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  • Sunset Beach Planning Board nixes variance for proposed sewer pump site

    SUNSET BEACH—The Sunset Beach Planning Board has rejected a setback variance for a sewer pump house.

    At a June 5 board of adjustment hearing, URS Greiner Corp., the engineering company charged with building the Brunswick County-operated sewer system, requested a variance to the 25-foot front yard setback for a two-story vacuum pump house on a vacant lot at 407 North Shore Drive East.

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  • Post 68 stays unbeaten

    LELAND—So far, so perfect.

    The Brunswick County Post 68 American Legion team is 7-0 after beating Post 178 9-0 and 7-2 in a doubleheader Friday.

    This is the first time in Randy Fennell’s four seasons as manager the team has started 7-0, and he said it may have been longer than that since the team has had such a perfect start.

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  • Holmes pitches Trojans to victory over Hampstead

    Brock Holmes struck out nine batters in five innings and hit a home run as the Southwest Trojans won 9-1 Saturday at Hampstead in a Junior American Legion baseball game.

    Holmes gave up one hit and walked one. At the plate, Holmes was 1-for-3 with the home run and two RBIs.

    Alex Memory pitched the last two innings. Hampstead scored its only run in the seventh.

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  • Fatal wreck on N.C. 904

    A Shallotte man was killed Monday afternoon when his moped struck a tractor on N.C. 904 near Sunset Beach.

    Just before 4 p.m. Monday, Keith Howard Lofton, 58, of 1059 Radford Way, was traveling north on his moped at about 35 mph, according to 1st Sgt. J.O. Holmes, of the N.C. State Highway Patrol.

    Lofton was driving in the roadway and apparently didn’t see the tractor with a bush hog on the back of it, which was partially on the shoulder of the road and moving at about 15 mph.

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  • 5th teen guilty of home invasion

    BOLIVIA—A jury found 18-year-old Darren Deanthony Marlow guilty Friday in connection with the December 2006 home invasion of an elderly Hickmans Crossroads woman.

    The former West Brunswick High School athlete was sentenced to serve between three and a half years to five years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Tom Lock. A 12-member jury found Marlow guilty May 30 of first-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary, and felony larceny.

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  • April's real estate sales up over '07

    SUPPLY—The Brunswick County Association of Realtors (BCAR) wants to get the word out that real estate is still a good investment. It’s even starting to rally after hitting rough waters in recent years, the group says.

    According to the latest numbers from the North Carolina Association of Realtors, Brunswick County was the only county in the state to post an increase in sales between April 2007 and April 2008.

    This April, the number of units sold was in the county was 137, up from 116 last April, a 19 percent increase.

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  • Tourism officials seek increase in state tourism marketing budget

    The N.C. Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development is seeking more money for tourism marketing in the 2008-2009 state budget to keep up with other Southeastern states, all but one of which outspend N.C. every year.

    The current year’s budget is $13.6 million, compared to $28.1 million in South Carolina and $18.5 million in Virginia.

    Among Southern states, only Alabama has a smaller tourism marketing budget, $12.6 million.

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  • TDA set to adopt more than $1 million annual budget

    The Brunswick County Tourism Development Authority (TDA) is set to vote on its 2008-2009, $1.06 million budget at its June 25 meeting.

    The money comes from 1 percent of revenue from accommodations, which the 10-member authority oversees and spends to promote the Brunswick Islands through ad campaigns and e-mails.

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  • Commissioners make wellness program voluntary for a year

    For the second time in two weeks, county commissioners’ chambers overflowed with county employees awaiting the fate of a proposed wellness plan.

    The wellness plan made its second appearance on the commissioners’ agenda Monday night after commissioners tabled the matter at their May 19 meeting.

    This time a decision was reached.

    The wellness program with Living Well Health Solutions would be optional for the first year, but the program’s success depends on employee participation, commissioners chairman Bill Sue said.

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  • Brunswick County Emergency Services hosts second annual hurricane forum

    June 1 was the official start of the Atlantic Basin’s hurricane season, but Arthur couldn’t wait. On May 31, it became the season’s first named storm.

    Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service are predicting a “near normal” or “above normal” hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin and Brunswick County Emergency Services wants to help residents prepare should a hurricane strike.

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