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Tri-County Animal
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Baseball
Season now
Underway
PQ Commission Tackle Timely Items
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Perquimans County Commis
sion accomplished many things
Monday during about an hour
long meeting that restores faith in
local government.
Commissioners got to work by
approving a new county Elections
Director, meeting new employees,
listening to important presenta
tions and discussing new busi
ness.
Commissioners gave their
blessing to the county’s Elections
Director, Kathryn Treiber, hired
recently by the county’s Board
of Elections. She replaces Holly
Hunter who resigned to take a
new job in Virginia - her last day
was March 4.
Perquimans Weekly will make
inquiries with the county’s Board
of Elections Chairwoman Vera
Murrill so as introduce the new
elections director to the commu
nity-
Sheriff Shelby White intro
duced commissioners to two
new deputies - Max Roberson III
and Victor Sulliban - and K-9 unit
Ksanto. Hired March 1, Roberson
served previously as a Hertford
police officer and he was a long-
time deputy serving with the Cam
den Sheriffs Office.
Roberson’s sidekick Ksanto is
a two-year-old German Shepherd
who was put into service in Jan
uary and has a keen nose; knew
that his tennis ball was in Rober
son’s back left pocket. Sulliban
worked for the Hertford Police
Department before he was hired
in Nov. 1.
County Social Services Director
Susan Chaney introduced com
missioners to Julie Shreckengast,
who was hired in June 2020.
Shreckengast works in the
Family & Children’s Medicaid as
as an income maintenance case
worker. Income Maintenance
Caseworkers determine eligibility
for initial applications as well as
on-going recertifications for cli
ents in the economic services pro-
See COMMISSION, A2
Goodwin
Attends
AP Forum
FROM STAFF REPORTS
A group of Albemarle Plantation
conservatives held an open forum
and dinner Tuesday (April 27) at the
Albemarle Plantation Clubhouse re-
starurant
More than 90
residents attended
including North
Carolina House
Representative Ed
Goodwin, R-Chow-
an, and his wife
LorL
The event was
organized by GOP
GOODWIN
activists Shelly Jackson and Nan
cy Schulze. Although no featured
speaker was planned, Schulze,
founder of the Republican Congres
sional Wives Speakers organization,
gave a brief presentation. She in
turn introduced her husband, re
tired congressman Dick Schulze,
who then spoke about Goodwin’s
service to his country and to North
Carolina before he offered the floor
tohim.
After a short report of legislative ac
tivities in Raleigh, Goodwin answered
questions for close to an hour. Com
ments were heard regarding Gover
nor Roy Cooper’s overreaching emer
gency powers during the COVID-19
pandemic that kept schools and small
businesses closed, and the confusing
mask mandate.
Another subject of concern was
voting integrity. North Carolina citi
zens passed the voter ID law in 2018
by double digit numbers, but a Fed
eral judge blocked imple-mentation
and the matter is still in the court
system.
Perquimans County GOP Sec
retary Geoff Byrd said Democratic
Party efforts to nationalize federal
elections can only add to the distrust
many Americans developed during
the emergency powers enacted by
governors and non-elected officials.
The Orwellian title, For the People
Act — HR1, is designed to automat
ically enroll all “residents” with no
concern for ballot integrity, Byrd said.
Ballot harvesting will be the focus of
DNC strategy in 2022, he said.
Other points made by citizens
were DNC plans to pack the Supreme
Court, eviscerate the 1st and 2nd
Amendment and the Biden adminis
tration-created border crises that pri
marily victimizes women and young
children.
Thanks were given to Albemarle
Plantation Chef Jimmy Strickland
and his staff for their performance in
serving a great meal to such a large
group at a beautiful setting on the Al
bemarle Sound.
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PHOTOS BY MILES LAYTON
Perquimans Emergency Services, family and friends attended Monday’s bench dedication
ceremony to pay tribute to Teddy Sablon’s memory at the Perquimans Recreation Center.
