Nearly three-fourths of Beaufort Coun ty’s kindergarteners had difficulty fully engaging in their classroom activities in 2020.Only 27% of the students entered kindergarten with sufficient skills, knowl edge and abilities to engage with kinder garten-level instruction, according to the 2020 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) report from the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee.
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As the Town of Bluffton continues its nationwide search for a new police chief, Town leaders and staff are seeking the community’s input to ensure the search incorporates the community’s top priori ties in the “Communityprocess.input is a key component of a well-rounded search,” Town Man
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County’s youngest students already behind when school starts
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The Town has contracted with a Columbia-based search firm, Find Great People, to compile the results of the sur vey and facilitate the nationwide search. This firm has facilitated nationwide searches for cities and towns in South Carolina, including the former town manager search.
Because it was post-Covid, the 2020 KRA was a modified assessment and might be considered a pandemic blip, but the full KRA from 2019 showed only about 39% were at the top level, “demonstrating
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readiness.”Suchresults show that many of Beau fort’s children begin their educational journey at a severe disadvantage, and that worries United Way President and CEO Dale“I’veDouthat.beenworking for about two years researching and trying to figure out a way for us to make some sort of an impact on this. As we think about this, it’s important to realize that this is not the fault of the school districts,” Douthat said. “Whatever the child’s situation is, if they’re staying with a parent, neighbor, aunt, grand mother, childcare facility, it’s important that we point out that readiness is something that happens before they enter school.”
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Links to English and Spanish versions of the survey are available online at town ofbluffton.sc.gov/CivicAlerts. Residents can also complete the survey in-person at Town Hall, 20 Bridge St., during business hours.Deadline is close of business, 5:30 p.m., Sept. 21.
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In affiliation with MUSC Health and Alliance Oncology, Beaufort Memorial New River Cancer Center brings all of the hospital’s cancer services closer to home for patients who live south of the Broad River. Equipped with the state-of-the-art Varian Halcyon™ Linear Accelerator radiotherapy system, the cancer center offers access to medical and radiation oncology as well as lab, imaging, chemotherapy/infusion and breast health services.
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“Drip” is now a style term, short for “dripping,” as in diamonds, which are also called “ice,” which, when melting, drips. Did you follow that? I heard that this evolved from the exaggerated amount of gold chains, and ginormous
I am no longer the cool chick I was when I moved to the Lowcountry.
By Lynne Cope Hummell EDITOR
Learning the lingo of the day strains my brain with slang
Along the way, I learned to keep some things on the DL, short for “down low,” of course. It’s a fancy word for “secret,” which many people just couldn’t keep.
“Fire” is another expression of approv al, often expressed only with the “fire” emoji on your phone, but you’re OK to say it when you think something is really cool. (There I go using old words again!)
Don’t get me wrong. I’m no stranger to the use of slang to confuse and annoy parents. Back in the day, I knew it all. When we really liked someone or some thing, we were “mad” about it.
One of my boys asked me a few months ago if I liked his “fit.” I was unable to respond for fear of saying the wrong thing. I noticed he was wearing new dead-stock sneaks (aka sneakers that haven’t previously been worn and are not creased at the toe), along with a new T-shirt and shorts. Oh, and funky socks. (Is “funky” still an appropriate term for “a little bit weird but lit at the sameAftertime”?)anuncomfortable moment, he finally said, “My outfit, Mom. My fit!” Apparently, it’s trendy also to chop words in Ifhalf.you have the least tiny hint of an idea of how to appropriately use some of these expressions IRL (that means “in real life”), then you “understood the assignment.” You are killing it, bruh. You are fire.
themselves and confound their elders.
And if it’s really dope, it’s lit. Or at least it was last year.
I think my lack of awareness of current youthful slanguage is because I don’t do Tiktok or hip hop. I’m told that’s how one discovers all the new words created or adopted by today’s kids to express
Sorry.Eww.”Ishould have said “I’m not dope.”Ifyou are unaware, “dope” is an old word made new to describe anything kids of my generation would have called “cool” or “hip.”
Even though I sometimes still feel as engaged and interested and creative as I did back in my 20s, I am just not as hip as I used to be. Furthermore, nothing is hip anymore. “Just don’t use that word, Mom.
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Icky things were “gross.” Things that were new and exciting were “groovy.”
A similar newer phrase is “low-key,” which signifies something OK to share, but not widely. It seems to be more like downplaying a thought or an emotion: “I’m low-key mad about that guy.”
I’ve recently read that I am sort of what is called “cheugy” (pronounced
“choo-gee”). I still wear some things (like comfy jeans) that were stylish years ago, still use the same mascara (Maybelline, of course), still wear my hair mostly the same, still have the same (annoying to some) eternal positive attitude.
Two years ago, I would have been sim ply “basic.” This slang word that was top of the charts in 2020 means “tragically mainstream,” and eye rolls accompany the thought. Alas, now “basic” is too ba sic, and has been replaced with the whoknows-where-it-came-from “cheugy.”
Those who are near my age of expe rience might recall when some older siblings called their annoying, dorky younger one a “drip.” Guess what? These days, drip is fire.
“$” pendants that many hip hop artists seem to favor. When you drip, you got fashion sense like Gucci.
We must do our homework on all candidates running for office. Do they pledge to uphold democracy and will
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This bi-partisan, fact-based oversight is serving us well in South Carolina. During the 124th legislative session, 36 of the rec ommendations from various House Legisla tive Oversight Committee studies of agencies were enacted into law. These changes reflect the dedication of my colleagues in listening to agency personnel during studies and continuing to act on their requests.
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As another example, the Department of Corrections study included a recommenda tion to lower the minimum age for certifi cation of correctional officers from 21 to 18 years to help address the growing staffing challenges with the agency. In making the recommendation, we noted 23 other states had a minimum age of 18. Legislation on this issue was filed in February of this year and signed into law only four months later.
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of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, the Office of the State Fire Mar shal requested changes to the law to clarify the authority to issue separate fines for each repeated fire code violation (i.e., those that remain uncorrected after notice and time to correct) creating life and safety issues for the public.Legislation was first filed to implement this change in 2018, and a version was ulti mately enacted in 2022.
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As chairman of the House Oversight Com mittee, I often repeat a quote from President Woodrow Wilson’s doc toral dissertation: “As important as legislation, is vigilant oversight of transparency,edstatefortheadoptedadministration.”Theprocessweafterpassinglegislationcallingoversightofvariousagenciesmandatthehighestlevelofnotonlywith the oversight function, but also with all aspects of the committee. Our process was designed to ed ucate the public about our boards, agencies, and commissions with a single set of realitybased, measurable taxpayer facts which can be used to better serve all our constituents.
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Sometimes legislation can pass rather quickly. For example, the study of the Department of Motor Vehicles included a recommendation to require inclusion of ve hicle titles of “brands” (e.g., “salvage water,” “salvage fire,” etc.) that provide information about a vehicle’s history to a potential buyer. Legislation was prefiled on this issue in 2020 and enacted in 2021.
Currently, the Attorney General’s Office, Department of Commerce, Jobs-Economic Development Authority, and State Library are under review and meetings will continue with these agencies through October.
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Further, ongoing and completed studies continue to shed light on agency operations and observations and help inform public policy decisions. Examples include the 2022 studies of the Arts Commission, which
It is our goal to uphold the results as free and fair and to have a peaceful transfer of power. This responsibility falls to each of us.
Sometimes, it takes filing a bill in mul tiple legislative sessions for the change to be enacted. For example, during the study
identified the arts as having a $9.7 billion impact to the state’s economic and cultural vitality in 2014, based on research from the Darla Moore School of Business; and of the Department of Health and Human Services, which included a finding that nine counties (i.e., Dillon, Marion, Barnwell, Marlboro, Allendale, Williamsburg, Lee, Colleton, and Orangeburg) have a Medicaid population of 40% or more of the total county population; and the recent study of the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, which noted that more than 75% of victims do not receive full restitution.
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now. Our individual actions matter. We must vote for the people we feel will best serve our communities regardless of affiliation.Inthese troubled and divisive times, I feel we must look not only to our parties; rather we must investigate the integrity and intentions of all people running for office in order to make the best choices for our democracy.
Work of oversight committee brings change
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Our experience will, I hope, continue to inspire other legislative bodies. It is not a huge jump to infer that our era of hy per-partisanship may be a part of our current cynicism and mistrust of our long-evolved institutions of democracy. Cooperative, bipartisan, factual oversight may go a long way to help us understand that we are all in thisWetogether.havemade significant recommen dations to improve and make government more efficient. This is powerful, positive change.
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There is much at stake in the upcom ing mid-term elections in South Carolina and across the country. Many local issues are being debated, but what stands out to me, like the American flag we hold dear everywhere, is saving our democracy. Our right to vote is precious. We must do everything we can as individual citizens to insure free and fair elections in South Carolina.
they accept the will of the people when the votes have been counted? Do they stand for me?
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Camden Brown, Bluffton: “Huber man Lab, with Dr. Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at Stanford. He does distilled reviews on the latest in psychology and wellness findings.”
Ashlynn Hill, Bluffton: “I watch a lot of YouTubers, like Zane and Heath Unfiltered. They tell stories about life, and have guest stars.”
Perk in Old Town, we asked: “What podcasts do you regu larly listen to?”
With this feature, we seek to capture a glimpse of what you and your neighbors have to say about a variety of topics, issues, events –and just plain fun questions. You might see us anywhere around town, with notepad and camera, randomly seeking out folks
Lisa Ashcraft, Bluffton: “SmartLess, with Jason Bateman and two guys. They always have a celebrity guest and do on the spot interviews. I’m also addicted to Murdaugh Murders.”
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Kris Coleman, Bluffton: “The Daily Wire with Ben Shapiro, and also Joe Rogan. He gives both sides on lots of topics, like music and politics, Game of Thrones and sports.”
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“My biggest concern was if you walk this issue from entry level worker all the way down, we have a pipeline issue and it goes all the way down the K-12 continuum,” said Statler, who is currently executive director of Polaris Tech Charter School in Ridgeland. “I think the solution has to be a multi-pronged approach. We have to address the issue, and messaging has to be consistently done every year.”
One of the “classroom” programs the school district offers is actually not in a school.
His concern originated from a phone conversation with Kim Statler, who at the time was the Lowcountry Regional Work force Advisor for the state Department of Commerce.“Wewere talking about workforce de velopment, and she was lamenting the fact that the employers she worked with were seeing job applicants coming in without the ability to fill out a job application,” Douthat said. “Given that the better the job you’re going for, the more the technical job it is going to be – whether it’s heavy equipment or computers – literacy is the foundation of our workforce.”
Both Douthat and Statler believe it is partially an awareness issue, plus the stan dards have changed over time.
Part of the program is a text messaging service that every week sends parents or guardians facts relevant to the child’s age on Monday, followed by age-appropriate activities on Wednesday. The overall con cept of program is to use life as the lesson book.“Instead of saying you need to sit down with your child for 30 minutes before bedtime every day to read them a book, they’re saying, ‘Hey, you’re at the grocery store. You can point out colors and shapes, and you can do counting’,” said Douthat.
