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Emily Gibbons spends a lot of time in thrift stores looking for props.
Even though this is the second time that April King has been named Teacher of the Year, she was still floored by the award.
As the school district is coming up on budget retreat time, the curriculum committee is looking at adding a few costs to the budget this year to benefit cosmetology, esthetics, and band students.
He may end up being a civil engineer, or possibly a mechanical engineer. But either way, 15-year-old Andrew Weaver wants to understand how entrepreneurship works.
As he nears his one-year anniversary as chairman of the Horry County School Board, Ken Richardson said his biggest surprise during the year has been how much time being chairman would actually take.
When Shanay Clark saw all five Conway High School administrators at her classroom door, her first thought was that someone was in trouble.
Ocean Bay Elementary School’s teacher of the year came to the Grand Strand for cheerleading competitions when she was a teenager in New York.
An online yard sale has raised more than $11,400 and a fundraiser selling Premier Designs jewelry already brought another $1,117 towards a goal of $20,000.
Kim Mendez said she loves that there is never a dull moment in her job.
Described by principal Dennis Devorick as “a very caring, compassionate teacher who goes above and beyond to help all students,” Janna Padula is Carolina Forest Elementary School’s teacher of the year.
The executive director of transportation for Horry County Schools has retired effective Monday after a Dec. 5 charge of driving under the influence, school officials said.
Doris Glass said she really didn’t see the big deal about her graduation from Coastal Carolina University on Tuesday, just weeks after her 89th birthday.
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Facing a budget shortfall of nearly $6.4 million, Coastal Carolina University officials have been searching for ways to save money.
“It’s the only school I’ve known,” Morgan Bane says about Carolina Forest High School.
Leanne Hagen moved to Conway from Canada as a middle schooler, and recently was given the honor of being named Teacher of the Year at her alma mater, Conway Middle School.
Sunni Blanton is the kind of teacher students call “cool.”
Principal Maquitta Davis said that Conway Elementary School Teacher of the Year Sarah Robinson radiates joy and it’s contagious, especially on Tutu Tuesdays.
Students in North Myrtle Beach will be creating a vertical garden using recycled bottles with the help of a $2,500 grant.
Aynor Middle School teacher Caitlyn Bledsoe was floored to hear the announcement that she had been named Teacher of the Year.
Being announced as Aynor Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year was the icing on the cake for Kaitlyn Ryhal – the wedding cake to be exact.
Former District 1 Horry County School Board member Holly Heniford’s DUI case has been dismissed, according to North Myrtle Beach spokesperson Pat Dowling.
Enjoy watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV this year, because next year, you’ll surely be watching the nationally televised 101st 6ABC Dunkin’ Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The total negative lunch balance across the entire Horry County School District comes in at just over $99,000, according to district records.
Tonya Dawsey has come full circle, having attended Midland Elementary as a child and now being honored as her school’s 2019-2020 Teacher of the Year.
The Reverend W. Russell Freeman will be the next District 1 representative for Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach on the Horry County School Board.
When Caroline Dill first saw The Lion King on Broadway, she knew the stage is where she wanted to be.
The Horry County School Board announced Monday night that they would be interviewing eight candidates for the District 1 board seat on Monday, Nov. 11.
“Frivolous” is how the city of Myrtle Beach describes a motion filed by Horry County Schools in the district’s fight with the city over plans to continue redeveloping the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.
They weren’t even born when the Temptations crooned “My Girl” from a 45 Rpm record back in the ‘60s.
While the proposed 1,983-unit development off of Collins Jollie Road in Conway is still in the midst of its approval process with the City of Conway, Horry County Schools officials are thinking about what to do about the possible influx of students that may come from it.
Eighth-grader Glenn Graves came before the school board tonight to plead with them not to take the Academy of Arts, Science and Technology opportunity away from incoming freshman, as he had worked hard for years for the chance to apply for entry.
Downtown Myrtle Beach could see a new K-8 charter school if a “still evolving” partnership between Coastal Carolina University and the City of Myrtle Beach comes to fruition.
Early College High School recently celebrated having the highest high school score on the S.C. Report Card, scoring an Excellent designation with a score of 87 out of 100.
