A group that is promoting a plan to create a new town on the Waccamaw Neck is on track toward its goal of collecting the necessary signatures this summer to trigger a referendum.
The Pawleys Island Litchfield Municipal Study Group held five meetings this month with property owners groups that it said drew over 400 people.
“We’re over halfway to our goal,” said Jim Register, the member of the study group who created a financial plan for the town. The group wants to collect 2,500 signatures to submit to the S.C. Secretary of State’s Office along with its plan to provide services for the town. That will be reviewed by a joint legislative committee before the secretary of state calls for an election…