Today's News

OAK ISLAND—Mariah Brazil was on the lookout for a special dog.

Grieving over the death of her mother late last year, the Oak Island resident scanned the cages of homeless dogs at the Brunswick County animal shelter, searching for a special canine companion to help fill the void.

It took a K-9 to come to her rescue.

Brunswick County K-9 Sgt. Tommy Tolley was also at the shelter. He overheard Brazil tell a shelter employee she just hadn’t found the right dog yet.

After four or five months of growing, many landscape beds are probably in need of a good weeding and edging. Most plantings would benefit from a late summer renovation. This would include hand pulling the annual weeds and grasses and spraying a contact herbicide on the tough perennial weeds and grasses, if you have any.

BOLIVIA—The Brunswick County Technical Review Committee met Thursday, Aug. 21, to review details of the future Brunswick Novant Medical Center.

Novant officials broke ground on the $107-million facility in September, and construction is expected to be completed by 2010, hospital spokesperson Amy Myers said.

The hospital site is 101.25 acres off U.S. 17 about 2.5 miles from the current hospital. The facility will be 252,604 square feet, with an additional 75,000 square feet of medical office space.

A 19-year-old Marine was killed in a motorcycle accident on N.C. 133 Saturday morning.

Pfc. Zachary Adam Stein died on the scene after he was struck by an oncoming vehicle around 10:25 a.m. Saturday. He was traveling north on N.C. 133 near N.C. 211, according to 1st Sgt. J.O. Holmes of the N.C. State Highway Patrol.

Matthew G. Magee, 21, of Burlington, Ky., was attempting to turn south on N.C. 133 from Northhampton Drive when he failed to yield to Stein, Holmes said.

Magee has been charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle, Holmes said.