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    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

    Samantha Allen, 3, sizes up Santa Claus during a visit to the Hammock Shops. . Tanya Ackerman/Coastal Observer

    Litchfield Plantation: E-mails tell of struggle to sell troubled property

    As the owners of Litchfield Plantation desperately looked for a buyer for their undeveloped property in the fall of 2010, they were running out of money. So they turned to one of their few sources of funds: the homeowners association. Read more...

    Environment: Groups rally support for tree protection

    As the Georgetown County Planning Commission gets ready to take another look at tree protection, two local groups that support conservation are rallying their troops. Read more...

    Seafood: Sex and the sinlge oyster

    A test group of oysters growing on Bill Chandler’s lease in Murrells Inlet — under the watchful eye of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources — seems to be growing about twice as fast as the oysters usually raised there. Read more...

    Nonprofits: Help for kids sight unseen

    The volunteers who give their time and money to St. Christopher’s Children never know the kids who are helped by their efforts. Read more...

    Education: Grant from college president helps parents pay for preschool

    There was a simple reason for Dr. Irvin D. Reid’s decision as a child to leave his parents’ home in Pawleys Island to live with his grandparents in Jamestown over in Berkeley County. 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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