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Lowcountry’s Sanford announces run for president
By Mike McCombs Former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Representative (R-SC-1) Mark Sanford announced Sunday, Sept. 8 that he will run as a Republican candidate for president, presenting a primary challenge for President Trump. Sanford, 59, had been considering a run for some time but delayed an announcement of his decision just a week earlier, saying he wanted to wait until the threat of Hurricane
Dorian had passed the Lowcountry. Sanford announced his decision on Fox News Sunday before explaining his decision in a series of Mark eight posts from his Sanford Twitter account later in the morning. Here is Sanford’s complete statement on Twitter: “I am compelled to enter the Pres-
Lowcountry brewery expanding business, creating new jobs with multi-million investment
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As I have watched the Democrat debates I hear no discussion, or even recognition, of what is occurring. Instead I hear a laundry list of new unpaid for political promises. On the Republican side, spending is up well above President Obama. @realDonaldTrump has ruled out action on the very things that drive spending and accumulated debt. Debate is even being canceled on the Republican side, though I believe we need a conversation and ac-
tion more than ever given our present course. Essentially no one “leading” in Washington is leading, or even speaking of, our financial predicament. We are living in a government spending and financial la-la land. Which brings me to the larger question of what I, or any of us, can do about it? I have a unique vantage point
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AFTER THE STORM
What’s brewing?
By Mindy Lucas A popular Lowcountry brewery is expanding its business in Beaufort County. Salt Marsh Brewing, currently based in Old Town, Bluffton, will open a second location at 1111 11th Street, in Port Royal. The $4.5 million project will include a restaurant, brewery and taproom with a dock offering “sunset views and shrimp boats galore.” The project is also expected to create about 70 to 80 jobs to begin with, said Salt Marsh Brewing co-owner Nick Borreggine. “About 43 of those jobs will be just on the brewery side,” he said. Borreggine – along with his father, Nick Borreggine Sr. – also owns Fat Patties in Bluffton and Port Royal. The two are partnering with investor Lynn Jersild for the new business, expected to open in December of 2020, he said. The three have been working with local economic development officials as well as the S.C. Department of Commerce on the project since January of 2019. A 7,000-square-foot warehouse that’s currently being used to process shrimp, will be renovated for the brewery which will feature an automated canning line. A 4,500-square-foot building next to it, which currently houses an industrial ice machine, will become the
idential Primary as a Republican for several reasons – the most important of which is to further and foster a national debate on our nation's debt, deficits and spending. We have a storm coming that we are neither talking about nor preparing for given that we, as a country, are more financially vulnerable than we have ever been since our Nation’s start and the Civil War. We are on a collision course with financial reality. We need to act now.
Beaufort residents clean up after Hurricane Dorian moves on
Left: Several sailboats around the county dragged their anchors and ended up in a marsh or, as in this case, high and dry on an oyster bed on Thursday, Sept. 5 in Factory Creek near Beaufort River. Below: Carson Banks of Coastal Tree Service seems to be wading in a sea of bamboo as he cuts up a limb from a fallen oak tree Thursday, Set. 5 in Shell Point. The tree caused no major damage but did manage to take out a couple backyard fences Photos by Bob Sofaly.
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nly a few days after Hurricane Dorian passed dangerously close to the Lowcountry, there was hardly any sign a major storm had moved through the area, save for some downed trees and debris-strewn yards. The storm, which picked up strength as it closed in on South Carolina last week had fortunately
continued to move up the coast and stayed out to sea, causing less damage and hardly any flooding compared to previous hurricanes Matthew and Irma. By Monday, Sept. 9, most businesses and government offices had reopened and returned to their normal operating schedules. But for the first few days after, the
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Beaufort man arrested in hit and run of 6-year-old boy
By Mindy Lucas A Beaufort man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run incident involving a 6-year-old boy who was riding his bike in the Burton area over the weekend, officials say. Steven Andre Hopkins, 56, was arrested in connec-
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tion with the hit and run, which occurred around 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, on Joe Frazier Steven Road near Hopkins Edgehill Lane, according to Lance Cpl. Mat-
thew Southern with the S.C. Highway Patrol. Hopkins was driving a 2005 Dodge pickup truck when he allegedly struck the child. He was later arrested and charged with felony driving under the influence, hit and run and driving with a suspended li-
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cense, according to Beaufort County court records. The child was the only person injured in the incident which is still being investigated, Southern said. He was taken to an area hospital by EMS, though his condition was not known as of press time on
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Monday, Sept. 9. A bond totaling more than $225,000 was set for Hopkins at a bond hearing on Saturday, according to Beaufort County court records. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department also responded to the incident.