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QUIMANS
EEKLY
“News from Next Door”
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022
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Legion Post 126
to host Memorial
Day observance
Monday
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Native hopes
new market can
help revitalize
Pea Ridge
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Scott, Sawyer,
Story, Christian,
Nixon, Leary win
scholarships
White, Corprew, Winslow win school board seats
Huddleston finished fourth,
Felton fifth, Silva sixth
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
Perquimans County Board
of Education Chairman Anne
White and first-time candi
dates Kristy Corprew and
Matt Winslow won seats on
the county school board in
last week’s countywide elec
tion.
Three of the six school
board seats were at stake in
CORPREW
WHITE
WINSLOW
the Tuesday, May 17 nonparti
san election and were award
ed to the top three vote-get
ters.
Corprew led the field with
764 votes or 34.73%, Winslow
garnered 497 votes or 22.59%,
and White had 469 votes or
21.32%.
First-time candidate Bren
da Huddleston collected 321
votes or 14.59%, Gracie Felton
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win dooms GOP’s hopes in 1st.
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garnered 76 votes or 3.45%
and Dave Silva had 70 votes
or 3.18%.
Two members of the cur
rent Perquimans Board of
Education — Matt Peeler and
Amy Spaugh — did not seek
re-election.
Corprew said she was
‘humbled by the support of
the people of Perquimans
County.”
“Thank you for trusting me
to serve our students, parents,
and teachers,” she said. Tm
excited to continue the good
things our current board has
in place. Congratulations also
to Matt Winslow and Anne
White — I look forward to
working with them.”
White said she was pleased
with the election results.
“I look forward to working
with two great new board
members who have the edu
cation of all of our students as
their top priority,” White said.
“I am grateful to the variety of
residents who voted for me.”
Winslow said he is pleased
to have been elected, espe
cially given the quality of can
didates in the field.
“They were all in my
opinion very qualified indi
viduals,” he said.
Winslow said he thinks
voters responded to his con
nection to the schools.
“One thing to stand on is
just that I have two kids in
See SCHOOL, A3
Over the moon
JOHN FOLEY PHOTO
Gail and Henry House bought the old Silver Fox building at 116 Market Street in 2021 and converted it into the
Carolina Moon Bakery that they opened last October. The Houses produce up to 20 different baked products a day,
including breads, cakes, cupcakes and cookies.
Couple satisfying Hertfords sweet tooth
Higgins Hies
lawsuit in son’s
car chase death
Suit: Trooper didn’t follow
ride-along program’s rules
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
The mother of a young
Perquimans County man
killed in a car crash two
years ago while participat
ing in a N.C. Highway Pa
trol internship program has
sued two state troopers, the
patrol and East Carolina
University.
Michael Higgins was
a 22-year-old graduate of
ECU’s criminal justice pro
gram when he was killed
while participating in a uni
versity-sponsored ridealong
program with the N.C. High
way Patrol. Higgins was a
passenger in a vehicle driven
by a trooper that crashed
during a highspeed chase.
Higgins’ mother, Lisa
Higgins, has sued Troop
er Omar Romero Mendo
za and Trooper Brandon
Cesar Cruz in connection
with her son’s death in the
crash.
See LAWSUIT, A3
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Houses opened Carolina Moon
Bakery in downtown in October
BY JOHN FOLEY
Correspondent
Henry and Gail House
weren’t looking to open a
bakery in Hertford. Or buy
another house. But during
a browsing session on Face-
book, one of the town’s
105-year-old historic beau
ties caught Gail’s eye.
The next thing you know,
Hertford, HH to launch ‘SML’ flea market
Event designed to bring more
vendors, shoppers downtown
BY JOHN FOLEY
Correspondent
Local residents struggling
to get out from under the
clutter caused by years of
collecting treasures that have
long since faded may soon be
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the Houses not only bought
the building, they converted
it into their latest venture,
Carolina Moon Bakery.
“Gail showed me the
house and although I liked
it, I didn’t make a call right
away,” Henry House re
called recently. “I waited a
week, hoping it would sell.
We had a house in Maryland
and I was looking to retire
there.”
But then, the house was
still available on Facebook a
week later. So House called
able to see the light at the oth
er end of the garage.
The town of Hertford and
Historic Hertford, Inc. are
bringing Saturday Morning
Live, a local flea market to
Church Street beginning
June 11. The SML Flea Mar
ket, which will continue
through August, is sched
uled to be open the second
and fourth Saturdays of the
month from 8 a.m. to
11 a.m.
The market could
2 present an opportu
nity to test your clut-
tered-stuff sales abil
ity. Those stacks of
See MARKET, A3
about it and took a virtu
al tour. He and Gail were
so smitten, they hooked
up their RV, drove down
to Hertford, and as House
says, “here we sit.”
In 2021 the couple bought
the old Silver Fox building
at 116 Market Street and
opened the Carolina Moon
“Bakery last October.
“I’ve leveraged Gail’s tal
ent into this commercial
project,” House said.
Surrounded by bags of
flour and the aroma of fresh
ly baked bread, muffins,
cookies and cakes, House
recalls it was Hertford resi
dent Tim Brinn who planted
the seed for the bakery.
“I was introduced to Tim
who invited us to park our
RV in his driveway while we
were inspecting the Hert
ford house,” Henry recalled.
“While we were breaking
bread one night, the topic of
a bakery came up. And Tim
suggested Hertford needed
See MOON, A2
PHOTO COURTESY
SHERYL SANDERS
Sheryl
Sanders,
who owns
the resale
shop Divine
Treasures in
Elizabeth City,
plans to be
one of the
vendors at
the upcoming
Hertford
Saturday
Morning Live
Flea Market
that starts
June 11.
Lisa Higgins, (left) mother of Michael Higgins, and
her son Shane Higgins stand in front of a memorial
to Michael Higgins in 2021. Lisa Higgins is suing
two troopers with the N.C. Highway Patrol, the patrol
and East Carolina University for a 2020 wreck that
caused Michael Higgins’ death.
Sanderson, Moreland,
Cruden win races for
NC Senate, judge, DA
Steinburg: Lost re-election
bid to be his last campaign
BY PAUL NIELSEN
The Daily Advance
Fueled by a 5,000-vote
margin in Carteret Coun
ty, state Sen. Norm Sand
erson defeated state Sen.
Bob Steinburg in the GOP
primary in the newly re
drawn 1st Senate District
in the May 17 election.
District Court Judge
Jennifer Bland also lost
her bid for election to a
full term in the election,
losing to challenger Jeff
Moreland, a Perquimans
County resident, in the
GOP primary for district
court judge by more than
800 votes.
In one of two other GOP
primaries involving either
CRUDEN MORELAND
SANDERSON
judicial or
law enforce
ment offi
cials, Assis
tant District
Attorney
Jeff Crud
en defeat
ed fellow
Assistant
District At ¬
torney Kim Pellini for the
right to succeed their boss,
District Attorney Andrew
See ELECTION, A3