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Topsail Times
Jun 2, 20232 min read
Volume III, Issue 11
Volume III, Issue 11 is now released! Click on "Click to View" to enlarge the e-newspaper copy or Click Here. If the above two links do...


Star Sota
Jun 2, 20232 min read
Sea Turtle Hospital News
May continues to be a busy month at our hospital with turtles being admitted with hooks, boat impact injuries and because they are just...

Topsail Times
Jun 2, 20231 min read
VFW Youth, Education And Safety Awards Program
VFW Post 9983, Holly Ridge, held its annual Youth, Education and Safety Awards Program at the Post Home 16 May 2023. Starting with the...


Topsail Times
Jun 2, 20232 min read
Pender County Library Adds A Seed Library At The Hampstead Branch
HAMPSTEAD - Pender County Library’s Hampstead branch has launched a new seed library. The Topsail Township Friends of the Library...

Topsail Times
Jun 2, 20232 min read
Pender County Earns National Achievement Award For Beach Clean Project
BURGAW – Pender County and the program Beach Clean, have been recognized with an Achievement Award from the National Association of...


Dorothy Royal
Jun 2, 20233 min read
Topsail Gun Gal: Road Rage Incidents Are Rapidly On The Rise Locally, But Why?
Last Saturday, I witnessed a terrifying event of road rage. A man in a white pick up was driving past me when a man in a red smaller...


Carol Ann Ross
Jun 2, 20232 min read
Coastal Folks
If you were born and raised on the Carolina coast, fished, swam and spent most of your life outdoors in the Carolina sun, then you...


Topsail Times
Jun 2, 20233 min read
Front Page: No Mow Spring
Everyone has seen the ads for electric cars, solar panels and green buildings, but what small step can a person take today to really help...


Topsail Times
Jun 2, 20231 min read
The Sea Witch Lounge Grand Opening
Jenean LaCorte along with her husband, Mark, are embarking on a new adventure located at 13775 NC-50 Ste. 103, in Surf City just next...


Dotty Ann Harding
Jun 2, 20235 min read
Snakes!!! Yikes!!!
Snakes are fascinating creatures that play an essential role in the environment. For example, they help control rodents, moles,...


Becky Borneman
Jun 2, 20232 min read
Thank God He Loves Me
Truth be told, I wonder a couple of times a week how often Jeff looks at me and thinks to himself, “She ain’t right. She is crazy.” This...


Kim McGahey
Jun 1, 20232 min read
Coastal Common Sense
The whole purpose for the Founding Fathers writing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 was to escape dependency on the British crown...

Topsail Times
May 13, 20221 min read
Volume II, Issue 11
Features articles written by Dorothy Royal, Carol Ann Ross, Hermione McSchnizel, Karen Sota, Becky Borneman & Marian Taylor.
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