Area News

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      With states of emergency declared across a wide swath of the southeastern United States, from Florida through the Carolinas and local declarations including Tabor City, Columbus and Horry counties, preparations for the arrival of Tropical Storm Debby were in high gear Tuesday.      That include plans to open four emergency shelters across…

It took hours for the old gym at Williams Township School to fall to rubble Monday, with excavator operator Neal Prince moving more quickly than he expected. Don Prince Backhoe and Dump Truck Service owner Cody Prince, early Monday, said taking down the 1936 structure and later additions, including a weight room at the rear…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Police are asking for help from the public in identifying a masked man who robbed the Tabor City Dollar General at gunpoint Sunday night.      Wearing a black mask and a hoodie, the suspect who appeared to be a black man entered the Dollar General at 9:46 p.m., demanded cash, and after…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      As Columbus County Schools’ Assistant Superintendent Jesse E. “Eddie” Beck, II prepared to become Superintendent next week, the naming of his successor has set off a principal shuffle directly, and indirectly impacting some of the district’s southern schools.      In personnel actions approved by the county Board of Education last week South…

Work on a new fire training center for the Tabor City Fire Department, located next to the town’s Public Works Building in the Tabor Industrial Park, is making rapid progress, Fire Chief Jeff Fowler said. Using used shipping containers the three story main structure and adjacent one-story container will offer a variety of training opportunities…

Ken Lee said he was enjoying his “favorite tea” at the Speedway in Loris when the scene outside, a wreck involving an overturned log truck, caught his eye. His thought, “Well now, there’s a picture,” ended with this image, shared with us. A detour manned by Loris Fire and Loris Police routed traffic through the…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      “Burnett Coleman was small in stature, but was a giant of a man in countless ways,” Barbara Harrelson, a member of the Matthew 25 Board of Directors, said as the facility just west of Tabor City was dedicated in memory of the former banker whose vision resulted in the mission that…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Just 10 months after being named assistant superintendent for the Columbus County Schools, Jesse E. “Eddie” Beck, II take the district’s top post effective July 1.      Beck was named to succeed Dr. Deanne Meadows as superintendent upon her retirement, effective June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Dr. Meadows…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Big debt assigned to three of Columbus County’s five water districts during a recently completed audit will be erased in a new audit expected in the coming weeks, County Manager Eddie Madden told the Board of Commissioners Monday.      More than $11 million in debt that resulted from refinancing for the county’s…