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‘Tammy’: The reel deal

By Renee Sloan

Staff Writer

Last week, traffic on Main Street slowed to a crawl as people tried to get a look at the hustle-and-bustle outside The Grille. Despite all the work going on outside, the restaurant was not open. The sign simply read “closed for Tammy.”

For anyone who may be wondering exactly who “Tammy” is, she is the main character in a movie of the same name.

Shallotte octogenarian London Gore publishes latest book

Eighty-nine-year-old London Lewis Gore has hardly slowed down.

The World War II veteran still shoots mean weekly games of pool at the Shallotte Senior Center.

He’s still penning poems and prose and recalling memories of growing up poor on an Ash tobacco farm, joining the Army at age 17 and finding adventure overseas serving under Gen. George Patton.

He’s commemorated those memories by publishing his latest book, “Hard Times, War Times, and More Hard Times.”

Forest Service says Thursday wildfire still hot, but contained

By Renee Sloan and Brian Slattery

GOT-CHA!

By Renee Sloan

Staff Writer

Jimmy Price can remember the day he got hooked on fishing. He was just a young boy—about 7 or 8 years old—and was fishing with his parents and brother on the old Southport fishing pier, when a large fish broke the line on his fishing rod.

After the line broke, he stood beside his family’s car and cried.

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