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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. ...
Older American Month events continue
Older American Month events are continuing in the county throughout the month of May. The Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church is hosting a Medicaid Expansion Enrollment event on Sunday, May 19, immediately following services, and the Bertie County Council on Aging has a slate of events scheduled. “We are looking forward to a large turnout for our Medicaid Expansion sign-up event. This is a very important part of staying healthy...
Group honors Chowan's Civil War dead at Confederate statue
More than a dozen people gathered at Edenton’s Confederate Monument last week for a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the nearly 50 Confederate soldiers from Chowan County who died in the Civil War. The brief service, the third such observance of Confederate Memorial Day, was sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It featured the placing of a wreath at the base of the monument and the reading of the names of 47 Confederate veterans who died in combat or from other causes during the four...
Commissioners listen for public's input
Williamston’s food truck ordinance was the topic of discussion Monday evening at a special meeting of the town’s commissioners. They met to gather input from citizens and business owners on changes needed to the town’s ordinance. “So we’re going to hear from the public any comments pertaining to chapter 95, specifically, or exhibit A chapter 117 specifically. This is not a free for all talk about whatever you want to,”...
Edenton Tea Party Chapter of DAR installs new officers
Edenton’s Tea Party Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution installed a slate of new leaders on May 8. Betty Corbin, state organizing secretary of the North Carolina State Society Daughters of the American Revolution, presided over the installation event. The new leaders are Bonnie Henn, chapter regent; Kay Caveney, first vice regent; Nicole Dalton, second vice regent; Clara King, chaplain; Melanie Gibbs, recording and corresponding secretary; Kim Gongwer,...
Historic Hope hosts annual yard sale
The annual Historic Hope yard sale was held last Saturday as personal collectors of antiques, trinkets and garage clutter hunted for the next unsigned David Hockney, that hidden Tiffany lamp or the tea set that never should have left grandma’s china hutch. “The rain has held off and it looks like a good size crowd,” said Historic Hope President Turner Sutton. Whether one’s eye wandered for that special wicker basket,...
After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians
Dozens of rural hospitals have closed across America in the past 20 years. The reasons vary widely, but the result is always the same _ a sense of loss and fear. (AP video: Allen Breed) WILLIAMSTON, N.C. (AP) — Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently. Some residents worry the hospital’s sudden closure last August could cost them their life. “I know we all have to die, but it seems like since the hospital closed, there’s a lot more people dying,” Linda Gibson, a lifelong resident of Williamston, North Carolina, said on a recent afternoon while preparing snacks for children in a nearby elementary school kitchen.
Town to host blood drive with Blood Connection May 31
The town of Edenton will sponsor a blood drive in Town Council Chambers’ overflow room later this month to boost local blood supplies. The blood drive, a partnership with The Blood Connection, will take place from noon until 5 p.m. on Friday, May 31. In addition to knowing they’ve done something good for their neighbors, donors will receive $50 in rewards from The Blood Connection. “This is a great way...
Marsha Smithwick honored by Bertie County
Retired Bertie County teacher and Band Director Marsha Smithwick was honored Monday when the Bertie County Commissioners passed a resolution highlighting her accomplishments throughout her stellar career. After striking up the band and simultaneously teaching on the elementary, middle and high school levels for 30 years, Smithwick retired in 1999. “This resolution is in honor of the service of Marsha Smithwick,” said Bertie County Commission Chair John Trent. ...
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