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Commissioners exercise eminent domain
Board will force sale of property as part of Tall Glass of Water Project
THADD WHITE
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSOR - The Bertie
County Commissioners have
served notice they intend to
use their powers of eminent
domain.
At the Jan. 7 meeting of
the board, the commission
ers unanimously adopted
a motion to secure a 10.35-
acre tract on the Albemarle
Sound as part of its “Tall
Glass of Water” Project.
Bertie County initially
tried to purchase the prop
erty, which is described as
a “beach path” in 2016, ac
cording to a press release.
The attempt failed.
At the same time, the com
missioners sought grant
funding from the N.C. Divi
sion of Coastal Management
to cover the costs of land ac
quisition and improving the
beach path access.
The 10.35-acre tract con
tains freshwater forested
wetlands and an estimated
56 percent cleared area. It
is approximately 140 feet of
waterfront and is accessible
by a recorded 60-foot ease
ment from Bal-Gra Road.
During the work toward
purchasing the property, it
was discovered there were
two sets of deed restric
tions - one in 1998 and the
other in 2015 - which were
deemed in conflict with one
See DOMAIN, 5
One caught,
one at large
Alleged murderer
remains on the lam
THADD WHITE
Bertie Ledger-Advance
One of two suspects
wanted in the Jan. 6
murder of Rayshon
Carter has been appre
hended.
Bertie County Sheriff
John Holley confirmed
the suspect wanted
as an accessory after
the fact was taken into
custody by the Frank
lin (Va.) Police Depart
ment.
The suspect was Ty-
wan Jonshea’ Outlaw,
AKA “Too-da-loo,” 28,
who was served war
rants for Accessory Af
ter the Fact of murder.
Carter was shot to
death at a birthday par
ty held at the Midway
Community Building.
Officers were called and
found him shot multiple
times. Carter was trans
ported to Vidant Medi
cal Center in Greenville,
but succumbed to his
Caught:
Tywan Jonshea’ Outlaw
Wanted:.
MICHELLE LEICESTER / Bertie Ledger-Advance
First place, Katie Carter (center), \yinner of the Good Shepherd Food Pantry logo, contest
holds the logo she created. To the left of her is thS-director of the Good Shepherd Food
Pantry, Debbie Freeman. To the right of Carter is the third place winner, LaShonda Winston,
holding the logo that she created.
Food pantry
gets new logo
See SUSPECT 5 Jashawn De’Andre Brown
MICHELLE LEICESTER
Bertie Ledger - Advance
WINDSOR - The Good
Shepherd Food Pantry
is starting off the year
with a new logo.
The Bertie County
Arts Council collabo
rated with the food
pantry to host a logo
contest for the their
first logo.
The winners were
announced on Dec. 11
at the Bertie County
Arts Council’s Christ
mas bazaar. The first
place winner, Katie
Carter, received a $200
gift card as well as her
artwork being selected
as the new logo.
Oniah Brown came
in second place with
a $100 gift card, and
LaShonda Winston
came in third place
with a $50 gift card.
The Good Shepherd
Food Pantry of Bertie
Se6 LOGO, 3
Teacher housing initiative awaits bill
SARAH HODGES STALLS
For the Bertie Ledger-Advance
During the January Bertie
Commissioner meeting. Com
missioner Ron Wesson of
fered an update on the Teach
ing Housing Project which the
county and town of Windsor
are jointly pursuing.
“The only hold up that we
have right now is that we
need a local amendment be
fore the legislature the state
legislature that would allow
the Windsor Township De
velopment Corporation to
be the holder of that debt for
the housing project,” Wesson
said.
Wesson said he had spoken
with Sen. Erica Smith on the
same day of the meeting. A
new bill will be ready Jan. 28,
with hopes of being in place
by Feb. 4.
According to Wesson, “Late
in the last year it got hung
up in committee. We could
not get it, or they could not
get it out of committee at the
end. She tried to get it on the
floor in the special session
that they just ended, but they
agreed not to hear any local
bills in that session or very
few of them.”
In addition, the board re
ceived an update from Vidant
Bertie Hospital.
Brian Harvill, President
of Vidant Bertie and Vidant
See BILL, 5
Town
THADD WHITE
Bertie Ledger-Advance
WINDSDR - The Wind
sor Board of Commis
sioners laid out a three-
point plan to deal with
flooding.
At the board’s regular
monthly meeting last
week, Windsor Mayor
Jim Hoggard suggested
moving forward with
three broad points of
consideration as the
town begins to tackle
the flooding issues.
The mayor said town
officials now have a
study from a hydrologist
and other information
giving the town options
to control flooding.
The three points ap
proved by the town
board include upstream
improvements, offering
properties for flooded
businesses and retrofit
ting or waterproofing
downtown businesses.
The mayor said he
had discussed flooding
issues with Town Ad
ministrator Allen Cas-
telloe as well as the four
commissioners, and
those talks led to the
formation of the plan he
presented.
“The first thing would
be upstream improve
ments;” he said. “We
need to find out what
it is possible to do, and
the cost to do that, as
well as who would pay
for that.”
Mayor Hoggard said
See PLAN, 5
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