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June 12

2020: Bob Bender, local environmental activist and founder and curator of the Lowcounty Estuarium in Port Royal, dies at home of complications from throat surgeries.

June 14

2019: Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke visits Beaufort. At a roundtable discussion at Tabernacle Baptist Church, O’Rourke answers a diverse collection of questions, mostly posed by leaders of the black community, including Queen Quet of the Gullah Geechee Nation and Rev. Kenneth Hodges.

– Compiled by Mike McCombs

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