DATE: Thursday, June 12, 1997               TAG: 9706120582

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ALBEMARLE

EDENTON

KNIGHTON APPOINTED: Anne-Marie Knighton, who has been town manager of Edenton since 1988, has been elected by the North Carolina Senate to a four-year term on the N.C. State Board of Community Colleges.

Earlier, Knighton was appointed by Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. to the governor's blue-ribbon commission charged with assessing the management of the North Carolina coastal area.

Knighton holds bachelor's and master's degrees in public administration and political science from American University in Washington.

HERTFORD

ROANOKE, MATAMUSKEET FISHING: The fine art of fly fishing will be featured June 14 and June 21 at 10:30 a.m. on ESPN, one of the nation's largest cable TV networks.

The shows will be filmed along the Roanoke River in Halifax County and at Lake Matamuskeet in Hyde County.

Buffy Warner of Ocracoke, chairman of the tourism development board of the Northeast Economic Development Partnership, said crews from Billings, Mont., and Las Vegas, Nev., will be brought in to film the fishing programs.

ELIZABETH CITY

SAWYER'S PHOTOS SELECTED: Two photographic prints made by A. Mack Sawyer of Elizabeth City will be displayed at an international convention of the Professional Photographers of America in Las Vegas, Nev., July 29-22.

Sawyer's prints, ``Sunset Sail'' and ``Final Judgment,'' were selected by an international panel of judges from among 7,000 images submitted for display.

BUXTON

HATTERAS STUDENTS HONORED: Eighth-graders from Cape Hatteras School traveled to Raleigh recently to present some of their research projects to the North Carolina Teacher Academy Board of Trustees.

They also showed their research to the North Carolina Joint Education Committee and Sen. Marc Basnight, D-Dare.

Basnight summoned Senate leaders from committee meetings on the final day of the budget discussions to see the display. They then were asked to make a presentation to Gov. Jim Hunt.

The research projects created by the Cape Hatteras students are unusual, thanks to teachers Annette O'Neal and Ann McArthur.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction requires that eighth-graders complete a research project in language arts and another project that researches an environmental issue in North Carolina.

The teachers combined the two projects, having the students produce a research paper and a multi-media presentation.

The students worked for nine weeks preparing their papers and computer-generated presentations.

Ten students were selected to travel to Raleigh. Keturi Delong presented her multimedia project ``Pollution on the Neuse River'' to Basnight and Hunt. Other students traveling to Raleigh were Katie Brown, Thomas Midgett, Frankie Hopkins, Amanda Switzer, Lindsey White, Christinia Ballance, Barry Crum, and Cena Meekins.

MANTEO

COMMENCEMENT SATURDAY: Manteo High School will hold commencement exercises for the class of 1997 Saturday at Waterside Theater on Roanoke Island.

The ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m.

This year's commencement speaker will be U.S. Air Force Capt. Kara Maureen Brandt, an instructor pilot at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. She graduated from Manteo High School in 1986.

In the event of inclement weather, commencement will be held in the Manteo High School gym at 10:30 a.m.

REGIONAL

WATER HEARINGS: A proposed Pasquotank River Basinwide Water Quality Management Plan will be discussed at a public meeting set for Monday at 7 p.m. in Elizabeth City and Tuesday in Manteo at 10 a.m.

The plan is one of 17 management plans being prepared across North Carolina by the state's Division of Water Quality.

The public meetings will offer the public an opportunity to comment on major water quality issues of the basin and recommendations for improvements in water quality.

The Elizabeth City meeting will be held at the Lecture Auditorium, Building ``B,'' College of the Albemarle. The Manteo meeting will be held in the county commissioners office in the Dare County Administrative Annex Building.

The Pasquotank River Basin includes the Pasquotank River, Perquimans River, Little River, North River, Scuppernong River, Alligator River and Currituck, Albemarle, Roanoke, Croatan and Northeastern Pamlico sounds.

In addition to public comments, the Division of Water Quality will receive written comments on the plan through July 11. The final version of the proposed Basinwide Management Plan for North Carolina will be presented to the Environmental Management Commission at its September meeting.

For more information, contact Suzanne Hoover at 919-733-5083, Ext. 573.

NAGS HEAD

SUMMERFEST '97: The Nags Head Lions Club is sponsoring Summerfest '97 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 21, in the parking lot of First Flight Elementary School.

Summerfest '97 will offer crafts, wood sculpture, antique cars, photography, baseball cards, collectibles and food.

Also, on Saturday, June 28, the Nags Head Lions Club will set up a free eye mobile clinic at the Wanchese Seafood Festival.

Free glaucoma tests will be administered by professionals at the Lions eye mobile.

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