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Jacavone column: Shepard-Pruden Library to kick off Summer Reading Program
Summer is almost here! The weather keeps getting warmer, and schools will be letting out soon. At the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library, we are ready for our Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme is “Adventure Begins at Your Library,” as everything is based on exploration and adventure. Starting on June 18 and continuing through Aug. 13, the library will host special programs four days per week. Our major program of the...
Edenton, Chowan to meet with SAGA on Hotel Hinton project
EDENTON — Town and Chowan County officials are scheduled to meet next month with representatives of the owners of the Hotel Hinton to discuss the company’s next steps to starting long-delayed renovations to the property. Edenton Town Manager Corey Gooden told Town Council last week the town had had two meetings with representatives of SAGA Construction and development, the estate development company that purchased the Hotel Hinton property years ago with the intent of developing it into a tourist hotel. ...
Proposed Bertie budget includes tax hike
Bertie County Manager Juan Vaughan II presented his proposed FY 2024-2025 budget to the Bertie County Commissioners on Monday at their monthly work session. The proposed budget includes a 1.5 cent ad valorem tax increase. Vaughan explained the increase was needed in order to increase the county’s fund balance and to alleviate any yearly shortfalls. “I have to start with a historical discussion about fund balance and how far we...
Older American Month events continue
Older American Month events are continuing in the county throughout the month of May. The Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church is hosting a Medicaid Expansion Enrollment event on Sunday, May 19, immediately following services, and the Bertie County Council on Aging has a slate of events scheduled. “We are looking forward to a large turnout for our Medicaid Expansion sign-up event. This is a very important part of staying healthy...
Group honors Chowan's Civil War dead at Confederate statue
More than a dozen people gathered at Edenton’s Confederate Monument last week for a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the nearly 50 Confederate soldiers from Chowan County who died in the Civil War. The brief service, the third such observance of Confederate Memorial Day, was sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It featured the placing of a wreath at the base of the monument and the reading of the names of 47 Confederate veterans who died in combat or from other causes during the four...
Albemarle Championship to be held May 23-25 in Perquimans County
HERTFORD, N.C. (WNCT) — Registration is still underway for the Albemarle Championship, which will be held May 23-25 at Albemarle Plantation in Hertford in Perquimans County. You can click here for more information, including registration, course layout and the tournament. The field is limited to 132 professionals and is part of the GoPro Tour. Below […]
Perquimans NAACP criticizes school board on track naming
HERTFORD — The Perquimans NAACP is calling on the county Board of Education to honor what it says is a six-year-old commitment to name without conditions the high school’s new athletic track for the first woman and first African American ever to chair the county Board of Commissioners. In a May 4th open letter to Perquimans County residents, the local NAACP chapter said the school board voted unanimously in April 2018 to name the athletic track at the Perquimans County High School Athletic Complex, once...
FOCUS Broadband brings high-speed internet to New Hope, Woodland Church roads
Residents and businesses located near New Hope and Woodland Church roads can now sign up to receive high-speed internet from FOCUS Broadband. The company is installing high-speed fiber optic lines throughout Perquimans County. The new service will provide residents with internet speeds as fast as 1 gigabit and should continue through the summer. Construction is currently underway in additional areas of New Hope. ...
Perquimans NAACP criticizes school board on track naming
The Perquimans NAACP is calling on the county Board of Education to honor what it says is a six-year-old commitment to name without conditions the high school’s new athletic track for the first woman and first African American ever to chair the county Board of Commissioners. In a May 4th open letter to Perquimans County residents, the local NAACP chapter said the school board voted unanimously in April 2018 to name the athletic track at the Perquimans County High School Athletic Complex, once it was...
Edenton Tea Party Chapter of DAR installs new officers
Edenton’s Tea Party Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution installed a slate of new leaders on May 8. Betty Corbin, state organizing secretary of the North Carolina State Society Daughters of the American Revolution, presided over the installation event. The new leaders are Bonnie Henn, chapter regent; Kay Caveney, first vice regent; Nicole Dalton, second vice regent; Clara King, chaplain; Melanie Gibbs, recording and corresponding secretary; Kim Gongwer,...
Commissioners set public hearing on rec bond for July 15
Chowan County commissioners have taken another step toward placing a recreation bond on the November ballot, agreeing this week to submit an application to the state Local Government Commission for a $15 million bond to upgrade the county’s recreation facilities. The LGC will not act on the application until after Chowan voters go to polls on the referendum on Nov. 5. Commissioners will hold a public hearing on the proposed...
Parker-White column: School board must honor vote to name track for Wiggins
Editor’s note: This column is an open letter addressed to the citizens of Perquimans County. In 2018, the Perquimans County Board of Education voted to name, posthumously, the future track at the Perquimans County Athletic Complex in honor or Capt. M. Shirley Wiggins, USN (Ret.). In anticipation of the track’s March 2024 grand opening celebration, there was a rumor in the community that the track would not be named after...
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