QUIMANS
EEKLY
“News from Next Door”
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021
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Perquimans High
School prom
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New business
opens in
downtown
Hertford
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This week in
North Carolina
history
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Rotary Club’s Efforts Assist Biggs Golf Tourney
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Rotary Club of Hertford plays a
key role with assisting the Biggs
Classic Golf Tournament.
This premier golf tourney
takes place between May 24 and
May 29 at Albemarle Plantation.
“Our partnership with the
GProTour has brought added
professionalism to the tourna
ment, and the players consider
the BIGGS Classic one of the
Majors’ on their yearly sched
ule,” said Lee Duncan, Albe
marle Plantation Properties
General Manager, also a Rotar
ian. “The added involvement of
the HRC this year will enhance
the visibility of not only Hert
ford and Perquimans County,
but the entire Inner Banks re
gion.”
Duncan explained that Rota
ry’s role is threefold:
■ Help the annual BIGGS
Classic enhance the event pres
ence in Hertford and Perquimans
County.
■ Serve as a sponsorship sales
team for the event.
■ Benefit from the tourna
ment charitable giving opportuni
ty to raise funds for the Hertford
Rotary Club Foundation.
Duncan said Rotary endorses
the tournament to provide a new
and potentially ongoing service
project for the club’s member
ship within the local community.
Also, the tournament replaces
the annual concert fundraising
project with a potentially lucra
tive means of funding local schol
arship opportunities through the
HRC Foundation.
This is a $5,000 scholarship
awarded each year to a student
from Perquimans, Pasquotank,
or Chowan County accepted to
attend East Carolina University -
Mr. Biggs’ alma mater.
The first of hopefully many
years of involvement for the
HRC, the tourney puts Perquim
ans County on the map.
“The BIGGS Classic as estab
lished itself as one of the pre
mier developmental tour events
for professional golfers in the
country,” Duncan said. “The lo
cal community, with Biggs Cadil-
lac-Buick-GMC at the top of the
fist, has provided incredible fi
nancial support to the event. The
residents of Albemarle Plantation
roll out the red carpet each year
as volunteers and player hosts.”
Miles Layton can be reached at
mlayton@ncweeklies. com
FILE PH0T0/2019/ALBEMARLE PLANTATION
Full speed ahead to the Biggs Classic Golf Tournament that takes /
place between May 24 and May 29 at Albemarle Plantation.
3 Treated
After
Shooting
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The State Bureau of Investiga
tion has been asked to step in and
investigate a shooting incident in
Hertford Monday that sent three
people to the hospital.
Hertford police Chief Edwin
Roman said he didn’t have any
details about the victims other
than they were admitted to area
hospitals. He said he asked for the
SBI’s assistance because of the
Hertford department’s low staff
ing. The department currently has
three officers: Roman and two
officers.
“Right now I don’t have enough
officers to investigate anything,”
he said Tuesday.
According to Perquimans
Emergency Services, both the
Hertford Police Department and
the Perquimans Sheriff’s Depart
ment were dispatched to the
intersection of King Street and
Stokes Street around 10:39 p.m.
Monday following a report of mul
tiple gunshots.
When officers arrived, they
found two people with gunshot
wounds, emergency services of
ficials said. Both were transport
ed to Vidant-Chowan Hospital in
Edenton by Perquimans Emer
gency Medical Services. One was
evaluated at the hospital while the
other was airlifted to Vidant Medi
cal Center in Greenville.
While officers were respond
ing to Stokes and King streets,
a Perquimans sheriff’s deputy
encountered a vehicle driving at
an excessive speed in Hertford.
The deputy attempted to stop
the vehicle, but the vehicle’s
driver failed to stop. A high-
speed chase ensued into Per
quimans County and then into
Pasquotank County, emergency
services said.
The vehicle finally stopped
at Sentara Albemarle Medical
Center in Elizabeth City, where
officials determined that a third
gunshot victim was a passenger
in the vehicle.
A spokeswoman for the SBI
said Tuesday she did not imme
diately have details about the in
cident
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SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Community members gathered at The Landings of Albemarle, a new Independent and Assisted
Living community in Perquimans County, for an official ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, May 6.
Hertford Welcomes
Landings of Albemarle
New Senior Living Facility
Opens in Hertford
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Seniors in Perquimans Coun
ty have a brand new option for
luxury independent living and
assisted living care.
Located at 603 South Church
Street, The Landings of Albe ¬
Greek Revival Gem Needs Buyer To Save It From Ruin
BY IAN VON TALEE
Museum of the Albemarle
O ne of the finest Greek
Revival homes in the
Albemarle can be found
in downtown Hertford. Present
ly it sits empty, slowly rotting,
its high eaves draped in curling
vines, in an altogether pitiful
state.
The house has fascinated me
for many years, and long have I
hoped something positive would
develop there.
The house stands near the in
tersection of Church and Grubb
streets, and looms quite starkly
over the scene. While the house
is not especially large in terms
of square footage, its scale is un
commonly monumental, and it
has a towering, gaunt presence,
which photographs can scarcely
marle is ready to welcome its
first senior living residents this
month, and the team celebrat
ed that milestone this week
in partnership with the Per
quimans County Chamber of
Commerce by holding an offi
cial ribbon-cutting ceremony
Thursday, May 6.
“We would like to welcome
all of the new citizens that will
be residing here and we also
welcome them into our com ¬
munity,” said Hertford Mayor
Earnell Brown, while speaking
at the event.
Brown, joined by members
of the chamber and local of
ficials, expressed her excite
ment for the opening of The
Landings of Albemarle. She
also announced the city’s up
coming plans to add a sidewalk
for walkers to travel safely to
See LANDING, A3
Museum
of the Albemarle
convey properly.
Built in the 1840s by Dr.
Nathaniel Skinner, a member of
a once-prominent Perquimans
family of gentlemen agricultur
alists, the house was transferred
to Col. Wilson Reed in 1850. His
family resided there until the
early 20th century.
When the house was new, it
stood alongside numerous out
buildings, including a kitchen,
office, smokehouse, barn and
privy. Such a collection of satel
lite structures around a primary
dwelling was standard then, not
See RUIN, A3
Round-up
Trio of
Queens
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
A round-up of all things
Perquimans County...
Pirates’ Class of 2020
alumnus Alli Copeland re
cently served as a commence
ment marshal for the NC State
University’s Class 2021.
If memory serves me cor
rect, Copeland is pursuing a
Bachelor of Science degree in
Biology and a minor in Busi
ness Administration. Also, Co
peland is a Goodnight Scholar
and part of the University
Honors Program and she is
involved on campus with Pre
Health Club, Pre-Dental Club,
and as the First Year Student
Representative of the Students
of Life Sciences Club.
As I’ve said before, it’s not
the size of the school that nec
essarily matters to success,
but the passion and drive to
achieve that matters more.
In other news, Prom King
was Avery Biggs and the Prom
queens Maci Denson, Natalie
Corprew and Sarah Jordan.
See prom photos pages A6
and Bl. Since there is a trio of
deserving queens, that begs the
See ROUND-UP, A3
PHOTO COURTESY IAN VON TALEE
Considered one of the finest Greek Revival homes in the area, the
1840s Skinner House sits vacant near the intersection of Church
and Grubb streets in Hertford.