Good morning, Myrtle Beach.

Little River Water Fright Nights will run through Halloween at Little River Landing with a Trail of Fears where area businesses have decorated gravesites, a Haunted House, and waterfront restaurants dressed for the season.

A trunk-or-treat is scheduled for Oct. 29 (5:30 to 7:30 p.m.), when the Haunted House will be more suitable for kids.

Multiple family-friendly Halloween events will be held Oct.

31: Surfside Beach's Charity Car Show runs 9 a.m.-2 p.m. along Surfside Drive, followed by the Shuck-O-Ween festival noon-4 p.m. at Neal and Pam’s and 1st Avenue North; Murrells Inlet's Marshwalk runs 5-10 p.m., and Conway will host a helicopter drop at 2 p.m.

St. James High School students open Little Shop of Horrors tonight and will run the show through Friday at 7 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on Oct.

31 (ticket sales fund the theatre program).

The inaugural Myrtle Beach Songwriters Festival will bring more than 50 singer-songwriters, musicians, and poets to downtown Nov.

13-14 and will transform the area into walkable listening rooms that are free and open to the public. Festivities kick off Nov. 13 with a 6–9 p.m. party at Swig & Swine.

United Way of Horry County is seeking community volunteers to visit every first-grade classroom in Horry County Schools to read a book and lead an activity on Nov.

10. Sign-ups are open for Ready, Set, Kindergarten for parents of (4-year-olds) at UnitedWayHorry.org.

Surfside Beach Town Council approved a new open-container ordinance Tuesday allowing beer and wine to be consumed in designated areas at town-sponsored events, and town staff will decide which event areas permit open containers.

Several North Myrtle Beach roads will close Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday while contractors complete a tie-in for the Water Transmission Line Project (Phase Two); closures include Madison Drive from 27th Avenue South to 26th Avenue South and the Madison/27th Ave South intersection.

Georgetown County leaders sealed a time capsule inside the wall of the historic Georgetown County Courthouse on Oct.

27, filled with drone footage, video interviews, children's artwork, rolls of pennies and a digital disc, and officials say it will be opened July 4, 2076.

Mark Lazarus plans to turn the former Wild Water & Wheels site in Surfside Beach into nine commercial lots with a gas station and two retail shops, while other parcels could become a strip center or hotel (vacant since 2022).

The land is being cleaned and graded now and should finish in a couple months.

Horry County Fire Rescue Captain David Howell and partner Mike Medeiros won the Over-50 Tandem title at the Firefighter Challenge World Championships in Las Vegas on Saturday, after Howell qualified with five medals at the regional meet.