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"News from Next Door" WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017
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Mabine
arrested
for shooting
From Staff Reports
Elizabeth City police have arrested
a Hertford man in connection with a
shooting incident that sent an Eliza
beth City man to the hospital Satur ¬
day night.
MABINE
Khalil Mabine, 18,
of the 100 block of
Wynne Fork Court,
is charged with as
sault with a deadly
weapon with intent
to kill inflicting se
rious injury, Sgt.
Latoya Flanigan said
in a press release.
Mabine was being
held Sunday at Albemarle District Jail
in lieu of a $50,000 secured bond, she
said.
Mabine is accused of shooting
Jermaine Armstrong following what
Flanigan said was “some type of child
custody dispute” at Armstrong’s resi
dence in the 300 block of Dyer Street.
Armstrong, 24, was treated for a non-
threatening gunshot wound to his
lower left leg and foot and released
from Sentara Albemarle Medical Cen ¬
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ter, Flanigan said.
According to Flanigan, officers re
sponded to a report of shots fired in
the area of West Church Street and
South Dyer Street on Saturday about
8:40 p.m. When they arrived, they
found shell casings in the 300 block of
South Dyer Street. Not long afterward,
they received a report that a gunshot
victim—Armstrong — had shown up
at Sentara Albemarle.
Flanigan said police have learned
that Mabine and his girlfriend went
to Armstrong’s residence, and while
there got into a physical altercation
with him and Ids family over a child
custody matter. During the alterca
tion, Mabine fired several shots from
a handgun, striking Armstrong, Flani
gan said.
No one was at the scene when po
lice arrived. Mabine, who had taken
his girlfriend to the hospital for treat
ment following the incident, was ar
rested there by police, Flanigan said.
Mabine was scheduled to make his
appearance in court today.
Eclipse coming Aug. 21
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Sometimes you have to be
in just the right place to get an
once-in-a-lifetime experience.
On Aug. 21, the Albemarle
region isn’t exactly the right
place, but it’s close.
On that day — weather per
mitting — area residents will
get a pretty good look at what
a partial solar eclipse solar
eclipse looks like.
To see the full total eclipse
— know as the ‘path of totality’
— you’ll have to be somewhere
along a roughly 70-mile swath
that goes from Oregon across
the country to South Carolina.
A total eclipse happens when
the moon completely blocks
out the light of the sun. Total so-
submitted PHOTO
While not a total eclipse, a
rendering shows what viewers
in Perquimans County should
see when the solar eclipse
comes next month.
lar eclipses are not unheard of.
One happens about every year
or every other year somewhere
on Earth. But they may happen
in remote places. The partial
eclipse will be at the peak in the
Albemarle area about 2:48 p.m.
It will start at about 1:21 p.m.
The last time a total eclipse
was visible in North Carolina
was in 1970. Before that, it was
1900.
If you want to wait for the
next one, it’s in 2078. If you
miss that, there is another one
in 2099.
The total eclipse will pass
over the far western part of
North Carolina including
Bryson City and Murphy. There
the total eclipse may last be
tween 2 minutes 39 seconds to
two minutes and 30 seconds.
In South Carolina, the cities
of Greenville and Columbia are
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Election deadline
coming Friday
From Staff Reports
As of Monday only the four incum
bents for races in Hertford had filed
for office.
In Hertford, Lillian Holman and Ed
Lane have asked to be on the ballot. In
Winfall, it’s Debbie Whedbee and Ken
Rominger.
The deadline to file is Friday at
noon.
The filing fee for each position is $5.
Filing takes place at the Perquimans
County Board of Elections office, 601
A S. Edenton Road St. For more infor
mation on running, call 426-5598.
The election will be held on Nov. 7.
Family looking forward to event
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Samantha Nadj has a vague
memory about watching par
tial solar eclipse when she was
a child. She wants to make her
two sons have a better memory
for themselves.
Nadj remembers when she
was a student at Grandy Pri
mary School in the 1970s.
“We wore special glasses
and went out to watch a partial
eclipse,” she said. “It is a vague
memory without much detail.”
When her sons, Daniel, 16,
See FAMILY, 2
SUBMITTED PHOTO
The Nadj family from Camden will be making the trip to
see the total eclipse in August. Pictured are Daniel, mother
Samantha, Shane and Dan Nadi.
Stadium
plans
moving
forward
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The Perquimans County
Schools system is moving
forward with plans to build
a new football field in time
for the start of the 2018 sea-
son.
School officials are
scheduled to interview rep
resentatives from two archi
tectural firms today. Based
on that, the committee will
make a recommendation to
the school board at the July
meeting and the board can
negotiate with one of the
firms to determine a price
for the design contract.
The project is expected
to cost between $1.1 million
and $1.2 million.
The two firms tha.t ex
pressed interest in the proj
ect are Pinnacle Architec
ture, P.A. of Matthews and
CHA Design/Construction
Solutions, which has offices
in Charlotte and Raleigh.
Superintendent Matthew
Cheeseman said he’s excit
ed for the future.
“Our board of education
is so wonderful,” Cheese
man. “Within 12 months
there is going to be a foot-
: ball field across the street
from the high school.”
The committee includes
Cheeseman; Justin Rob
erson, the lugh school’s
athletic director, Jim Da
vison, the school system’s
maintenance director; Ian
Rapanick, the schools new
football coach; Susan Cox,
a former school board mem
ber and athletic director; Ju
die Hoffler, as an member
of the public and Ed Nixon,
the brother of Dr. William
Nixon who is donating the
land for the football field.
The idea of building a
new athletic complex has
been around since 2010.
That’s when Dr. Nixon, a
former Perquimans County
I resident, offered to give
the school system 32 acres
provided the schools use
the land to build an athletic
complex.
Initial fundraising didn’t
get far.
The original plan would
cost $6.1 million and in
cluded a football field,
eight-lane track, soccer
field, 8,700-square-foot
See STADIUM, 2
New coach to lead Pirates
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Perquimans will have a
new football coach and a
pair of new quarterbacks
when the Pirates take to the
field in August.
In May, the county school
board named Ian Rapanick,
24, to the head coaching
job.
Two players are vying
for the QB slot now. Mahli
Jones is a rising junior. He’s
been splitting practice duty
with Mason Votava, a rising
senior.
Both show potential, Ra
panick said.
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New Perquimans County High School football coach Ian
Rapanick talks to players during a seven-on-seven drill
against Currituck High School this month.
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Church opens tiny library
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Hertford United Methodist Church
has opened up a ‘Little Free Library’
box where people can take a book
home to read or donate a book they
no longer want. It is located outside
the church’s educational building on
Dobbs Street.
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“Quite honestly if we had
a game tomorrow, I’m not
sure who I’d start.”
Jones is about 6-foot-l,
210 pounds.
“He’s an athlete,” he said.
“If he has a problem, it’s that
he’s so hard on himself. He’s
See COACH, 2
From Staff Reports
Hertford United Methodist Church has
erected a “Little Free Library” outside the
educational building on Dobbs Street.
It will be stocked with books for all
ages. People can take them home, and
if they wish, replace them with another
book or return the book later. Anybody
who would like to donate a new of gently
used book can drop them off at the church
office. They can also put them directly in
the box.
The Hertford United Methodist Church
Little Free Library is registered with little-
freelibrary.org, a non-profit organization
that “inspires a love of reading, builds
conununity, and sparks creativity by fos
tering neighborhood book exchanges
around the world.”
The church’s hope is to provide 24/7
access to books and encourage a love of
reading.
For more information, call the church
office at 426-5467.