SUNSET BEACH – Memorial Day marked the official opening of the summer home rental season in coastal North Carolina, but as gasoline prices refuse to peak, real estate companies are seeing more houses stay empty.

Notice of Application Bank Acquisition Lowcountry National Bank, (”Lowcountry”) 36 Sea Island Parkway, Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina 29907, intends to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of common stock of First National Bank of Nassau County (”First National”) pursuant to a merger (the “Merger”).

Last Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touted Chad Edwards, the little-known Democratic congressman from Waco, Texas, for her party’s vice-presidential slot. The players of the popular D.C. parlor game Guess-the-Veep—busy bandying about hot names like former North Carolina Senator and veteran vice presidential candidate John Edwards and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty—paused to offer a …

She’s on her second career and she runs her own business. She’s a transplant (isn’t everyone’) who arrived in Wilmington as the real estate market caught fire. But even as housing embers have cooled, she’s hired more people to help her.She’s a real estate agent (isn’t everyone’), but she also is 27.

A wave of home foreclosures has swept through communities around the nation, but Kinston and other parts of North Carolina have been spared much of the devastation seen in other housing markets.

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