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Special Issue
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News update:
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 STORIES
Pawleys Island Plaza: Developer weighs options after big-box voted downNearly a week after a vote by the Georgetown County Planning Commission on a proposal to include a big-box retail store in a redevelopment plan for Pawley Island Plaza, the developers were trying to figure out exactly what was decided. Read more...
The big box: Hearing audience thins over 5 hoursIn the end, opposition to a big-box store in a planned redevelopment of Pawleys Island Plaza proved to be a war of attrition. Read more...
South Causeway: Jury finds former big-box site in defaultA Georgetown County jury found this week that South Causeway LLC and owner Peggy Wheeler Cribb defaulted on a $5 million loan, clearing the way for First South Bank to foreclose on 18 acres on Highway 17. Read more...
Sales tax: Council move on impact fee seen as ‘leverage’ for referendumGeorgetown County Council Member Bob Anderson objected to a resolution this week that would link eliminating the county’s impact fees to approval of a 1-cent sales tax referendum. Read more...
Education: SAT strategies make it hard to find meaning in scoresThe average score for Waccamaw High seniors on the SAT college entrance exam last year dropped 75 points, according to results released this week. Not only did a record number of the class of 2012 take the exam, they took it a record number of times. 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...
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...
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