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PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBRARY
514 S CHURCH ST
HERTFORD NC 27944-1225
Letters to Santa, B1-8
"News from Next Door"
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2018
75 cents
Teacher remembered for her passion for kids
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
On Sunday educators,
family and friends bid fare
well to a woman they say
was a passionate teacher
who loved to laugh and help
others.
Kim Hunter Daugherty
felt faint during school
Thursday at Hertford Gram
mar School and was taken
to Vidant Chowan Hospital
where she was pronounced
dead.
She was 45-years-old. She
was the daughter of the late
Jim “Catfish” Hunter and is
survived by brothers Todd
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and Paul
and her
mother
Helen and
husband
Steve.
Linda
Layden
White
called her
lifelong
best friend, “the life of the
party.”
“If there wasn’t a party,
she would create one,”
White said. “She had so
many friends because she
was so intentional with ev
erybody. She always gave
more than she expected in
return.”
Daugherty was bom in
California, where her fa
ther was playing baseball
with the Oakland As, but
she and White practically
great up together. Just four
days separate their births.
When White was attending
East Carolina University
and Daugherty was going
to Pitt Community College,
the two were roommates
in Greenville. Daugherty
was the Matron of Honor at
White’s wedding.
The two women taught
together for a time at Per
quimans County Middle
School, and then moved
on and both taught in Dare
County. Daugherty worked
as a teacher when White
was principal at Hertford
Grammar School.
“She really loved her
school family,” White said.
“In fact there wasn’t much
in her life that she didn’t
love. She was always will
ing to talk to anyone about
anything.”
White praised John Las
siter, the principal at HGS,
for how he handled the situ
ation Thursday and again on
Friday.
“I have to comment
See TEACHER, 3
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The 1934 Christmas edition of The Perquimans Weekly. It was the first year the
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The 1944 Christmas edition of The Perquimans Weekly.
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Old newspapers reflect changing times in Perquimans
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A lot has changed since
Christmas 1934, and The
Perquimans Weekly has
been covering it.
The newspaper was cre
ated just a month before
and the front page in 1934
reflected that feeling that it
was still trying to establish
itself and gain readership
and advertising. News
papers had been created
before that time, but they
didn’t last.
In that first Christmas edi
tion, Mattie Lister White, the
editor, wrote this in a three-
column section of the front
page titled “Our Christmas
Gifts.”
“If it were possible, your
Home Town Newspaper
would like to give as a
Christmas gift to every per
son in this community that
which he or she desires. But
since that cannot be done,
we wish to offer you as our
Christmas gift, not only for
this happiest day in the year,
but, for all the days to come
the next year these things.”
Then she promises news.
“All news of the territory
in which it circulates, clean
news, constructive news,
hopeful, wholesome news,
news that is appealing to
the young as well as the old,
news that will bring happi
ness to every household.”
Then she promised “prin
ciples and ideals.”
“These intangibles, ex
pressed in an editorial
policy which has courage
of its convictions, which is
fearless in the expression of
righteousness, and the es
pousal of justice, and which
seeks to offer intelligent
and helpful comment on the
items of news which have
important bearing on public
opinion or public morals.”
Then her final offering,
leadership and service.”
“These qualities ex
pressed in devotion to the
good of the community,
which makes it a commu
nity advisor, a civic boost
er, the big brother of the
neighborhood, who works
unceasingly to make this
community a better place in
which to live, who helps to
protect its people from im
position, from fraud, from
danger, an ally of the strong,
and a defender of the weak.
“All these, the principles
upon which the best type of
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Schools grapple .
with heating issues
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
While Perquimans school
officials work to find a per
manent solution to a heating
and air conditioning prob ¬
lem at Perquimans Central
School, they have another
issue at the high school.
On Monday Principal
Wayne Price noticed that it
was unusually colder in the
wing of the high school that
houses the school offices.
By the end of the day, the
problem had spread to oth
er areas of the school.
As a result, classes were
See HEATING, 2
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Pettigrew Regional Library Director Judi Bugniazet
(left) stands with Perquimans County Library Director
Michele Lawrence. The Perquimans County Library won
the Outstanding New/Improved Library Facility Award
from the The North Carolina Public Library Association.
Library wins
statewide award
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The Perquimans County
Library won the Outstand
ing New/Improved Library
Facility award from a state
wide library association this
month.
The library is part of the
Pettigrew Regional Library
system. Another Pettigrew
library, the one in Tyr
rell County, also received
an award from the North
Carolina Public Library Di
rector’s Association at the
ceremony in Winston-Salem
on Dec. 6. There are 100
public libraries in the state
of North Carolina that com
pete for the awards.
Both libraries were nomi
nated by Judi Bugniazet, the
director of the Pettigrew
system and a former Perqui
mans County librarian.
The award Perquimans
See LIBRARY, 2