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Here's why plans to allow kiosks on the Surfside Beach fishing pier to sell alcohol may not happen.
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There are still a few housekeeping items such as reports and new locks to be installed but once those are completed, the public will be allowed on the pier.
In recent months, the committee and town council have been at odds over what the role of the committee actually is.
The Surfside pier features lights that are designed to be safe for nesting and hatching sea turtles. It鈥檚 roughly the same length as the old pier, 800 feet from the top of the stairs to the end.
Painter's Ice Cream Shop will open at the Surfside Pier.
The Surfside Beach Pier opening has been put off due to construction delays. The Surfside pier was destroyed during Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
The Surfside Beach Town Council on Tuesday agreed to take over the cost of the decorative street lighting in the Harbor Lights subdivision.
On Tuesday, Surfside Beach Town Manager William Shanahan said the pier would not actually be completed until early fall, probably October. But, he said, the construction company said the pier will have progressed far enough by July for the town to use it for the return of the Fourth of July pyrotechnics event.
With the Surfside Beach Pier knocked out of commission by Hurricane Matthew in October, town officials are concerned that folks wanting to fis…