Beginning Tuesday, Horry County is making the following changes to traffic along U.S. 17 Bypass:

• The Democratic Women’s Council of Horry County has announced the winners of the 2012 Scholarship essay contest.

•  Myrtle Beach city staff meeting

When | 10 a.m, Monday

Many of these classes, events and meetings are sponsored by Georgetown Memorial Hospital, but some take place at different locations. Call the numbers listed for more information or visit www.georgetownhospitalsystem.org.

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When historians record the most influential South Carolinians of the late 20th-early 21st century, they may turn not to politicians or the purveyors of popular culture but to one of their own, a courtly bespectacled professor with a wry and wicked sense of humor.

Don’t ask historian Walter Edgar to pick his favorite South Carolinian.

After two weeks of debating the state’s $6.7 billion general fund budget, things started to get silly Wednesday in the state Senate.