Port Royal Sound Foundation

Turtle nerds to the rescue: Volunteers capture diamondback terrapins in Lowcountry for conservation study

The heat was thick in the tidal creeks on St. Helena Island on the morning of Saturday, June 13. The pluff mud was thicker. Neither was any kind of deterrent for the more than 50 volunteers who came to take part in capturing diamondback terrapins as part of the field work for an ongoing conservation study.

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Ridgeland rejects Tickton Hall annexation

It is Thursday, Sept. 18, and I’m sitting in a wood-paneled room in Ridgeland, S.C. It is 8 p.m., and most of the 35 other people in this small, jammed-packed room are jubilant; happy because the Ridgeland Town Council has just voted, 4-1, to reject the proposed annexation, proposed rezoning and proposed development agreement presented by Tickton Hall Investments, LLC; Euhaw Holdings, LLC; Tickton Hall Holdings LLC; and Pepper Hall LLC.

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