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Changes at the top at TCEmS

By DEUCE NIVEN     Significant changes to the leadership at Tabor City Emergency Services (TCEmS) have taken place in the past week, with a new chief and a new board chairman now in place.     Ronnie Watts, Chief of the emergency medical department since 2008, resigned Thursday, new board chairman Mike Worley said. Chairman Tommy…

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Iowa bound

    Andrew Register, a South Columbus football center, will take those skills to Iowa this fall.     Register signed Monday to attend the University of Dubuque, and to play for the Spartan football team there. He is due to graduate from South Columbus High on June 14.     Andrew was flanked by parents Rodney and…

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Waldo Whittington: Green Sea

    Waldo Whittington of Green Sea died Sunday, June 1 in his home. He was 74.     He was the son of the late Donnie Walton and Armatha Fowler Whittington.       In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sons, Michael and David Earl Whittington.     He is survived by…

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Thurman Prince: Tabor City

    Thurman Prince of the Green Acres community near Tabor City, died Thursday, May 29 at Columbus Regional Healthcare System, Whiteville. He was 84.     He was the son of the late Mike and Pinky Prince.     Mr. Prince is survived by Ida Pearl James, Priscilla P. Long, Melissa Vereen, Dornell Prince, Mike Prince, Nickey…

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Ella Mae Strickland Harrelson: Loris

    Ella Mae Strickland Harrelson of Loris passed away Monday, May 26 at Roper Hospital in Charleston following an illness. She was 86.     Mrs. Harrelson was born Dec. 31, 1927 in Tabor City, a daughter of Mr. Alva Strickland and Mrs. Polly Elizabeth Foley Strickland. Mrs. Harrelson was a loving homemaker and worked for…

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Prayerful conversation

    Miona Fonvielle, a member of the Tabor City Council, leans in during discussion at a prayer breakfast at Tabor City Middle School Thursday morning. Community leaders were invited to the casual event, and were lifted up in student-led prayers. For more on this story see the June 4 Tabor-Loris Tribune in print and online.…

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Kelvin Gordon Suggs: Murrells Inlet

    Kelvin Gordon Suggs of Murrells Inlet passed away Tuesday, May 27, at Waccamaw Community Hospital. He was 59.     He was born Feb. 10, 1955, in Conway, a son of Genese Tyler Suggs and the late Thomas Gordon Suggs. In addition to his father, he was predeceased by one grandchild, Cody Leroy Suggs.…

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Leonard’s a finalist for another SC job

By DEUCE NIVEN     Al Leonard’s days as Tabor City’s Town Manager may be growing short, with the long serving public servant now a finalist for two administrative positions in South Carolina.     Already one of three finalists for the city administrator’s post in Loris, Leonard is one of two men being considered to become…

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Jeremy Ryan Coleman: Tabor City

    Jeremy Ryan Coleman of Tabor City died Wednesday, May 28, in his home. He was 28.     Born June 26, 1985 in Columbus County, he was the son of John Reno and Polly Strickland Coleman. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, John Coleman Jr. and maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Turner Strickland.   …

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Shelton Dothan Shelley: Green Sea

    Shelton Dothan Shelley of Green Sea passed away Sunday, May 25, at McLeod Loris hospital following an illness. He was 84.     Mr. Shelley was born May 7, 1930 in Green Sea, a son of Mr. James Porter Shelley and Mrs. Annie Vance Clemmons Shelley. He retired from Myrtle Beach High School Career Center…

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