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Sports South Brunswick looks for a new basketball coach after McKinnon resigns — 1C Neig T Ferry servii l the Southpoi vice on the ( " Our Long Bead its interest in Watch program age Water plans County won't sell N.C. 211 plant to town By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Long Beach will continue its effort to establish a municipal drinking wa ter source and treatment facility, but it appears now the Brunswick County water treatment plant on N. C. 211 west of Southport won’t figure into Long Beach plans. Meeting Monday night, county commissioners voted 4-1 to decline a Long Beach offer to negotiate for purchase of the county’s N. C. 211 water treatment plant. Only commis sioner Leslie Collier of District 3, which includes Southport-Oak Island, voted against commissioner Bill Sue’s motion. In stating his motion to turn down the Long Beach offer to negotiate, Sue did, however, asked that Long Beach be notified of commissioners’ desire to meet with Long Beach offi cials to discuss the town’s and county’s long-term drinking yyater goals. Long Beach has purchased drink ing water from Brunswick County since the late 1970s. Alarmed by rap idly increasing water rates charged by the county in recent years — a 36-per cent rate increase was proposed last year and a 25-percent increase was eventually passed on to customers — Long Beach Town Council made up to $300,000 available this budget year to explore alternative drinking water sources. The town this year has spent over $140,000 to explore develop ment of a municipally owned ground water source and treatment plant on the mainland side of the Intracoastal Waterway. If that option appears feasible — test well sites are now being explored and pilot treatment of groundwater has been authorized — development of the mainland water source will be timed to coincide with the opening of the second, western bridge to Oak Island in 1999. Consulting engineers have told the itown it will likely be able to recover groundwater and treat it at the same price or cheaper than Brunswick County can furnish treated water by 2003. The Long Beach offer to negotiate a purchase of the six-million-gallon per-day (gpd) Brunswick County N. C. 211 water treatment plant was pre sented as part of the town’s effort to secure a reliable, cost-effective wa See Water, page 13 Forecast The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skies Thursday through Saturday with highs in the 70's. INSIDE Police report ... 10 Business ....... 14 Obituaries ..... 15 Calendar ...... 3B Church ........ 7B Schools ....... 7B Plant Doctor ... 8B District Court . . 7C Classifieds ..... ID Photo by Jim Harper For riders on the ferry Southport it is a cruise on the sea of dreams — of daring voyages, brave adventures, mighty deeds; or perhaps peace and quiet, tranquility and relaxation. The gulls just dream about Ritz crack ers. (More photos in the “Neighbors” section.) Fourth of July around corner Fourth of July festivities will begin a little earlier than usual this year in Southport. Filming of an Independence Day parade, complete with marching hands, floats and beauty queens, will take place at the old yacht basin on Monday and Tuesday, April 14-15. Filming will continue throughout the day and evening. Hundreds of residents have been cast as extras, and marching bands from the three county high schools will participate in the parade. Filming of the feature film “1 Know What You Did Last Summer" began in the city on March 31 and is scheduled to continue at various locations through early May. Booze & lose By Terry Pope County Editor State funds are no longer available for an anti-drunk driving program sheriff Ronald Hewett says has been highly successful in Brunswick County. See Booze, page 13 COUNTY ZONING Beach, rural areas require different rules By Terry Pope County Editor When it comes to rural subdivi sions, Brunswick County's may re semble the developments found in urban Florida. That’s the model used to draft the county’s subdivision ordinance nearly ten years ago. Now Brunswick County planners want to scrap it and start anew, with one that allows de velopers to keep the county’s rural setting as rural, and one not so strict with its urban standards. “I for one want to completely re hash it, tear it from limb to limb, and come up with a new document," said Brunswick County Planning Board chairman John Thompson. Rewriting the subdivision ordi nance is one of many topics the plan ning board discussed last week in ; See Rules, page 6 ‘Part of the problem is that we’re such a diverse county. We’ve got to have one set of rules for our beach communities and another set of rules for our rural communities.’ Becky King County planner LONG-RANGE GOALS Planners want ’clear signal’ on key issues By Terry Pope County Editor County planners want a joint meet ing with the board of commissioners to get “clear signals" on long-range planning issues now facing the county. Armed with citizen comments gathered from a series of land use hearings last month, the Brunswick County Planning Board began orga nizing its approach to long-range is sues last week with consultant Glenn Harbeck. It is a new role the planning board will assume following disbandment of a long-range citizens' committee last month. Planners will meet twice a month and want to stay in close touch with commissioners. “We want to hold a workshop with commissioners on the major issues to See Issues, page 6 ‘I’ve always had a problem with tourism and recreation being the main backbone of industry in a county, because there are a lot of people who don’t benefit from this.’ John Thompson Planning chairman School project moves quickly By Holly Edwards Feature Editor Brunswick County school officials are moving quickly to finalize plan for construction of a new elementary school. If the school is to be ready for the 1998-99 school year, construction niu-t begin in June, said superintendent of schools Marion Wise. Vance Elementary School in Raleigh will serve as prototype tor the i;.« school. Wise said the school system reduced architectural design co-t- n using an existing school plan. Brunswick County schools will pay Smart and Gruel Architects In Raleigh $313,340 for the basic design of the school, and up to $91.on cover costs of revising the design. The Brunswick County school See Project, page 6 Vance Elementary in Raleigh will be the prototype of Brunswick County's newest school faculty. TOP STORIES ON THE INTERNET wwwisouthport
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