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"'News from Next Door”
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2019
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Undercover drug sweep nets 10 people
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
The Perquimans County Sher
iffs Office arrested 10 people
Friday as the result of a 10-month
long undercover drug operation.
The 10 were indicted by the
Perquimans County Grand Jury
earlier this month. All of the ar
rests involve the sale of narcotics.
As part of an ongoing operation,
Sheriff Shelby White said more
arrests and more charges would
be coming.
“It’s been a while since we had
done a roundup,” the sheriff said.
“We had our group, and we tried
to arrest what we could. For us
to get 10 in a day, I thought it was
very good.”
Ilie operation started at 9 a.m.
and wrapped up by that after
noon.
White said the Hertford Police
Department assisted in locat
ing some of the individuals. The
State Bureau of Investigation also
helped with a case. As the arrests
were being made, White said the
Albemarle District Jail helped out
by sending a van to transport the
suspects there, freeing the sher
iffs office from the job of travel
ing back and forth.
The majority of the charges
were for selling cocaine, crack
cocaine or heroin, the sheriff said.
Arrested were:
Rebecca Grey, 54, Smith Acres
Road, Belvidere: two counts of
sell and deliver Schedule II con
trolled substance, sell and deliv
er marijuana, possession of dreg
paraphernalia, possession of mar-
yuana drug paraphernalia.
James Parker, 70, Bay Branch
Road, Belvidere: Sell and defiver
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Schedule II controlled substance.
Kevin Guy, 28, Snug Harbor:
Sell and deliver Schedule II con
trolled substance, possession of
drug paraphernalia.
Regina Hardee, 33, Oliver
Street, Hertford: Delivery of
See DRUGS, A2
JACKSON
KEE
National Night
Out is Tuesday
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Perquimans County will observe Na
tional Night Out Tuesday from 4 p.m. un
til 8p.m. at the Perquimans County Rec
reation Center.
“This has been something we wanted
to do,” said Sheriff Shelby White. “We’ve
been working on it for a couple of months
now.”
The sheriff said there will be more
than 30 groups or departments partic
ipating, including representatives and
trucks from each of the county’s fire
departments, the sheriffs office, the
Hertford Police Department, N.C. Wild
life, Camp Cale and local probation of
ficers.
The Perquimans County Farm Bureau
will be there with a 911 simulator for chil-
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Julie Solesbee, a spokesperson for
Perquimans emergency services said
the simulator will be a great experi
ence.
It is important that children know
See NIGHT OUT, A2
Storm blamed
for sewer spill
The Landings of Albemarle, an assisted living facility, should be finished by April according to the
company buiiding it. It win feature 50 assisted living Luds and 24 udopendent living apartments.
Senior project to open in 2020
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A new 46,000 square-foot se
nior living community in Hert
ford is on schedule to be fin
ished by April, if not earlier.
“Construction has moved
very quickly,” said Robin Waller,
the director of new business
sales for Affinity Living Group.
Tire Landings of Albemarle
will feature 50 assisted living
beds as well as 24 independent
living apartments. The facility,
which is owned by ALG will
bring 50 new jobs to the area
Waller said the previous name
for the project - Hertford House
- was just a working title for
the property on South Church
Street.
She said the project will fill
a void for families who have a
loved one who needs help with
See PROJECT, A2
Jones files for
Hertford seat
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News.Editor
Orlean Jones, one of tire
four candidates for the two
seats on the Hertford town
board, said she wants to
bring about change and de
liver more things for young
people to do.
“I’m not ashamed to say
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I am from
Hertford,”
Jones said.
“I attend
the council
meetings
and I have
to be part of
the change,
because
if I’m not, I am * 'ri cf ri
problem.”
Jones, 48, is the mother
of a 10-year-old boy. She
graduated from Perquimans
County High School and
Elizabeth City State Univer
sity where she earned a de
gree in music.
She is currently a sales
associate at Dollar General
and a gospel recording art
ist.
See JONES, A2
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A heavy thunderstorm last week that
dumped as much as five inches of rain
was blamed for a sewer spill in Winfall
that allowed the release of about 25,000
gallons of untreated waste to get into a
swampy area near the Perquimans River.
The spill was from Pumping Station 1
at 216 W. Main St. The town reported the
spill to state authorities.
The storm was also blamed for some
power outages.
A blown transformer kept some cus
tomers in the Town of Hertford without
electricity for four hours.
Albemarle Electric Membership Corp.
