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WWW.CAROLINACHRYSLER.COM 1252-335-0724 11001 HALSTEAD BLVD. ELIZABETH CITY ^■ =1 «^- ^ RAIMI deep ^^^^ P , THE ERQUIMANS J^ WE E K LY Briockhouse receives Golden Apple, 6 "News from Next Door" WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2017 ^ 1 ; ^ 50 cents County adopts new noise ordinance BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Making too much noise in Perquimans County can now cost you $100 plus the misdemeanor conviction, a 30 days jail time, and court costs. The new rules also include after-market vehicle mufflers that are designed to be loud. The Perquimans Coun ty Commission adopted a tougher, broader noise ordinance last week. It re vamped a measure adopted in 1991 that included a ref erence to phonographs (re cord players.) The new standard says any electronic device that can be “clearly audible” at 50 feet can be viewed as a violation. County Manager Frank Heath said the old ordi nance was only a few para graphs in length and now well written. The new one is two pages. “The problem with the old (noise) ordinance was there was no defined standard,” Heath said. “It was pretty subjective. Now we’ve ex panded the types of noise and put in a standard.” The “clearly audible at the distance not less than 50 feet” is a new addition to the ordinance. The old ordinance didn’t set a distance for audible noise. It simply said loud noises weren’t allowed be tween the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. The new ordi nance sets no time of day when something can be considered as a violation. The new ordinance was in response to complaints by one a Woodville resi dent about a neighbor who played music too loud all day long and late at night while her children were try ing to sleep. Sheriff Shelby White said deputies responded to the neighborhood a number of times and asked the person to turn the music down. “We’d say please turn it down,” White said. “They did, but sometimes after we left they turned it back up.” White said under the old rules deputies issued cita tions, but often they’d get thrown out in court. “Our hands were tied,” White said. “If it went to court sometimes we’d win and sometimes we’d lose.” See NOISE, 2 County hires new planner Big Progress BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor At 31-years-old, Sam Barrow knows all about responsibility. But he wants more. BARROW Barrow is a Captain in the North Carolina National Guard and has already deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. He’s also a father and husband. The 2004 graduate of Edenton’s John A. Hol mes High School enlist- ed in the National Guard when he was attending East Carolina University. After graduation with a degree in applied ge ography in 2008 he said he lucked out when Edenton Town Manager Anne- Marie Knighton trusted him to become the planner there almost five years ago. Under her, he said he learned a lot. " Now he’s going to be a county planner for Perquimans County. “I view this as the next step in my ca reer progress,” Barrow said of the Per quimans planner post in a phone inter view last week from Georgia where he was attending National Guard training. “It’s more responsibility and I’m ready for it. It’s for my career and for my fam ily. I know it’s going to be hard, but it’s an opportunity.” STAFF PHOTOS BY PETER WILLIAMS County starts budget process BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor See PLANNER, 2 A Habitat For Humanity house on Dobbs Street went from just a cement foundation to having walls and a roof Saturday. Volunteers from A.R. Chesson Construction Co. pitched in their labor to erect and close in the structure across from Hertford Grammar School. A time-lapse video of the project will be posted on the company’s web site, https://www.archesson. com/ this week. Budget season has arrived. Between now and the middle of June, Perquimans County Commissioners will sit down with department heads and outside agencies and con sider budget requests. Ultimately County Manager Frank Heath expects to pres ent a final budget to the coun ty commission on June 5 and the commission is expected to hold a public hearing and vote on June 19. The meetings kicked off this week when the commis sioners met with department heads on Monday and Tues day. On April 17 comes a big meeting — a joint work ses sion with the Perquimans Comity Board of Education. See BUDGET, 2 Week of the Young Child event in Hertford should be bigger SUBMITTED PHOTO A boy sits in the cab of a fire truck at a recent Week of the Young Child Festival in Hertford. The event returns this year on April 22 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Perquimans County Recreation Center. BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The annual Week of the Young Child event in Hert ford April 22 will become even more of a regional event this year. This marks the ninth year The Chowan-Perquimans Smart Start Partnership has offered the event and this year the Tyrrell-Washington Partnership for Children will be collaborating instead of holding their own, said Susan Williams, community outreach coordinator for the Chowan-Perquimans group. “This should make our children’s celebration one of the biggest family events in the region,” Williams said. The free event at the Perquimans County Recre ation Center runs from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. and is open to all families to celebrate young children and the joy of learning through new ex- periences. Williams said many of those who have attended in the past have come from Chowan County. “I’m often asked why we don’t hold it in Edenton,” Williams said. See CHILD, 2 Steinburg seeks middle ground on class size rules BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The N.C. General Assem bly is committed to lower ing class sizes for students in the younger grades, but 89076 7144 6 2 Rep. Bob Steinburg said there needs to be some way to fund it. The General Assembly is looking at getting rid of the waiver that allows school systems some leeway. The new rule would re quire one teacher for eveiy 18 kindergarten students, one teacher for every 16 first grade students, and one teacher for every 17 students for grades two and three. The current waiver al lows for school districts to exceed the cap by three students. Many senators op pose that. Under a strict in terpretation of the class size rule, having 18 kindergarten students is fine, but without a waiver, if you added one more, schools would need to get another teacher and create another classroom. “I believe we are commit ted to smaller class sizes, we just have a way to fund it,” Steinburg said last week. “We’re going to try and fix this to provide schools ad ditional revenue. When we passed this last year, there was no provision or maybe no thought given on the See STEINBURG, 4 t. ^/npchBry^ I “It’sAHit! 1 4 Shoaf honored as ‘Main Street Champion’ From Staff Reports See SHOAF, 2 Town Manager Brandon Shoaf was honored at the recent NC Main Street Conference, a project of the NC Com merce office, as Historic Hertford’s “Main Street Champion.” Shoaf has SHOAF campcale.com (252) 264-2513
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