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Blind sisters need help making it through the holidays
Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 10 Hours 33 Minutes ago Post & Courier - Josephine and her sister Jackie live together and do their best to get by, although they both are legally blind. Josephine has macular degeneration and Alzheimer's disease, while Jackie suffers from severe glaucoma.
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Today is the deadline for public pools, spas to install drain safety ... Found: 2 Weeks 6 Days 23 Hours 43 Minutes ago The Island Packet - Shell Hall could become a gated community, despite protests from town council members several months ago, following a vote Wednesday night by the Bluffton Planning Commission....
Blaze guts nonprofit
Found: 3 Weeks 3 Hours 9 Minutes ago Post & Courier - MOUNT PLEASANT ? After nearly two decades of helping people put a roof over their heads, East Cooper Habitat for Humanity experienced a role reversal: A fire Wednesday night gutted the nonprofit's offices on Ben Sawyer Boulevard and inconvenienced neighboring businesses.
By the next morning, donors already had stepped in to replace some of the melted office equipment. Executive Director Bob Hervey said a bigger concern was where they would put it.
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Ten debutantes presented at The SC Debutante Ball Found: 3 Weeks 11 Hours 48 Minutes ago Columbia Star - Nine daughters, one granddaughter, and three nieces were presented at The South Carolina Debutante Ball on Thursday, December 18, 2008, at Forest Lake Club. Receiving guests at a reception prior to the ball were Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Charles Scott, chairman of the board; Mr. and Mrs. David Christian Goodall, president of the ball; Mr. and Mrs....
Bluffton Town Council defeats effort to swear in contested member Found: Minutes ago The Island Packet - Bluffton Town Council denied a member's request Tuesday that the panel swear in Allyne Mitchell, the second-place finisher in the contested, four-way council race to fill two seats....
Laurens ex-deputy acquitted on lewd act on child charges Found: 3 Weeks 19 Hours 40 Minutes ago Greenville Online - A Laurens County jury has acquitted a former school resource deputy and Baptist minister of two charges of committing a lewd act on a minor and failed to reach a verdict on a third charge of criminal sexual conduct with a female minor, according to court documents and the state Attorney General's Office....
Shell Hall gate proposal moves to Bluffton Town Council Found: 3 Weeks 1 Day 2 Hours 42 Minutes ago The Island Packet - Shell Hall could become a gated community, despite protests from town council members several months ago, following a vote Wednesday night by the Bluffton Planning Commission....
Bluffton Town Council defeats effort to swear in contested members Found: 3 Weeks 2 Days 3 Hours 44 Minutes ago The Island Packet - Bluffton Town Council denied a member's request Tuesday that the panel swear in Allyne Mitchell, the second-place finisher in the contested, four-way council race to fill two seats....
N.C. educator to be next schools chief
Found: 3 Weeks 3 Days 19 Hours 45 Minutes ago Post & Courier - MONCKS CORNER ? For the first time in its history, the Berkeley County School District has gone outside of the Palmetto State to pick a new superintendent. The school board unanimously voted Sunday to offer Anthony Parker, a longtime North Carolina educator, a three-year contract worth $195,000 a year. Parker, 58, the superintendent of the Johnston County School District, has accepted the offer to replace retiring Superintendent Chester Floyd.
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