Today's News

 CAROLINA SHORES—The next town board of commissioners’ monthly workshop is scheduled for 10 a.m. next Monday, May 3.

The board’s monthly meeting will follow at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 6.

Both sessions will be in the town meetings chamber at town hall, 200 Persimmon Road.

Recently Al Arrigoni, executive director of TFTBC, received some good news. It came from Deborah Gassler, phone/service desk associate at the Home Depot in Shallotte.  Her son, Eric, is a sophomore at West Brunswick High School and an Eagle-level participant in The First Tee of Brunswick County.

July 22, 2004, was the worst day of Dale Clemmons’ life. On that day, he and his wife, Rose, came face to face with the unimaginable horror that all parents fear.
The death of a child.
Dale Leo Clemmons Jr., affectionately known as D.J. to his friends and family, was a happy-go-lucky young man of 22 years, on the cusp of adulthood and the realization of dreams. He worked in his father’s landscaping business (Carolina Tree) in Supply. He had lots of friends. He loved kids and best of all—he would have his own child in just a few weeks.   

When I left you last week, I was planning on fishing Tuesday in the Martini’s Hook A ’Hoo Wahoo Rodeo out of North Myrtle Beach, S.C. The tournament, which benefits the area Shriners, had 51 boats to register, very respectable in the world of offshore tournament fishing.
Among the entries was the Ocean Isle Fishing Center team, consisting of my wife Amy; cousin Brian Aycock; his 11-year-old son, Austin; and myself.