Today's News

As long as the weather cooperates, strawberries and pickers will be as prominent as flowers and showers in April.

Strawberry season has begun, kicking off with a bang last week at Holden Brothers Farm Produce in Shallotte.

Shallotte resident Gay Stanley and her daughter, Larissa Green, were among residents who rode the strawberry cart to get to the fields last Thursday, April 18, which was a beautiful, sunny spring day. They deemed this year’s picking excellent.

The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office and Sunset Beach Fire Department are providing mutual aid this week in the search for a South Carolina man who died Sunday after being struck by a boat near Bird Island.

The 26-year-old Murrells Inlet, S.C., man died after being struck by the propellers of a passing boat while he was trying to retrieve his own boat that had drifted offshore. The victim’s name is not being released until his identity can be confirmed.

 East Carolina sophomore Kayla Padgett set two school records and claimed first in three events in the Charlotte Invitational.

Padgett won the women's hammer throw, shot put and discus.

The Shallotte native set an ECU school record in the shot put with a mark of 49 feet, 9 inches. Padgett’s mark was more than 9 feet farther than the runner-up’s mark.

Padgett followed that performance with a record-setting discus throw of 164 feet, 6 inches.

 The West Brunswick High School golf team won its fourth straight tournament of the season April 22, clinching the regular-season conference championship.

In an 18-hole tourney on a windy cool day at Rivers Edge, West finished with 347 strokes, beating South Brunswick by seven strokes.

West has won five of seven tourneys. Entering the seven-team championship tournament April 29, West has 66 points, South Brunswick 53 and West Bladen 52.