Help The Island News Stay Local and Free

Dear Readers,

We need your help.

Do you love having a local newspaper? One you can actually pick up and hold in your hands?

A local newspaper produced BY locals FOR locals? FYI – We’re the only one.

While other local newspapers around the country are being bought up by impersonal hedge funds – or disappearing altogether – we’re a family-owned publication employing editors, reporters, photographers, and salespeople who actually live in Beaufort and care about what happens here. We’re a newspaper OF the community, BY the community, and FOR the community.

Do you value knowing about last week’s City Council meeting? Yesterday’s school board decision? Friday’s high school football game? What about that new restaurant that just opened? That festival coming up this weekend? That corrupt County official who just lost her job? That occasional monkey prison break?!

Here at The Island News, we believe local newspapers are essential – not just to community spirit and cohesion, but to democracy, itself. Sure, we’re here to keep you informed about all the fun stuff – festivals, concerts, parades, adoptable pets, monkeys – but we’re also here to help hold our local leaders accountable.

And for 6 years, we’ve been doing it all AT NO CHARGE, because we believe an informed community is a healthy community – and that everybody deserves access to the news.

But like many of you, we’ve experienced tough times over the last few years. Inflation has hit us hard. Paper prices have skyrocketed, along with the price of just about everything else. We’re struggling for our survival.

So this holiday season, we’re asking for your help.

Starting today, you can donate on our website at www.yourislandnews.com or by sending a check to The Island News, PO Box 550, Beaufort, SC 29901. Your donation – no matter how small – would not only help keep us going, it would let us know you value what we do!

Please help us pull off a Christmas miracle, readers! We love producing this paper for you and hope to do so for years to come.

Many thanks,
Jeff and Margaret Evans, publishers