An editorial: What’s the City of Loris trying to hide?
Editor’s note: A printer’s error resulted in some letters from one column in this editorial being lost in our print edition. As a result, we are providing the full editorial, here, for all of our readers. We were, quite frankly, stunned two weeks ago when bids for a new garbage collection contract were opened during…
Read MoreWrong turn
An apparent wrong turn while backing out of the dirt portion of Ed Ward Road at Lebanon Church Road left this Williams Township School bus stuck in a ditch, no one on board hurt, school officials on the scene said Monday afternoon. Some students left with parents, others were picked up by another bus to…
Read MoreHarrelson Long: Tabor City
1957 – 2018 Harrelson Long of the Dothan community near Tabor City passed on Tuesday, May 15, in an automobile accident. He was 61. He is survived by one daughter, Karen Long and two sons, Randy Hemingway and Richard Long, all of Tabor City. Funeral services were planned for 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19 at…
Read MoreRonald Levi Hickman: Tabor City
1953 – 2018 Ronald Levi Hickman of Tabor City passed on Tuesday, May 15 at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington. He was 65. He is survived by six sons, McKinley Grate, Bedae Hickman, Ronald L. Hickman Jr., Anthony Green, Rondale Swinton, and Donald Swinton; four sisters; Melissa K. Simmons, Evangelist Brenda Hemingway, Linda…
Read MoreIntersection dedication
Rain forced an intersection dedication ceremony in memory of the late Horry County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Timothy Causey inside Green Sea Baptist Church Saturday. Family and friends of the deputy who died of a respiratory illness after working a 2013 apartment complex fire near Conway joined members of the “blue family” in the church sanctuary,…
Read More‘Domestic’ call leads to meth lab, arrest
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com A family dispute call evolved into the seizure of a methamphetamine lab and arrest of an area man Friday, Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said Friday. Johnathan Dwayne Huggins, 27, of Fair Bluff Road, Tabor City, was arrested after deputies discovered the methamphetamine lab in an outbuilding at a home at…
Read MoreErvin Rezell Jordan, Sr.: Tabor City
1930 – 2018 Ervin Rezell Jordan, Sr. of Tabor City died Wednesday, May 16, in Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCareCenter in Whiteville. He was 87. Born Dec. 16, 1930 in Columbus County, he was the son of the late Vance Jordan and Minnie Todd Jordan and the widower of Joann Kelly Jordan. He is…
Read MoreDarthy Mae Summersett: Whiteville
1926 – 2018 Darthy Mae Summersett of Whiteville went to be with her Lord on Wednesday evening, May 16, in the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Angel House in Whiteville. She was 91. Born Nov. 19, 1926 in Columbus County, she was the daughter of the late William Noah Hardwick and Annie Ronnie Russ Hardwick and…
Read MoreFair Bluff officers showed ‘restraint’ in arrest caught on video, chief says
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Fair Bluff Police Department officers making arrests following a vehicle pursuit “showed great restraint” taking a woman who said she was pregnant into custody, Chief Chris Chafin said Thursday. A series of videos taken after police encountered Audrey Yvonne Tyler, 26, of East Barnes Lane were attached to this reporter’s Facebook…
Read MoreJudy Cannon Shelley: Loris
1953 – 2018 Judy Cannon Shelley of Loris passed away on Monday, May 14, at MUSC in Charleston. She was 64. Mrs. Shelley was born on Oct. 2, 1953 in Conway, daughter of Hasty Cannon and Gertrude Todd. Mrs. Shelley was a homemaker and a member of Crossway Church. Survivors include her husband, Thomas Shelley of…
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