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  • Budgetary first reading passes muster in Carolina Shores

    CAROLINA SHORES—The Carolina Shores town board of commissioners has approved first reading of the town’s recommended budget for fiscal year 2013-2014.

    The vote for the projected $1,080,467 budget came at the board’s monthly meeting last Thursday, May 9.

    Town commissioners will work on any budgetary refinements at their next monthly workshop June 3, followed by final adoption at their monthly meeting June 6.

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  • Sea Trail event putting food in backpacks

    WINGS Ministry will try to supersize its Backpacks Full of Blessings program with a fundraiser to stomp out hunger Saturday.

    Stomp Out Hunger with the Voices of Destiny is the first event WINGS has organized to combine fundraising and donation collections with performances and activities at the Sea Trail Convention Center on Saturday, May 18, from 4-7 p.m.

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  • Brunswick sheriff has a new son

    Brunswick County Sheriff John W. Ingram and his wife Michelle are parents of a newborn son.

    The baby, named Tison, was born Monday, May 13, at Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, Ingram’s dad, Billy, said Tuesday.

    All are doing well, and the baby is “beautiful like his grandfather,” Billy Ingram said.

    The new baby is Sheriff Ingram’s fourth son.

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  • Deputies to speak at Calabash meeting

    Deputies with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office are scheduled to speak at the Calabash town board of commissioners meeting Tuesday night.

    The meeting starts at 7 p.m. May 14 at Calabash Town Hall on Persimmon Road.

    Deputies will be on hand to answer questions from citizens about law enforcement in the town.

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  • OIB board scales back on portable restrooms

    Ocean Isle Beach bathrooms should come and go in the summer like the tourists, according to residents.

    At the OIB town meeting Tuesday morning, smaller and temporary facilities were preferred to larger and permanent toilets.

    Town administrator Daisy Ivey said town staff looked at plans for either a stick-built facility or a portable trailer-type restroom, similar to the facility on Sunset Beach.

    Commissioner D.B. Grantham asked how many bathrooms Sunset Beach’s restroom trailer included.

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  • Budget, administrator on Sunset Beach work agenda

    Sunset Beach Town Council will have its monthly work session at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, in the town hall conference room.

    Council will discuss the proposed 2013-2014 budget.

    Council is also scheduled to discuss determining what traits, characteristics, skills, education, experience and special qualifications are desired in the next town administrator. 

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  • Sheriff's office seeks help with vehicle on video

    The Brunswick County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in identifying the vehicle or person in the attached photo.  This is a possible person of interest in the larceny of a tractor trailer that took place within the last two weeks from Wayne's Backhoe in Calabash. Anyone with any information should contact Detective John Holman at the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office 910-253-2777.

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  • Arrest in Shallotte leads to cocaine trafficking conviction

    A Myrtle Beach man arrested last year in Shallotte was convicted of cocaine trafficking May 8.

    Tristan Jaymar McNeil, 27 of Halyard Way, Myrtle Beach, S.C., was convicted in Brunswick County Superior Court for trafficking in cocaine.

    McNeil was arrested Feb. 4, 2012, at a motor-vehicle violation checking station conducted by the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Traffic Unit in Shallotte. 

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  • Lakewood breaking-and-entering suspect arrested

    Jacob Tyler Cortes, 17, of Styron’s Landing Road, Supply, who was wanted by Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office investigators, was arrested May 8.

    BCSO officers were searching for Cortes in connection with several breaking-and-enterings and larcenies that took place April 23 in Shallotte off Green Heron Drive in the Lakewood area.

    Cortes was charged with two felony counts of breaking-and-entering a motor vehicle, one felony count of breaking-and-entering and two counts of misdemeanor larceny.

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  • Developer expresses interest in voluntary annexation

    CAROLINA SHORES—A developer has indicated interest in voluntarily annexing into the town.

    Carolina Shores Town Administrator Mike Hargett, speaking at a town board of commissioners’ workshop May 6, said town staff recently met with representatives of a development group.

    Possible annexation would involve a 12-acre tract on Calabash Road, about a mile from CVS Pharmacy.

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