🌊 Boaters, heads up: a Small Craft Advisory is in effect for our coastal waters from midnight tonight through Wednesday morning. Northeast winds 25 to 30 knots, seas 4 to 6 feet. Conditions will be hazardous for small craft — best to stay in port.
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Rock the ‘Shoe Saturday: Tributes, Drone Show on Main Street NMB
🎸🤖 Free Saturday night in North Myrtle Beach! Rock the ‘Shoe goes down Oct. 10 at the Horseshoe on Main Street — a Def Leppard tribute at 7, a drone show lighting up the sky at 8, and a Van Halen tribute at 8:15. Free and open to all. Who’s going?
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America250: Moore’s Creek Bridge — February 27, 1776
February 27, 1776 — near Currie. 🇺🇸
The most famous battle you’ve never heard of — fought 20 miles from our beaches.
1,600 Loyalists, many Scottish Highlanders with broadswords, marched on Wilmington to crush the rebellion. At dawn, they charged across a narrow bridge at Moore’s Creek.
The Patriots had removed the planks and greased the rails. A thousand militiamen waited in the mist with muskets and cannons.
The charge collapsed in minutes. 850 Loyalists captured. British plans for the South wrecked.
Weeks later, North Carolina became the FIRST colony to vote for independence — the Halifax Resolves.
It started at that bridge.
#America250 #RevolutionaryWar #NCHistory #PenderCounty #HalifaxResolves #CarolinaAfterDeadline
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Brunswick County Faces Big Sewer Expansion Decision: $348M to $588M Options
💰 Big numbers hanging over Brunswick County’s future: the West wastewater system is already sitting at 183% of its permitted capacity, and county staff say they need roughly 13.6 million more gallons a day just to serve what’s already approved. The options on the table: a $348M expansion (6 million gallons/day), $495M (9 MGD), or $588M (12 MGD). Nothing’s decided yet — but this is the decision that will shape a decade of growth.
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Commissioners Reverse Stormwater Permits for Pointe Grand Development
🌊 Big win for Southport-area homeowners: Brunswick County commissioners voted 3-2 to reverse the stormwater permits for the 362-unit Pointe Grand development — siding with Rivermist residents who’ve watched their neighborhood flood during Florence and PTC8. The county attorney says it’s the first stormwater permit appeal the county has heard in at least 15 years. The developer can still take it to court.
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Oyster Festival Adds Free Friday Community Night Concert
🦪 One thing we left out of Friday’s Oyster Festival post: the fun starts a day early! The 45th Annual NC Oyster Festival kicks off with a FREE Community Night concert Friday, Oct. 16 from 6–8 p.m. at Town Center Park in Ocean Isle Beach — gates open at 4:30. The main festival runs Sat. Oct. 17–Sun. Oct. 18 as planned. Mark both!
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NC DMV Goes All-Digital: No More Plate Stickers or Paper Registration Cards
🚗 Big change at the NC DMV as of this week: no more license plate stickers or paper registration cards! Registration went fully digital Oct. 1 — officers check your status electronically, and you can grab a free PDF of your registration online. And if you have a teen driver: they no longer need the school-issued Driving Eligibility Certificate for a learner permit. Still have to renew on time, pay your taxes and fees, and pass inspection.
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Brunswick County Commissioners Meet Monday, Reappraisal Kickoff on Agenda
📋 Heads up, Brunswick County — the Board of Commissioners meets tomorrow (Monday) at 3 p.m. in Bolivia, and the agenda is a full one: the kickoff presentation for the 2027 countywide property reappraisal (public hearing set for Oct. 19), a $30.9 million contract for the next phase of the regional biosolids facility, the year-end manager’s report, and a preview of the new Brunswick County Agricultural Fair and Expo. Show up in person or catch it on the county livestream.
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America250: Brunswick Town Burned — Spring 1776
Spring 1776 — Brunswick Town. 🇺🇸
Once the grandest port on the Cape Fear, home to two royal governors. The British burned it to the ground.
First came a raiding party from HMS Cruizer under Captain Collett. Then came 900 British regulars under Colonel Cornwallis, acting on orders from Generals Clinton and Cornwallis. They torched homes, warehouses, and Russellborough — the governor’s mansion.
Only a handful of families ever returned. By 1830, the town was gone — sold for $4.25.
Today you can walk the ruins and still see the scars.
The price of freedom, written in ashes on our riverbank.
#America250 #RevolutionaryWar #BrunswickCounty #NCHistory #CapeFear #CarolinaAfterDeadline
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Brunswick County Megasite Lands $6.275M for Site Prep
💰 Big money for Brunswick County’s job future: the state just put $6.275 million toward the 1,100-acre Mid-Atlantic Industrial Rail Park — land clearing, a rail bed, and wetland credits to get the site shovel-ready for a future employer. No company announced yet, but the county’s getting ready for the big leagues.
