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NEWS UPDATESNEWS UPDATESCounty budget plan includes tax increase for pay raisesSix of seven Georgetown County Council members favor property tax increases that would give county employees an increase of 2 percent in addition to a 3 percent pay hike that can be made without raising taxes. Read more...
THE WEEK'S TOP NEWS STORIES
Politics: GOP women find their way into ‘liberal’ bastionRepublicans were in the majority at a meeting of the League of Women Voters on Monday, Judy Clarke announced that night at a meeting of the Waccamaw Neck Republican Club. “There were seven of us and five of them,” she said to a round of applause. Read more...
Highway 17: Plan to raze Pawleys median raises concernsWaccamaw Neck residents are still debating the potential effects of a plan to close the paved median on Highway 17 in Pawleys Island and whether that’s the best use of $2.5 million in highway funds. Read more...
Education: Principals ask for more teachers next yearPrincipals at the Waccamaw Neck schools want to add 13 full- and part-time positions next year to expand course offerings and reduce student-teacher ratios. The requests to the school board mark a significant change from a year ago, when a chorus of principals from across the district asked only to keep their existing staff. Read more...
Campaign 2012: Incumbents face challengers as filing books openThere are several new faces on the Georgetown County political scene, but only one real surprise as filing gets under way for candidates who want to appear on the primary election ballot in June. Read more...
Television: Viewers upset by rules that put them in the Charleston marketTraffic is backed up in Charleston and it’s raining in Mount Pleasant. For the most part, Pawleys Island area residents don’t care, but those are the kinds of headlines they’re getting when they tune into the news on their ABC affiliated TV station. Read more...
THE WEEK'S FEATURED STORIES
Cycling: From Beowulf to Bordeaux for a worthy causeIt seems like a perfect fit for someone completing a doctorate in Anglo-Saxon literature. A chance to help resurrect a “lost classic.” Read more...
BUSINESS NEWSDezignworkz: Decorators share their secretsMindy McVay and Tracy Hanna Foye have spent their careers making other people’s houses beautiful. Now they want to teach people their secrets. Read more...
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