Area News

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Improvements to Tabor City’s aging sewage system will get a $2 million boost soon with a federal Community Development Block Grant award announced Wednesday by state Rep. Brenden Jones.      Those funds will address the town’s top priority for its aging sewer lines, replacing leaking pipe in the Fair Bluff Road area…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A recent graduate from South Columbus High School was killed in what Horry County Police are calling a “traffic-related shooting incident” east of Loris early Saturday.      Rashawn D. Smith, 18, of Tabor City, was being mourned on multiple social media pages Saturday, by family and friends, as police continued their investigation.…

     Preparation Saturday’s Roseland Volunteer Fire Department barbecue plate fundraiser was well underway at the fire station Friday.      Sales for the annual event begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, and will continue until the food is gone. Cost is $8 per plate, eat in or take out. Each plate will include barbecue, slaw, sweet potato fries, and…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Swamp flooding in the Green Sea area early Friday, on the heels of a night of heavy rain that also brought high winds to the area, appeared to be the most serious of the local impacts from a weather system that brought far worse destruction, and loss of life in other…

By JENN CAUSEY tribjenn@tabor-loris.com      Thousands of miles removed from a desperate search for Gannon Stauch, his grandmother Loronda Bullard joined more than 100 people in a prayer vigil in downtown Loris Wednesday evening.      Bullard’s daughter, Landon Hiott, has been in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area for more than a week now, arriving as soon as…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com UPDATE      Columbus County government offices are closing at 4 p.m. today, and all afterschool activities for the Columbus County Schools have been ordered to end no later than 6 p.m., the latest reactions to forecasts of potential serious weather later today.      Southeastern Community College is closing at 5 p.m., with…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Consolidation in the Columbus County School District, controversial in several areas, none so more than in southeastern Columbus County where Guideway Elementary School is slated to close, was approved in a unanimous vote of the Columbus County Board of Education Monday.      Eleven residents of the area spoke during the public comment…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Passionate pleas to preserve Guideway Elementary School, challenges to a school consolidation proposal before the Columbus County Board of Education, and some alternative ideas were heard by some 500 people attending the second of three public hearings on the topic Tuesday, this one at South Columbus High School.      About 22…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      On the heels of back-to-back state varsity football championships, Green Sea Floyds Head Coach Donnie Kiefer is moving on, to the south.      Kiefer has been named head coach of the West Ashley Wildcats in Charleston, the team’s official Twitter account said Friday.      Kiefer took the Trojan football squad from mediocracy, at…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Three employees of the Families Values Too thrift store in Tabor City were taken to the hospital after its mini-van backed into the Main Street business Friday morning, Families First Executive Director Vickie Pait said.      One employee was behind the wheel of the mini-van, backing to the curb, when the vehicle…