• Budget includes beach funding (Saturday, February 06, 2010)
  President Obama's 2011 budget proposal includes money for Surf City and North Topsail Beach.
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• Watchdogs Wake-Up: Feb. 4, 2010 (Friday, February 05, 2010)
  So you actually want to speak at a public meeting? Pender County now wants public comment at the start of its meetings, and Wilmignton is considering making a similar change.
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• Turtle lovers, gill-netters head toward showdown (Wednesday, February 03, 2010)
  Jean Beasley, Director and Founder of the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, holds Mott, a three-year-old female Green Turtle at the center in Topsail Beach, North Carolina.
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• An outstanding principal, indeed - Karen Spencer (Wednesday, January 27, 2010)
  CONTESTS An outstanding principal, indeed KAREN SPENCER Thirty-two exceptional leaders in education from across the country have been chosen as Canada's Outstanding Principals for 2010 - and Barry Jenkins, principal of Villanova Junior High, is one of them.
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• Message in a Bottle (Wednesday, January 20, 2010)
  Here at the Topsail Advertiser, we realized we had not received any "Message in a Bottle" letters since the New Year began.
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• Recommend (Monday, January 18, 2010)
  State Farm is dropping protection for homeowners whose insured property is on one of North Carolina's barrier islands.
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• Editorial - Topsail Beach board making it harder for citizens to be heard (Saturday, January 16, 2010)
  Published: Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, January 15, 2010 at 9:55 p.m. "The board as a whole have effectively limited the people's right to speak by putting us at the end.
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• Water Main Leak May Cause Outage (Thursday, January 14, 2010)
  ONWASA says up to a thousand residents in Sneads Ferry and North Topsail Beach could lose their water as crews work to fix the leak.
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• Inlet proves groins' flaw, group says (Wednesday, January 13, 2010)
  The N.C. Coastal Federation is questioning the effectiveness of the groin at Oregon Inlet, one of five oceanfront structures a coastal engineering firm is studying to help gauge the feasibility of allowing new terminal groins along the North Carolina coast.
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• Missing Brunswick County man found in South Carolina (Sunday, January 10, 2010)
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• Foster named NTB town manager (Friday, January 08, 2010)
  Topsail Beach's loss is North Topsail Beach's gain. North Topsail Beach aldermen voted collectively to hire Steve Foster as its new town manager Thursday evening during its monthly board meeting.
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• NTB aldermen to meet tonight (Friday, January 08, 2010)
  Will the third time be the charm? Having recessed its closed session meeting a second time, the North Topsail Beach Board of Aldermen will reconvene the closed session on personnel at 7 p.m. tonight with a town meeting to follow, according to the North Topsail Beach Website.
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• NTB pursues beach nourishment (Thursday, December 17, 2009)
  North Topsail Beach is moving forward on beach nourishment. The town's Board of Aldermen voted 3-2 during a special board meeting Tuesday to pursue "with due diligence" the Coastal Planning & Engineering private beach nourishment project.
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• Topsail Beach appoints Rickey Smith as interim town manager (Wednesday, December 16, 2009)
  Published: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 9:35 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 9:35 a.m. The Topsail Beach town board has hired former Police Chief Rickey Smith as interim town manager, after accepting Steve Foster's resignation from the post.
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• Topsail Beach's town manager to resign (Monday, December 14, 2009)
  Published: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 2:10 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 2:10 p.m. TOPSAIL BEACH Manager resigning after shift on board Mayor says Foster saw the writing on the wall By Amanda Hutcheson Citydesk@StarNewsOnline.Com Topsail Beach's town manager, Steve Foster, is set to resign at a special meeting Tuesday, with the ...
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• The turtles are coming... The turtles are coming (Saturday, December 12, 2009)
  Submitted by Hailey Winslow on 9 December 2009 - 5:48pm. Giant fiberglass sea turtles are coming to Topsail Beach! Artist Jane Shaar started the fund-raising project.
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• Large crowd expected to weigh in on Topsail Beach renourishment (Thursday, December 10, 2009)
  Submitted by Meghan Torjussen on 9 December 2009 - 5:16pm. The Topsail Beach Board of Commissioners meet Wednesday night to discuss a beach nourishment project.
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• NC Aquarium helps rescue cold-stunned turtle (Tuesday, December 08, 2009)
  Staff at the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher rescued a loggerhead sea turtle Monday. The 116 lb.
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• Topsail Beach commissioner-elect questions others' opposition to nourishment (Monday, December 07, 2009)
  Published: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 12:38 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 12:38 p.m. With the new Topsail Beach town board days away from being sworn in and several agenda items raising eyebrows, the motives of two commissioners are being questioned by a third.
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• Wet weekend brings cooler temperatures (Monday, December 07, 2009)
  More rain is expected across much of North Carolina, only a few days after severe weather and heavy rain prompted watches and warnings across the eastern part of the state.
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