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PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBRARY
514 S CHURCH ST
HERTFORD NC 27944-1225
1 Weekly
Riverbash Jazz, 3
"News from Next Door"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2019
75 cents
STAFF PHOTO BY
PETER WILLIAMS
Attorney
T.C. Morphis
Jr. (right)
speaks to
the audience
about the
process of
removing a
town board
member on
Wednesday
at a special
meeting of
the Hertford
board.
Board looks at ousting Eley
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Hertford Town Board
members seemed to back
off on the idea of remov
ing Councilman Sid Eley
from the board after
hearing the advice from a
Chapel Hill attorney at an
emergency meeting of the
town board Wednesday.
Instead of the usual
town attorneys, John
Leidy or Ben Gallop, T.C.
Morphis Jr. came from
the office of The Brough
Law Firm in Chapel Hill.
Morphis explained Gal
lop asked him to come
because Gallop has done
legal work with some
town board members as
individuals, not as board
members, and he didn’t
want there to appear to be
a conflict.
At issue is the ques ¬
tion of is Eley accepting
a town Christmas bonus
as a member of the fire
department a violation
of state law or the town’s
laws? The bonuses are
based on the number of
calls a volunteer firefight
er answers. Ilie more
calls, the more the money,
but it typically amounts
to less than $1,000 a year
even for Eley, who has
been answering the most
number of fire calls in
recent years. Eley is also
the only town firefighter
who is also on the town
council.
Both town and state
law say elected officials
aren’t supposed to get
paid by the government
bodies they are elected to
aside from their board sal
ary, so the question was
See ELEY, 2
Jolly
captures
Biggs
Classic
BY MALCOLM SHIELDS
The Daily Advance
Stewart Jolly shot 4-un-
der-par 67 during the third
and final round of the 2019
Biggs Golf Classic to win
the tournament Saturday af
ternoon on the Sound Golf
Links at Albemarle Planta
tion.
Jolly shot 15-under-par
for the tournament to edge
Joshua Brock, who finished
tied for second with Carson
Young at-13.
Young along with Isaiah
Logue and Kelby Burton
had strong final rounds as
they shot 5-under-par 66
Saturday.
Logue finished the tour
nament tied for sixth place
at -9, while Burton finished
tied for 13th at -7.
Ryan Sullivan was fourth
at -11 and Charles Neel
White III rounded out the
top five at -10.
The win not only banks
Jolly a payout of $15,000,
but the former member of
the Louisiana State Univer
sity men’s golf team earns
the unrestricted sponsor’s
exemption to play in the
Web.com Tour’s Rex Hos
pital Open, which is coming
up this week in Raleigh.
Instead of going through
a qualifying round to earn a
spot in the tournament, Jol
ly will be in the field for the
See JOLLY, 2
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
A crowd of nearly 300 assemble on the Perquimans County Courthouse lawn for a Memorial Day service on
Monday.
Speaker: Sacrifices protect freedom
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Memorial Day, perhaps more than
any holiday, is special because with
out it Americans wouldn’t have the
other freedoms they eqjoy, a speaker
told a crowd in Hertford on Monday.
Retired U.S. Marine Corps Chief
Warrant Officer Phil R. Grasty spoke
of the sacrifices men and women
have made and continue to make in
the name of freedom.
“Without Memorial Day we would
not have a chance to celebrate our
Independence Day,” he said. “We
would not have the opportunity to
have Christmas or other religious
holidays. In so many places in the
world you do not have the right or
privilege to do so. But we stand here
in this place free men and women
because of the sacrifice of so many.
“Memorial Day is a day to remem-
STAFF PHOTO BY PETER WILLIAMS
Retired U.S. Marine Corps Chief
Warrant Officer Phil R. Grasty
speaks to a Memorial Day crowd
in Hertford on Monday.
ber what it means to be a hero. Hero
ism is deeply rooted in the men and
women who say goodbye to deploy
to parts unknown and those we wel
come home. But Memorial Day is the
day we thank those who did not get
the joyous homecoming, who have
given the ultimate sacrifice and been
laid to rest.”
Grasty shared stories of his uncle,
Howard Tinsley, who was captured
by the Germans in North Africa dur
ing World War 11 and held as a POW
for 800 days.
