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P The ERQUIMANS P9/C9** * * **p ac HERTFORD NO 27944-1225 Fiddler on the Roof, 8 "News from Next Door" WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, ^^ 75 cents STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS A Perquimans County school bus carrying 24 students was totaled when the driver lost control and ran off the road and hit trees before coming to rest in a ditch. Wreck totals school bus BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor A Perquimans County school bus carrying 24 stu dents was totaled early Monday morning when the driver lost control and ran off the road and hit trees before coming to rest in a ditch. All of the students were checked out by Perquimans EMS personnel at the scene and taken to Perquimans County Middle School by a second bus. The first bus had to be towed back to bus yard behind Perquimans County High School. According to Assistant Superintendent James Bunch, at least four of the students asked to call their parents and were transport ed by their family to see a doctor. The bus driver, Ericka Holley, 45, asked to be taken to Sentara Albemarle Medical Center. Bunch said. He said Holley had been driving for the school sys tem for three years. Holley went to Sentara Albemarle Medical Center on her own and was admitted as was in stable condition Monday af ternoon. As is school policy, Hol ley did have to undergo a drug test. Holley was charged with careless and reckless driv ing and failure to maintain lane control. Holley lives in Sunbury. NC Highway Patrolman Buddy Davis said she was traveling about 40 miles an See WRECK, 2 Riverbash starts on Friday BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The second annual Riv erbash festival will build on the first event and span three days, not two starting Friday. Sharon Smith, the tour ism development director for Perquimans County, said this year’s premier event would be a Saturday block party on Church Street fea turing Ellis Dyson and the Shambles, a Chapel Hill band. The band will play from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. Church Street will be blocked off See RIVERBASH, 2 Cash flows in for primary The Daily Reflector Greg Murphy and Allen Thomas were the respective Republican and Democratic leaders in first quarter fund- raising for the Third Con gressional District special election, federal election records show. Voting in the primary was held Tuesday. The Perqui mans Weekly will publish the results in the May 8 is sue. Murphy, a state repre sentative and one of 17 Re publicans vying for the GOP See PRIMARY, 2 Week Of Hie Young Child STAFF PHOTOS BY PETER WILLIAMS Rocky Hock Lions Club member Guy Simmons uses a Spot Vision Screener to check the eyes of Riley Swayne while she sits on Ashley Swayne's lap Saturday during the Week of the Young Child event at the Perquimans County Recreation Center. The club checked 70 children that day, including some infants and found astigmatism and other areas for concern in several children. In every case, the parent was able to take a telephone photo of the screen on the device so they could show it to a professional vision care provider. Right, A child plays at one of the stations at the Week Of The Young Child celebration at the Perquimans County Recreation Center on Saturday. Crime map now available BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Residents can now view an on-line map that shows the time and location of some crimes in Perquimans County. The maps analyze crime data, and can alert Perqui mans citizens about crimes in their area It allows the Sheriffs Office a way to quickly alert the public about crimes on a daily ba sis. Sheriff Shelby White said he learned of the system while attending a meeting about the software the sher iffs office uses for crime reports. He asked to be part of the LexisNexis Risk Solu tion project. The software is compatible with the system the sheriffs office already uses so no more labor is re quired. It’s also not costing the county anything. One future part of the package will be anonymous crime reporting. “That’s not attached to it yet,” White said. For some people, the anonymous feature might be a plus, he said. However the sheriff said people can already do that. “I tell people if you call the sheriffs office and say you want to be anonymous you can do it.” The address for the map is www.commu- See MAP, 2 STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Superior Court Judge J.C. Cole (right) swears in Tanya Turner as the new Perquimans County Schools superintendent Monday night at a ceremony at Perquimans Central School. Turner sworn in as superintendent BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor From the pledge of alle giance on down, the agenda for Monday’s swearing in ceremony for new Perqui- marls County Superinten dent Tanya Turner was proof of one thing —I she is home again. The pledge was led by her nephew, William Howell, a first grader at Perquimans Central along with nieces Eleanor Howell, a fourth grader at Hertford Gram mar School and Catherine Howell, a sixth grader at Perquimans County Middle School. Turner is a product of the Perquimans County School system and taught the first 10 years of her career in Perquimans. She’s remained a Perquimans resident her entire life even though she’s been in the Edenton- Chowan School system for the past 17 years. She leaves the position as assistant su perintendent for curriculum and instruction in Chowan to take the Perquimans County job. Before the ceremony Edenton-Chowan Superin tendent Rob Jackson said he talked with then Per quimans Superintendent Dwayne Stallings about five years ago when he was hired in Edenton. Stallings told his counterpart that from time to time educators from the two systems went back and forth. Monday night at Perqui mans Central, Jackson said one of those attending apol ogized for “stealing” Turner from the Chowan school system. Jackson said that wasn’t a problem. “We thank you for loaning Tanya Turner to us for the last 17 years,” Jackson told the crowd. School board Chair Annie White said it must to be rare to have a former student See TURNER, 2 Garden show returns on Saturday Cycle N.C. From Staff Reports The ninth Annual Albe marle Master Gardeners’ Spring Garden Show, “A World of Gardening” will be held on Saturday at the Perquimans County Recre ational Center, 310 Granby St. from 9 am. until 3 p.m. This event is organized by the Master Gardeners in Perquimans, Chowan and Gates counties. The annual fundraising event is held to support the master gardeners’ scholar ship fund, the Katherine G. Shook Master Gardener Scholarship. The sale will feature plants sales, garden ing items plus locally made crafts from a variety of ven dors, a cluldren’s corner, an “Ask a Master Gardener Booth,” homemade baked goods, educational speak ers and a 50/50 raffle. Lunch by Brew2Rescue will be available for purchase. Ad mission is free. This is the Master Garden ers only fundraiser for their scholarship fund which is awarded each year to stu dents from Gates, Perqui mans, or Chowan counties who are pursuing a career in horticulture, agriculture, natural resources or a relat ed field. The fund is named for Katy Shook who has been the NC Cooperative Extension Consumer Horti culture agent for Chowan, Gates and Perquimans counties since 2003. She established the area Exten sion Master Gardener pro gram in 2005. For more information, contact Katy Shook, at kg- shook@ncsu.edu or call 482-6585. The website is at https://perquimans.ces. ncsu.edu/springgarden- show for additional infor mation on vendors, exhib its and speakers. This site includes directions to the event. STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS Bike riders taking part in the 16th annual Cycle North Carolina coastal ride head down Market Street in Hertford on Friday. The participants represented 36 different states, the District of Columbia and Canada.
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