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"‘News from Next Door”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
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Man wanted in foot chase captured
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Travis Searcy, the 28-year-
old man that led lawmen
on a foot chase Wednesday
in Hertford and caused the
lock down of two schools,
has been arrested.,
Hertford Police Chief
Dennis Brown said Thurs
day afternoon that Perqui-
SEARCY
mans Coun
ty Sheriffs
deputies ar
rested Sear
cy in Holi
day Island.
Perquim
ans County
Chief Depu
ty Tom Reid
said the sheriff’s office had
gotten calls from citizens
that Searcy was spotted
walking down Holiday Is
land Road and every time a
car drove by, he would duck
down.
When deputies confront
ed him, he ran, and eventu
ally ran into an abandoned
camper in the Section P
area of Holiday Island. That
is where deputies arrested
him.
Perquimans County Sher
iff Shelby White praised
Deputies James Fowden,
Chris Murray, and Russell
Gray for using the informa
tion they had to make the
arrest. White also thanked
the public for their cooper
ation in finding him.
“This is another good
example of how well our
community helps us out
when we need it. Thanks to
several tips from Perquim
ans County citizens,” White
said.
Searcy was charged with
simple physical assault
upon a law enforcement
officer, criminal damage
to property, larceny, six
counts of resist-obstruct-de-
lay, two counts of breaking
and entering and violating
probation. He was jailed un
der $200,500 secured bond.
Some of the charges were
not related to the incident
that happened Wednesday.
The incident Sept. 18
started when law enforce
ment got a call about shots
fired off King Street. No
injured people could be
See CHASE, A2
Ward Family Honored
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Members from the families of Dr. and Mrs. William P. Nixon Jr., and Charles H. Ward were presented
commemorative footballs and helmets from the Perquimans County Schools for their generous donations of land
and monetary gifts that enabled the complex to become a reality. Pictured are Meredith Winslow, Mary Lee Willis,
Michelle Winslow and Michael Winslow.
PHOTO BY CHRIS EURE
A local farmer harvest their corn recently.
Farmers wrapping
up 2019 harvest
Nixon Family Honored
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Members from the families of Dr. and Mrs. William P. Nixon Jr., and Charles H. Ward were presented
commemorative footballs and helmets from the Perquimans County Schools for their generous donations of land
and monetary gifts that enabled the complex to become a reality. Pictured are Ed Nixon, Deborah Green, Kay
Winslow, Charlotte Stallings, Amy Cullipher and Gene Nixon.
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Farmers are expecting
a disappointing year but
just how disappointing de
pends on what crop they
planted and just where it
is.
“I’ve talked to some corn
fanners and it depends on
soil type,” said Dylan Lil
ley, the extension service
specialist for field crops
in Perquimans. “They have
picked some of their best
in one comer and some
of the worst in that same
field.”
But while farmers are
still getting the last of the
com out of the field, it’s
clear this won’t be a great
year overall in terms of
crop yields.
“They are getting pretty
close to finishing up, and
farmers were really burn
ing the midnight oil to get it
in before the storm. Some
have been really pleased
with what they got com
pared to what they thought
it would be.”
A dry period throughout
almost all of May and some
of June robbed com plants
of the moisture they need
ed to fully develop. When
they rain did come, plants
grew taller but the kernels
that failed to form during
the dry spell don’t come
back, so that means lower
yields for the season.
Cotton acreage fared
perhaps the worst than
com when Hurricane
Dorian came. The winds
twisted the plants around
and in some cases pushed
them to the ground.
“When cotton gets down
on the ground, moisture
leads to boll rot. The farm
ers that have really walked
their fields were pretty
concerned.”
Lilley was expecting
losses of 25 to 30 percent.
Oddly it was cotton that
fared the best during the
dry spell in the spring.
“The cotton crop was
looking good and it could
still be pretty decent but
See HARVEST, A2
20th annual Jim ‘Catfish’ Hunter ALS walk scheduled for Saturday
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
There will be something
missing this Saturday when
the 20th annual Jim “Cat-
fish” Hunter ALS Walk takes
place in Hertford.
Kim Hunter Daugherty
won’t be there.
Daughtery, the teacher
DAUGHERTY
and daugh
ter of the
Hertford
native and
five-time
World Series
champion,
collapsed
during
school last December and
died. She was 45 years old,
just eight years younger
than her father, who died in
1999 a year after being diag
nosed with ALS.
The walk starts at Perqui
mans County High School
and loops around Hertford
andrcomes back to Cedar-
wood Cemetery past the
grave of the late baseball
great.
“Kim and her husband
Steve were always there to
pass out flowers for walkers
to place at his grave,” said
Helen Hunter, Jimmy’s wid
ow. “We’re going to miss her
there helping, but we will
have good memories of all
that she did.”
Registration starts at
8a.m. and the walk starts
at 9a.m. Hunter said she
wasn’t thinking ahead much
when the walk started.
“I figured. I’d do it as long
as I could, and I still do,”
Hunter said.
The walk serves two
main purposes.
It raises the awareness of
ALS, or amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis. It is a progressive
neurodegenerative disease
that affects nerve cells in
the brain and the spinal
cord.
It also raises money.
Hunter figures in a typical
year, the walk will raise be
tween $20,000 and $30,000.
On a good year, it can hit
See WALK, A2
Jollification tickets still available
BY PETER WILLIAMS
News Editor
Time is running out to get
dinner tickets for the Jollifi
cation celebration this Sat ¬
urday.
The event features a tour
of historic homes during
the day and then dinner and
entertainment at the New
bold-White House in the
evening.
Tickets for both the tour
and dinner are $35 per per
son. The deadline to get din
ner tickets is 5p.m. Thurs
day. The price for the tour
alone is $25 and can be pur ¬
chased up until the event
starts. The historic home
tour runs from 12:30 p.m.
until 5 p.m.
Tickets are available at
the Perquimans Chamber
of Commerce in Hertford,
the Newbold-White House
151, Newbold-White Road,
the Museum of the Albe
marle in Elizabeth City and
See JOLLIFICATION, A2
SUBMITTED PHOTO
The Lewis Norman House
on Market Street is one
of the homes on tour for
Jollification this Saturday.
The house was built in
1894, but was converted
into apartments in the
mid 20th century with a
store on the first floor. It
has since been restored
back into a single family
residence. Tickets for both
the tour and dinner are
$35 per person. The price
for the tour alone is $25.
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