Today's News

First of all, Merry Christmas to all the anglers and seafood cooks of Brunswick County. I think I have spoken or otherwise communicated with more of you this year than any other year before and I admire the fact that despite the economic hardships we are all facing it seems as if more of you are out hunting and fishing than ever before. You are also doing a great job of passing the ultimate interactive sports on to our children.

Time’s up, commissioner Charles Warren.
You’ve had ample time to prove you can handle your role on the county’s Department of Social Services board—a role you’ve so desperately clung to you’ve even violated the county’s code of ethics in doing so.
You so badly wanted to prove you could helm the board as chairman you were even censured by your fellow commissioners. In fact, you couldn’t even be bothered to show up for your own censure hearing.

CALABASH—Plans are in the works for the town to host a public New Year’s Eve bonfire and celebration in the Seafood Capital.

Announcement came at the town board of commissioners meeting Dec. 13.

Festivities are scheduled to launch at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, in the Hurricane Fishing Fleet parking lot next to the Calabash River.

“It will be a very festive occasion where people can come together,” newly sworn-in Calabash Mayor Mary Knight said at the meeting. “We’re going to have fellowship and food.”

CALABASH—Sandy and John Melahn don’t mind golfers—just the ones who keep driving past their house.

For the past few years, ever since global positioning systems came into vogue, the Calabash couple has felt victimized by lost golfers constantly going down their dead-end road, Carlyle Street, then turning around on their property.

The problem, they say, is GPS systems and some online mapping services are erroneously directing golfers down the street as a thruway to the adjacent Pearl Golf Links.