Area News

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Improvements to Columbus County’s EMS system will be the focus of a study provided by the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners in the coming year.      County Manager Eddie Madden told Columbus commissioners of the planned study Monday evening, briefly outlining the effort.      Team members from the state association will provide…

Safety improvements at one of Horry County’s more dangerous crossroads, SC 410 at SC 9, were in the later stages on Friday, with traffic on the two-lane SC 410 no longer able to go straight across the divided four-lane highway. Palmetto Paving crews changed the pavement and painting creating a “Michigan Turn” that requires all…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      What appears to be a scam or phishing attempt using the name of a trusted news source has hit home, and to be clear, we are NOT calling you.      At least one local merchant received a phone call Tuesday morning, the voice on the other end of the line with a…

     Pageant time for the North Carolina Yam Festival at Tabor City is just weeks away, with a contestant informational meeting scheduled Wednesday evening.      Nine crowns will be given during a pair of pageants on Saturday, Oct. 16, at South Columbus High School. Contestants from babies to 23 years old are invited. With a drop-in format,…

Despite a very rough ride that appeared to include rolling at least once, the lone woman occupant of this Ford Explorer did not appear to have life threatening injuries, Loris Fire Department members on the scene of the Friday morning mishap said. Fire Chief Jerry Hardee said the SUV was apparently northbound when it drifted…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Pandemic considerations have delayed a formal decision on if, and how to hold the North Carolina Yam Festival at Tabor City.      In large the festival will return for 2021, festival directors decided this week, a news release from the festival said Thursday.     (Full disclosure, this writer is a member of…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A Tabor City man died after being shot in the area of Bennett Loop near Loris early Wednesday afternoon.      Latarius Evans, 35, died of a gunshot wound or wounds, Horry County Deputy Coroner Michelle McSpadden said Thursday.      Horry County police were dispatched to a home on Bennett Loop just before 1…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Convicted of voluntary manslaughter in a 2018 Loris area slaying this week, Quotase Jerome Jenrette of Clarendon has been handed a 25 year prison sentence.      Jenrette, 24, was convicted in the January, 2018 killing of Kendall Jamar Ray, 20, outside of his home on Bart’s Road near Loris, Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor…

Several low lying Tabor City streets were closed during an early- to mid-afternoon downpour, part of a front moving through the region on Tuesday. A motorist headed west in the 100 block of East 5th Street was turned around by the Tabor City Fire Department before reaching water too deep for it. East 4th, at…

     A leaking water line in Lake Waccamaw has forced a “System Pressure Advisory” from the town and prompted an early dismissal at East Columbus High School.      Students will be dismissed at noon from the school. See the system advisory here.