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Gardner column: Are we seeing end of college as we knew it?
Will 2024-25 be the year of “peak college?” We’ll soon see Vanderbilt University become the first institution to charge more than $100,000 a year. More colleges will follow. Parents are watching college students chant “Death to America” and “We are Hamas” at various campuses. Their children are taking hybrid classes, just like during COVID, and missing graduation ceremonies. ...
The first 8: High school students complete EMT class
Their official high school graduation may still be about a week away, but for seven of the eight Perquimans County High School students who signed up for an EMT class with Perquimans Emergency Services this spring, this week’s EMT class celebration kind of felt like a graduation ceremony, too. According Sheila Twine, a work-based learning coordinator at PCHS, this was the first year that students at the school could sign up for an EMT class with Perquimans Emergency Medical Services. ...
Barkley's NBA days could be nearing an end
I wrote a few weeks ago about the influence of Charles Barkley’s post-playing career on numerous athletes and former athletes in the media and content game. It seems his incredible media career may soon be coming to an end. I doubt this is a newsflash, but I’m not friends with Charles Barkley so everything you read here is speculation based on observations. The biggest of those being that TNT appears to be in a bidding war with NBC over the remaining slice of the NBA’s...
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...
Throckmorton: Lures, temptations, enticements
There is a multitude of bodies of water covering our planet Earth. I am blessed to live on the Inner Banks of the Albemarle Sound, where most of the water is brackish or fresh, unlike the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean. Here, you may fish with crab pots, lures, or live bait. There is another type of lure and live bait that hovers on the darker side — the world of prostitution and human trafficking. Human bodies (most often women and children) are used for...
Juvenile detention center set to reopen in Winfall
WINFALL — Compared to working with adult inmates, a career as a juvenile corrections officer can be challenging but also more rewarding, says William Lassiter, deputy secretary of the N.C. Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. “I’d say there are more challenges because kids are more impulsive,” said Lassiter. “There also are more benefits, because a kid is changeable, where a lot of the adults that you get in the adult system, they’re kind of stuck in that lifestyle. ...
LGC: Hertford no longer on Unit Assistance List
When the Local Government Commission’s next Unit Assistance List comes out, the town of Hertford won’t be on it. The town, which had been on the LGC’s Unit Assistance List, or UAL, for several years because of its financial health and past fiscal management practices, was notified May 17 that it will not be on the state agency’s UAL for 2023. Kendra B. Boyle, director of the fiscal management section...
Cooper, Ward earn Todd awards, Stanley earns Hurdle award
Two Perquimans County High School seniors have been awarded a scholarship named for a PCHS graduate that helps promote awareness of a potentially fatal medical condition that can affect young women. Another PCHS graduating senior has received a scholarship named for a member of the Perquimans County Schools Foundation Board of Directors. Marleigh Cooper and Ashlynn Ward are this year’s recipients of the Abby Todd Toxic Shock Syndrome Awareness Scholarship,...
Open Door Food Pantry's Jail-a-thon set for Friday
More than 20 local “jailbirds” will be seeking your help getting themselves out of lockup and nutritious foods onto hungry residents’ kitchen tables when the Open Door Food Pantry of Perquimans County holds its annual Jail-a-Thon on Friday. Twenty-two Perquimans residents will be “arrested” by the Perquimans County Sheriff’s Office and transported to a holding site where they’ll have one hour to solicit friends, family and neighbors to raise enough “bail” money to be set free. ...
Jeanne Thurlow Cullings
Jeanne Thurlow Cullings, 87, of 203 Evergreen Drive, Hertford, NC, passed away Thursday, May 9, 2024 in her home. Mrs. Cullings was born in Rochester, NY, on February 3, 1937, and was the daughter of the late James Henry Thurlow and Cora Creveling Thurlow Anderson. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Emerson Milroy Cullings, Jr., her brother, Thomas Thurlow (wife, Judy, deceased), and two brothers-in-law, Jack Lavery and Peter LeRoy. A graduate of State University of New York at Geneseo, she was a longtime educator having started as a teacher...
Throckmorton: The threat of contentiousness
“As coals are to burning coals, and wood is to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.” — Proverbs 26:21 I awakened sometime during the night last night, and the word “contentious” just jumped out of my head. It brought to mind my mother, who was famous for saying, “Oh, those contentious people!” when discord erupted. I don’t hear that word often used these days; nonetheless, contentiousness is...
Northside-Pinetown ends Pirates' playoff run with 7-3 win
HERTFORD — Northside-Pinetown ended Perquimans' state playoff run Wednesday night with a 7-3 victory over the Pirates in Hertford. It figured that the game would be a competitive contest. The softball teams had split two games earlier in the season, with the Panthers winning 7-4 back in March, and Perquimans taking the second game 7-5 in early April. However, Pinetown, 18-4, took the all-important rubber match by posting five runs...
Tobias column: Showers of blessing for boats — and rest of creation
It was one of those mystical misty days when the burnished slate of the Albemarle Sound met the white cumulous horizon. It was Saturday morning, May 4th, and I was having a good ol’ time with my friends, Fr. Bob Sawyer and his brother Fr. Stan. We were standing at dock’s end where it juts into Edenton Bay. The three of us had on our hieratic stoles, waiting for the fleet of the Edenton Yacht Club to come sailing by. ...
Seems the NFL just takes what it wants
Is it just me or is the NFL the Deebo of American sports? Before you call me crazy or dismiss me entirely, allow me to elaborate. Debo is the very muscular character from Friday played by the late Tommy Lister Jr. Throughout the majority of the film, Deebo rides around the neighborhood on a bicycle he claimed as his own (aka stole) looking for other things to claim. Even if...
Hall column: Donors will get 2-tiered school system for their billions
Despite stiff opposition, the North Carolina Senate voted this month to double the funding for Opportunity Scholarships to boost enrollment in privately run K-12 schools; more than $200,000,000 is earmarked for kids in high-income families. Why would Republican leaders do this now when polls show voters oppose tax subsidies for the rich? And when public schools urgently need more funds — North Carolina ranks 48th in per-pupil spending. The answer...
Hartman column: Love that attends to needs of others God’s kind of Love
One of my all-time favorite comic strips is Charlie Brown, which was created by Charles Schultz. I love Schultz’s sense of whimsy. One of the strips he drew expressed the thought: “Love is getting someone a glass of water in the middle of the night.” Of course, the illustration accompanying the thought was of Charlie Brown taking Snoopy a glass of water in the middle of the night. The Apostle...
Pirate softball reaches 3rd round, baseball teams loses
Editor’s Note: The No. 7-ranked Perquimans Pirates softball team was scheduled to play the No. 4-ranked Northside-Pinetown Panthers at home Wednesday in the 1A NCHSAA state softball playoffs. The results of that game will appear in next week’s edition. In other recent Pirate softball games, the Perquimans defeated the 18th-ranked East Bladen Eagles 8-1 at home Friday, May 9, in the second round of the 1A NCHSAA state softball playoffs. ...
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...
Perquimans schools release honor rolls, principal's list
The following are the A and AB honor rolls and the Principal’s List for Hertford Grammar School, Perquimans County Middle School, and Perquimans County High School for the third nine weeks of the 2023-24 school year. The following students were honored: Hertford Grammar SchoolA Honor Roll 3rd grade: Caysen Applegate, Brayden Boyce, Collin Brown, Cash Caldwell, Logan Davenport, Phoenix Duncan, Briella Long, Sadie Martin, Mattox Miller, Mason O’Fallon, Catherine Kestrel...
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