Pinopolis News

The Surfside Beach Town Council will meet on Saturday and Sunday to discuss the 2010-2011 budget at the Wampee Conference in Pinopolis.

Men and women returning home from war have come to Charleston's Blu Gorilla Tattoo looking for body art, but owner Tim Dennis said he's had to turn some of them away because state law deems them too young to make the choice on their own.

Kids and people who aren't working love a good snowstorm. But among business owners, snow can be a curse, a blessing, or both.

As a safety precaution , Berkeley County Water & Sanitation officials are issuing a boil water advisory for residents living in certain sections of the Whitesville and Pinopolis Community.

MONCKS CORNER a ' Each year the Oconee Soil and Water Conservation District sponsors two students from Oconee County to attend the Carolina Coastal Adventure in Moncks Corner.

Federal, state and local emergency officials are holding a drill simulating a terrorist strike at a South Carolina dam.

TV Charleston weatherman Charlie Hall cried as he signed off the air Sept. 20, 1989.

Santee Cooper customers will pay more for power starting in November. The Santee Cooper board approved rate increases Monday that will cost the average residential customer an additional $6.59 a month.

PINOPOLIS -- Ending months of private discussions, Santee Cooper's governing board abandoned plans Monday to build a $2.2 billion coal-fired power plant that had sparked an uproar in South Carolina over the need for the energy complex and its potential environmental impacts.

PINOPOLIS -- Ending months of private discussions, Santee Cooper's governing board abandoned plans Monday to build a $2.2 billion coal-fired power plant that had sparked an uproar in South Carolina over the need for the energy complex and its potential environmental impacts.

The Coast Regional Transportation Authority is aiming to open up bus service from the Grand Strand to Charleston some time this fall, according to The Coast RTA General Manager Myers Rollins.

The Pinopolis dam lock on Lake Moultrie at Santee Cooper's Jefferies Hydroelectric Station is out of service for maintenance Wednesday, Thursday and possibly Friday, the state-owned utility said today.