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Public comment on monument slated for August
Commissioners: Unlikely Union
monument will be moved
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
The public will get a chance next
month to weigh in on the future of
the Confederate Monument on the
grounds of the Perquimans County
Courthouse.
The Perquimans Board of Commis
sioners is expected to hold a public
hearing on the matter Aug. 16.
County Manager Frank Heath rec
ommended to the board at its Tuesday,
July 6, meeting that a public hearing be
held on the recommendations of the
county’s Monument Working Group.
The group has made two recom
mendations about the monument:
that a sign or signs be added next to
the monument to provide historical
context; and the county approach the
private owner of the Colored Union
Soldiers Monument on King Street
about relocating the monument to the
courthouse green. The idea is to give
the monument a place of equal stature
with the Confederate Monument.
Commissioner Fondella Leigh said
it was her understanding that the
owners of the King Street monument
do not wish to have it moved. Com
missioner Joseph Hoffler said he, too,
understood the owners do not wish to
remove the monument from its loca
tion on King Street.
Hoffler said the site where the Col
ored Union Soldiers Monument is lo
cated is important to the Black com
munity in Hertford. It has been the
site of important institutions such as
a school and a library for Blacks, he
said.
County Attorney Hackney High and
Board of Commissioners Chairman
Wallace Nelson said the county will
need to research the alternatives once
the commissioners hear the public
comment at the Aug. 16 meeting.
In public comment at commis
sioners’ July 6 meeting Rod Bowman
shared his personal story of losing
his son Michael in the global war on
terror. He said he is able to visit his
son’s grave in a cemetery to pay his
respects.
Bowman said that while the Con
federate Monument evokes strong
feelings on both sides, it really is a
memorial to dead soldiers. Those who
had loved ones who died serving the
Confederacy whose remains were
never recovered had nowhere to go to
pay respects to their loved ones until
the monuments were erected, he said.
“As a father of a fallen soldier I have
a place to go,” Bowman said.
See MONUMENT, A3
THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
A study
committee has
recommended
keeping
Perquimans
County’s
Confederate
monument on
the courthouse
green but
adding signage
to put the
109-year-old
monument in
context for its
time.
Jackson,
Norman
file for
re-election
Jackson previously said he
‘absolutely’ wasn’t running
Gift of community
BY JULIAN EURE
AND REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writers
“Absolutely not” appar
ently has a different mean
ing for Hertford Town Coun
cilor Quentin Jackson.
Jackson responded
that way
last week
when he
was asked
by The
Daily Ad
vance if he
planned to
seek a sec
ond term
on Hert
ford Town
Council in
this fall’s
municipal
election.
Jackson,
who was
first elected
in Novem
ber 2017,
went to say
that the past four years as a
town councilor in Hertford
has been “a little bit over
whelming.”
“I won’t say this is the end
but it’s definitely a ‘see you
later,’” he said, adding that
he planned to run for a seat
on the Perquimans Board of
Commissioners in 2022.
JACKSON
NORMAN
See RE-ELECTION, A2
PHOTOS BY REGGIE PONDER/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Andrea Moore (center) greets Ann Elliott (left) and her daughter Kadejha Elliott as they prepare to leave
Woodard’s Pharmacy with bag lunches, Friday, July 2. Moore, a Hertford native now living in Charleston, S.C.,
paid for sandwich lunches for the first 150 customers to come into Woodard’s and order one as a way to
honor Woodard’s owner Charles Woodard on his 75th birthday.
Moore: Meal giveaway tribute to Woodard
Perquimans native returns
to give away 150 meals
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer -
It was Charles Wood
ard’s 75th birthday but
there were 150 different
recipients of gifts at Wood
ard’s Pharmacy Friday,
July 2.
Perquimans native An ¬
drea Moore donated lunch
es from the Woodard’s
Pharmacy lunch counter
to the first 150 customers
who came in and request
ed them.
Patrons were able to
choose either a ham and
cheese sandwich or tur
key and cheese sandwich
and also received a bag of
chips and cold drink.
See MOORE, A3
Andrea
Moore
poses with
Woodard’s
Pharmacy
owner
Charles
Woodard
in the
Hertford
drugstore
Friday, July
2.
Hertford
S-Bridge
removal
underway
Bridge’s existing truss was
floated out on Monday
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
Removal of the historic
S-bridge in Hertford began
last week.
“Although the S-bridge
was closed on May 26
due to deficiencies found
during a routine inspection,
deconstruction was only
able to begin earlier this
week,” N.C. Department of
Transportation Division I
spokesman Tim Hass said
Friday. “This process was
hindered by Tropical Storm
Elsa, meaning 99 percent
of the existing structure is
still in place.”
Project supervisors
planned to float the bridge’s
existing truss out on Mon
day.
“Demolition of the fixed
spans will take place as
necessary over the next
eight months,” Hass said.
No improvements are
being made to the current
causeway since the re
placement bridge will span
the causeway.
“Now that the cause-
way is closed to through
traffic, all pavement will
be removed and it will be
re-graded and seeded to
match existing topogra
phy,” Hass said.
See BRIDGE, A3
Book project to capture area life around turn of century
‘Albemarle Memories’ will
feature local residents’ photos
BY CHRIS DAY
The Daily Advance
A history book project that will
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include photo submissions from
residents aims to capture life in
the Albemarle in the years before
and after the turn of tire 20th cen
tury.
“Albemarle Memories: A Pic
torial History of The Mid-1800s
through 1939” is being presented
by Adams Publishing Group, a
newspaper publishing company
that owns The Daily Advance,
The Bertie Ledger-Advance, The
Perquimans Weekly, Chowan Her
ald, among other North Carolina
properties. The coffee-table photo
compilation will include photos
from participating local historical
organizations, as well as read
er-submitted photos.
Nathan Kohan, regional direc
tor for audience development for
APG’s Eastern North Carolina di
vision, said he once worked for a
newspaper that did a similar proj
ect and it was well received.
“It was really popular,” Kohan
said. “Folks really enjoyed seeing
how things used to be and how
they have changed.”
“Albemarle Memories” is the
first of a series of history books
being offered by APG.
See MEMORIES, A3
PHOTO COURTESY MUSEUM OF THE ALBEMARLE
In this photo taken around 1890, Chowan County resident Isaac Byrum
(left) and sons are seen taking a break from their logging work.