Today's News

Nine years ago this Saturday, America changed forever as terrorist-directed planes crashed into the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and a Pennsylvania field.

On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 lives were lost, including 343 FDNY—New York City Fire Department—firefighters and paramedics.

Hurricane Earl passed by the coast of Brunswick County Thursday, leaving little more than memories of gnarly waves for surfers in its wake.

When Earl passed by the Brunswick coast during the evening of Thursday, Sept. 2, it was a Category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph.

Late Thursday afternoon, Earl “wobbled” east, Brunswick County Emergency Services Director Anthony Marzano said, which took Earl about 30 miles east of where officials had initially projected Earl would be at that time.

A constitutional amendment to ban convicted felons from serving as sheriff in North Carolina will be on the Nov. 2 ballot.

The constitutional amendment in this year’s midterm election is the first constitutional amendment since the 2004 General Election, Brunswick County Board of Elections Director Greg Bellamy said.

N.C. State Rep. Frank Iler, R-Brunswick, was a co-sponsor of House Bill 1959, No Felon as Sheriff, introduced in the state House on May 25.

Brunswick County has had its share of wildness and shoot-‘em-up, drink-‘em-up, sting-‘em-up news.

Since the beginning of time—or at least since the debut nearly 48 years ago of the old Shallotte Press—soon to be renamed The Brunswick Beacon by reader Jo Ann Simmons, who won $50 in a newspaper-naming contest—there’s been plenty of news in this county to justify the cost of applying ink to paper and charging a fee for it.