Author: Margaret Evans

The excitement is building as a new and unique festival is being rolled out in Beaufort –The Wellness Wave and Scavenger Hunt! Wellness Wave is a collaboration of USCB partnering with its neighbors, Beaufort Chiropractic, Free Spirit Yoga, Sanctuary Acupuncture, and Alchemical Healing. Motivated to bring more fun, wellness, and sense of community to our college students and to the Beaufort community, the collaborators will be turning the USCB campus into a hub of festivities, games and treats.

Beaufort History Museum, in partnership with the Beaufort Branch of Beaufort County Library, will present a lecture titled “History and Tales of the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department and Coroner’s Office.”  The lecture is scheduled for 2 pm Tuesday, April 9, at the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall located at the corner of North and Church Streets in Beaufort. Speakers will be Ed Allen, Beaufort County Coroner and Lieutenant Colonel Neil Baxley, Emergency Management Director of the Beaufort County Sherriff’s Office.

A Short Story by Jack Sparacino Morning mist rose like fetid cigar smoke from Charleston’s rivers, creeks and harbor. Indoor sanctuaries beckoned. Clicks, squeaks and scuffling resonated off the shiny floors at Bohicket Marina Village mall. Saleswomen stood sentry at their stations, bored senseless by the stream of customers trudging through. The ladies’ paltry wages weren’t enough to afford them their preferred surgery.

Terri & Mark Stokes of Bay Street Jewelers in Beaufort were honored with a 14-karat gold and diamond pin to signify twenty years of membership in the Independent Jewelers Organization (IJO), at IJO’s recent semi-annual conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.