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Published Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:44 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  A former Front Street businessman and one of the a lay leaders of Temple Beth Elohim in Georgetown died Tuesday at the age of 94.Alwyn Goldstein, owner of Alwyn’s, which was a Front Street fixture from 1938-1989, moved out of ... 
  
  
Published Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:00 PM
  
A choir made up of young people from across rural Georgetown County will come together Friday nigtht to perform during a youth revival in the Pleasant Hill area.Veronica Owens, youth choir director at Freedom Tabernacle Church has combined choirs fro ... 
  
  
Published Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:43 AM
  
Waccamaw Neck resident Barry McCall has filed as a candidate for Georgetown County Council as a Republican.McCall was a former magistrate in Pawleys Island.McCall was previously undecided on whether he would file as a Democrat or a Republican.Filing ... 
  
  
Published Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:18 AM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  The woman who was known by longtime Georgetown residents as the Town Crier has died.Mamie Delzell died Tuesday morning at the age of 96, according to Coroner Kenny Johnson.She died of “age related illnesses” while in the care ... 
  
  
Published Monday, March 15, 2010 11:33 PM
  
Georgetown City Council will decide Thursday whether to uphold a decision  to suspend the business license of a club which was the site of a recent shooting. On Monday, the city suspended the license of Casablanca's II nightclub and bar on ... 
  
  
Published Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:32 PM
  
At least seven organizations asked for money  Tuesday to make the county’s highways and beaches safer and more attractive — and to promote the new brand “Hammock Coast’’ for Georgetown County. During the meeting, $250,000 was requested by the Co ... 
  
  
Published Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:30 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  Friends of Laura Ferrante, the woman who was killed in her home last month, allegedly by a sword, have started a fund to help the family.Anyone who would like to contribute to the Laura Ferrante Memorial Fund can do so at any ... 
  
  
Published Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:22 PM
  
MURRELLS INLET, S.C. —  The congregation of Lowcountry Community Church held a celebration of the life of their pastor, Robbie Martin, Sunday evening and it was anything but a normal funeral service.Martin, 48, died March 10 after suffering a he ... 
  
  
Published Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:06 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  Life has thrown you a curve if you hoped to see Georgetown County marketed as the “Chicora Coast.” Instead, Georgetown County’s brand name is now the “Hammock Coast.”The county’s Tourism Management Commission supported the Ha ... 
  
  
Published Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:01 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  Delcie Tisdale says she has eye cancer that causes partial blindness, chronic bronchitis and has had a stroke.The 46-year-old Georgetown resident is now a plaintiff in an ongoing lawsuit against International Paper Co., alleg ... 
  
  
Published Monday, March 15, 2010 11:39 PM
  
A vehicle that was stopped on Highway 701 is being blamed for an accident involving an ambulance that occurred Monday morning.Four people from the ambulance — a child, his mother and two crew members — were transported to the hospital to be tre ... 
  
  
Published Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:47 PM
  
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Published Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:23 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  Students at a local school have some extra motivation for this year’s PASS test, which begins this week.Last year, sixth graders in Diptesh Kundu’s science class wrote letters to President Obama detailing what they had learne ... 
  
  
Published Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:35 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  So far, more than 200 local people claiming illnesses, death and property damages have asked to be part of a pollution lawsuit filed against the paper company. The federal case, filed in Charleston, now includes another filin ... 
  
  
Published Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:18 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  Walker Patterson Inman Jr. — “Skipper” to many locals who knew him — came home to be buried on Saturday.Born in Florence in 1952, Inman died in a hotel in Colorado on Feb. 24, 2010. He was just two weeks shy of his 58th birth ... 
  
  
Published Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:11 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  Imagine getting a phone call and when you answer a frantic voice says he is your grandson and has just been arrested.He says he needs money immediately to make bail so he can be released.People — mainly senior citizens — have ... 
  
  
Published Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:36 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  The City of Georgetown now has until April 1 to prove it is no longer allowing pollution to enter the Sampit River, or fines will be levied.However, city officials have not ruled out taking the state to court in an effort to ... 
  
  
Published Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:01 PM
  
A feature  about people  whose work  touches our lives Kevin Barry Volunteer on fundraising committee for Outreach Farm Bio: Native of Cleveland, Ohio Retired owner of a landscape design, installation company Moved here from Washington ... 
  
  
Published Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:43 PM
  
More than 320 luncheon guests supported the Women's Club of Precious Blood Church Fashion Show fundraiser Saturday at Pawleys Plantation. ... 
  
  
Published Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:25 PM
  
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Published Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:30 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  A presentation on the life of a prominent Georgetown County citizen will be given this week to the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.Dr. Roy Talbert, a professor and lecturer at Coastal Carolina Univer ... 
  
  
Published Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:19 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  A preliminary autopsy report showed that a pygmy sperm stranded on North Litchfield Beach died of heart and liver disease.The disease, which is also found in humans, is now being seen in about 60 percent of the pygmy sperm wh ... 
  
  
Published Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:15 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  There have been a lot of people announce they are running for political office both locally and statewide this year.Starting Tuesday, they will get to make their candidacies official as the filing period begins for the 2010 m ... 
  
  
Published Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:52 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  Local gas prices have gone up at least seven cents in the past week and are expected to climb even higher for the next several months. Officials with AAA Carolinas said that Georgetown has among the highest prices in the stat ... 
  
  
Published Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:18 PM
  
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —  Two churches on opposite ends of Georgetown County mourned the loss of their pastors Thursday.Rev. Robbie Martin, 49, pastor of Lowcountry Community Church — better known as LC3 — in Murrells Inlet passed away Wednesday night ... 
  
  

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