News On The Grand Strand

01/13/2025

11/19/2024

🚨ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY🚨

HCPD is working to identify the individual in this photo related to an ongoing investigation into an incident that occurred Nov. 9, 2024, at the Southbay Lakes community basketball courts in the Surfside Beach portion of unincorporated of Horry County.

Anyone with information about the individual pictured is asked to call the tipline at 843-915-8477.

05/19/2024

Check out the NEW Grand Strand Charter Arts School coming Fall 2025!!! This is an excellent opportunity for your rising 8th - 11th graders (more grades added in subsequent years) to receive an exceptional Arts education! This is the first of its kind on the Grand Strand! Check out the video link below and please feel free to share with anyone that may be interested!

11/15/2023

11/15/2023

The Myrtle Beach Police Departments Records division is organizing a food drive in conjunction with the "Shop With A Hero" program this year to help feed local kids! Times around the upcoming holidays can put extra strain on families that are already struggling and we want to help. Please consider donating so we can help the families in need. Donations can be brought to the Myrtle Beach Police Department or the Myrtle Beach Police Department Annex. We are accepting donations by 11/30/23.

11/15/2023

Donate new or gently worn coats, hats, gloves or mittens to support children in our community during the Neighborhood Services Department’s annual Winter Coat Drive!

Collections continue through Friday, December 1, and donations will be given to Myrtle Beach students in need through a partnership between our Neighborhood Services Department and Myrtle Beach schools.

Please bring donations to Myrtle Beach City Hall, 937 Broadway Street, on weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, call 843-918-1062.

We hope to see you for live holiday music and a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus at the Garden of Hope Tree Lighting from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., Sunday, December 3, 1395 Carver Street.

11/15/2023

11/15/2023

11/15/2023

🚨 BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS🚨

Our second guitar winner never responded, which means the second ✨SIGNED✨ guitar is BACK UP FOR GRABS! 🎸🤩

Details on FRIDAY on how to ENTER FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!
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11/15/2023

On November 6th, the South Carolina Forestry Commission presented the City of North Myrtle Beach with their 18 years of Tree City USA status.

Tree City USA is a program that provides communities with a four-step framework to maintain and grow their tree cover. It also gives them an avenue to celebrate their work, showing residents, visitors, and the entire country that they’re committed to the mission of environmental change. The four-step framework includes maintaining a tree board or department, having a community tree ordinance, spending at least $2 per capita on urban forestry, and celebrating Arbor Day. Tree City USA began in 1976 and is one of the Arbor Day Foundation’s oldest programs.

The North Myrtle Beach Tree Board was established in 2005 to manage public trees, with special concern for heritage trees (24” diameter or greater) and to advise the city in all tree-related matters. Since 2006, the city has been awarded the status of Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation. The board remains very active in fulfilling the requirements of the Tree City USA program by hosting an annual Arbor Day celebration, recognizing Earth Day, and holding various tree-related events throughout the year.

11/14/2023

11/14/2023

Conway Holding Dedication Ceremony for Chestnut Bay Resiliency Project
The City of Conway will hold a dedication ceremony for the Chestnut Bay Resiliency Project at Freeman Drive on November 15, 2023, at 11:00am.

Through FEMA-funded buyout of properties subject to repetitive flooding, the City removed many homes near Trinity Church. Kevin Chestnut, the City’s former Public Works Director, realized that the City owned enough contiguous parcels to construct infrastructure to hold additional flood water in the area. The existing stormwater for half of the Sherwood neighborhood is piped directly into Crabtree Canal, and Chestnut had the idea to daylight those pipes into a stormwater detention/retention area where the water will be slowed and cleaned before discharge into Crabtree or absorption into the ground. The site will also provide additional storage during flash flooding before overwhelming Crabtree.

For more information about the project, visit https://www.cityofconway.com/news_detail_T6_R591.php

11/14/2023

‼ Volunteers Needed For Basket Building ‼

The City of North Myrtle Beach Parks and Recreation Department intends to build a living shoreline at the newly constructed bulkhead at the Heritage Shores Nature Preserve.

The Preserve is located near the 53rd Avenue North public boat ramp in Cherry Grove.

As a part of that effort, Keep North Myrtle Beach Beautiful is looking for volunteers to help build over one hundred wire mesh boxes to attract and retain juvenile oysters (the photo is courtesy of DNR and is an example of the wire mesh boxes). Juvenile oysters help encourage the re-establishment of the natural environment by filtering harmful pollutants from the water. One juvenile oyster can filter about 2.5 gallons of water in an hour.

Volunteers will assist in building basket structures during the months of December 2023 through February 2024. Those baskets will be transported to the preserve for installation in late April 2024. This call for volunteers is to help build and oversee the basket building effort and/or to recruit and instruct additional volunteers.

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources will conduct an introductory training session from 1 PM to 4 PM on November 28, 2023 at the NMB Parks and Sports Complex.

For further details or to register and confirm your participation, please contact Megan Petit at [email protected] or by phone at 843-281-3732 by November 21, 2023.

11/14/2023

‼ Installation of Underground Utilities ‼

On Monday, November 13, the City of North Myrtle Beach will begin installing traffic control/detour signs. This is in preparation for the City's Utility Relocation Plan along North Ocean Boulevard from 29th Avenue North to 34th Avenue North. Construction will begin within 10 days of installing the traffic control/detour signs.

This project will consist of converting overhead electrical and communications wiring to an underground conduit system; then, removing the overhead wiring and power poles. Similar conversion projects have been accomplished throughout the City with positive results.

Please be advised, drivers may experience delays, lane closures, and detours as the project progresses along North Ocean Boulevard from 29th Avenue North to 34th Avenue North.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.

11/14/2023

Please help us congratulate Isabella Cenatiempo! Isabella was promoted to serve as our programs manager in the Business Development Division. She previously worked in our Group Sales Division as an experience coordinator.

In her new role, Isabella will oversee Grand Strand Young Professionals and Chamber Academy education sessions. Isabella previously served on the steering committee for GSYP.

11/14/2023

'Tis the season for our Annual Christmas Card Contest 🎄

Break out the crayons and let your kiddos design a Christmas Card for the North Myrtle Beach Police Department to send out!

Pick up an Entry Form at the NMB Police Department or the J. Bryan Floyd Community Center. Participants must be between the ages of 5 and 12. The entry deadline is November 27th.

11/14/2023

✨ Starting in the next few weeks, we'll be sharing a little history with you. ✨

In our first mini-series, we will delve into the background and history of Greg Rowles, from his roots at the Opryland Theme Park in Nashville all the way to the stage of his own Theatre in North Myrtle Beach!

Join us each week as Greg tells his story in his own words, from "Star Search" to his tenure at the Alabama Theatre that spanned two decades. You'll get a unique Behind-the-Scenes look at the Man, the Myth, and the Legend that is Greg Rowles! 😎

Be on the lookout for it in the coming weeks! 👀