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Today's News

  • Brunswick’s secondary schools will open early on staggered start schedule

    Middle and high school students will have to set their alarms an hour earlier next school year.

    Brunswick County School board members voted 3-2 at their meeting Tuesday night to send secondary students, grades 6-12, to school before elementary students when the school system returns to a staggered start schedule in the fall.

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  • Building materials make house affordable

    BOLIVIA—Brunswick Housing Opportunity wants to make other homeowners jealous.

    The BHO hosted an open house Friday of the first home built in Brunswick County with USDA rural development funding and touted the building practices—hurricane-proof walls, extra long-life roofing and solar panels to cut power costs—that will make the affordable housing attractive in the communities.

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  • Prayer breakfast, chaplaincy provide support to BCSO employees, families

    By Renee Sloan

    Staff Writer

     

    The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office hosted its third annual Sheriff’s Prayer Breakfast Thursday, with more than 50 officers and government officials attending the breakfast at Southport Baptist Church’s Christian Ministry Center.

    Sheriff John Ingram initiated the event three years ago to coincide with the National Day of Prayer.

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  • Governor asks for flags to be flown at half-staff today

    North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has ordered all state flags to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Friday, May 10, in honor of N.C. Senator Calvin Coolidge Murrow. Senator Murrow passed away on April 30. A memorial service will be held in his honor on Saturday, May 11, in Southport.

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  • Lady Trojans lose in first round of soccer playoffs

     The West Brunswick High School girls’ soccer season ended May 8 in Shallotte in a 3-0 loss to C.B. Aycock in the first round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 3A state playoffs.

    West finishes 12-5-1. C.B. Aycock is 14-6 and plays either Wilson Hunt (16-2) or Washington (8-10) in the second round.

    The game started badly for the Trojans. Defender Gracie Baxley was injured 2 minutes, 6 seconds into the game and remained sidelined for the rest of the game.

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  • District court docket

    The following cases were adjudicated over three days of District Criminal Court on April 24, 25 and 26 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, April 24

    Judge Nancy C. Phillips presided over the following cases with prosecutor Quintin McGee and courtroom clerk Courtney Graham:

    Joseph W. Abernethy, PG improper equipment.

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  • Growing flowers and vegetables from seed rewarding in several ways

    Carol Weaver
    Master gardener
    There are many reasons to raise your own annual flowers and vegetables from seed. Aside from the personal satisfaction you gain from successfully propagating your own plants, you can grow varieties that are not readily available at the local nursery or big-box store. Growing from seed may also be more economical than purchasing small plants at retail prices.

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  • Strawberry season is here; tips offered on how to preserve them

    I love it when the signs go up and I hear the news that it’s strawberry picking time.  Local fresh berries are a treat.  I always make a trip or two to the local berry patches to pick a few pounds for the freezer.

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  • Learn the heart’s alphabet; rejoice in the language of love

    As we were en route to a lunch date with visiting friends, we passed a county vehicle emblazoned with this entreaty, “A reader today; a leader tomorrow.” Hmmm, I thought, a neat message for our youth. I tried to convey my impression to Hubby Dear. Traffic noise and the deeper concentration needed for travel through the rain made it impossible, so I let it go.

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  • Tips for grilling hamburgers for maximum flavor and juiciness

    The oldest hamburger chain is White Castle, founded by a short-order cook and an insurance executive in 1921 in Wichita, Kan. It served steam-fried hamburgers cooked on a bed of chopped onions for a nickel.
    The “Big Mac” was introduced in 1968. It was more expensive than a regular hamburger. Its price was 49 cents.
    Even with all the fast-food chains serving hamburgers today, most of us still prefer grilling our own burgers. The fresh grilled taste just can’t be beat. When making a hamburger, the goal is to maximize flavor and juiciness.

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