THE Ferquim _--_> T 514 S CHURCH ST W M / ■ » ■ ■ -■ nPPTFORDNC 27944-1225 VV EEK l y P9/C9****** CA R-RT LOT**R 008 hllil l, i | i"H| , ii|||i|||i.i„ |1 | | | 1||I1 || PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBR Ruritan Club Celebrates Anniversary, 3 “News from Next Door” WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 $1.00 SUBMITTED PHOTO Larry Amaker was sworn in to the NC Marine Industrial Park Authority by Retired Judge Janice McKenzie Cole at the Hertford Court Annex Courtroom last week. The Bible is being held by Carol Amaker. Amaker joins marine board BY PETER WILLIAMS News ^Editor Gov. Roy Cooper has ap pointed Larry Amaker to serve on the North Carolina Marine Industrial Park Au thority. Tire authority is under the N.C. Department of Commerce and oversees marine parks in Wanchese and Engelhard as well as the proposed 72-acre one in Hertford. Janice Cole, the former chair of the authority, is stepping down. Amaker will serve as a Perquimans member along with Wallace Nelson, the chairman of the Perquimans County Com mission. Amaker, 66, is retired from a 38-year career in law enforcement. He is the pres ident of Amaker & Associ ates Investigations, LLC. Be fore founding his practice, he had a 36-year career in law enforcement including time with the NYC Dept, of Corrections, White Plains, NY Police Department, New York City Police Depart? ment and the United States Secret Service. He grew up in Harlem. “Back in those days, it wasn’t gentrified,” he said. He moved to Shores of Lands End about 12 years ago. “We were living in Mary land, just outside of Wash ington D.C. and really just stumbled on it (Perquimans County). We fell in love with it immediately. Once we had a house here, I knew I didn’t want to work in D.C. any more and retired.” He loves the quiet life he ' has in Perquimans. See AMAKER, A2 Schools placed on lockdown From Staff Reports Two Perquimans Coun ty schools were placed on lockdown Thursday follow ing a report that an Eliza beth City man wanted on murder and other charges was in the vicinity. The Per quimans County Sheriff’s Office said it received a tip that Caprie An- PAIGE thony Paige, who is wanted in both Eliz ¬ abeth City and Atlanta, was at a location outside the Winfall town limits. As a precautionary mea sure, both Perquimans Cen- tral School and Perquimans Middle School were placed on a modified lockdown until the tip about Paige’s whereabouts was investi gated, the Perquimans Sher iffs Office said. After an investigation determined the tip lacked merit, the lockdowns were lifted and normal school op erations resumed, the sher iffs office said. Elizabeth City police Perquimans players run out onto the field for Friday’s game. See the game story on Page A8. New stadium See LOCKDOWN, A2 BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor The results of nearly a decade of thought and work became a reali ty Ffiday night when Perquimans County High School held their first football game on the Charles H. Ward Field at the Nixon Athletic Complex. The football team responded with a 40-0 win over Columbia. The project started when Dr. Wil liam Nixon, a Perquimans native, made the offer of 32 acres of farm land across the street from the high school in 2010. Work was to start within five years, but when that didn’t happen, Nixon extended the offer another five years. It wasn’t un til former Perquimans County Com missioner Charles Ward died and left $600,000 for the county for a football opens field or a library did the athletic proj ect get traction. $ School officials had hoped to play on the field in 2018, but that was not to be. It didn’t seem to matter to fans that packed the stands. “Tonight we stand on a field built from dreams and a vision ... dreams and a vision which began nearly a de ¬ See STADIUM, A2 County supports Murphy BY PETER WILLIAMS ■ News Editor Perquimans County was among the counties that did more than their share to give Republican state' lawmaker Greg Murphy a big win in his race for North Carolinas 3rd Congressio nal District last week. Across the district, Mur phy, a Green ville doctor, got 61 per cent of the vote over Democrat Al len Thomas, who had 37 percent. Two DAILY ADVANCE PHOTO MURPHY third-party candidates — Libertarian Tim Harris and Greg Holt of the N.C. Consti tution Party — were far be hind, combining for less than 1 percent of the vote. The special election was called to fill the vacancy left by the death of Walter B. Jones Jr., who died on Feb. 10. In Perquimans County, Murphy got 70.49 percent of the vote. Tire only county See MURPHY, A2 SUBMITTED PHOTO A sign hangs in front of the new home for Historic Hertford Inc. and Carolina Moon Theater. HHI, theater working on new location BY PETER WILLIAMS News Editor Come spring, Carolina Moon Theater will be per forming a play in their third location in the past seven years. The theater and Historic Hertford Inc. have moved next door to 110 W. Acad emy St. to a space that last served as the Perquimans County Library. Before be coming a library, the build ing housed the cafeteria for Hertford Grammar School. HHI and Carolina Moon are leasing the new space from Perquimans County for$layear. Before the move, they were in the next door in a building owned by the Town of Hertford on the corner of West Academy and Grubb Streets. That building once housed the Perquimans Se nior Center before it moved to a building on Harvey Point Road. Lynne Raymond, the leader with Carolina Moon and chair of Historic Hert ford, said the move was made to give HHI and the theater more space and get everything under one roof. The theater group had been storing props and costumes in a metal building the town owns near Missing Mill Park, but it had a roof leak. The new building has just under 6,000 square feet. The old senior center measures about 3,600. “We’ll be able to seat about 90 people and the stage itself is much bigger, like 30 percent bigger,” Ray mond said. “That allows us to do a lot of different per- formances that we couldn’t See THEATER, A2 Tilley named to advisory committee Candidate Forum From Staff Reports Perquimans County Clerk of Superior Court Todd Tilley has been ap pointed to serve on the eCourts Advisory Commit tee for the North Carolina Judicial Branch. The eCourts Adviso ry Committee comprises representation of judicial officials and court staff from throughout the state’s court system. This group is charged with evaluating and recommending stan dard case/business process es to enable courts to move from a largely paper-based environment to a digital one. Tilley was selected to serve as a voice for clerks of superior court. He was selected by nomination by leadership of the statewide Conference of Clerks of Su perior Court. “We look forward to Clerk Tilley’s collaboration to further our successes as transformative change continues in the Judicial Branch,” said McKinley Wooten, interim director of the North Carolina Ad ministrative Office of the Courts (NCAOC). “Our work together will deliver technology systems, tools, and processes that provide greater access to justice and enable efficient, fair, and equitable outcomes in our unified court system.” “It is an honor to serve on this committee,” Tilley said. “I am proud to be the voice for the residents of Perquimans County and to represent my fellow clerks across the state as we work to modernize our courts and provide greater access to justice for all North Car olinians.” As the NCAOC progress es in its eCourts initiatives, it will be critical that ex peditious decisions are made concerning request ed modifications or addi tions to current business See TILLEY, A2 SUBMITTED PHOTO Hertford candidates Earnell Brown, Jerry Mimlitsch, Orlean Jones and Ashley Hodges attended a candidate’s forum Saturday at the historic Perquimans County Courthouse. Two other candidates, Quentin Jackson and Gracie Felton were invited but did not,attend. Brown and Jackson are running for mayor and the,other four are running for a town council seat.

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