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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2017
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One arrested, two sought for shootings
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A 26-year-old Hertford
man was arrested Thurs
day night for attempted first
degree murder and jailed
under $1.2 million bond in
connection with a shooting
July 19 that left three people
injured.
Ervin Javon Jones was
also charged with posses
sion of a firearm by a con
victed felon.
Earlier last week the
Hertford Police Department
had warrants issued for two
more men for their role in
the shootings at Wynne
Fork Court.
Hertford Police Chief
Douglas Freeman said the
arrest of Jones won’t be the
last one. He was apprehend
ed about 11 p.m. Thursday,
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WILLIAMS
but Freeman declined to
say where. He also said he
couldn’t talk about the mo
tive for the
crime at this
point in the
investiga
tion.
“This was
the latest
in a series
of warrants
and arrests
in connection with the
shootings,” he said. “More
are expected.”
Jones was living at a
home in the 200 block of
King Street according to the
arrest report. He has a previ
ous conviction of assault in
flicting serious iryury from
2011.
In January 2011 Jones
was also convicted for a
second degree kidnapping
— a crime punishable by a
98 month prison term. He
was given 36 months of su ¬
pervised probation.
Freeman said the police
department has gotten some
support from residents of
Wynne Fork Court.
“We’ve had some positive
feedback,” he said. “We’ve
been doing extra patrols
there since this (shooting)
happened and we feel some
of the good people of Wynne
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Fish
farming
legislation
approved
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A bill adopted by the Gen
eral Assembly and signed by
Gov. Roy Cooper will open
the doors to commercial
aquaculture off the North
Carolina coast.
Legislation could make
it possible for a business to
lease land in state waters.
They would still need per
mits from the Army Corps
of Engineers and a clean
water permit.
Marine aquaculture in
volves producing shellfish
as well shrimp and some
finfish in pens in the ocean.
Aquaculture can take place
in cages on the seafloor or
suspended in the water col
umn.
In North Carolina, the
state has jurisdiction of the
Atlantic Ocean out to three
miles. After that, the federal
government has authority.
Sen. Bill Cook (R-District
1), was one of three spon
sors of the legislation.
“With a large abundant
natural water resource along
our state’s coastline, North
Carolina is a prime location
for deep water aquaculture
facilities,” Cook said. “Aqua
culture is, indeed, among
one of the fastest growing
segments of food produc
tion worldwide, and with
this bill North Carolina will
be appropriately positioned
to join the market.”
A Canadian company al
ready has a presence in the
region.
In 2015, Cooke Aquacul
ture acquired Wanchese
Fish Co., a 440-employee
seafood company founded
in the Outer Banks.
Cooke Aquaculture has
seafood/aquaculture op
erations in 44 countries
and employs thousands of
people. It is a global seafood
company with significant
U.S. assets in the fishery
and aquaculture sector, Sen.
Cook said.
“We believe the abundant
and fertile fishing waters of
the Gulf Stream off North
Carolina offer significant
potential for ocean aquacul
ture and ocean ranching,”
Sen. Cook said. “ Seafood
from Wanchese and east-
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STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Sen. Bill Cook (right) presents The Order of the Long Leaf Pine to former Perquimans County Sheriff Eric
Tilley Wednesday morning at the Historic Perquimans County Courthouse. Tilley retired earlier this year
after 30 years in law enforcement, the last 17 as sheriff. The award is the highest given by the state for
service.
Boy, 12, works toward his baseball dream
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Macon Winslow didn’t
make the USA National
baseball team that will go to
Taiwan, but he got far closer
than boys his age from across
the country that tried.
The 12-year-old from Per
quimans County competed
against thousands of boys his
age to make an elite group of
112 kids that went to Califor
nia for the tryouts in July for
the 12 and under USA team.
WINSLOW
Banners replace flowers on downtown lights
Former Sheriff Honored
He was one
of just three
players from
North Caro
lina. The oth
ers were from
Wake Forest
and Charlotte.
When the
group was cut
to 32 players, Macon was still
in the running, but he didn’t
make the list of the 18 players
on the final roster.
That doesn’t diminish the
pride Leary Winslow, Macon’s
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The new flowers hanging
from lamp poles in Hertford
never need watering and they’ll
last for years.
They’re also not real.
After years of hanging real
flower baskets from the poles in
downtown Hertford, the down-
town beautification committee
of Historic Hertford Inc., opted
to make the change to using
father, has.
“I am very proud of him.
He doesn’t understand how
proud I am. He shows kids
that age that hard work will
benefit you and it doesn’t
matter that you’re from Hert
ford, North Carolina, you can
compete with the greatest
talent. Macon works so hard.
That is his greatest quality,
his work ethic.
“Making the (field of) 112
was important, but his goal
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banners instead.
“We had problems with plants
not living,” said Lillian Holman,
a town board member and part
of the beautification committee.
While a host of volunteers
took on the job of carting a gi
ant water tank around to each
of the hanging flowers and using
a wand to spray them, the num
ber of workers dwindled as the
years went by.
“A lot of the waterers aged
out and a lot of other people
Bill won’t
stop wind
project
BY PETER WILLIAMS
AND MILES LAYTON
Staff Writers
The company developing
a commercial wind fann
in Chowan County says it
won’t pull the plug on its
Timbermill Wind project de
spite an 18-month moratori
um on wind energy projects
signed into law last week by
Gov. Roy Cooper.
If, however, the morato
rium is extended beyond
2019, or the state ends up
barring certain areas from
wind project development,
Apex Clean Energy will re
view its decision, spokes
man Kevin Chandler said.
Apex has a conditional use
permit to build a project
known as Timbermill Wind
in Chowan County. The ap
plication for a CUP in Per
quimans County was denied
by the Perquimans County
Commission.
“We are, perhaps unsur
prisingly, disappointed by
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PHOTO
Macon
Winslows
gets a hit
during
tryouts for
the US 12
and under
baseball
team in
California
in July.
are working and don’t have the
time,” Holman said.
So Hertford Printing was hired
to make up some summertime
banners. The company started
business last October working
out of incubator space at the
Perquimans County Chamber
of Commerce building on West
Market Street.
Sarah Weeks said they picked
the design — orange day lilies.
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Two grants to help library with technology, training
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The Perquimans County
Library will benefit from
two recent grants, includ
ing one designed to help the
staff work with people look
ing for ajob.
Tire larger of the two
grants, — $75,000 from the
Cannon Foundation — is
earmarked specifically for
the new Hertford facility for
new computers and tech
nology for the new library.
A second $32,000 grant
will go toward programs at
all four of the libraries in the
Pettigrew regional system.
Judi Bugniazet, the direc
tor for the regional system,
wrote both grants.
The Cannon Foundation
grant will allow the purchase
of computers for adults and
children, projectors, TVs, an
interactive display system
for the computer room, and
the software and installa
tion of the technology in
Hertford.
The new library is expect
ed to open in September.
This will provide the
technology needed for the
computer room and the pro
gram room, both new ser
vices that will be offered in
the library. It will allow the
library to provide classes
for local libraries given by
the state library, as well as
computer classes for the
patrons. The program room
will be used for special
events and regular program
ming by the library, on a
larger scale than they have
been able to provide in the
past, for all ages.
Perquimans Librarian Mi
chele Lawrence is excited
about what the grants will
mean.
The current library has
10 computers and there is
no desk space to put any
more. Even the ones the
library does have aren’t all
located in the same room.
That makes holding a com
puter class for a large group
impossible.
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