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SNAPPY DRESSER THE GOOD BOOK ^ William Rowell on dressing for 1 i Pat Throckmorton on why The success, A4 B-l-B-L-E’ is the book for her, A3 MEMORIES Mark Rutledge remembers a beloved restaurateur, A4 SCAN ME Volume 118: No. 12 Bertie Ledffer-Advance ^ Thursday - January 13,2022 1980 S. Academy St. !Ahoskie,NC 27910 MASTERS rd a cn oe CO Heating & Air Conditioning i 252209.0223 ASKEWVILLE 4- AULANDER COLERAIN KELFORD 4- LEWISTON WOODVILLE 4^ MERRY HILL 4- POWELLSVILLE 4- ROXOBEL WINDSOR Wintry precipitation possibie in ENC on Sunday Authorities urge caution with home heating BY ARIYANNA SMITH Staff Writer The National Weather Service on Wednesday is sued a hazardous weather advisory for eastern North Carolina warning that win try precipitation was possi ble later this week. Meteorologist Casey Bail of the Weather Service of fice in Newport said it was still too early for q)ecifics, but a low-pressure system is bringing cold tempera tures to the area and could add in moisture later this week into Sunday. “There is potential for precipitation to start as rain, snow or a wintry mix before it transi tions to rain on Sunday af ternoon.” The advisory stated a storm system late this week end has “the potential to bring a period of wintry pre cipitation to eastern North Carolina with some light snow accumulations possi ble before snow changes to rain.” The weather service fore casts a 70 percent chance of precipit^on in Bertie County. Snow is expected before 10 am. followed by rain and snow between 10- 11 am. The forecast high is 46 degrees and a low of 30 on Sunday. It will be mostly cloudy throughout the day. Martin County has a fore cast high of 44 degrees and a low of around 32. There is an 80 chance of precipita tion with snow likely before 10 am. followed by rain in the afternoon. Overnight low tem peratures are expected to remain below freezing through the weekend. Tire Department of TVans- portation is preparing for the wintry weather starting Thursday, . officials said. Bridges and overpasses in Martin and Bertie counties win be treated on Friday. Tim Hass, NCDOT See WEATHER, A5 Snow on Jan. 3 shut down a section of Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg, Va. A wintry mix is possible Sunday ih eastern North Carolina. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Vidant Bertie Hospital, 1403 S. King St., Windsor, will be among Vidant facilities making the transition to the ECU Health branding starting in the spring. ECU Health branding coming in spring Bertie hospital among facilities that are part of new configuration The Ledger-Advance The new year will bring a transfomTation in how health care is delivered in eastern North Carolina.' The joint operating agree ment between East Carolina University’s Broad School of Medicine and Vidant Health officially went into effect Jan. 1 and the two entities are finalizing plans on how they’ll share delivery of care to the 1.4 million residents of eastern North Carolina Under the joint operat ing agreement, the medical school and health system will remain separate legal en tities, but will integrate under a new, shared brand known as ECU Health. The ECU Health logo will be revealed in the spring and the rebranding process for most Vidant entities and ECU Physicians practic es will begin shortly after, Vidant and ECU annoimced earlier this month. Rebranding is expected to take months to complete. New signage will go up in late spring or later, websites will modified and other identifiers will get the ECU Health logo. By late summer, a brand advertising cam paign will begin. “The new year marks an important and exciting ch£^ ter for health care in eastern North Carolina,” said Dr. Michael Waldrum, CEO of See ECU HEALTH, A5 Drug trafficker gets 25 years in federal prison Feds: Leary bought drugs, supplied local dealers The Ledger-Advance A Bertie County man who for five years headed a drug trafficking organi zation that supplied ille gal drugs in communities across the region has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, a press re lease from the U.S. Attor ney’s Office states. Levar Anthony Leary, 41, was convicted in August of trafficking cocaine, crack cocaine, and methamphet- amine and conspiring to Commit money laundering, U.S. Attorney Michael Eas ley said Wednesday. According to Easley, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Leary organized and led a drug trafficking organiza tion fi:om 2016 to early 2021 that distributed cocaine, crack cocaine, metham- phetamine, heroin and mar- yuana throughout north eastern North Cai'olina Easley said Leary and his “associates” used a hotel, nightclub and convenience store in Bertie to distrib ute narcotics and launder money. Narcbtics agents were able to track and ob serve Leary travel across the coimtry, including to California, Texas, Florida and Georgia where he ob tained large quantities of illegal drugs and returned to North Carolina, Easley said. Some of those assisting Leary’? drug trafficking organization have already been convicted and sen tenced, Easley said. They include Johnny Earl Jor dan, who was sentenced to six years; Fred Rudolph Robbins Jr., sentenced to 7!4 years; and Alexander Leander WiUiams Jr., sen tenced to 11 years. As a result of the inves tigation, law enforcement seized numerous vehicles and properties that Easley See PRISON, A5 Filing period set after judges OK GOP redistricting plan ' Full court liow expected to consider the case The Ledger-Advance Candidate filing for North Carolina’s 2022 primary elections will resume at 8 am’, on Feb. 24, the N.C. State Board of Elections an nounced on Wednesday. The annovmcement comes a day after a three- judge panel upheld state leg islative and congressional district maps approved in November by the GOP-con- troUed General Assembly. In this edition 'The ruling is expected to be considered by ^e full state Supreme Court. “State Board of Elections staff will Immediately begin preparing for the continua tion of the candidate filing period, including seeming a. location to ensure the health and safety of staff and candi dates,” Karen Brinson Bell, State Board executive direc tor, said. “We will provide all details to the public as soon as possible at NCSBE.gov and through an announcement distributed to the media” Filing for local, state and federal offices •was halted Dec. 8 by the court when it decided to take up a chal lenged by voting rights groups' that ^d the new districts were unconstitu tionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans. The new filing period wiU end at noon on March 4 imder a new court order and elections are scheduled for May 17. Many candidates were able to file Dec. 6-8. Those candidates do not have to refile. Meanwhile, a separate court order on Tuesday or dered the suspension of any challenges to candidates for U.S. House, N.C. House and N.C. Senate, until final reso lution of the litigation in the redistricting cases. A challenge was filed agaiirst congressional can didate Madison Cawthom of Asheville on Monday, and the State Board was planning to appoint a panel to hear that challenge on Wednesday as required by state law. In accordance with the court’s order, the State Board canceled its meeting, and consideration of that pending challenge is post poned until resolution of the redistricting cases. The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that a panel of three Supreme Court judges refused Wies- day to throw out redis tricting maps drawn by the General Assembly, rejecting arguments that the lines were illegal because they were politically stacked for the GOP. The unanimous, decision by the three trial judges, which followed a quick trial last week, ■will be appealed by the advocacy groups and voters — some backed by a national Democratic group — who challenged the new congressional and legisla tive lines in court. The state Supreme Court, which will have the final say on the maps, had ordered the trial judges to rule by 'Tuesday, apparently to dis courage further delays in the 2022 election schedule. “At the end of the day, after carefully and fully con ducting our analysis, it is clear that plaintiffs’ claims must fail,” Superior Court Judges Graham Shirley, Na thaniel Poovey and Dawn Layton wrote in the nearly 26()-page order. GOOX) MORNINt;, Thank Yai FOR REAPiNfi! Find US on Facebook wvvw.bertieledgeradvance.com Obituaries A2 Opinion , .A4 Sports ..Bi Classified.. ■ B4 Life & Style .B6 0 11711 35906 6 Bertie County Non-Emergency Transports
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