Margaret Rudd Bishop and Margaret Rudd & Associates, Inc., REALTORS^® are pleased to announce their Top Producing Agents for the month of March.  Kay Jolliff is the Top Producing agent for the Southport offices.  The Top Listing Agent for the Oak Island office Brooke Rudd where the Top Selling Agent is Sue Franks.  The Top Producer at the Holden Beach office is Tina Cox.  Congratulations all! 

Folk Art, tree houses, and children are Mary’s passion. Her unique little shop sits right on Holden Beach Road. Miscellaneous items have been turned into tree houses and her folk art is displayed out back. There is no admission fee to view the art, tree houses and antiques, but all donations received are sent to Feed the Children. A short documentary portrait produced by Blaire Johnson aired on UNC-TV in 2005 & can still be viewed online at http://marysgonewild.com/movie.htm - have a look and see one more reason we love calling Holden Beach our home!

Margaret Rudd Bishop and Margaret Rudd & Associates, Inc., REALTORS^® are pleased to announce their Top Producing Agents for the month of February.  Tom Griffin is the Top Selling agent for the Southport offices where the Top Listing agent is Kay Jolliff.  The Top Listing Agent for the Oak Island office is Libba Motsinger and the Top Selling Agents for the Oak Island office is Mike Boswell.  Congratulations all!

Have you seen this mailbox before? If you are a regular to Holden Beach, the answer maybe yes (if you know where to look). It is actually located ON the beach. If you take a stroll to the far east end of Holden Beach, keep walking as the ocean meets the ICW, and look up into the dunes, you'll see it.
This mailbox is just what it says "Golden Memories". Open the door and inside is a notebook and pen. Vacationers and locals alike share their memories and experiences of Holden Beach. Anyone is welcome to leave a memory or sometimes the local fishing report. All that is asked is to leave the notebook and pen for the next person.

It's amazing the stories you will find inside this mailbox. Memories of years gone by, love stories, children's first trips to the beach, and stories of locals who call the beach "home.”

Next time you are in Holden Beach, be sure to check out this unique memory mailbox and be sure to only leave your footprints and memories.

The Christmas by the Sea Festival kicks off Dec 1st with a hometown parade where friends and neighbors line the streets to cheer in the holiday season as beautifully adorned homemade floats and decked out vehicles pass filled with local children, members of clubs and organizations, business people and local heroes. The Christmas by the Sea Parade on Oak Island has been holiday tradition in the Southport-Oak Island area for almost 30 years.

Thanks to the Southport-Oak Island Chamber of Commerce and the towns of Oak Island and Caswell Beach for organizing this and other great holiday events through the month of December.  Check out the Chamber's event calendar for the Oak Island Christmas by the Sea House Tour, a North Pole Adventure at the OI Recreation Center, Santa Claws with Paws, the SeaNotes Choral Society Holiday Concert and Brunswick Concert Band Performances, a Family Ornament Hunt at the OI Teen Center and more!  Don’t forget to shop local!

The Southport-Oak Island Interchurch Food Pantry is doing important work serving our community.  If you’re able to contribute non-perishable items for the Food Drive November 29th – December 12th 2012 you may drop them off at either of our Southport Sales offices or the Oak Island Sales & Vacation Rentals location.  This is a local effort to help local people, please consider making a contribution this holiday season.

Barry Bey, the Aquaculture Teacher, and students from SBHS will be stocking the Davis Canal on Oak Island with baby flounder on Friday, November 16th - meeting point: SE 40th Street Park between 9:45-10:00am   Please come out and support this project.

Margaret Rudd Bishop and Margaret Rudd & Associates, Inc., REALTORS^® are pleased to announce their Top Producing Agents for the month of September.  Elvira Gilbert is the Top Selling agent for the Southport offices where the Top Listing agent is Guy Phillips.  The Top Listing Agent for the Oak Island office is Brooke Rudd and the Top Selling Agents for the Oak Island office are Sharon Paul and Tom Paul.  Tina Cox is the Top Producing agent for the Holden Beach office.  Congratulations all!

Margaret Rudd Bishop and Margaret Rudd & Associates, Inc., REALTORS^® are pleased to announce their Top Producing Agents for the month of August.  Elvira Gilbert is the Top Selling agent for the Southport offices where the Top Listing agent is Kay Jolliff.  The Top Listing Agent for the Oak Island office is Brooke Rudd and the Top Selling Agent for the Oak Island office is Libba Motsinger.  Margaret Rudd & Associates, Inc., REALTORS® an independently owned, full-service Real Estate company, lists and sells residential homes, commercial properties and land for home-sites, investment or development.

August 27 - September 29, 2012

Franklin Square Gallery Featured Artists Show

Pottery instructor Kimberly Smittle-Caroon and oil painter Fay Terry are the Featured Artists at Franklin Square Gallery from Aug. 27 through Sept. 29.

Caroon takes her inspiration "from nature's perfect repetitive patterns." She has been teaching in Southport through Brunswick Community College for 19 years. Terry, who lives in Pinehurst and Oak Island, has been painting full time for 10 years. She calls her work "colorful and cheerful." The artists will be on hand at the next First Friday Gallery Walk , Sept. 7, from 5 to 7 p.m.  Franklin Square Gallery 130 E. West Street, Southport