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Editorial – Mande Wilkes While taxes in the City of Myrtle Beach climb ever higher, neighboring North Myrtle Beach just approved a tax decrease.  Whereas the City of Myrtle Beach recently refused business licenses to a church (yes, really), an axe-throwing center, a watersports rental company, and a car wash, North …

Why has the City of North Myrtle Beach continually outperformed its neighbors to the South? Is it good government, good community, good business owners, good investments, good luck, or a combination of all of the above? Whatever it is, North Myrtle Beach is unquestionably the best beach along the 60 …

North Myrtle Beach’s Ingram Dunes are home to 9.4 acres of coastal maritime forest and ancient relic dunes that rise 50 feet above sea level: the last relic dunes remaining on the Grand Strand and the highest left on the coast of South Carolina. This final piece of a once …

The former Ibiza Club and Natalie’s Bar & Grill have joined in the seemingly unending legal fights against the city of Myrtle Beach over the Superblock, downtown overlay, Karon Mitchell/MBACC, county schools et al. This week’s suit was filed against the city, the Myrtle Beach Downtown Development Corp., David Sebok …

Tuesday, March 26th witnessed two coastal towns, Myrtle Beach and Surfside Beach, equally in full tilt. Myrtle Beach City Council authorized the city of Myrtle Beach to go into secret inter-governmental meetings with Surfside Beach, North Myrtle Beach, and Horry County [among others] over I-73 funding. However, shortly into the …

With today’s city council vote, one of the least transparent cities in America continues its forty year run controlling Horry County. Horry County residents were shocked and dismayed by the vote from County Council last night delaying the termination of a $25 million annual SCDOT contract until Chairman Gardner could …