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Middle school f< hold their own k Published every Volume 68, Number 4 South vs. Cougars host cou look to end long in key conference Caswell Trust earns praise By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Over $15,000 was donated to the Caswell Beach Preservation Trust Thursday at a fund "kick-off’ cere mony held before the town's board of commissioners. Carolina Power and Light Co., N. C. Baptist Assembly, Oak Island Golf and Country Club, Caswell Dunes Homeowners Association, Arboretum Community Association and OceanGreens Homeowners Association were among the first early donors to the fund. CP&L donated $5,000 to the trust and members of the Caswell Beach Board of Commissioners, them selves, kicked in $5,000 from their own pockets. "We can be the best small beach community in North Carolina," mayor Joe O'Brien said before accepting donations. The preservation trust was formed recently to accept tax-deductible contributions for beach nourish ment. The U. S. Army Corps pf Engineers is completing a feasibili ty study of a proposed Oak Island nourishment project. Local share of the estimated $40-million project cost at Caswell Beach is expected to be $500,000 — the goal of fund-rais ers for the trust. is Deacn preservation me nght path?" O'Brien asked. "We think it is." Caswell Beach property owners were polled earlier this year and told commissioners they did, in fact, favor nourishment and other beach stabilization projects. They said they were willing to pay for nour ishment in a variety of ways. Funds generated by the Caswell Beach Preservation Trust are but one of a three-pronged effort to 1 amass the local portion of nourish ment project cost. Commissioners this year also committed a sum equal to one per cent of the town's ad valorem tax fate to a reserve account for beach nourishment. Contributions to that reserve account will increase by the equivalent of one cent on the tax rate each year until it reaches the equivalent of five cents in 2002. An additional two-percent occu pancy tax was levied this year for the first time and will annually be placed in reserve for beach nourish ment. Town finance officer Judy Williamson said over $26,000 has been generated by this two-percent tax on short-term ^lodging rentals I thus far this year. The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to report on Oak Island nourishment feasibility in 2001 and begin design of the project shortly thereafter. Mayor O'Brien said the town will See TVust, page 7 INSIDE Opinion 4 District Court 12 Legal notices 15 Police reports 16 Church 5B TV schedule 6B Calendar 8B Grid contest 4C NASCAR 6C Classifieds 7C CORPS SUPPORT r Photos by Jim Harper River work The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is busy in the har bor these days, with the drill rig Explorer probing a possi ble relocation route for the Cape Fear bar channel and the McFarland (right) just finished with a channel main tenance project upriver. SAT scores up at South, North By Laura Kimball Feature Editor Two of three Brunswick County high schools showed an increase of over 30 points in SAT scores this year. “We are very pleased with the results,” said Mary McDuffie, assis tant superintendent for curriculum, as she presented the information to the Brunswick County Board of Education Monday night. Senior scores from the class of 1998 at South Brunswick High increased 33 points and at North Brunswick High 31 points, but at West Brunswick High scores decreased 40 points. SAT scores measure a student's verbal and mathematical abilities necessary for success in college and are useful in assessing academic preparation, McDuffie told the board. Of the three schools, South Brunswick High students scored highest, with an overall average of 976. North Brunswick High students' aver age was 900 and West Brunswick High students’ average was 913. In 1997, West Brunswick High had an average of 953, so board members were concerned that a school should drop so dramatically. School board member Joyce Parker-Hewett asked McDuffie if there were an explanation for such a large drop in scores. McDuffie said that it was possible, for various reasons, that some of the West Brunswick stijdents weren t convinced to participate in SAT preparation courses. This year more effort will he made to show students the importance of SAT prep courses, and courses may be scheduled on Saturdays to accommodate working stu<tents, McDuffie said. Also, advanced classes pri^re students for what is on the standard ized test. The best way to improve SAT scores is to get more students to par See Scores, page 7 Towns talking Islandwide sewer takes its first step By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor What may be the first fruit of a cooperative regional effort to pool municipal resources was harvested Monday night when Yaupon Beach commissioner Roy Johnson announced an agreement had been reached to allot an initial 35,000 gallon daily sewer flow to neighbor ing Long Beach. Caswell Beach may soon figure into an islandwide wastewater man agement program, also. An additional 100,000-gallon daily flow allotment may be made available to Long Beach within one year, under terms of a deal ham mered out by representatives of the two towns, Johnson said Monday. While other negotiations focusing on wastewater management are on going on Oak Island, in Brunswick County and in a subregion which includes St. James Plantation, Boiling Spring Lakes, Southport and Southeast Brunswick Sanitary District, Long Beach Town Council ‘We’re looking at the real possibility that within one year some sections of Long Beach will be served by a public wastewater management sys tem.’ Joan Altman Long Beach mayor is to be presented with the Yaupon Beach flow allocation offer Tuesday and is expected to autho See Island wide, page 11 Stalemate ends, rescue is funded By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Fearing citizens could be left without emergency medical service. Yaupon Beach commissioners Monday night agreed to terms set out in a contract with the Town of Long Beach for rescue squad services. Yaupon Beach will pay Long Beach $19,462 this fiscal year for services the neighboring town began to provide July 1. Commissioners also agreed to pay Long Beach $3,437 — the disputed balance for services provided the town in the year ended June 30, 1998. Commissioners’ action of Monday night ends a months-long dispute between the two governments and averts a crisis in emergency medical ser See Stalemate, page 9 Calabash granted divorce McIntyre an easy winner in Congressional race Incumbent Mike McIntyre of Lum berton defeated Democraticchal lenger Randy Crow of Wilmington in the primary for the 7th Congression al District race Tuesday. In Calabash, voters there approved a divorce from Carolina Shores, which makes that golf course community no longer part of the town. McIntyre easily defeated Crow, 1,554 to 99, in Brunswick County. Democrats headed to the polls for an election delayed since May while legislators adjusted district lines for the 12th Congressional District in the central part of the state. Since no Republicans filed for the 7th District seat, McIntyre's only opposition in the November general election is Libertarian candidate Paul Meadows! In Calabash, District 1 voters decided they wanted a split from Carolina Shores by a vote of 205 to 106. District 1 includes the original Calabash business community while District 2,consists of newer develop ment and Carolina Shores. District 2 voters also decided by a vote of 940 to 85 to proceed with becoming a separate municipality as a result of the split with Calabash. This special election was called for by a special bill approved by the N. C. General Assembly last month. According to the bill, only one dis trict is required to vote in favor of the split for it to become official. District 2 voted 807 to 217 against the split. Aquifer study is funded »y lerry Pope County Editor County officials want to know more about the under ground aquifer partially protected by a 1994 county anti-mining ordinance that withstood a test of the N. C. Court of Appeals recently. A three-year geological study was approved by the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners last week at a cost of $448,400, with first-year cost of $66,250 allocated from the county contingency fund to quickly get me project underway. It comes on the heels of the appellate court decision to uphold the county’s public safety ordinance that bars deep mining with dewatering techniques or use of explosives within five miles of the Carolina Power and Light Co.’s Brunswick Nuclear Plant or Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point ammunitions depot on the Cape Fear River. • That includes the corridor north of Southport between Bethel Church Road and the Sunny Point access road. See Aquifer, page 10 ■ NEWS on the NET: www.southport.net
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