Volunteers from local businesses, organizations and individuals will spend a day helping build a new playground in Carolina Forest during the United Way of Horry County’s 11th annual Day of Caring. The largest one-day local volunteer effort for United Way of Horry County will be held Sept. 24, according to United Way officials. The annual event brings hundreds of volunteers together who spend a day working on a project such as painting, landscaping, building and cleaning.
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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial elements of Arizona’s new immigration law, thrilling the law’s opponents, dismaying its advocates and setting the stage for more legal battles in the future. “We would have liked to have seen it all upheld, but a temporary injunction is not the end of it,” said Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the legislation in April. “I look at this as a little bump in the road.”
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Holden Beach commissioners said they were looking for originality, creativity and the like in judging the island’s first sand-sculpting contest Wednesday, and in the end, the two works they chose as winners also were the most representative of the town. Scott Donaldson of Carmichael, Pa., got one of the two bags of gifts donated by Beach Mart for his church-on-a-hill sculpture, reminiscent of Holden Beach Chapel, a center of island life. Scott Bogle of Salisbury, N.C., won the other prize for a sculpture of a woman sunning facedown on the sand. The contest drew 14 sculptures, some of which weren’t begun until a half-hour before the judging
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South Carolina has the eighth cleanest beach water in the nation, but Horry County beach water is the dirtiest in the state, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s 20th annual “Testing the Water” report issued Wednesday. But Myrtle Beach City Manager Tom Leath called the report “bull.” “It’s so incomplete and misleading, it’s laughable,” he said. “They’ve been whacking on us for years.
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A Myrtle Beach home was heavily damaged by water and smoke after a fire Wednesday afternoon, according to Myrtle Beach fire officials. The fire was reported around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday at 401 Poinsett Road when the home’s occupants heard an explosion, evacuated , and called 911, said Dan Cimini, assistant chief for the Myrtle Beach Fire Department.
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The Horry County Solid Waste Authority is working on a pilot program for door-to-door recycling pickup, among various other changes its representatives shared with county officials Wednesday. Horry County Council met with the Solid Waste Authority board to discuss updates on the authority’s ongoing projects, goals and the progress in the legal and legislative challenges to the county’s trash flow laws. Authority staff outlined the pilot plans to begin the recycling program in a small section of the county and analyze the number of people who takeadvantage of it and the kinds of waste and how much residents recycle. After that, waste authority executive director Danny Knight said the staff will look at how much and if they would need to charge per household to break even on the program before expanding it to a wider section of the county.
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Sweepstakes parlors will be banned in North Carolina in December, thanks to a law signed last week; but new fronts are opening in the battle to keep people playing electronic poker and slots. Even before the state House and Senate finished work on a bill to ban the games, the industry was threatening a wave of lawsuits and technical changes that they said would keep them legal.
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