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NEWS UPDATESNEWS UPDATESSports: Crescent sweeps WHS in softball seriesCrescent's first inning barrage undid Waccamaw's hopes of extending the best-of-three Class AA state championship softball series on Wednesday. The visiting Tigers put four runs on the board in their fist at bat and eventually would build their lead to five, all the momentum they'd need to score an 8-1 victory and claim the title. Read more...
THE WEEK'S TOP NEWS STORIES
Capital plan: Council considers 1-cent sales tax to replace impact feesA 1-cent local sales tax under consideration by Georgetown County Council could put as much as an extra $48.3 million in the budget for its capital improvement plan. Read more...
Public safety: Marijuana grower ran a large, but quiet, operation in a quiet neighborhoodThere was only one complaint about David Mallinson in the five years he lived in Litchfield Country Club: a neighbor told the homeowners association his yard was unkempt. One afternoon last week, police arrived at his one-story brick home at 754 Crooked Oak Dr. with another complaint. They seized 86 marijuana plants valued at $275,000. Read more...
Education: Charter school open house puts faces to an ideaWith scissors, decorative paper and glue sticks, the children who will become the first students at Coastal Montessori Charter School mounted photos of themselves. And one by one they filled up a 4- by 8-foot bulletin board set up Saturday in an empty classroom at Waccamaw Middle School, where the school is scheduled to open in six months. Read more...
Elections: County GOP chairman calls for smaller precinctsLast month’s S.C. Republican primary was a perfect example of why the Georgetown County Board of Elections needs to make some changes before November, said Jim Jerow, chairman of the Georgetown County Republican Party. Read more...
Recreation: With construction under way parks turn attention to tournamentsEight Oaks Park in Georgetown is more than halfway finished and should be ready in plenty of time for a Dixie League softball tournament scheduled there in July. That will be the first of a year’s lineup of tournaments the county has already booked for facilities it hasn’t yet completed. Read more...
THE WEEK'S FEATURED STORIES
Pavilion memories: Building on a tradition while building homesBilly Don and Ann Wilson sat in beach chairs beside the dance floor at the annual Pawleys Pavilion Reunion on Saturday as the old familiar music carried them back in time to the night they met — at the pavilion. Read more...
BUSINESS NEWSRestaurants: A meeting place with a side order of politicsAmy Valhos wanted one wall in her restaurant, Applewood House of Pancakes in Litchfield, to be painted green. “Green encourages roots and community,” she said. “I think it helped.” Read more...
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