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LITTLE RIVER — Food Lion recently opened a new grocery store in Little River near the intersection of S.C. 57 and S.C. 9 that is unique to the Grand Strand.

Joining Tractor Supply in the newly-built North Strand Commons shopping center at 77 South Highway 57, the Food Lion on the northern tip of the Grand Strand features an adjacent liquor store, which is the North Carolina-based company’s fifth concept store.

The others are in Columbia, Clover, Rock Hill, and Hopkinsville, Ky.

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“I’m excited to open this new store in Little River and offer our neighbors a wide product assortment at the everyday low prices they expect from Food Lion,” said Chris Cheers, store manager of the Little River Food Lion. “With the liquor store adjacent to the Little River Food Lion, we will continue to deliver on our commitment to make grocery shopping easy, convenient and affordable for our customers.”

Other store features include hand-battered fried chicken, in-store cut fruit, a walk-in produce cooler, a self-service hot wing and Asian food bar, self-checkout lanes and the Food Lion “To Go” grocery pickup service.

The new store relocated nearly two miles away from its previous home in the Waterway Plaza off of S.C. 9 to the intersection commonly called Stevens Crossroads, a busy area dotted with everything from national retailers, restaurants and car dealerships.

The Food Lion and Tractor Supply join Take 5 Oil Change in the shopping center. Additionally, a Popeyes restaurant and a Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers are planned for the complex, which sits behind existing businesses Dunkin’ and CVS.

There is another Little River Food Lion located on U.S. 17 near the North Carolina border.

New Georgetown County coffee spot

Arkansas-based coffee chain 7 Brew recently opened its fourth South Carolina location in Pawleys Island.

The nearly 530-square-foot prefabricated building with a double-drive-thru is located at 115 Petigru Drive, beside Pawleys Wine & Spirits and a few hundred yards away from competitors Dunkin’ and Starbucks.

MURRELLS INLET — Lee’s Inlet Kitchen celebrated two milestones this year.

The Murrells Inlet restaurant, family-owned and operated since 1948, just turned 75. It was also recognized by Southern Living Magazine as the “Best Seafood Restaurant in South Carolina 2023.”

Not bad for a tiny spot that once was a gas station.

The restaurant’s history traces back to Eford and Pearl Lee, who moved to Murrells Inlet in the mid-1940s from Cool Springs, a rural farming community on S.C. 319 about four miles southeast of Aynor.

The duo decided to get into the restaurant industry despite coming from a generation of farmers. They first managed Lokey’s Restaurant — now the Hot Fish Club — and then White’s Restaurant, which used to be next door to Lee’s Inlet Kitchen. Eford Lee was also employed by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and had a hand in carving out the Intracoastal Waterway.

But the Lee family wanted a restaurant and business they could call their own and were able to get their hands on a building at a price unheard of these days. They purchased an old Murrells Inlet gas station on the steps of the Horry County Courthouse in Conway for $800 through a public auction. That building soon became Lee’s Inlet Kitchen.

Over the decades, the building withstood two major hurricanes, Hazel in 1954 and Hugo in 1989.

Eford and Pearl’s son Billy Lee took over running the restaurant in the 1970s. Billy’s daughter Kelly Lee Dorman and her husband Dexter have been operating it since the early 1980s.

“When my parents took over, it was basically the front part, and it had one dining room where there were probably 20 tables, and what is now the waitress station was actually the kitchen,” said Adrian Dorman, marketing director and fourth-generation member of the family.

Dorman said her father is business-minded and had the foresight that they simply could not use the kitchen anymore due to anticipated growth.

An under-construction apartment complex in the North Myrtle Beach area is part of a larger planned development project.

The Parkway Apartments at 10600 Highway 90 is a 360-unit complex with three playgrounds, two pools and other amenities.

Completing the complex will cost around $70 million, Dennis Euliss said, who is part of the group behind the Parkway Apartments and a builder/investor with the D.H. Euliss Builders LLC.

