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'Everybody loved him': Georgetown County drowning victim remembered for kindness, talent
MURRELLS INLET — A popular Waccamaw High School basketball player was identified July 13 as the swimmer who drowned in the ocean off the Georgetown County coast. Tyrese Haynes, a 17-year-old rising senior, had been swimming near Litchfield By the Sea when he was swept away late on the afternoon of July 12, authorities said. The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office found his body the following afternoon in the surf at Huntington Beach State Park. He lived in Murrells Inlet.
High temperatures prompt heat advisory Wednesday
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Wednesday morning is off to a warm and humid start, heading into the afternoon hours for some Lowcountry residents another heat advisory will be underway. Storm Team 2 forecasts temperatures in the low to mid-90s with partly sunny skies and a risk of scattered showers and thunderstorms. A heat advisory is […]
Fighting For Their Right Not To ‘Look Like Myrtle Beach’
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Residents of the lower Waccamaw Neck in Georgetown County, South Carolina are exploring incorporation as a means of fighting a county comprehensive land use plan which they say will make their community “look like Myrtle Beach.”. A new nonprofit organization – the Pawleys-Litchfield...
Filing Notices - OCRM - Grande Cayman Rental Units, LLC
PUBLIC NOTICE Grande Cayman Rental Units, LLC will apply to the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services, Bureau of Coastal Management, for a permit to excavate material from underneath an existing dock on Main Creek canal at 2135 South Waccamaw Drive, Murrells Inlet, Georgetown County, SC. Comments will be received by SCDHEC OCRM at 1362 McMillan Avenue - Suite 400, Charleston SC, 29405, until July 25, 2024. AD # 2073886.
What to expect at the inaugural Hammock Day Festival in Pawleys Island
PAWLEYS ISLAND — The Hammock Coast wanted a bigger celebration for National Hammock Day. So several Georgetown County organizations and businesses — the Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce, the Original Hammock Shop and Hammock Shops Village — swung into action. They wove together ideas that resulted in the inaugural Hammock Day Festival.
Grand Strand hospital plans ER for inlet
A freestanding emergency room is a step closer to being built at the corner of Bypass 17 and Wesley Road. Grand Strand Regional Medical Center wants to build a one-story, 11,000-square-foot facility on the 2.99-acre property, which is a “planned development” zoning district. “Medical facility” is not one of the uses allowed in that district.
Georgetown County obituaries for June 26-July 2
KOMINSKY, Donna, 61, of Pawleys Island died Friday, June 21. Arrangements by Palmetto Cremation Society of North Charleston. Sign up for weekly roundups of our top stories, news and culture from the Myrtle Beach area. This newsletter is hand-curated by a member of our Myrtle Beach news staff.
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