Today's News

Most teachers get apples or nice coffee mugs during Teacher Appreciation Week, but on Sunday, one Southport Elementary teacher got the thrill of a lifetime.

Skydive Coastal Carolinas donated a gift certificate for a tandem skydive for Teachers Appreciation Week. All interested teachers at the school were invited to enter their names into a drawing for the certificate.

“Three brave souls put their names in,” said Kimberly Newman, a second-grade teacher. Newman won the drawing.

Ed Baran, grandfather of fifth-grader Emily Baran at Jessie Mae Monroe Elementary School, is presented with an official U.S. flag and a paper flag built by the class during the school’s Relay for Life fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.

The Relay team sold 23 flags and each was dedicated to a special person in memory or in honor of someone who has/had cancer. Ed Baran told the class as long as you had support, you could get through anything and the students had great support at Jessie Mae.

He may have just graduated from a four-year university, but the next 10 years of his life are already planned out.

James Hart, 21, of Ocean Isle Beach, recently graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, about 56 miles north of New York City. He is now a second lieutenant in the Army, where he will serve five years active duty and three years in the reserves after completing a two-year flight school.

SHALLOTTE—The town planning board has scheduled a workshop with a developer whose request for plat approval was shot down Tuesday night because of last-minute revisions.

Instead of recommending to the board of aldermen final plat approval for phase 1A of Sea Wynde Plantation, planning board members voted to meet with developer Adam Lisk on June 26 before the July 1 board of aldermen meeting to work out the issues staff and the board members had with the original plat.