“I’m very familiar with Myrtle Beach... watched the growth, and actually when we picked that lot up, there really wasn’t a lot of multifamily growth,” Euliss said in an interview with The Sun News. “Just thought that location was really good off of (Carolina Bays Parkway), definitely for people to avoid (U.S. Highway) 17.”

Euliss projected Parkway Apartments expects to begin leasing units around Feb. 2024 and complete the entire project by the end of that year. He added Apartment Dynamics, a property management company from High Point, NC. will oversee the location.

He also mentioned the proximity to the new North Myrtle Beach Park & Sports Complex.

“That’s one of the nicest parks that I’ve been in, and I’ve been all over the place,” Euliss said.

Parkway Apartments is one of two projects in the works. Euliss added that the same ownership group wants to build a commercial development, but plans are still being finalized.

Euliss did say building a road is part of the project, which he estimated would be roughly 1500 feet. He added the street infrastructure will cost about $1.5 million.

The project involves two plots of land at 10560 Highway 90 and 10616 Highway 90 on both sides of Parkway Apartments. The plots are owned by Park Village Development, LLC, which Euliss said is part of the project and about 10 acres large combined. There combined market value is about $1.1 million.

William R McGonigal Jr., registered agent of Park Village Development, LLC, did not return a request for comment.

(WPDE) — Horry County was under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 8 p.m. Tuesday.

At 6:42 p.m., a line of storms was located extending from 9 miles southwest of Clinton to near the Springmaid Pier, moving east at 45mph. The radar indicated the storm could produce 70mph wind gusts.

Locations impacted included Wilmington, Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Leland, Oak Island, Carolina Beach, Whiteville, Burgaw, Surfside Beach, Shallotte, Elizabethtown, Sunset Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Kure Beach, Surf City, Holden Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Caswell Beach, Bald Head Island, and Snows Cut.

A Tornado Watch remained in effect for southeastern North Carolina until 9 p.m.

A Tornado Watch remained in effect for the Coastal Water out 20 nautical miles from Surf City to Little River.

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Horry, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Marion, Williamsburg, Robeson and Columbus County were all under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 6:45.

Radar indicated storm shows 60 mph wind gusts.

Locations impacted include Myrtle Beach, Lumberton, Conway, North Myrtle Beach, Georgetown, Whiteville, DeBordieu Colony, Mullins, Surfside Beach, Elizabethtown, Red Springs, Pawleys Island, Murrells Inlet, Springmaid Pier, Garden City, North Myrtle Beach Airport, Myrtle Beach Airport, Yawkey South Island, Winyah Bay Entrance, and Socastee.

Tornado Watch remained in effect until 6 p.m. for South Carolina, 9 p.m. for North Carolina.

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The NWS-Wilmington issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Central Horry County at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. The warning was in effect until 6 p.m.

The NWS said the storm, over Forestbrook and the Myrtle Beach Airport at 5:30, was moving northeast at 90mph.

Impacted locations included Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Whiteville, Surfside Beach, Myrtle Beach Airport, Socastee, Red Hill, Springmaid Pier, North Myrtle Beach Airport, Tabor City, Loris, Chadbourn, Bethel, Lake Waccamaw, Hickory Grove, Hallsboro, Nixonville, Barefoot Landing Area Of North Myrtle Beach, Southeastern Community College, and Wampee.

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The NWS issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Robeson, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Marion, Marlboro, and Williamsburg Counties.

At 4:57 p.m., severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles southeast of Hamelt to near Gourdin, moving east at 55mph.

Locations impacted include Florence, Bennettsville, Hartsville, Marion, Dillon, Lake City, Darlington, Mullins, Red Springs, Kingstree, Pembroke, Andrews, Maxton, Timmonsville, Mccoll, Johnsonville, Latta, Pamplico, Rowland, and Lamar.

A Tornado Watch remained in effect until 6 p.m. for northeastern South Carolina and 9 p.m. for southeastern North Carolina.

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The National Weather Service issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Darling, Dillon, Florence, Marlboro and Williamsburg Counties at 3:59 p.m.

The warning wass in effect until 5 p.m.

Three-quarter inch hail was possible in the system, along with wind gusts up to 60mph.

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A Tornado Warning for Robeson County has expired.

