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two in tne morning had been round guilty and sentenced to 40 hours of community service each.
He said that, while there are “not too many people on the benches,” there are still problems in town. “Signs have been torn down again; the sanctuary at the church is still locked for the first time in 100 years; there are still complaints from passers-by about yelling and bad language.”
“The vigilantes get me,” he added. “Citizens have gotten guns out. Somebody is going to get hurt when that happens.”
The town council agreed to pay 75 percent of the electricity at the old town hall because of heaters used for the town shop in the basement.
Most of the time at the council meeting was taken up with a disagreement between council members Newbill Miller and Mr. Gooch. Town Attorney Frank Reynolds brought the matter to the council’s attention.
Mr. Reynolds said that Mr. McCarthy, in his capacity as the town’s zoning administrator, had approved the survey of a plat to be filed at the clerk’s office for for a one-half acre lot owned by Mr. Miller.
He said there was a question of the “validity of the survey” because surveys in the past did not show that property as a separate lot. He said that might “set a precedent for future cases.”
Mr. Reynolds said the tax map showed such a lot across from Mr. Gooch’s lot with Gay street running between the lots, but neither the current survey nor Mr. Gooch’s survey show Gay Street bordering the lots. He said the deed to Mr. Gooch’s lot described the boundary as beginning at the end of Gay Street.
Mr. Miller said that the map, which he described as the “Baggerly sketch” was adopted by the town council to preserve the historical street names and doesn’t definitely establish where the streets are.
He asked Mr. Reynolds why he hadn’t talked to him as part of his research.
Mr. Reynolds said that the lot was “part of a larger piece of property. No transfers maintain that as a separate lot.” He said that Mr. McCarthy took the position that since there was no stated intention to merge the lot with other property, it still existed even if it had been transferred as part of a larger property.
Mr. Reynolds added that he and the county’s attorney took a more
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