The Coastal South Carolina Chapter of the American Red Cross has partnered with Georgetown Hospital System’s HealthPoint Center for Health and Fitness to provide a four-evening basic water safety program free to residents of Georgetown County.

Brookgreen Garden’s annual plant sale and show, Diggin’ It is set for Saturday and Sunday, April 25 -26.

Georgetown County council members decided to look into multiple ferry options for Sandy Island residents during Tuesday’s meeting. Council voted to form a committee to research three different ferry options in hopes to improve transportation for the island’s residents.

Divers with South Carolina’s Department of Natural Resources said they found the boat that sunk off Sandy Island about a month ago and killed three people.
Six people were in the boat that sank in the Waccamaw River Feb. 18.

During the Fiver Rivers embezzlement case, defense attorneys uncovered subpoenas the 15th Circuit solicitor’s office used to gather evidence in the case that a judge later ruled were “defective.”

Authorities with the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) and the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office arrested Ron Christopher Crabtree, 35, former Georgetown County Sheriff’s Deputy, this afternoon for Criminal Sexual Conduct 2nd Degree and Lewd Act on a Child. 

Prosecutors and defense attorneys for the mother and daughter charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Georgetown County public housing authority agreed to a plea deal Monday.

Georgetown County Sheriff’s Investigators have met with the solicitor’s office and decided no charges will be filed in the death of a Georgetown man.

Around 100 Georgetown County middle and high school students will be participating in a youth summit Friday.  This is the 11th year the county has hosted the summit which is sponsored by the school district and several youth agencies

The years have brought changes to this secluded island in the Intracoastal Waterway: electricity, cable television, city water, cell phones. But one thing has remained a constant: You still have to get across that water.

Georgetown County Sheriff’s Investigators are currently investigating the suspicious death of 42-year-old James Vernon Wells of International Drive, Georgetown.

Effort is in response to the recent tragic drowning of three of the islands residents when their boat sank just off shore.

A circuit court judge ruled Monday that subpoenas issued in the Five Rivers Community Development Corporation embezzlement scandal were “defective.”

There are more than 700 students at the Georgetown County High School and the principal said just about everyone of has been affected by the loss of not one, but two students, in the boating accident at Sandy Island late Wednesday.

Preliminary autopsy reports show his mother, 19-year-old Shaquatia Robinson, drowned. His grandmother, 47-year-old mother Luann Robinson, and 17-year-old Rishard Pyatt also died. Two others survived.