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  • BCC one victory away from World Series bid

     Staff Report

    The Brunswick Community College baseball team needs one more victory in the Region 10 championship series in Morehead City to advance for the first time to the NJCAA Division II World Series May 25-June 1 in Enid, Okla.

    BCC moved into the Region 10 title game by beating Region 10 regular-season champion Catawba 6-3 Sunday afternoon. The title game is set for 7 p.m. Monday. If a second game has to be played, it will be on Tuesday.

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  • Cook throws 1-hitter in playoff victory

     The West Brunswick softball team beat Triton 2-0 Friday in Shallotte in a first round game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 3A state playoffs.

    West (15-6) will play at Nash Central (19-1) on Tuesday (too late for this edition).

    Senior Kim Cook pitched a one-hitter. She walked two batters and hit a batter. She struck out seven.

    The Trojans scored their winning runs in the bottom of the fifth.

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  • South’s Minor wins state title; West’s Stanley wins bronze

     GREENSBORO—South Brunswick junior Colin Minor won the shot put championship Saturday in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 3A state track and field championships at the Irwin Belk Track at North Carolina A&T State University.

    Minor finished second in the discus throw.

    West Brunswick freshman Tyler Stanley finished third in the high jump.

    Minor won the shot put with a mark of 55 feet, 5 inches, a personal best. Last year, he was second (51-10.5). The Class 3A record is 60-4.25.

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  • Trojans win opener in baseball playoffs

     The West Brunswick baseball team beat South Johnston 5-2 Friday in Shallotte in a first round game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 3A state playoffs.

    Starter Ryan Caison struck out seven batters in four-plus innings and Landon Tilley struck out eight in three innings.

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  • Movies and concerts headline Leland summer entertainment

    LELAND—The entertainment has begun in Leland’s Municipal Park.

    The Concerts in the Park series begins Thursday, May 30.

    The town’s Movies in the Park series began in April, and the family-friendly movies are shown every other Saturday through June.

    “Movies were one of the first things the town did,” parks and recreation director Niel Brooks said, adding they started before he joined the town in 2007.

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  • County eliminates extra corridor development standards

    Business development won out over corridor development at Monday’s Brunswick County Commissioners’ meeting.

    Two-dozen property owners of land along U.S. 17, N.C. 211, U.S. 74/76, N.C. 130, N.C. 133 and N.C. 904 attended the May meeting in hopes board members would strip away corridor-development standards.

    They are additional development standards beyond basic property zoning for non-residential, multi-family and mobile-home parks that were part of Brunswick County’s Unified Development Ordinance.

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  • Commissioners make Hardy interim county manager, select firm for job search

    Brunswick County commissioners elevated Ann Hardy from special assistant to the county manager to interim county manager at the start of Monday night’s county meeting.

    Then Hardy set in motion the plan to search for a new permanent manager.

    After former county manager Marty Lawing accepted an offer to take the same role with Guilford County March 22, commissioners voted for the special designation for Hardy, the county finance director, March 27.

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  • Public restroom on OIB town board agenda

    Ocean Isle Beach officials will discuss placing a second public bathroom on the island at the May 14 town board meeting.

    Ocean Island Beach currently provides public restrooms at one location on the beach, the community center.

    Town administrator Daisy Ivey said the board will consider locations for a second bathroom on Shallotte Boulevard on the east end of the island, next to the museum and playground in the center of the island and on Driftwood near the water tank on the west end.

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  • Leland Police crime report

    Police responded to 113 Old Fayetteville Road at 7:31p.m. May 5in reference to a

    report of a shooting.

    According to Lt. Joseph Pierce, the suspect is a juvenile and is in custody.

    The victim is recovering in the Intensive Care Unit at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

    “Due to the fact that this is an ongoing investigation, no other information can be released at this time, Pierce said in a statement.

     

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  • Boiling Spring Lakes police arrest two in prostitution investigation

    Two Brunswick County men were arrested Monday in Boiling Spring Lakes on charges related to a prostitution investigation that began in November 2012.

    Kyle Bradley Wolf, 20, 1911 Robin Road, Boiling Spring Lakes, and Shawn Christopher Conley, 20, North Twin Lakes Drive, Southport, were both charged with two counts of promoting prostitution of a minor, Boiling Spring Lakes Police Chief Brad Shirley reported.

    Wolf and Conley are being held in the Brunswick County Detention Center.

    Shirley said Wolf was arrested Saturday.

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