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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
School district considers pay raises
A possible increase in state education funding has the Georgetown County School District looking at a pay raise for employees. If approved by the board, it will be the first in two years.
Read more... Litchfield Beaches: New numbers said to add up to more safety at walkwaysVisitors to Litchfield beaches this week might have notice something different as they approached their favorite access point. All the walkways leading to the beach got new numbers at the beginning of the week. Walkways 1-15 in North Litchfield are now labeled 45-59, and 1-7 in Litchfield have become 60-66. Read more...
Budgets: County revenue forecast brightens, curbing plans to spend reservesThe $62.6 million budget Georgetown County Council gave second reading to this week reflects an improvement to the general fund balance of $700,000 over what county staff projected this time last year — even with a 3 percent salary supplement for employees. Read more...
Redistricting: Council districts slim down as Waccamaw voter rolls growWaccamaw Neck residents will make up the majority of the constituency in Georgetown County Council District 2 under plans for redistricting that were presented this week. The same change will take place in the corresponding school board seat, as school district lines mirror those for council districts. Read more...
Pawleys Island: Creek Sweep aspires to Spring TideFor the second Pawleys Creek Sweep, the tide was high, letting volunteers get out of the pluff mud where they had grappled with debris last fall and into the higher reaches of the marsh that separates Pawleys Island from the rest of Waccamaw Neck. It wasn’t a spring tide, the astronomical high, nor was it a Spring Tide, the all-out community effort that Murrells Inlet has held for 20 years. But organizers are optimistic that will change. 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...
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