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"News from Next Door"
OCTOBER 26, 2011 - NOVEMBER 1, 2011
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Heath named interim county manager
By CATHY WILSON
Sta//' Writer
Frank Heath, the coun
ty’s tax administrator and
special projects coordina
tor, will serve as interim
county manager when
County Manager Bobby
Darden leaves to accept a
new post next month.
County commissioners,
approved Heath’s appoint
ment last week, voicing
confidence in the
36-year-old man
who has served the
county for the past
eight years.
“Being tax ad
ministrator, Frank
has been a part of
so much of what’s
going on in the
Heath
Commissioners
have not formed a
plan of action yet
to find a perma
nent replacement
for the post.
“We want to give
Frank a trial peri
od,” added Hobbs.
“Then we’ll see
where to go from
county already,”
said Ben Hobbs, commis- there.”
sioner chairman. “I think “I appreciate the con-
he will do a great job.” fidence that the board of
commissioners has shown
in me by naming me in
terim county manager,”
said Heath. “I am really
proud of the job that Bob
by Darden did as manager,
and I hope to continue
in that same manner. It
is fortunate that we have
very competent depart
ment heads that I can rely
on during the transition.
1 look forward to working
hard to carry out the direc
tives that the elected offi
cials set forth.”
As special projects co
ordinator, Heath has al
ready been involved in
county projects such as the
planned remodeling of the
former Albemarle Electric
building into a new home
for the county’s emergen
cy services. He also helped
in the acquisition of Win-
faU’s water system, and
redesigned the county’s
website.
In addition to assess
ing, -listing and collect
ing county and municipal
taxes. Heath also manages
the county’s water depart
ment’s billing office as well
as the county’s mapping
department.
Heath wiU continue his
duties as tax administrator
during the 120 days he will
See HEATH, 8
A Salute to the Marching Pirates
PHOTOS COURTESY JON PARKER
Drum Major Shannon Saliga leads the Perquimans County High School Marching Pirates during a recent competition at Princess Anne High
School in Virginia Beach, Va., where the band placed first in the IIA division of the U.S. Scholastic Band Association.
Senior members
of the March
ing Pirates play
to the camera
(left) during
Senior Night at
Friday’s football
'V V game.They are
(not in order)
GregTerranova,
Allen Kishpaugh,
Keisha Parker,
Brittany Chappell,
Dakota Givens,
Kristi Colson, Ryan
Strickland, Phillip
Stover and Shan
non Saliga.
See more
photos
of the
Marching
Pirates on
pages
The Perquimans
County High
School Marching
Pirates perform
during a recent
competition at
Princess Anne
High School in
Virginia Beach,
Va.
BOE to mull naming rights for athletic facility
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
Members of the Perqui
mans Board of Education
wiU consider the possi
bility of offering naming
rights for large donations
given to help buUd a pro-
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posed new athletic complex
at Perquimans County High
School.
Charles Ward, chairman of
the community-based commit
tee charged with raising the
needed funds for the athletic
complex, appeared before BOE
members Monday night sug
gesting that offering naming
rights for large donations may
help raise revenue for the proj
ect.
Board of education members
tabled the issue Monday night
when two board members were
not present during the discus
sion.
“With the coffers of high
school athletic programs dry
ing up at an alarming rate, a
naming rights deal with indi
viduals and/or corporations
may be a great source of rev
enue for* the project,” Ward
wrote in a letter to BOE. “The
fund-raising committee, how
ever, recognizes and acknowl
edges that this is a decision
to be made by members of the
BOE. It is the recommendation
of the Athletic Complex Fund-
Raising Committee that nam
ing rights for the high school
athletic complex project be al
lowed with a minimum invest
ment by an individual or cor
poration of $100,000.”
Brenda Lassiter, public
information officer for the
schools system, said the board
is expected to address the issue
during a called meeting Nov. 3.
See FACILITY, 8
PHOTO COURTESY EVELYN WHIDBEE
Rescuers help an injured hunter from the back
of a pick-up truck to an awaiting stretcher.
Hunter injured
near Woodville
By CATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
Woodville farmer Michael Moore
thought he heard a faint call for help
Saturday coming from the woods behind
where he was working.
Being in the outdoors dealing with the
farm and crops daily, he hears outside
noises aU the
How did
it happen?
According to North
Carolina Wildlife Officer
Jonathan Beardsley, the
hunter apparently broke
a leg while attempting
to jump a ditch.
time so he
really didn’t
pay any at
tention to the
sound as he
was working
in the area.
However,
when he saw
a vehicle
driven by a woman hurriedly travel back
into the wooded area off Red Banks Road,
Moore thought he’d better check it out.
He found an injured male hunter who had
fallen into a deep ditch.
According to North Carolina Wildlife
Officer Jonathan Beardsley, the hunter
apparently broke a leg while attempting
to jump a ditch.
Moore, safety officer with Intercounty
See HUNTER, 8
Hertford hit
by larcenies
From staff reports
Several larcenies were reported over
the past week including a break-in at an
area storage facility which netted about
$5,700 in items reported stolen.
According to the Hertford Police De
partment, four storage lockers at Doziers
Mini Storage were broken into Oct. 19
with about
'‘Some units
were broken
into with •
nothing taken. ”
Joe Amos
Hertford Police Chief
on break-ins at Doziers
Mini Storage
$5,700 in
goods report
ed stolen.
Items taken
include three
generators,
two antique
chairs, a 54-
inch televi
sion, three
antique rock
ers, an an
tique bench,
four 20-inch chrome rims with tires, a D. J.
mix board, and four 16-inch aluminum
rims.
Chief Joe Amos said thieves apparently
cut the locks off storage units and took
only what they could carry off quickly.
“Some units were broken into with
nothing taken,” he added.
On Sunday, a resident on Meads Circle
reported that the central air condition
ing unit, valued at $2,500, had been stolen
See LARCENIES, 8