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Tanya Turner sworn in as Perquimans superintendent
Former ECPS official
starts new job today
BY PETER WILLIAMS
The Perquimans Weekly
From the pledge of alle
giance on down, the
agenda for Monday’s
swearing in ceremony for
new Perquimans County
Superintendent Tanya
Turner was proof of one
thing ... she was home
again.
The Pledge of Allegiance
was led by her nephew,
William Howell, a first-
grader at Perquimans Cen
tral along with nieces
Eleanor Howell, a fourth-
grader at Hertford Gram
mar School and Catherine
Howell, a sixth-grader at
Perquimans County Mid
dle School.
Turner, a product of the
Perquimans County
School system, taught the
first 10 years of her career
in Perquimans. She has re
mained a Perquimans resi
dent her entire life even,
though she’s been in the
Edenton-Chowan County
School system for the past
17 years. She leaves the po
sition as assistant superin
tendent for curriculum and
instruction in Chowan to
take the Perquimans
County job.
Before the ceremony,
Edenton-Chowan Superin
tendent Rob Jackson said
he talked with then
Perquimans Superinten
dent Dwayne Stallings
about five years ago when
he was hired in Edenton.
Stallings told his counter
part that from time to time
educators from the two
systems went back and
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PETER WILLIAMS/THE
PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Superior Court
Judge J.C. Cole
(right) swears in
new
Perquimans
County Schools
Superintendent
Tanya Turner on
Monday at
Perquimans
Central School
in Winfall.
CYCLE NC Coastal Ride
PHOTO COURTESY STEVE GRZANKA
After Friday night's stormed cleared, the tents from Cycle NC Coastal Ride pale in comparison to Mother
Nature's handiwork at sunset over Colonial Park.
Main Street America
board to visit Edenton
Annual bike tour visits region
1,750 people attend
event hosted by Edenton
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff writer
Cycle NC Coastal Ride
transfonued Edenton into
a haven for bicyclists from
here, there and every
where this past weekend.
“This year was a huge
success - one of the best
coastal rides we have ever
had,” said Chip Hofler,
vice president of North
Carolina Amateur Sports,
which manages Cycle NC.
“From fantastic routes
with new rest stops, to
great entertainment in
town, the riders really had
a wonderful experience.”
registered for the event
that spanned Thursday
through Sunday and fea
tured bicycle treks to mul
tiple venues including
Columbia, Hertford and
Bertie County.
“This year was the
largest number we have
PHOTO GALLERY
For more photos from Cycle
NC Coastal Ride, visit the
photo gallery at dailyad-
vance.com.
ever had in Edenton,” he
said. “This was the sixth
time Edenton has hosted
the event, and we will
surely be back.”
Saturday morning, a
group of folks from central
Ohio were enjoying a
breakfast of scrambled
eggs, pancakes and
sausage prepared by the
Edenton Rotary Club.
“We heard about this
last summer when we
were on the great Ohio Bi
cycle Adventure when we
met people with T-shirts
for Cycle NC who were
just glowing about the ride
and recommending it, so
we drought, ‘OK, we’ll try
it,’” said Susan Kahrl of
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CHOWAN HERALD
PHOTOS
Left: A little
beach music
and it's time
to do the
shag Satur
day as Ocean
Breeze Band
performs.
Below: Tents
fill the 1767
Chowan
County
Courthouse
green Friday.
Meeting to be held Friday
at Chowan Arts Council
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff writer
Tuesday morning, legal
eagle Sambo Dixon walked
up South Broad Street to
get a cup of coffee at Eden
ton Coffee Shop when he
spoke of Main Street Amer
ica’s Board of Directors
visit to town Friday.
“It’s going to be good
meeting - a lot of ideas for
building communities,” said
Dixon, a member of the Na
tional Main Street Board of
Directors who invited the
group to Edenton.
Dixon explained that
Main Street America is a
program of the National
Main Street Center, a group
that revitalizes older and his
toric commercial districts to
build vibrant neighborhoods
and thriving economies. The
National Main Street Center
is based in Chicago, with an
office in Washington, D.C.,
I and field staff located
throughout the country. For
Edenton to score a national
board meeting is a big deal,
Dixon said.
Main Street America is a
network of more than
1,600 neighborhoods and
communities, rural and ur
ban, who share both a
commitment to place and
to building stronger com
munities through preserva
tion-based economic de
velopment. Main Street
America is
a program
of the non-
profit Na
tional
Main
Street
Center,
Inc., a sub
sidiary of
the
National Trust for Historic
Preservation.
Regional, state, and na
tional Main Street officials
will meet in a casual setting
between 8:30 am. and 9:30
am. Friday at the Chowan
Arts Council, 112 W. Water
St. No RSVP is required for
this forum and a light
breakfast will be provided.
The event offers business-
people a chance to ask ques
tions of the Main Street
America Board members as
well as the experts.
“Destination Downtown
Edenton is a Nationally Ac
credited Program and we
are beyond thrilled to wel
come this prestigious group
to our downtown,” said Jen
nifer Harriss, director of
Destination Downtown
Edenton. “The community
has planned several special
events to welcome the
board. They will have a boat
tour on the Liber-tea, a re
ception and the Barker
House and lunch at the
Cupola House. Our down-
town businesses are ready
to show the board how awe
some our downtown is!”
Sweep Chowan
Long hours pay off for town, businesses
Nichols: Cycling event runs
smoothly with volunteers’ help
BY NICOLE BOWMAN-LAYTON
Editor
From rain to sun to wind, the
participants of Cycle NC Coastal
Ride experienced pretty much all
the weather Edenton has to offer
during this past weekend. They
also experienced some of the best
Chowan County has to offer in
terms of hospitality.
Welcoming smiles greeted the
visitors wherever they went, in
cluding both at check-in and
throughout the routes. Registra
tion included greetings from the
NICOLE LAYTON/
CHOWAN HERALD
Cyclists
pass the
Cupola
House
garden
Friday
during Cycle
NC.
PHOTO COURTESY JACKI ARROWOOD
Sweep Chowan So-Cho - Southern Chowans - did their
duty to keep Yeopim and Thick Neck roads clean by
picking several bags of trash. Pictured are (l-r) Les
Kersey, Harriet Dehart, Sally Francis Kehayes, George
Nelson, Commissioner Larry McLaughlin, Commissioner
Patti Kersey, Georgiana Nelson, Dr. Alex Kehayes and
Tom Credle with Jacki Arrowood taking the photograph
of the crew. Sweep Chowan, an initiative to pick up
trash along roadways, ended Tuesday. More information
will be in an upcoming edition.
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Aces Boosters assisting Cycle NC
on Thursday, while the many vol
unteers at all the rest stops wished
them safe travels.
Several civic and youth organi
zations pitched in, filling gaps in
service, according to Nancy Ni
chols, Chowan County Tourism
Development Authority director.
“Our organizations really
pitched in to feature what may
have been missing with our Boy
Scouts, Rotary, Edenton Farmer’s
Market, Friends of Historic
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