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  Doggone Dog Owners I'll start this malfeasance by saying, "I love dogs."   I really do.   I just don't love 'em as much as some of my friends do.   I've got friends that take their dogs on vacation with them.   I've never done that.   I don't expect I ever will.   If you do and it makes you happy, well more power to you. While vacations are out, I have taken many dogs for a leisure walk through the neighborhood.   It's good exercise for the dog and me.   I've also taken a couple of dogs to the bark park to interact with other dogs.   My dogs enjoyed those afternoons at the park.   I did not.   For the record, I don't like interacting with other dog owners.   If you do and it makes you happy, well more power to you. When I get around other dog owners, I become anti-social.   Back when I had a dog, I'd endure the discomfort of conversations with dog people because my dog seemed to get a kick out of it.   Thank go...

  Can’t See The Forest For The Trees   Carolina Forest is situated west of the Intracoastal Waterway between US Highway 501 and International Drive and the western boundary is generally accepted as Gardner Lacy Road on which Carolina Forest High School is located.  The area was once part of a larger tract of land known as the Buist Tract. Acquired by Burroughs & Chapin in 1893, it was later sold to International Paper in 1928 where it served as a pine tree farm until the late 1980’s.  It was perfect for hunting, fishing, camping, dirt bike riding and all kinds of other mischief for Horry County residents providing a peaceful, natural forest buffer between Myrtle Beach and the western part of the county.       That all began to change in the mid 1990’s when International Paper entered into a development agreement with Horry County Government.  A land use plan consisting of 10,000+ acres home to 50,000 residents plus and all the commercial, reta...

  Polecat of the Week is the Santee Cooper Board of Directors for ignoring the concerns of the Waterside Drive residents regarding the proposed placement of the Grand Strand Humane Society new kennel complex on Santee Cooper owned land adjacent to the neighborhood.

 

  Quality of Life What's up with all Northen license plates opping up all over the county?.   Right now, I bet there's more Yankees living in my neighborhood than there was at the Battle of Gettysburg.   It ain't that I don't like 'em.   I do, well most of them.   Heck, most of these new folks are more than likely running away from Big Taxes and Bad Politicians.   I respect that, but I can't hunt where I used to   and there's way much traffic on the road in front of the house.   Seriously with all this growth, why does the quality of my life have to be impacted? Lately, I've started wondering which came first, Big Taxes or Bad Politicians?   I've asked a few folks from New Jersey and Maryland that question and they just kinda stared at me.   The next time I see them, I plan on asking them again, this time I'll have to speak faster. They don't seem to understand me unless I speak fast.   It's just go, go, go for many of my new neighb...

  We call it “the waterway” Is the Intra-coastal Waterway (ICW) the great divide in Horry County?   The ICW is a 3,000-mile water-way corridor from Maine to Texas to move goods, commodities, and military assets. The east-coast portion was conceived in the early 1800’s to connect natural inland waterways with man-made portions for safe and secure shipping along the Atlantic coast but not in the open sea.  The man-made portion in Horry County, which is the longest and one of the last links of the ICW, connects 22 miles from Little River Inlet to Enterprise Landing at the southern portion of the Waccamaw River just south of the Socastee swing bridge. Built in the mid-1930’s as a part of President Roosevelt’s public works programs, many describe it as one of the most important infrastructure projects ever in Horry County and claim that it drained about 15,000 acres of low-lying wet areas for farming and future development.   Sounds great, right!  Well, the folks in ...