanks to federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. The upgrades are designed to make town parks safer, more attractive, and more attuned to residents’ needs. Work is expected to start within the next two weeks. ...
Hertford budget would raise tax rate by 4 cents
Hertford taxpayers will see a 4-cent property tax rate increase and residents will see increases in both their monthly sewer and electric bills if Town Council approves the town manager’s $7.67 million proposed budget for 2024-25. Hertford Town Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing Tuesday on Manager Janice Cole’s budget proposal that raises the town’s property tax rate from a revenue-neutral 48 cents to 52 cents, base monthly sewer charge from $43.70 to $47.02, and base monthly electric service charge from $15 to...
Pasquotank-Camden EM launches new PASQCAM Alert system
Camden and Pasquotank residents have a new way to receive up-to-date emergency alert notifications. Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Management began operating its all new PASQCAM Alert notification program on Monday, May 20. Examples of emergency information the new mass notification system can provide users include extreme weather forecasts and events, evacuation and shelter-in-place or lockdown notices, missing person and public health alerts and power outages. ...
Parker-White column: School board must honor vote to name track for Wiggins
Editor’s note: This column is an open letter addressed to the citizens of Perquimans County. In 2018, the Perquimans County Board of Education voted to name, posthumously, the future track at the Perquimans County Athletic Complex in honor or Capt. M. Shirley Wiggins, USN (Ret.). In anticipation of the track’s March 2024 grand opening celebration, there was a rumor in the community that the track would not be named after...
LGC: Hertford no longer on Unit Assistance List
When the Local Government Commission’s next Unit Assistance List comes out, the town of Hertford won’t be on it. The town, which had been on the LGC’s Unit Assistance List, or UAL, for several years because of its financial health and past fiscal management practices, was notified May 17 that it will not be on the state agency’s UAL for 2023. Kendra B. Boyle, director of the fiscal management section...
'Our State' magazine again features Rose Buddies
A feature story in this month’s edition of “Our State” magazine about the world-renowned Rose Buddies took several years to make it to print, says editor Elizabeth Hudson. “This story had been for us years in the making,” said Hudson, who was speaking at Museum of the Albemarle on Tuesday. Hudson and “Our State” staff writer Rebecca Woltz were among the guests attending the museum’s salute to the Rose Buddies...
Juvenile detention center set to reopen in Winfall
WINFALL — Compared to working with adult inmates, a career as a juvenile corrections officer can be challenging but also more rewarding, says William Lassiter, deputy secretary of the N.C. Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. “I’d say there are more challenges because kids are more impulsive,” said Lassiter. “There also are more benefits, because a kid is changeable, where a lot of the adults that you get in the adult system, they’re kind of stuck in that lifestyle. ...
Chowan board set public hearing on rec bond for July 15
EDENTON — Chowan County commissioners have taken another step toward placing a recreation bond on the November ballot, agreeing this week to submit an application to the state Local Government Commission for a $15 million bond to upgrade the county’s recreation facilities. The LGC will not act on the application until after Chowan voters go to polls on the referendum on Nov. 5. Commissioners will hold a public hearing on...
N.C. Potato Festival draws 33K to city's waterfront over 3 days
Jeffrey Billips likely spoke for many in the record-breaking crowd attending the opening night of the three-day N.C. Potato Festival in Elizabeth City on Friday. “We’re gonna have as much fun as we can tonight just in case the weather changes tomorrow,” Billips said as he and his wife guided three youngsters from one amusement ride to another. Billips was talking about the weekend forecast which called for rain both...
Many vendors at Potato Festival repeat participants
Many of the food and product vendors at this past weekend’s North Carolina Potato Festival were repeat attendees. Brian Condon, who was vending knives and other cutlery for Cutco, said the company founded in New York in 1949 tries to set up a vendor tent at “pretty much any festival we’re able to attend.” That includes the Potato Festival in Elizabeth City, where the company’s had a vendor tent the...
Museum of the Albemarle: Edenton port attacked by Loyalists in American Revolution
Celebrations of the United States’ 250th birthday have already started to gear up in North Carolina, with an event recognizing the Halifax Resolves occurring just last month in Halifax County. While no major Revolutionary War battles happened in this corner of North Carolina (in fact very few happened in the state at all), there were still plenty of smaller interesting occurrences during America’s struggle for independence, many of which shed light on the region’s maritime heritage. ...
Jacavone column: Shepard-Pruden Library to kick off Summer Reading Program
Summer is almost here! The weather keeps getting warmer, and schools will be letting out soon. At the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library, we are ready for our Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme is “Adventure Begins at Your Library,” as everything is based on exploration and adventure. Starting on June 18 and continuing through Aug. 13, the library will host special programs four days per week. Our major program of the...
Edenton, Chowan to meet with SAGA on Hotel Hinton project
EDENTON — Town and Chowan County officials are scheduled to meet next month with representatives of the owners of the Hotel Hinton to discuss the company’s next steps to starting long-delayed renovations to the property. Edenton Town Manager Corey Gooden told Town Council last week the town had had two meetings with representatives of SAGA Construction and development, the estate development company that purchased the Hotel Hinton property years ago with the intent of developing it into a tourist hotel. ...
Tater time! EC's Potato Festival starts Friday
The wait is finally over. Elizabeth City’s three-day North Carolina Potato Festival kicks off along the city waterfront Friday at 5 p.m. The annual event features amusement rides, competitions like the National Potato Peeling Contest and the Little Miss Tater Tot Contest, continuous live entertainment, an auto and bike show, an antique tractor display, arts and crafts vendors and of course — everybody’s favorite — food vendors. ...
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