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Work begins on art
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Connor wins
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This week in
North Carolina history
SBI Investigating Town of Hertford
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
North Carolina State Bu
reau of Investigation Public
Information Director Angie
Grube said the SBI received
a request from the District
Attorney on Friday, Jan. 29
to investigate the potential
misuse of Town of Hertford
equipment.
Neither the SBI nor District
Attorney R. Andrew Womble
offered comment about the
investigation.
Town Manager Pam Hurdle
nor Mayor Earnell Brown of
fered comment about the in ¬
vestigation.
Meanwhile, Town Council’s
Monday meetings were can
celed due to a lack of a quo
rum.
Construction on the dais,
a raised platform at the front
of a room or hall, usually
for one or more speakers or
honored guests, has not been
completed at the Community
Center.
The computer isn’t there,
so council was unable to
stream and save the meeting
on the town computer. Also
the heating unit is not work
ing properly.
Councilman Frank Norman
objected to the meeting’s
cancellation.
“The meeting was not can
celed,” he wrote in an email
to Hurdle. “You can not just
decide to not come to a meet
ing. There are laws for that.
Now council members and
the mayor can not show up
and the meeting not happen
because lack of a quorum but
Madame Manager the meeting
was not canceled and I will
be there on time as usual.”
Though there was no of
ficial meeting, councilmen
Quentin Jackson and Norman
held an informal meeting any
way on Facebook Live.
Councilman Faces Trespassing,
Breaking & Entering Charges
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Hertford Town Councilman
Jerry Mimlitsch has been charged
with second-degree trespassing
and breaking and entering, both
misdemeanors, according to an
arrest warrant
Issued Thursday Jan. 28, the
warrant states Mimlitsch, 40, of
Church Street, and local civic
MIMLITSCH
activist Tim
Brinn, 67, of
Front Street,
allegedly broke
into a property
at 321 Market
Street owned
by local busi
nessman Tony
Riddick on Oct
See CHARGES, A3
State Calls
for In-person
School for
Grades K-12
FROM STAFF AND SUBMITTED
REPORTS
RALEIGH - Top state edu
cation leaders joined Governor
Roy Cooper on Tuesday to call
on K-12 school districts across
the state to allow in-person in
struction for all students.
The governor joined North
Carolina Department of Health
and Human Services (NCDH-
HS) Secretary Mandy Cohen,
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction Catherine Truitt and
State Board of Education Chair
Eric Davis to thank educators
for their extraordinary work
during an unprecedented time,
to highlight ongoing research
that shows that with proper
mitigation measures, in-person
learning is safe, and to empha
size the critical importance of
ensuring all students have an
opportunity to learn in a class-
room.
“Protecting the health and
safety of the people of this
state, especially our children
and our teachers, has been our
goal,” Cooper said. “We know
school is important for rea
sons beyond academic instruc
tion. School is where students
learn social skills, get reliable
meals, and find their voices.
Research done right here in
See SCHOOL, A3
Winter Weather Wonderland
BY FROM STAFF REPORTS
Though no snowpocolypse nor
snowmageddon, Old Man Winter
brought his shock and awe to
Northeastern North Carolina last
week.
Thursday, maybe an inch or
so of snow fell here, there and
everywhere so much so that
kids cheered when Perquimans
schools were canceled - SNOW
DAY!
More than 1,300 power out
ages occurred in the New Hope
Road area of Perquimans County.
See related story page A2.
Kudos to Hertford Police Chief
Dennis Brown who braved the
cold and elements Thursday
morning to assist a stranded mo
torist.
Friday, it was rainy and sleety
See WINTER, A3
PHOTO BY KIM BRINN
Tim and Kim Brinn’s grandson,
13-month-old Perry Lex, wants
to go out to play in the snow.
Look at the smile on his face.
PHOTO BY GLENN WHITE
Brenda Hollowell-White strikes a pose as she holds her little dog
Pearl E. White before they walk around and take in Thursday’s
winter wonderland scenery.
Round-up
Judge Cole
and APWC
Scholarship
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
A round-up of all things Per
quimans County...
Tuesday morning, the
nation’s foremost weather expert,
a groundhog named Punxsut
awney Phil, saw his shadow
after scurrying out of a burrow
at Gobbler’s Knob. As the legend
goes, that means the country can
expect below-average tempera
tures for the next six weeks.
In other news, this is the last
week that longtime Superior
Court Judge J.C. Cole will hold
court in Pasquotank County. Slat
ed to retire March 31, folks have
been begun paying tribute to the
man who has served more than
two decades on the bench.
A Hertford resident, Cole won
election to District Court judge in
1994. He was appointed to the Su
perior Court in 2009 by then-Gov.
Beverly Perdue. He was re-elect
ed in 2010 to an eight-year term
and then re-elected again in 2018.
In other matters, Albemarle
Plantation Women’s Club will
award $1,000 scholarships to
young women in Perquimans
County based on character, scho
lastic ability, leadership and need.
The scholarships are open to
all female students graduating
See ROUND-UP, A3
Go Treasure Shopping
at Church St. Antiques
Group Distributes 150 Boxes of Food
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
If you ever get in the mood to
buy something unique, not a gift
that is a carbon copy of anything
else, maybe step into this vin
tage store, Church St. Antiques
& Other Cool Stuff.
Located at 135 North Church
St. downtown in the heart of
Hertford, the business is owned
by Steve & Beverly Brickhouse.
“We chose Hertford because
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we fell in love with the water-
front, the downtown and our
building which was built in 1916
and is one of the great treasures
of Perquimans County,” Beverly
Brickhouse said.
Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues
day-Saturday, customers can
shop for top notch furniture,
home decor and whole assort
ment of collectibles including,
Pepsi advertising - remember,
Pepsi is the taste of the Caroli
nas.
“We get most of our merchan
dise from auctions, estate sales,
and from buying directly from
individuals,” Beverly Brickhouse
said.
A new business, the vintage
See ANTIQUES, A3
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Saturday’s Conununity Food
Distribution at Missing Mill Park
provided 150 boxes to Perqui
mans County and 100 boxes to
Hertford Comity.
Local civic activist Connie
Brothers explained more about
the event, “to which the glory
goes to God.”
Brothers said she was in con
tact with a nonprofit organization
who sent her 250 prepackaged
boxes filled with onions, pota
toes, bags of oranges, cheese,
packs of hotdogs, milk, yogurt
and fully cooked rotisserie chick
en.
People came from all over to
pick up a food box.
“My greatest inspiration to
minister to those who are going
See FOOD, A3
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Through Connie Brothers’ efforts, 250 food boxes were distributed
to families across northeastern North Carolina on Saturday at
Missing Mill Park.