Florence
Today
Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Good morning, Florence. Here's your local news at a glance for Monday, the 22nd of September.
COMMUNITY NEWS
- ➤ About one hundred Coastal Carolina University students lined up at the Horry County Animal Care Center in Conway—seeking the chance to adopt a dog and help clear the shelter. WMBF News
ENVIRONMENT NEWS
- ➤ On Sept. 22, 1989, Hurricane Hugo hit South Carolina as a Category 4 storm—damaging homes, roads and forests while knocking out power and causing 13 deaths with nearly $7 billion in damage. The storm affected coastal and inland communities including Florence. WPDE
- ➤ At Youth Days Weekend, local children aged 9 to 17 learned about protecting the Lower Pee Dee Basin watersheds and the Waccamaw River through camping, horseback riding and a two mile kayak ride — an event hosted by the Waccamaw Indian people and sponsored by the Winyah Rivers Alliance. The program taught them to care for nature — lessons that will help preserve the local environment for the future. WPDE
TODAY'S FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day.
~ Naval Ravikant
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