HAMPTON - The Hampton Town Council gave final approval Tuesday night to a budget package for fiscal year 2010-11 that includes an employee salary boost and higher trash fees.
The council gave final reading to a $3,643,162 budget that includes a two-percent salary increase for full time employees and an added $1 garbage fee. This budget, which takes affect on Monday, is $20,000 higher that the current year.

A legend of South Carolina's courtrooms passed away Monday at the age of 93.
The Honorable Clyde A. Eltzroth died Monday at Hampton Regional Medical Center in Varnville after a brief illness.
Eltzroth was a founding member of the Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth, & Detrick law firm, where he served as a lawyer from 1952 until 1975, and was Resident Judge of the five-county Fourteenth Judicial Circuit from 1975 until his retirement.
Randolph Murdaugh, III practiced law with Eltzroth and later went before him as a judge.