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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 a St. Andrews graduate. 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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  • Inspiration in a small package: one boy's journey

    SHALLOTTE—He may be 9 years old, but he’s endured more than most people will in a lifetime.

    Christian Huffman is a walking miracle—and his family knows it.

    The third-grade Union Elementary School student has a rare medical history. At just 22 months of age, he was bit by a copperhead snake.

    The youngest of Craig and Judith Huffman’s three sons, Christian was treated locally with anti-venom and airlifted to a hospital in Chapel Hill for treatment.

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  • South’s Pieper wins conference singles title

     South Brunswick’s Noah Pieper beat defending conference champion Jason Watts, of West Brunswick, 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 in the Waccamaw Conference Class 3A championship tennis tournament April 23 at Ocean Isle Beach Park.

    The championship completed a sweep for South. Caleb Stanley and Gabe Azzato defeated teammates Jarrett Walls and Caleb Hemphill 6-3, 6-0 for the doubles title.

    The singles championship was a close match throughout both sets.

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  • South’s Pieper wins conference singles title

     South Brunswick’s Noah Pieper beat defending conference champion Jason Watts, of West Brunswick, 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 in the Waccamaw Conference Class 3A championship tennis tournament April 23 at Ocean Isle Beach Park.

    The championship completed a sweep for South. Caleb Stanley and Gabe Azzato defeated teammates Jarrett Walls and Caleb Hemphill 6-3, 6-0 for the doubles title.

    The singles championship was a close match throughout both sets.

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  • 'Save A Seat For Me' at Odell Williamson on Saturday

    Gospel-flavored humor and drama will fill the rarefied air when “Save A Seat For Me” plays at Odell Williamson Auditorium this coming Saturday night, April 27.

    The production by native North Carolinian and writer-director Spencer E. Jenkins centers around a woman’s struggle to find salvation for her stepson as he falls into the throes of a gang lifestyle. She saves him a seat at church, but he says he isn’t going.

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  • Wine Fest toasts museum, planetarium

    Delicious wines and socializing put the fun in fundraiser at Wine Fest this Saturday night in Ocean Isle Beach.

    The Ocean Isle Beach Museum Foundation event takes place 6:30-9:30 p.m. April 27 at the Museum of Coastal Carolina, 21 E. Second St. in Ocean Isle Beach.

    Proceeds benefit the Museum of Coastal Carolina and Ingram Planetarium in Sunset Beach.

    This year’s Wine Fest features wines from a local distributor, says museum marketing coordinator Susan Silk.

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  • Days at the Docks is Saturday and Sunday in Holden Beach

    Get ready to bopple in Holden Beach.

    The beach town’s annual bopple race, when numbered apples are released into the Intracoastal Waterway to determine cash winners, will be part of this year’s Days at the Docks festivities Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28.

    Sponsored by the Greater Holden Beach Merchants Association, this year’s annual festival to kick off the spring season starts at 9 a.m. both days at the festival site under the Holden Beach bridge.

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  • Calabash agrees to aid road woes

    CALABASH—The Calabash town board of commissioners has agreed to assist with road issues on the northern end of Carter Drive.

    The board’s decision came at its monthly meeting April 9 after Calabash Mayor Mary Knight read a letter signed by owners of property on the north end of Carter Drive.

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  • Moods change with the weather, but it gives us something to talk about

    Just when you thought it was spring, a blanket of blustery chill descends, the central heat kicks on, and you have to get back under a blanket (as I sit writing this under my faux-fur blankie, the one I’ve been carrying around with me since November).

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  • Bookworm in Holden Beach nears final chapter

    After a quarter-century in business, longtime Bookworm bookstore owner Barbara Lowell says it’s time to go out of business.

    “This Memorial Day weekend will be our 25th anniversary,” said Lowell, who opened the shop with her late husband of 40 years, former Holden Beach Mayor Jim Lowell, in May 1988.

    She plans to keep the shop on Holden Beach Road open for one more summer season before closing on Labor Day.

    Lowell’s reason for shutting down shop is simple.

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