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Today's News

  • ACE roundup

    The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county.

    The ACE team conducts driving while impaired, driver’s license and criminal information checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances. The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

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  • ‘Black Friday’ attracts shoppers, despite economy

    Local merchants reported “Black Friday,” the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season, was a modest success in Brunswick County.

    Retailers say they are looking forward to a successful shopping season, despite the slowdown in the economy.

    At Belk in Shallotte, store manager Beth Herndon said 250 people were in the store by 5:10 a.m., judging by the results of the store’s gift card giveaway.

    Herndon said sales were “very good” this year and about on par with last year’s Black Friday receipts.

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  • Ambulance, car collide at Shallotte Intersection

    SHALLOTTE—An ambulance and a car were involved in a wreck Tuesday afternoon at the corner of Mulberry and White Streets in Shallotte.

    Shallotte Police and the N.C. State Highway Patrol were investigating the cause of the accident that injured four people.

    Two people from a Life Star ambulance and the driver of a Nissan passenger vehicle were taken to Brunswick Community Hospital. The passenger in the Nissan was airlifted to New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington.

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  • Spirit permeates seasonal yuletide events

    Get in the holiday spirit with any of the array of events planned this weekend and in the coming week in Brunswick County.

    The roundup of upcoming holiday happenings includes:

    • “Bethlehem to Patmos”—Live nativity by Anointed Vessels Ministry at 7 p.m. Dec. 4-8 in 300-seat outdoor amphitheater. Admission is free but seating is limited. 3255 Liberty St., Ash. For directions and information, call the Rev. Diana Payne at 287-4267.

    •Shallotte tree lighting, 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, Rourk Gardens, Main Street, Shallotte. 754-6644.

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  • West splits two duals in first home matches

    West Brunswick opened its home wrestling season by splitting two duals Nov. 25. West, with four seniors in the 14-match lineup, lost its opening dual to South View 58-13. The Trojans then beat North Brunswick 65-12.

    Against South View, West had three winners. At 112, Dylan Bernier won by pin with 2:01 left in the second period. At 125, Caleb Hawkins won 8-4. At 170, Joey Moreno won 14-3.

    Three other Trojans lost by decision: Aldo DeNardi, 8-5 at 145; Brian Murdaugh, 5-3 at 160; and Seth Strickland, 11-0 at 215. West’s other wrestlers lost by pin.

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  • Legends Golf Tour to come to Brunswick County

    Amid depressing economic news, The Legends Golf Tour is planning to come to Brunswick County Sept. 28-30. The Legends Tour is the senior tour of the LPGA.

    Letters of intent have been signed and many people are working hard to make it happen. The site will be Tiger’s Eye at Ocean Ridge Plantation. The beneficiary will be North Carolina Special Olympics.

    Legends Tour players include Amy Alcott, Sally Little, Beth Daniel, Rosie Jones, Jan Stephenson and Nancy Lopez. In short, these are the LPGA golfers fans followed and cheered for and who have since turned 45.

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  • Advice on how to catch red drum during winter

    Cold weather means different things to different anglers. While some folks have put their rods away to wait for spring, others are still out there experiencing great action on schooled-up red drum. These drum, often called redfish, provide year-round sport for shallow-water anglers when other fish have run to warmer climates.

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  • Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program amps up enforcement projects

    Troopers with the N.C. State Highway Patrol’s Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program amped up their patrols last week with a special two-day enforcement campaign.

    Troopers with the motor carrier division increased patrols on U.S. 17 last Tuesday, Nov. 25 and on U.S. 74 on Wednesday, Nov. 26.

    According to Sgt. T.D. Wheeler, the scope of the enforcement project focused on commercial motor vehicle safety and aggressive driving by passenger vehicles around these trucks.

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  • Now is the time to keep campaign promises, look to the future

    This week several elected officials representing Brunswick County Commissioners, the register of deeds, county coroner and the Brunswick County Board of Education were sworn into office.

    As they stood before family, friends, government leaders and their constituents, for many the moment highlighted the hard work each of these invested into getting elected.

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  • Salvation Army worker plays harmonica while ringing in holidays

    SHALLOTTE—“I’m just a little different than the rest of ‘em,” Sam Lospinoso said as he played a blues-style “Jingle Bells” on harmonica while ringing his Salvation Army bell at the entrance to Wal-Mart.

    Customers bustling in and out of the store one day before Thanksgiving were appreciative of the talented worker and the array of tunes he’s been playing by ear since he was 10.

    “If it’s behind my ear, I can play it,” the Wilmington resident said.

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