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Area parks fare well in state plan Charles Slate/The Sun News People at Huntington Beach State Park watch a full moon rise over the Atlantic Ocean. Huntington is the first park in the 51-unit state system to offer daily year-round educational programs. It also is labeled a ''signature'' park under the system's ''New Vision for the 21st Century'' plan. Stories by Zane Wilson THE SUN NEWS ''Coastal Exploration'' is the new theme at Huntington Beach State Park, the first park in the 51-unit state system to offer daily year-round educational programs. The new programs are a small part of the state parks' ''New Vision for the 21st Century'' plan, which is quietly being put into effect. Huntington Beach's unique position at the south end of Murrells Inlet, with seaside and salt marsh frontage, put it into the ''signature'' park category of the three new rankings for state parks, with 11 others. Full Story ''Living in a Boom Town'' is a civic journalism project of The Sun News, and project stories will appear in The Sun News periodically over the next year. You may be asked to participate in polling, small-group discussions or larger forums. We hope to help residents get involved in what our booming community should become and how it should grow. Our belief is that the more residents are involved in such decisions, the wiser those decisions will be. The series started April 27 with the results of our informal survey; continued May 4 with traffic; May 11 with growth and development; May 11 with our elected officials; and May 25 with our schools and our culture. Join our discussion forum.

features... top stories... 'Why?' elusive in probe of TWA crash EAST MORICHES, N.Y. - Investigators know so much about TWA's Flight 800, about its 11-minute duration and about its fiery end. But a year later, they don't know enough. Senator: China tried to buy clout WASHINGTON - Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., says his decision to begin campaign finance hearings last week by confirming reports of a Chinese political influence-buying plan came after aides spent hundreds of hours reviewing sensitive information on the matter. Advance Auto Parts 250 lures new, longtime fans Many of the fans filling the bleachers at the first night running of the Advance Auto Parts 250 at the Myrtle Beach Speedway were taking in the latest in a long line of Busch Grand National races.