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Pender County Judge to receive special honor for book on county history

Submitted by Bob Townsend, Co-host of Carolina in the Morning
Friday, April 26th, 2013, 1:05pm
Pender County native Gary Traywick is a Special Superior Court Judge for North Carolina.

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - Pender County native Gary Traywick is a Special Superior Court Judge for North Carolina. Having that role means he has to travel to different parts of the state to hold trials.

Next week, he will be on the bench in Ashe County, and that will make him only the seventh Superior Court Judge in the state to hold court in all of North Carolina's 100 counties.

Traywick is also a historian, and will receive a special honor in that field next month. He began practicing law in his home town of Burgaw in 1969. And has been on the bench for 18 years.

Some ten years ago, he started a book, detailing the history of Pender County. He wanted to make sure there was an updated publication of how Pender County got started and events that have taken place there thru the years.

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Construction to begin on Topsail High School

Submitted by Debra Worley, Digital Content Director
Monday, April 15th, 2013, 12:21pm
Construction to begin on Topsail High School

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – County commissioners approved the architectural firm of LS3P (Boney Architects) to begin construction on the old Topsail High School. County Manager Mickey Duvall says that the architect who will be working on the project is actually the grandson of the building's original builder.

The board approved spending $294,175 to begin construction.

The County Manger says the plan right now is to have the main building's reconstruction completed by November, when the lease expires for the Pender County office buildings in the Hampstead annex.

He says, at this point, the building will stay in county hands and not be sold. 

The old school, which sits empty on Highway 17 in Hampstead, was built in 1925.

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Plan for renovating old Topsail HS moves forward

Submitted by Bailey Hicks on Thursday, February 28th, 6:50 pm
Plan for renovating old Topsail HS moves forward

PENDER COUNTY, NC - (WECT) The plan for renovating the old Topsail High School, which sits on Highway 17 in Hampstead is moving forward.

The Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, George Brown, says the plan right now is to renovate the old school which has been around since 1925.  Brown says the county is currently looking at possible caps to place on construction bids, before sending the construction bids out.

Brown says the plan is not definite yet, but right now the plan is to move forward with the option of renovating the old building and keeping it for county purposes. Brown has been an advocate of that option and says he is excited.

"I'm excited about this, I'm enjoying this and I'm looking forward to the prospect of renovating that old school," said Brown.

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Step back in time for the 237th anniversary of the Battle of Moores Creek

Submitted by Debra Worley, Digital Content Director
Monday, February 18th, 2013, 2:42pm
Step back in time for the 237th anniversary of the Battle of Moores Creek

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Step back in time this weekend with the 237th anniversary of the Battle of Moores Creek.

According to visitpender.com, Moores Creek was the location of one of the first battles of the Revolutionary War and the first patriot victory of the war.

Re-encators will demonstrate military camp life, musket and artillery firing, and broadsword use this weekend.

The event will take place at the battlefield Saturday, Feb. 23 and Sunday, Feb. 24. For more information call 910-283-5591 or visit www.nps.gov/mocr.

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Transit of Venus caught on cam

Submitted by Debra Worley, Digital Content Director
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012, 9:38am
Transit of Venus caught on cam

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - The transit of Venus Tuesday night was the last one of any of earth's human inhabitants will see in their lifetimes. It won't happen again for more than 100 years.

A transit of Venus is when Venus crosses the disk of the sun from earth's perspective.

Tanya Hume captured part of the transit Tuesday night. She took the picture above of the Venus tranist in Surf City. She submitted the picture to WECT via See it, Snap it, Send it.

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Topsail dredging project begins

Submitted by Sarah Crandall, Web Producer
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012, 7:20pm
Topsail dredging project begins

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The highly anticipated dredging of Topsail Inlet has begun.

The inlet has been shoaling up for several months now, making it impassable to boaters and hurting area tourism as a result.

The sand from the inlet and three other spots will be dredged out to the beach to make up for all the sand lost during Hurricane Irene.

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