SATURDAY, JULY 1, 2023 “News from Next Door” $1.50 © SCAN ME PAGE 3 PCHS grad Scaff named 2023 London Foundation Scholar PAGE 3 Parks & Rec announces youth baseball, softball champs PAGE 4 Sheridan: Grandmoms keeping each other, Ukraine, in stitches New owners renovating former Edenton supermarket site Town: Today's Bank investing $2.8M for roof, renovations BY VERNON FUESTON Staff Writer EDENTON — The shopping center that once housed Edenton’s Food Lion supermarket until its move across town is in foreclosure, and the new owners are taking steps to make its commercial space available for rent. The new owner, Today’s Bank of Fayetteville, Arkan sas, is investing $2.8 million to fix the shopping center’s roof and make other reno vations, said Tyler Newman, public information officer for the town of Edenton. A.R. Chesson of Elizabeth City is performing the work. Newman said the town hopes the property will be put back into commercial use, perhaps with another supermarket that might give residents a second choice for their grocery shopping. “We hope these renova tions will attract potential tenants and merchants to the center,” Newman said. “North Edenton is definitely open for business.” Today’s Bank officials could not be reached for comment. VERNON FUESTON/ CHOWAN HERALD An unidentified worker disposes of debris from the renovation work underway at the former Food Lion shopping center in north Edenton. The center’s new owners plan to invest $2.8 million in repairs at the site, an Edenton town spokesman said. Paddle, Peddle, and Plod VERNON FUESTON/CHOWAN HERALD About 40 kayakers paddle away from the Hayes Plantation Bridge at Edenton’s Queen Anne Park Saturday morning during the Paddle, Peddle, and Plod triathlon competition put on by the Chowan-Edenton Optimists Club. Jacob Bond won first place overall and Tiffany ONeal placed second. Hertford Mayor Brown will not seek reelection 40 kayak, bike and run at triathlon E-Chowan Optimists event raised money for cancer fund BY VERNON FUESTON Chowan Herald EDENTON — An air horn’s blast sent more than 40 kayakers paddling furious ly as they pulled away from the Hayes Plantation Bridge at Edenton’s Queen Anne Park Saturday morning. Kayaking was the first leg Byrum named Teacher of Year at CMS Byrum has taught math for more than two decades BY VERNON FUESTON Chowan Herald “Math doesn’t change,” Shannon Byrum says about the subject she has taught for 27 years. ‘Two plus two equals four — today, just as 6 " 89076 47144 Vol. 88, No. 26 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved of three events in the Paddle, Peddle, and Plod triathlon competition put on by the Chowan-Edenton Optimists Club. Weather conditions and choppy water forced the kay ak portion of the triathlon off the waters of Edenton Bay, sending the boats instead on a 1.94-mile course up Queen Anne Creek and back Once the racers finished the water portion of the race, it was time to bicycle from it will tomorrow.” Byrum is Chowan Mid dle School’s Teacher of the Year, and she is passionate about the subject she teach es: Sth-grade math, or what some call “pre-algebra”. For a lot of us, math was never a favorite subject. It is abstract, it is demand ing, and it requires lots of practice. But Byrum is a believer in the value of science, technol ogy, engineering and 2 math in preparing stu dents for a world that is growing ever more complex. See TEACHER,A2 the park out to the Macedo nia neighborhood, 7.5 miles away, and then back for a to tal of 15 miles. With the bicycle leg of the race out of the way, the tri athlon became a foot race as the competitors then crossed the wooden bridge of Queen Anne Creek, fol lowing a course that took them past Hayes Plantation, a distance of 3.1 miles. Rachael Johnson was re sponsible for laying out the VERNON FUESTON/CHOWAN HERALD Shannon Byrum was recently named the Edenton- Chowan Schools’ 2023 Teacher of the Year for Chowan Middle School. Byrum has been teaching for 27 years. course. She said the foot race portion of the competi tion was a favorite. “It’s a beautiful course, nice and flat,” Johnson said, adding that the histor ic Hayes Plantation House brought history and beauty to the run. Jacob Bond won first-place honors overall, while Tiffany ONeal placed second. Bond won first place in the men’s division, while ONeal took the women’s honors. Hodgssto seek mayor's post, Mimfitscti not seeking new term BY REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer HERTFORD — Hert ford Mayor Earnell Brown announced last week that she will not seek reelec tion in the town election this November. Brown said she is not seeking reelection to a second four-year term “because of personal rea sons.” She declined to comment further. Brown has served as the town’s mayor since 2019. Also on Wednesday, Hertford Councilman Ash ley Hodges, town council’s mayor pro tern, said he plans to be a candidate for mayor this fall. Hodges said Brown had informed him of her deci sion not to seek reelection. 7 say they plan to run in Edenton High lone candidate for mayor, 6 to seek 3 council seats From staff reports EDENTON — Filing for the November non- partisan election to fill the mayor’s job and three open seats on Edenton’s Town Council doesn’t start until noon on Friday, but candidates are already lining up to run. Six candidates have al ready announced that they plan to file for one of the three council seats and a seventh candidate has said he plans to run for mayor, seeking to replace Jim my E. Stallings, who’s an nounced he’s not seeking re-election. Two of the council seats — in the First BROWN HODGES “Although 1 will miss working closely with her in an official capacity, I understand her reasoning for wanting to take a step back,” Hodges said. “She loves Hertford too much to go anywhere on us, and I expect she’ll continue her work for our community, and particularly for young people, for many years to come.” Hodges said he had learned a lot from working with Brown. “Mayor Brown and I See BROWN, A2 Ward and councilor at-large — won’t have an i n c u m - bent on the Nov. 7 bal lot. First Ward Councilor Hackney High Jr. has already said he plans to run for mayor instead of for re-elec tion to his seat. At-large Councilor Roger Cole man also has said he doesn’t plan to seek re-election. Councilor Samuel B. Dixon is the lone incum bent who said he plans to seek re-election. As yet, no challengers have said See ELECTION, A2

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