Education

Brunswick County Board of Education member Ray Gilbert may have lost his seat during the primary election in May, but his name will still appear on the ballot for November’s general election.

Gilbert filed to run for the board as the Libertarian candidate on July 1.

“After much thought and consideration of options on how to continue to work toward a sound education for all students, I decided to continue as a Libertarian candidate for the Brunswick County Board of Education,” Gilbert said in a statement.

Union Elementary School recently had its final nine weeks awards day. The following students were recognized:

Citizen of the Month

Kindergarten: Sydney Nonnenman, Brodie Burcham, Tanner Smith, Chloe Bland, Isaiah Yuricek, Hannah Long, Kadey Dunlap, Isabel Tapia, Kyleigh Abernethy, Shelby Dixon, Trevor Freeman, Sarah Nelson.

First-grade: Summer Kelly, Vicky Lin, Aubree Barnett, Aduardo Diaz, Sierra Monk, Jadon Smith, Alex Younts, Stephenie Gillispie, Te’lea Vereen, Savannah Summerlin

The Brunswick Town Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution ended a successful club year with a luncheon at Duffer’s Pub and Grill at Oak Island Golf Club.

The program was in recognition of student winners of the group’s JROTC scholarships and Good Citizen Awards. Elsie Hinkhouse introduced and presented $100 savings bonds to those JROTC winners at the DAR meeting.

About 100 eighth-graders won’t be returning to the county middle schools when schools resume in August. Instead, they will attend a PLC—a professional learning community, a smaller, more intimate environment with a 16:1 student to teacher ratio and teachers called “coaches.”