The lawyer for the former executive director of the Waccamaw Economic Opportunity Council said Wednesday that EOC board member David Eagleton did not give a complete account of her client’s hearing before the agency’s grievance committee at the last board meeting. Eagleton, the board’s first vice chairman and chairman of the grievance committee, told board members that neither an ex-employee nor her representative showed up at a scheduled meeting and that the committee recommended her firing be upheld. Eagleton did not name the employee, but Henrietta Golding, attorney for former agency executive director Beth Fryar, said it could be her.
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When Cliff Cox first started coming to the Jack Monroe Beach Ride in 2004, it was all about one thing: being able to ride his horse on the beach. But then Cox began to “get what it was all about,” he said. Namely, raising money for the American Heart Association.
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W hile we were paying attention to other things, a woman in Yemen took a bomb hidden inside a printer cartridge to a UPS office to be shipped to an address in Chicago. Another homemade bomb buried inside a Hewlett Packard desktop printer was shipped through FedEx. Both bombs made their way in transit through multiple countries before U.S. and other intelligence officials were tipped off about their presence before they could do any harm
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A master plan is in development for Coastal Carolina University to reshape its campus with a pedestrian-friendly layout to accommodate future growth. The preliminary Campus Master Plan, which is being developed by Sasaki Associates Inc., was presented to the university’s board of trustees at its quarterly meeting in October.
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Sitting by the window of his Fraser Street shop, Dan Memminger can watch workers returning to the ArcelorMittal steel mill. He isn’t counting on the returning workers to come get their hair cut in his barber shop, saying that a haircut is “a personal thing” and “a lot of people go where they’ve always gone to get their hair cut.” But he hopes that the extra money circulating in the area’s economy will find its way to his customers and, eventually, his pockets.
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Columbia will host the 2011 Miss South Carolina pageant, thanks in part to its central location, a 25 percent discount on the Township Auditorium and $25,000 in hospitality-tax money from the city of Columbia. The pageant, scheduled for July 2, is expected to account for 1,500 nights in local hotels and bring in $630,000 to the local economy, said Jason Outman, director of sales for the Columbia Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau. While the economic impact is relatively small, Mayor Steve Benjamin called the pageant a “plum” and “a feather in the cap of any community that hosts it.”
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Early voters statewide may be on track to set a record, but along the Grand Strand, the numbers are about normal, elections officials said. Midday Monday, Donna Mahn, the Georgetown County elections supervisor, said her office had received about 3,000 requests for absentee ballots to be mailed-in or used in her office. “In 2008, we had more than 5,400,” she said. For a midterm election, 3,000 absentee votes is a typical number, she said.
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