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Today's News

  • Southport woman sues funeral home for losing ashes

    A Southport woman has filed a lawsuit against a local funeral home.

    The lawsuit was filed on May 20 at the Brunswick County Courthouse by Jennifer Dunn against Peacock Newnam Funeral Home, White Funeral Services, Gregory L. White, Delores H. White and Shawna Sanders.

    Attorney Patrick Mincey of Wilmington is representing Dunn.

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  • Time to get your flounder on

    The flounder bite has been improving each day with more keeper fish showing up between the short ones. Live mud minnows are the easiest bait to get your hands on, as most tackle shops have them for sale.

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  • Far Out Shootout among week’s fishing highlights

    It seems this spring we’ve been writing about the slow start to the season and how the unstable weather has kept frustrated fishermen stuck on the dock waiting for our three favorite words: light and variable.

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  • Inlet has breath-taking beauty, malevolent undercurrents

    It looks like a place where peaceful waters flow.
    Instead, it’s a place where deadly waters flow.
    A tourist from Ohio drowned in the Lockwood Folly Inlet last Tuesday. The 21-year-old man was trying to swim from the east end of Holden Beach across to the west end of Oak Island (Long Beach).
    The inlet—about 300 yards wide— separates those two islands and connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway.

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  • Remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice

    Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine, National Guard.
    Those who served and died in the United States armed forces will be remembered this weekend.
    Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was begun to commemorate Confederate and Union soldiers who died in the Civil War.
    The holiday was first observed on May 30, 1868, by order of Gen. John Logan, when flowers were placed on the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers in Arlington National Cemetery.
    Now we honor American men and women who have died in all wars.

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  • District court docket

    The following cases were adjudicated over three days of District Criminal Court on May 8, 9 and 13 in Bolivia.

    Codes: PG, pleaded guilty; PNG/NG, pleaded not guilty, found not guilty; PNG/G, pleaded not guilty, found guilty; BCDC, Brunswick County Detention Center; NCDOC, North Carolina Department of Corrections.

     

    Wednesday, May 8

    Judge Scott L. Ussery presided over the following cases with prosecutor Quintin McGee and courtroom clerk Courtney Graham:

    Elias Acosta, PG improper equipment.

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  • Conley ends Trojans’ baseball season in fourth round

     West Brunswick’s baseball season ended in a 7-6 loss to D.H. Conley in the fourth round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 3A state playoffs May 21 in Shallotte.

    D.H. Conley (25-2) will play Orange in the Eastern Regional. West finishes 20-5.

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  • Fat Jack Band plays May 29 in Sunset Beach

    The Fat Jack Band will perform May 29 at the first summer concert of the season in Sunset Beach.

    Concerts are from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 4 in the gazebo in Village Park, Queen Anne Street.

    The Fat Jack Band, described as the best of old-school music, has been a favorite of rhythm-and-blues and beach music fans in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and the entire Southeast since 1972.

    The band has performed with the Showmen, Maurice Williams, Temptations, The Clovers, Percy Sledge and the Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose.

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  • Friday night is Brunswick County senior (citizens) prom night

    “Light Up the Night in Hollywood” is the theme of Brunswick Senior Resources’ first Brunswick County Senior Prom.

    A night of dancing, socializing, food and fun is planned at the event, which takes place 7-11 p.m. Friday, May 24, at the Brunswick Senior Center, 1513 N. Howe St. in Southport (behind Wingate Inn off N.C. 211).

    Tickets are $10 per person and available at any Brunswick Senior Resources Inc. senior centers and sites.

    The attire for the evening is black-tie or business.

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  • Grass grows blue Saturday in Shallotte

    It’s that time of year for the Mostly Bluegrass Spring Festival.

    This year’s ninth annual festival is taking place 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, May 25, in Riverside Park on Main Street in Shallotte (farmers market site behind the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce).

    Highlights include arts and crafts, food and produce vendors and area bands and musicians in the jam tent.

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