QUIMANS
EEKLY
“News from Next Door”
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 $1.50
HERTFORD NC 27944-1225
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PAGE A2
14 tractors roll in
weekend parade
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Life of
service: Salva
tion Army under
new leadership
PAGE B3
ECSU's centu
ry-old Rosenwald
School to take
on new role
Commissioner candidates weigh in on marine park
Six candidates vying for 3
open seats on county board
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
Perquimans County vot
ers will begin casting ballots
for the Nov. 8 election when
early voting begins Oct. 20.
The only contested local
race on the Nov. 8 general
election ballot is that for
three open seats on the Per-
CORPREW
JACKSON
LEIGH
NELSON NOWELL
WARD
can only vote for
one candidate un
der the county’s
“single-shot” voting
system.
To help provide
voters a little more
information about
the candidates’ posi
tions on key issues,
quimans Board of Commis
sioners. Six candidates are
on the ballot: Democratic
incumbent Fondella Leigh
and Republican incumbent
Wallace Nelson; Democrats
Keith Nowell and Quentin
Jackson; Republican James
Ward; and unaffiliated voter
Tim Corprew.
While three seats are
open, Perquimans voters
The Perquimans
Weekly recently reached
out to all six candidates and
asked a series of questions.
One question concerns the
county’s Marine Industrial
Park, for which the county
has received roughly $7.5
million in state grants, state
budget appropriations and
Golden LEAF funding.
At a candidates forum
earlier this year, Corprew, a
business owner, questioned
the county’s continued in
vestment in the Marine
Industrial Park, calling it a
“mistake” and a “foolish ex-
See CANDIDATES, A3
Celebrating the river
JOHN FOLEY/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Robin Harris (left) pours a glass of chardonnay for Mary Soper during Historic Hertford Inc.’s Toast the Perquimans
event at the Hertford Marina, Saturday. About 100 people attended the beer and wine tasting event.
Turner: Schools
met or exceeded
growth targets
Turner: Put more emphasis
on growth, not proficiency
BY JOHN FOLEY
Staff Writer
All schools in the Perqui
mans County Schools eligi
ble for letter grades trnder
the state’s school account
ability system received Cs
on their report cards even
though all either met or
exceeded their academic
growth targets.
Hert
ford
Grammar
S c h o o'l
met its
expected
growth
target, as
did Per-
TURNER quimans
County
Middle School. Perquim
ans County High School
exceeded its growth target,
See GRADES, A3
HGS’s Lassiter
Principal of Year
Hundreds Toast the Perquimans
Historic Hertford hosted
beer, wine tasting event
BY JOHN FOLEY
Staff Writer
A few hundred people
gathered at the Hertford wa
terfront Saturday to Toast the
Perquimans during the annual
beer and wine tasting event.
The Hertford Marina
proved to be the perfect
venue for the event that cel
ebrates the Perquimans River
and all it offers to those who
live along or visit its banks.
Historic Hertford Inc.
sponsored the event with
the help of Steve Gunther of
the Hertford Bay Tap House,
who arranged for the beer
truck providing a variety of
craft brews.
If suds were not your pref
erence, event-goers had an
impressive selection of red
and white varietals, including
chardonnays, pinot grigios,
muscatos, cabernets and
merlots.
In addition to the craft
beers and wines, Y’all Eat
Yet’s food truck was hand,
catering to the hungry crowd
with seafood chowder, pulled
pork sandwiches and smoke-
house BBQ flatbread pizza
The Cuz n’Kirk Experience
band performed live music.
“It’s just a beautiful eve
ning and a wonderful night
for this event. I am so excit
ed to see a crowd enjoying
this park,” said Hertford
Mayor Earnell Brown.
The crowd began to build
early on and by the time the
music began Missing Mill
See TOAST, A3
Lassiter also named district’s
top principal in 2020-21
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
For the second time
in three years, Hertford
Grammar School Princi
pal John Lassiter has been
named Principal of the
Year for Perquimans Coun
ty Schools.
In announcing the
award, Perquimans Coun
ty Schools Superintendent
LASSITER
Tanya
Turner
noted that
Hertford
Grammar
School
has made
great
strides
under
Lassiter’s
leadership in student
achievement as measured
and reported in the state
accountability model
See LASSITER, A6
Jollification! tour to feature museum, State Theater
PCRA’s self-guided tour of
historic homes is Saturday
From staff reports
Jollification!, the Per
quimans County Resto
ration Association’s annual
self-guided tour of historic
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homes in Hertford, will be
held Saturday starting at
12:30 p.m.
Besides 10 historic homes
in Hertford, Jollification!
ticketholders will tour two
new attractions this year,
the Perquimans County Mu
seum and the State Theater.
The museum houses his
toric artifacts about
Perquimans as well
as memorabilia about
2 the life and career of
Hertford native and
Major' League Base
ball Hall of Famer Jim
“Catfish” Hunter. The
theater, when reno ¬
vations are completed, will
be a full-time dinner theater
that screens both classic
and recently released mov
ies.
“The museum introduc
es tour participants to the
rich history of our area and
sets the stage for a look at
homes that span a period of
time starting over 200 years
ago to the current centu
ry,” PCRA member William
Stevenson said in an email.
“Participants will get to step
inside the oldest home in
downtown Hertford, visit
See JOLLIFICATION!, A6
PHOTO COURTESY PCRA
Renovations are
underway at the
State Theater,
which will be one
of the featured
stops on this
year’s Jollification!
historic home
tour in Hertford
on Saturday. Once
the renovations
are complete, the
State Theater will
be a full-time dinner
theater that screens
both classic and
recently released
movies.