Controversy over school name in Brunswick County

There is controversy brewing over the name of a new school in Brunswick County.

Residents in the Cedar Grove neighborhood want it to bear the community’s name, but some school board members have different plans.

Cedar Grove residents are planning to voice their concerns at Tuesday’s school board meeting.

Barbara Hewett is preparing her address at Tuesday’s Brunswick County school board meeting.

Calls to school board members were not returned this afternoon, but the board discussed naming it after late county commissioner David Sandifer, or for neighboring community Lockwood Folly.

Residents have been trying for more than a month to change the minds of some members of the school board.

Barbara Hewett said there used to be a Cedar Grove school, before schools were integrated in the fifties.

She said its time the community gets it back.