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  • Holden Beach West may solve guardhouse problem with automated gate

    Holden Beach won’t rebuild the West End guard shack that controlled traffic into the private community, but town staff has pointed the property owners association in the right direction.

    After the guardhouse at the entrance of Holden Beach West was destroyed in a January traffic accident, residents began attending town meetings to ask about assistance to replace the building.

    “Every time we’ve come to town hall, no one is able to help us solve our problem,” Ray Compton of 1317 Ocean Blvd. said at the March town meeting.

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  • Budget talks start in Holden Beach

    HOLDEN BEACH—Holden Beach officials discussed their budget concerns Monday, but won’t dig into the dollars and cents until June.

    Commissioners agreed they want to balance the budget while avoiding an increase in the tax rate and a decrease in the general fund.

    Last year the tax rate remained 12.7 cents on every $100 of property valuation, but the board also approved taking $182,000 out of the fund balance to balance the 2012-13 budget.

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  • West softball pitcher Cook signs with St. Andrews

     West Brunswick softball pitcher Kim Cook signed a letter of intent April 24 to attend St. Andrews University.

    Cook is familiar with Laurinburg, site of the university. Some family members live there and her mom is an alumna. Cook considered offers from other colleges, but finally selected St. Andrews. It fulfills a dream.

    “I always wanted to play in college,” she said.

    The 14-player team has four returning pitchers, two of whom are also infielders. Cook’s only position will be pitcher.

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  • Trojans finish conference season with victory

      BOILING SPRING LAKES—West Brunswick beat South Brunswick 11-2 May 1 in the final conference game of the season.

    West (10-2, 17-4) finished with 14 hits. The victory also completed a sweep of county teams this season and left West in a first-place tie with Whiteville.

    “We had some guys bring the bats with them tonight,” West coach Mike Alderson said.

    Five West players had at least two hits each.

    Markel Jones, switch hitting, was 2-for-4 with a walk, a double and two RBIs.

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  • West’s Boyer is Waccamaw Conference Golfer of Year

      CASWELL BEACH—The West Brunswick High School golf team completed a championship season by winning the Waccamaw Conference tourney May 1 at Oak Island Golf Club.

    West sophomore Drew Boyer is the conference player of the year. He had the best stroke average of the season, 83.25. He also had the best score in the final tourney, an 81, on the 6,391-yard, par-72 course.

    Boyer is a three-sport athlete. He also runs cross country and wrestles as a 120-pounder. He showed his stamina and strength in winning the final tournament.

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  • Fishing season is starting slowly

    I wish I had more to say, but the past couple of weeks have been pretty uneventful in the offshore fishing world. Cool, windy and now damp weather have kept the fishermen and fish in a holding patter. And it was all looking so good just a few weeks back.

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  • Three steps forward, two steps back

    I can’t say I am excited about the way this past week ended. The speckled trout were busting it earlier last week but died off by the weekend. Small flounder were being caught all through the backwaters from Dunn Sound to Lockwood Folly River, but I can’t say the weekend provided great results.

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  • District court docket

    The following cases were adjudicated over five days of District Criminal Court on April 17, 18, 19, 22 and 23 in Bolivia.

    Codes: PG, pleaded guilty; PNG/NG, pleaded not guilty, found not guilty; PNG/G, pleaded not guilty, found guilty; BCDC, Brunswick County Detention Center; NCDOC, North Carolina Department of Corrections.

     

    Wednesday, April 17

    Judge Scott L. Ussery presided over the following cases with prosecutor Quintin McGee and courtroom clerk Kim Register:

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  • After voter-ID frenzy, state legislature can move on to more pressing issues

    In the North Carolina General Assembly, the House passed its version of the voter ID bill last week, and now it heads to the Senate.
    This legislation was introduced a few years ago.
    One rookie legislator at the time said, “I thought we’d get to Raleigh, and all we’d talk about was jobs, jobs, jobs. Instead, we talked about everything except jobs.”
    A proposed voter ID bill was one of the things they talked about then.

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  • Perils in the water are, and sometimes aren’t, as bad as they seem

    We published a story last week about a man whose boat became un-anchored on Bird Island. He swam after it, and was run over and killed by another boat.
    It reminded me of how dangerous swimming after a boat is.
    The west end of Holden Beach used to be much wider on the waterway side. The huge expanse of beach used to draw 20 or 30 boats every summer weekend. People would anchor, disembark and set out their sand chairs.

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