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Susan Sims takes advantage of the 70-degree weather last weekend at Litchfield Beach. Tanya Ackerman/Coastal Observer

THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES

Pawleys Plaza: E-mails show how Walmart figured into developers plan

County planning staff members’ e-mails show that a Walmart was being planned for Pawleys Plaza, despite a denial from the developers’ attorney at a public hearing before Georgetown County Council last week. Read more...

Big-box stores: 'Sprawlbuster' praises successful campaign

Opponents of a big-box store in Pawleys Island did it right, according to Al Nelson of Greenfield, Mass., who tracks communities’ efforts against major retailers on a website called “Sprawl-busters.” Read more...

Sales tax: Group won't disclose source of its pennies

Pennies for Progress, a group formed to promote an additional 1-cent sales tax in Georgetown County on the ballot last November, will not be filing any more campaign financial disclosures with the S.C. Ethics Commission. Read more...

Environment: Fish gotta swim, and breathe, too

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And the result wasn’t pretty. Unless you were a hungry gull. Dead menhaden in the tens of thousands washed up along the shore at Pawleys Island and DeBordieu this week. Read more...

Pawleys Island: Town considers ban on political signs

In an effort to reduce visual clutter on Pawleys Island, the town has proposed banning signs from the beachfront, limiting signs put up by real estate brokers and contractors, and prohibiting political signs. Read more...

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