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Lazy Weekends
celebrates 20 years
of lawncare service
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Hertford Town Council
meeting recap
Dead or Alive: An Autopsy of Voter Registration
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
After American author Mark
Twain received reports that he
was dead after his obituary was
published, Twain is said to have
remarked, “The reports of my
death are greatly exaggerated.”
Patty Bittner of Hertford can
surely commiserate because
until recently, she was listed as
being no longer among the liv
ing by the Perquimans County
See VOTER, A2
PHOTO BY MILES LAYTON
Until recently, Patty
Bittner of Hertford was
dead, according to
her voter registration
at the Perquimans
Board of Elections;
passed away in April
2019. Being a good
citizen, Bittner decided
to change her voter
registration status
from dead to alive
so that she can cast
her vote in the 2020
election. Go Patty!
Cole’s Letter Rocks BOE
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Friday morning’s Perquim
ans County Board of Elections’
meeting was eye opening, heat
ed at times and should serve as
a wake-up call to voters think
ing about casting their ballots in
the November general election.
Janice Cole, a former Dis
trict Court Judge and US Attor
ney, submitted a letter Tuesday
(Sept. 22) to the county’s BOE
sharing her concerns about
how the BOE is “not complying
with the spirit and the letter of
See LETTER, A3
School
Board
Approves
Plan A
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Perquimans Board of Edu
cation approved plans to move
K-5 to Plan A with the option
for families to continue re
mote learning
under Plan C
beginning the
week of Octo
ber 19th which
marks the be
ginning of the
second nine
week grading
period.
Plan A will
TURNER
follow the same health and
safety procedures as Plan B
with social distancing recom
mended but not required in
classrooms and on buses.
“Every attempt will continue
to be made to social distance
students as much as possible
while requiring health screen
ings, masks, and disinfection
procedures,” Superintendent
Tanya Turner said. “The move
to Plan A will enable our
school system to make several
modifications to better serve
our children.”
Plan A requires important
safety protocols for students,
staff and teachers. Details
about the plans and safety pro
tocols are online in the Strong
Schools NC Public Health
Toolkit.
Beginning the week of Octo
ber 19th,
1. 5th grade will return to
HGS.
2. 7th and Sth grade will re
turn to PCMS.
3. K-5 buses will be able to
accommodate two children
The mission of Sunday’s prayer walks was to inspire prayers for healing and for local law
enforcement in the wake of recent three shooting incidents.
Prayer Walk for Peace
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
In lieu of the recent violence
that has affected the community,
a Prayer Walk for Hertford was
held Sunday to pray for healing
and for local law enforcement.
Recently, Hertford Mayor Ear-
nell Brown imposed a 9-day cur
few in the wake of three shooting
incidents in the town within 72
hour time frame, one that left a res
ident dead and two others that sent
local men to hospitals. Though the
When reflecting the
violence and the
choice between good
and evil, Pastor Greg
Owenby said, “There
is an option and it
is a better option.
If you’re looking for
somewhere to join,
find you a good Bible-
believing church, join
up and start serving
the Lord. That’ll be
more fulfilling than
any gang activity that
you should never be a
part of.”
See PRAYER, A3
A Prayer Walk for Hertford was held Sunday to pray for peace and for law enforcement.
Round-up
New Owner
at Barley
and Vine
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
A round-up of all things
Perquimans County...
. Shop local!
Other day, I brought my wife
and daughter to White’s Dress
Shoppe on Market Street. Store
VERRASTRO
is closing soon,
so there are
good deals on
dresses - check
it out! They
bought a couple
of dresses and
then we moved
onto lunch at
Woodard’s
Pharmacy on
Church Street.
We had three sandwiches -
turkey with lettuce, tomato,
mustard - along with fountain
drinks, a moon pie and some
chips. Excellent food at good
prices.
Afterward, we headed to
See LAYTON, A6
PHOTO BY MILES LAYTON
Sharon Smith co-owns Barley
and Vine with her husband Jim.
The couple is saying goodbye
to their shop; it’s under new
ownership - Lisa Verrastro.
3Ssi« Sen. Steinburg Completes Prisons’ Tour
seat. A
5. Each week, Monday will
continue to be a full day of
face to face learning for grades
9-12 only. K-8 will be remote.
See SCHOOL, A6
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BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Editor’s Note: This is the
first of a two-part series up
dating our readers on prison
reform and NC Senator Bob
Steinburg’s trip to every state
correctional institution to talk
to corrections officers and see
conditions first hand. Stein
burg’s zeal for reform began in
the wake tragedies at correc-
STEINBURG
lions facilities
in Pasquotank
and Bertie
counties that
when five peo
ple died, both
inmates and
prison employ
ees.
NC Senator
Bob Steinburg said he learned a
lot during his recently complet ¬
ed tour of the state’s correc
tional institutions. His journey
across the state started about a
year ago in the wake of deadly
attacks at Pasquotank and Ber
tie county’s prisons.
Since that time, Steinburg
has spearheaded prison reform
that seeks to provide safer
working conditions and better
pay for employees.
“Nothing like this had ever
happened in the history of the
North Carolina Prison System -
five people killed in one year,”
he said. “So I knew after that,
something had to be done. I
went to all the funerals, visited
with all the families. To me, it’s
personal. I know these people
working at these correctional
institutions. Some of them had
visited my house. They were
out on my front porch chatting
See TOUR, A2
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