Lowcountry Lowdown: Water Festival — A 70-year labor of love
It’s Water Festival … in case you’re new in town or living under a rock, oblivious to all but the heat.
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Lolita Huckaby
Lolita Huckaby Watson is a community volunteer and newspaper columnist. In her former role as a reporter with The Beaufort Gazette, The Savannah Morning News, Bluffton Today and Beaufort Today, she prided herself in trying to stay neutral and unbiased. As a columnist, these are her opinions. The Rowland, N.C. native’s goal is to be factual but opinionated, based on her own observations. Feel free to contact her at bftbay@gmail.com.
Lowcountry Lowdown: Beaufort City Council catches heat at last week’s session
It’s been hot and the oppressive summer heat has probably contributed to keeping political activity to a minimum. That and the political primaries being behind us. But Beaufort City Council, at its last meeting for a month, had its lively moments.
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Lowcountry Lowdown: Fourth festivities highlight community support
Kudos to the city of Beaufort and town of Port Royal – their employees and dozens of volunteers — for providing folks, by most accounts, wonderful July 4th activities.
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Lowcountry Lowdown: City Appeals Board votes to save three landmark oaks
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of this country and our right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” it seems increasingly rare for citizens to have an opportunity to applaud decisions being made by governmental regulatory boards.
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Lowcountry Lowdown: Last Tuesday’s primary confirms 5 new faces coming to council
Beaufort County Council’s June 8 meeting lasted more than four hours and covered a diversity of subjects from a business license for a Catholic thrift store to stricter regulations for plastic bags.
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Lowcountry Lowdown: Beaufort voters turn out for early voting
One highlight from last week’s news was the fact that a record number of registered South Carolina voters went to the polls on the first day of early voting and that held true in Beaufort County.
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Lowcountry Lowdown: Redistricting, ‘Pinky-gate’ rumors occupy state, county conversations
With the June 9 primaries rapidly approaching, the focus on political candidates builds just like the summer heat.
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Beaufort County Council was scheduled this week to get a look at their transportation advisory committee’s recommendations for a sales tax question to put on the November ballot. They don’t have a lot of time to consider their options.
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Lowcountry Lowdown: Taste of Beaufort branches out
It’s almost May Day, and this weekend, the community and visitors will get to celebrate with the annual Taste of Beaufort festival.
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Lowcountry Lowdown: STR’s — A never-ending subject of debate
By the time you read this column with your morning coffee, the future of STR’s (short-term rentals) in the city of Beaufort may be a political hot potato “put to bed.”
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