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Board candidates weigh in on school COVID protocols
6 to vie for 3 open seats on
board of education May 17
From staff reports
When Perquimans vot
ers go to the poUs on May
17, they will decide who
fills three open seats on the
county’s Board of Educa
tion for the next four years.
A total of six candidates
are seeking the seats in the
non-partisan race. They
include incumbent Anne
CORPREW FELTON
HUDDLESTON SILVA WHITE WINSLOW
White and candidates Kristy
Corprew, Brenda Hud
dleston, Matt Winslow, Dave
Silva and Gracie Felton.
The Perquimans Weekly
recently asked each candi
date to respond to a ques
tion related to education.
All but Felton responded by
the newspaper’s deadline.
The candidates’ respons
es to the question, edited
for space, appear below.
Responses to the other
questions will appear in
subsequent editions in the
run-up to the start of early
voting on April 28.
TPW: What do you
think of the way the
Perquimans Board of
Education handled
COVID-19 issues such
as masks, offering
in-person instruction
etc. What, if anything,
would you have done dif
ferently?
White: “COVID-19 dis
rupted everything in our so
ciety. Schools and families
were on the front lines. The
Perquimans County School
system was forced to piv
ot and utilize all of our re
sources to safely, creative
ly and effectively deliver
instruction differently and
in ways that would engage
and maximize learning for
all students.
“While our teaching and
delivery strategies changed,
See SCHOOL, A8
Grand opening
Perquimans board
OKs language for
signs at monument
PHOTO BY JOEL SUTTON
Fans, along with the baseball teams from Perquimans High School (left) and Bertie High School (right), stand for
the national anthem prior to the Pirates’ home game against Bertie, Friday at Perquimans County High School’s
Jim “Catfish” Hunter Field. It was the first game with the field’s new grandstand behind home plate.
Pirates blank Falcons on grandstand night
New seats, press box used
for first time at Hunter Field
BY DAVID GOUGH
Sports Editor
Friday night would have
been the late Jim “Catfish”
Hunter’s 76th birthday.
So it was fitting that
on the same day, the high
school baseball field named
in his honor at Perquimans
County High School held
Spring Expo a stress reliever for brides
Dress biz, event planner caters
showcase wares Saturday
BY JOHN FOLEY
Correspondent
The Perquimans Chamber
of Commerce’s Spring Expo
held on Saturday at the Per
quimans County Recreation
Center could have been billed
as a bridal stress reliever.
While COVID shut down
bridal boutiques, buffet ta
bles, photographers, musi
cians, event venues, caterers,
and all the services required
for large events, the Spring
Expo helped bridge the gap
between brides and business
es featuring many of the ser-
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its first baseball game with
a major upgrade for Pirate
baseball fans.
A new 300-person grand
stand behind home plate,
complete with a small press
box and overhanging roof,
was put to use for the first
time as the Pirates defeated
Bertie 15-0 in five innings in
front of a solid crowd.
“You look at the past few
years and the things that
have been done,” Perqui
mans head baseball coach
vices long under wraps.
“We tried to bring all the
businesses that work with
event services together un
der one roof to make it easier
to find vendors for an event.
Planning a wedding has got
ten very stressful and diffi
cult,” said Chamber Execu
tive Director LeAnna Lee.
Allison Alderman of Suf
folk-based Virginia’s Daugh
ter Bridal Boutique offered a
sampling of wedding gowns
in a variety of styles at Satur
day’s event.
“We have a lot of brides
from North Carolina, so we
enjoy coming to these shows.
The people are always so
nice, it’s wonderful,” said Al
derman.
Hertford resident
and future bride
Meredith Winslow
2 was among the expo
attendees admiring
Alderman’s brid
al gowns. She also
See EXPO, A6
and athletic director Justin
Roberson said. “The brand
new football facility, next
year we’re getting a brand
new track. Ten or 15 years
ago, we got a brand new
gym. I mean who else in this
area is pouring into their
kids, athletes, the way this
community is? It’s a special
place to be and I’m blessed
to be from this county.”
Friday’s game began a lit
tle later than the scheduled
7p.m. start time thanks, to
JOHN FOLEY PHOTO
Meredith Winslow, Michelle Winslow and Jennifer
Stallings admire a Virginia’s Daughter Bridal Boutique
wedding gown at the Perquimans Chamber of
Commerce’s Spring Expo at the Perquimans County
Recreation Center in Hertford, Saturday.
i
rain showers that passed
through the region. Prior to
the game, the school held a
ribbon cutting for both the
grandstand and new press
box.
The press box was dedi
cated to former Perquimans
High School head baseball
coaches Bobby Carter, who
led the Pirates from 1961 to
1968, and W.G. “Pete” Hunt
er, who coached them from
See GRANDSTAND, A8
Panels to note opposition to
secession, Black troops’ role
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
The signs that will be
posted near Perquimans’
Confederate monument at
the courthouse won’t just
note that it was erected to
honor the county’s Civil War
dead. They ’ll also point out
that “many” county resi
dents opposed secession
and went on to serve in the
Union Army, some of them
African Americans whose
contributions to the war are
celebrated on a separate
memorial in Hertford.
The Perquimans Board
of Commissioners voted 4-1
Monday to approve both in
stallation of explanatory signs
near the Confederate monu
ment as well as language to
be used on the signs placing it
in historical context.
Commissioner Charles
Woodard cast the lone
JOHN FOLEY PHOTO
Historic Hertford Inc. Chairwoman Lynne Raymond (left)
presents HHI’s first-ever Volunteer of the Year Awards
Wednesday, April 6, to (l-r) Lyle Brown, Leary Winslow
and Patrick Votava for their leadership getting both
the Perquimans High School Athletic Football Complex
and the new grandstand project at Jim “Catfish” Hunter
Field completed.
Historic Hertford
names its first
Volunteers of Year
Brown, Votava, Winslow earn
award for athletics work
BY JOHN FOLEY
Correspondent
Three local businessmen
instrumental in revamping
the Perquimans Athlet
ics Booster Club and who
played key roles in the proj
ects to build the new ath
letic complex and baseball
grandstand at Perquimans
dissent
ing vote
against the
signs, ex
pressing
concerns
about some
of the lan
guage that
WOODARD will be
used.
Woodard said before the
vote that he objected to the
signs including references
to local opposition to se
cession. He acknowledged
that many Quakers in the
area were conscientious
objectors to slavery. He also
noted there was also some
opposition in the area to the
American Revolution.
Hoffler argued that the
reason the monuments
to the Confederacy were
erected on public property
— usually at courthouses
— was to intimidate Black
people and prevent them
from exercising their right
See MONUMENT, A8
County High School, are the
inaugural winners of Histor
ic Hertford Inc.’s Volunteer
of the Year Award.
Lyle Brown, Patrick
Votava and Leary Winslow
were presented the award
by Historic Hertford Chair
woman Lynne Raymond
during a brunch attended by
local officials, HH1 directors
and the honorees’ families
Wednesday, April 6.
See HERTFORD, A6