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  • Group gathers for prayer vigil supporting Rourk

    A small group gathered outside Jessie Mae Monroe Elementary School Tuesday night for a prayer vigil in light of recent charges filed against the school’s principal, Patricia Rourk.

    The Rev. Lorenza Jackson, who has two children at Jessie Mae, said the vigil was not for any one person or any one race, but rather for the school and all its children.

    “Jessie Mae Monroe is a good school,” he said. “We support this school. We support all of our children here. Everybody is somebody.”

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  • Deadline to register to vote is Oct. 10

    The deadline to register to vote is 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10.

    To be eligible to vote in Brunswick County, residents must be 18 years old, a U.S. citizen and must be a legal resident domiciled in Brunswick County and North Carolina for 30 days by the date of the next general election day.

    To register to vote, citizenship rights must be restored if ever convicted of a felony. Brunswick County voters cannot vote or be registered to vote in any other county or state.

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  • Calabash business owners start plans to launch merchants association

    CALABASH—A dozen business owners met last week in an initial move toward launching a merchants association in the seafood capital.

    For meeting organizer Forrest King, a business owner and a Calabash commissioner, the reason for organizing local businesses is simple—the town needs a merchants association.

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  • VFW pays respects in annual POW-MIA ceremony

    CALABASH—Hats were removed and prayers offered during a solemn ceremony last Friday, Sept. 19, at Calabash VFW Post 7288 to pay respects to prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action.

    The annual POW-MIA ceremony is brief but heartfelt, especially by participating VFW members who have had firsthand military and war experience.

    Two members, Pat Paterson and Guy Moulton, are former prisoners of war who have spoken at the ceremony in the past.

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  • Town 'cautiously optimistic' about getting sand-loss funding

    Holden Beach Town Manager David Hewett said he is cautiously optimistic the town will receive some funds to replace sand lost during Tropical Storm Hanna.

    Hewett reported during the Holden Beach Board of Commissioners’ regular meeting Tuesday night he and other town officials had just met with officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Federal Emergency Management Agency.

    “I’d like everybody to keep their fingers crossed on that FEMA thing,” said Holden Beach commissioner Don Glander.

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  • Holden Beach causeway property owners speak out about design ideas

    Holden Beach Causeway property owners and visitors would like to see sidewalks, crosswalks, streetscaped flowers, plants and palm trees, and store signs of uniform size and height above street level.

    That seemed to be the consensus of a public-input meeting on the causeway hosted Sept. 18 by the Brunswick County Planning Department at Holden Beach Marina.

    Featured facilitator was Mark Zeigler, a community development planner from the Wilmington office of the Division of Community Assistance with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

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  • Annual Pink Party raises $6,500

    OCEAN ISLE BEACH—The 2008 Pink Party and Charity Poker Tournament raised more than $6,000, which will help fund a team of local women and cancer survivors as they participate in a 60-mile walk for breast cancer.

    Anne Hoffman of Shallotte, Kimmie Durham of Ocean Isle Beach and three of their friends will participate in a three-day, a 60-mile walk in Atlanta this October benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation, dedicated to finding a cure for breast cancer.

    Teams must raise a minimum of $2,100 to participate in the walk, and all proceeds benefit research and awareness.

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  • Soles to chair Senate reform panel; local annexation foes continue to fight

    Annexation reform is a hot topic in North Carolina, one that a number of county residents, especially those in Shallotte Point, have been watching closely.

    In July, the State House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill establishing a nine-month moratorium on involuntary annexations and setting up a study commission to consider revamping the state’s annexation laws.

    Last week, State Sen. R.C. Soles (D-Columbus) was appointed co-chairman of the committee to study reforming municipal annexation, Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight announced.

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  • Planning board continues parking ordinance review

    SUNSET BEACH—The town planning board has continued review and tweaking of the town’s parking ordinance.

    At a Sept. 18 workshop, the board scrutinized off-street parking requirements in different categories, including public parks that could be applied to the town’s future boat ramp.

    “I’m not sure we want to go there with a parking space requirement,” town administrator Gary Parker said, adding it might be “better left to each individual property owner that comes forth for a park.”

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  • Entertainment lines up for Sunset at Sunset on Oct. 4

    The second annual Sunset at Sunset Community Block Party, slated for Saturday, Oct. 4, in The Village at Sunset Beach, has scheduled both local and national talent.

    The entertainment lineup for the day includes the United States Marine Band at 1 p.m.; Shamalama at 2 p.m.; Brunswick Little Theatre at 3 p.m.; the Use-to-Be’s at 4 p.m.; the Songbirds at 5 p.m. and Brunswick Big Band at 5:30 p.m.

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