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QUIMANS F17 VT V "News from Next Door" SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21,2023 $1.50 @ SCAN ME Page 3 Garden of Eden Clubtohost holiday luncheon Nov. 7 Page 4 Postcards from Ukraine: Group can meet nearly all requests but one Page 5 Hartman: Har vest Festival? Costumes? What's biblical thing to do? Grants to Hertford total $16.6M over past 2 years Most of money for flood mitigation, water-sewer REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer . HERTFORD —The town of Hertford has netted some $16.6 million in grant funding over the past two years and has numerous other grant applications pending. Cole Town Man ager Janice Cole reviewed a spread sheet on grants with the town council earlier this week.The doc ument showed the sources and amounts of those grants, what they were for, and when they were awarded. The grant funding is mostly for water and sewer infrastruc ture and flood mitigation work. The three largest of the grants are N.C. Department of Environmen tal Quality State Revolving Fund Program Viable Utility Reserve grants. Three separate grants totaling $14,996,290 are for sewer infra structure, water treatment plant improvements, and water line replacements. Water and sewer infrastructure has been widely acknowledged as a critical need in the town. Work on those projects is ongo ing, and the grant term ends Dec. 31,2026. The town has applied for a $132,000 climate risk assessment grant from the federal Emergency Management Administration, which would require a local match of 12% or $18,000.That applica tion is pending. The U.S. Department of Agri culture awarded the town two SEARCH grants totaling $60,000 for water and sewer preliminary engineering studies. SEARCH stands for Special Evaluation Assistance for Rural Communities and Households. More GRANTS | A7 Remembering Collin REGGIE PONDER/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Ken and Holly Winslow hold a memorial plaque commemorating their son Collin "Snap" Winslow at Perquimans Central School, Tuesday. More than $120,000 to support education in Perquimans County has been raised in memory of Collin Winslow, a Perquimans County High School student who died in a hunting accident last spring. DSS seeks more workers as Medicaid expansion nears REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer Perquimans County social services administra tors said this week they will need four additional Med icaid caseworkers as Med icaid expansion begins Dec. 1. The positions are not included in the 2023-24 Perquimans County bud get, so the county commis sioners will have to decide whether to fund the county portion of the workers’ sal aries. After reimburse ment by the state for part of those salaries, the coun ty’s cost on an annual basis is expected to be about $49,000. The commissioners plan to discuss the fund ing request and possibly act on it at the board’s Nov. 6 meeting. Two additional Jordan Medic aid workers were added to the Per quimans Depart ment of Social Ser ¬ vices in the current county budget. But Social Services Direc tor Angela Jordan told com missioners at their work ses sion Monday night that four additional Medicaid work ers will be needed as the department expects to add as many as 1,200 additional Medicaid recipients by the time this fiscal year ends at the close ofJune 2024. Social services adminis trators estimate that by the end of2025, the number of new Medicaid recipients in Perquimans County could be 2,400 or more. More MEDICAID | A7 Edenton’s Buckhout to run for Congress $123K raised in memory of PCHS student Money will fund $2.5K scholarship, classroom grants REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer More than $120,000 to support education in Per quimans County has been raised in memory of Collin “Snap”Winslow, a Perqui mans County High School student who died in a hunt ing accident last spring. As ofTuesday the fund established in Collin’s mem ory totaled $123,110.19. “The world is in a bad place right now, but we are in the best place in the world right here,” Collin’s dad, Ken Winslow, said in an inter view Tuesday at Perquim ans Central School, where his wife Holly is an assistant principal. The couple said they have been inspired by all the sup port they have experienced from the community since their son’s death, as well as support that has come from farther away and from people they have never even met. “We just wanted to give back to the community because the community has wrapped its arms around us,” Holly said. Ken said it has become clear to him that God has brought good out of a bad situation.That good includes a scholarship established in Collin’s memory and also a mini-grant program set up for teachers in the Perquim ans County Schools. The grants will be for a maximum of $2,500 and will be for projects designed to support student achievement. Brenda Lassiter, execu tive director of the Perquim ans County Schools Foun dation, said the Winslows wanted the memorial con tributions to touch as many students as possible. For that reason they wanted the fund to go toward grants at all the schools in addition to the • college scholarship that will benefit a local student. More COLLIN | A7 FROM STAFF REPORTS EDENTON — Retired U.S. Army combat com mander and Edenton res ident Laurie Buckhout announced Monday morn ing she is seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in the 1st Con gressional District. Buckhout also announced that she is con tributing $1 million of her own money to her cam paign. Buckhout joins what is expected to a crowded GOP field trying to unseat incumbent Congressman Don Davis, a Democrat who was elected to the 19-county seat in 2022. Besides Buckhout’s home county of Chowan, the district also includes Pasquotank and Perquim ans counties. Buckhout said in a press release that she is running for Congress to continue her lifelong commitment to public service, saying the country is at a cross- roads. , More BUCKHOUT | A2 Man had ‘hundreds’ Perquimans preps for 2024 revaluation of child sex images JULIAN EURE Managing Editor HERTFORD—A Hertford man remains in 6 "89076 47144 custody at Albemarle District Jail charged with posses sion of what one law 2 enforce- Lassiter Vol. 88, No. 42 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com ment official esti mated were @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved More CRIME | A2 Commission also sells 4 more acres to East Coast Steel REGGIE PONDER Staff Writer Perquimans County offi cials are preparing for the revaluation of property in 2024. The Perquimans County Board of Commissioners on Monday voted to schedule a public hearing for Nov. 6 on the schedules, standards, and rules to be used in the 2024 revaluation. Renee McGinnis of Piner Appraisal made a presentation to the board, explaining that the appraisal firm has been reviewing property sales over the past few months in order to develop the pro posed schedule ofvalues. The main increase she is noticing is for “improved residential properties,” she said. If a property owner wishes to question their appraised value, “we han dle the informal appeals,” McGinnis said. “Anyone who chooses to go beyond us will come before you as the Board of Equalization and Review.” In another matter, the board agreed to a $35,000 price for selling about four acres to East Coast Steel. The tract is adjacent to property the company already owns off Granby Street in the Commerce Centre. A public hearing on the sale will be scheduled for the board’s Nov. 6 meeting. Commissioner Tim Cor- prew said that given the location and configura tion of the property within the commerce park, “it’s a win for us as far as I’m con cerned.”
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