Topsail Beach News

Town aldermen for North Topsail Beach have been invited to attend a meeting on Tuesday, May 21,to receive information on financing options for a second Shoreline Protection project.

The state Senate approved a bill Thursday that changes 2011 legislation that established a pilot project to allow up to four terminal groins, small jetties located at inlets to help control shoreline erosion, to be built along the coast.

The U.S. Senate passed the Water Resources Development Act , which authorizes key projects carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers including dredging and shoreline protection, according to information from Sen.

The 4th Annual Ocean City Beach Jazz Festival will be held on Saturday, July 6, from 5 pm until 8 pm.

Shutterbugs 2 student Marcia Jackson's photograph, entitled 'Morning Paradise' was taken at Cashwell in Southport.

Right around lunchtime on Friday, gaggles of teenagers were making their usual transit from the Avalon Mall back to Leary's Brook Junior High in St.

There's an unsolved mystery brewing on the North Carolina coastland, and a handsome reward is being offered to anyone who writes a case-cracking pelican brief.

Wildlife rescuers said they found a couple of hurt or dead birds just about every day last week from Onslow Beach to Topsail Beach.

According to Toni O'Neil, director of the Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary in Hubert, rescuers are finding several dead pelicans per day, mostly at Surf City and Topsail Beach.

Volunteers Charlie Lynch, Chris Pough and Jennifer Bragaw prepare a tank to place a Juvenile Loggerhead sea turtle in April 30 on Topsail Beach at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center.