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"News from Next Door"
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2018
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Algae
poses real
dangers
(Second of a two-part
story)
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Algae blooms aren’t just
unsightly and smelly, but if
unchecked, they can have I
a serious impact on the re
gional economy, said Mark
Powell, a consultant with
the Edenton-based Albe
marle RC&D.
“This could lead to
widespread and persistent
blooms,” Powell said last
week. “The blooms could
have a significant impact on
the regional economy. I talk
ed with a guy today who has
a cabin on the river at Col
erain in Bertie County. The
blooms are thick there.
“He can’t take his family
there because of it. People |
can’t take out their boats, |
kids can’t swim. The prob
lem with algae blooms is
they can go from being non
toxic to toxic very quickly,
and you don’t know.
“We are blessed with so
much water around here .
and that is one of the rea
sons people live here. But
if you can’t use your house
on the water and fishermen
can’t use the water, then
eventually property values
down and that will ripple
throughout the whole econ
omy. Everybody should be
concerned about it, just the
people living on the water.”
There are signs that
warming water tempera
tures aren’t going to help in
See ALGAE, 2
Lawmen
stop slow
moving car
From Staff Reports
A slow-speed chase on
U.S. 17 on Monday ended
with the driver of the car
being taken to the hospital
after six lawmen used then-
cars to box in the driver and
force him to stop.
Perquimans Sheriff Shel
by White said the chase
started near Swing Gate
Road and ended at the foot
of the U.S. 17 Bypass bridge
on the Hertford side about
6 p.m. The car was going
about 30 miles per hour in a
55-mph zone.
“We had gotten a com
plaint about the driver,”
White said.
When the driver did not
stop when the blue lights
and siren were turned on
in the deputies’ patrol car
four other deputies and one
Hertford officer were called
in to box the car in both in
front, rear and on the side
See CHASE, 2
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Students gather in the media center at Perquimans County High School on Monday for the first day of
online college classes.
Judge
jails
Hertford
official
More taking college classes
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Classes started early for 20 per
cent of Perquimans County High
School’s students.
Those taking college courses
on-line started the year off on Mon
day. The rest of the class will start
school on Aug. 27 for all 1,670 stu
dents.
Principal Wayne Price said he is
excited about the increase in the
number of PCHS students taking
college courses. Last year 43 took
advantage of the program. This
year the number is 92.
In North Carolina, high school
students can take community col
lege courses at no cost. If they
wait until after they graduate high
school, they have to pay regular
community college tuition. If they
wait and take the same freshman
English course at a four-year-
school, they will pay even more.
Getting those courses done early
helps the student graduate earlier
and it helps the family avoid high
tuition costs.
“We really reached out to make
sure students and parents were
fully aware of the early college pro
gram,” Price said. “We have a great
Volunteers help local schools
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Hertford Grammar School and
Perquimans Middle School educa
tors got a little early boost from the
community this year.
Volunteers spread new mulch
around areas of HGS, and the mid
dle school got school supplies and
teachers got spending money for
their classrooms.
Laura Moreland, the principal at
the middle school, credits a part
nership the school has with Bethel
Baptist Church.
Last year school year, they built
cabinets for the “gamers” at the
school. The work was finished up
in June.
Moreland explained that some
kids aren’t athletes and they don’t
care for band, but they do like vid
eo games. With the “Ganiers Club”
they are allowed to play games af
ter school in the media center.
At Christmas, the school identi
fied students who might not get
any gifts at all. The church stepped
in and presented gifts of Play sta ¬
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Students participate in a video conferencing class at Perquimans
County High School Monday. With the equipment, which was
upgraded last year, an instructor at College of the Albemarle can see
the class and the class can see the instructor.
opportunity here.”
The school identified students
who would most likely succeed in
a distance learning experience.
The traditional on-line distance
learning classes aren’t for every
body and it’s not for people who
want to goof off, Price said.
“On the first day they need to log
in and do their first assignment or
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Volunteers spread mulch around plants at Hertford Grammar School
this month.
tions and bicycles.
“They wanted to partner with a
local school and we hit the jack-
pot,” Moreland said of Pastor Greg
Owenby’s church.
