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Today's Opinions

  • Welcome to our beautiful town

    To the editor:
    Last summer, people drove up Sunset Beach’s Mannon C. Gore Bridge and looked in awe at the vista—the ocean emerging in front of them, boats sailing down the Intracoastal, marsh grasses waving, shore birds—an awe-inspiring sight.
    Unfortunately, before visitors reached the apex of the bridge, they had to look at trash-strewn, shoulder-height weeds, uncut grass, unused town equipment and an unkempt parking lot, certainly not an impression we want people to have of Sunset Beach.

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  • Come help CIS

    To the editor:
    Finding time to add one more thing to our busy lives these days seems to be a hard task to do; however, the benefits of volunteering provide great rewards to you and your community. Volunteering is good for your mind and body. It connects you with others, which helps create new friendships and contacts.
    Volunteering increases self-confidence, helps you stay mentally and physically healthy, and may lead to a job or new career.

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  • Down Home Has to Be Here

    To the editor:
    Down home is where The Brunswick Beacon has to be
    So it will be attractive to both you and me.
    With our area we all do want to identify
    So people will stop here and not pass us by.

    Title could be called “Home Has to Be Here”
    And beside you, Brunswick Beacon is near
    About local area and nothing will it miss.
    Can settle back and start to reminisce.
     
    You may be related to soldier of Civil War
    Fought at Fort Fisher near some sandy shore.

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  • Don’t bypass the Constitution

    To the editor:
    A massive, coordinated attack on Jews occurred throughout the German Reich on Nov. 9, 1938, called Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of a German diplomat by a German-born Polish Jew. Kristallnacht was followed by further economic and political persecution of Jews, Nazi Germany’s Final Solution and The Holocaust.

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  • Where is justice for Jaronn?

    Jaronn Ladale McAllister, we haven’t forgotten about you.
    We realize we didn’t know you before March 1, 2012, but there’s nary a week that has gone by since we haven’t thought of you.
    Each time we see a picture of your smiling face, it makes it that much harder to digest what happened to you.
    Our hearts are heavy as we try to understand how anyone could harm a little 3-year-old boy.

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  • Story about child’s death still haunts reporter one year later

    As you enter the Shallotte Police Department, a photograph in the lobby says it all.

    A framed photo of 3-year-old Jaronn Ladale McAllister greets all who enter. Inscribed near the bottom of the photograph are the words: “Why we shall never forget; the reason we do our job.”

    And it doesn’t stop there.

    In Chief Rodney Gause’s office is another photograph of Jaronn.

    Jaronn’s murder a year ago on March 1 has touched many hearts—from the family to law enforcement officers to journalists and the community.

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  • County move was a poor cover

    To the editor:
    Disappointed, but not at all surprised at the action of Brunswick County commissioners at the Feb. 18 meeting to affirm their oath to the U.S. and N.C. Constitutions, “with special regard to the Second Amendment of the Constitution.”
    What is surprising is they tried to veil their true motivation in declaring support for the entire Constitution.
    If they were not favoring just one right, then why was the Second Amendment singularly mentioned?

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  • It’s not the Holy Grail, council

    To the editor:
    I read your defense and position letters about the town of Sunset Beach and Mayor Rich Cerrato. Thanks for the fair and balanced approach.
    Rich is a serious case of contradictions, yet he provides relief to those of us who get fed up with the “business as usual” attitude of most politicians.
    One example is the pothole stonewall put up by the town board. The roads become the town’s roads once they annex a subdivision or a street of homes and acquire the tax base. To deny responsibility and cite outdated policy is sad.

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