Because it’s a global issue, there are hun dreds of programs available, one of which attracted Douthat’s attention.
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“The issue is core skills in reading and math were missing for employees. I started to research what causing this, how far back does this go, where did the wheels fall off,” she said. “You start to see that kids are starting school in a deficit position. So what are we missing? Have the standards changed for kindergarten readiness or do the parents not know what the require ments are to go to kindergarten?”
Statler said the inability to fill out an ap plication demonstrates an issue that goes back to the person’s early education.
The Harvard program also has the atten tion of the Ashley Hutchison, director of readiness for the Beaufort County School District, and will be an addition to what the district is already doing to reach chil dren before they get to school.
“It’s a Lowcountry-wide collaboration. Public schools, private, state organizations, pediatricians’ offices. We’re looking at a wide swath of influencers to attack this problem head on,” Statler said.
“I found an initiative out of Harvard called The Basics that is addressing all of these exact issues that we want to address locally. And all of their materials are free to use,” he said.
Douthat felt one of the first steps was to coordinate with all of the local organiza tions and agencies that work in early child hood, create awareness in the community, and then provide free resources to parents and caretakers. That effort expanded an existing organization into the Lowcountry Early Childhood Coalition.
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“We offer developmental screenings for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds, so whether you are in our in District pre-kindergarten program or not, we are going to provide intervention for you in some way, depend ing on the outcome of that screening,” said Hutchison. “We reach out to our partners at the Department of Social Services, our local pediatricians programs, and our Head Start program. We reach out to those along with the Lowcountry Early Child hood Coalition, and all work together to help educate the parents on the develop mental screening process.”
The pre-kindergarten program is com pletely voluntary, and is for those students who are 4 years old on or before Sept. 4. The children in the program are screened, but the screenings aren’t just for students in the program.
“The biggest thing is we try to meet children where they are developmentally, and then make progress and make growth from there,” said Hutchison. “We do that through a variety of ways, depending on that the child’s needs. Our district offers intervention-based pre-kindergarten for about 1,000 students, and it’s a full day.”
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try.“Ultimately, if we can be successful, what we’re really doing is we’re creating the next level of workforce for our commu nity, so that in 18 to 20 years from now, all of these kids being born today are entering the workforce, and we want a better workforce,” said Douthat. “We want our economy to stay strong. We want to support those folks that are trying to bring better paying jobs in here. It takes time, but this is what we’re going for.”
The Beaufort County School District traveling preschool bus goes into neigh borhoods throughout the county to help educate parents on the importance of early childhood experiences.
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Hutchison said the district serves about 1,500 kindergarteners a year. The assess ments that are made create a baseline for each student, and kindergarten teachers then can plan lessons based on the readi ness of each child.
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That community investment is what is driving Douthat, Hutchison and a whole host of agencies that are part of the Low country Early Childhood Coalition.
“What we’re working on right now, we plan on having done in the next three to six months, as we’re developing a business plan. The important thing to realize is that this is not a light switch. Once we imple ment this, it’s not going to fix the problem. This is a generational change,” Douthat said. “If we start working with parents of newborns today, we won’t know if we’re successful until the children enter kinder garten.”Among the numerous groups investing in raising the scores are Beaufort First Steps, Agape Family Life Center, Beau fort and Jasper County School Districts, The Children’s Center, Beaufort County Human Services Department, Child Abuse Prevention Association, Sheldon Township Community Support Partnership, Depart ment of Social Services, the Beaufort/Jasper Economic Opportunity Commission Head Start and the United Way of the Lowcoun
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The Head Start program, begun in January 1965 as part of the national “war on poverty,” started as an eight-week demonstration project designed to help break the cycle of poverty, according to the Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children and Families. It began as a comprehensive program to meet the emotional, social, health, nutritional and educational needs of lower income pre-school children. A key tenet of the program was that it be “culturally responsive to the communities served, and that the communities have an investment in its success through the contribution of volunteer hours and other donations as
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“Over the last 25-plus years, our school board has been extremely supportive in making sure our community has early childhood experiences for all children, starting at birth,” she said. “I think kin dergarten is one of the hardest grades to teach. It’s a make-or-break moment. ... We set them up for success early.”
“We are using some funding for the bus to support a full-time staff, and the bus will now be going out three to four days a week this school year to all locations in the county,” Hutchinson said. “The whole concept there is so that parents don’t have to come to us; we go to them.”
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The idea is to have a number of smaller restaurant spaces (a coffee and breakfast space, barbecue and taco stand were men tioned as examples) with a taproom in the center of the building. The food hall layout is reminiscent of the current buildout hap pening in Hilton Head Island’s Port Royal Plaza, with bakery chain Paris Baguette be ing the first of a number of planned eateries opened in the food hall space.
The Planning Commission approved the preliminary development plan unanimously at their Aug. 24 meeting, contingent on the developer addressing all community con cerns around privacy and parking. There are numerous approval steps ahead before any plan would be passed on to Town Council for a final vote.
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It is an ambitious plan that has already caused an undercurrent of panic from neighborhood residents weary of the poten tial for parking overflow beyond the allotted 135 parking spaces, and added traffic im
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The building footprint would literally wrap around the Parker’s property, with a 20,000-square-foot production brewery space and 30,000 square feet reserved for a food hall and retail space, tasting room, business offices, and a beer garden and pavilion event space.
This site development plan shows the footprint of the planned River Dog Brewery location on May River Road.
The brewery first opened in a small warehouse in Bluffton, soon after moving to a larger Okatie facility. River Dog co-owner Dawna Gray took 100% ownership of the brewery in 2014.
pact to an already congested intersection.
“We have noise ordinance concerns, just a lot of concerns. Outside seating, operating hours, the buffer between properties, the size of a privacy fence, the trash can location – they are all concerns,” said Norma Moore of 15 Red Cedar St. “I don’t want to stop it. I just want to make sure that the concerns of those that live literally within walking distance are addressed.”
Bluffton has developed a fast reputation for craft breweries and spirits innovation thanks to big connecting swings from the likes of Lot 9, Southern Barrel and Burnt ChurchEquallyDistillery.worthy of praise is River Dog Brewing, who has quietly built a budding empire in Okatie. Well, they are quiet no more.River Dog presented a preliminary devel opment blueprint to the Bluffton Planning Commission on Aug. 24 for what they hope to be a 50,000-square-foot facility on Jenni fer Court, at the corner of Buck Island and May River roads.
River Dog has expanded its barrel capaci ty, expanded to offer to-go cans, bottles and growlers. Gray first made a proposal for the Jennifer Court location to Town Council in 2018, but the new proposal is two and a half times bigger than the earlier proposal.
River Dog looks to ‘come home’ with large Old Town facility
Witmer Jones Keffer is representing River Dog in the town approval process with the hope to be built and fully occupied and op erational by 2024. WJK officials addressed resident concerns at the meeting and promised to work with residents to further address concerns as the development plan progresses through the approval process.
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ture numerous performing artists well known both locally and nationally, artisans with unique crafts, and Lowcountry cuisine.
Vascola Stoney, a Bluffton native (and Bush’s cousin) now based in Houston, makes frequent return trips home. A dynamic and inspirational spoken word artist, Stoney was featured at the Bluffton MLK Observance Committee’s 4th Annual Black Excellence Ball in IndieJanuary.Soul
Bush’s singing spans R&B, soul, jazz and inspirational, and she has performed with Jennifer Holliday, Gloria Gaynor, Phil Perry, Bobby V and Justin Bieber.
The latest addition to the area’s festival scene focuses on plenty of music and Gullah Geechee food traditions – this time, the Southern flavors of fish and grits.
“I have always wanted to bring awareness to my great culture. I have also been blessed to travel the world as a professional singer,” said Bush. “Through my travels, I have been able to see the influences of my African ancestry all over the world, and I wanted to share that connection as well.”
Artist Gwen Yvette has her roots on St. Helena Island. An entertainer and songwriter, she has opened for The Mighty O’Jays, and Frankie Beverly, and was a featured singer along with Bush and others
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New Fish & Grits festival focuses on Gullah culture
Bluffton native and performing artist Latrese Bush is the organizer. The daughter of the late Leon Bush, Sr. and Laura Bush, a retired 26-year veteran of the Beaufort Coun try School Board, Bush now lives in Atlanta where she runs BurnBush Entertainment, Inc.
Louise Cohen is a Hilton Head native. She is an award-winning and renowned Gullah storyteller, historian, teacher and preser vationist, and is affiliated with the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island.
The entertainment lineup is loaded with well-known musicians and storytellers, with something for everyone. The festival will fea
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Though it will be held on Hilton Head Island – Oct. 1 at Lowcountry Celebration Park – the new event has Bluffton origins.
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Percussionist Frankie Quinones is an independent Atlanta-based Latin and World Percussionist with a passion for playing all styles of music.
For more information, visit fis handgritsmusicfest.com.
Gwyneth J. Saunders is a veteran journalist and freelance writer living in Bluffton.
Watterson Brands, which owns Burnt Church Distillery, is presenting the Lowcoun try Fish and Grits Music Festival in associa tion with BurnBush Entertainment, Hilton Head MLK Committee for Justice and the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor.
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“I want to bring awareness to my rich Gul lah Geechee culture and give my community another opportunity to gather for great food, great music, and great times,” she said.
Bush anticipates the event becoming an annual festival.
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Vendors will include authors, artists and vendors selling culturally relevant handmade crafts, specialty items such as jarred pre serves, and merchandise that can be worn or hung.Food trucks bringing tasty treats will in
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This is a kid-friendly event with access from the festival to the adjacent Adventure Playground and to The Sandbox Children’s Museum.Aportion of the proceeds will be donat ed to the Hilton Head MLK Committee for Justice. The festival also sponsored by Native Island Business and Community Affairs Association.Lowcountry Celebration Park is at 94 Pope Avenue, Hilton Head. The gates will open at noon and the show runs from 1 to 6 p.m. General admission tickets are available online and are $10 ($1.99 fee) for 13 and older, and $5 for ages 6-12 ($1.74 fee).
Recording artists Angela Bonaparte and Company are a well-known gospel group out of Levy. They perform at various communi ty functions, and their music can be found online.Charleston-born R&B singer Votte Hall is an Atlanta-based recording artist who began his musical career behind the scenes in music studios before he began recording.
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in the March show “Queen: A Tribute to Greatness,” saluting Aretha Franklin.
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Hours, days of waiting paid off with sighting of rare bird
Two weeks into my mission, a friend emailed to tell me to call a friend of theirs, that the hummingbird was visiting their feeder. After leaving a message, I got a call from the residents, who told me that a white hummingbird was at their feeder and I should come see it. I flew out the door.
