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Little River Band is scheduled to perform at the eighth annual Mayfest on Main festival this Saturday, May 11, in North Myrtle Beach, S.C.

The festival is 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Main Street, between Hillside Drive and Ocean Boulevard. Highlights include live musical acts, street entertainers, arts-crafts and food vendors, a community stage and a children’s area.

A spring garden fair Thursday in Bolivia is designed to highlight fresh produce and its benefits.

The Brunswick County Women Infants and Children (WIC) Program and Brunswick County Health Services will feature the fair on the side lawn of the health services building from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the county government complex in Bolivia.

WIC nutritionist Maureen Hubbard said the goal is to promote eating more fruits and vegetables.

“We’re trying to get the community eat locally versus [store-bought],” Hubbard said.

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.

To the editor:
Regarding last week’s editorial, you and the NAACP are way off base. Your cavalier attitude toward assuring the authenticity of votes cast is disturbing.
Jobs and a healthy economy are a mainstay of our society, but honest voting procedures are so basic to a democracy it’s almost criminal for you to diminish its importance.
In the last election near Philadelphia, Pa., in a predominantly black section, about 19,000 votes cast—all for Barack Obama. Not one for Mitt Romney. No red flag. No investigation. No voter ID.