The massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has heightened voter interest in the positions of S.C. gubernatorial candidates when it comes to oil and gas exploration off the Carolinas coast. Two of three Democrats vying to win their party’s primary on June 8 oppose drilling for oil off South Carolina’s coast, but they advocate offshore exploration of natural gas. The third supports drilling for both gas and oil
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Local MYRTLE BEACH Red Cross holds its annual meeting
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There were fewer motorcycles on Ocean Boulevard in the Myrtle Beach city limits this year for the Atlantic Beach Bikefest, but hundreds of die-hards still came to people-watch at their traditional hangouts. At the height of the Bikefest celebration in years past, Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach was a one-way circuit with tricked out cars, sport bikes and outrageous outfits, making a rotating parade for people watching and showing off. This year, traffic is moving in both directions instead of being blocked off at NinthAvenue North, and police officers are out in force to enforce the city’s now almost two-year-old regulations for motorcyclists, including a helmet requirement and noise policy aimed at reducing rally activity. Police received more than 700 calls between 5 p.m
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Downtown Charleston was bustling Sunday afternoon as tourists, locals and those attending the first weekend of this year’s Spoleto Festival gave evidence of a rebounding economy. The mood was upbeat at Gaillard Auditorium, where the Sunday afternoon performance of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all-male classical troupe dressed as ballerinas, nearly sold out.
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If the growing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t contained soon – and the latest efforts suggest it won’t be – then the damage to the fragile region will intensify over the coming summer months as changing currents and the potential for hurricanes complicate the containment and cleanup efforts. “It’s all lose, lose, lose here,” said Rick Steiner, a retired marine scientist who’s familiar with both the current Gulf oil spill and the Exxon Valdez disaster two decades ago. “The failure of the top kill really magnified this disaster exponentially,” he said. “I think there’s a realistic probability that this enormous amount of oil will keep coming out for a couple months.
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During a Memorial Day observance 10 years ago, George Drury remembers a gathering of fellow D-Day survivors that drew 60 veterans of the Normandy invasion. But within a few years, the group had mostly dispersed. At their next gathering, only four came out. They sat alone in the back of a local pizza parlor.
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Dana Beach was 28 when he quit his job as a New York investment banker, got married and went to Africa on his honeymoon. What he found changed his life. Beach and his wife were hiking through a Rwandan jungle one day, when their guide stopped, told them to be quiet and pointed through the rainforest.
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