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Pender Chronicle
Poplar Grove Plantation’s Halloween Festival
North Carolina’s favorite Halloween Festival has something for everyone. From haunts that’ll take your breath away, to idyllic, afternoon hayrides through scenic Abbey Nature Preserve, you’re sure to have a great time. Since 1981, Poplar Grove Plantation has been scaring up heart pounding hysteria for fright fans. Students from Topsail High School keep it fresh and fiendish for 2011. Pandora’s Psychotic Circus has... »
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Things are just duc(t)y
With the outside of our new 13,008 sq. ft. building basically completed contractors have shifted their focus to the inside. One of the things we’re really excited about is getting heat and air conditioning. Sounds like something everyone takes for granted, but believe it or not we have neither in our current building. During... »
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City/county consider new life for old jail
It probably wouldn’t be too hard to break out of the old Burgaw jail these days. In a throwback to the old movies, a spoon might actually do it. Or stepping in the wrong place. Speaking of movies, the jailhouse was the location of a movie, released last year, of the same name. Producers said they... »
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by Trevor Normile
A windy and warm afternoon graced Topsail Island Saturday September 3, and patrons wouldn’t be denied the last beach days of summer. For many, Labor Day weekend is the final warm respite before the drudgery between vacation and the holidays.
Even with a hurricane still fresh in their minds, tourists and citizens still... »
Topsail booming after hurricane
by Trevor Normile
A windy and warm afternoon graced Topsail Island Saturday September 3, and patrons wouldn’t be denied the last beach days of summer. For many, Labor Day weekend is the final warm respite before the drudgery between vacation and the holidays.
Even with a hurricane still fresh in their minds, tourists and citizens still... »
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Burgaw plans communitywide commemoration
Folks in Burgaw, Rocky Point, Hampstead and the beach towns, all of you no doubt remember where you were and what you were thinking when the passenger jets smashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Normal work stopped that Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Everyone stayed glued to the television watching the Twin... »
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Pender ABC Board see sales decline in poor economy
The slumping economy apparently is not driving people to drink as the Pender County ABC Board reported decreased sales over the year even as efforts to save money by shortening the Atkinson store’s hours have failed to work. In July the board started new hours in Atkinson, which now operates four days per week instead... »
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Planners consider new land use plan
Burgaw’s Planning Board and staff continue to gather information and shuffle through details in the hopes of having a revamped master land use plan within a year. The current plan has not been redone since it was completed in 1997, according to Rebekah Costin, town planner. “The fact that ours is not up-to-date makes it harder... »
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State panel hears complaints from mine neighbors
Despite being denied a special use permit by the county, a mining company still is pursuing state permission to dig and haul dirt at a site in the Hampstead area. About two dozen neighbors of the mine site off Hoover Road attended a public hearing Aug. 22 to opposed plans by J.J. Morton and Sons... »
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Hope For The Warriors 9/11 Weekend remembers ultimate sacrifices
Ten years ago folks went to work to discover the horror of airline jets flying into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Nothing has been the same since. Folks in Duplin County as well as neighboring counties like Pender and Duplin will get the rare opportunity to do something extra special to honor those... »
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