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INSIDE: Bertie’s Confernce adds two members... Bertie Ledger-Advance ^ THURSDAY • JANUARY 21,2021 Page 7 980 S. Academy St. Ahoskie,NC 27910 m BW MASTERS Heating & Air Conditioning 252209.0223 SS « oo a: ■ u a n 3 S S * a. ac U4 Z uki ^ crt g 3 Askewville • Aulander • Colerain • Kelford • Lewiston Woodville • Merry Hill • Powelisville • Roxobel • Windsor BCS to continue remote learning Winter sports, activities remain suspended BY GENE MOTLEY For the Bertie Ledger-Advance WINDSOR - Remote learn ing will continue for Bertie County Schools students through the third quarter of the 2020-21 school year, which began Jan. 6 and runs WPD: Drugs found in car THADD WHITE Bertie Ledger-Advance WINDSOR - Driving with a suspended license landed a Windsor wom an and one of her pas sengers in jail Friday. Windsor Police Chief Justin Jackson said Of ficer Jessie Mizelle was patrolling when he no ticed a car operated by a woman known to have a suspended license. The ensuing traffic stop led to the recovery of heroin, marijuana and more than $300 in U.S. currency. Mizelle stopped a car driven by Chelsey Phil lips on Granville Street near the intersection with Belmont Street. Once he approached the vehicle, Officer Mizelle noticed the driv er had unbuttoned her see DRUGS, 2 through March 11. At their Tuesday evening Jan. 11 meeting, the Bertie County Board of Education unanimously approved a recommendation from Su perintendent of Schools Dr. Otis Smallwood to continue with Plan-C, all remote-learn ing for the next nine weeks of the school calendar. Danny Perry, BCS Direc tor of Safety and Security, cited results of a parental survey on face-to-face learn ing. Respondents at only one school (Colerain Elementa ry) of the eight surveyed in the school district favored a return to the classroom. Board members, along with the Superintendent ex pressed their concerns over making a change, leaving Bertie schools with remote learning for close to one full year. “This COVID stuff has re ally made havoc,” said Dr. Smallwood. “Taking two FIRST VIDANT BERTIE HOSPITAL COVID-19 SHOTS CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Debbie Spruill of Vidant Family Medicine - Windsor was the first person at Vidant Bertie Hospital to get the CO- VID-19 vaccince when she did so late last month. Spruill is a Registered Nurse with Vidant Health. steps back and one forward certainly has imperfections, but we have been working through it. We were present ed three options and 1 think we’ve done the very best we can in the students’ and staff’s best interest.” The five board members pretty much stood in agree- See REMOTE, 3 Mrs. Dotsie will be missed THADD WHITE Bertie Ledger-Advance WINDSOR - The col lective of Windsor is mourning the loss of one of her most beloved citizens. Dotsie Leary Dunlow, better known through out Wind- Mrs. Dotsie sor and Bertie County as “Mrs. Dotsie,” succumbed to a brief illness on Wednesday, Jan. 13. “She was an iconic figure here,” Windsor Mayor Jim Hoggard said. “Everyone knew here. Everyone liked her. She’s really going to be missed. I’m very saddened, and so is our community.” see DDTSIE, 3 Funding shortfall puts 1-87 projects on hold PAUL NEILSEN The Daily Advance Financial shortfalls have forced the N.C. Department of Transportation to delay construction on many parts of the proposed 213-mile In terstate 87 project from Ra leigh to Virginia, a move that will push back the $1 billion project by several years. In this edition Marc Finlayson of the Highway 17/64 Association told participants on a virtual “1-87 Work Session” spon sored by the North Carolina East Alliance this week that a number of factors, includ ing the COVlD-19 pandemic, have hurt NCDOT’s bottom line. “Most of the work we ex pect to be done has been pushed off at least several years and in some cases to the back end of the 10-year STIP (State Transportation Improvement Program),” Finlayson said, referring to DOT’S road-planning docu ment for 2020-29. NCDOT’s financial chal lenges started with Hurri cane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018 as the agency had to spend hundreds of millions of dol lars to repair damage from the storms. “That was well beyond the money they had set aside to manage that,” Finlayson said. COVID further hurt NC- DOT as people stopped driv ing during the pandemic and that led to a dramatic de crease m gas tax revenues. “It’s been really an unfor tunate series of events that has caused DOT to have some financial difficulties,” Finlayson said. “The good news is that as things im prove, I am confident that DOT will move projects back to the left of the time line to see 1-87, 2 Church & Faith 5 Classified 6 Opinion 4 Sports 7 Good Morning, Jack Brinkley OF Aulander Thank you for subscribing! Find us on Facebook Volume 123: No. 3 '' ' / . > 't*'
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