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Internet – Newspaper Archives Searches<br />

CALVIN R. PECK, JR.<br />

(Articles are in reverse chronological order)<br />

Tab 9<br />

Star-News (Wilmington, NC)<br />

December 14, 2005<br />

Carolina <strong>Beach</strong> town manager quits<br />

Author: Gareth McGrath<br />

In a move that many saw as inevitable after last month's election, Carolina <strong>Beach</strong> Town Manager<br />

Calvin Peck resigned Tuesday.<br />

The five-member council accepted the resignation just a few minutes after three new members<br />

were sworn into office.<br />

All three new officials had questioned Peck's performance during the campaign. The retired<br />

Army officer became manager in 1998, after a stint as town administrator in Murfreesboro.<br />

The board also announced Bob Nicholl as interim town manager. He also served as Carolina<br />

<strong>Beach</strong>'s temporary manager in the mid-1990s. His first day is Thursday.<br />

Mayor Bill Clark, who was sworn into office Tuesday along with Councilmen Alan Gilbert and<br />

Jerry Johnson, said Peck accomplished a lot while serving the town for nearly eight years.<br />

"Let's hold onto the good things and remember Calvin and his family for that," Clark said.<br />

Unsaid in the mayor's comments was the animosity that rippled through the town as the old town<br />

council pursued zoning changes to allow high-rise development in Carolina <strong>Beach</strong>'s central<br />

business district.<br />

Although Peck and other town officials work at the behest of the Town Council, many residents<br />

saw the town manager as sympathetic to the proposal to reinvigorate the downtown area by<br />

allowing high-rise development.<br />

The new town officials made repeal of the land-use changes the centerpiece of their campaigns.<br />

Peck immediately left Tuesday's meeting after the announcement, which came after the council<br />

members held a short closed session, without comment.<br />

Tuesday's meeting came a day after a contentious special meeting called by the old Town<br />

Council to protect the town's high-rise projects from meddling by the new council.<br />

But the plan backfired after the old council declined to approve granting the Arcadia Group a<br />

lease on a town-owned parking lot. The move seriously wounded the viability of the 11-building<br />

mixed-use complex.<br />

While the meeting room was again crowded Tuesday, t<strong>here</strong> was no animosity toward the council.<br />

"What a difference a day makes," said Gilbert jokingly before the meeting started.<br />

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