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May 23

2019: The Beaufort County Board of Education approves a four-year contract with Frank Rodriguez, the veteran educator selected to become the new Beaufort County School District Superintendent. Rodriguez was a regional superintendent in Palm Beach County, Fla.

May 26

1925: In the early hours, according to the Beaufort Gazette, on the river side of Bay Street, a fire ravaged the blocks between West and Scott streets. Numerous businesses, including the River View Hotel, the Austin Grocery Company and the E.E. Lengnick department store, were destroyed.

2021: Beaufort attorney Mary Sharp is sworn in as the President of the South Carolina Bar.

May 27

2019: Beaufort High School varsity boys basketball coach Will Lowther is dismissed from his coaching position and placed on administrative leave from his teaching position after his arrest for allegedly transferring alcohol to a minor in an April 6 incident in which he met with a minor on a dating app. 

— Compiled by Mike McCombs

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