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Today is Friday, November 21, 2008

Gates County News

Gates County News -- 6/01/08, Today a shooting took place at Eason Crossroads County Mart 4:48 P.M.. The victim, a young male, suffered multiple gunshot wounds, two shots hit the victim's buttocks while one shot entered his lower left side, and one shot entered his left hand. The suspect shooter, 26-year-old William Jason Payne escaped the scene in what was reported as a brown sedan two door Mazada 929. The victim was taken to Sentara Obici Hospital in Suffolk, VA due to unavailability of immediate Nightingale emergency air transportation.


Let's talk about land, taxes and property rights? hummm. First of all, you will need a copy of the current Zoning Ordinance and the CAMA Core Land Use Plan. These two documents are key elements to understanding the reason for our Gates County local government's incessant need to keep adding a land transfer tax referendum to every election, especially when 60% of the registered voters are against the tax. Finally, the significance of these two documents in regards to taxation can be found in this letter. Maybe we should call this magazine, "What you won't find Indexed?"

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04/29/2008
New Interim County Manager
GATES COUNTY NEWS -- Once again Gates County has yet another Interim County Manager, Paul Gregory Jr., replacing Melinda Hoggard, who abruptly resigned last month for personal reasons. Gregory, who recently retired from the position of Perquimans County manager, has already expounded on his intelligence... READ MORE

04/29/2008
NC GOP Chairman Challenges TV Stations Censorship
NORTHEAST NC NEWS -- NC GOP Chairman Daves has challenged, various North Carolina television stations including WRAL, WSOC, and WBT, refused to run the North Carolina Republican Party's first ad of 2008, labeling it "inflammatory" and racially "offensive." Chairman Daves said, "I challenge them to answer questions about what factors were involved in their determination..." READ MORE

04/19/2008
Gates County's Low Income Discrimination
GATES COUNTY NEWS - Gates County Board of Commissioners and Gates County Board of Education knew that by design the Gates County Zoning Ordinance would be exclusionary in regards to low income housing... Both these Boards knew that by placing exclusionary regulations on development of low income housing, they would force low income residents to build homes they could not afford in order to increase the County property tax base (INCLUDES VIDEO)... READ MORE