Reception planned for Stallings
INTRODUCING
STALLINGS
From Staff Reports
A reception will be held hon
oring Dr. Dwayne K. Stallings
on his retirement from Perqui
mans County Schools on Dec. 7
from 4-6 p.m. in the gymnasium
at Perquimans County High
School, 305 Edenton Road St.
Hertford.
Tickets are $10 each and are
available for purchase through
Nov. 23 at the central office, 411
Edenton Road St.
Funds from federal, state, or
local sources cannot be used to
finance the event. For more in-
fonnation, call 426-5741.
Call 335-8076
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Aples, Eley tops in balloting for seats
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Perquimans County Board of Elections Director Sydni
Banks (left), Chairman Dianne Layden, Secretary John
McGowan and member Vera Murrill go over absentee
and provisional ballots last week.
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Absentee and provisional ballots counted
Friday did not change the results of Hertford’s
election, but there was that possibility.
Write-in candidate Archie Aples got the
vast majority of the votes in a race for one •
of two Hertford Town Board seats on Nov. 3.
He finished with 166. The top two contenders
for the second seat were incumbent Sid Eley {
and write-in challenger Frank Norman. Eley
held a four-vote edge over Norman as of last
Tuesday.
Two mail-in ballots and three provisional
ballots that were reviewed on Friday could
have swayed that margin.
Had all five ballots been accepted and if
all five voters had cast a ballot for Norman,
it would have given Norman a one-vote edge
Reid wins, is hospitalized
From Staff Reports
Hertford Mayor Horace Reid
easily won re-election Tuesday,
but apparently suffered bleed
ing on the brain and was taken
to Pitt Memorial Hospital in
Greenville.
“He is doing well and still at
the hospital in Greenville,” said
Brandon Shoaf, town manager
Tuesday morning.
Winfall Mayor Fred Yates
confirmed Wednesday that
Reid had undergone surgery.
“I can tell you what his wife
told me,” Yates said. “He was
REID
felling ill last
(Nov. 3) eve
ning and they
took him to
Chowan Hos
pital and the
doctor found
there was
bleeding on
the brain. They
flew him to Vidant in Greenville
and he had surgery last night.
The surgery was successful and
he’s in ICU at this time.”
Yates said Reid spent time
See REID, 2
PCMS
principal
to resign
on Jan. 1
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Andrea Greene, the prin
cipal of Perquimans County
Middle School since 2012,
will step down effective
Jan. 1.
GREENE
said Friday.
Greene’s
Greene
said she
wants to
move clos
er to fam
ily.
“I just
felt like it
was time,”
Greene
departure
means all four Perquimans
County Schools will have
new principals by the end of
this school year.
Chante Jordan, the prin
cipal at Perquimans High
School resigned in July. She
was replaced by Melissa
Fields, who had been prin
cipal at Perquimans Central.
Bonita Jones, who had been
assistant principal at PCMS
was picked to take the Cen
tral job. Laura Moreland, an
assistant principal at PCHS
See GREENE, 8
SeeBALLOTS,2
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
A crowd gathers Saturday at the monument for black veterans who served in the Civil War. Another Veteran’s
Day event will be held today at 11 a.m. in front of the Perquimans County Courthouse.
Local veterans honored at ceremony
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A rea veterans were honored
Saturday and another event is
scheduled for today.
Today’s event is sponsored by
Legion Post 126 is at 11 a.m. on
the courthouse lawn in front of the
Perquimans County Courthouse.
American Legion Post 362 held an
observance Saturday at the monu
ment erected for black soldiers and
sailors that served in the Union
during the Civil War. The granite
marker sits on the corner of Hyde
Park and King Streets.
More than 50 people attended.
Joseph Hoffler, a retired lieuten
ant colonel in the U.S. Air Force,
gave Saturday’s keynote speech. He
pointed out 179,000 blacks served in
the Union Army and 14,000 were in
the Union Navy during the Civil War.
In all, 40,000 black troops died.
The monument for them in Hert ¬
ford was erected in 1910 by women
in the community.
“It took a lot of nerve to do that,”
Hoffler said.
One of the three soldiers men
tioned in a plaque next to the monu
ment is Sgt. John Gordon. Hoffler
said that was his great grandfather.
Other speakers Saturday were Judie
Hoffler, the secretary of the Post 362
Auxiliary; Hattie Sharpe, the
See CEREMONY, 8
‘Loop’
drawing
boaters
(Editor’s Note: This is a
first of a t wo-part series on
efforts to increase boat traf
fic in the region.)
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
What started as a coop
erative effort between five
municipal marinas and Albe
marle Plantation has grown
to include three more.
The Albemarle Loop cam
paign kicked off last spring.
It was spearheaded by boat
ers at Albemarle Plantation
to try and market the region
for boats traveling nearby
along the Intracoastal Wa
terway. The response has
been positive, according to
Jack Atwell, who helped
spearhead the effort.
“We didn’t have to wait for
it to pickup speed,” Atwell
said Monday. “Everybody
involved has told us they’ve
seen a significant increase
in transient boaters. I know
for the Plantation alone last
year we had two transients
and this year in just six
months we’ve had 40.”
The original municipal
partners included Elizabeth
City, Hertford, Edenton,
Plymouth and Columbia.
See ‘LOOP’, 8
Habitat to increase construction
Bark For Life
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Chowan-Perquimans
Habitat for Humanity will
begin construction on two
homes next year one in
Chowan County and one in
Perquimans County.
Since the affiliate was
formed in 1996, the goal
has been to build one house
each year in each county.
The issue was money and
having the available volun
teer labor.
“Thanks to the monies
generated by the ReStore,
a warehouse sale, our part
ners, and our faithful sup
porters, we are finally in a
financial position to achieve
this goal,” said Sally Hol
loway, the president of the
local group.
New support from the
State Employees’ Credit
Union Foundation (SECU)
will also “prime the pump”
by injecting more funds,
Holloway said. The SECU
Habitat Challenge has a
goal is to renovate or build
a home in each of the 100
counties in North Carolina
before February 2018.
SECU has agreed to buy
mortgages of Habitat Part
ner Families, paying 95
percent of the value of the
Habitat home, after the fam
ily and affiliate close on the
newly built house.
The key advantage of
SECU buying the mortgage
is that the Habitat affiliate
gets cash after completion
of the home rather than
waiting until the 20-to-25
year mortgage is paid back.
The affiliate then has cash
in hand to fund construc
tion of the next home.
The SECU wants to see
homes in Tier 1 counties —
the most distressed — are
completed before it releases
funds for 'Her 2 counties. At
the time the deal was ar
ranged, Perquimans County
was a Tier 2 county.
So Holloway said the
CPH4H group plans to start
in. Chowan next spring and
then start a home in Perqui
mans later that year. The
See HABITAT, 2
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
“Jack” gets a little love Saturday during a Bark For Life fundraiser at Myler Farms
in Woodville. The event raises money for the American Cancer Society.