Author: Margaret Evans

Local grassroots group seeks to improve the quality of Beaufort’s downtown tennis facilities while the area’s tennis community continues to grow. By Mindy Lucas It’s a bright, crisp Sunday morning in downtown Beaufort. A group of women are playing doubles tennis at the courts on the corner of Bladen and Boundary streets.  As the players trade shots, traffic passes by on Boundary, though the women seem oblivious to the noise just a few yards away.

“If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that’s going faster and faster, we’re spinning off the edge of the universe.” – Martin Scorsese

It’s time for some food, music and fun!   Beaufort Memorial Hospital presents the 2020 Bands, Brews & BBQ, bringing two days of food, music and fun with wings, barbecue, craft beers, live music and kids’ activities on Friday and Saturday, February 28 & 29. This year’s event will take place at The Port of Port Royal. 

Lowcountry biologist Travis Folk will return to the Verdier House Dinner & a Lecture Series with a program on the landscape of conservation, management and appreciation of the rural lowcountry. The lecture is set for Monday, February 24, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. at 801 Bay Street, the John Mark Verdier House.

Last month, LowcountrySpeaker Series, in partnership with the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce, successfully kicked off its inaugural season by hosting the 66th Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (2005-2009). Nearly 1,000 community members attended the lecture, which was hostedin a live, face-to-face forum at the Marriott Hilton Head Resort & Spa.