Georgetown News

A by-the-numbers look at the South Carolina State Ports Authority's spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. - $25 million: Amount to be spent on two new cranes for the North Charleston terminal to handle supersized container ships -13 percent: Increase in volume expected in fiscal 2014 at Georgetown, S.C. which handles bulk cement ... (more)

With volumes continuing to climb, the South Carolina Ports Authority Board of Directors today approved its fiscal year 2014 financial plan, which includes volume increases across business segments and $123 million in capital spending on a number of strategic projects.

Capt. Wright Skinner Jr., a third generation harbor pilot, was lost at sea in 1988.

The song, "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me", has been sung, mostly by children, for well over one hundred years.

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" Hopefully you have had a wonderful week.

Georgetown residents will not know until June 25 who the Democratic nominee for the mayor's seat will be in November.

Dr. Gary Gates, his wife Dr. Laura Gates and several other teachers who have left Lowcountry Preparatory School in Pawleys Island are working to start a new school in downtown Georgetown.

Need your support Please rally around our fire fighter/paramedics and the Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire Department.

Apathy. The dictionary says that word means a lack of interest in or concern for things.

O.L. Thompson of Charleston been replaced as chairman by Columbia attorney Leighton Lord, who was recently confirmed by the state Senate.

Police department cameras that will read the license number of vehicles entering and leaving the town of Pawleys Island won't be in place until the end of summer, but the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office plans to have a portable tag reader in operation by the end of July.

First-time homebuyers are invited to attend a training seminar next week sponsored by Lowcountry Housing Trust and the Charleston Trident Urban League.

The Charleston County Coroner's Office has confirmed the remains found by boaters on Drum Island last weekend are from a human's jaw bone.

May 28th began as an ordinary day for Indian Hut Road resident Jeanie Duncan. However, before the day was over she would be in the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta.

The Mitney Project - a nonprofit organization providing cultural enrichment, educational programs which will soon include medical needs - has the opportunity to receive a $99,000 grant that will help with the renovations of its new facility on Merriman Road.

Taking to the water in Georgetown Harbor aboard small handcrafted wooden boats, students of a new Junior Sailing class are learning the basics and more.

The votes from Tuesday's Democratic Primary for mayor and three council seats in the City of Georgetown were counted Tuesday evening but will not be official until Thursday when the Board of Elections meet.

Voter turnout has been very low all over the City of Georgetown for today's Democratic Primary for mayor and three city council seats.

NOTE: Georgetown Mayor Jack Scoville sent the following as a response to an ad in the Friday, June 7 print edition of the Georgetown Times.

A pre-election Statement of Economic Interest form is required by the South Carolina Ethics Commission.