The difference in leucism and albinism is that albino birds have a pink pigment in their eyes, beak and legs. Leucistic birds maintain their dark eye, beak and leg col oring.Two weeks ago, I received a call from an acquaintance who said that this special hummingbird had been “spotted in Bluff ton.” I packed my camera bag and spare batteries to head to the spot in Pinckney Colony to Althoughwait.the bird had been seen every
Word in Sun City traveled fast and my friends and neighbors (who know that I will do anything for a fabulous wildlife photo) started talking about my quest.
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Anyone who has experience with hum mingbirds might have noticed they come back to the same spot over and over, usually around the same time every day, so it only took a couple days of “camping out” in my new friend’s backyard for this beauty to fly in.Thankfully, I was ready! She was definite ly worth the wait!
Most recently, I spent two weeks of “hunt ing,” following up with sightings, sitting (for hours at a time) and watching for a very rare hummingbird – the leucistic ruby-throated hummingbird.Leucisticruby-throated hummingbirds are not as rare as albino hummingbirds, but they are still very rare – especially in Bluffton.Only236 of the 5.5 million birds re ported each year have leucism, making up a tiny proportion of birds with abnormal plumages.Inother words, only about 1 in 30,000 birds have leucism, giving them irregular patches of white feathers instead of the ruby-throated birds’ normal coloring.
day at this feeder at dawn for five consec utive days, apparently she had moved on because she never showed up over the four hours I was there. (The homeowners named her “Pearl,” so we continue to consider the bird as Later,female.)Ihappened to be scrolling through posts on Nextdoor and I read that there was a video of the bird at a feeder in Sun City – where I happen to live. I tracked down the video and then the people who posted it and called them. They promised to call me when they saw him next. I waited. And waited. And waited some more.
Sophia Schade, a resident of Bluffton, is an amateur wildlife photographer with a special interest in local and rare creatures.
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I’ve been known to sit for hours waiting for the fox to come out of her burrow in my community, the eaglets to take their first flight at Widgeon Point, and the baby red-headed woodpeckers at Del Webb nature preserve to be fed.
A rare sight in the Lowcountry, this leucistic ruby-throated hummingbird visited the area over at least a two-week period in early September.
his daughter onstage as an award winner at the festival was an other worldly dream.
“It’s pure insanity, but it’s an unbeliev able creative challenge and so rewarding to tackle this as a family,” said the elder Lavery, who has tackled this Herculean dare four times over the past 13 years, each time coming away with honors. This is the third entry that became a family affair, but this year was different.
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Their film, “The Big Vacation,” was the audience choice winner and the run ner-up for best overall film in Savannah 48-Hour Film Festival.
A pivotal moment from “The Big Vacation,” with baby Miley, Jessica Lubbers (left) and Grace Lavery.
Budding filmmaker Grace Lavery took home a slew of trophies by taking these three wild concepts and crafting cinemat ic magic in 48 hours.
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That’s not a typo. Lavery and her father, Dave, wrote, filmed and edited a sev en-minute movie over the course of two days this summer.
“The Big Vacation” is the directorial debut for Grace, a junior at the Savannah College of Art and Design film school.
“We built her an editing suite in her bedroom when she was 9. She has always been creative, but to see her make this happen, it was an amazing two days for our family,” Lavery said.
COURTESY GRACE LAVERY
“To see your daughter shine and get to witness her vision and help bring that to life, it’s just special beyond words,” said the proud father. Lavery is a celebrated videographer and owner of Timeline Productions. He has produced and directed national TV commercials, indie films, countless projects for Lowcountry companies, and is currently a go-to cre ative dynamo for both Golf Channel and Gulfstream.Buttosee
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Two-day film project a blockbuster success for Bluffton family
A littering Russian sailor. A maleficent wiener. A baby with gastrointestinal superpowers.Soundslike the beginning of a doozy of a joke, right? For one family in Bluffton, it was the core of a creative brainstorm that led to an award-winning film.
Think of being at the starting line of a reality TV show competition like “The Amazing Race.” Only here, 18 directors gathered in mid-July in Savannah to pick from a selection of genres (the Laverys picked “Vacation”). Then they are given a line of dialog (“Where are you going?”), a prop (note pad) and a character name and occupation (Georgette Crosley, hair dresser) that must be in their film. From that moment, they have 48 hours to craft their film.
First, the casting. Lavery’s grand daughter, Miley, won the role as the Pamper-wearing bambino with a deadly tummy ache. Lavery family matriarch, Missy, played Georgette Crosley. Grace played the babysitter. Grace’s friends were all crucial to the plot – Jessica Lubbers
The Lavery boys, Dave Sr. and Dave Jr., also got on screen, playing the bad-accent Soviet mariners. Senior doubled up as a hillbilly that falls victim to the rampaging infant.With props in hand, it was off to film location shoots at Folly Field Beach on Hilton Head Island; and Old Miller Road, Style It Salon and Bluffton Self Help in Bluffton.“Luckily this was before all the rain, so we got a sunny beach day. But it was scrambling from there, filming drone shots, a number of green screen setups to make Miley huge,” Lavery said. “It was hell, but the best kind of hell doing it with my family and friends, and just seeing Grace pull all this together.”
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“It’s pure evil genius. The weirdest ideas are the most fun to pull off, so we got after it,” Lavery said.
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“Two of the directors dropped out. You turn your film in one second late, and you’re disqualified,” Lavery said.
as the baby’s mom, Katie Benenati as the wrong-place-wrong-time beachgoer and Daniel Escobar as a NASA scientist with world-saving advice (and a hardcore crush on the babysitter).
Then it was back to the Lavery house to film the green screen scenes and digitally
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Grace immediately went to work on the plot and the characters while Dave gathered equipment and scouted shoot locations.Heridea: A duo of Russian cargo ship sailors throw a rancid hot dog overboard. The frankfurter washes up on the beach and is immediately ingested by a hungry baby. Chaos ensues, as the child’s gas explosion vaporizes nearby beachcomb ers. The baby morphs into a giant. Its mom and her friend escape and scramble to save humanity from the superpower sweetie pie.
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came with family-done films. In 2014, they won in the family category with “Say Yes,” an award sweep for best picture, di rector, editing, score and screenplay. They followed up in 2015 with a horror flick, “Waking Autumn,” which won second runner-up for best picture.
Without giving too much plot away, Miley especially nailed plot-turning close ups with her holding a hillbilly minifigure and a miniature bottle of hot sauce.
“You’re up against the clock, it’s ab solute hell but in the best possible way. We’re laughing, we’re chugging coffee, trying to stay awake, but the end result is this cool project and all the memories that we’ll be laughing about for years to come.”This is Lavery’s fourth overall award-winning entry in the festival. He won in 2009 working with his film industry friends, a buddy film called “A Man About a Dog.” The next two victories
create Miley the Giant, the cargo ship setting and the NASA laboratory.
Many a director has complained about the challenges of working with infant divas, but Miley was the consummate professional.“Shehitall her marks, she was all in on this. She smiled, looked like she was pooping. She just has incredible range as an actress,” Lavery jokingly said of his granddaughter. “We had to wake her up to do a couple of pivotal green screen shots and we trashed the green screen, but it was so worth it.”
Movie fans are never satiated. Like Mi ley the giant baby, they’re always hungry for the next big thing. Could a family fourth edition follow-up be in the cards for next “Dude,year?we’re all just recovering from these two days of madness. And Grace and Miley might be too big time for us by next year,” joked Lavery, who said he savors the chance to create a little Hollywood magic in his own backyard.
Filmmakers Grace Lavery and her father, Dave Lavery, produced an award-winning short film in 48 hours.
“It was so fun doing this in Bluffton and getting so many touches of family in the film. Never say never, but we’re all going to focus on sleep now.”
View the film online by searching “The Big Vacation” on YouTube.
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Lavery said that editing this masterpiece together was a frenzied labor of love.
Tim Wood is a veteran journalist based in Bluffton. Contact him at timwood@bluff tonsun.com.
“Creating has always been my passion. The wackier, the funnier, the better. So to make this happen with my family and to see Grace earn the spotlight, it’s just the ultimate kind of win,” Lavery said.
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The third-largest employer in Beau fort County, Beaufort Memorial currently has more than 350 openings across its three-county system, including positions in clinical areas, hospitality services, housekeeping, business office operations, customer service, information technology, transportation, supply chain, talent acquisi tion and Severalmore.positions are located in Bluffton and“We’reOkatie.looking for motivated people who care about helping people. That’s our busi ness,” said Russell Baxley, Beaufort Memorial president and CEO. “Health care experience is not necessarily required. We’re seeking great people who want meaningful careers
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In addition to a wide range of career opportunities, hiring managers will be avail able to discuss Beaufort Memorial’s generous employee benefits packages, which include:
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Prospective employees will also learn about Beaufort Memorial’s focus on career development through its recently launched PATH program designed to help staff learn new skills, earn advanced certifications, and progress their careers within the health system.Reservations are required to attend. Visit BeaufortMemorial.org/JobFair or call 843522-5680 to reserve a spot. To learn more about open positions at Beaufort Memorial visit BeaufortMemorial.org/Careers.
Beaufort Memorial will host its largest system-wide hiring event on from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at Shellring Ale Works in Port Royal. Prospective employees will meet with and be interviewed by hiring managers during the RSVP-only event.
To attend the meeting as a guest, send an RSVP email to mayeriverquilters@ gmail.com.Formore information and for member ship forms to join the group, call 843705-9590•TheHilton
Bluffton to discuss the on-going teacher shortage in South Carolina.
Dr. Jon Leader, state archaeologist, and Ron Anthony, retired, from the Charles ton Museum, will be on hand to identify objects.Theevent is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be available.
Delta Kappa Gamma is a society of key women educators, teachers and school administrators, kindergarten through higher education. Educators interested in attending this meeting or learning more about Chi Chapter can contact CHI’s Membership Chair, Connie Johnson, at 843-368-3945•Registration is now open for the an nual Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s Bluffton event, to be held Oct. 29 at the Promenade in Old Town Bluffton.Check-in begins at 10 a.m. with an opening ceremony at 10:45 a.m.
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• Maye River Quilters will meet at 10 a.m. Oct. 1 at Church of the Palms, 1425 Okatie Highway in Okatie.
Music on Malphrus returns Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at the The Unitarian Universal ist Congregation of the Lowcountry, 110 Malphrus Road in Bluffton.
Scott Ainslie, who has been a musician all his life, will perform. It is said that his mother found him at the family piano picking out melodies from the records she listened to during the day when he was 3 yearsComingold. of age during the Civil Rights era (and subsequently seeking out elder
Head Chapter of the South Carolina Archaeological Society will host its annual “What the Heck Is It?” pro gram from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 1 at Coastal Discovery Museum, 70 Honey Horn Drive on Hilton Head Island.
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• Hilton Head Aububon will host its Member Appreciation Social from 3 to 5 p.m. Oct. 2 at Island Winery 15 Cardinal
Speaker is John Tynan, executive direc tor of Conservation Voters of South Caro lina, which holds elected leaders account able for a safe, clean and healthy state. Attendees may bring their own snacks. Wine is sold separately.
