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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Code-40

Donny Sanderson, left, and Michael Graham get a closer look at the 40 balloons that fellow Brunswick Fire Department Firefighter Will Harrelson raised up the department’s flag pole Wednesday in a dark honor to Chief Jerry Gore’s 40th birthday. “He’s getting married soon,” Sanderson said. “So Will thought this was appropriate.”

Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist

Network
will offer
wireless
Internet

Columbus County is about to become a more desirable place to live and more attractive to business, thanks to businessman Tim Blackmon, who is making a large investment in building a wireless high-speed Internet network.

Meeting
today on
road work

The public is invited to a workshop on proposed road improvements today (Thursday) from 4:30-7 p.m. at Whiteville City Hall.
SCC President Kathy Matlock is well into her second year as the college’s chief.

Matlock marks year at SCC

Kathy Matlock, who celebrated this past fall her first anniversary as president of Southeastern Community College, is happy with the way things have turned out.

Staff photo by
Fuller Royal
Wayne Zeigler, from left, and Frank Hurley of Earthtek Environmental Systems and Stefan Jacobs of Applied Plastic Services look on as Monroe Jacobs of Applied Plastics shows a feature of a disposal tank manufactured in Buckhead.

Staff photo by Ray Wyche

Plant makes latest in disposal systems

In what for years served as school classrooms, an industrial plastics fabricator in the Buckhead community north of Bolton is turning out waste disposal systems that are environmentally friendly and that can be used where conventional systems would not work.
Did you observe...

Hannah Fowler Morris, a student at SCC, patiently awaiting class – three weeks early? … Jayne Smith letting her Edgewood science class students get their hands dirty looking for shark teeth fossils? … Mike Cole tossing an errant ball back inbounds at the Duke-Maryland game Wednesday night? Daughter Emily Cole and Joseph Mann attended the game with him…
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