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When local advocates for children wanted to gather after-school care providers for a seminar last month, they turned to Jim Watkins to be their facilitator.

Georgetown County officials will soon know how much damage sinkholes caused to two county buildings in the City of Georgetown.

It's been a year since he died and his family is no closer to learning who did it, or why.

GEORGETOWN, SC A man told deputies he stopped a truck driving through Georgetown last week after he saw a dog being dragged behind it.

It will cost $649,000 to upgrade security at the entrances to Georgetown County's 19 public schools.

If in the next 18 months someone you know asks if you're happy with a corrupt state government you will know that Vincent Sheheen's campaign for governor is catching on.

A dozen S.C. lawmakers are heading to Raleigh on Tuesday to play some of their North Carolina counterparts in a basketball game.

Noah Veon, a freshman at Waccamaw High School, has been shag dancing since he was 4 years old.

Pizza Hut is coming back to Georgetown later this year with a new look. The Church Street restaurant was gutted by fire in December but plans have now been submitted to the Georgetown Building and Planning Department for approval, according to planner Rick Martin.

In "Spring Wildflowers," walk through maritime, upland forest and wetland habitats to see spring in bloom.

Rounette Johnson/For The Times Lori Lowell presented Dr. Gerald Harmon with a Lifetime Achievement Award during the 96th annual meeting of the Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce.

The band Parmalee, riding on its latest single, "Carolina," will play May 26 at he Boathouse Waterway Bar & Grill in a free concert.

An Andrews man told Pawleys Island police he was robbed and beaten with a baseball bat in the south end parking lot Friday night.

Billy Don and Ann Wilson sat in beach chairs beside the dance floor at the annual Pawleys Pavilion Reunion on Saturday as the old familiar music carried them back in time to the night they met - at the pavilion.

Brookgreen Gardens is issuing an interview call for former residents, descendants and workers of Brookgreen, Laurel Hill, Springfield, and The Oaks Plantations to share their Gullah Geechee experiences and memories.

Many kinds of printing equipment have been used over the years. In the early days, the Georgetown Gazette was likely printed something like what is shown Over its 215 years the Georgetown Times has used many locations for its offices.

Support - If you are a parent or guard-ian with a child or children with special needs and may be interested in becoming a part of a parent-to-parent support group, please contact Tommy and Michelle Russell at 373-0912 or 356-5714 or email them at pillaroutreach@ yahoo.com. Any elderly, ill or bedridden residents of the Town of Kingstree who would ... (more)

The 15th annual "Klays for Kids" Sporting Clays Tournament at Back Woods Quail Club in Rhems last month raised $60,430 for MUSC Children's Hospital.

The Georgetown County School District will host its first Champions Challenge event May 23 at Wedgefield Plantation in Georgetown.

Only regular replacement of school buses will reduce the high cost of keeping South Carolina's aging bus fleet on the road.