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Schools eye widerreach
Found: 2 Months 3 Weeks 4 Days 4 Hours 17 Minutes ago Post & Courier - Months of community meetings, surveys and discussions have led a handful of Charleston County neighborhood schools to formally ask to become magnet-like schools.This effort to give schools' themes and allow them to accept students beyond their attendance zones is one of Superintendent Nancy McGinley's key turnaround initiatives. The goal is to improve students' achievement and to increase schools' economic and racial diversity.
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Hearings held on multi-boat docks
Found: 3 Months 2 Weeks 5 Days 13 Hours 40 Minutes ago Post & Courier - EDISTO ISLAND — More than 100 people crowded public hearings on plans to build multi-boat docks for a 10-lot development on Sand Creek and a five-lot development on Bailey Creek. Only one spoke for a developer.
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Growth industry
Found: 3 Months 3 Weeks 16 Hours 49 Minutes ago Post & Courier - The blue grape crop was excellent on Jeff Baldwin's family farm this year, and the Ison grapes don't look too bad either.The Ravenel vineyard has made it through another year. Still, as Baldwin checked his rows Wednesday, he was a little surprised to hear the news that agribusiness is now the top industry in South Carolina.
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'Joint use' docks draw foes
Found: 3 Months 3 Weeks 5 Days 15 Hours 54 Minutes ago Post & Courier - EDISTO ISLAND — More than 65,000 boats are registered now in the four counties around Charleston, and the numbers are growing. They all have to tie up somewhere. So each year more than 500 requests for permits to build new docks in the estuaries are filed with state and federal regulators.
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Year later, search for man goes on
Found: 4 Months 1 Day 5 Hours 54 Minutes ago Post & Courier - Rumors about his whereabouts have been rampant.Charleston County Sheriff's detectives have searched from Edisto Island to Walterboro and beyond, but the man who disappeared last year under murky circumstances remains missing.
Investigators still have no solid clues about where Theodore Watson Jr. might be. They've had colleagues in Florida check into reports that he was living there. Tipsters have said he met a sinister end somewhere in southern Charleston County, though police have found no evidence of that, either.
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Worst of Hanna expected to hit between midnight and 2 a.m.
Found: 4 Months 3 Days 13 Hours 45 Minutes ago Post & Courier - Tropical storm force winds are expected in the region. The 5 p.m. forecast from the National Weather Service, Charleston, reported that Hannah was tracking a little more eastward, with its predicted landfall closer to Georgetown about 2 a.m. Saturday.
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Hydrox cookie's comeback a big deal for fans
Found: 4 Months 1 Week 2 Days 6 Hours 59 Minutes ago Post & Courier - Food news that flew under the radar last week:Hydrox cookies are making a comeback. Big deal, you may say. Oh, but it is to a large number of people.
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505-acre Edisto Is. tract preserved
Found: 4 Months 2 Weeks 6 Days 3 Hours 35 Minutes ago Post & Courier - Swarms of migrating birds, wading birds, ospreys and eagles have fed for years in paradise along the Intracoastal Waterway on Edisto Island. Paradise hasn't been lost.
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Home seeks assistance as it improves its grounds Found: 4 Months 3 Weeks 6 Days 11 Hours 19 Minutes ago Times Democrat - For the past five decades, Connie Maxwell Children?s Home, Orangeburg campus, has been meeting the needs of boys and girls of the Midlands and Lowcountry....
War dog memorial suggested
Found: 5 Months 2 Days 8 Hours 53 Minutes ago Post & Courier - MOUNT PLEASANT ? The town's new $14 million Memorial Waterfront Park should include a tribute to the war-time role of military dogs, but a canine park is best located elsewhere, Mayor Pro Tem Kruger Smith said Tuesday. "Those war dogs saved an awful lot of lives. They were as good as two machine guns," Smith said.
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