December 6
2023: Beaufort Police Chief Dale McDorman announces he would be retiring Jan. 26, 2024. A member of the Beaufort Police Department since 1995, McDorman became chief in July 2020 following the death of Chief Matt Clancy.
December 10
2010: Harriet Keyserling, who, as a champion for women’s issues, represented Beaufort for 16 years state legislature, dies of kidney failure at Beaufort Memorial Hospital at the age of 88. She was elected to Beaufort County Council in 1975. Then from 1977 to 1993, Keyserling spent her time in Columbia focused on energy, nuclear waste, the arts, education, women’s rights and ending the filibuster in the House. She was the mother of longtime Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling.
Compiled by Mike McCombs.
