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, V Festivals updates 1B-3B Bomb threats delay residents Rage 4B White named Teacher of Year Page 4 September 6, 2006 Vol. 74, No. 41 Hertford, North Carolina 27944 The Weekly Cocaine seized When Hertford police arrested a man at Wynn Fork Apartments for tres passing, they were able to confiscate a sizable quanti ty of crack cocaine. Officers were on foot patrol in the complex on Aug. 29 when they saw a man who had been previ ously banned from being on the property, said Police Chief Dale Vanscoy Officer Jeff Thomas spotted the man, Brandon Clarence Skinner, 20, who said he resides at 118 Parkers Lane. When Skinner saw the police, he got into his car and attempted to leave, Vanscoy said. Thomas stopped the vehicle, charged Skinner with trespassing and searched his vehicle. Officers found nine grams of cocaine and one gram of marijuana inside the car. The vehicle was seized and impounded. Skinner was further charged with possession with attempt to sell and deliver cocaine and posses sion of marijuana. He was taken to Albemarle District Jail on a $5,500 secured bond. Gas leak thwarted MARGARET FISHER A gas leak raised suspi cions of firefighters, but the homeowner suspects fowl play by her son. A call was made to Central Communications that a neighbor smelled gas seeping from a tank behind 325 Grubb St. The neighbor, George Harvey of 323 Grubb St., smelled gas hnd told one of the homeowner’s sons, who made the call around 4:20 p.m. Hertford Fire Department officials came to the scene, which is locat ed across the street from the station. They found a spit valve was missing and they replaced it. At about 5:45 p.m., they Continued on page 10 Old-time open grill coming to Winfall MARGARET FISHER Terra Development Partners has purchased about an acre of land in Winfall to build an Andy’s Cheesesteak Restaurant. The company, located in Greenville, bought the property on the north cor ner of U.S. Highway 17 and Creek Road on Aug. 7 and will lease it to Andy’s in Mount Olive. Real estate developer Jim Midgette said that Andy’s hopes to open by the end of the year. Dwayne McKay of Andy’s confirmed the building of a restaurant in Winfall, but is not officially providing comments at this time. Water views, no extra charge PHOTO BY MARGARET FISHER Water encircled Larry's Drive-In restaurant in Winfall where the Perquimans River reached Creek Road. Nearby, the causeway was closed most of Friday as waves splashed over the road and debris littered the pavement. Storms cause floods, outages Also wrecks, downed trees MARGARET FISHER A storm estimated to have dropped about seven inches of rain last Wednesday night created an ideal setting for flooding when Tropical Storm Ernesto moved through on Friday morning. Despite dropping at least the same amount of rain to as much as 11 inches, the storm caused mostly minor problems on Friday The first storm caved in the roof of a home that Karl Bolander of Harris Landing Road was in the process of building. Ernesto, downgraded to a tropical depression, blew winds at about 35 miles per hour with gusts estimated as high as 45 miles per hour, said Jarvis Winslow, Perquimans County emer gency management coordi nator. It downed three trees on Old Neck Road, Belvidere Road and Bagley Swamp Road, temporarily blocking lanes. Also, a limb caused minor damage" when it fell on a vehicle on Brace Avenue, off of King Street. The causaway and S- Bridge were closed from Winfall Boulevard to Punch Alley until late afternoon as waves from the Perquimans River crashed across the causeway. Erosion occurred in places along the banks said Hertford Town Manager John Christensen. Other roads that experi enced flooding included Woodville Road, Edenton Road Street, New Hope Road, Pender Road, Burgess Road, Snug Harbor Road and U.S. Highway 17 about three miles south of Hertford. There at Newbold’s Curve, about four feet of water crossed both southbound lanes and about two feet of water lay across Chapanoke Road, said Thomas Swayne, head of the Perquimans County maintenance division with PHOTO BY MARGARET FISHER Waterfront businesses along Grubb Street, like Farmers Feed and Seed, experienced high waters reaching buildings, vehicles and supplies. PHOTO BY SUSAN HARRIS Grubb Street flooded quickly in front of The