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New ARCs
Belville,
Lincoln
Included
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
Two more Brunswick County
schools received recognition for
meeting academic growth standards
set by The New ABCs,* the state
school improvement plan, superinten
dent of schools Marion Wise an
nounced this week.
Belville Elementary and Lincoln
Primary schools were recognized for
meeting expected growth. In the
state’s original report, these schools
were reported as not meeting growth
expectations.
Scores for Belville Elementary and
Lincoln Primary schools were Com
bined to measure student growth in
kindergarten through fifth grade.
“Brunswick County school offi
cials are pleased with this new devel
opment,” Wise said. “With these ad
ditional school recognitions, there
were no low-performing Brunswick
County schools identified while seven
of ten schools met or exceeded
growth expectations.”
Under The New ABCs-program,
each school is given agoal to achieve
in improved student performance
See ABCs, page 5
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'Wedding'
takes place
on the isle
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
Halle Berry will star in an ABC
television movie entitled “The Wed- .
ding,” to be filmed in Southport
through late September.
The movie is produced by Harpo
Films, the production company
owned by Oprah Winfrey.
“The Wedding” is based on Dor
othy West’s award-winning-novel set
in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts,
in 1953. The plot centers around
preparations for a wedding and flash
backs coveringjthree generations Of
the bride’s family.
Searching for a large, house on an
oval lot by the water, the producer and
director scouted Southport last month
and determined the Callari residence
on Bay Street would be the ideal lo
cation.
To make the setting look like the
oval needed for the film, a portion of
Atlantic Avenue will be blocked, said
location manager Michael Williams.
A lawn will be laid across the street
and Atlantic Avenue will be blocked
with a tall hedge, he said. This will
make Atlantic Avenue a dead-end for
See ‘Wedding,’ page 5
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Police report 11
Church 6B
Calendar SB
NASCAR 3C
Notices 4C
District Court 7C
Fishing .report 8C
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Photo by Jim Harper
Two-year-old Trey Poole and plenty of others kicked up their heels Saturday at the Oak Island Art Guild
festival in Long Beach’s Middleton Park. Good art, good crafts, good food and good fun were all served up
in abundance at the annual affair which marks the turn of seasons on Oak Island. More photos in the
Neighbors section.
Hit bv passing car
Child critically injured
approaching school bus
By Richard Nubel & Holly Edwards
Pilot Staff '
An 11-year-old Southport girl sustained critical injuries
Tuesday morning when was struck by a car as she ran to meet
her school bus.
Kelly Michelle Carlin, of 1891 River Road, underwent
emergency treatment and exploratory surgery at Dosher
Memorial Hospital in Southport that morning before being
airbfte/to UNC^Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Her condition at the
time of her transport from Dosher was critical, but stable, a
hospital spokesman said.
Trooper Chris Dew of the N. C. Highway Patrol said Kelly
See Injured, page 6
Kelly was taken by
ambulance to Brunswick
County Airport where she
was placed on a helicopter
for transport to UNC'
Hospitals in Chapel Hill
Countv argues:
Without M-M
permit request,
suit premature
By Richard Nubel
News Editor
Using the logic of a recent N. C.
Court of Appeals decision unfavor
able tp it, Brunswick County will
ask that same court to declare
Martin Marietta Aggregates’ origi
nal lawsuit over rights to mine lime
stone from a 1,000-acre tract of land
north of Southport “premature.”
Tuesday night, county commis
sioners authorized county attorney
Huey Marshall and outside counsel
| to “pursue” appellate review of
Martin Marietta’s 1994 lawsuit in
which a trial court sided with the
j mining company on four issues of
j statutory apd common law rights to
j mine the property.
I Marshall said the county would
j file its action within 30 days.
I Key to litigation has been the fact
| that Martin Marietta last year-with-'
| drew its state mining permit appli
| cation, as company lawyers tussled
| with county commissioners over
| their passage of a public safety ordi
| nance banning the discharge of
| explosives, as the mining process
requires.
| Martin Marietta argued, in a sec
‘Martin Marietta’s
original court
actionis prema
ture because, in
fact, no permit has
been issued and no
application is pend
ing.’
Huey Marshall
County attorney
ond lawsuit, county commissioners
had passed that prohibitive ordi
nance after the company had
announced its plans to utilize its
property for limestone mining. In
essence, the company had been
denied use of its property after it
spent money to develop the land for
See Lawsuit, page 12
County joins
beach towns
in planning
By Richard Nubel
News Editor
It is worth $500 or a little less to Brunswick County to join the three
Oak Island communities, Bald Head Island and two other beach towns
in development of a Brunswick Beach Management Plan, county com
missioners decided Tuesday night.
The small sum — which will shrink even more if Ocean Isle Beach
joins the regional coalition - will be coupled with municipal funds to
make a $3,000 cash match of a $17,000 grant from the N. C. Division
‘ of Coastal Management, assistant county manager Robert Hyatt told
commissioners. The coalition of county government and municipal
governments also will have to provide another $2,000 worth of in-kind
services.
For the cash and in-kind match, he said, the participating govern
ments will get a planning document Unique to communities concerned
about the health of their beachfronts,
“The plan shall address concerns of the participating local govem
See Planning, page 12
Numerous incidents sav police .
Indigo security near last resort
By Richard Nubel
News Editor "
Just how bad a security problem exists^whe Indigo Planta
1 tion parking lots for Bald Head Island depends on whose figures
you use. '
If you’re Bald Head Island resident Jay Walker and some
body with a sharp knife or razor did $5,200 damage to your
1996 BMW Z-3, the problem’s bad enough.
Walker recently appeared before the Bald Head Island Prop
erty Owners Association and Bald Head Island Village Council
seeking their support in forcing Bald Head Island management
to. increase security at the parking facilities it maintains at Indigo
Plantation in a remote section of Southport city limits.
For the $350 per year island residents pay for parking, Walker
says their property should be afforded better protection. Parking
lots at Indigo Plantation, though manned by a uniformed secu
rity firm, are poorly lit and unsafe, he said.
When his BMW was “keyed,” or intentionally scratched with
a sharp object, recently, it was the second time Walker had suf
fered damage to an automobile in an Indigo Plantation parking
lot. Another car had been keyed for $1,400 damage<in 1990.
“They didn’t miss a single panel,” Walker sa d of his BMW.
After this latest incident Walker sought relief lrom Bald Head
Island management and was denied it by the management firm’s
chief operating officer, Ken Kirkman.
See Security, page U
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