Education

BOLIVIA—Brunswick County Emergency Services has teamed up with Brunswick Community College for a fire and rescue training program.

Emergency services director Randy Thompson said the partnership was proposed to “address some concerns,” various fire chiefs throughout the county had raised.

On Monday, county commissioners approved the partnership, giving Thompson the green light to move forward with the training program.

Virginia Williamson Elementary School has announced its fourth nine weeks awards. They are as follows:

First-grade

Mrs. Willie’s Class

Principal: Nicholas Brooks, Logan Robinson

Terrific Kids: Juan Garcia, Samantha Webb

Citizenship: Jordan Fowler, Jessica Millis

Stunning Stingray: Ty’Veahn Goff, Brianna Walston

Mrs. Neilon’s Class

Principal: Logan Galloway, Destinee Stevenson

Terrific Kids: Young Kim, Leighann Rudofsky

Citizenship: Kyla Morgan, Cameron Sheppard

BOLIVIA—A lawsuit filed against the Brunswick County Board of Education by the parents who gave consent for their teenage daughter to marry her cross-country coach was dismissed Monday in Brunswick County Superior Court.

Judge Thomas Locke dismissed the lawsuit filed by Dennis and Betty Hager, which claimed the board failed to determine a relationship between their then 16-year-old daughter Windy and Brenton Wuchae, then 40, a former South Brunswick High School science teacher and cross-country coach.

His summer will be spent traveling more than 9,000 miles through 16 states, playing in 44 performances at 39 venues for 275,000 spectators.

Aaron Benton, an 11th-grader at North Brunswick High School, has been selected to perform with the Spirit Drum and Bugle Corps this summer.

Benton auditioned for the corps earlier this year when auditions were at his school. His mother originally told him he couldn’t audition due to the financial reasons—corps tuition is $2,300. But Mark Riel, Benton’s band director, told him to audition despite the cost.