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.

All persons wishing to vote in the North Carolina 2008 Primary may do so, beginning today, April 17, through the Early Voting process .

the Works of Eric McRay Gallery visitors at The Chowan Arts Council opening of Eric McRay's acrylic paintings of scenes of eastern North Carolina expressed enthusiasm for his use of "bright, bold, wonderful color".

Eddie Goodwin, a Republican candidate for Chowan County Commissioner, surprised those attending the Edenton Discussion Group last Tuesday when he mentioned in passing that he was implementing a prototype of his security surveillance program at John A. Holmes High School. To the best of our knowledge the parents and students are unaware of its existence.

Update 04-10-08: Six staff members and one student have volunteered to participate in testing the system next month. Their movements will be monitored for approximately one school week.