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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
Budgets: County wants to avoid rollback in pay to 2010 levelsThere are still a lot of uncertainties in Georgetown County’s 2013 budget, currently in the works, but officials want it to include a pay increase for employees. Read more...
Statehouse: Haley pitches 'flatter' state income taxGov. Nikki Haley’s four-step plan to cut tax rates isn’t getting the support she wants from the legislature, so this week she went to voters for help. Read more...
Fire: Family gets help from wider community as it rebuildsVertrella Brown moved aside a singed piece of board and picked her way carefully around blackened debris as she circled the remains of the house she lived in for eight years and shared with a daughter, a son and two grandchildren. Read more...
Highway 17: Engineers prepare three options for Pawleys medianResults from small group meetings about plans to eliminate the paved median on Highway 17 in the Pawleys Island area were mixed. “People who lived in the corridor tend to be more in favor,” said Mark Hoeweler, planning director at Waccamaw Regional Council of Governments. “Those with businesses were more skeptical.” Read more...
History: Giving a voice to African-American cultureAfter five years of brainstorming, information gathering and planning by the national Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, a corridor management plan is nearly ready for public review. 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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