Tuesday, Aug. 03, 2010

Myrtle Beach makes top 10 U.S. beach town list

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• Tourism Talk | German travel agents checking out Myrtle Beach

  Tourism Talk | German travel agents checking out Myrtle Beach

  Don’t be surprised if you run into groups of travel agents from Germany around the Grand Strand next week.

• Issac Bailey | Face it: We’re all Myrtle Beach

  Issac Bailey | Face it: We’re all Myrtle Beach

  You have to sympathize with North Myrtle Beach officials who feel overshadowed by their older brother Myrtle Beach, particularly when the developers of one of its signature properties, Barefoot Resort and Golf, drop the N orth to promote and market itself.

• Gifts and freebies, accepted by some Myrtle Beach area politicians, pose an ethical problem for others

  Gifts and freebies, accepted by some Myrtle Beach area politicians, pose an ethical problem for others

  Gifts received by area legislators and council members from 2009-11 as reported on their Statement of Economic Interests forms filed annually with the S.C. Ethics Commission (Note: annual reports reflect gifts that were received the previous calendar year; except for obvious misspellings of individual’s names, all spellings are taken directly from the ethics commission’s records.)

• Readers' Choice: Shopping and Services

  Readers' Choice: Shopping and Services

  Appliance Store First | Lowes Finalist | Best Buy Finalist | Sears Assisted Living Center First | Lakes at Litchfield Finalist | Agape Finalist | Myrtle Beach Manor Auto Body Shop First | Evans Family Colision

  Finalist | Lavin Collision Finalist | Maaco Finalist | Skippers Auto Parts Store First | Advance Auto Parts Finalist | AutoZone Finalist | Napa Auto Parts

• Why Myrtle Beach courses are closing

  Why Myrtle Beach courses are closing

  O pen for play since 1980, 31-year-old Island Green, a popular neighborhood course, recently became the Strand’s latest victim of course closings, which has become a continuous occurrence exemplified thus far with over 20 courses closing between 2005 and 2007. During this period in time, the exuberant Myrtle Beach golf market tourism boom began to decline as courses began to incur steep losses brought by an over-supply of courses, slow economy and declining numbers of players. All of this resulted in a lesser number of rounds being played, in many cases less than 40,000, the number owners proclaim are necessary to realize a profit.