Perquimans Weekly office during the downpours last Wednesday prior to Tropical Storm Ernesto's arrival. the N.C. Department of Transportation. Much of the water came out of farmland, while about 15 percent came from DOT ditches, Swayne said. “The northeast side of the storm went through,” Winslow said. “It’s normal ly considered the worst part of the storm, anyhow.” By about 10 a.m., the eye of the storm came through the county, but rains began Thursday night and contin ued through Friday after noon. Lightning took out equipment at the Perquimans County Sheriff’s Office and Inteliport, Winslow said. Also, more than 640 resi dents were without power in Perquimans and Chowan counties around 9 a.m. on Friday, stated a report from Albemarle Electric Membership Corporation. Most of these were in the Center Hill Road area. A tree had fallen on a distribution line that carried electricity from a substation near Winfall to Center Hill. Power was restored to most residents by 2 p.m. Quick power restoration was credited to a computer ized system that enables switches at the substations to be turned on remotely from the co-op’s office instead of having to dis patch employees to manu ally throw the switches, the report stated. “Our Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system enabled us to restore elec tricity from a half hour to an hour faster than we oth erwise could have,” said Brad Furr, technical servic es manager for Albemarle EMC, which serves about 11,000 area residents. Wednesday’s storm also disrupted power to resi dents in the Burgess and Harvey Point roads area when a line went down to a Continued on page 10 Wellness center plan may be misunderstood SUSAN HARRIS When Renee Zimmick comes before the county planning board a second time on Sept. 12, she hopes that everyone understands exactly what she’s trying to do on her New Hope prop erty. She believes if they do, there will be no opposi tion to the wellness center she wants to create on part of her property Part of the misunder standing about what she wants to develop on the Deep Creek Road property. she believes, stems from the fact that there are two separate things planned for the property. The first is a wellness center she wants to name Haywood House Wellness Center in honor of the property’s former owner. MARGARET FISHER High waters caused at least two accidents in Winfall last Friday. Charges were issued for one accident. That wreck happened in front of Perquimans Central School at about 2:40 p.m., said Winfall Police Chief David Shaffer. Two vehicles were travel ing south on Winfall Boulevard. The first one, a 2002 Ford pickup driven by James Taylor, 41, of Elizabeth City, was making a right turn into a drive way at 180 Winfall Blvd. Scott Bulman, 34, of 466 Bagley Swamp Road, was driving a 1989 Ford Mustang behind the truck. The Mustang hit the right front of the pickup, caus ing it to become airborne and flip over into a ditch. Bulman suffered minor lacerations to his hand and arm and was found driving with a suspended Virginia driver’s license. He was charged with having no Continued on page 10 Winfall planners approve homes Winfall’s planning board met on Aug. '28 and approved a proposed 35-lot development to be located next to Perquimans Central School. The development, Nixon’s Terrace, if approved by town coun cilors, will be located on at least 12 acres of farmland between Hollowell Oil Company and the school. Developer Julian Nixon of Albemarle Home Builders has proposed sin gle family stick-built dwellings on approximate ly one-third-acre lots. The developer has built a simi lar tract - Summerfield - in Elizabeth City, said Nigel Goodwin, planning board chairman. Nixon could not be reached before publication. Access to the develop ment is proposed to be between the two houses north of the school. The first lot would be on Winfall Boulevard, the sec- Continued on page Haywood Small, the cetner would be a non-profit adressing the needs of older adults by establishing creative linkages between the community, the elderly and families. Zimmick sees the center operating as sort Continued on page 6B Weekend Weather Thursday High: 86, Low: 68 Partly Qouldy Friday High: 87, Low: 70 Partly Clouldy Saturday High: 89, Low: 70 Mostly Sunny
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