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Monday, October 24, 2005
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New roof

Mario Cantor, right, uses a pneumatic nail gun to secure asphalt shingles to the roof of the Columbus County Courthouse last week as Andreas Alustine prepares a section for nailing. The county budgeted $35,000 for the work.

Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist

Newspapers
sue county
over records

The News Reporter and Atlantic Corporation, the parent company of the Tabor-Loris Tribune, filed a lawsuit Friday in Columbus County Superior Court against Columbus County and Interim County Manager Jim Varner, seeking the release of what the newspapers claim are public documents.

Fuss over $5
ends in death

An argument over a $5 loan led to a shooting here early Sunday that killed a Chadbourn man in a street incident in the Columbus Court Apartments complex.
Troy

Strip mall bought

Dewey Hill has purchased the former K-mart shopping center with plans to remodel and repair the empty stores.

Williams school project ahead of schedule

Motorists passing the Williams Township Elementary School campus cannot help but notice the progress being made on the new school as dozens of construction workers push toward a fall 2006 opening.
Kaley Goodson of Gymnastics and More of Longs, S.C., does somersaults for thousands of people during the Yam Festival parade Saturday.

Staff photo by
Mark Gilchrist

Push continues for countywide voting

Thirteen years after the court case that led a federal judge to create two minority county commission voting districts, a lawyer from Tharrington Smith, the firm that defended Columbus County, is now advising a group that wants to modify the federal court’s decision.
Did you observe...

The grin on Brandy Guyton’s face when she received certification as an EMT intermediate? … An excited Richard Lee Hoyt and mom Shirley when he got the runner-up trophy as Big Man on Campus at Hallsboro Middle School? … Curt Welborne sporting a well-worn Chicago White Sox shirt Friday? … “Cowboy” Dr. John Webster getting thrown off a horse and then getting back on right away? … Many people slapping their own faces as they fight hordes of mosquitoes plaguing much of the county?…