Author: Margaret Evans

USCB students are making a difference with a student-led greenhouse project.

On this the occasion of my 100th column for Lowcountry Weekly, I thought it might be worth taking a breath and sifting through reader feedback. For better or worse, almost all the feedback that comes to me directly is positive. Yes, I suspect that negative responses just don’t reach my eyes and ears though such responses surely exist. But all of your thoughts are much appreciated, whether in person or via e-mail. I read them all and never discount anyone’s reaction. Never.

Beaufort’s New Hi-Tech Incubator Brings the 21st Century to Town By Mark ShafferPhotos courtesy of Beaufort Digital Corridor Last January Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling cut the ribbon at 500 Carteret Street officially ushering in the city’s Age of Technology. In a town that dates back centuries some things are better late than never. Enter the Beaufort Digital Corridor, a hi-tech incubator sponsored by the city to grow the tech and knowledge-based companies of tomorrow in the shadow of the Antebellum South. The Beaufort model is a slightly modified spin-off of the highly successful Charleston Digital Corridor, the brainchild of Earnest Andrade – also instrumental in getting the Beaufort project up and running.