Hertford Man’s Legacy Endures
Sablon’s Legacy Helps County’s
Post Overdose Response Team
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Tragedy offered a moment
to reflect on a life that touched
others at a bench dedication
ceremony Monday at the Per
quimans County Recreation
Center.
Though Teddy Sablon, 38,
of Hertford died in February
of 2020, his legacy endures not
only from his music and friend
ships that he shared, but the do
nations made in his memory to
preserve life.
“There may be rain today, but
tomorrow the sun will shine,”
See LEGACY, A2
Scores Attend Viewing
for Brown In Hertford
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Scores of mourners paid their
final respects to Andrew Brown
Jr. in Hertford Sunday morning
during the first of two public view
ings for the Elizabeth City man
shot to death by Pasquotank sher
iff’s deputies just over a week and
a half ago.
Darius Horton, the funeral
director handling the funeral ar
rangements for Brown’s family,
watched as television news crews
and reporters parked their vehi
cles and set up their cameras out
side his Horton’s Funeral Home
and Cremations prior to the view
ing.
Photojournalists clicked pho
tos and asked questions of people
as they entered and left Horton’s
funeral home on Dobbs Street
Many of those attending the walk
through viewing appeared on
their way to church.
Perquimans
County
Manager
Frank Heath
leads a prayer
for the crowd
gathered at
Monday’s
dedication
ceremony.
Horton allowed journalists to
take photographs inside the fu
neral home’s sanctuary — a large
room filled with roses—for about
30 minutes with the understand
ing they would not take photo-
graphs of Brown’s remains.
Brown’s family was not present
for the viewing, but were sched
uled to attend a second viewing at
Museum of the Albemarle in Eliza
beth City from 3 p.m to 6 p.m.
In the funeral home’s foyer, a
television mounted above a grand
father clock showed a photo of
Brown dressed in a black suit and
wearing a white tie. A message
next to the photo noted Brown’s
birthday—March 13,1978—and
the day he was killed just a few
weeks after his 43rd birthday:
April 21,2021.
A member of Horton’s staff,
Minister Hortensia Hayes, helped
direct journalists inside the funeral
See BROWN, A2
Round-up
S-Bridge,
PCWC
Flowers
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
A round-up of all things Perqui
mans County...
. During the Rotary Club of
Hertford’s weekly Titesday morning
meeting, Tom Bettcher, project
superintendent, said the S-Bridge
will close starting July 6 so that con
struction crews can begin the mqjor
work needed to finish the project
that is forecast to be complete
in February 2022. He said during
this time, construction crews will
start removing old bridge that has
spanned the Perquimans River for
generations.
Speaking of Rotary, the club’s
Teachers of the Year are Amy
Craddox, PHS; Kelsey Anderson,
PMS; Collin Woodley, Hertford
Grammar; Holly Jordan, Perquim
ans Central
May 3-7 is National Teacher and
Staff Appreciation Week, so give
them an apple or high-five when you
see these incredible folks.
In other news, former Per
quimans Weekly editor Peter
Williams’ memorial service starts
at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 11 at Old
Hollywood Cemetery in Elizabeth
City. Peter died July 25,2020 - he
was 63 years old. There wasn’t
a memorial service last year be
cause a pandemic held the nation
See ROUND-UP, A2
New Roof
PHOTO BY PENNY BYRD
Want to see how it was done in the 1700s? Drop by the Newbold-
White House to see roofer Leroy Owens of Perry Roofing install
“fish scale” red cedar shingles. Owens has manually cut rectangular
shingles into the rounded shape needed. Work started on the front of
the house (facing the river) and roughly one-eighth of the roof is done
each day. Don’t wait too long to drop by and see this craftsman at
work! Also note: in June the site will be open for tours from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. on Saturdays only, starting June 5. Covid-wise, if all continues
to progress favorably they hope to return to the normal schedule of
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Look for the OPEN flag to be flying!