When he was caught he weighed
189 pounds and when he was finally
released he was down to 75.
His captors would wait until after
they ate supper and toss out potato
peelings on the ground for the pris
oners to eat. But they constructed
a barbed wire enclosure that meant
the allied prisoners had to crawl on
their hancis and knees to get to the
scraps. Often men were too weak
to go in and their fellow prison
ers would bring some back for the
See MEMORIAL, 2
Plymouth
lawman
facing
charges
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A former Hertford police
officer was charged with
three counts of assault with
a deadly weapon for driving
through a back yard while
chasing juveniles who took
a bike from his home earlier
this month.
Pryce Hohenstein, 50,
was released on a written
promise to appear. He is
scheduled to appear in court
on June 12 and will be repre
sented by a court appointed
attorney. Juvenile petitions
were taken out against the
two children who admitted
to stealing the bikes.
Hohenstein worked for
Hertford from April 2009
through April 2013. He was a
detective with the Plymouth
Police Department, but it’s
unclear if he is still employed
there. A phone message left
at his extension at the Plym
outh Police Department
was not returned. Likewise
a message left for Plymouth
Police Chief Willie Williams
was not returned.
According to police re
ports the incident started
on May 4 when two juve
niles were walking home
from the Riverbash Festival.
They said they tried to take
a bike from a house in the
200 block of Crescent Drive
but didn’t get it, then walked
See LAWMAN, 2
Teacher, 48, loses two-year fight with cervical cancer
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A Perquimans County
teacher who battled cancer
for two years, died on May
16 at Sentara Albemarle
Medical Center
Amy Woodard was 48
years old.
Woodard talked about her
fight and her will to beat the
disease in a story published
WOODARD
in The Per
quimans
Weekly on
March 20.
“What
I want
people to
know is
it doesn’t
m a t -
ter what
someone tells you,” she said
in the March story. “Your life
doesn’t just stop. None of us
knows when the end is and I
just decided ‘so what, I have
cancer.’
“I’m stubborn and it’s not
the boss of me. Don’t get me
wrong, occasionally I feel
sorry for myself, about all I
have lost but then I remem
ber if today is my last day I
don’t want to spend it that
way.”
She tried to hold on to
something she lived for,
horses. In the end she
couldn’t.
A friend wrote on Face-
book after her death.
“Amy never knew a
stranger and no matter how
busy she was she always
had a welcoming smile on
her face, she was so dedi
cated to caring for any ani
mal that needed help but
mostly loved the horses and
the good Lord above.”
Another friend wrote
“such a special person to me
due to her teaching ability,
her kindness, her love for
animals and her laugh.”
In March Woodard owned
up to the fact that she is par
tially to blame. She knew
women should get annual
checkups that would catch
cancer in time, but she just
didn’t go to the doctor. She
figured it might have been 10
years since her last check-
up. She was diagnosed with
Stage III metastatic cervical
cancer.
“I was busy living my
life,” Woodard said. “I was
married. I didn’t have any
symptoms. I always figured
I’d wait and do it in the sum
mer when school was out,
See TEACHER, 2
Chowan, Perquimans
to hold joint drill
From Staff Reports
Chowan and Perqui
mans County Public Safety
personnel will be joining
together to conduct a haz
ardous materials exercise
located on Burnt Mill Road
at the Chowan-Perquimans
county line on Friday.
The training will consist
of a motor vehicle collision
at the county line and then
a separate incident contain
ing a hazardous materials
leak just inside the Chow
an County line. It is being
held in an effort to refine
the working relationships
between the two counties
as well as between the re-
See DRILL, 2
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Senior Walk
Emergency responders from Perquimans and Chowan
counties meet for a tabletop drill at the Edenton Fire
Department recently. The two groups will be doing a
joint drill Friday on Burnt Mill Road at the county line to
simulate a hazardous materials accident.
STAFF PHOTO BY
PETER WILLIAMS
Perquimans
County
Middle School
students
applaud the
2019 class of
Perquimans
County High
School as
they walk
the halls last
week. More
pictures will
be published
in the next
edition of the
paper.