More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and more than 11 million family members and friends provide care to them.
masters of the Appalachian Old-Time, Black Gospel and Blues traditions he has received), Ainslie plays this music with affection, authority, and passion.
Road on Hilton Head Island.
RSVP and $15 required via registration at Potentialhiltonheadaudubon.org.membersarewelcome to attend and to join. For more information, email HHIAudubon@hiltonheadaudubon.
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General admission is $25 at the door. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more infor mation, visit uulowcountry.org or email musiconmalphrus@gmail.com or uucl. office@gmail.com.•TheBlufftonLibrary will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with activi ties Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the library, 120 Palmetto Way in Bluffton Village.“Our Cultures, Our Stories” will feature Hispanic culture, cuisines, music, snacks, andAllmore.ages are welcome to participate. For more information about this and other library events and programs, visit beau fortcountylibrary.org.•ChiChapter,one of 43 Delta Kappa Gamma chapters in South Carolina, will meet Oct. 8 at the USCB campus in
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8th annual Bob Masteller’s Jazz for All Ages Festival, fea turing the legendary Count Basie Orchestra Oct. 30, and Charlton Singleton and Friends Oct. 31. Also, new Jazz Brunch Oct. 30. Junior Jazz Rising Stars will open both nights. Tickets now on sale at jazzforallages.com.
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discussions, lunch, tours from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Satur day at Culinary Institute of the South. Tickets, schedule at patconroyliterarycenter.org.
Through Oct. 5
The High Divers, Roasting Room Lounge, 1297 May River Road, Bluffton. Longtime local favorites. Tickets $20 and up. Doors open 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. roastingroom.live
“Little Shop of Hor rors,” Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island. Preview $57 adult, $52 children; regular run $62 adult, $57 children (recommended for 13 and older, parental discretion advised). Artshhi.com or 843842-2787
“Paint What You Love and Love What You Paint,” exhibit of works by Mary Treadwell, Society of Bluffton Artists, 6 Church St., Bluffton. Gallery hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon day-Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. sobagallery.com or 843-757-6586.
Through Oct. 6
USCB Lunch With Author Series kick-off, noon at Belfair Country Club, 200 Belfair Oaks Blvd., Bluffton. Author Katherine Reay discusses “The London House.” Tickets $50. Reservations by Sept. 27 at USCBCenterforTheArts. com or 843-521-4145.
Oct. 5
“Ebb & Flow: The Fluidity of Paint,” an exhibit of art by Jean Macaluso, Art League Academy, 1076 Cordillo Pkwy., Hilton Head Island.
Through Oct. 23
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Oil paintings by plein air impressionist Carol Iglesias on display at Driftwood Eatery, 5 Waterway Lane, Hilton Head Island. Hours 8 a.m.-9:30 p.m. daily. caroliglesias. com
Oct. 12-14
Through Sept. 30
“The Marsh House Collective,” art exhibit by Dataw
Blues Traveler, six-time platinum rockers in concert at Rock ‘n’ Ribs BBQ Fest on Hilton Head Island, part of their 35th anniversary tour. Tickets available at bluestraveler. com/tour.
“Guys and Dolls,” Beau fort Company,Theatreat
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“The Ties that Bind: The Paradox of Cultural Survival Amid Climate Events,” art exhibition that explores notions of life in the sea islands. Ceramics and photography by art ists in residence Anina Major and Tamika Galanis, at York W. Bailey Museum at Penn Center, Beaufort. Penncenter. uga.edu
Island artists, USCB Center for the Arts, 801 Carteret St., Beaufort. Gallery hours Monday-Friday 10 a.m-5 p.m. USCBCenterForTheArts.com
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USCB Center for the Arts, 801 Carteret St., Beaufort. Sept. 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 25 at 3 p.m. Tickets and more information at USCBCenterForTheArts.com or 843-5214145.
Through Sept. 23
Admiral Radio and Finnegan Bell, Roasting Room Lounge, 1297 May River Road, Bluffton. Tickets $25 and up. Doors open 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. roastingroom.live
“Plein Air with Pastels,” workshop with Carol Iglesias, instructor. Intermediate and experienced pastel artists, $360 Art League members, $400 non-members. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily, at Art League Academy, 106 Cordillo Parkway, Hilton Head Island. artshhi.org or 843-842-5738
“Heart and Soul of the South,” exhibit by Art Quilters of the Lowcountry, at Coastal Discov ery Museum, 70 Honey Horn Drive, Hilton Head Island. Artist walks on Thursdays, 1-3 p.m. Gallery hours 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. 843-689-6767 or coastaldiscover.org
Sept. 28-Oct. 30
visit with author Zibby Owens Friday at 6 p.m.; author
In 2020, the group’s single, “Carry Me” was in contention for Best Music Video in multiple film festivals across the globe. They just finished their first full-length album with Grammy Award-winning producer Mark Howard (Bob Dylan, U2, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Emmy Lou Harris, Willie Nelson).
THE WORLD’S MOST RAVENOUS PLANT IS BACK WITH A NEW BITE!
Little of Shop of Horrors is a landmark musical that has made millions of audiences laugh, scream, and give up gardening for good!
Get ready to see your favorites: Chris Anderson (Outlaws, Grinderswitch), David Goldflies (Allman Brothers Band), Mike Kach (Dickey Betts Band, Great Southern), Chuck Farrell (Jon Butcher Blues Project, James Montgomery), AJ Vallee (Southern Rock All Stars, Peacheaters). The group also includes Chris Hicks (Marshall Tucker, Out laws) who performs with the band when not on tour with Marshall Tucker.
Looking ahead to amazing music this fall in Old Town
We are so excited to bring these legends to AndBluffton!Iknow a lot of you are excited to find out that Damian McGinty will be here Nov. 7. He is the lead singer of Celtic Thunder and became famous in the U.S. from his role in the tv series “Glee.” We are so pleased for the opportunity to have this Irish singer and actor at the Roasting Room.
For more information and tickets, visit roastingroom.live.
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And last one for now, but certainly not least – Dan Rodriguez. If you’ve been coming to the Roasting Room for a while, then you are sure to have heard his name. We all love him. He is a remarkable sing er-songwriter, and his ability to tell stories is unmatched. This show sells out every time, so grab your tickets fast.
Jennifer Knapp and Sarah Peacock are two artists coming Nov. 11 as a co-bill for the first time at the Roasting Room. Putting these two together is going to absolutely rock. Their voices are out of this world and we can’t wait for you all to hear these two.
The Brevet are coming back to Bluffton! This is the band that made me fall com pletely in love with the Roasting Room a few years ago. The Brevet is an American rock band based out of California, and they truly are next level.
After displaying the new find in the shop window, Seymour is catapulted to fame as the caretaker of the succulent sensation, and the whole city is buzzing! But this quickly-growing bloom isn’t as innocent as he once thought. This carnivorous, smart-talking plant has an insatiable thirst for human blood, making Seymour question just how far he’ll go for the life of his dreams.
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We are excited to let readers know that Once an Outlaw will be back at the Roasting Room the first week of November! Once an Outlaw brings together current and former members of some of the bands that created the Southern Rock genre.
One of my all time favorites, the absolute ly incredible Shannon Clark and the Sugar are returning Nov. 10 to the Roasting Room as well. Their last show sold out and blew us all away. We are expecting this show to do the Husbandsame.and wife duo Shannon and Brittany Clark joined the Warped Tour to represent Ohio in the mid-2000s. Soon after, tragedy hit the family with the loss of their second daughter. For a time, the music stopped.Imminently, Shannon and Brittany’s cre
Amanda Hodge is director of mood elevation and human logistics at The Roasting Rom in Bluffton.
This deviously delicious sci-fi rock musical follows hapless floral assistant, Seymour, who spends his days tending to sad little flowers as well as his wilting hope of a better life beyond skid row. Suddenly after an unexpected “total eclipse of the sun,” Seymour discovers a new breed of plant — a cross between a Venus flytrap and an avocado!
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ative songwriting would become the healing tool that brought them together and revived the band. When their oldest daughter, Navie, joined in 2019 as a vocalist/instru mentalist, they began experimenting with a new sound – and Shannon Clark and the Sugar was born.
As part of Art League of Hilton Head’s year-long 50th Anniversary celebration, an exhibit of past members’ artistic achievements will be held for just five days, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, at the gallery.
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“A Tribute: Honoring Past Members and Their Work” is a look at a diverse selection of member artwork that has been on exhibit throughout Art League’s 50-year history.
The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
“This exhibit is a way to honor those who led us to where we are today.”
An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 28.
Art League is located at 14 Shelter Cove Lane on Hilton Head Island. Gal lery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mon day to Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, and 90 minutes before all Arts Center performances.ArtLeagueof Hilton Head is the only 501(c)(3) nonprofit visual arts orga nization on Hilton Head Island with a synergistic art gallery and teaching Academy.Formore information, visit artshhi. org or call 843-681-5060.
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president.“ArtLeague is a collection of artists inspired by the island, its people, and its natural beauty. Our artists are brought together by a love of learning and art making, and by the camaraderie of working and exhibiting in a supportive community atmosphere,” said Kristen McIntosh, Art League general manager.
Art League marks 50th year with exhibit of past members’ work
On display will be the works of more than 30 artists, including one of the Art League’s founding members, Walter Greer, one of the foremost Lowcountry American artists and the island’s first resident artist; Suzanne McCullough Plowden, whose mural study “Early Clockmaking” can be found in the Smithsonian; Yvonne Stark, known for her impressionistic landscapes; Nancy Wittke, organizer of the Art & Flower Show and Fabulous Fakes, two beloved annual ALHH special events; and Gretchen Ramsey, Art League’s first
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Being present with oneself in a new place, taking in Mother Nature’s surprises, is the perfect nourishment for the soul. Fans of poetry are the beneficiaries of Robin’s “fresh perspective” and I believe they will read this new book with an ever-growing admiration of her work.
Glenda Harris is a freelance writer and editor, nature lover and aspiring novelist.
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InIndeed.these poems, the reader will find fan tasy, vivid imagery of dreams, then pain and heartache – daring hope to prosper. In the midst of big sky and mountains, streams and canyons, there is space for self-reflection.Fromthemoon to the mundane, from the river to the redwoods, her metaphor ical sketches and words seeming to flow effortlessly, yet conveying power.
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“To My Dreamcatcher,” an 81-page collection of poems by Elizabeth Robin of Hilton Head Island, published June 10, is her third book featur ing her unique style of poetry.Robin’s first two were chapbooks, “Silk Purses and Lemonade” (2017) and “Where Green Meets Blue” (2018), earning the author a fellowship from the South Carolina Writers Associa tion as well as the John Edward Johnson Prize from the Poetry Society of South Carolina.“ToMy Dreamcatcher” is a full-length collection of poems on a wide range of subjects. Many of these poems took root during her 2018 road trip, a cross-coun try getaway touring national parks with her canine sidekick, Byron.
