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The Perquimans Weekly
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Vol. 64. No. 24
The only newspaper for and about Perquimans County people
Hertford, North Carolina 27944
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Perquimans is being mapped
Full-color caricature
map popular with
businesses
Perquimans County is being mapped -
at no expense to taxpayers.
Van Thompson of Town Square
Graphics, Roswell, Ga. is in town selling
a map to businesses and organizations.
When it’s complete, the map will be a
four-color process print of an original
hand-painted caricature map of the
county.
Thompson said 7,000 copies of the
map wUl be printed. The local Chamber
of Commerce will use the maps to pro
mote the county.
“We take pictures of the buildings
and signs of each of the participating
businesses, and our artists draw a cari
cature of it and place it on the map,”
Thompson said. “This is a one-time
thing. But it will be a permanent picture
of what the town looked like in 1996.”
Town Square Graphics has produced
the colorful 18x24-inch maps for cities in
Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Florida. Thompson said
last week he has already photographed
many points of interest.
“For businesses it’s kind of like hav
ing 7,000 tiny billboard ads,” Thompson
said. 'The cost to have businesses print
ed on the map begins at $195. He added
that initial response to the map has been
very good.
Thompson said his company and the
Chamber plan to have the maps ready in
time for the Indian Summer Festival in
mid-September.
Hertford
garbage
collection
to be
privatized
By SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
The Hertford Town Council
agreed to move forward with
privatizing garbage collection.
Town manager John
Christensen said Waste
Industries will not raise the
price quoted earlier this year
when Edenton and Hertford
councils worked together on
the project, even though public
pressure made the Edenton
board put a lid on the issue
there.
Christensen said he will get
a contract drawn up and back
to coimcU for review. He antic
ipates board approval in July.
The new system wUl probably
be in place by August, but
Christensen said the town will
take the time to make sure aU
Hertford residents know about
and understand the new sys
tem before it is implemented.
. Of the town’s three sanita
tion employees, one retired
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Hertford employees gathered last Wednesday
to say good-bye to Alton Aubrey Jordan, who
retired from the town’s sanitation department.
The 20-year-plus employee was praised by his
supervisors and co-workers as having given
the town many years of dedicated service.
last week, one will be trans
ferred to the street department
and one will be left without a
job. Waste Industries has
agreed to give displaced town
employees first option on fill
ing job positions opened by
their expansion into Hertford,
provided the potential employ
ee obtains a commercial dri
vers license.
Christensen said the town
will continue to pick up yard
waste, and will probably be
able to do a better job in that
area with the additional
employee in the street depart
ment.
In addition to the 90-gaUon
reliable container residents
will receive. Waste Industries
will provde an 18-gallon con
tainer for recycling.
“Waste Industries has com
mitted to make Hertford a
model town as far as waste col
lection,” Christensen said.
“We will be used as an exam
ple.”
Had the town not opted to go
No fishing
from the
bridges,
council says
Hertford waits for
state OK to halt
bridge fishing
By SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
Folks won’t be catching sup
per from Hertford’s bridges
much longer.
The Hertford Town Council
decided last Tuesday night to
request that the state
Department of Transportation
outlaw fishing from the S-
bridge, Skinner’s bridge and
Walter’s bridge, all within the
town’s corporate limits.
Town manager John
Christensen said last
Wednesday that the request
was to be submitted to the
DOT office in Ahoskie
Thursday. While DOT has the
final say on the matter,
Christensen said state officials
generally approve the requests
of municipality’s regarding
local matters such as fishing
from bridges.
Christensen added that it
will be DOT’S responsibility to
post the bridges. As soon as
the signs go up, the Hertford
Police Department will begin
enforcing the regulation.
Town residents have asked
the town for some time to take
action on the matter. Eldon
Winslow, who lives just off the
S-bridge, has been especially
vocal. Winslow has said he
and his neighbors had been
bothered by the noise, trash
and parking problems caused
by some fishermen. He even
reported last month that some
fishermen have been spotted
urinating in private yards
close to the bridge.
Town attorney Walter
Edwards told council he had
received some calls asking
that the bridges not be closed
to fishing: however, no one
who attended last Tuesday’s
meeting spoke for allowing
fishing from the bridges to
continue. All who attended the
meeting spoke against it.
Christensen said the safety
issue was the main concern
regarding the smaller
Skinner’s and Walter’s
bridges. Motorists have report
ed problems with fishermen,
especially children, crossing
the road in their paths while
on the bridges.
Christensen did not know
when to expect a response
from DOT.
DOT to work on
S-shaped bridge
Historic span
will be closed to
traffic soon
By SUSAN R. HARRIS
Editor
The S-shaped bridge is an
important landmark in
Perquimans County.
That’s one reason state
transportation officials are
concerned about the present
condition of the bridge and
plan to do something about it.
Town manager John
Christensen said last week
that the bridge connecting
Hertford and Winfall will be
closed to traffic sometime this
summer for extension renova
tions and repairs.
Work to be done includes
replacing rotten pilings,
repairing and replacing the
underpinning with steel sup
port material and renovating
the bottom of the swing span.
DOT blames heavy truck traf
fic for much of the damage the
bridge has sustained.
The work is scheduled this
summer to alleviate the need
to reroute school buses.
Christensen said the work
should extend the life of the
bridge.
“It’s an important landmark
and DOT doesn’t want to
destroy it,” Christensen said.
“They realize that it’s impor
tant to the community and
they’re trying to see that it
lasts.”
Christensen said public
notice of the date of the
bridge’s closing will be made
public as soon as it is avail
able. Motorists will either
have to travel over the U.S.
Highway 17 Bypass bridge or
go through the Beech Springs
community to get from one
side of the river to the other.
Outside
with a private waste collection
company, Christensen had
said he would recommend the
purchase of a new garbage
truck in his budget message to
council.
Town residents will not be
asked to pay a collection fee
once Waste Industries takes
over garbage collection. The
service will be handled
through the town budget as it
has traditionally been funded.
Christensen said privatization
will be cheaper.
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