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On Monday we will celebrate Memorial Day — a day set aside to remember the men and women who lost their lives serving in our nation’s Armed Forces. As one website honoring the true meaning of Memorial Day states: Memorial Day started off as a somber day of remembrance; a day when Americans went to cemeteries and placed flags or flowers on the graves of our war dead. It was a day to remember ancestors,…
The N.C. Department of Transportation will intermittently close one lane in each direction on the Dan Cameron Bridge on I-140 over the Northeast Cape Fear River from Monday, May 23 through Thursday, May 26. The closures, scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, are necessary for crews to perform routine inspections as part of the biannual inspection process. Although there will not be any detours, drivers are urged to seek alternate routes. Motorists…
The N.C. Department of Transportation will continue to intermittently close the right and left lanes in both directions of the Isabel Holmes Bridge on U.S. 74 over the Northeast Cape Fear River between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. on Fridays through May 20. The closures are needed so the DOT Bridge Maintenance Department can perform the biannual inspection on the bridge’s lift span. At least one…
BOLIVIA, N.C. — Brunswick County Health Services will host its annual health fair on June 18. New to the fair this year will be a Water Fun Run which will include stations throughout the government complex where participants will be sprayed with water. This event will be free and open to the community. Registration for the Water Fun Run will be from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. with the Water Fun Run from 10 a.m.…
Brunswick County’s strategic vision and planning process, which kicked off last September, took another step forward Monday when commissioners appointed four citizen action teams. Each team will help focus on a specific set of issues and will formulate mission and vision statements and develop potential goals for consideration by commissioners. The planning and visioning process, dubbed Brunswick Vision, has included extensive public input, both in the form of nine public meetings and an online citizen…