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“My Dream Catcher” would be a lovely gift for anyone who loves poetry. It is available at finishinglinepress.com and on Amazon.com.Followtheauthor’s other work and see a schedule of her events at elizabethrobin. com. More of Robin’s poems can be found in numerous journals and magazines including “The Breeze” and “Time and Tide,” a publication of the Island Writers’ Network.
many passages that stopped me, to read it overi“Dearagain…Dreamcatcher,realizeyoucheated death more than oncebefore you didn’t know, know you lived as though you knew you wouldn’t”
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Poetry collection evokes dream imagery, pain, hope and power
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By Glenda Harris
“Not only did those landscapes allow me the space to sort myself out, they inspired a fresh perspective to living in nature,” Robin said in an interview. “You realize how small you are, under a South Dakota sky or giant redwood.”
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“My Dreamcatcher” pulsates with energy, questions and discovery. Though difficult to summarize an assemblage of such eclectic poems, this work seems spiritually emphatic, as if the author has traversed through darkness and beyond, finding she is perhaps ready to embrace her new life, on a path to live “as a wom an alone, finishing life well.” (Christen Kincaid, Finishing Line Press, 2022)
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USCB Lunch with Author series begins Oct. 5
The University of South Carolina Beau fort Lunch with Author 2022-2023 Series begins Oct. 5 at The Belfair Clubhouse with author Katherine Reay.
Payne thinks it’s just another day of work until she receives a call from Mat Hammond, an old college friend and historian. But pleasantries are cut short.
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The author will be discussing her historical fiction novel “The London House.” Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of “Dear Mr. Knightley,” “Lizzy and Jane,” “The Brontë Plot,” “A Portrait of Emily Price,” “The Austen Escape,” and “The Printed Letter Bookshop.”“TheLondon House” is the story of how uncovering a dark family secret sends one woman through the history of Britain’s World War II spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris to save her family’s reputation.Caroline
Mat has uncovered a scandalous secret kept buried for decades: In World War II, Caroline’s British great-aunt betrayed family and country to marry her German lover.Determined to find answers and save her family’s reputation, Caroline flies to her family’s ancestral home in London. She and Mat discover diaries and letters that reveal tales of her grandmother and great-aunt and how they drifted apart before the Together,war.Caroline and Mat uncover stories of spies and secrets, love and heartbreak, and the events of one fateful evening in 1941 that changed everything.
The lunch event begins at noon in the Clubhouse, 200 Belfair Oaks Blvd. in Bluffton. Reservations must be made by Sept. 27. Tickets are $50 per person and are available at USCBCenterForTheArts. com.
If you really feel you are a bad dancer, it is OK to go and learn to dance formally because anyone and everyone can learn to dance. After that first walk through the door and that first dance lesson, everything gets easier.Surely you have heard the saying “Dance like nobody’s watching.” Maybe you should consider lightening up your perspective on other dancers and on yourself and really have some fun. Get out there and dance!
floor. Some people might be all over the dance floor while others pretty much stay in one place.
A dance floor will always have a com bination of people with different styles at different levels. For example, you have the “wedding couple” who have worked on only one dance towards their wedding dance goal. Then you have some who basically come to socialize and just enjoy meeting new people. On the other end of the spectrum you have the competitive dancers who are extreme athletes trying to achieve champion status.
Social dancing is about people enjoying themselves. No two people seem to dance the same way. Some have big movements while others might just sway on the dance
If you really take the time to look at each person, maybe no one is really bad, maybe they are all just different. Each person on the dance floor is expressing their pleasure in the music in the way they feel it.
and they actually seem to be having the mostRememberfun. that dancing comes from the heart. It should be an expression of joy!
Sandro Virag is a partner and instructor at Hilton Head Ballroom Dance Studio of Hilton Head, located in Bluffton at Seaquins Ballroom. hiltonheadballroom.com
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When it’s time to have some fun, there are no bad dancers
But think about this: What’s really im portant about dancing, and who is dancing really for? Dancing is for everyone. It just depends on how serious you are and how far you want to take your dancing. It could be any level from social dancing to competi tiveThinkballroom.about how those “bad dancers” look on the dance floor. Don’t they seem to be the ones who are having the best time? They are always smiling, many times laughing.Theyare usually dancing the most dances
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When folks on the dance floor are having a good time, there’s no such thing as a bad dancer.
Believe it or not, there are no bad dancers.
And you are probably also thinking, “I won’t get out on the dance floor because I’m too self-conscious about how I look when I’m dancing.” We don’t want others to think we can’t dance.
When was the last time you went to a social function or wedding and looked at the dance floor only to think “Oh, my gosh! Look at that person – they cannot dance, they have no rhythm!”
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near the Mill Creek Boulevard entrance to the community, the builder needed permission from the Bluffton Planning Commission to add the back alleys and reconfigure the existing street network around the impacted area.
Residents are anxious for buildout to
The first core community in the New Riverside corridor of Bluffton is near ing buildout, but not without one final hiccup causing major headaches for residents and the developer.
Please see PLANS on page 36A
Conceptual 2005 designs of the original commercial plan lining Mill Creek Boulevard (left), and the 2022 residential buildout proposed by builder D.R. Horton (right).
Earlier this year, the builder, D.R. Horton, converted the final 7.25 acres of buildout that was originally slated as commercial to a plan for 29 townhome units.But just how those townhomes are built out is the sticking point.
FormerTract.Bluffton mayor Hank John ston, who helped push through the Mill Creek master plan, was adamant that there be a commercial core to the community with homes flowing out to the edges of the property around the commercial spaces.
To build as Horton intends, with back-alley driveways in the acreage
for the revision to the neighborhood street network – citing, in part, the initial intent for the community to be a mixeduseThroughcommunity.theyears, Mill Creek has turned from the “live-work-play” con cept that involved a strong commercial component to a near-exclusive residen
The Mill Creek and Cypress Ridge development is far different than its original plan when the first homeown ers settled in their new homes in 2005. Now, as the final bit of building is set to occur in the now-1,400-home com munity, a dispute over how the final bit of land should be built out has taken a unique and controversial turn.
By Tim Wood CONTRIBUTOR
Developers at crossroads on completing final phase of Mill Creek
tial community – even cancelling plans for an intended golf course near the Four Seasons community portion of the Jones
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Seventeen years later, the growth of Bluffton has changed dramatically, as many of the planned commercial developments throughout town have been converted to residential space to accommodate the waves of population growth. After 17 years of trying to fill the still-existing commercial spaces left in Mill Creek, Horton officials conceded that without commercial developer inter est, they needed to convert the acreage to residential to finish buildout.
At its Aug. 24 meeting, the Planning Commission denied Horton’s application
Mill Creek and Cypress Ridge residents. She repeated a sentiment she has shared before concerning master plan decisions approved by past councils.
Without that reversal, Horton will be forced to follow a buildout of their townhomes with both driveways and curbs off the main Mill Creek Boulevard entrance and a handful of townhomes built off the roundabout entrance on ArgoAboutLane.40 residents came to a Sept. 6 meeting with Horton and Thomas and Hutton officials to voice concern over that plan. A handful of those residents showed up at the Sept. 13 Town Council meeting to endorse the revised plan and also ask that the Planning Commission
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Thomas and Hutton representative Michael Hughes disagreed with the Plan ning Commission’s criteria for denial, but the concept that Horton had already converted the space from commercial to residential further confused council members on what they were deciding.
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“We do not have the authority to do anything about what’s in front of us, but you do. You have an opportunity to step in and help us here,” Beaumont said.
“I’m more confused than when we started here,” council member Dan Wood said at one point, echoing a senti ment shared by all in attendance.
Argo Circle resident Mike Dolan did not want the townhomes in his back yard.“We don’t want to have to look at the seven townhome units. It would destroy green space which is already compro mised by all the overbuilding,” Nolan
Mill Creek resident Mallory Bridges spoke of the potential for Horton to re-convert the space to commercial if their plan is denied. There is an existing road that connects Four Seasons to Mill Creek, intended so that Four Seasons residents would not clog S.C. 170 get ting over to the Mill Creek commercial area.Traffic studies have shown that com mercial buildout would increase internal residential street traffic from 17 to 110 trips per hour through the neighbor hood.“Iam concerned that if any of this space remains commercial, we will have debacle that is now Seagrass Station, where they have a pay-by-the-week hotel.” Bridges said.
be completed, as it would finally allow them to take over control of the property owners association from the builder and have overall say on how the community is maintained and governed.
Mayor Lisa Sulka said that the ultimate losers in denying the application are
said.Fourteen-year Mill Creek resident Michael Beaumont had a different tact in attempting to connect with council members in his three-minute allotted comment time.
A vast majority of residents who spoke up at the initial meeting and who have voiced opinion on the community’s Facebook page have said if townhomes are inevitable, at least build them with the back alleys and no driveways facing the busy Mill Creek Boulevard.
After nearly a decade of contention over finally ceding the POA to the resi dents, the two sides find themselves in rareTheagreement.TownCouncil heard pleas from both residents and the developer’s repre sentative, Thomas and Hutton, to over turn the Planning Commission denial.
He talked of serving and protecting his three now-grown daughters – oftentimes through use of parental authority – as they grew up.
That community meeting will take place this week, with the hopes that a fi nal decision on the fate of the final patch of Mill Creek buildout will be decided at the Oct. 11 Town Council meeting.
“That council should sit at our council today and see what some of these de cisions have cost all of us,” said Sulka, who proposed a tabling of the council vote and urged the developer and town officials to meet with residents one more time to iron out a compromise.
decision be reversed.
Libby Parent has been hired by Libby O Marketing, Inc. a Hilton Head-based, boutique marketing firm. Parent joins as a content creator for the firm, now in its eighth year in Originallybusiness.from Con necticut, Parent moved to Savannah to attend Savannah College of Art & Design, where she simultaneously
• Thomas W. Lennox has joined the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Center for Strategic Planning as a facilitator.
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Lennox has 40 years of experience in com mercial banking and finance.Hegraduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor’s in Economics, and from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Delaware. After working for Mellon Bank and Keystone Financial in Pennsylvania, he founded the Legacy Bank of Harrisburg.
• Sophia Drzewiecki has joined the listings team at Collins Group Realty as a listings coordinator. She will provide com prehensive support and assistance to the team in the processing and logistics of proper ties listed throughout theBornLowcountry.andraised on the shores of Lake Michigan, Drzewiecki studied early childhood education, grad uating from Indiana University. She has worked as a private school teacher for the past five years in both Scottsdale, Arizona, andSheBluffton.recently moved to the Lowcountry with her Collinsfiancé.Group Realty is the No. 1 real estate team in the HHIMLS, by volume (2021), with offices in Hilton Head Island and Bluffton. The company was founded in 2002 by Chip Collins and is celebrating 20 years in the residential real estate business.
