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QI IMANS' un CM "News from Next Door" Page 4 Tobias: 'The Red Wagon,' Part 3 — Winter SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16,2023 rn SCAN ME Page 6 Mackey's Ferry has new owner, same family tradition Page 6 Rodanthe gears up for Old Christmas, Old Buck's return Hodges believes Hertford is a town on the rise Town nets $21M in grants over 2 years PAUL NIELSEN The Daily Advance New Mayor Ashley Hodges says a lot of good things are happening in Hertford and his vision for the next four years is to keep that trend going. Hodges and Hertford’s Town Council which includes two new coun cilors — Keith Rouse and Rhonda Waters — began their new terms Monday night. Hodges, a former Hertford town coun cilor, defeated first- time candidate Regi nald White 313 votes to 192 votes, or 61.61% to 37.8%, in last month’s mayor race. Rouse and Waters won the two open seats on council, outpacing former town councilor Gracie Felton, who finished third, and first-time candidate Virginia Harvey, who finished fourth. “The word is out about Hertford,” Hodges said. “(Town) Manager Janice Cole and I talk about all the time that we are a com munity on the rise. Things are moving forward and we are excited about the future.” Hodges said Hertford is a great place to live, work and play and that is something the town can use to expand future economic develop ment. “We have great schools, affordable property, state programs have made huge investments in infra structure the past couple ofyears and we are see ing renovations all over town,” Hodges said. “We love the small-town char acter and all the things that make it great. But we don’t want to be compla cent and we want to be looking to the future and new ideas.” More HERTFORD | A7 THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Gathered in the Perquimans Board of Elections office after filing for town office in Hertford Friday, July 7, are (l-r) then- council candidates Keith Rouse Sr. and Rhonda Waters, and mayoral candidate Ashley Hodges. All three won election in the town's Nov. 7 election. Change of leadership KESHA WILLIAMS PHOTO Judge Janice McKenzie Cole swears in Ashley Hodges, center, as the town of Hertford's new mayor at a Hertford Town Council meeting, Monday. Holding the Bible as Hodges swears his oath of office is his wife, Sonja Hodges. New mayors, councilors sworn in KESHA WILLIAMS AND JULIAN EURE Staff Writers Hertford and Winfall both saw changes in leadership Monday night. In Hertford, Ashley Hodges was sworn in as the town’s new mayor and Keith Rouse and Rhonda Waters took their oath of office as new mem bers ofTown Council. More SWEAR IN | A3 JULIAN EURE/THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY Perquimans Clerk of Superior Court Todd Tilley, right, swears in new Winfall Mayor Preston White, left, as outgoing mayor Fred Yates looks on at the Winfall Community Center during a Town Council meeting, Monday night. Audit: County took in $1.8M more in revenues than spent JULIAN EURE Managing Editor Perquimans County’s took in more than $1.8 million in revenues than it spent in the fiscal year that ended June 30, nearly T abling the county’s unassigned fund balance to more than $8 million. Those were a few ofthe takeaways from the 2022- 23 fiscal year audit of Per quimans’ finances per formed by the county’s outside auditing firm, Thompson, Price, Scott & Adams of Wilmington. Austin Eubanks, audit manager with Thompson, Price, Scott & Adams, told the Perquimans Board of Commissioners on Dec. 4 that the firm found no mate rial errors or irregularities in the county’s finances while performing the annual audit and he described Perqui mans’ financial statements as “neutral, consistent and clear.” The Board of Com missioners voted unan imously to approve the audit as submitted. More AUDIT | A7 Treiber files for commission seat JULIAN EURE Managing Editor A former director of the Perquimans County Board of Elections has filed to run next year for one ofthree open seats on the county Board of Com missioners. Kathryn Treiber, a Republican, filed last week to run for one ofthe seats in next year’s Gen eral Election. She joins fellow Repub lican Charles Wood-: ard and Treiber Demo ¬ crat Joseph Hoffler, both incumbent commissioners, who filed on Dec. 4, the first day of the filing period. More FILING | A7 School Foundation gets $45K grant to renew HELP program FROM STAFF REPORTS The Perquimans County Schools Foundation has received grant funding to continue for another year a program that 89076 47144 2 Vol. 88, No. 50 WWW.PerquimansWeekly.com @2021 Perquimans Weekly All Rights Reserved 6 helps the families of Perquimans County Schools students con nect with the resources offered by community nonprofits, churches and others. The foundation received word last week that it will again receive $45,000 from the HCWGMW Donor Advised Fund, which focuses on projects and programs that address poverty, homeless ness and education. The foun dation plans to use the grant for its initiative called Helping Hinton Everyone Live Productively, or HELP. The HELP ini tiative is operated by Joycelyn Hin ton, an educator who worked in the Perquimans County Schools and Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools for 31 years before retiring. Hinton came out of retirement last year to oper ate HELP after the foundation received the first grant for it. According to the foundation, the $45,000 grant will continue to pay for Hintons employment with HELP another year. Foundation Executive Direc tor Brenda Lassiter praised Hin ton’s efforts with HELP, not ing that Hinton recently told the foundation board of direc tors that the program, assisted by the school district, had been able to help two families with children in the Perquimans County Schools establish hous ing. “Hinton has established part nerships throughout the com munity that she is able to call on for assistance when a family is in need,” Lassiter said. “She main tains a resource room at one of the local schools where strug gling families are able to secure food, clothes, hygiene items, fur niture and small appliances.” More HELP | A9 J. ^
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