As elementary school students across the Georgetown County School District head back to full-time, face-to-face instruction on March 1 — with their counterparts in middle and high schools joining them on March 8 — there are significantly different perspectives as to whether the district is truly ready for the instructional model change.
At a city council special workshop meeting Feb. 25, public water utilities manager Will Gunter made the case to the council for respectively replacing and repairing the two stormwater pumps in the city before storm season.
Over the course of three years, the city of Georgetown will partner with The Nature Conservancy, a global environmental nonprofit, to establish a one acre living shoreline project near East Bay and Morgan Parks.
As the new victim’s advocate for the Georgetown Police Department, Taneya Chandler wants to use her own experience with loss as well as her passion for community outreach to ensure no victims of a crime in the city ever feel the way she did after her miscarriage.
Georgetown High School varsity basketball player Omar Mitchell helps out his community, church and family in addition to being the captain of the basketball team.
Andrews fell to Marion, 36-33, in the 2A Lower State Championship Friday at Fox Field due in large part to five touchdowns from Marion senior running back Qualiek Crawford.
No. 9 Carvers Bay fell to No. 1 Lake View in the second round of the 1A state football playoffs, 30-22, at Big Bear Stadium Friday night.
Athletic directors, coaches and basketball players across the Grand Strand are preparing for a season like they have never experienced before due to the COVID-19 pandemic and are facing new guidelines for the upcoming indoor events.
A body was found Feb. 16 in the Rose Hill community of Georgetown County, according to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office.
The body found in a marsh off Sirfield Rd. in Georgetown County on Feb. 10 has been identified as Tina Renea Cooper, 44, according to Georgetown County Coroner Chase Ridgeway.
A Georgetown County man was found dead Feb. 10 at his home near Andrews, according to authorities.
An investigation is underway after an unidentified body was found on Feb. 10 in a marsh off Sirfield Rd. in Georgetown County, according to authorities.
A part-time Litchfield Beach resident picks up trash while on daily walks in the Georgetown County neighborhood.
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It’s the “pawliday” season and Saint Frances Animal Center in Georgetown has debuted its first year of holiday cards that feature local children artists.
Nine hundred bears were given our across the country to celebrate National Teddy Bear Day.
Georgetown County School District Superintendent Keith Price announced Tuesday night that at the next school board meeting Feb. 16, the board would discuss ways to shift Georgetown County middle and high schools from Hybrid learning to Hybrid Plus learning, which the county’s elementary and intermediate schools shifted to on Monday.
Though no budget was proposed at this time for the 2021-2022 fiscal year, Georgetown County School Board held a public brainstorming session to discuss the needs of county schools.
December closed sales for single-family homes skyrocketed year-over-year by more than 27 percent, according to figures provided by the Coastal Carolina Association of Realtors.
The Georgetown County School District plans to roll out training next month to help students learn signs of suicide and depression among their peers.
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Myrtle Beach film producer Ralph McCloud has released an inspirational psychological thriller that was shot on the Grand Strand.
Several top Halloween events in Little River, Myrtle Beach, Murrells Inlet and more allow adults and children alike to enjoy the spirit of Halloween.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this article is Mark A. Stevens, a former newspaper editor and publisher who oversaw award-winning newspapers in Tennessee, Louisiana and South Carolina, was execu…
This Saturday, July 4, 2020, the non-profit Salute From the Shore will take to the skies once again with their 11th Annual Salute From the Shore featuring military planes from both Shaw Air Fo…
As the Georgetown County School District started the 2020 school year completely virtually, teachers still made their way into the classroom — giving them more space to teach and to get comfortable ahead of when the district’s hybrid students return to campus in the near future.
Horry County logged 58 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, adding one death in the process, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. The county's total rise…
Both Horry and Georgetown counties have reported multiple coronavirus-related deaths over the past two days, with eight in Horry and two in Georgetown, according to DHEC.
Horry County recorded 56 new COVID-19 cases and one new death on Thursday, moving the overall totals to 7,857 and 119, respectively.
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