Calabash News

Coffee gives untold legions reasons to perk up in the morning, stay up late at night and simply sit to enjoy the intimacy coffee lends to conversations both serious and silly.

Promotional rendering showing the proposed layout of San Rio. Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 3:35 p.m. Property owners in Brunswick County are suing developers whose once-planned luxury subdivisions now sit mostly empty.

Newcomers Joyce Dunn and Walter Goodenough pulled off big election wins Tuesday, overwhelmingly defeating incumbent Gere Dale and taking two available seats in the town commissioners' race.

The polls have closed, and local precincts are expected to begin reporting results shortly.

The Calabash Fire Department won't accept a $2.6 million federal loan approved last month for a new fire station.

Voters in all 19 municipalities in Brunswick County will turn out next Tuesday, Nov.

All politics are local. It's an old saying, but very true. Next Tuesday, residents of the 19 Brunswick County municipalities will have their opportunity to cast their votes for who will lead their communities.

After several months of searching, the Town of Calabash has hired a new town administrator.

Mary Knight wants to do what's best for Calabash residents, so she's putting herself forward as a registered write-in commissioner candidate in the town's upcoming election.

Korean War veteran Willie Richardson drives from his Calabash area home to the VA Medical Center in Fayetteville several times a month for health care.

Candidates for Shallotte's mayor and two open aldermen seats want a town that's friendly to residents and businesses, a place that holds onto its historic character while working to attract new businesses to help keep it the business hub of southwestern Brunswick County.

The non-partisan Nov. 3 municipal election will bring a face-off between two candidates in Sunset Beach, N.C. - one the incumbent and the other a relative newcomer to politics.

The UDO, former town administrator Jeremy Cribb, the fire department and sewer were among hot topics at a Meet the Candidates Forum in Calabash Friday night.

It was a full house Thursday night at Sea Trail, where about 270 people turned out for the Meet the Candidates Forum.

Shingle Tree Acres residents Markita Stevenson stands with her baby Charles Fullwood and Gail Gore, Ronnie McCray Sr., Jay Jenerette, Patricia Livington, and Joseph Gore in the neighborhood in Calabash on Tuesday.

The Brunswick County Sheriff's Office is asking for help in identifying a man accused of using a counterfeit check.

Thursday marks 55 years since Hurricane Hazel struck North Carolina, which was one of the deadliest and costliest storms in state history.

The town board approved zoning 92 properties formerly in Sunset Beach's ETJ that were annexed into Calabash on July 1. Parcels individually voted on and approved by commissioners with respective zoning include 20 lots with R.J. Sommersett , 18 lots in Bonaparte Retreat I 11 lots in Oak Ridge Plantation , 16 lots on Shady Forest Drive , and 11 lots ...

For unincorporated parts of Brunswick County, there is no time restriction as to when the signs can go up, but all signs must be down within seven days of the election.

Sunset River Marketplace is hosting the 64th annual Watercolor Society of North Carolina Juried Exhibition from Oct.