Today's News

Fishing is certainly feeling like fall, with lowering water temperatures and worries about hurricanes seemingly every week. Post Hurricane Irene, the inshore saltwater fishing in Brunswick County has gotten much better.
Redfish, flounder, pompano, bluefish and Spanish mackerel are being caught—not in fall numbers yet but in good early September action.

Ten years later, Americans who vowed never to forget Sept. 11, 2001, have kept their promise.

Ten years ago, the country came to a halt and American lives changed forever as terrorist-directed planes crashed into the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and a rural field near Shanksville, Pa.

Nearly 3,000 lives were lost that day, including 343 New York City Fire Department firefighters, 60 New York City and Port Authority officers, and eight emergency medical technicians and paramedics.

Delmas Green, 85, of Supply, died Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, at Carrol S. Roberson Hospice Center in Fayetteville.
Funeral services will be announced at a later date by Smith Funeral Home Inc. of Whiteville.

BOLIVIA—Neighbors lending a helping hand have taken on a whole new meaning in Brunswick County.

Bruce and Adrienne Hollenbeck lost their home to foreclosure in June. Since then they have been living underneath tarps set up in their yard. That is, until their neighbors stepped in.

Last Tuesday evening, less than one week since the couple’s story appeared on the front page of the Beacon, the Hollenbecks sat anxiously in their front yard waiting for a new, temporary home.