By Delayna Earley
The Island News
Bring in 2025 with a bang thanks to fireworks in downtown Beaufort on New Year’s Eve. The fireworks are scheduled to begin at 9 p.m., at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park.
This is the second year that the Beaufort Area Hospitality Association (BAHA) has sponsored the show and this year they are doing it along with Harris Teeter.
Before 2023, it had been nearly 10 years since fireworks were used locally to ring in the New Year.
Vendors will be on site in the park selling food and drinks. The best spot to see the fireworks is from the Waterfront Park, but they can be seen from all around the Beaufort River.
The BAHA is sponsoring the show to try and generate business for the downtown area and for the community to welcome the new year during a time of the year when tourism usually drops in the city.
This is the second year for the fireworks, and according to their Facebook event, the BAHA hopes to continue to grow the event to make it bigger and better every year.
The only other time of the year that the City of Beaufort hosts fireworks consistently is in July during the opening night event for the Beaufort Water Festival.
Delayna Earley, who joined The Island News in 2022, formerly worked as a photojournalist for The Island Packet/The Beaufort Gazette, as well as newspapers in Indiana and Virginia. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.
