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  • Beacon staff honored for outstanding work in 2012

    The Brunswick Beacon and its employees once again set themselves apart from the competition in the North Carolina Press Association 2012 News, Editorial and Photojournalism contest and the 2012 Best Ad Contest.

    Winners were announced on Thursday, March 21, during the 2013 Winter Institute and Annual Meeting in Chapel Hill. The Beacon competes in the NCPA’s division C for community newspapers with a circulation of more than 10,000.

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  • Easter services dawn early Sunday

    Easter Sunday comes early this year, and so do Easter services scheduled at local beaches and beyond this coming Sunday morning, March 31.

    Other Holy Week events are planned as well.

    Beach services

    Three sunrise services, as well as later morning services, are scheduled Easter Sunday.

    Brunswick Islands Baptist Church and Holden Beach Chapel are sponsoring an Easter sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. Sunday at the Holden Beach Pier.

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  • Wendy's nears re-opening

    Wendy’s in Shallotte is almost ready to re-open.

    Franchise spokesman Kelly Durham said management hopes to re-open the restaurant this Friday.

    The restaurant on Whiteville Road has been closed since an out-of-control vehicle struck the building going 50 mph late on March 6, causing extensive damages and sending an employee to the hospital.

    The collision knocked the building off its foundation, causing in excess of $50,000 in damages, Durham said.

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  • New Bird Island kiosk dedicated in Sunset Beach

    The Bird Island Preservation Society has dedicated a new educational kiosk—a four-sign display of information about Bird Island.

    The ceremony took place at 11 a.m. Friday, March 22, at the kiosk provided by the town of Sunset Beach in the gazebo parking lot on the island.

    Posted at the kiosk is a message to visitors, “If you walk approximately 1.2 miles west down the beach, you will reach Bird Island, which stretches 1.4 miles, crossing the South Carolina state line and ending at Little River inlet.” 

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  • Brunswick County manager accepts Guilford County job

    BOLIVIA—Brunswick County Manager Marty Lawing has accepted an offer to take the manager’s role with Guilford County.

    The Guilford County commission’s nine-member board voted 6-3 to offer the county manager job to Lawing.

    “They voted at 1 a.m. I confirmed today with the Guilford County chairman (Linda Shaw),” Lawing said Friday.

    “The time was right. You can’t schedule when an opportunity in a county will come.”

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  • Carolina Shores celebrates Arbor Day

    CAROLINA SHORES—Second-graders from Jessie Mae Monroe Elementary School are once again helping the town celebrate Arbor Day.

    The town’s fifth annual event Friday included a planting of a redbud tree on the grounds of town hall.

    Arbor Day is celebrated in North Carolina on the first Friday after March 15.

    The town also received renewed recognition Friday as a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation.

    For more details and photos, pick up a copy of next week’s Beacon.

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  • Former county commissioner Warren sues Brunswick officials

    Former Commissioner Charles Warren is taking Brunswick County’s leadership to court.

    Warren filed a civil suit in the U.S. District Court in Wilmington on March 12 against current county commissioners Phil Norris, Marty Cooke, Scott Phillips and Pat Sykes, former commissioner Bill Sue, county manager Marty Lawing and county attorney Huey Marshall.

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  • Teacher’s Voice an extension of role of teacher of the year

    The Brunswick County Teacher of the Year’s year would normally be winding down to the final weeks by the end of March.

    But in the past year Teacher of the Year has changed from honoree to advocate, which will extend her reign.

    Laura Hunter, a South Brunswick High School history teacher selected as Teacher of the Year by the Brunswick County Association of Educators last April, has built the role into the Teachers’ Voice in the school system.

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  • Commissioners cap pay increase talk at $3 million

    BOLIVIA—A final meeting with Brunswick County’s salary study consultant Monday didn’t finalize any pay-raise options for the board.

    Brian Wolf, assistant project director with Evergreen Solutions, said the meeting was the last face-to-face, question-and-answer session included in their consulting contract, so he would try to answer all the questions commissioners still had.

    But county commissioners still questioned if they were comfortable with a pay-raise method.

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  • Property owner ready to take county to court over land grab

    BOLIVIA—Boiling Spring Lakes property owner Dan Lichty is ready to take Brunswick County to court over eminent domain.

    Lichty lost one of his lots at the corner of West North Shore Drive and Lake Mount Road, behind the Kopp’s II convenience store, to Brunswick County to install a pump station for the Boiling Spring Lakes wastewater collection project.

    Lichty says the condemnation killed his development plans.

    He bought 10 lots in the same area intending to package them for commercial development.

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