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    NEWS UPDATES

    NEWS UPDATES

    Sports: Crescent sweeps WHS in softball series

    Crescent'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

    Poll worker Patricia Byrd chats with Walter Grady at Pawleys Island 5 during this week’s primary. Voters will return June 26 for runoffs in the 7th Congressional District.
    Tanya Ackerman/Coastal Observer

    Election 2012: Candidates gather signatures instead of votes

    Candidates cut from the ballot by a state Supreme Court ruling used the party primary elections this week to jump-start petition campaigns to get on the November ballot. Read more...

    House District 108: Democrat’s flawed filing leaves Republican last man standing

    It looks like the race for state House District 108 will be an uncontested one this year. Read more...

    U.S. 7th Disrtict: Runoff, or maybe two, will decide nomination

    Republicans will head to the polls June 26 for a runoff in the 7th Congressional District primary, but Democratic Party officials and candidates were still debating Wednesday whether they will have a runoff. Read more...

    Campaigns: First to file, Litchfield candidate finishes ninth

    Jim Mader wasn’t nervous when he sat down with a small group of friends and family at Quigley’s Pint and Plate to await the results of the Republican primary on Tuesday. Read more...

    Pawleys Island: July 4th parade’s grand marshal will be oldest ever

    The best-kept secret on Pawleys Island has traditionally been the identity of the grand marshal for the town’s Fourth of July parade. Not this year. Read more...


    THE WEEK'S FEATURED STORIES

    The crowd fills the dance floor at the Pawleys Island Nature Park for the reunion.
    Tanya Ackerman/Coastal Observer

    Pavilion memories: Building on a tradition while building homes

    Billy 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 NEWS

    Restaurants: A meeting place with a side order of politics

    Amy 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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