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    Celebrating the Dream: Three-day...

    The Martin Luther King Celebration Committee once again launches a three-day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend with 25th anniversary events planned Saturday, Jan. 19, through Monday, Jan. 21, in Southport.

    The focus will once again be on enhancement and involvement of local youths starting with an anniversary gathering at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, in Southport Community Building at 223 E. Bay St.

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    Listen Up Brunswick County: Joe...

    Listen Up Brunswick County launches its 2019 concert series with a return performance by Joe Crookston at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, in the Virginia Williamson Event Center in Brunswick Community College’s Odell Williamson Auditorium.

    Crookston’s skills list is long: He’s an acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist, painter, fiddler, slide player, eco-village member and believer in all things possible.

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    Sunset River Marketplace fetes...

    Sunset River Marketplace in Calabash is throwing a going-away bash for locally renowned artist Babs Ludwick, who has decided to move to Florida soon to be with her daughter, grandsons and grand-dogs. The event includes one last exhibition of her works from Friday, Jan. 18, to Saturday, Jan. 26. 

    A fitting send-off reception is scheduled 4-6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18 at the gallery in Calabash. The public is invited.

    Other free events

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    A Second Helping Chili &...

    A Second Helping OIB is having a Chili Cook-Off and Cornbread Competition at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, at Pelican’s Perch, 8 E. Second St. in Ocean Isle Beach. Participants are asked to bring their best chili in a Crock-Pot and/or their best cornbread by 2 p.m. and sign up. Tickets are $10 for tasting only. There will also be a cash bar and raffle for great prizes. All proceeds go to A Second Helping OIB.

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    What is this mystery plant?

    By John Nelson

    Plant Columnist

    A fair one are you — well you fit our ages

    With flowers of winter

    — Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale. Act 4, Scene 4.

  • Are you trying too hard to force...

    By Linda Arnold

    Live Live Fully

    You know the pattern.

    “If I just send one more email, I’m sure I’ll get their attention.”

    “My spouse needs reminding … again. On second thought, I’ll just take care of this myself.”

    “If I can maneuver things so my coworkers’ mistakes are brought to light, the boss will see I’m the one who deserves the raise.”

  • Do dogs go to heaven?

    "Do dogs go to heaven?” the 5-year old girl asked me earnestly as her bright blue

    eyes dimmed a little. “I want to know if God will take care of Buster.”

    In more than 25 years of being a veterinarian, this is perhaps the most difficult question I’m ever asked. This time, a little girl was asking because it was time to say goodbye to the only pet she’d ever known.

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    Local libraries book variety of...

    Adult coloring, knitting and crocheting, chair yoga, bridge, mahjong, movies — these are just some of the activities available at Brunswick County’s library branches.

    It’s not just books anymore, though there are plenty of scheduled events celebrating the published word, too, including children’s storytime, book clubs and special programs showcasing authors from the local area and beyond.

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    What is this mystery plant?

    By John Nelson

    Plant Columnist

    This week we are dealing with a real oddball. The mystery plants featured in this column are usually native species here in the Southeast, although every once in a while we’ve offered a curious cultivated plant. Like this one.

  • Get off your buts and come clean

    By Linda Arnold

    Live Life Fully

    No, this isn’t an article about fitness. Or cigarettes. It’s about the countless ways we sabotage ourselves with the way we talk.

    Behold the underlying truth

    Take the common word, “but.” It’s peppered throughout our conversations. If you break the word down into its individual letters, though, B-U-T — could signal “Behold the Underlying Truth.”

  • Common cancer of humans and dogs...

    Most of us appreciate how similar humans and dogs are. We like the same foods, enjoy many of the same activities and love snuggles under the covers. In addition to sharing the finer things in life, new research reveals one of the most common types of cancer is nearly identical in both humans and dogs.

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    Brunswick Little Theatre Presents “...

    Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place so far north, it’s almost not in the United States. It’s almost in Canada. And it’s not quite a town because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it almost doesn’t exist.

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    Guest speakers highlight Fort...

    It was known as the Gibraltar of the South, but who was tasked with building the colossal military fortress known as Fort Fisher and what was daily life like?

    Find out Saturday, Jan. 12, when Fort Fisher State Historic Site hosts “… And Oh How We Suffered: the 154th Commemoration of the Second Battle of Fort Fisher” that took place Jan. 15, 1865.

    Free and open to the public, the living history program is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will offer something for visitors of all ages.

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    Nonprofit Profile: Keep Brunswick...

    ‘Tis that time of year — to start thinking green and what to do with that 2018 Christmas tree.

    Keep Brunswick County Beautiful, an affiliate of national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful, promotes its mission to empower residents for a cleaner community, including during the holidays.

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    New Year’s events ring in 2019

    It’s almost another new year.

    Local entities are celebrating with local events.

    The town of Calabash is once again ringing things in with its eighth annual New Year’s Eve Bonfire scheduled from 8:30 p.m. to midnight Monday, Dec. 31, in the Hurricane Fleet parking lot on the Calabash Riverfront at 9975 Nance St.

    Highlights at this free event, in addition to a roaring bonfire, include rocking and dancing to a variety of music and the oldies, hot food and the dropping of the lighted anchor at midnight with a toast to 2019.

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    Carry on: CSNsongs brings Crosby...

    It was the summer of 1969 and the Woodstock Music Festival was tuning up on a 600-acre farm in the Catskill Mountains of New York.

    Among the lineup of performers during that history-making four-day gathering of 400,000 was a fledgling trio performing its second concert ever.

    David Crosby and Stephen Stills, along with British singer-songwriter Graham Nash, took the Woodstock stage on Aug. 18, blending their voices during that hour-long performance to create a sound and style still renowned nearly a half-century later.

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    What is this mystery plant?

    By John Nelson

    Plant Columnist

    There’s always something new to see, wherever you are.

    The other day I took a different route to work at the university, here in Columbia, S.C., and found a real spectacle. Garden flowers, putting on a show, and soon to be Christmas? What’s it all about?

  • A clean slate: yours to create

    By Linda Arnold

    Live Life Fully

    New Year’s Day is my favorite holiday. Three hundred sixty-five delicious days. Fifty-two wonderful weeks. Twelve mesmerizing months.

    It’s the ultimate new beginning. OK, I’m strapping myself in!

    It’s also a time for reflection — looking back at the year in review and looking ahead at the year in preview. What will you take into the New Year, both professionally and personally?

  • Anxiety may give dogs gray hair
  • New line dance courses begin Jan. 16

    Ultra Beginner and Advanced Beginner five-week line dance courses are being offered starting Jan. 16 at Silver Coast Winery at 6680 Barbeque Road NW in Ocean Isle Beach. They will continue Jan. 23, 30 and Feb. 6 and 13.

    The Ultra Beginner course will run from noon to 1 p.m. and the Advanced Beginner course from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. The cost of each five-week course is $30.