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Senate passes restrictive wind bill
BY PETER WILLIAMAS
News Editor
The N.C. Senate approved
a bill Monday that would put
large parts of the state off
limits to wind power proj
ects and possibly kill plans
for a project in Perquimans
and Chowan County.
The Military Operations
Protection Act will now go
to the N.C. House for con
sideration.
The bill is champion by
Sen. Harry Brown of On
slow County and has the
support of Sen. Bill Cook, a
Republican who represents
Perquimans County.
The bill gives the state’s
Department of Military and
Veterans Affairs the respon
sibility for considering how
wind turbines and other tall
structures would impact
military flight operations.
Spokesmen for both Iber
drola Renewables and Apex
Clean Energy maintain that
wind energy companies
already wdrk with the De
partment of Defense when
it comes to locating projects
near military bases. Melissa
Dickerson, a regional direc
tor for the N.C. Sierra Club,
also questioned the need for
the bill.
Dickerson said the bill
goes beyond just making
sure jets and helicopters
can fly without fear of hit
ting a wind turbine. It in
cludes language that gives
the N.C. Department of
Health and Human Services
power over wind turbines
because of health issues.
“It’s a concern for us in that
it gives the agencies veto
power over projects,” she
said. “Some Senators ap
pear to be seeking to pre
vent any new wind projects
in eastern NC.”
“The measure needlessly
pits mqjor clean energy
See BILL, 5
Judge rejects wind lawsuit
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
An administrative law
judge in Raleigh ruled
Wednesday that the state
acted properly when it ap
proved plans for a 22,000-
acre wind farm project in
Perquimans and Pasquo
tank counties.
A Perquimans County
couple, Stephen Owens
and Jillanne Badawi, chal
lenged the state’s decision
to allow the Iberdrola
to proceed on a project
originally known a Desert
Wind. The conservative
Raleigh-based Civitas In
stitute took up the case on
behalf of the couple.
The suit was against the
N.C. Department of Envi
ronmental Quality, former
ly known as the N.C. De
partment of Environment
and Natural Resources.
The suit alleges a law
passed by the General
Assembly in 2013 that
requires extra review
for wind power projects
should have applied to the
Iberdrola project.
Civitas argued that
Iberdrola changed the lo
cation and size of some of
the turbines after getting
a permit from the Federal
Aviation Administration;
hence Iberdrola should
have to restart the state
See LAWSUIT, 2
Male
Accident
mentors
sought
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A Perquimans County
minister is trying to recruit
men to play a bigger part
as role models in local
schools.
Pastor Arthur Manigault
said he heard about the
WATCH D.O.G.S. program
while attending a United
Methodist Church seminar.
Manigault heads Spirit and
Truth UMC in Winfall. The
D.O.G.S. part of the name
stands for “Dad’s Of Great
Students.”
The project has two
goals.
(1) To provide positive
male role models for the
students, demonstrating by
their presence that educa
tion is important.,
(2) To provide extra sets
of eyes and ears to enhance
school security and reduce
bullying.
Manigault wants to bring
the program to Perquimans
Central School and Hertford
Grammar School at first.
As part of the WATCH
D.O.G.S program partici
pants have to go through an
hour-long telephone training
call and go through a back
ground check. Manigault
wants to see at least 50 men
sign up to gauge if there is
enough interest. The school
calendar has more than 180
days.
“A lot depends on the
amount of volunteers we
get,” Manigault said. “This is
a trial run. If it’s successful
and I think it will be we can
do more.”
Manigault said he’s seen
first hand how having a
male adult in a school can
change things.
“One thing it shows is
that somebody cares about
them.”
The commitment is to
See MENTORS, 2
PHOTO BY JOHN HUDSON
An aerial view shows the extend of the log truck accident on U.S. 17 on June 14.
Car causes logging truck wreck
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A driver who pulled out in front
of a logging truck on U.S. 17 was
cited for an accident that damaged
three vehicles and sent one person
to the hospital on June 14.
According to the N.C. Highway
Patrol, Randolph Haddock, 61, of
Asheville, was stopped at a stop
sign at South Edenton Road Street
and failed to yield the right of way
to the southbound truck. He was
charged with fail to yield from a
duly erected stop sign.
Tyquan Alexander, 27, of Colum
bia was southbound driving the
1^98 Freightliner with a load of logs
and hit Haddock’s 2008 Dodge and
overturned into the median, spilling
the logs.
Meanwhile a third vehicle, a 2010
Honda, was headed northbound
was hit by debris from the wreck. It
was driven by Maitlyn Gregory, 19
of Jennifer Drive, Elizabeth City.
Alexander was transported to Vi
dant Chowan Hospital and treated
and released the same day accord
ing to a hospital official.
PHOTO BY CHUCK PAGELS
Hertford firefighters spread material to absorb oil at the site of an
accident involving a logging truck last week.
The logging truck suffered
$10,000 damage according to the
report. Haddock’s Dodge suffered
$5,000 in damage. The Gregory
Honda had $500 damage. The acci
dent happened around 4:30 p.m.
The Hertford Fire Department
provided incident command for the
call.
Also responding to the accident
were: the Hertford Police Depart
ment, the Perquimans Sheriffs Of
fice, Perquimans EMS, Perquimans
Emergency Management and the
N.C. Department of Transporta
tion.
Teen
dies in
wreck
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A 14-year-old Perqui
mans County girl was killed
Thursday afternoon when
the ATV she was riding in
hit a culvert, a small tree
and flipped over.
Sheriff
Eric Tilley
said Mad
elyn Byrum
died at the
scene. He
said anoth
er girl who
was riding
with her
BYRUM
was not seriously injured
and ran to get help. The
wreck happened about 5
p.m. off Goodwin Mill Road
on property belonging to
Byrum’s family.
See FATALITY, 2
Golf pros
coming for
tourney
BY MALCOLM SHIELDS
The Daily Advance
For the past two years,
change has been the norm
for the Biggs Cadillac Buick
GMC Classic.
With two different tours
at the past two tournaments,
the 2016 edition seems to
have stability.
More than 50 profession
al golfers are expected to
appear at Albemarle Plan
tation in Hertford to earn a
piece of the $120,000 purse.
The Classic begins four
rounds of golf on Wednes
day with the final round on
See TOURNAMENT, 2
Department of Transportation starts work on bridge, roads
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Perquimans County roads
and bridges are getting a
$1.6 million makeover this
month.
Crofton Diving Corp, of
Portsmouth, Va., is work
ing on a $1 million project
to replace wooden fenders
that protect the U.S. 17 By
pass bridge. The rest of the
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money is going to resurface
parts of U.S. 17.
John Abel, a bridge engi
neer in the N.C. DOT Divi
sion 1 office, said the older
fenders date back to the
1960s when the first two-
lane bridge was built.
“They were getting old
and money was available,”
Abel said. “It was going to
have to be done at some
point.”
Work is also planned on
the Alligator River Bridge
and one at Mann’s Harbor.
Abel said said large boats
could still travel under the
See DOT, 2
PHOTO BY CHUCK PAGELS
A crew works from a barge to replace some of the
fenders protecting the U.S. 17 Bypass bridge in Hertford
last week. Some of the protective barrier dates to when
the first two-lane span was build in the 1960s.
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Crews resurface part of Dobbs Street last week as part
of a $643,000 contract that included a two-mile section
of U.S. 17.