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The QUIMANS EEKLY "'News from Next Door” THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2021 $1.00 § DC rn SCAN ME PAGE B2 Walk raises $500 for schools’ Exceptional Children’s Fund PAGE A6 Maggie Williams wins scholarship again Elections board: No decision yet on residency challenge Jackson claims Brothers doesn’t live at Willow Street address BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer HERTFORD — The Perquim ans County Board of Elections reached no decision following a hearing Thursday, July 22, on a challenge to Connie Brothers’ qualification to run for a seat on the Hertford Town Council. JACKSON Elections of ficials explained they have up to 20 days from July 16 — the day Councilman Quentin Jackson filed a challenge alleging Broth ers does not live within the town limits and thus is ineligible to seek municipal office in Hertford — to submit a written decision in BROTHERS the matter. Jackson, who is running for re-election to his seat on the town council in the November elec tion, testified at Thursday’s hear ing that town records show Brothers has not had a valid util ity account in her name since 2016. He also alleged Brothers is on the list of people who owe signif icant amounts of money to the town because of unpaid utilities. There is now an active electric ity account at 504 Willow Street, which Brothers claims as her res idence, but there is no water and sewer service, Jackson said. Brothers lives with her mother on Harvey Point Road, Jackson said, adding he has surveillance footage taken over a three-week period that shows her at her mother’s house, not at the Willow Street residence. Jackson submitted into evi-" dence the video footage he claims he shot as well as documents he said support his claims about util ity billing at 504 Willow Street. Brothers submitted to the elections board utility and medi cal bills addressed to her at 504 Willow Street, a tax billing sent to that address, and a copy of her See RESIDENCY, A3 Good recovery Sheriff: Bodies of 2 in helicopter crash recovered REGGIE PONDER/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Chowan field crops agent IVlatt Leary shows an ear of corn developing well in a field trial in the southern part of the county. Men identified as brothers from Va.; NTSB probing crash BY JULIAN EURE The Daily Advance COLUMBIA — Author ities recovered on July 22 the bodies of two Virginia men who had been miss ing since their helicopter crashed in the Albemarle Sound several days earlier, the Tyrrell County Sheriffs Office said on Facebook. The sheriffs post iden tified the two men as John Arant, 35, and Alan Arant, 36, brothers from Virginia. The post identified Alan Arant as the helicopter’s pilot. WDBJ Channel 7 in Roanoke, Virginia, report ed the Arants were from Glade Hill, Virginia. The U.S. Coast Guard had announced earlier on July 22 that it was suspend ing its search for the two men following a 38-hour search that spanned 3,303 miles. The Tyrrell Sheriffs Office said Dare County Emergency Communica tions was notified on July 19 of an overdue helicop ter that was supposed to land in Manteo. The Arant brothers departed from Mecklenburg Brunswick Regional Airport in Broad nax, Virginia, earlier that day and planned to land at the Dare County Regional Airport that evening. The sheriff said a “con cerned friend” lost com munication with the two men aboard the Robinson R44 helicopter at 6:40 p.m. Authorities launched a multi-agency search but See BODIES, A3 Crops overcome slow, wet start Too much rain in early spring delayed planting BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer An unusually rainy spring had area farmers calling a lot of audibles when it came to planting dates and field preparation. Even so, farm ers and Extension agents say most crops appear to have come through the slug gish start and recovered well. “Overall it has been a wetter spring than average,” said Chowan County field crops agent Matt Leary. Many fields received too much water in the ear ly spring and a lot of crops were planted later than usu al as a result, he said. But the overall outlook for most field crops right now is good — including the outlook for prices, Leary said. Soybeans prices especial ly have improved, he said. “Overall the prices are better than we have seen the past year or so,” Leary said. The unusually wet tar- ly spring affected crops in two main ways, he said. The first is that many crops were planted late because of heavy rains. The second is that many plants did not develop a healthy deep root system because they didn’t need deep roots in order to find water, he said. So when a dry spell came along in June the plants didn’t have the roots they needed to take water from deeper in the ground. But crops have general ly recovered and are doing well, even if some plants are smaller than they typically would be at this time, he said. Chowan County farm er Jeff Smith agreed with Leary’s assessment, noting that many crops had to be planted two or three times because of heavy rains in the early spring, but now corn, soybeans and other crops mostly look good. Leary said corn crops es pecially are looking good. “Most of the corn is de veloping ears really well,” Leary said. “When you talk to people they seem pret ty happy with their corn crop.” Leary said cotton plants look smaller than usual for this time of year, but should recover and be fine, he said. They basically just got See PLANTING, A3 REGGIE PONDER/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Among those staffing a pesticide collection event at Southern States in Hertford on Wednesday, July 21, were (l-r) Jeremy Maciejewski of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Daniel Lilley of Perquimans County Cooperative Extension. New staff named for Perquimans Weekly Outdated, unwanted pesticides collected White, BeachboarcI, Alfred to lead weekly newspaper in Hertford H ERTFORD - Perquimans Weekly Publisher Sean O’Brien has named a new management team for the newspaper. “We are pleased to welcome an experienced and dedicated team to Hertford to lead the Perquimans Weekly,” O’Brien said. “I believe our readers and adver tisers will be pleased with the product they see in the coming months.” O’Brien has named veteran newspaper editor Thadd White WHITE 6 89076 47144 2 Vol. 87, No. 31 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved as Group Editor of the Perquimans Weekly and Chowan Herald. White will be joined by Man aging Editor Leslie Beachboard and a staff of reporters and writers. White has been in the newspaper business for the better part of three decades and has been Editor of the Bertie Ledger-Advance in Windsor for the past nine years. Before that, he was Managing Editor of the Ro anoke-Chowan News-Herald in Ahoskie. “I have worked in eastern North Carolina all my life, and have been in the newspaper business the vast majority of that time,” White said. “I look forward to getting to know the people of Perqui mans County better over the coming weeks and months. See STAFF, A3 BEACHBOARD ALFRED Extension, NCDA held collection event July 21 BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer Farmers from across the area unloaded outdat ed, banned or otherwise unwanted pesticides July 21 as the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Perqui mans County Cooperative Extension joined forces in a pesticide collection event in Hertford. The collection was held at Southern States on Balla- hack Road. Adam Richard son, manager of Southern States, said the company made their facility available for the event as a public ser vice. Daniel Birch, who works for Smithfield Foods, which operates a grain ele vator in Pasquotank Coun ty, brought to the site some insecticide that is no longer licensed for use in grain bins. “I’ve been trying to get rid of this stuff for about a year now,” he said. Birch said he had worked with Al Wood, a Pasquotank County agri cultural Extension agent, to find a disposal site for the chemical. He said he appre ciates NCDA making the disposal program available. See PESTICIDES, A2
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