Mike McCombs

Mike McCombs is the Editor in Chief of The Island News and has been working as a journalist in the state of South Carolina for the better part of three decades. He has won numerous writing, design and editing awards from the South Carolina Press Association, as well at the Associated Press Sports Editors. Mike graduated with a B.A. in History from Clemson University, where he worked as the Sports Editor and News Editor for The Tiger, South Carolina’s oldest college newspaper. He is also a graduate of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education’s Summer Editing Program at the University of Nevada in Reno, as well as a 2023 graduate of Leadership Beaufort.

Honoring our fallen should be a year-round task

Mike McCombs, Voices /

Soon, the gatherings and happenings of the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, though still fresh on the mind, will be headed for our stack of memories, slowly fading. When the grill has been cold for days, any leftovers are likely already gone from the fridge, and those of us that enjoyed a long weekend on the water or out of town are home again and have spent several days back at work, it may seem like the time to look forward to the next holiday, our next celebration, our next vacation. Instead I want to linger on this one for a while.

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