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ATMC FOCUS fiber optics come to...

ATMC has begun delivering FOCUS fiber optic communications to businesses along Main Street in Shallotte as part of a dynamic five-year expansion and network enhancement plan.

Fantastic Shakers pour on the...

The third week of September 1978 marked the start of an era, the launch of The Fantastic Shakers, now renowned and touted as the “South’s Finest Show Band.”

Since the beginning, the Lincolnton-based band, which graces Calabash’s summer concert series stage starting at 6 p.m. next Tuesday, June 27, has performed more than 6,000 engagements from New York to Florida.

District Court docket for June 5...

The following cases were adjudicated over four days of District Criminal Court on June 5, 6, 7 and 8 in Bolivia.

Codes: PG, pleaded guilty; PNG/NG, pleaded not guilty, found not guilty; PNG/G, pleaded not guilty, found guilty; BCDF, Brunswick County Detention Facility; NCDOC, North Carolina Department of Correction.

 

Monday, June 5

Judge Jason C. Disbrow presided over the following cases with prosecutor Shirley Smircic and courtroom clerk Jennifer Jones:

What is this mystery plant?

 By John Nelson

It's spooky, romantic, swaying, and quintessentially southern: Spanish moss is a plant shrouded in mystery. What follows is Spanish Moss 101, a brief course on this fascinating epiphyte. (Don’t worry, there won’t be a quiz.)

Warm up with The Embers and...

Summer concert stages will heat up in coming days and weeks, especially as musical legends The Embers with Craig Woolard team up to entertain at four Brunswick County summer concerts.

The renowned beach music legends are scheduled to perform at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 18, at the Pavilion at the end of Jordan Boulevard in Holden Beach and on July 7 in Ocean Isle Beach, Aug. 22 in Calabash and Sept. 6 in Sunset Beach.

The Embers have solidified their position as a thriving musical entity, leaving their mark on listeners for decades.

Trojan round baller to continue...

 SHALLOTTE – When former West Brunswick combo guard Kaitlyn Bellamy finished her high school basketball career earlier this year, she had no idea she’d have the opportunity to continue her career at the collegiate level.

Several weeks and countless trips to Brunswick Community College’s campus later, Bellamy has seen her wish come true as she has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball at the Supply junior college during the 2017-18 season.

First Sunset Beach Nature and...

Since launching two years ago, Sunset Vision continues to focus on the future.

The nonprofit community group’s next venture is the Sunset Beach Nature & Wildlife Art Show and Sale launching for three days this week and culminating with a $25-per-person reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 23, at Triple D’s Hemi Haven Classic Car Showroom at 7011 Beach Drive, Ocean Isle Beach.

Moody’s affirms county’s general...

Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed both Brunswick County’s Aa2 general obligation bond rating and the county’s Aa3 rating on lease-backed debt, assigning the county a positive outlook.

The ratings announcement from Moody’s notes Brunswick County’s “historically solid financial position” and “below average debt burden that will remain manageable despite significant borrowing plans,” as well as its “strong financial management.”

Beach Reads: Barnhill’s ‘...

She’s a published author of historic fiction set in Tudor England.

Local writer Anne Clinard Barnhill dips into a different style and more recent era this summer with her latest novel, “The Beautician’s Notebook.”

For book protagonist Willa Jo Temple, “dying” takes on new meaning when she is found murdered in her own beauty shop in the fictitious coastal town of Summerset, N.C.

Shallotte says goodbye to town...

 SHALLOTTE — The town of Shallotte is saying goodbye to both its police chief and town planner at the end of June.

Police Chief Rodney Gause is retiring, while Robert Lewis, who has served as Shallotte’s town planner for almost four years, is heading back to Columbus County to be Whiteville’s new director of planning.

Lewis served as Columbus County planner and Elizabethtown planner in Bladen County before coming to Shallotte in September 2013.