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Volume 63/ Number 13
Southport, N.C.
November 17,1993/ 50 cents
Lakes plan
could pave
more road
By Terry Pope
County Editor
The route Boiling Spring Lakes
will take to make needed street
repairs is an unfamiliar one.
City commissioners want to bor
row up to $600,000 to pave an
estimated 16 miles of streets.
A resolution adopted Tuesday asks
the N. C. Local Government Com
mission for permission to approve
an installment contract. The city
should get an answer in January.
The amount is too small to call for
a bond referendum. It is a legal
maneuver and one other towns have
taken, said Elva Jess, city attorney.
If approved, the city can begin
paving approximately 44 streets in
one fiscal year rather than a few
each year.
Commissioners say they are not
nervous about going in debt to fi
nance the deal.
"We’re a fast-growing city, and
we’re having more homes and even
mobile homes being placed along
dirt roads," said mayor Mark
Stewart. "So it’s a continuation of
our road improvements program in
itiated four years ago."
At least partial paving will be per
formed on each street on the list,
which isn’t complete yet but will be
prior to a scheduled public hearing
Tuesday, December 7, at 7 p.m.
Residents won’t be assessed and
taxes will not increase under the
unique financing package. Instead,
annual Powell Bill funds from the
state will be used to pay off the
yearly principal.
"We’ve seen our Powell Bill
money increase," said Stewart. "We
See Lakes plan, page 17
Long Beach
to cooperate
on sewerage
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Long Beach council members
Tuesday night approved unanimous
ly and without discussion an interlo
cal agreement granting Yaupon
Beach and Long Beach authority to
enter into contracts for the treatment
of wastewater.
Developers of St. James By-the
Sea and Turtle Creek By-the-Sea
and some residents of 79th Street
have expressed interest in tapping
onto Yaupon Beach’s sewer system,
and the agreement approved Tues
day brings them one step closer to
acquiring sewer service.
Despite some residents’ repeated
complaints that they do not want
sewer in any form in the Town of
See Long Beach, page 18
Two skippers of schooners used as backdrops for
filming of "The Twilight Zone" here Monday dis
cuss sailing rigs at dockside. Tuesday the 110-foot
Photo by Jim Harper
Isla de Ibiza moved to the Southport Marina so she
could be visited by school children later in the week
(see "Waterfront" column).
City’s water supply
is Tuesday’s topic
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Southport's water supply problems and Local Water Supply Plan will be
discussed Tuesday, 6 p.m., during a special work session scheduled by the
board of aldermen.
Public works director Ed Honeycutt urged residents with questions or
comments about city water to attend the meeting.
Honeycutt said the primary question the board will have to answer is how to
meet the city’s projected future water demands. Within the next ten years the
See Water, page 6
County gets
full-service
ESC office
By Terry Pope
County Editor
1 Brunswick County will get its
own full-service N. C. Employ
ment Security Commission of
fice with hopes to operate from
file county government center
See Office, page f
Lakes home won't be finished
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
!!
The manufacturer of a South
Shore Drive modular home
deemed in violation of die
Boiling Spring Lakes zoning
ordinance has decided not to
fight the dry's stop-work or
der in Superior Court.
EBCO fee. representative
Eston Brinkley said bis com
pany will remove the house
later dris month and put it up
few resale.
However, a New York
woman under contractto pur
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‘Every other house in the neighbor
hood looks a hell of a lot better. You
can call it a modular home all you
want, it still looks like a mobile home * |
Ed Winkler
chase the home and lot for
$120,000 said she Intends to fBe
civil suits against the city and sev
eral other people she said she
would identify in the near future.
*
declared Debra LeFosse. "Tbo
town could have stopped roe way
back before the bouse ever went
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go and then kow-towed to a
lynch mob."
LeFosse also said that
Brinkley has refused to re
fund the $15,000 down-pay
ment she gave tom, saying he
needed the money to move the
partially constructed home.
Although Brinkley said he in
tends to place tbe home for
resale, local realtor Dick
Cushman indicated this week
that the house is mined.
"The house has been de
stroyed by wind and water
damage because it was never
See Horae, page 7
Martin Marietta
State begins
examination
of mine data
By Terry Pope
County Editor
State officials began examining data
Tuesday submitted by Martin Marietta
Aggregates, which has applied to open
a rock quarry near Southport.
Because of recent concerns with
the mining application and the county's
call for an environmental impact
study, Brunswick County planning
director John Harvey said he would
attend the session.
The company filed Friday for
county building permits to erect heavy
cement foundations to support equip
ment at the 1,000-acre site, which lies
between Bethel Church Road and the
access road to Military Ocean Termi
nal Sunny Point north of Southport.
Concrete pads will support the rock
crushers and washing units.
The application is under review by
head building inspector Delaney
Aycock. It will be reviewed under
less strict regulations than had county
zoning laws been in place.
"I gave him my opinion that it was
filed at a time that county zoning was
not in effect," said Harvey.
County commissioners voted unani
mously Monday to lift suspension of
the zoning ordinance as of January 1.
Zoning became effective November
1, the same day it was placed on hold
again after members of the Brunswick
County Anti-Mining Alliance, a citi
zens group opposed to the Martin
Marietta project, asked that it be sus
pended along with all permit applica
See Martin, page 6
Early
edition
| Next week's edition oiThe
State Port Pilot will be pub
lished a day early - on Tues
day- to allow for local mail
deliveiy.
Subscriber copies will be
placed in the post office
Tuesday afternoon. News
paper boxes and retail out
lets should be serviced bv 3
p.m. that day.
The classified advertising
deadline for next week's edi
tion will remain the same -
3 p.m. Monday. All display
advertising material and
news materi ai must be in the
office by noon Monday.
The newspaper office will
be closed Thursday and Fri
day in observance of the
Thanksgiving holiday.
So... what's
in it for us?
Study shows economic
impact of MM project
By Terry Pope
County Editor
As a corporate neighbor, Martin Marietta will provide a spinoff of 103 jobs
and annual sales of $6.9 million.
Those are some of the figures released Monday in an economic impact study
ordered by Brunswick County commissioners on a proposed rock quarry north
of Southport.
Tom Monks, executive director for the Brunswick County Economic
See Impact, page 6
OUTSIDE
Forecast
The extended forecast
calls for partly cloudy
skies Thursday and
Friday with highs in
the 70s and lows in
the SOs. Cooler on
Saturday and Sunday,
with highs in the 60s.
Skies will clear by
Sunday, with lows
dropping into the 30s.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
11:21 ajn. 4:44 a.m.
11:39 p.m. 5:29 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
-ajn. 5:37 a.m.'
. 12:12 pjn. 6:20 p.m.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
12:33 an. 6:33 a.m.
1:05 p.m. 7:12 p.m.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21
1:29 a.m. 7:29 a.m.
l:54pim. 8:03 p.m.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22
2:25 a.m. 8:29 a.m.
2:48 p.m. 8:57 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
3:17 a.m. 9:26 a.m.
3:39 p.m. 9:45 pjn.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24
4:06 a.m. 10:17 a.m.
4:28 p.m. 10:33 p.m.
The following adjustment! should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7; Caswell
Bead), high -S, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low +15; Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -45;
Lockwood Folly Inlet, high -22, low -8.