Seabrook residents, employees and prop erty.He comes to The Seabrook after 31 years of service with the FBI. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he attended the University of Indiana in Indiana, Pennsyl vania.For more information about The Seabrook of Hilton Head, visit theseabrook. com.•
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In 2006, Lennox moved to Hilton Head Island as president and CEO of Harbour side Community Bank. He was elected to Hilton Head Island Town Council in 2014, re-elected in 2018, and currently chairs its finance and administration committee. Pre viously he served on the Town’s Planning Commission.Themission of USCB’s Center for Stra
• Jeff Gulakowski has joined The Seabrook of Hilton Head as its safety and security yearsCelebratingmanager.40ofserviceas a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization, The Seabrook now has its own Safety and Security Department. This new department will be responsible for patrolling the 21-acre property, taking im portant resident calls, and maintaining the front gate Gulakowskihouse.will manage the safety and security priorities as they pertain to
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Marz replaces Chef Miles Huff, who retired in June after working to launch the Culinary Institute of the South, which opened in November of A2021.native Carolinian,SouthMarz said she was also excited to be relocating to South Carolina’s Lowcountry.Priortoworking for Northampton Community College, Marz worked for Montgomery County Community Col lege in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, where she was responsible for opening its Culinary Arts Institute and launching the school’s curriculum. She was also instrumental in opening two addition al foodservice outlets and managing the institute’s rapidly growing pro grams.Before moving into education, Marz worked in a number of restaurants, hotels and resorts across the country,
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• Chef Francine Marz has joined Technical College of the Lowcountry to serve as Dean of the Culinary Insti tute of the South.
While in college, Marz worked for several venerable Charleston institu tions including the Mills House Hotel, Seabrook Island Resort and Peninsula Grill.For more information, visit tcl.edu.
Chef Marz has over 30 years of in dustry experience, most recently serv ing as culinary director for Northamp ton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. While at Northampton, Marz oversaw the renovation of the school’s student-run restaurant, culi nary kitchen and related facilities. She also headed up the college’s culinary program overseeing faculty, catering and students in the program.
Marz recently earned her doctorate in Organizational Leadership, Inno vation and Learning in 2021 from Wilmington University in New Castle, Delaware.Inaddition, she holds a Master’s De gree in business administration, and a Bachelor’s Degree, and two associate degree in culinary arts from Johnson & Wales in Charleston.
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The recent departures began with Corks Wine Bar closing its doors in July. The business was an original anchor of The Promenade and changed hands a couple times since original owners Josh Luman and Gabby Farrell sold Corks in 2013.
a building at 1533 Fording Island Road in Moss Creek that will be the new home for
and fellow tenants Signore’s Coastal Art and Robert Hommel Gallery of Nature have also moved
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“We want to thank all of our past and cur rent customers for all the support over this year year,” co-owner Meghan Zalich said in announcing the closing. “Unfortunately, this economy has taken a toll on this endeavor.”
Weisner will continue to run his popular Sunset Party Series, with the next event,
Mark Weisner said goodbye to Bluffton Trading Post fans on Sept. 5, with a simple Facebook post saying, “Thanks for the memories.”Heopened the trading post in October 2019 as part beer-tasting room, part retail shop and part live music venue.
Uncorked Wine, Music, Bar and Restaurant. The building that housed Corks was sold
Please see CLOSINGS on page 40A
The business complexion of Old Town is changing.Inthepast two months, there have been seven retail businesses that have shut down in the one-square-mile downtown of Bluffton.Butas one door closes for some business owners, another door opens, and there are a slew of new businesses moving into town.
Thenout.came news on Sept. 2 that the DIY workshop The Wooden Loft was closing its 16 Church St. location. The business was less than a year old.
The building at the corner of Boundary and Church streets is a prime retail location and has reportedly already been subleased.
By Tim Wood
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Cassandra Shultz leans on a stack of Ina Garten cookbooks for sale at her new shop in The Promenade.
Old Town going through growing pains with business turnovers
The most current owners, Neil and Lorraine Ritter, turned Corks into more of a late-night music venue – which caused acrimony with upstairs residents and Prom enade board members alike.
The Ritters were as frustrated as their live music fans were about leaving Old Town, but are in the middle of renovating
Then came news of Ben and Jerry’s clos ing, as owners Jeff and Bay Lobb posted on Sept. 7 that they would be shuttering four days later.
dents, but Promenade founder Bill Herb kersman said the economy is not impacting the demand for businesses wanting in on Promenade retail space.
The wave of closings is a shock to resi
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Next up could be a high-end seafood restaurant in the former Cork’s space. Restauranteur Brian Behnke has alerted Old Town business owners of his plan to open a high-end raw bar with crudo and sushi, seafood towers and craft cocktails. Herb
Bluffton resident Shelly Workman summed up the community’s reaction to losing the iconic ice cream shop.
instrumental part of rebuilding the organi zation focused on promoting and advocat ing for small businesses in town, and while acknowledging the volatility of the current economy on a national level, she believes Bluffton will continue to buck that trend.
Two local ice cream shops, it is hoped, will fill the May River Road corridor sweet tooth void, with Joe’s Ice Cream and Bev erage Co. at 15 Bruin Road and The Ice Cream Stop in May River Crossing.
All signs point toward a thriving business, but simply time for the Lobbs to move on to the next chapter after five years on The Promenade.“Wewant to thank our amazing staff, and we are grateful to everyone who has sup ported us, created memories at the shop, and helped us make a positive impact in the community,” the Lobbs said in a goodbye post on social media.
As for the former Ben and Jerry’s home, reliable sources have said Lobb sold the building and that new owners are planning a charcuterie-focus eatery and wine bar in theTherespace.is also talk that a dance club along the lines of Columbia’s Social Bar and Lounge is looking to make the Promenade corridor home.
“I thank the dedicated owners that took a chance on The Promenade and have helped make it a premier destination and a calling card to highlight the exciting vibe that is building in Bluffton,” Herbkersman said. “I’m excited to see what the next year brings us.”Greater
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“It makes me sad, all these businesses leaving Old Town,” she said.
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“I know what economic downturns look like. We went through some very low lows before The Promenade began to catch on,” he said. “Where we’re at right now, I’m sad to see these small businesses leave but it opens up opportunities and there is no shortage of folks ready to seize that chance.”
kersman confirmed the talks with Behnke but gave no timeline on an opening.
Just as the Chamber itself has experi enced some bumps in establishing its stat ure and advocacy for local businesses, she said that the recent spat of closings is more the sign of growing pains than a negative trend.“Intoday’s economy, there are increased challenges in conducting business. The news of any business closing is upsetting no matter the location, and often comes with negative thoughts or concerns,” Osterman said. “The Greater Bluffton Chamber of Commerce sees and feels the growth that our community is experiencing. We can confidently say that Bluffton is growing, and we have a thriving business community. It is an exciting time to be in Bluffton.”
Herbkersman also said that Monkee’s ladies clothing boutique, a chain with more than 40 locations across the Southeast, plans to open in the building as well. He also expects a home décor business to fill another open space.
Blufftoberfest, scheduled for Sept. 24 at Oyster Factory Park.
Already we’ve seen Cassandra’s Kitchen move into the former Signore’s space at 14 Promenade St. with a Sept. 1 soft opening. The kitchenware and home goods store and home for all things Ina Garten originally opened on Red Cedar Street next to Lot 9 Brewing Company. Owner Cassandra Schultz plans to keep that space for inven tory storage with the Promenade location as the main storefront.
Bluffton Chamber of Commerce CEO Natalie Osterman shares Herbkers man’s enthusiasm. Osterman has been an
Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” – Unknown Medicare fall annual enrollment, howev er, is one thing we don’t want to let go of, but rather, let’s embrace it.
We successfully appealed all of them, but ask yourself, why were they even denied initially? Let’s turn fall enrollment into a second spring and put YOU back in the driver’s seat, rather than the insurance company.
For those 65 and older, this is your time to make things right again. If you don’t like your drug plan or advantage plan, you can make changes between Oct. 15 and Dec. 7.
“But I like my plan,” I hear some say. Even if you loved your advantage or Part D drug plan this year, doesn’t mean you’ll love it next year. In two weeks, your Annual Notice of Change (ANOC) will be mailed to you. Expect it in your mailbox between Sept. 19-30.
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The ANOC explains changes in cover age, costs, or doctor networks that will take effect Jan. 1, 2023. The ANOC letter is only for Medicare Part D drug plans and
Medicare Supplements or Medigap plans are not included in ANOC because Medicare standardizes the included bene fits, which means Medigap benefits don’t change each year.
Medicare annual enrollment period calls for plan review
Chris Dewey is the founder of May River Medicare Insurance in Bluffton.
at what matters: the provider network, drug costs and – last but not least – the plan’s“Autumnmax-out-of-pocket.isasecondspring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus. My advice: Turn your fallen, dead advantage plan into a flower and consider a Medigap Plan N with a stand-alone drug plan. Take back control of your healthcare options rather than let an insurance company dictate which doctor or provider you can see. Last year we saw 11 clients get denied for routine medical procedures their doctors deemed necessary, yet the insurance carrier denied them.
most you have to pay for covered services in one year. After you spend $7,500 on deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance for in-network costs, the plan pays 100% of the costs for remainder of the year.
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It’s crucial to read through your ANOC to have a clear understanding of how you will be impacted by plan changes. Even if your plan is not changing, or you’re OK with the changes, you should shop the market and ensure you still have the best plan based on your needs.
Last fall, there was one PPO advantage plan, Humana, offered with a maximum out of-pocket of $3,400 – half the cost of its competitors. Don’t get sucked into free teeth cleanings or $200 in eyewear. Look
In Beaufort County last year, the majority of advantage plan companies had a maximum out of pocket of $7,500 per year. Maximum out of pocket is the
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Medicare Advantage Plans.
Keep in mind it’s common for drug plans to be dropped or revised, which can lead to automatic enrollment in a drug plan from the same company. It’s also common for a drug formulary change, meaning a drug that costs you $4 this year might cost you $45 next year.
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, is observed this year beginning sundown on Sept. 25 through night fall on Sept. 27.
Chabad offers High Holy days for all
According to tradition, God decides each person’s fate on this day, so Jews mark the day by making amends and asking forgiveness for sins committed during the past year. The holiday is observed by fasting and prayers.
the beginning of the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of introspection and repentance that culminates in the Yom Kippur holiday.
At the onset of the Jewish New Year, the question of where to attend services is high on the list for many Jewish families and singles.
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services will be held in a warm and inclusive setting, providing an enjoy able and meaningful experience for both the beginner and the advanced. Song, commentary and the use of English-Hebrew prayer-books invite individuals of all levels to become active participants in the service.
Literally meaning “head of the year,” the two-day holiday commemorates the creation of the world and marks
Services are free and open to the public. For more information about the High Holidays visit head.org301-1819,Chabadhead.org/HighHolidays.jewishhiltonForgeneralinformation,contactGreaterHiltonHeadat843-emailrabbi@jewishhiltonorvisitjewishhiltonhead.org.
Chabad Greater Hilton Head is ded icated to removing entry barriers and ensuring that all who wish to partici pate in a meaningful celebration of the Jewish New Year may do so.
Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – is considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Beginning this year on the evening of Oct. 4 until after nightfall Oct. 5, it marks the culmina tion of the Days of Awe.