The National Weather Service issued the alert at 3:59 p.m. after radar indicated rotation in a severe thunderstorm near Robeson Community College, 7 miles north of Lumberton, moving 60 mph.

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The NWS has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Dillon and Robeson Counties.

The warning was issued at 3:41 p.m. and is in effect until 4:30 for Central Robeson and Central Dillon Counties.

Radar indicated a severe storm near South of the Border, 8 miles northeast of Dillon, NE at 60mph.

Impacted locations included Lumberton, Dillon, Red Springs, Pembroke, Fairmont, St. Pauls, Rowland, Rex, Hamer, South Of The Border, Shannon, Buie, Robeson Community College, Barker Ten Mile, Purvis, Prospect, Elrod, Parkton, Rennert, and Mcdonald.

The Severe Thunderstorm Warning expired at 4:22 p.m.

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The Tornado Warning for North Myrtle Beach expired. A Tornado Watch was in effect through 6 p.m. in South Carolina and 9 p.m. in North Carolina.

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The National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for North Myrtle Beach in Horry County, Southwestern Brunswick County, and South Central Columbus County.

The Warning was issued at 2:58 p.m. when a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located 10 miles east of the Springmaid Pier, moving northeast at 60 mph. Radar indicated rotation.

Expected arrival times were as follows:

Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include Briarcliffe Acres, Atlantic Beach, Brunswick Novant Medical Center, and Sea Coast Medical Center.

The warning expired at 3:20 in North Myrtle Beach.

If you find yourself in an area with a Tornado Warning, take shelter immediately.

READ MORE: How to shelter during severe storm, tornado

A Tornado Warning issued for Horry and Georgetown Counties at 2:19 has expired.

The National Weather Service issued the warning at 2:19, saying a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Garden City, moving north at 75 mph. Radar indicated rotation in the storm.

The Tornado Warning was expired by the NWS at 2:40 p.m. A Tornado Watch remains in effect for our entire viewing area through 6 p.m.

If life-threatening weather conditions are active in our area, we will have live coverage on WPDE, WPDE.com/Watch, our Facebook page and our YouTube page. You can also watch live coverage in the video player at the top of this story.

Marine Warnings were in effect for the coastal waters out to 40 nautical miles off Cape Fear down to the South Santee River.

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The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for the Grand Strand and Pee Dee on Tuesday at 11:41 a.m.

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The tornado watch is in effect until 6 p.m.

NWS Wilmington has since extended North Carolina and Virginia.

This watch was in effect until 9 p.m.

Around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, the NWS issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Myrtle Beach, Socastee and Conway.

The warning was in effect until 2:45 p.m.

NWS also issued a marine warning including the coastal waters from Little River Inlet to Murrells Inlet out 20 nm, Waters from Murrells Inlet NC to South Santee River SC from 20 to 40 nm and Coastal waters from Murrells Inlet to South Santee River SC out 20 nm. The warning is in effect until 3 p.m.

Dung Nguyen had taken his son trick or treating on Halloween night in Little River.

The neighborhood was near North Myrtle Beach Middle School, where Nguyen’s son, Michael, or Mikie as he’s called by family, attends.

Mikie was with friends, and the area was busy that evening with other parents and children climbing in and out of vehicles along Highway 90, Nguyen said.

Nguyen was waiting at about 7 p.m. for Mikie to return to his vehicle that was parked along the roadway when he heard a thud. He looked out, heard screaming and called 911, he said.

“I did not realize it was my son,” Nguyen said. It wasn’t until car lights illuminated the area that terror filled the father.

“That’s when I recognized his clothes,” he said. “That’s when I recognized it was my son.”

The 14-year-old eighth grader had been hit by a vehicle, knocking him out of his shoes and sending him into the air. He landed about three car lengths from where the collision occurred, Nguyen said.

There were several witnesses to the accident, Nguyen said, including a teacher, who shielded other children from seeing Mikie’s body.

Nguyen and his wife, Jennifer, of Longs, have spent the last two weeks sitting beside their son, who is in the ICU at Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach.

