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    County budget plan includes tax increase for pay raises

    Six 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

    Dancers filled the Pawleys Nature Park as the sun set over the Pavilion Reunion in 2004. The event returns May 7. Coastal Observer photo

    Back to the Pavilion

    The park overlooking Pawleys Creek near the North Causeway will teem with revelers and reminiscences Saturday when the Pawleys Pavilion Reunion returns after a two-year hiatus. Read more...

    Pawleys Island: No parking for largest vehicles

    At 224.4 inches, a Chevy Suburban will just squeeze under a limit adopted by Pawleys Island Town Council this week on the size of vehicles that can park at most beach accesses. But add a trailer hitch to the Suburban and it may have to park somewhere else. The limit is 19 feet, or 228 inches. Read more...

    Murrells Inlet: Marsh Walk businesses get boost from overlay zone

    Murrells Inlet business owners want to see more vendors allowed along the Marsh Walk, and Georgetown County planning staff is working on a way to make it happen. Read more...

    Education: District trims estimate of job losses in budget

    As the Georgetown County School District prepares to send out employee contracts for the coming year, it has lowered its estimate of the impact budget cuts will have on jobs, according to Superintendent Randy Dozier. Read more...


    THE WEEK'S FEATURED STORIES

    Pawleys Creek helps keep things in perspective, Watkins says.
    Tanya Ackerman/Coastal Observer

    The Advocate: Jim Watkins helps beat the system – any system

    When local advocates for children wanted to gather after-school care providers for a seminar last month, they turned to Jim Watkins to be their facilitator. Read more...

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