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Thethat.intent of the virus was apparently more subtle. It was simply using the re sources of our computer to hold and redis tribute files upon demand. If the content of the files is ignored for a moment, the whole thing seems relatively harmless.
some practices that help draw us closer connectedandto God, and instead using that time and energy to pursue other activities is a familiar pauseharmthinkOften,choice.wewillthereisnoinjustabriefofworshiping,praying,serving,givingorwitnessing.Wecan
even rationalize that we are still engaged in more spiritual activities, acts of piety, and mercy than, well, our neighbor, for exam ple. And doing just a few things we know are not so life-giving, but feel good, is OK, right? After all, it is just a few.
Pete Berntson is the pastor of Church of the Palms United Methodist Church in Okatie.
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In doing so, the issue was discovered and the virus essentially caused its own demise. This experience was a reminder of what can also happen when we are not careful with our faith life and practices. Ignoring
replicating and replicating until it consumed all the available resources. The result was that it crashed our server.
The challenge comes when a few become a few more, and more, and more. If we are
We got infected by the virus – again. I’m speaking of the church I serve.
But what happened is that the virus, unable to keep up with the demand, kept
It wasn’t COVID-19 this time. Instead, it was a virus that infected our website and disrupted our activities. The virus had been operating inside our website server for some time.The people of nefarious intent who inserted the self-replicating code could have just as easily announced their ability with not-so-nice public messages displayed to the world. But they chose not to. I am thankful for
Such attractions come in many names and many forms. No doubt you are already thinking of a few that always seem able to get your attention. Temptations are all around and can quickly lead to dire conse quences.Those of us who call ourselves Christ-fol lowers regularly pray together out loud, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” It is a public admission that we make choices all the time and need help to both choose wisely and to be rescued when we choose poorly.
Our computer system has been hardened, but it will still need to withstand future vi rus hacks. The same is true for you and me. Now is the time to stay connected to God and one another – before the next challenge. I pray we do.
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not careful, all our energy, time, focus and resources are soon used to pursue shortlived, not life-giving pleasures.
Joy Ross is owner of Style It Salon in Old Town Bluffton. styleitsalon.com
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with the fuzz and flatness that results from living near the beach? Most of my clients want no-fuss styles. The perm is the answer.
going to ask if the perm still
By Joy Ross CONTRIBUTOR
I am not talking about perming your hair to get body. Of course, those perms still exist; however, I usually dissuade my clients from doing that because they are more work for lesser results. I can show you how to style your hair with product and no perm and achieve basi cally the same result in less time.
Granted you have to use good sham poo and conditioner, and TLC at home, but you should be doing that anyway, right?You’re
Forget those horrid perms of the past; let’s start afresh
smells. It does, because the smell is the sulfur-oxygen bonds that are inside your hair that break when perming. So that rotten egg smell will always be there during the perming process. But it will not be there when you leave. You should never have had the smell when you left a salon. That is one of the reasons why you had the nightmares from perms in the past. Rinsing is the
Permed hair, if done correctly, should really be no maintenance at all! In fact, the less you do with permed hair, the better it will look. The more you mess with it the less you will like it.
I wrote an article a few months ago about how perms are making a come back. I wasn’t wrong. Of course, that memory I was referring to was your grandmother’s perm, or something similar.Thisresurgence is nothing like those. I’m referring to a wavy, basically no-maintenance hair style.
In this salty, moist climate a perm can be amazing. Why are we fighting
If you decide to try another perm, be certain that the stylist rinses for a good 4 or 5 minutes between the steps. Yes, its’ a long time – and I might end up giving you a bath by the time we’re done. But that’s a key part of the pro cess to achieve great results instead of the over-processed vision still etched in ourAlso,brains.aconsultation with your stylist before making the final choice is also a must. You should have asked all the questions and have received the answers you need to make a conscious decision to try again.
most important step and one that styl ists would not do long enough.
I’m sure everyone reading this has a vivid memory of a past perm disaster. I am here to tell you that is something you should try to forget. It’s over. Let’s move on, shall we?
The next day, you dampen it, comb it and leave it alone. No lie.
The perm I’m talking about is more of a controlled messy look, or “bed head,” if you will. Something that you put a little curl cream in when its wet and let it air dry. That’s it.
I believe the new perm is something that has been forgotten about for a while. Let’s see if we can resurrect the vision, but in a good way.
Seatbelts: A child at least age 8 or at least 57 inches tall may use an adult seat
Children with breathing problems, casts or other healthcare issues may need to use special car seats. Never try to alter a car seat to fit a child with special health care needs.
Forward-facing car seat: A child at least age 2, or under 2 who has outgrown the manufacturer’s height or weight limits for a rear-facing car seat, must be secured in a forward-facing car seat in a rear seat of the vehicle until the child exceeds the highest height or weight requirements of the forward-facing car seat.
The harness straps should be snug and flat. When using a seat belt, make sure it is routed through the correct belt path on the car seat.
Never put a rear-facing child in a front
Pay attention to car seat guidelines to protect precious cargo
seat with an active passenger air bag, and never try to put a rear-facing seat for ward-facing.
belt if the child can be secured properly. When a seat belt correctly fits a child, the lap and shoulder belts should both be used. The child should be able to sit all the way back against the seat with knees bent over the edge of the seat. The shoul der belt remains snugly positioned across the chest and collarbone.
Cinda Seamon is the fire and life safety educator for Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue.
Booster seat: Children at least age 4 who have outgrown their forward-facing car seat must be secured by a booster seat in a rear seat of the vehicle. Lap and shoulder belts must be used.
By Cinda Seamon CONTRIBUTOR
Most parents think they are using the right car seat for their child, but four out of five car seats are installed and used wrong!Child safety seats are required by law in every state because they provide the best protection in a car for infants and young children. However, installing a car seat can be challenging due to the wide variety of restraint systems, seat belt systems and vehicles today.
Rear-facing car seat: An infant under 2 must be secured in a rear-facing car seat in a rear seat of the vehicle until the child exceeds the height or weight limit allowed by the manufacturer of the car seat.
Read the vehicle manufacturer’s instruc tions to learn how to correctly install the car seat. Do not use a car seat that’s more than 6 years old.
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There are two types of booster seats –high back booster and backless booster. If your car’s seat back ends up lower than your child’s ears, use the high-back boost
er to help protect the neck and head. If your car’s seat back is higher than your child’s ears, use a backless booster seat.
It is best to have your car installed by a nationally certified car seat tech. Bluffton Township Fire Department does car seat checks by appointment. Call 843-7572800. Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue does car seat checks twice a month by appointment. Call 843-682-5145. Both locations have certified techs.
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Right on his tail was a bald eagle that had every intention of taking that fish from him. Twisting and turning, the two of them showed aerobatic skills any jet pilot would envy. Though it lasted only seconds, I don’t think I will ever forget that incredible drama.
Keep your eyes open, watchful to behold wonders of nature
Just think back to the very moment you saw your son or daughter born. Was that something or what? That first breath they took, the first look they gave you – these are moments that stand out in your memory with such clarity that it could have hap pened
At the very same instant, Karen noticed two large pink birds picking their way along the water’s edge. In her usual humorous manner she asked, “Is it me or are those birds pink?” They were pink all right! Imme diately I recognized them as roseate spoon bills, usually seen around southern Florida. In the space of five minutes, we had witnessed strand-feeding dolphins on one side of us and roseate spoonbills on the other. The kicker is that there was a boat full of people anchored nearby and it appeared that not a single one saw either phenomenon
In the next hour or so I managed to catch six more reds, all too big to keep, plus a cou ple of decent-sized trout. The fact that my fish were still there made me appreciate our piece of heaven here just that much more.
There is no feeling in the world better than those brief moments when you experience something truly new in your life.
Even if it is for just a day, try looking around – really looking – as you go through life. Look up in the air, at the water, and try to hone your skills in the art of seeing. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll never again see this planet the same way.
By Collins Doughtie CONTRIBUTOR
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One last thing: Be sure to go to a derma tologist at least once a year. Even wearing hats and putting on sunscreen is still no guarantee, as I found out recently. The spot on my head was no bigger than the tip of a ball point pen, but the end result is that a huge chunk of my head is now sans skin, down to the skull.
A couple of recent examples happened to me just recently. The first one occurred when I was on the Cross Island Expressway on Hilton Head Island. I was just about at the bridge over Broad Creek when an osprey with a fish in its talons came screaming across the road just ahead of me.
Get yourself checked at least once a year; for avid boaters and outdoors folks like myself, make it twice a year.
strand feeding not 50 yards from us.
Collins Doughtie, a 60-year resident of the Lowcountry, is a sportsman, graphic artist, and lover of nature. collinsdoughtie@icloud.com
Roseate spoonbills sometimes manage to make their way to the waters of the Lowcountry.
Maybe I’m biased because I am an avid watcher, but it just seems like so many people go through life in a daze and, in the process, miss out on some pretty amazing stuff. “Daze” is probably a bit snooty as a description, because it is likely that these people were never encouraged to watch.
My parents raised us to look around, to see and to question. Then, when I was really drawn into fishing and hunting, that just seemed to tune my senses. Now I always find myself looking for subtle dramas in nature that often occur in just the blink of anThateye. same week, I went looking for some redfish on the flats. The tides were perfect, so I went to one of my best low-water spots. As I waited on the tides, and hopefully some
reds, I wondered if all the new flats fishing boats had found my spot and cleaned it out. No sooner had that thought crossed my mind than I latched into a big red in mere inches of water. I was awed by its power –that fish screamed across the shallow water flats, sending out a wake like a submarine on the surface.
Similarly,yesterday.thebeauty of nature might be right in front of your nose every single day –if you choose to see it.
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– even though they were less than 60 yards from both scenes.
Whether the event you see lasts seconds or minutes, it will always be in your mind to re-live and, from experience, I can say it will be as clear as the day you saw it.
Oddly, when I looked over at the driver in the car next to me, he gave no indication that he had seen the rare event that had just unfolded.Notlong after, my wife Karen and I boated up Bull Creek and no sooner had I pointed out a spot where I have often seen strand-feeding dolphins – something she had never seen – when two dolphins began
The dolphins would herd mullet up onto a large, gently sloping mud flat and then propel themselves completely out of the water and right up onto the bank, where they would eat the flopping mullet before wiggling their way back into the water.
This
Recently I started thinking about all the reasons I still love playing golf after 60 years. Since there are 18 holes of golf, I decided to list 18 reasons you should play this great game.And then, there’s a 19th reason.
No. 11: It’s a great way to connect with
No. 8: You can spend quality time with family. I enjoy playing golf with my son and grandchildren.No.9:Golfis the ultimate challenge. You cannot have a perfect round of golf, but you can keep trying.
No. 6: The risk of injury is minimal since it is a non-contact sport without running.
And finally, No. 19: Meeting with friends at the 19th hole lounge is a great way to top off a great day on the course, or even a notso-great day.
