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Poor Oyster Season Ends Here March 31 HY DOUG RUTTER in Lockwood Folly River, said this Brunswick County shellfisher- season was a continuation of a re mcn certainly won't remember the cent downward trend. County oys 1992-93 oyster season as one of the tcrmen harvested just 276,610 best. pounds from 1988 to 1991. Although commercial landings "It was pretty good to start with, won't be tallied for a few months, but there's nothing left down there local fishermen don't expect big now," Vamum said. "I couldn't tell numbers. you what the problem is. Too many "It weren't no better than last people is one reason." year," Sherman Varnum of Rich Carpenter, southern district Varnamtown said of the season, manager with the N.C. Division of which ends March 31. "There ain't Marine Fisheries, described the sea much to talk about really." son as "average" and "fair" in Local oyster dealer Ernie Brunswick County. Galloway agreed. "It was a little "It's not been a great season, but slack," he said last week. "It wasn't we've definitely had worse," quite as good as last year." Carpenter said. The oyster harvest Varnum, who shellfishes mostly was better farther north, especially School Board Rescinds Pay Plan For Additional Work The Brunswick County Board of Education rescinded a new pay schedule for clerical employees last week, saying it needed more work. Development of the schedule and its job classification scheme began approximately two years ago, then was shelved. The schedule was ap proved by the school board at its March meeting. Soon after, said Superintendent Ralph Johnston, "we realized some categories were missing, such as TIMS (Transportation Information Management System) operators." He expects the revised document to be resubmitted for consideration at the board's regular April 7 meet ing, which will be held at Union Elementary School in Shallotte. During its special meeting Tues day, March 16, in Soulhport, the board hired Joyce Marlow of Ash and Sabrina Parrish of Supply as therapeutic assistants at Shallotte Middle and Union Elementary res pectively; Sheila Washington of Supply, Wanda Marlowe of Ash and Wanda Long of Leland as preschool handicapped teacher assistants at Supply Elementary, Union Elemen tary and Lincoln Primary respective ly; and Bryan Logan of Ocean Isle Beach as a mechanic I in the trans portation department. Employment for interim part-time custodian Carrie Smith of Bolivia at South Brunswick High School was extended until June 13 and the resig nation of Patricia Gibson, a South Brunswick Middle School teacher, was accepted. In other business the board: ?Appointed member Bill Fairley to a committee developing the 1993-94 school year calendar; ?Voted to participate in the A+ pro gram, if funds arc available. That means county schools will be eligi ble to apply for selection as a pilot program school for the multi-county project. A+ uses participation in the arts across the curriculum as a means of stimulating student interest in learning. Approved participation in apply ing for an Even Start preschooler/ family literacy project grant in coor dination with several agencies. Brunswick Community College is the lead agency. The board also met in executive session to hear an appeal of a stu dent disciplinary matter that in volved a weapon. The school board was lo meet Wednesday, March 24, at 5 p.m. to consider Performance Based Ac countability Plans submitted by indi vidual schools last week and recom mendations from the local plan re view committee. The board is ex pected to meet later in the month to consider its budget for 1993-94. Triple Tax-Free NC Municipal Bonds 5.5% * Equal to taxable yield of 8.57% for NC resident. 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But Galloway said the oysters didn't grow as much this season as he thought they would. "We had seed at the start of the year but tliey didn't come out," he said. Carpenter agreed that oyster growth was below average this sea son. "There's still a fair amount of seed thai didn't quite get up to three inches." Vamum said oyster season might have been better if the Lockwood Folly River hadn't been closed to shcllfishing so frcquenUy because of bacterial pollution. "It might have been better if it stayed open," he said. "Every time it rained it was closed for a week." The Division of Marine Fisheries usually closes the river to shcllfishing when it rains because stormwatcr ninoff carries bacteria into the river, which makes shellfish unsafe to cat. Although Lockwood Folly has been plagued by pollution for the past decade. Galloway said the river wasn't closed as often this season as it has been over the last few years. "Right now when we get closed the rest of the state gets closed too," Galloway said. "It used to be we'd get a heavy morning dew and the state would close it." Galloway said he thinks recent sewer system improvements at The Brunswick Hospital have helped the river. He said bacteria from the hos pital used to wind up in Doc Creek, which feeds into Lockwood Folly. "Our river's doing a lot better," he said. "Ever since they fixed that our river's been improving. I ain't saying that was our whole problem, men ted case of "red tide" was de but ever since they corrected that it's tcctcd in coastal waters. helped fix our problems." "We used to do good before that Varnum said the local oyster har- red tide," Vamum said. "It seems vest has been getting worse since like they haven't grown back like 1988, when the state's first docu- they used to." Congratulations to Lightkeeper's Village-Little River, SC We're proud to have provided paving services for your expansion. 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