This boardwalk is one of a series of elevated wooden walkways that make up a nature trail under construction as part of a development at the east end of Sunset Beach. Photo: courtesy Sammy Varnam. SUNSET BEACH – Land being eyed for two separate neighborhoods on opposite ends of Sunset…
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Sunset Beach, Developers Reach Agreement
This Google Timelapse spanning 1984-2016 shows the naturally occurring western movement and eventual filling in of the small inlet that once separated Bird Island from the west end of Sunset Beach. SUNSET BEACH – The Sunset Beach Town Council has agreed to ask a judge to place its lawsuit over…
Sunset Beach Votes to Go to Court
Sunset Beach West is a proposed 21-lot development for a roughly 25-acre tract on the oceanfront at the west end of Sunset Beach, accessed by a private wooden bridge to be built by the developer at the end of Main Street. Plat: Town of Sunset Beach SUNSET BEACH – The…
Sunset Beach
Members of the Sunset Beach Turtle Patrol excavate a hatched nest. Photo: Jim Barber This story first appeared in Carolina Country magazine First of two parts SUNSET BEACH — Even the sand seems to like Sunset Beach. For years, it’s been coming in from offshore, adding to the already wide…
Coastal Sketch: Jan Harris of Sunset Beach
SUNSET BEACH – Jan Harris did not know Sunset Beach existed before she and her husband, while hunting for a beach house on a whim, turned off U.S. 17 South in Brunswick County and headed toward the Atlantic Ocean. “We drove across the old pontoon bridge and that was it,”…
Sunset Beach Tries Again On Dredging Plan
South Jinks Creek, the bay area, and feeder channel work area are shown, along with the proposed near-shore spoils site. Image: Sunset Beach Sunset Beach has resubmitted permit applications to state and federal agencies after finding a new proposed location to put the sand the town hopes to have pumped…
Deal Reached on Sunset Beach Dredging
The Sunset Beach Town Council has agreed to leave out the northern part of Jinks Creek in the town’s dredging proposal. Photo: Google Earth/Moffatt & Nichol SUNSET BEACH – The Sunset Beach Town Council has reached a compromise on a controversial proposed dredging project in the waterways around the island….
Corps Pulls Sunset Beach Dredge Application
Sunset Beach proposes dredging to help improve navigational access to canals, a bay area and feeder channel through Jinks Creek, which connects Tubbs Inlet to the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. Source: Sunset Beach SUNSET BEACH – The lingering question of where Sunset Beach will put beach-suitable sand dredged from surrounding waterways…
Sunset Beach Threatens to Take $1.2M Lot
Lot 1 at Palm Cove in Sunset Beach is the subject of the lawsuit brought by the town. Photo: Brunswick County GIS SUNSET BEACH – Within a month of closing on an oceanfront lot at the east end of Sunset Beach, Ann Morales had architectural renderings of the house she…
Sunset Beach Must Redo Dredge Application
South Jinks Creek connects Tubbs Inlet with the Intracoastal Waterway, providing ocean access to property owners who live on the eastern end of Sunset Beach. SUNSET BEACH – The town is resubmitting its request for a permit to dredge a portion of Jinks Creek after state officials deemed the initial…
Sunset Beach De-annexation Bill Advances
…subdivision on the east end of the island; Sunset Creek Commons, an apartment complex for seniors under construction on N.C. 904 on the mainland; and the proposed Sunset West subdivision next to the Bird Island Reserve on the west end of the island. The Sunset West project is roughly 23…
Sunset Beach Plan May Not Stop Project
SUNSET BEACH – The town’s land-use rules may not prevent a developer from building a bridge over land once designated as an inlet or stop the state from issuing the needed permits for his proposed beachfront development. The 23 residential lots of Sunset Beach West are clearly designated in the…