Residents coping with job losses, home foreclosures and dwindling returns on investments in the grinding nationwide economic downturn have increasingly turned to pawn shops for cash, according to spot checks of Grand Strand firms. Cash-strapped customers have been selling or pawning once-prized luxury items such as expensive Rolex watches, heirloom sterling silver pieces and other symbols of formerly upscale lifestyles to stay afloat until they find new jobs or resolve the financial crunches that have beset them, pawn shop managers said. High on the list of assets they have turned to are damaged jewelry or rings, and necklaces and bracelets they no longer wear or want.
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C oming soon to a bookstore near you: multi-million dollar intrigue, shadowy Russians and devious fraud that are all part of… Freestyle Music Park? The fictional “Grand Strand,” released Oct
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Before answering questions about his future, Myrtle Beach High star quarterback Everett Golson answered the big question about the present. After missing the past eight weeks because of, Golson threw six touchdown passes and ran for another to lead the Seahawks to a 70-0 victory over Brookland-Cayce in the first round of the Class AAA playoffs on Friday at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium, proving he is more than ready to lead his team into the postseason. “It’s indescribable,” Golson said of getting back on the field after completing 10 of his 13 passes for 281 yards before calling it a night at halftime. “You can never look over how much your team really matters to you.
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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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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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Bob Fogner and six or seven or his military veteran buddies have worked diligently for the past five years to build a day of veteran appreciation and recognition in Conway that’s got enough oomph to attract those looking for more than flag-raising and saluting. The Veterans Celebration scheduled for Saturday will have that, but it will also offer free breakfast and lunch, live music, remembrance ceremonies, military equipment displays and booths for organizations that offer services to veterans. The city used to honor veterans with a parade, Fogner said, adding “We get more bang for buck if we do a celebration instead of a parade.”
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The past week was quiet on the Twelve Mile River, and that concerned Paul West, who lives in this isolated former textile mill village at the epicenter of a court-ordered removal of two century-old dams and PCB-contaminated sediment behind them. “Progress makes noise,” said West, who supports the cleanup but fears shortcuts could jeopardize the outcome and questioned the unusual quiet at the worksite. “It’s not unlike living next to the Greenville airport when they were building it or I-85 at rush hour,” West said of the sound of trucks and of huge pumps bringing sand up from the river to a landfill that will be a permanent PCB repository across the river.
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