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July 2009

  1. Man faces rape charges

    Submitted by Webmaster on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 05:44

    BAYBORO - A Pamlico County man arrested July 22 for kidnapping, rape, and other sexual offenses renewed his registration on the state and national Sex Offender Registry a week earlier, according to local law enforcement officials.
    Anthony Drew Peele, 36, walked into the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Department July 16, less than a week before the most recent alleged sex crimes occurred. His name first hit the local rolls in September 2006.
    Unfortunately, sex offender registration requirements are no guarantee of safety. But authorities laud the database. A community forewarned, they say, is one that can take precautions against those previously convicted of sex crimes.

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  2. Questions jeopardize farm district

    Submitted by Webmaster on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 05:38

    BAYBORO - A concept known as a Voluntary Agricultural District, proposed for farmland in Pamlico County, has encountered unexpected tough sledding as the pending new law heads to a public hearing Monday night.
    An Oriental resident, and at least one county commissioner, have expressed written concerns that could conceivably derail, or at least postpone, an initiative that has previously been embraced by a vast majority of the state’s 100 counties.
    Al Herlands of Oriental, in an open letter to the seven-member Pamlico County Commission, lambastes the Voluntary Agricultural District as benefiting a small group of area farmers.

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  3. Emporium covers takeout from soup to nuts

    Submitted by Webmaster on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 20:11

    ORIENTAL - During Croaker Festival 2008, Bama Lutes Deal and her husband first stepped inside the house at 702 Broad Street, just looking, and a dream began to take shape. One year later, Croaker Festival 2009, the Village Food Emporium and carry out kitchen served box lunches and drinks to go, from a temporary outdoor food stand with parade watching and picnic space as well.
    Throughout the year between visualizing and completing renovations on the original footprint of the “at least 75-year-old and probably older” home, the planned April opening date for the business flexed with events. Deal, living on her boat and contracting the work on the house, fell on an icy deck, suffering knee damage requiring surgery. The work went on.

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  4. Tarpon elusive in 2009 Tourney

    Submitted by Webmaster on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 11:50

    Click here to see the full Photo Gallery of the 2009 Oriental Rotary Tarpon Tournament

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  5. Candidate forums set

    Submitted by Webmaster on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 15:09

    Eleven candidates seeking five seats on the town board for Oriental should make for an interesting evening Tuesday, Sept. 22, when this newspaper hosts an election forum at the 150-seat Old Theater on the corner of Broad and Church Streets.
    Also on tap – although a date has not yet been selected – is a separate venue in Aurora devoted exclusively to the town’s two-way mayoral race between W.C. Boyd Jr. and Clif Williams.

    Click Here to see a chart of 2009 candidates by town

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