Area News
A $450K fix for county radio system
By DEUCE NIVEN Problems with Columbus County’s two-year-old emergency radio system will cost more than $450,000 to correct, Columbus County Commissioners were told Monday. Commissioners invested $1.2 million in the Kenwood NexEdge system purchased from Fleet Connect, a Sanford based Kenwood dealer, in a project completed in 2012. Some of the county’s…
Read MoreCelebrating Jennie Harrelson at 102
Story & Photo By JOYCE GRAHAM Close to 50 family and friends attended the recent 102nd birthday celebration for Jennie Suggs Harrelson. Songs, prayers, birthday cake, flowers and gifts were highlights of the celebration. Harrelson’s son, Bobby Harrelson and his wife Freida, and her daughter in law, Betty Harrelson helped make the day…
Read MoreDirt Daubers pay tribute to Dale’s Oak
Story & Photo By DEUCE NIVEN Standing majestically outside of Tabor City’s biggest restaurant, an old oak tree that pre-dates this city’s founding in 1905 was at the center of an Arbor Day presentation on Monday. Dale’s Seafood’s commitment to preserving the big tree was recognized by the Dirt Daubers Garden Club ahead…
Read MoreBurn ban in Horry, caution urged in Columbus
A burning ban is in place in Horry County, and while one had not been declared in Columbus County, fire officials are urging caution. Horry County’s outdoor burning ban in in effect through 8 a.m. Saturday, and is based on a Special Weather Statement noting “Increased fire danger” four northeast South Carolina. …
Read MoreTall Pines smoke hard to handle
A security guard at Tall Pines Apartments needed a little help after a stove-top fire there Tuesday afternoon. For details see the March 12 Tabor-Loris Tribune print and on-line editions. (Joyce Graham photo)
Read MoreTrailer ignites twice on Bell Street
By DEUCE NIVEN Firefighters were summoned to a mobile home just off of Bell Street twice Sunday night, just before 8 p.m. and just before midnight, and both times found the old single-wide filled with flames, Assistant Chief Jeff Fowler of the Tabor City Fire Department said. An investigation into the cause of…
Read MoreTC couple charged in $2.7M crop fraud scheme
By DEUCE NIVEN A couple from Tabor City has been charged in a 19-count federal indictment in a long-running crop insurance fraud and money laundering scheme that allegedly netted them $2.7 million since 2007. Milton Russ Barnhill, 46, and Sharon Turbeville Barnhill, 43, were arrested Wednesday on the indictment, which was sealed after…
Read MoreBook night royalty
Miss North Carolina Johna Edmonds was a special guest at Curriculum Night for Pre-K through fifth grade students at Williams Township School Tuesday. June Peritte was among the students getting self-authored books signed by Edmonds, with the Cat in the Hat making a Dr. Seuss themed cameo. (Deuce Niven photo)
Read MoreColumbus waives 5 of 8 school days lost to winter weather
By DEUCE NIVEN Five of the eight days Columbus County Schools’ students have lost to winter storms in January and February will be waived, with one of the three make-up days tacked on to the end of the school year, Supt. Alan Faulk said Tuesday. Previously scheduled teacher work days on Feb. 21…
Read MoreTC man shoots himself in the hand
By DEUCE NIVEN A gunshot wound to the left hand had Tabor City Police Department officers searching for the shooter in on Reese and Queen streets and on to Carolina Road Monday afternoon, before the victim admitted to accidentally shooting himself in the hand, Chief Donald Dowless said. William Antwan Gaskins, 21, was…
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