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  • Discount food outlet drawing steady business

    SHALLOTTE—Donna Pevehouse opened her reduced-price grocery stand at an opportune time.

    Since the business, Lea Food Discount Outlet, opened in late February at 541 Whiteville Road (N.C. 130) across from West Brunswick High School, she has seen business steadily grow.

    “We’re doing quite well, actually,” Pevehouse said one recent hot afternoon as customers browsed boxes of assorted canned goods, snack foods, household items and other salvage items sold at the outlet.

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  • Sewer payment modes mulled in Sunset Beach

    SUNSET BEACH—Bid-letting for local sewer should be ready to open early next year, a Brunswick County official told town council last week.

    Construction will take about two years for the town-wide project on the mainland and island, with completion by the end of 2011, county public utilities director Jerry Pierce said at the July 23 meeting.

    As lines are completed, he said they would go ahead and connect them into the system.

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  • Fire destroys home in Sunset Beach

    SUNSET BEACH—A local couple is homeless after their home was destroyed by fire that broke out Sunday night.

    The waterway home at 1141 Indigo Circle was unoccupied when the fire call went out at 9:41 p.m.

    Firefighters from Sunset Beach, Calabash, Grissettown-Longwood and Ocean Isle Beach battled the blaze until after midnight, Sunset Beach Fire Chief Chris Barbee said. Brunswick County and Calabash EMS also responded.

    One firefighter sustained heat exhaustion, Sunset Beach Assistant Fire Chief Scott Bookout said.

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  • Jay Cook

    H. Jay Cook, 67, of Sunset Beach, died July 28 after a short illness.

    He is survived by his wife, Arlene M. Cook; son, Brian Cook; and his sister, Luise Raymond.

    He was born in Swedesboro, N.J., and spent his childhood in Pennsgrove and Pennsville, N.J. His college years were spent at The Citadel and the University of Delaware.

    He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966 to 1969.

    He lived in Delaware for 20 years and retired from The DuPont Co., Chambers Works, after 34 years. He was a resident of Sea Trail for the past nine years.

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  • Victims recovering after boat capsizes, strands them in ocean for 19 hours

    SUNSET BEACH—Nicholas Via had just bought the boat four days prior.

    So when he and three friends decided to take it out into the ocean for the first time at 6 a.m. on Sunday, July 20, they weren’t thinking about any worst-case scenarios.

    They didn’t check possible weather and wave warnings spurred by passing Tropical Storm Cristobal. The furthest thing from their minds was that something could go wrong.

    Until it did.

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  • Mayor, commissioner spar over mayor's duties

    During a special Calabash commissioners meeting on July 24 an item about fire inspections was removed from the agenda, sparking a confrontation between the town’s mayor and a commissioner.

    The item was to discuss feedback from Brunswick County on an agreement for performance of fire inspections approved by Calabash commissioners at their last regular monthly meeting July 8.

    At the end of last week’s special meeting, Calabash commissioner Cecelia Herman asked Mayor Anthony Clemmons if he had signed the agreement before it was forwarded to the county.

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  • The Explorer Years (1524 to 1699) at Ocean Isle Beach

    In March 1524, the Cape Fear Indians watched Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano anchor his ship near Ocean Isle Beach and come ashore.

    Verrazano spent a few weeks exploring. He found the local Native Americans to be friendly. He wrote in his diary, “The natives go nude except at the private parts where they wear skins of animals; some natives wear garlands of bird feathers.”

    Verrazano described the Native Americans as “russet colored and somewhat larger than Europeans, with well-proportioned bodies clothed in animal skins and feathers.”

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  • New books are available at Rourk Branch Library

    The following books are now available at Rourk Branch Library in Shallotte.

    Reviews are courtesy of Friends of the Library.

    NON-FICTION

    “Lessons in Becoming Myself” by Ellen Burstyn. A great actress of our time shares the lessons she has learned from her personal, professional and spiritual journeys.

    “The Bin Ladens” by Steve Coll. A colorful, shocking and disturbing narrative of global integration and its limitations.

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  • Junior Legion season successful, helpful for Trojans

    Mike Alderson leaned back in his chair and pointed at a white board that had a baseball diamond, outlined in black, drawn on it.

    “That board up there,” he said, “I got three question marks up there: right field, left field, third base. This summer probably answered some of those questions. And that’s what it’s all about.”

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  • UPDATEMedical examiner's office releases Bradshaw's autopsy

    Thirty-four-year-old Shallotte Realtor Adam Bradshaw died from a single gunshot wound to the head, according to the autopsy report released Friday.

    The murder weapon, the report states, “is consistent with a high-velocity firearm.”

    Bradshaw, a Realtor with Century 21 Home Town Realty on Main Street, was first reported missing April 27, after he failed to return home.

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