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UPFRONT PWIT/UPFRONT FRIGES • ~ Ha—- ^ HAM Jeep CGOSSI^ THE ERQUIMANS WE E K LY WWW.CAROLINACHRYSLER.COM 1 252-335-0724 11001 HALSTEAD BLVD. ELIZABETH CITY Bateman is Rotary speaker, 7 "News from Next Door" WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017 f ’5 1 5 RECD 50 cents Student Jailed For SCHOOL FIGHT BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor A Perquimans County High School student charged with fight ing that injured a dozen teachers and staff members who tried to break it up will have to serve 90 days in jail after pleading guilty. Ultimately Alkeem Archer, faced seven charges, but District Court Judge Robert Trivette only gave him an active sentence of 45 days for two counts of assault on a school employee. He was also given two 60 day- day suspended sentences, plus 12 months supervised probation for the fight last October. Two other students who were involved in fighting that day have been placed on deferred prosecution. ARCHER Terrill Tillett, 17, and Austin Deziel, 17, were both charged with disorderly conduct. And must serve 24 hours of community ser vice within 90 days. If they commit no other crime within 12 months, the is sue won’t appear on their record. “I believe this sends a strong message that vio lence in our schools will not be tolerated,” Prin cipal Melissa Fields said after the verdict. Fields, Jill Cohen, Laura Gard ner, Michael Castle and James Leicester - all teachers or staff members at the school - swore out assault warrants against Ar cher and testified last Wednes day. Deputy David Murray also charged Archer with resisting a public officer. Fields described the day in October when Archer and Til lett were caught fighting. When teachers started trying to break it up, Archer started tossing them around and one point used a fire extinguiSner as a weapon. Archer is 6-foot-5,300 pounds. Fields said the incident, which lasted maybe just 10 or 15 minutes, cast a shadow over the school that is only now starting to lift. “I feel we’re only just now re gaining the momentum,” Fields said. Cohen, the school system’s co ordinator for career and technical education testified about injuries she suffered. She said she felt the incident See ARCHER, 2 Library Construction Town STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Crews work on the roof of the new Perquimans County Library last week. The facility on Church Street is scheduled to open to patrons this summer. 911 emergency operators get new training BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Perquimans County’s 911 communications system has rolled out a new system that standardizes the way 911 operators respond to calls. Emergency Management Director Jonathan Nixon said the Medical Priority Dispatch System means ev ery operator should be ask ing the same questions. 1. “Perquimans 911, what’s the address of the emergency?” 2. “What’s the phone num ber you’re calling from?” 3. “What’s your name?” 4. “Okay, tell me exactly what happened.” Nixon used the situation where a person may call to say they fell down. While the EMS crew is on the way there, the operator can keep asking questions. “What caused the fall? How did it happen? How far did you fall?” They are all questions EMS needs to know, Nixon said. If the person fell be cause they were electro cuted, the response will be different than if they fell for some other reason. If an adult fell from a height of 10 feet or more, that could create more serious condi tion, and in that event 911 would get the Nightingale air ambulance on the phone to find out their availability. ‘Throughout the process, the EMS crew on the way can be updated as more in formation comes in. “I am most excited about every 911 call being an swered in the same manner and providing the same ser vice to each citizen and visi tor of Perquimans County,” Nixon said. “Callers will receive lifesaving post-dis patch instructions while re sponders will receive better patient and scene updates.” The Medical Priority Dis patch System was officially implemented on Tuesday- Valentine’s Day. Krystal Agosto is Perqui mans County’s training offi cer. She said the system can also help operators explain how to give CPR to a loved one, or instruct someone who has a family member who is choking. “It’s spe cialized software,” she said. How someone responds to one question will dictate what the next question might be. The local emergency of fice gets about 2,000 calls a year. The system includes software, a three-day See 911,2 settles utility dispute BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Hertford has agreed to pay a town board member and his wife $5,000 to settle a claim over a water and sewer ca pacity fee the town charged when their house was built in 2010. Archie Aples’ status" as a town board member had nothing to do with the pay ment, town officials say. Oth ers who paid the capacity’ fee are eligible to ask for a refund as well. The town agreed to settle the case with Aples because a N.C. Supreme Court deci sion last summer in a similar case that suggests fees like Hertford’s were . improper. Hertford was not a direct party to the lawsuit and has since rescinded the capacity fee charge. Town Attorney Ben Gallop said not only did Aples not get a voice in decision to grant the $5,000 settlement, Aples wasn’t even on the committee that decided the issue. Gallop said the four remaining mem bers of the board formed a committee that excluded Aples and they discussed the refund request. “It was a strange circum stance but there was nothing underhanded,” Gallop said. Aples said the only reason he’s the first to request such a refund is that he’s probably the first person in Hertford to realize a refund might be See UTILITIES, 2 Injured eagle rescued, sent to 0BX facility BY CHRIS DAY The Daily Advance A sick American bald ea gle found in a field in Perqui mans County is doing much better now, thanks to a New Hope man and a wildlife re habilitation specialist who lives on the Outer Banks. Pete Marriner recently re ¬ covered a bald eagle from a field in the Woodville area and transferred it to the care of Lou Browning, a Frisco-based wildlife re habilitation specialist. The large bird turned out to have lead poison ing, which likely hap pened after years of eating prey or animal re mains tainted with lead. Browning, a federally- permitted wildlife spe cialist and owner of the See EAGLE, 2 SUBMITTED PHOTO Frank Jaklic, a member of the Rotary Club of Hertford, administers the polio vaccine to a child in India last month. War not over against polio BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The war against polio may be all but won, but Frank Jaklic said those wounded by the disease still need our help. Jaklic a Rotarian from Hertford, recently returned from one of the front lines in the battle - India. He spent almost two weeks with a Rotary group there to ad minister the polio vaccine to children as part of National Immunization Day. Jaklic admits he was just curious about how relief money was being spent - curious enough he was will ing to folk out about $4,000 from Ids own pocket to take the trip. Rotary has long been at the forefront of the fight against the disease. It started a campaign in 1985 at a time when there were 350,000 new cases of polio worldwide each year. In 1988, Rotary was See POLIO, 2
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