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Senator
to speak
at MLK
event
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BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Sen. Erica Smith-Ingram
will be the guest speaker
at a Martin Luther King Jr.
Day observance Jan. 16 at
Riddick’s Grove Mission
ary Baptist
Church.
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Hertford Grammar School Principal Jason Griffin, (right) holds daughter Ainsley as Sonja Rinehart announces he has been named
Regional Principal of the Year.
Surprise! Griffin wins regional honor
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
I t’s hard to keep a secret.
It’s especially hard when it’s a very good
secret.
But 425 students and dozens of teachers
and staff managed to keep it together until the
surprise announcement Friday that Hertford
Grammar School Principal Jason Griffin has
been named Region 1 Principal of the Year.
That makes him one of just eight principals
still in the running for the statewide award.
Superintendent Matthew Cheeseman said
he’s known Griffin got the award since mid
December but it took a while to arrange the
ceremony.
So Friday morning Cheeseman called Grif
fin into a meeting to get him out the school.
“We’ve spent the last five hours together,”
Cheeseman said of Griffin “and for four and a
half hours he was probably wondered why he
was still there.”
While Griffin was kept occupied, the staff
members were given the news and then stu
dents were instructed to go to the auditorium.
Students didn’t get the news until just
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Hertford Grammar School Principal Jason Griffin (right) poses with teacher Amy
Parker last week.Griffin was named Regional Principal Of the Year last week.
Previously Parker was named Regional Teacher Of the Year.
of sheriff
when they
meet again
Jan. 17.
The
As is
tradition,
there will
be a motor
cade to the
event.
The
group will
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start at 11 a.m. at Perqui
mans County High School
and proceed to the church.
The cars will proceed down
Edenton Road Street to
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Decision
delayed
on sheriff
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
TILLEY
board is not releasing the
names of the people who
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New drama director to debut with ‘Alice in Wonderland’
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Rachel Sanders knows
she has big shoes to fill re
placing Lynwood Winslow
as drama teacher at Perqui
mans County High School.
The shoes belong to her
uncle.
Lynwood Winslow, the
same drama teacher who
led PCHS students for the
past 25 years, is the brother
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Rachel Sanders, (right), the new drama teacher at Perquimans County High School,
talks to students last week during a rehearsal for the play “Alice In Wonderland.”
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Brennan Biggs dresses up as the Mad Hatter for the
Perquimans County High School performance of “Alice
in Wonderland.”