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Residency question raised over mayor candidate's filing By Randall Rigsbee The Chatham County Board of Elections deliberated for two hours Tuesday morning during a preliminary hearing regarding a challenge which has been filed concerning the right of a candidate for Siler City mayor to seek the post. The three-member Board of Elections, which made no ruling Tuesday on the challenge to candidate Vince Sanabria, will resume the hearing on Tuesday, August 30 at 9 a.m. Don Tarkenton, chairman of the Siler City Planning Board and Board of Adjustments, on Friday filed a challenge with the Board of Elections, challenging candidate Sanabria’s right to run for mayor. “To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Sanabria is not a resident of Siler City,” Tarkenton wrote in an August. 11 letter to the Board of Elections which accompanied a notarized notice of challenge. The Board of Elections considered Tarkenton’s challenge Tuesday, discussing the matter for two hours before recessing the hearing until next week. The additional time is to allow Tarkenton, who was not present during the Monday hearing, and Sanabria, who was, to gather more evidence to support their cases. “In a preliminary hearing, the burden of proof is on the challenger,” said county elections director Dawn Stumpf. “The additional time is just to allow them to supply more information.” When he filed recently to run for office in Siler City, Sanabria changed his voter registration address from 206 Box Turtle Road, Pittsboro to 202 North Dogwood Avenue, Siler City. Sanabria is seeking to unseat incumbent Siler City Mayor Charles Turner.
Rabid fox bites man; victim being treated By Cara Rotondaro A rabid fox attacked and bit a man in Chatham County Friday, Aug. 12 after the animal was discovered acting aggressively on the man’s property early that morning. The incident occurred at a residence on Tobacco Rd. off of Mann’s Chapel Rd. in Pittsboro. The victim is being treated with post-exposure rabies vaccinations. According to Chatham County Animal Control director John Sauls, the man, who Sauls said cannot be named because of medical liabilities, spotted the fox in his back yard that morning chasing the family dog at about 7:30 a.m. The family let their dog in the house and the man retrieved a shotgun and went outside to find the fox, Sauls said. The fox rushed out of the woods and bit him on both ankles before the man shot and killed the animal.
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Lee Moody photo All lined up and ready to go . . . Chatham students - at least some of them - will soon be boarding the county school system's fleet of busses as the 2005-06 school year gets underway August 25. Local school officials are expecting approximately 7400 students to enroll this year, continuing the upswing in student numbers. Teachers reported for their first official day of work on August 18. Rising cost prompt restaurant to close doors By Joseph Pardington In the end, it was just too expensive to stay open, so Don Buckles decided to close his Golden Corral franchise in Siler City last week. “It just wasn’t financially feasible to keep it going past this month,” Buckles said. Buckles almost signed a five- year lease that would have called for a $150,000 capital investment, he said. Specifically, his business needed extensive air conditioning work, remodeling and an improved parking lot, among other things. His base rent also would have increased. Because the building was 20 years old, it needed some work, he said. “We looked at the numbers and it just didn’t work,” he said. One of the problems was increasing competition from new restaurants, he said. In the past year, he had negative sales for the first time in the nine years he has run the Golden Corral. The recent lagging sales were a stark contrast to his initial success. “In the first three years, we doubled the sales of that location,” Buckles said. “We’ve had a lot of success. The Lord put us here for a reason.” Buckles also reported medical problems in the past year, which made it hard for him to be at work for more than four hours at a time. “It’s hard to run a business that way,” he said.
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