QUIMANS EEKLY “News from Next Door” THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021 $1.00 PAGES A6, Bl Perquimans High School prom PAGE B2 New business opens in downtown Hertford PAGE B4 This week in North Carolina history 1 a: 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 6 89076 47144 " 2 Vol. 87, No. 21 www.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved 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.

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