Dr. Jean Harris is an LPGA Master Pro fessional and teaches at local courses. jean. golfdoctor.harris@gmail.com; golfdoctorjean.com
Longtime bartender Joe Faustman shakes things up at Sun City Pub. Customers are, from left, Steve, Hank, Bernie, Lou and Nick.
friends. There is a lot of laughing over the “interesting” shots that are hit.
No. 13: You can conduct business with your clients on the golf course. It beats being in the office.
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No. 4: Golf reveals one’s discipline and fairness. Players self-govern the rules and call penalties on themselves.
18 reasons people should be playing golf – one
17: Golf is a wonderful activity to do on vacations. Every golf course is different, especially in other areas of the country.
If you already a golfer, I hope that the fun I had writing this article will make you enjoy the game more. If you are not a golfer, there is no reason you shouldn’t join us for the game for a lifetime.
2: Golf brings us close to nature. You play among birds, squirrels and even alligators.No.3:The sport is handicapped so players of differing abilities can enjoy playing togeth er. Try doing that on a tennis court.
No.1: It is a game for a lifetime. What other sport can you actively play your entire life?No.
No. 18: That one great shot you have each round always brings you back for more.
plus
No. 5: Anyone can play golf. You don’t have to be a fast or strong or young athlete to play.
No. 7: Golf gets you out of the office away from computers and cell phones.
No. 10: You get to wear fun, colorful clothing. Women get to buy more shoes.
character on a golf course. Does he cheat or have a bad temper? How does she deal with adversity?No.16: You get away from the stresses in your life. Your attention will be on your golf game.No.
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No. 14: Golf has few boundaries. There are no lines like in tennis, football or soccer. That makes for a variety of shots, which keeps the game interesting.
No. 15: You can see someone’s true
No. 12: Walking the golf course is awe some exercise. Walking nine holes is more than 2 miles.
Nine Beaufort County School Dis trict students have been announced as semifinalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program and will advance to the next level of competition.
Merit scholarship semifinalists
with 16,000 national finalists for 7,250 college scholarships worth nearly $28 million.“These are nine extraordinary stu dents,” said Superintendent Frank Rodriguez. “I am confident they will represent Beaufort County exceptionally well in the next phases of this national competition.”Inordertobecome a finalist, each semifinalist and their high school must now submit a detailed application that provides information about the student’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards.Inaddition, each semifinalist must be endorsed and recommended by an official from their high school, write an essay, and earn SAT or ACT scores that confirm the student’s earlier score on the qualifying test.
Selected as national semifinalists were Michael Dennison and Susan Livesay (Beaufort High); McKenzie Morgan and Jason Ni (Bluffton High); Cynthia Gudaitis and Benjamin Lewis (Hilton Head High); and Sarah Nunez, Lucy Peltz, and Brooks Van Esselstyn (May RiverTheseHigh).students entered the 2023 Na tional Merit Scholarship Program com petition by taking the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualify ing Test. They are part of the nationwide pool of semifinalists that includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state, placing them in the top one percent of all U.S. high school seniors.
Local students named
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Given the size options, you can find the right one to fit your family, lifestyle and age. And if you have always wanted the personality and traits of a Lab or Golden or Bernese mountain dog but didn’t want the size or fur, then these crosses give you options.
Abby Bird is owner of Alphadog Training Academy. gmail.comAlphadogTrainingAcademy@
ding doodle, but there’s no guarantee. So why all the fuss about hypoaller genic dogs? The crosses give a family with allergy concerns many more options than just going with a straight non-shedding, non-dander-producing breed like terriers, poodles, Schnauzers, bichons, Portuguese water dogs and such.Inaddition to allergy concerns, some people just like clean homes. Poodle crosses have hair, not fur, and – in addition to producing less or no dander and fur around the house – they tend to smell
Oodles and boodles of Doodles come from poodles
It seems that any breed can – and is –crossed with a poodle. These designer mixes are popular for many reasons. Mostly it is due to the belief that they are hypoallergenic, or don’t shed and don’t produce dander.
By the way, I train lots of doodles and have now joined the masses. I recent ly adopted a Newfie doodle – at 135 pounds!
It is an industry that should make you do your research and be wary. Some breeders might seem like good people but don’t always expect the truth with this booming industry. Because of overbreeding, these dogs can often be found in rescues and shelters. They are turned in just like any other dog or because of who bred them. Be prepared to pay a bit more in adoption fees even if in rescue or a rehoming.
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This is not always true. A litter is more likely to get a non-shedding Doodle if both of the breeds crossed are non-shedding, or if the progeny, such as a Labradoodle or Goldendoodle, are bred back to a poodle producing a 75% poodle, which is a non-shedder. Or if a doodle is crossed with another doodle. You can get lucky and get a non-shed
Downside? Mostly they are barkers. The poodle side or even the other side can be a barking breed but poodles are noisy dogs in general. They might not do well in apartments or condos. They are jumpers and high energy, and slow toPoodlesmature. are sweet and smart – and training is a must! Many like the water, but being wet is not good for a poo dle-type coat in terms of matting. Brush or comb these dogs daily to remove pin knots.Also, they need scheduled grooming every 5 to 6 weeks. Make sure you bud get for it.
It seems that everyone has or wants a Doodle. For the past 15 years, the Doo dle craze has been explosive – Labra doodles, Goldendoodles, Bernedoodles, Aussie Doodles, Schnoodles, Cavapoos, cockapoos and more.
You can see all the reasons for pop ularity. Breeders make lots of money selling these mixes. Some breeders specialize in one or two of these mixes, while others are more like backyard breeders and glorified puppy mills.
other options these crosses offer, such as breed sizes. Poodles come in three sizes: toy, mini and standard. The cross to another dog breed can give you anywhere from petite dogs (under 17 pounds) to minis (25 to 35 pounds), mediums (40 to 55 pounds), and large (60 and larger into the 100’s of pounds).
By Abby Bird CONTRIBUTOR
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the approaching change in seasons, we are also seeing a decrease in soil temperatures. The soil temperatures will continue to drop as our warm days shorten and cool nights increase.Nowis a great time to put down pre-emergent weed controls. The goal is to get them down before the cool soils begin to germinate winter weed seeds such as Poa
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your yard, we suggest looking into a drain box or French drain to keep those areas from remaining saturated. We also want to keep thatch and leaf debris minimal during this time by bagging and blowing your grass clippings. Doing so will allow the water to penetrate the soil faster.With all of this excess rainfall, as well as
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Poor drainage can be one of the leading causes of turf decline, so it is important to divert what comes down from pooling up in ourAlthoughlandscapes.we can’t control Mother Nature, there are a few key ways you can protect your landscape.
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As we begin our transition from summer to fall, we have encountered large amounts of rainfall. Although the excess rainfall has been great for our landscape and watering bill, it has brought a few problems along withTheit.most common issue associated with excess rainfall is fungus, especially when our temperatures begin to fluctuate. Now is a good time to begin operating your irrigation system on manual mode and run it whenever we go more than a week or so without rainfall.
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You can start getting your beds ready for fall annuals, which should be planted in October, by adding compost and organic matter to improve your soil. Annuals like good drainage, so build up these beds to help improve the drainage.
If you notice water pooling in areas of
Heavy summer rains can cause issues if water pools in the lawn
If you plan to sell your home, make sure that your Realtor’s marketing in cludes online visibility on all the popular high traffic websites that buyers frequent ly visit to search for homes. Effective use of social media sites also increases a property’s presence, broadens its reach, and helps it be more easily located.
homes.Some savvy real estate agents also use NextDoor, a neighborhood-specific app, to showcase the homes they list and find buyers who might be interested in spe
in Sun City where a neighbor down the street had a sister who wanted to move to the community. The neighbor told her sister about the home and also contacted the seller. The seller told us, we set up the showing, and the house sold for more than asking price.
When your home is listed it is immedi ately displayed on HiltonHeadMLS.com. All active listings are then automatically displayed on Realtor.com, Zillow, and nu merous other online real estate directories where home buyers shop for their dream
Savvy agents use NextDoor to help sell the homes they list
According to the National Association of Realtors and other sources, in 2021, 97% of homebuyers used the internet in their search for homes. This is a huge must-be-reached audience – and internet visibility must play a major role in your real estate agent’s marketing plan.
What’s unique about NextDoor is that real estate agents can easily interact with homeowners in specific Bluffton and Hilton Head neighborhoods. This interac tion can lead to a wealth of home sellers, home buyers and/or those who know folks who want to move to paradise here in the NextDoorLowcountry.isalso very effective in adver tising open houses and providing website links to virtual open houses with photos and detailed information. It is an excellent supplement to open house newspaper advertising.
Just recently, we sold one of our listings
cific neighborhoods. Sometimes, current residents might know of out-of-state friends and/or relatives who want to move into their community.
Larry Stoller is a broker and Realtor with Real Estate Five of the Lowcountry. Larry@ RealEstateFive.com, RealEstateFive.com
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All are invited to celebrate the meaning of Thanksgiving with a free community meal, with turkey, dressing and all the trimmings, served family style.
bring the whole family. It’s always a place to meet new and old friends.
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The meal is free and open to anyone who wishes to attend, regardless of financial situation.Theevent is sponsored by St. Andrew By-The-Sea United Methodist Church and Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks, lo cated off Squire Pope Road on Skull Creek.
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The event is supported by hundreds of volunteers and attended by hundreds of residents and visitors.
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Call 843-505-1370 for more information, to volunteer, or even if you need a ride that day, or visit the website at Commu nityThanksgiving.com. Donations can be accepted on the website as well.
The annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner at Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks has been set this year for Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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The celebration, filled with food, fel lowship and entertainment, is free to all. Financial donations are gratefully accepted and benefit Deep Well, Bluffton Self Help and Second Helpings.
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• Buckwalter Place Blvd (Publix Shopping Center) median beyond the entryway sign to Buckwalter Place; and
Town of Bluffton:
As the political season begins, citizens should know the parameters of where political signs can be placed. Below are highlights; visit the websites for the Town of Bluffton and Beaufort County for specifics. Be mindful the Town of Bluffton and un incorporated Beaufort County have different ordinances that pertain to sign placement.
4. Signs shall be removed within seven days after the election or referendum to which they apply.
• North/West corner of intersection at May River Road and Buckwalter Parkway (i.e., Adjacent to Barton’s Run neighbor hood).3.Signs shall not be placed earlier than 60 days prior to the election or referendum to which they apply.
Reminder about political signs
2. The Town Manager has authorized the placement of political signs on public property at the following locations:
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If signs are placed within Town of Bluff ton limits, they DO NOT require a permit, provided certain restrictions are met. Also, political signs are not allowed in public rights-of-way unless permitted by the Town Manager. In this regard, the following shall apply:1.Unless otherwise allowed, signs shall not be located on public property or in the public rights-of-way and must be confined wholly to placement on private property, with permission of the property owner.
• Landscaped corners at Bluffton’s Four Way Stop.
6. Signs shall not exceed six square feet in sign area and shall not exceed a height of five feet.
5. Signs for candidates in a runoff election may be maintained until the final election to which the signs apply; and
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