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Angela Sellers takes dead aim with her carving tool as she prepares her jack-o-lantern Friday in a program
conducted by Brunswick County Parks and Recreation Department at several public library sites.
Ballots cast Tuesday
Two- or four-year
terms up to voters
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Brunswick County voters will go to the polls Tuesday to
decide who sits in the White House and who sits in the
courthouse.
At virtually every level of federal and state government,
there are contests to be decided this Election Day of 19%.
While races for President of the United States, U. S.
Senate and Governor of North Carolina attract national
attention, races for five seats each on the Brunswick
County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education
generate the most intense interest locally. A profile of each
of the candidates for election to the board of commission
ers and the school board, and a summary of each
candidate’s position on critical issues facing these bodies,
is published in this edition.
Just as critical, voters in Brunswick County will venture
to the polls TUesday to decide how frequently elections
will be held for county commissioner and school board.
Voters in the Town of Long Beach will decide also the
length of office terms for members of their town council.
Across the county and in Long Beach, the question is:
Two years, or four years?
On a county ballot, all voters in Brunswick County will be
asked to respond to the proposition: “Election of the
See Terms, page 7
Who and
where...
It’s all over but the balloting. Brunswick
County voters will go to the polls to elect candi
dates to federal, state and county offices Tuesday
and will decide the fate of three proposed state
constitutional amendments and proposals for
bond sales of $3 billion for school and toad con
struction.
Polls will open at 6:30 a m. this Election Day
and will remain open until 7:30 p.m.
Here is where you may vote in the Southport
Oak Island, Bald Head Island and Boiling Spring
Lakes communities:
■ Southport I — Jaycees Building, Fodale
Avenue
■ Southport II — American Legion Hut, 9th
See Polling, page 7
Sample
ballots
Pages 14-15
' Candidate
profiles
Pages 16-17
Statewide
amendments
Page 18
SBSD finds disposal site
Agreement reached with golf course developers
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
With adequate assurances the red
cockaded woodpecker’s habitat will
be protected, Southeast Brunswick
Sanitary District and developers of a
proposed golf course adjacent to Ar
bor Creek subdivision entered into
contract to assure a wastewater treat
ment plant disposal site and provide
land for disposal of treated effluent.
The move assures SBSD will have
adequate land on which to spray up
to 50(),()(X) gallons of treated waste
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Forecast
Cool, crisp weather ahead with
mostly sunny skies and highs each
day 70 to 75. We can expect lows in
the 40's for the period of Thursday
through Sunday.
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The move puts SBSD on
track to begin operation
of its public wastewater
management system by
spring 1998
water per day and puts the district on track
to begin operation of its public wastewater
management system by March, 1998.
Under terms of a contract ratified
by SBSD commissioners last week,
the district will construct a 500,000
gallon-per-day wastewater treat
ment plant on a 2t)-acre tract at the
golf course to be developed by Oak
Island Ventures and Tri-City Inc.,
together called "the partnership.”
Oak Island Ventures principal
Homer Wright, primary developer
of St. James Plantation and Arbor
Creek, executed the contract, along
with a principal of Tri-City. In ex
change for the $92,500, 20-acre
See Disposal, page 8
North Brunswick student
Wescott murder
trial is underway
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Two students who were at the home
ot 15-year-old Harold Vernard Greene
when North Brunswick High School se
nior Mark Wescott Jr. was shot in the
lace and killed last year described the
moments prior to the shooting to a jury
in Brunswick County Superior Court on
Friday.
"He said, T shot him. I shot him. I
killed him. I killed him,’” testified
Kondra Ballard, a friend who convinced
Wescott to leave school that day. Ballard
said Greene then asked if he would help
“dump the body” after they ran outside
See Murder, page 9
‘I looked to my left,
and I saw a cloud of
smoke. I knew he was
dead. I knew. It shook
everything, the blinds
and everything. I knew
something was
wrong.'
Chris Bell
Schools are wired
for Internet access
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
Nearly 50 volunteers wired 206 classrooms tor
Internet access in nine Brunswick County schools
Saturday during Net Day ‘96, a statewide effort
to link classrooms to the information superhigh
way.
The event saved the Brunswick County school
system about $8,000 and brought the system
closer to its goal of connecting every county
school to the Internet by the end of this school
year, said technology director Gene Zuck.
Hut Zuck stressed that Net Day was the first
step in a long, very expensive process. During
Net Day, volunteers installed fiber-optic cable
connecting classrooms with each school’s cen
See Internet, page 7
Net Day 96 volunteers at Southport Klementary School run liber-optic cable through the
ceiling to wire 22 classrooms for Internet access. Nine schools in the county participated in
the statewide effort Saturday.
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