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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...
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...
THE WEEK'S TOP NEWS STORIES
Environment: Feds assess impact of Pawleys groin on sea turtlesConstruction of a 205-foot-long rock-and-concrete groin at the south end of Pawleys Island is likely to have an adverse effect on sea turtle nesting, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But any impact from the project “is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of the loggerhead sea turtle,” the agency’s field supervisor in Charleston wrote. Read more...
Schools: As charter school plans, district tries to lift 1990s court orderWhile the Georgetown County School District waits for the U.S. Justice Department to decide what it will do if the district asks the federal courts to lift a 1997 desegregation order, it has commissioned a $34,000 study of school attendance zones to see if they are both fair and economical. Read more...
Pawleys Island: Mayor gets surprise vote of confidenceAlthough Pawleys Island voters won’t go to the polls this year, Mayor Bill Otis got a vote of confidence this week when he was named Citizen of the Year by the Pawleys Island Civic Association. With 446 families represented, the association’s membership is significantly larger than the town’s voter rolls. Read more...
Legislature: Delegation gets applications for board appointmentsWith four days left to apply for three open seats on state and regional boards and commissions, Georgetown County’s legislative delegation has six applications and five candidates to consider. 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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