See SPILL, A2
Goodman steps down as editor, publisher
BY JULIAN EURE
Managing Editor The Daily Advance
If there’s one thing Mike
Goodman knows after more
than four decades in the news
paper business, it’s that things
don’t stay the same very long.
Every day there’s something
new.
Goodman’s four decades at
The Daily Advance are certain
ly a testament to that. How the
newspaper is produced, how it
looks, where it’s printed, when
and how it’s delivered to read-
GOODMAN
ers — all have
changed signifi
cantly since he
was first hired
as a copyeditor
at the paper in
1978.
And now
Goodman —
The Daily Ad
vance’s editor for the past 37
years’ and its publisher the past
five — is preparing for what will
likely be the last change he’ll
see at the paper. He announced
recently to staff that he plans
to retire at the end of August.
Goodman is also publisher of
both The Perquimans Weekly
and The Chowan Herald.
“A lot of things aligned that
just seemed to make retirement
look right,” Goodman said in an
interview on Friday, explaining
his decision. “The timing was
good from the standpoint of my
age — I’m 67 — and the fact I’m
now in my 42nd year here. We’re
also moving to a new building.
So my retiring now works out
well because it allows a fresh
start for the people who will be
working there.”
Goodmail was referring to
Tlie Daily Advance’s planned
move from its current build
ing at the corner of Water and
Church streets to the McPher
son Center shopping plaza on
Ehringhaus Street. The newspa
per plans to be in its new office
space by the middle of next of
month.
Goodman also noted that he
and his wife, Martha, have been
talking about finally getting to
See GOODMAN, A6
Local AAU basketball team claims national championship
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
A team of 15 and 16-year-
olds from Perquimans
and three other counties
claimed the national title in
an AAU basketball tourna
ment in Greensboro on July
21.
Nathan Downing, a
Perquimans County High
School graduate and former
athlete, coached the team.
Two of the N.C. Breakers
players, Trevon Jones and
Omarion Hunter, are Perqui
mans County residents. The
other players came from
Chowan, Currituck and
Washington counties.
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The Breakers won the
AlwaysLive Division 3 na
tional championship tour
nament by beating the Caro
lina Knicks 62-35 in the Gold
bracket at the Greensboro
Sportsplex. The Breakers
went 5-0 in the tournament,
This is the third season
for the N.C. Breakers.
Downing said he started
the team as a way to give
local players more expo
sure to college coaches
who are recruiting plus a
way to widen the players’
understanding of the world
outside of the Albemarle
area.
Downing said the team
has played in Washington
D.C., Raleigh, Myrtle Beach,
Durham, Charlotte and even
Pennsylvania
On AlwaysLive, the
games are recorded and
broadcast on sites like You ¬
Tube and Twitter.
The season starts in April
and continues on through
August. Some of the players
who aren’t involved in foot
ball will, continue to play
AAU ball into the fall. When
the team plays at home,
they play at John A. Holmes
High School.
The other players are Car
los Raven, Malachi White,
Teddy Wilson, Anthony Stat
en, Nashaun White, Carmilo
Burton and coach Lonnie
Wilson, Frederick Dre, Qua-
mir Webb, Jewell Coston
and Darren Saunders.
“It’s a great experience
for them,” Downing said.
“Many have never played
outside of the area.”
For now Downing works
part-time at the recteation
department in Edenton, but
he has applied to be the bas
ketball coach at Perquimans
County Middle School.
The team has to work
hard to raise the money to
travel.
“We sold raffle tickets,
somebody donated a 50-
inch TV and a 40-inch TV
and we raffled them, and
Nationwide Insurance
has helped us as well as
churches and individuals.
Many of the parents don’t
have a lot of money, but
they might give $10 or $20
and it all helps. It’s really
expensive, but we do what
we can do.”
Most of the players
Downing has now were part
of that first season, when
they were 13 or 14 years
old. Each year, Downing
has moved the age group up
a notch, and eventually the
athletes will graduate high
See AAU, A2
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The North Carolina Breakers travel basketball team
won the AlwaysLive Division 3 national championship
tournament on July 21 in Greensboro. The NC Breakers
defeated the Carolina Knicks 62-35 in the tournament
championship game of the Gold Bracket at the
Greensboro Sportsplex. The NC Breakers posted a 5-0
record during the tournament. Back row,left: Coach
Nathan Downing, Carlos Raven, Malachi White, Teddy
Wilson, Anothony Staten, Nashaun White, Treveon
Jones, Carmilo Burton and coach Lonnie Wilson. Front
row, left: Frederick Dre, Quamir Webb, Jewell Coston
and Darren Saunders. Not pictured is Omarion Hunter.