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Juneteenth to
be observed in
Hertford on June 19
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The Friends of
the Perquimans
County Library
held their annual
Card Party
Tuesday
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Williamson
awarded Todd
Toxic Shock
Syndrome Schol
arship
Help is on the way
Rural Center backs
effort to secure $3B
for rural broadband
CHRIS DAY/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Perquimans County High School students (from left) Kenlie Larance, Colin Throckmorton and Kayelee
Coppersmith pose for a group photo after giving presentations on their internships with Perquimans County
Emergency Services at the county’s emergency services building in Hertford on Tuesday, May 30. Julie Solesbee,
public information officer for Perquimans Emergency Services, said this year marked the third semester of the
Public Safety Internship program.
Interns finish public safety training
Emergency services, CTE
partner on program
BY CHRIS DAY
The Daily Advance
HERTFORD — State
trooper, federal law en
forcement and a medical-re ¬
Jackson Dairy harkens back to Edenton’s past
Homes will be fronted by
gravel foot paths, not streets
BY VERNON FUESTON
Staff Writer
EDENTON — A new
housing development built
in the “New Urbanist” style
declared itself open for
business in Edenton last
week.
Jackson Dairy will be
unlike anything else avail
able in Edenton, featuring
homes that hearken back
lated profession are the
career ambitions for three
Perquimans County High
School students who spent
this semester completing
public safety internships.
Kenlie Larance, Kayelee
Coppersmith and Colin
Throckmorton each complet
ed 120 hours of introductoiy
to southern houses as they
were built in the Victorian
Era, said Dawson Tyler,
cofounder of Down East
Preservation and Jackson
Dairy’s developer.
But the development’s
Victorian style architecture
is not the only thing Tyler
hopes will attract buyers.
Tyler said Jackson Dairy
will also offer a neighbor
hood experience similar
to those prevalent before
the automobile arrived
See DAIRY, A5
public safety training while
assigned to different ele
ments of Perquimans’ emer
gency response services.
Last week, they shared
their experiences and what
they learned before a small
audience of parents, school
administrators, emergency
services officials and Sheriff
VERNON FUESTON/CHOWAN HERALD
Gart Heginbotham (center) explains a map of the
Jackson Dairy development to Laurie Heginbotham
(left) and Rosemary Clarke (right) during a grand
opening event for the new housing development in
Edenton, Saturday, June 3.
Shelby White.
Larance, ajunior, said she
hopes to one day work as
a county deputy or a state
trooper, possibly in Virgin
ia. Throckmorton, a senior,
said he plans to attend Ap
palachian State University
See INTERNS, A5
Center staff visit Hertford as
part of Summer Road Trip
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
HERTFORD — Staff
from the NC Rural Center
told a group of education,
health and government
leaders from area counties
Tuesday that the center
continues to advocate for
broadband expansion and
other developments in ru
ral North Carolina.
Patrick Woodie, execu
tive director of the NC Ru
ral Center, said the center’s
Collaborate Broadband
project is intended to help
rural counties access some
$3 billion in state and fed
eral broadband expansion
funding that is becoming
available in the state.
“The Rural Center is
working to ensure that
rural communities are
positioned to access this
Mother still awaits
answers in Bosta’s
’15 disappearance
Perquimans woman last seen
in Edenton May 30,2015
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
May 30 marked eight
years since Perquimans
County resident Karen
Rae Bosta went missing in
Edenton, and her mother
Arlene Murin is still wait
ing for answers.
“From my perspective
as her mother, what I want
is to appeal to the people
to help me,” Murin said.
“I have not given up hope
because I know there is
someone out there who
can lead me to the answers
I so desperately seek.”
A total of $25,000 in
WOODIE
funding,”
Woodie
said in his
presen
tation to
the group
gathered
at the Al
bemarle
Commis
sion of
fice in Hertford.
The Rural Center proj
ect has focused especial
ly on a 15-county area in
northeastern North Caro
lina
Other aspects of the
initiative include ensuring
that broadband providers
are accountable for pro
viding service that is af
fordable for lower-income
households, and helping
people understand and
use digital technology, he
added.
“Getting the infrastruc
ture there is part of the
See CENTER, A5
BOSTA
reward
money
is being
offered
for infor
mation
that leads
investi
gators to
solve why
Bosta dis
appeared on May 30, 2015.
But Murin said that she
herself will offer reward
money — but not in that
amount — for “all credible
tips.”
Murin encouraged peo
ple with information about
the case to contact law en
forcement.
“Speaking up is the right
See BOSTA, A5
Jail-a-thon raises $43K for The Open Door Food Pantry
May 26 event helped double
fundraising for building project
From staff reports
HERTFORD — More than 20
volunteers last month helped
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open the door for fewer Perquim
ans County residents to go hungry
by agreeing to have one temporar
ily closed on themselves.
On Friday, May 26, 21 local
community leaders submitted
themselves fbr “arrest” by the Per
quimans County Sheriffs Office
and were held in a holding cell on
the lawn of the Perquimans Coun
ty Courthouse.
Their crime? A desire to help
The Open Door Food Pantry of
Perquimans County renovate its
new facility on Creek Drive in
Hertford.
Which they did by participating
in a “jail-a-thon” fundraiser for The
Open Door coordinated by Per
quimans Tourism Director Stacey
Layden and Sheriff Shelby White.
In order to win release from the
closed jail cell, each “jailbird” had
to raise bail money — donations
— for the food pantry.
Apparently a lot of people want
ed them set free.
The volunteers raised more
than $43,000 for the food pantry
— the largest amount raised by a
single fundraiser in the organiza
tion’s 43-year history.
See JAIL-A-THON, A5
PHOTO COURTESY STACEY LAYDEN
Ashley Gregory,
campus
superintendent at
Camp Cale, makes a
“bail” call from a “jail
cell” on the front lawn
of the Perquimans
County Courthouse
during a “jail-a-thon”
fundraiser for The
Open Door Food Pantry
of Perquimans County,
Friday, May 26. The
jail-a-thon raised more
than $43,000 for the
food pantry.
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