By Colin Cuskley A new dolphin education sign has been installed along the boardwalk out to Beachwalker County Park. The interpretive sign explains about dolphin strand feeding behavior on Captain Sam’s Spit and provides guidelines for viewers to safely view this unique behavior. You should stay back from the shoreline if you want to see …
Tag Archive: National
May 30
Disaster Awareness Day Helps Residents Prepare Against Hurricanes
By Betsey Poore In just a few minutes a beautiful sunny day can turn into a natural disaster. Hurricanes are the most recognizable threat to the Atlantic coast, but there is also the danger of other catastrophes like an earthquake or a fire. On Thursday, June 13 the Towns of Seabrook Island and Kiawah Island …
May 28
Fast Families Fly in the Annual Gammons Run for Your Mother 5k
Special to the Island Connection An eighteen year old, seventeen year old, fourteen year old, Law School graduate, Mothers, Fathers, siblings, children, grandchildren, and friends produced an exciting and fun 7th Annual Hazel Williams Gammons Run for Your Mother 5k on May 11, 2013. The fourteen year old girl who ran her fourth Hazel Williams …
May 23
The Gremlins Are Out in Force!
By Bob Hooper, aka Rent a Bob Recently on National news I heard about the “FBI virus” that I reported to you the end of last year. It has swept the nation and is popping up in the lowcountry again. It shows up as a full screen notice that you have been “naughty” and the …
May 16
Collegiate Competition Embraces Entrepreneurship
By Olivia French CCS students Evan Knox (10th grade), Pinita Tovar (10th grade), Riley Steward (8th grade), and Trayvon Jefferson (11th grade) competed in the first annual CCS Business Plan Competition April 30. The students presented business plans that they have been working on throughout the year, as part of the school’s Entrepreneurship curriculum. After …
May 15
Knox Knocks Out Competition
By Olivia French Charleston Collegiate School 10th grader Evan Knox won First Place in the 2nd Annual YEScarolina Regional Business Plan Competition on May 6 at College of Charleston. Knox wins $1,000 in cash and is invited to present his business model for “Bullseye Web Designs,” a custom website design company that prides itself on …
May 07
Small Surf Town Reaches Out To Special Needs Kids And Adults
Provided by NC Press Release. Named as one of the World’s 20 Best Surf Towns by National Geographic, Wrightsville Beach is a small surf town of 2,000 with a big heart for special needs kids and adults. Kicking off the town’s 2013 schedule of special needs surf camps on May 18 is the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation’s Life Rolls On for people with …
Apr 29
Women Working for a Reason
Charleston area women are invited to grab their hammers and volunteer during Sea Island Habitat for Humanity’s thirteenth annual Women Build Week. During the week of May 4-11, more than 300 Habitat affiliates nationwide will host women build projects in partnership with Lowe’s, the underwriter of Habitat’s Women Build program. From May 4 through May …
Apr 16
SC Family Of Four To Race In Carolina Cup At Wrightsville Beach
By John Beausang Meet the Alderman family. Don, Jenny, Dylan and Jack. All have signed up for the 2013 Carolina Cup in Wrightsville Beach, April 24-28. They will join amateurs and professionals from around the world in one of the largest and most respected stand up paddleboarding events in the United States. “They should get …















