Author: Margaret Evans

Where tradition begins with community My style of writing was recently described as “spirited.” I guess once a cheerleader, always a cheerleader. But now, instead of rooting for my athletic peers, I choose to cheer for my adopted town of Beaufort and its neighboring islands. I communicate my thoughts and aspirations, my will to win and my acceptance of loss through writing now, as opposed to chanting to crowded stadiums and gymnasiums. But the goal is still the same. I hope to make people appreciate the institution of community.

“Anxiety-free” mammograms and more at Beaufort Memorial’s new Women’s Imaging Center.   Time for your annual mammogram? No worries. Beaufort Memorial Hospital is turning the dreaded breast check-up into a relaxing, anxiety-free experience with its new Women’s Imaging Center.

We asked our Facebook friends: What’s your favorite Water Festival event – official or unofficial – and why?   Charity Brancho: Do I have to choose just one?    Bunny Stange Bohannan: Anything that can be done from my boat!!   Becky Beach Romero: My family comes down from Columbia every year to watch the parade with us. The kids love the Shriners little red cars & getting squirted with the guns on the floats:)

The rising country superstar is headed to the Beaufort Water Festival The rugged sound of steel guitar and fiddle, the images of fields and farms, allusions to heartbreak and hard work… You can’t miss the fact that Lee Brice is country all the way.   It’s in his voice – think of it as honey trickling through lines of melody etched in leather – and in the images it conjures, of “country girls and redneck boys” anticipating the night to come in the sunset glow of a Dairy Queen (“Sumter County”), of growing up “on the edge of a cornfield” (“Picture of Me”).