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P The ERQUIMANS . —WEEKLY ’'News from Next Door" WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2017 Christmas Performance held, 6 JAN 0 RZCD 50 cents Indian Summer Festival’s fate uncertain BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor After 35 years, the sun has set on the traditional Indian Summer Festival. Historic Hertford Inc. will no longer put on the traditional two-day festival in September, according to HHI President Lynne Ray mond. “Sometimes you have to recognize that something has just run its’ course,” she said last week. “After this year’s festival we started looking at it and evaluating if we wanted to do it again,” she said. “It’s hard to do everything at once. We talked about doing a kid’s event later on next year and breaking it (the festival) down into differ ent events focusing on one thing at a time.”' HHI will hold an Indian Summer Festival Car Show on that first Saturday after Labor Day, the same day the traditional festival, she said. HHI is also planning on doing other events, but not packed together like they are for the traditional festival. One event HHI is looking at is a beer and wine tasting as a ticketed event. Raymond said putting on the two-day event was a massive undertaking involv ing more than 100 volun teers. “We usually get started planning for it in February,” she said. “Every year we’ve been having trouble getting vendors and we had a lot of trouble this last time, es pecially with food vendors. Every year it gets a little less and a little less,” Raymond said of both visitors and vendors. “Every year it gets more and more difficult to pull it off.” The festival used to be a decent moneymaker for HHI, Raymond said. “Originally we cleared $10,000,” Raymond said. “Now we do about one fifth of that.” Raymond applauds the support the festival’s has had from the local fire de partment, police depart ment and public works. See ISF, 3 STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Construction is starting to take shape on the new Perquimans County Library. The project is expected to be complete this summer. WIND, SCHOOLS MAKE HEADLINES EDITOR’S NOTE: Top-10 lists abound this time of year. Instead of ranking our own, we offer some sug gestions. You may have same ideas of your awn and you can rank them as you please. BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor B ut some of the stories might in clude: WIND POWER: Love it or hate it, wind energy made a lot of head lines in 2016. The year started with Perquimans County under a self-imposed morato rium on any new wind power project. One project, Amazon Wind Farms East, was approved years ago and was under construction for most of the year. About half of the 104 wind turbines in the Amazon project are located in Perquimans County. But the prospect of another wind proj ect, Timbermill Wind, that drew fierce opposition last year. The moratorium ended in February, but the controversy didn’t die down. In August the Perquimans County Com mission started a series of seven quasi judicial hearings on the Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for Timbermill. STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS After years of delays, construction started last month on a new boat ramp near the Perquimans County Recreation Center. In the end, one commissioner - Matt Peeler - was recused from voting be cause a majority of the other five com missioners said he couldn’t deliver a fair decision because of previous e- mails on the issue. Finally when it came to a vote two commissioners - Fondella Leigh and Wallace Nelson - said they were not convinced that Timbermill wouldn’t impact property values. A third com missioner, Chairman Kyle Jones, said See TOP STORIES, 2 Board to discuss sheriff’s opening BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The Perquimans County Commission was set to review six applications to replace retiring Sheriff Eric Tilley when they Tues day night. The sheriff is an elected office in North Carolina and 'Tilley has two more years left in his term. The commission had several options on how to replace Tilley, but the com mission ultimately makes the decision. Chairman Kyle Jones said the entire commissioned decided early this month to open the door for people to ap ply. TILLEY “It’s the most fair, open and non partisan process,” Jones said. Tilley is a Democrat. In some counties the local political party has the sole author ity to nominate a replacement to present to the board, according to Neil Emoiy, an outreach associate with N.C. Association of County Commissioners. In Perquimans County, the options are open. “Some counties take applications and other counties choose to appoint,” Emory said Thursday. “He (Jones) contacted us be cause he wanted to make sure they’d looked at all the options and to have an open pro cess.” Tuesday’s discussion of the applica tions was scheduled to be in closed session. According to Jones, Tilley has asked to speak to the board at that time. Jones said the board may decide at that point to make the names of applicants pub lic. Mike Tadych, a Raleigh attorney who consults for the N.C. Press Association, said state law does not require counties to list the names of sheriff applicants. He said on the flip side there is nothing in the law that prohibits counties from doing so. Appointing a new sheriff is not a new thing in Perquimans County. David Lane was elected in December 1994 and resigned the job in July 1998. Ralph Robinson was ap- See OPENING, 3 Man charged with killing his wife Habitat to build home on Dobbs Street BY WILLIAM WEST The Daily Advance An Elizabeth City man charged with first-degree murder in his wife’s shoot ing death told police he shot her because she was suffer ing from dementia and he didn’t want her living in an assisted living facility “like a caged animal,” po lice records show. Samuel Frank Mansfield, S. MANSFIELD P. MANSFIELD 73, is charged in the fatal shooting of Phyllis Baccus Mansfield, also 73, in the garage of the couple’s home in the 100 block of Golf Club Drive, at the Fairway Es tates subdivision, the morn ing of Dec. 14. Phyllis Mansfield was a Perquimans County See MURDER, 2 BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Chowan-Perquimans Habitat for Humanity is joining with Perquimans County groups to build a new home for a veteran and his wife. Construction on the house for Mike and Rebecca Lyens is set to start in April. American Legion Post 126 has already built a shed on the lot at 608 Dobbs St. that can be used to store materi als during construction as well as for other uses once the house is finished. Mike Lyens served in the U.S. Navy and he has a medical condition has taken away his ability to See HABITAT, 2 STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Karyl Rhodes, regional manager for Yadkin Bank (left) and Kimberly Westbrook, branch manager (right) present a check for $500 to Sally Holloway, president of Chowan-Perquimans Habitat for Humanity recently at the site for a new Habitat house in Hertford.
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