Hertford County News

It is once again filing time for municipal elections in North Carolina. Elections offices in Bertie, Hertford and Northampton counties will be closed on Friday, July 3 in observance of Independence Day, but will reopen Monday morning when filing will officially begin.

It looked like a typical picnic gathering between friends - chatting, laughing, food and games.

" Apparently, illegal drug use isn't just reserved for young people. On Saturday, the Ahoskie Police Department made a trio of drug-related arrests - " one for a 65-year-old man and, in what was reported as a related case, two Virginia women, one age 50 and the other 44.

" While Hertford County Public Schools , like all public education systems across the state, must adjust their budgets due to shrinking state funds, they still are in the business of teaching.

The news is not good. As North Carolina elected officials wrestle with building a state budget in the face of an already 4-plus billion dollar deficit, they have limited options, other than massive tax increases, when it comes to a oebusiness as usuala in the state.

Robert Roelle, Assistant Director of Technology, was named Interim Principal of Prospect Hill Elementary School.

" If bond ratings were similar to high academic standards at a local school, Hertford County would find itself on the Principal's List.

That is one concept 4-H'ers learn first hand. On Wednesday, 40 exhibitors ranging in ages 5-18 got to demonstrate their hard work at the Hertford-Northampton 4-H Livestock Show and Sale.

A furry and unexpected visitor proved to be a major attraction in the Brantley's Grove community near here.

A man facing more than three dozen counts of animal cruelty is due in court in the East Wednesday.

The Murfreesboro Town Council on Tuesday tentatively approved the $143,360 low bid for the Holly Hill Road Lift Station's relocation and upgrade, authorizing Mayor Lynn Johnson to sign a contract for the work once the city is satisfied with the firm's credentials.

An 82-year-old Harrellsville man was released from Martin General Hospital Monday, after he wrecked his car Sunday on N.C. 11.

" It's hard to place the numbers at the bottom of a financial spreadsheet when the paper keeps moving.

" Quick work by the Ahoskie Police Department has led to the arrest of a local man charged in an early-morning crime.

" The best came to Hertford County Middle School again. During their recent trip to the North Carolina Junior Beta Club state convention, two HCMS students claimed honors as the best in the state.

" Dating back to the days of slavery, blacks have felt regulated to that of being a second-class citizen.

The state House on Tuesday tentatively approved changing how the state's corporate taxes are calculated to welcome a company's $1 billion investment for its East Coast data center, despite worries lawmakers were being dazzled by a corporation dangling a huge project at a time unemployment levels are at historic highs.

" First-hand accounts of the early morning hours of Jan. 14 were provided by two Ahoskie Police officers here Thursday in Hertford County Superior Court, the scene of an administrative hearing to determine the career fate of local Magistrate Leonard J. Mobley Jr.

" The outcome of an administrative hearing didn't end well for a veteran Hertford County Magistrate.

" New details have come to light, including the involvement of the Hertford County Chapter of the NAACP, into last week's criminal action against Hertford County Magistrate Leonard Mobley.