Community

As the entire country was glued to their phones and TVs last week following and charting the path of the Chinese spy balloon, a potential international diplomatic crisis cast a spotlight on the city of North Myrtle Beach and the whole of the Grand Strand as the balloon was shot down by American fighter jets on Saturday, Feb. 4, after it reached the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Local middle schools around the county are playing in the inaugural HTC Middle School basketball Championship.

The South Carolina State Fair, a self-supporting 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is now accepting applications for its 26th annual Ride of Your Life Scholarship program, which awards $300,000 in college scholarships to high school seniors across the Palmetto State each year.

McLeod celebrated an open house and ribbon cutting for McLeod Seacoast Medical Park Building 2 on Thursday, Feb. 2. This additional medical office building on the McLeod Health Seacoast campus is located at 3793 McDowell Lane in Little River. Community members had the opportunity to tour the facility and meet the physicians and staff.

Five area schools started off 2023 with new stringed instruments for their students, compliments of local charity South by Southeast.

On Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, friends and family gathered at the Horry County Council on Aging Community Center located at 1401 Heritage Road in Loris to celebrate Mrs. Sallie Kapps 104th birthday.

The GFWC North Myrtle Beach Woman’s Club will host its annual charity event, Purses with Purpose, this year on Thursday, April 13, at 5:30 p.m. in the Nautilus Ballroom at the Marina Inn Grande Dunes.

Vincent has played on the North Myrtle Beach High School varsity basketball team since she was in the eighth grade. Each year that she played, she progressed in her abilities and eventually became a point guard for the team. She, like most varsity players, had a goal of playing for and winning a state championship.

A Good Samaritan saved an injured great horned owl from the road at Barefoot Resort last weekend, with city first responders helping rescue the bird and provide medical care to its wounds.

The North Myrtle Beach boys varsity basketball team was 1-1 in two 6AAAA region games last week, winning a thriller last Tuesday 36-32, then losing 48-35 at West Florence last Friday night.