Mikie suffered a broken clavicle, lacerated kidney, three microscopic brain bleeds and a concussion, his parents said. He also couldn’t move his ankle or toes on his left leg, and only in the last day was able to regain some feeling. The teen will have to undergo occupational therapy as well as physical therapy to help him walk.

Mikie was excited to go trick or treating this year because this was the first time his parents allowed him to walk around by himself, his father said.

Asked what he remembers about that night, Mikie told his parents that he was walking when he saw lights and turned. That was it.

When Nguyen went back to the accident site the next day, he found part of Mikie’s ninja costume, a sword, in a bush on the other side of the road. They never did find his mask.

“Worst phone call of my life,” his mother said about receiving notice of Mikie’s accident.

The driver, Sarah Elizabeth Vaught, 55, of Little River, was arrested and charged with driving under suspension, failure to return license plate and registration and operating an uninsured vehicle.

She was booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center on Nov. 1 and released on $1,242.50 bail.

A phone number for Vaught could not be found. An attorney was not listed for Vaught in the online court records.

Nguyen has a copy of the field report he received from the South Carolina Highway Patrol, which investigated the accident. The report lists Mikie, not the driver, as contributing to the accident.

Initial information provided by SCHP said that it appeared Mikie was crossing the road. However, Nguyen claims Mikie wasn’t in the roadway, but along the side of the road when he was hit.

There are no sidewalks along that area of Highway 90, Jennifer Nguyen said. For her, it’s concerning because there is a school nearby and neighborhoods.

Nguyen believes the driver should be held responsible, not the pedestrian. He said if that is how the law is going to see it, then students shouldn’t be allowed to cross the street to get to the school, or wait for the bus along the highway.

“I’m having a hard time understanding,” Nguyen said.

When it comes to South Carolina law, there is a responsibility of not only the motorist, but also the pedestrian on any roadway, according to Lance Cpl. Lena Butler with the SCHP.

If the pedestrian is not abiding by the law, or contrary to the law, “there’s always a possibility” that a pedestrian could be considered at fault, Butler said.

“In our investigation, we have to go with the facts,” Butler said. “Every investigation is based in facts.”

LITTLE RIVER, S.C. (WBTW) — There’s nothing little about what they serve at the Little River Deli.

The portions, the flavors, the menu — all bigger than you might expect. Inside this little building, they do it big.

“We can really do a lot in a small space,” owner Amanda Flowers said. “We got a great crew.”

The day I was at Little River Deli, it was a slow day and the line was still five people deep.

Flowers, who took over the deli in February, said some days the line goes out the door. The deli has been here since 1999, and it’s still the same.

“That’s one thing that I really wanted to keep was just the heart of it and the thing that people have come to love,” Flowers said. When you take over a business, I worked here, so I kind of knew what the place was and what people were here to get, and I never wanted to change that.”

Flowers has worked here for 15 years; her dad’s been here since it opened.

“I love it,” Flowers said. “I went to college and I had a whole ‘nother career. I always worked here in between and weekends and stuff, and at the end of the day I chose this, hands down.”

Little River Deli has a lot on the menu, but they specialize in New York and Italian food. While not much changes, occasionally, something new is added.

“So we’re cooking our own, roasting our own roast beef now, slicing it and serving it on a sub or open face with gravy. It’s something that people are calling in for every single day now,” Flowers said. “So that was my touch that I added.”

While tourists are important to the Grand Strand, this place is important to the locals.

“Honestly, a lot of times we do get some tourists, which is awesome, but consistently it’s locals coming in, and it think it’s really cool,” Flowers said. “A lot of people will say that are finding us, they’ll say, ‘Oh my gosh I drive right past you,’ or ‘you have no idea how many times I’ve driven past and this is my first time in.’ And I think that it’s so cool to know that they’re finding this new place and they always come back.”

And she’s not kidding when she says they come back.

“It’s a lot of hard work. It’s worth it,” Flowers said. “I think it’s satisfying when you see people come in every single day. We have customers that come seven days a week.”

Little River Deli now does catering for any size event. They’re on Highway in, you guessed it, Little River.