Area Upfront News

Demolition crews began removing the remnants of Dale’s Seafood restaurant in Tabor City Monday, more than a week after fire gutted the structure. Owners Sue Gore Tyson and Rusty Tyson were on hand, Rusty making sure the crews did not damage the sign out front, which he said will be preserved for the new restaurant,…

By DEUCE NIVEN & JENN BOYD tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com tribjenn@tabor-loris.com      Dale’s Seafood, a landmark restaurant anchoring Tabor City’s most visible crossroads, was engulfed in fire early Friday.      “Dale’s Seafood is burning down,” Tabor City Fire Chief Hodges said.      Tommy Gore, an employee at McDonald’s across the highway from the seafood restaurant, provided video of the blaze.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Jimmy Woodard Garrell, a Tabor City business leader known and beloved as JimmyG, the face of the TimeSaver and Cash & Dash convienience store chain, passed away Sunday June 10, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach. He was 82.      “He’s going to be sorely missed in our community,…

Story & Photos By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A just graduated member of South Columbus High School’s Class of 2018 and an off duty Columbus County Sheriff’s Office deputy were involved in a serious auto collision in front of the school this morning.      That graduate was flown by AirReach helicopter from the school to Grand Strand…

     At least two counterfeit $100 bills have been passed in Loris recently, the Loris Chamber of Commerce is reporting.      Anderson Brothers Bank received the bogus bills from local businesses, prompting a warning from the chamber to local businesses.      “Please be aware that they are in circulation again and to be on the lookout,” the chamber…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Three Columbus County men have entered guilty pleas federal robbery and weapons charges that tie them to the killing of a Loris store owner and a separate armed robbery of a U.S. Post Office in Clarendon.      Those pleas do not include murder, a crime two of the three men initially faced.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Rev. James Pervis Jones, known by many simply as J.P. Jones, passed away Monday in Angel Care Hospice House in Whiteville following months of declining health. He was 93.      Born the first of ten children to a farm family near Fuquay-Varina on Oct. 20, 1924, Jones came to Columbus County in…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A break-in interrupted on Seal Street Saturday quickly became a foot pursuit with shots fired at police, Capt. Greg Sibbett of the Tabor City Police Department said.      One man who said he is from North Charleston is in custody, police on the hunt for a second suspect who eluded officers, Sibbett…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Embezzlement and other charges are facing Columbus County’s former Animal Control Director.      Joseph David “Joey” Prince, 51, of Wright Road, Tabor City, surrendered to investigators Wednesday, nine months resigning from the post he held for nearly two years, a news release from Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said.      Prince was charged…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Generous salary increases for select City of Loris employees are included in a proposed budget for the year that begins July 1 that has been in the hands of City Council for two weeks.      A public hearing on the proposed $5.095 million spending plan is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday in…