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OIB board approves budget,...

OCEAN ISLE BEACH — Ocean Isle Beach commissioners approved the 2017-18 town budget at their regular meeting Tuesday morning.

The town’s total budget for the upcoming year increased by just more than $655,000 to $21.882,350 from $21,027,225.

The town set aside $8,775,000 last year to fund Coastal Storm Damage Reduction and the terminal groin project. The beach project budget for 2017-18 increased to $9,179,334.

Lightning strike suspected in...

Firefighters think lightning caused the fire that damaged an empty house on the Ocean Isle Beach island Tuesday morning. No one was injured.

Dispatchers received a call at 8:10 a.m. about the fire at 25 Atlantic Way, Mayor Debbie Smith said. A neighbor was awakened by a loud bang and realized the home was on fire.

The house sustained extensive smoke and fire damage with a collapsed roof. Smith said crews successfully kept the fire from spreading to other homes, though the heat rippled vinyl siding on one of them.

North Brunswick’s Medlin named...

 Dustin Medlin inherited a successful baseball program when he accepted the head-coaching job at North Brunswick more than five years ago.

He has taken the program to new heights, including a state championship appearance, in his stint as the Scorpions’ skipper.

Medlin led an 18-win team that captured the East Central Conference regular-season championship, earning him the league’s coach of the year award.

North Brunswick didn’t have its most talented team during Medlin’s time as head coach, the coach said.

Patient, EMTs recall rescue from...

SUPPLY — On May 10, 76-year-old Theodore Racz of Sunset Beach began his tri-weekly kidney dialysis at Fresenius Kidney Care Brunswick County in Supply as usual. The treatment, which removes waste from the body after a person’s kidneys fail, usually lasts about five hours for him.

About 30 minutes into it on this day, however, he said he “felt like I was hit by a baseball bat in the chest.

“I called out to the nurse and that’s the last thing I remember.”

Brunswick County band director...

ASH— “You’re the Mr. Holland to our opus.”

That’s how one former student thanked Craig Morris, band director at Waccamaw School since 2003.

Having been in Brunswick County Schools for 30 years, his career began in 1982 in Tyrrell County, where he taught for five years. It was there he met his wife of 31 years, Joan.

“Up there I was Mr. Music for the whole county, from kindergarten through 12th grade,” he said.

Calabash eyes riverfront...

CALABASH — Town commissioners have been going into closed session to look into the possibility of buying a 1.42-acre parcel overlooking the Calabash River.

The parcel is on the southwest side of the river bridge off N.C. 179 at a site where people frequently fish, Town Administrator Chuck Nance said after the board went into closed sessions at their June 13 meeting and during a last-minute called “emergency” closed session to discuss the matter again last Thursday afternoon, June 15.

Brunswick Town waterfront reef...

WINNABOW — Installation of a manmade reef system to protect the Brunswick Town Fort Anderson State Historic Site’s waterfront will begin next week.

Brunswick Town received $850,000 from the 2013-14 Office of State Budget and Management’s Repair and Renovation Reserve list for the project.

The money will go to build the first 200 linear feet of protective reef, Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson historian Jim McKee said.

Pickup strikes van carrying...

A pickup ran a red light and crashed into a Kids World Academy 15-passenger van carrying eight students from Southport on Tuesday morning, causing minor injuries.

It happened at 9:40 a.m. on U.S. 74 in Leland, North Carolina State Highway Patrol Trooper D.M. Adams said

Charles Carter, 56, of Princeton was driving a blue 1999 Ford F-150 west on U.S. 74 when he failed to stop at the light and struck the van driven by 26-year-old Desiree Auld of Southport, who was trying to turn left at a stop light from N.C. 140 onto U.S. 74.

Ousted mom gets a new home

 VARNAMTOWN — Gail Hewitt has a new home.

Months after an appeals court ruled against the 81-year-old woman in favor of her youngest daughter in a legal dispute over Hewitt’s Varnamtown house, Hewitt started moving last week to a new home less than a mile away from her former home on Varnamtown Road.

Carolina Shores administrator...

CAROLINA SHORES — A little more than three years after being hired, Carolina Shores Town Administrator Jon Mendenhall has signed a three-year contract that includes a significantly higher salary than that of his hiring date.

The town board of commissioners approved Mendenhall’s employment contract last week to lock in “stability and experience as the administrative head of town government,” according to a news release issued by the town last Friday, June 9.