Author: Margaret Evans

The Technical College of the Lowcountry is proud to partner with the Library of Congress and Parris Island to host veterans for a day of storytelling and filming. 

            On October 20, 2018 the Port Royal Sound Foundation will host their fourth annual Night on the Sound. The foundation’s signature event has featured distinguished guests such as Philippe Cousteau, Dr. Bob Ballard and Jack Hanna. David Gallo, American oceanographer and explorer, will be the speaker at this year’s event. Gallo previously worked as the Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The American Heart Association (AHA) is proud to announce Catherine Donaldson will chair the 22nd Annual Heart Ball of the Southern Coast. The Heart Ball will be held on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, at the Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa.

For the fourth consecutive year, Maverick Media and Bikers Against Bullies USA have teamed up to bring one of the largest rolling custom bike displays to towns throughout the country, and this year, they’re starting in OUR town!

I went down to the crossroadsFell down on my kneesDown to the crossroadsFell down on my kneesAsked the Lord for mercy”Take me if you please.”      – Robert Johnson

In eighteen years covering all of Hunting Island, Buddy Lawrence, Friends of Hunting Island Sea Turtle Conservation Specialist, has never needed to rescue a mama turtle from fallen trees. But on Thursday, July 5, he did just that. A Turtle Team in zone 4, south of South Beach, and nearly to the breach, found a mama turtle stuck in a hole under a downed tree. Lawrence believes she was trapped around 3-4 am. The same mama had made three other non-nesting crawls that same night, attempting to find a good spot to lay her eggs. There are already four successful nests in the same area. But this particular turtle was just unlucky.

Hopeful Horizons, the local Children’s Advocacy, Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Center has received a $360,000 grant from The Duke Endowment to fund the expansion of their Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) program which is an evidence-based treatment for young children between the ages of 2 to 7 with behavioral and emotional disorders that places emphasis on improving the quality of the parent-child relationship and changing parent-child interaction patterns.