An investigation is underway after a BB gun was found in a North Myrtle Beach High student's backpack Tuesday morning, according to the school's administrators.
Since the standing-room-only Sept. 23 school board meeting, students, parents, and social media have been abuzz with comments regarding proposed changes to The Scholars Academy (SA).
Carolina Forest High School is once again taking Homecoming on the road by having the parade off campus, and visiting five elementary and three middle schools.
Students enrolling in tech schools in S.C. who want to eventually transfer to Coastal Carolina University will have a seamless transition thanks to a partnership signed today between CCU and the SC Technical College System.
Elijah Barr wore a sheriff’s badge and straw hat to school Thursday.
The crowd at the Horry County School Board meeting tonight was passionate about the recent curriculum committee proposal that would make Scholars Academy a standalone school, and would move the Academy of Art, Science and Technology (AAST) option away from freshman and sophomore students and…
When he started reading at 2-years-old, Henry Hein’s parents suspected he was a smart kid.
A school resource officer at Whittemore Park Middle School discovered a handgun in the belongings of a student Wednesday morning, but Principal Quintina Livingston assured parents shortly thereafter that staff and students were safe.
Horry County school board member Holly Heniford resigned from office Monday, the same day North Myrtle Beach officials released video of her arrest on a DUI charge.
Students and parents won’t have to worry about make-up days from Hurricane Dorian taking any of their holiday vacation days, as Horry County Schools Superintendent Rick Maxey announced that the days to be made up are already built into the school calendar.
Horry County school board member Holly Heniford apologized to the board Monday night for her weekend arrest on a driving under the influence charge, and she resigned as chair of the board's new policy committee.
Horry-Georgetown Technical College announced Sunday that they will cancel on-campus classes and initiate an "academic continuity plan" beginning Tuesday.
Coastal Carolina University has canceled classes at the campus starting Tuesday, according to a news release.
The first class of 11 third-year Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine students arrived earlier this summer to Conway Medical Center, and will be living, learning, and serving at CMC for the next two years.
Black Water Middle School Principal Marcus Timmons sent parents a message around 8:50 a.m. this morning saying they are investigating a threat on the school that came across social media.
Representatives from CHA Consulting, Inc. presented the Horry County Schools facilities assessment and proposed master plan for the district’s high school tennis and track facilities on Monday afternoon.
The Horry County Auditor’s Office has a new weapon to use in its fight against newcomers who don’t register their cars in South Carolina, and they plan to start putting it to use Monday with the opening of school.
The family of Amanda Holbrook, who passed away at age 30 on September 10, 2018 due to a rare cancer, commemorated her July birthday by paying it forward.
Back in the late 1980s when Coastal Carolina University offered Sunny Gupta a scholarship to attend the school, they never imagined they would be renaming the College of Science for him years later.
Horry-Georgetown Technical College plans to meet the area’s demand for skilled workers with the upcoming completion of the new Advanced Manufacturing Center on their Georgetown campus, which is slated to open at the end of August.
Rene Cazier sits at her desk to do paperwork.
Sometimes Facebook is good for something.
On Saturday, June 29, Carolina Forest High School NJROTC established a new milestone for its program when five cadets graduated from Leadership Academy and two more graduated from CO-XO Academy held at The Citadel in Charleston.
On July 1, Teresa Todd will officially become principal of North Myrtle Beach High School, taking over for Trevor Strawderman as he leaves for an administrative job at the Charleston County School District.
They didn’t want to give a profound message about taking the high road. They wanted to make people laugh.
The Coastal Carolina Board of Trustees approved their Tuition and Fees for the 2019-2020 school year this morning, raising undergraduate in-state tuition by 0.9 percent, and by 2.8 percent for out-of-state undergraduates.
Horry County Police’s Criminal Investigation Division is looking into a possible sexual assault on an Horry County school bus involving students from Horry County Alternative School.
Academy for the Arts, Science and Technology [AAST] student Brandon Panepinto has received the second of two scholarships awarded for the first time by the Friends of the Carolina Forest Library.
Aynor High School’s 192 seniors said goodbye to high school last night during the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2019.
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