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Today's News

  • Feelings remain strong for slain BCC basketball player

     The details of 22-year-old Terneil Rhodes’ final hours on Sept. 8, 2011, the day he was shot and killed in Petersburg, Va., are as brief as a summer afternoon shower.

    But when Rhodes was a basketball player and a student at Brunswick Community College, from the fall of 2008 to the spring of 2011, he was a friend to many people, and they have enduring thoughts about him.

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  • McKenzie hopes to emulate Napolitano at Wingate

     West Brunswick senior Trevor McKenzie, who has signed a letter of intent to play football at Wingate University, knows it is possible to blossom as a football player. West graduate Nick Napolitano is the example: He has worked his way to become a captain of the Wingate football team, excelling in academics and football.

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  • Long perseveres, will play soccer at Cape Fear

     Talking about the future, Abbey Long thought about the past.

    If it were not for her eighth-grade soccer coach, Chris Sanders, Long may have never played soccer in high school.

    “He was my first soccer coach,” Long said. “I thank him for helping me and pushing me to become what I am today.

    Fortified with confidence, Long played soccer at West Brunswick. Last season, she made second-team all-conference. And now she has signed a letter of intent to continue her career at Cape Fear Community College.

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  • West Green opens summer league with win

     The West Brunswick High School summer baseball season began Monday, and the West Green team beat Hoggard 10-7 in a seven-inning game in Shallotte.

    For the first time, West has two teams in a summer league—the other is the Black team—and they are competing in the Southeast Division of the Central Carolina Summer Scholastic League. Other teams in the league are Pender, Laney and Ashley. Teams play on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.  The season lasts through July 18. Playoffs begin July 22.

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  • Tropical Storm Andrea breezes up the coast

    Tropical Storm Andrea breezed up the Carolinas coast Friday, churning local waters and creating sandstorms at area beaches.

    “Blame it all on my mom,” joked 10-year-old Parker Henderson, visiting Sunset Beach midday Friday with his mom, Andrea, and sisters Kira and Kate.

    Andrea Henderson, visiting here with her family from Point Pleasant, W.Va., had been unaware of the approaching storm after their arrival here this week.

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  • Storm delays last day of school

    June 7 was scheduled to be the last day of school for students, but thanks to Tropical Storm Andrea that date will now be Monday, June 10.
    Brunswick County Schools will be closed for students and school personnel Friday, June 7, according to a press release issued Thursday by schools spokeswoman Jessica Swencki.

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  • Storm spurs cancellations

    Due to the approach of Tropical Storm Andrea, Brunswick County Schools will be closed Friday, and the last day of school has been postponed until Monday, June 10. Brunswick County Academy’s graduation has been rescheduled as well, from Friday to 6 p.m. Monday, June 10, at the Virginia Williamson Events Center at Odell Williamson Auditorium at Brunswick Community College.
    In addition, the free summer concert for Friday, June 7, in Ocean Isle Beach has been cancelled.

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  • Family of Ryan Dilworth remembers son with motorcycle run

    The second  “Buckle Up for Ryan” motorcycle ride June 1 raised funds to bring distracted driving awareness into high schools.

    Ryan Chase Dilworth, 17, of Supply died April 21, 2012, in a single-car accident on Stanbury Road.

    The West Brunswick High School junior ran off the road, overcorrected, crossed the centerline and flipped his SUV.

    North Carolina Highway Patrol troopers said he was not wearing his seat belt.

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  • Buried Treasure

    Holden Beach couldn’t have asked for a better person to discover an unexploded shell in the sand.

    Gerald Workman, who unearthed a Civil War-era Parrott shell there April 8, knows all about munitions handling.

    He spent 13 of his years in the Marines as a munitions expert and served in Kuwait during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm making sure ammunition got where it was supposed to be.

    “I’ve handled most (types of) ammunition as an explosives officer,” Workman said.

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  • Brunswick County schools opposes second charter school

    Brunswick County Schools officials oppose a second charter school in the county and put their concerns in writing to the state May 24.

    Roger Bacon Academy, the management company for the Charter Day School in Leland and the Columbus Charter School in Whiteville, has applied for a third charter school in Supply—South Brunswick Charter School—with the Office of Charter Schools at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

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