Dancing With Our Stars
The Beaufort Dance Company kicked off Night 2 of CAPA’s Dancing With Our Stars on Saturday, March 14, 2026.
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Arts, humanity, creativity in the AI age
Like most folks, I am grateful for the benefits offered by Amazon, Google, Spotify, and similar services. I read how AI will allow vendors to know more about me and adjust their algorithm, so they present me with targeted choices. That’s good business but it removes the possibility that we will like things that we don’t know exist. I am attracted to creative people and unique creations.
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Mathews promotes small-mindedness
In a recent The Island News op-ed called “A time and a place for everything,” author Louise Mathews wrote that she objects to athletes who speak out about LGBTQA+ “rights.”
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Has the City stolen defeat from the jaws of victory?
In what appeared a “gift from heaven” at the March 10, 2026, Beaufort City Council meeting, the City was offered a $2,271,600 contract from Clarendon Farms, LLC, to purchase about 31 acres in the long-failed, City-owned Beaufort Commerce Park.
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Lafayette commemorative ‘time capsule’ unveiled
Historic Beaufort Foundation and the Lafayette Bicentennial Planning Committee presented a “time capsule” to Beaufort City Council and Beaufort County Council commemorating the March 18, 1825 visit of Marquis de Lafayette. The capsule marks
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Beaufort History Museum hosting ‘A Night at the Museum’
Step into the historic Beaufort Arsenal courtyard on Craven Street and be transformed back in time when the Beaufort History Museum hosts its auction and gala — “A Night at the Museum” – at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 19. This will be an exquisite evening filled with nostalgia and history.
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City of Beaufort PIO Ashley Brandon resigns
Ashley Brandon, the City of Beaufort’s Public Information Officer, has resigned her post, City Manager Scott Marshall announced during the March 10 regular City Council meeting.
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City Council advances amended short-term rental ordinance on 1st reading
The Beaufort City Council moved forward on March 10 with a revised short-term rental ordinance, approving the measure on first reading with several amendments after a lengthy and at times pointed debate over neighborhood equity, investor rights, and how best to rein in the clustering of vacation rentals in the city’s historic districts.
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Beaufort noise ordinance advances – with a field trip to Hemingway’s as evidence
Before deciding how lively downtown Beaufort can be, the city’s leaders have spent months deciding how loud it can be.
That question moved a step closer to an answer at the March 10 City Council regular meeting, but not without some real-time wordsmithing, and not before one councilman took his own decibel meter downtown for homework.
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City Council passes expanded plastics ban on first reading
The City of Beaufort’s City Council voted March 10 to pass amendments to the city’s single-use plastics ordinance on a first reading, making Beaufort the first municipality in Beaufort County to advance the measures.
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