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By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      With plans to move its Sylva based railroad repair, restoration and training business to the Emerson area near Tabor City, Steam Services of America is now poised to be the first tenant of the recently completed Garrell Depot in downtown Tabor City.      Town Council members quickly, and without discussion, agreed Tuesday…

     A contractor’s mishap has prompted a boil water advisory for a portion of Richard Wright Road near Tabor City.      All customers between 4205 and 6334 Richard Wright Road are impacted after contractors bored into a Columbus County Water District 1 water line, a news release from Columbus County Public Utilities said.      “Due to local contractors…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A railroad repair, restoration and training business seems likely to be headed to Tabor City with help from a $9 million grant to the town including in North Carolina’s new $30 billion budget.      It’s a project three years in the making, said state Rep. Brenden Jones, a Tabor City Republican who…

     With a low pressure system off of the Carolina’s coast threatening “some impacts across portions of southeast North Carolina” today and tonight, according to the National Weather Service, “All after-school activities for Friday, Sept. 22, have been cancelled,” Columbus County Schools’ spokesman Kelly Jones said in an e-mail after noon.

By DEUCE NIVEN & JENN CAUSEY      Spending from a state hospitality tax fund totaling some $1.45 million in the past four years, apparently without approval by or knowledge of Loris City Council has triggered a request for a “forensic audit’ of those funds.      Council member Carroll Padgett, an attorney, called for the audit following a…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com UPDATE: 4:45 p.m.      Tropical Storm Idalia’s impacts have varied in Horry County, prompting a varied response from the Horry County Schools that generally has Grand Strand schools on their regular schedule for Friday, Sept. 1, most inland schools returning to an eLearning environment, with no on-campus classes and no school bus…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Idalia, a category 3 hurricane when it slammed into Florida Tuesday night, is expected to be a tropical storm by the time she impacts the greater Tabor-Loris Community late tonight (Wednesday) into Thursday morning, National Weather Service data showed.      Both Columbus County and Horry County school facilities will be closed Thursday,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      States of Emergency have been declared in the Carolinas as leaders in the greater Tabor-Loris Community, Columbus and Horry counties, keep a close eye on Hurricane Idalia and its potential local impacts.      Impacts to public education were already taking shape Tuesday afternoon, as both the Columbus County and Horry County Schools…

Columbus County Commissioner Brent Watts, in whose district the new Tabor City School sits, cut the ceremonial ribbon formally opening the campus in front of a large crowd Thursday morning. Principal Dale Norris, in the far right below, joined his faculty and staff during the ceremony. Seated at the far left below is Dr. Jonathan…