Lorrie Dablow (right), who co-owns two businesses across the street from the Hotel Hinton with her husband, speaks from the podium at the community meeting she organized about the hotel on Aug. 20, 2024, in Edenton. The hotel appears in the back left, with renderings from past centuries and SAGA Realty & Construction’s newest plan on stands between Dablow and Mayor W. Hackney High Jr. (left). Over 50 people attended the meeting. (Photo by Corinne Saunders)
By Corinne Saunders
EDENTON — Residents of Edenton have reported everything from trespassers and vandalism to wasp stings stemming from what they see as SAGA Realty & Construction’s failure thus far to renovate the downtown fixture it’s owned since 2015, the historic Hotel Hinton.
Frustrations have boiled over into two community meetings in the last two years and have surfaced in discussions at multiple town council meetings.