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SUPPLY, N.C. – Officials, citizens and community leaders gathered Monday afternoon, Mar. 20 to celebrate the opening of the new senior center, Brunswick Center at Supply, housed in 101 Stone Chimney. After Brunswick County purchased the 14,721-square-foot building from the Brunswick County Association of Realtors December of 2016, work began to get it open as a senior center. It joins three other senior centers, in Leland, Southport and Shallotte; with the completion of the senior…
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BOLIVIA – On Tuesday, March 14, Brunswick Community College (BCC) and Brunswick County government jointly announced Brunswick Guarantee, a new scholarship program that provides free tuition and fees for qualified students to attend BCC. Details of the Brunswick Guarantee scholarship program, which is funded by Brunswick County government, were shared during a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) signing event inside BCC’s Student Services and Enrollment Management office. The idea for Brunswick Guarantee was first offered by…
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Drivers who travel on the Project Road N.W. bridge over a branch of the Waccamaw River should be aware that the bridge will be closed beginning March 20. The closure is needed for workers to construct a drainage culvert. The new structure will open in August 2017. The existing bridge was built in 1959 and needs to be replaced. Although still safe to use, the bridge requires significant maintenance, and its design no longer meets the…
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Overnight lane closures are scheduled for the Thomas Rhodes Bridge between Monday, March 20, and Friday, March 24. Lanes will be closed from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. The closures are needed so crews can safely repair minor concrete damage that was discovered during a recent inspection of the bridge. The bridge is on U.S. 17/421 in Wilmington. “The bridge will still be open to traffic, but I recommend that drivers seek alternate routes to…
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The Brunswick County Board of Commissioners recently voted to request legislation to modify our county’s fire fee structure. Reports in the media and on social media have offered incomplete and inaccurate representations of the action we took. Below are the facts, which I hope will shed light on the action taken and the rationale behind it. Background: Brunswick County is one of two counties in the State of North Carolina that uses a fire fee…
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