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County
talks
taxes
Rhea reports
delinquencies
By Leslie Beachboard
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - Unpaid 2015
real property taxes are
delinquent in . Bertie
County.
The Bertie County
Board of Commissioners
met Monday Feb. 1 at 4
p.m. at the Bertie Coun
ty Courthouse.
Bertie County Tax Ad
ministrator, Jodie Rhea,
presented the 2014-2015
fiscal year delinquent
tax report.
As of Jan. 20, 2016
$1,205,038.21 was still
owed to the county in de
linquent taxes.
The breakdown for
each township shows the
following is stiU owed
from each area:
* Colerain - $181,348.98
* Indian Woods -
$43,835.33
* Merry Hill
$70,858.80
* Mitchell - $136,106.56
* Roxobel - $111,523.79
* Snakebite - $83,158.74
* Whites - $152,221.95
* Windsor - $332,376.16
* Woodville - $
93,607.90
See TAXES, Page A6
Aulander, Bertie Co. receive federal funds
By Thadd White
Bertie Ledger-Advance
RALEIGH - Nearly $5 million is
heading to Bertie County.
Last week. North Carolina
Governor Pat McCrory an
nounced $119 million in fund
ing for drinking and waste-
water projects throughout the
district.
“Clean water and reliable
infrastructure are essential to
healthy, quality of life and eco
nomic growth,” Gov. McCrory
said. “With this funding, towns
can protect their water quality
and become more economically
competitive.”
The town of Aulander was
one of 10 municipalities grant
ed funding through the fed
eral Community Development
Block Grant - Infrastructure.
The town will receive $1.74
million for sewer system im
provements.
Aulander Mayor Larry Drew
said the funding was important
for the small town.
■ “It was our fourth try,” he
said. “We are mighty blessed to
have received 100 percent fund-
See FUNDING, Page A5
BUCK HISTORY MONTH
Marvin Rankins:
An undying love
for Bertie High
By Jim Green
Bertie LedgerMvance
WINDSOR M x’vin Rankins is what you would call
a lifer.
He was born in Bertie County, became a
star athlete at Bertie High School and
later at East Carolina University, and
then came back to teach and coach
for his alma mater.
In fact, almost three years after
he retired, he still helps people
- as a coach at Bertie, and as
part of the community
“If someone asks me for
help, I am going to try and
help,” Rankins, 59, said.
His desire to give back
makes Rankins a pillar of
the Bertie community.
“I hear people say
there is nothing going
on here, and that they
can’t wait to leave
here,” Rankins said.
“My feeling is, how
can people make
things better in
their hometown
and their commu
nity if aU they do
is leave? I always
wanted to be one
who brings some
thing back.”
Rankins, the
son of the late
See RANKINS, Page A5
Class
Ping
found
Windsor High
Class of ‘29
By Leslie Beachboard
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - The search is
on.
Louis W. Corprew, Jr.
contacted the Bertie
Ledger-Advance seeking
help.
Corprew has a ladies
high school class ring
from the
W i n d -
sor High
School
Class of
1929. In
side the
ring are
the initials J.N.L.
“I found the ring on
the playground at the old
Windsor High School. It
was probably during the
1953-1954 school year, but
I don’t exactly remem
ber. I don’t think I was
any older than the ninth
grade,” said Corprew.
“I graduated in 1958
and the ring was packed
away for years while I
was in the Air Force.
Over the years I have
tried several avenues to
attempt to find the own
er.”
See RING, Page A5
Expansion coming to Roanoke-Chowan Community Health
$1 million grant funding will pay for growth
By Leslie Beachboard
Bertie Ledger-Advance
COLERAIN - Healthcare
is expanding in Col
erain.
The Colerain Board
of Commissioners met
Monday.
Kim A. Schwartz, MA,
Chief Executive Officer
for Roanoke-Chowan
Community Health
Center, presented to the
board the changes com
ing to the facility.
“The Roanoke-Chow
an Community Health
Center’s Colerain Clinic
has been a miracle for
Colerain because the
need is so great,” said
Schwartz
RCCHC personnel re
ceived notice this fall
that they had obtained a
$1 million grant to build
an expansion to the site
in Colerain.
This grant wUl be
used to add extra exam
rooms, an education
room, additional behav
ioral services, hopefully
a dental hygienist and
an in-house pharmacy.
“Adding the pharma
cy is a big deal. We were
able to show there was a
need,” stated Schwartz.
The pharmacy would
be housed in the same
building as the health
clinic. The pharmacy
See EXPANSION, Page A5
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