As I sit here thinking about the past year and all I have seen and reported on, I thought a year in review might be the way to say goodbye to 2015.
While the big, bad wolf of government may have won this round, we would expect and hope to see an uprising of Orwellian proportions from the little piggies Roanoke Rapids City Council sees as unfit to be kept as pets inside its limits.
Stacey Harrell said she will continue to petition city council to modify an ordinance which forbids swine to be kept as pets after the panel turned down proposed revisions this evening.
City council will begin studying a proposed ordinance which would allow the keeping of potbellied pigs as pets and expects to fully discuss the matter at its November 17 meeting.
Roanoke Rapids City Council will have to invest in due diligence before deciding whether to change an ordinance which prohibits keeping swine within the city limits, Mayor Emery Doughtie said.
