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m Bear Grass • Everetts • Hamilton • Hassell • Jamesville • Oak City • Parmele Bears earn first victory... Sports, Page 6 MARTIN COUNTY :,,^^ville • ^HiyTiston SI Out & About The Martin Memorial Library book club will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9. Learn about all upcoming events in Out & About. Page 2 Opinion Enterprise & Weekly Herald Columnist Sarah Hodges Stallschallenges readers to make a shift in priorities. Page 4 Adopt-A-Pet Jersey is a 9-month- old retriever mix, and is available for adoption at the Williamston Veterinary Clinic. Page 2 GOOD MORNING, Tammy Haislip of Williamston Thank you for subscribing! Inside This Edition Classified 5 Outs About 2 Opinion 4 Sports 6 56525 10902 7 Volume 121: No. 2 TUESDAY. JANUARY 7,2020 Weekh HercdcC • l\V . n:- SARAH HODGES STALLS / Enterprise & Weekly Herald After decades of serving the community, Martin Supply Company will soon close its doors in downtown Williamston. Time to say ‘farewell’ Martin County landmark to close soon SARAH HODGES STALLS Enterprise & Weekly Herald WILLIAMSTON - In the coming weeks, the doors will close for good at Martin Supply Compa ny. Until then, the store will op erate on a limited schedule. “We are sorry we can’t make it work,” explained long-time manager Georgie Griffin. “But it’s been a good, viable busi ness.” The business first opened in downtown Williamston in 1940. Its first year of operation saw transition and change, how ever; the right combination of people fell into place and the store began to thrive. Griffin went to work at the store in 1973 for the late Os wald Stalls. When Stalls passed away in 1983, he took over as manager. ^4^ Georgie Griffin, who joined Martin Supply Company in 1973, says it is heartbreak ing to see this day come but he will always be grateful for the role Martin Supply Company played in the lives of area residents and his own family. “Somebody said to me, ‘You got rich working at Martin Sup ply,”’ Griffin said. He did not fight back the smile that fol lowed. “I got rich with friends,” he See FAREWELL, 8 Everetts leaders take oaths Deans will stay mayor EVEREHS - Tonya Leg gett, Martin County Clerk of Court, swore in Everetts mayor Ray Deans and commission ers during Thursday night’s meeting. Deans has served as mayor since 1999. His' service to the town be gan as a commissioner in 1995, serving until he took over as mayor. Will Prettyman has served the town as a commissioner since 2010. T ^ % See OATHS, 3 SARAH HODGES STALLS / Enterprise & Weekly Herald Martin County Clerk of Superior Court Tonya Leggett (left) swears in Everetts Commissioners Will Prettyman, Becky Williams and Ben Jones. Judge halts Voter ID law BY GARY 0. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH (AP) —Republi can attempts to require photo identification to vote in North Caro lina are being thwarted again by judges hearing arguments that the man date is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents. A federal court an nounced that next week U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs will for mally block a photo ID requirement scheduled to begin in 2020. Un less the upcoming pre liminary injunction is successfully appealed, the requirement will be halted until a lawsuit filed by the state NAACP and others is resolved. Thursday’s short writ ten notice from the fed eral court in Winston- Salem previewed Biggs’ order because state election officials were planning to expand ef forts to educate voters about the ID law within days. Although the re quirement would be car ried out beginning with the March 3 primary, the requirement would actually start in just a few weeks with mail-in absentee ballot filers, who also would have to provide an ID copy. The state law identi fied several types of qualifying photo IDs and allowed people lack ing one to get a free ID card or to fill out a form while voting explaining their “reasonable im pediment” to obtaining one. GOP leaders in charge of the legislature have been trying for most of the decade to advance voter ID, saying that more than 30 states require it and it builds confidence in elections. Data show voter imper sonation is rare, how ever. The voting pool — currently 6.8 million registered voters — is critical in a closely di vided presidential bat tleground state where statewide races are often competitive be- See VOTER ID, 3
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