“Ours is the best partnership we
could have ever hoped for,” More ¬
else they will get dropped from the
class.
“If you don’t do what you’re sup
posed to do, somebody else is go
ing to get your spot,” Price said.
Price is anticipating the day
when a large number PCHS stu
dents attend their high school
See COLLEGE, 2
land said.
Just last week, church members
dropped off a box with school sup
plies that were listed on the sup
ply list. Plus, there were 25 $20
See VOLUNTEERS, 2
Last week a Hertford
town board member was
ordered to spend seven
days in jail for violating his
probation.
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25 hours NORMAN
of commu ¬
nity service and he hadn’t
paid the probation fees. On
Thursday Norman was tak
en directly from the court
room in Hertford to start
serving the sentence.
However Norman told
Tillett that the Town of Hert
ford is shorthanded and he
asked for permission to at
tend Monday’s town board
meeting. Tillett agreed Nor
man could be released for
that meeting but had to go
back to jail Monday night to
complete the jail term.
Norman’s problems start
ed in the fall of 2016.
A N.C. Highway Patrol
man had pulled a vehicle
over into the Wynne Fork
Court housing develop
ment where Norman lives.
Norman came out of his
apartment to see what was
going on and the Trooper
asked Norman to step back.
Ultimately when Norman
didn’t, the Trooper arrested
Norman for resist-obstruct-
delay.
In September 2017, Nor
man was jailed for failure
to appear in court on that
charge. Norman said he got
the court dates mixed up
and he spent three days in
jail.
Norman was found guilty
in District Court on the re-
sist-obstruct-delay charge,
but appealed to the Supe
rior Court. In May, Supe
rior Court Judge Wayland J.
Sermons Jr. found Norman
guilty of the same charge.
Norman was sentenced to
serve six months of super
vised probation and ordered
to perform the 24 hours of
community service.
On Thursday Norman, 61,
argued he tried to reach out
to probation officials, but
said he had problems get
ting answers.
On Thursday a probation
officer and the community
service coordinator painted
a picture showing Norman
did not try make time to do
the 25 hours of community
service or pay the $722 pro
bation fee.
Penny Baker, the coordi
nator, tried to set up Nor
man with doing service with
See NORMAN, 2
Elizabeth City man charged for killing Winfall resident
BY BILL WEST
The Daily Advance
An Elizabeth City man in
dicted for first-degree mur
der in the shooting death of
a Perquimans man earlier
this year was linked to the
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crime by the ankle moni
tor he was wearing while
on probation for his role in
another shooting, court re
cords show.
Dazis Bonds, 22, of the
1100 block of Wood Street,
was indicted July 30 by a
Pasquotank grand jury in
the shooting death of 21-
year-old Devon Revelle on
Esclip Road on June 30.
Bonds is being held without
bond at Albemarle District
Jail. Revelle lived in Winfall.
REVELLE
Accord
ing to an
affidavit
by Sheriffs
Investiga
tor Danny
Fogg,
sheriff’s
deputies
responded
to a report
about 6:54 p.m. on June 30
that an unknown male had
shot near Dryridge and Es
clip roads. When deputies
arrived, they found a man
who had been shot in the
forehead. They also found
numerous .40 caliber shell
casings in the roadway near
the man’s body.
The man, identified later
by fingerprints as Revelle,
died on arrival at a hospital,
Fogg’s statement reads.
A key development in
the case happened on July
2, when Sheriffs Lt. Brent
McKecuen received a tip
that Bonds was Revelle’s al
leged shooter, according to
Fogg’s affidavit. Later that
day, Fogg and SBI Agent
Rodney Parker located
Bonds at his residence and
questioned him. Bonds
claimed he didn’t know Rev
elle or anything about his
murder, the affidavit states.
During the interview,
Bonds told investigators
he was on probation and
wearing an ankle monitor
ing device, according to the
affidavit Bonds was on pro
bation for helping another
man, Jamir Brazzle, flee the
scene of a shooting in July
2014 that left a local woman
confined to a wheelchair.
According to Fogg’s affi
davit, Sheriffs Investigator
Aaron Wallio next met with
state Probation and Parole
Officer George Plascon.
Probation and parole offi
cials use computer software
that monitors and records
See MURDER, 2