LUCAS: Missing – true conservatives March 19, 2025 Carol Lucas/Contributors/Voices By Carol Lucas Where have all the true conservatives gone? The moment I asked myself that question, a song immediately popped into More
Time for Loftis to resign as state treasurer March 19, 2025 Voices By Andy Brack If there’s one thing that’s bringing together Republicans and Democrats in Columbia, it’s the increasingly widely-held belief that it’s More
It’s all music to the ears of the Chinese March 19, 2025 Contributors/Scott Graber/Voices By Scott Graber It is Friday, early, and I’m in my dining room awaiting rain that has been promised by “weather radar” More
The new and improved radical, Part I March 19, 2025 Contributors/Tim Wood/Voices By Tim Wood “I used to be a pacifist!” That is a quote from a friend as we were speculating our end More
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR March 19, 2025 Letters to Editor We the people Our democracy is known as “government for the people, by the people.” The concept is established in the Preamble More
Celebrating Lafayette: City, HBF, others mark 200th anniversary of Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to Beaufort March 11, 2025 Arts/History/News By Mike McCombs The Island News Most Americans can’t tell you who Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier was. Even if More
LaFayette’s 1825 visit offers model for liberty today March 11, 2025 History/Voices By Elizabeth Chew During the American Revolution, a wealthy French teenager was willing to risk his fortune and his life for people More
Lowcountry Lowdown: Council’s Okatie rezoning decision misleading March 11, 2025 Contributors/Lolita Huckaby/News/Voices By Lolita Huckaby BEAUFORT Beaufort County Council’s committee members got some bad press last week from the Savannah television news reporters who More
Lowcountry Life March 11, 2025 Uncategorized At Friends of Caroline on Friends Lane near the Ridgeland/Okatie border, Habersham’s Ron Callari took a photo of their grand piano in More
Veteran of the Week – Jake Marcaio March 11, 2025 Military American Legion Beaufort Post 207 brings you Jake Marcaio, 38, who joined the U.S. Army in Monmouth, N.J., in 2009. After Basic More
ON THIS DATE March 11, 2025 History March 18 1825: General Lafayette arrives in Beaufort to a 13-gun salute and speaks to citizens from the John Mark Verdier House, More
Barge hits Woods Bridge March 11, 2025 News The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT), which owns and maintains the Woods Memorial Bridge in downtown Beaufort, confirmed that the bridge’s More