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A Competition of Elegance "Concourse d' Elegance"
If you didn’t make it to the 7th Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance & Motoring Festival October 30 thru November 2, you truly missed “An Affair to Remember.” Depending on which cars you were hanging around, you might even have thought you caught a glimpse…
A Menu of Great Dining Options as Chamber Restaurant Week Returns
Last year’s inaugural Chamber Restaurant Week was a “first course” in a new tradition that met with delicious success. Area restaurants will be presenting even more great cuisine for the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce’s second annual Chamber Restaurant Week, January 23-30. During Chamber Restaurant…
A Simply Extraordinary Idea: Volunteers in Medicine Celebrates 15 Years
In a sense, it is like a fairy tale. Once upon a time (1993), on Hilton Head Island, there lived hundreds of retired doctors and dentists and nurses and other medial professionals. And once upon a time (1993), one out of three people who called…
A Tour Of Bluffton with Mayor Sulka
What do you get when you mix a pile of old tires, a half-naked mannequin, and a butcher’s knife? Believe it or not, these are just a few of the things you may find at Bluffton Mayor Lisa Sulka’s favorite haunts. I recently ventured out…
Aladdin Shines and Shimmers
Hilton Head Prep’s holiday musical has all the dazzle of a New York Radio City Show! Performing arts director, Don Hite, promises that Hilton Head Prep’s production of Walt Disney’s Aladdin, this December 10th, 11th and 13th, will absolutely capture all the franticness and energy of…
Amos Hummell: Coloring outside the Lines
“Coloring outside of the lines is scary business. Some days I don’t have the courage for it at all. On my big, bold days, though, I let my red crayon just streak across a line. Then I swirl my purple and orange out there with…
“My Name is... and I Am Currently Serving in Iraq...”—from an e-mail to Hilton Head’s Operation R&R
It’s different now, of course, with e-mail and cell phones to keep in touch with family back home. But the dirt on his boots and the dirt in her hair is still the soil of Iraq or Afghanistan, both hostile, dangerous environments. Even though images…
“This is Hargray, May We Help You?”
Here’s an easy riddle to solve: What do the elegant building on the USCB South Campus and 15 kids at The Children’s Center on Hilton Head Island have in common? Answer: Hargray, the company that has been a good corporate neighbor to the Lowcountry since Miss…
Banana Open Junior Challenge
A large banana has been sighted around Hilton Head Island and Bluffton. Hard at work promoting next month’s Banana Open Junior Challenge tennis event, the banana visited local high school tennis teams and even went to a party or two. It is fitting that the…
Beaufort Festiv-ALE
What could be better than spending a sunny day strolling along the water sipping a cold beer? How about spending two days sampling dozens of finely crafted brews from around the world and helping out a couple of good causes at the same time? “Beaufort Festiv-ALE…
Belfair: Golf and a Whole Lot More
It’s labeled a “private golf community.” While golf is definitely king at Belfair, the “community” part of that label is the glue that binds residents together. “Sure, it’s a wonderful golf community. But it’s a lot more than golf,” said William Thorpe, a retired orthopedic…
Betty Melkon on Facebook: It’s not just for kids anymore
Betty Melkon isn’t one to take the challenging economy and real estate market at face value. Instead, the successful and enterprising realtor is using Facebook and other Internet networking and marketing tools to adapt to the changing real estate environment. A licensed Realtor for Charter…
Bluffton Christmas Parade
What started last year as my family’s annual ritual to the Bluffton Christmas Parade ended with a muddied shoe and a bruised ego. That’s the day I fell into a drainage ditch along May River Road. Now, I didn’t take a header straight into a…
BREAKIN' THE LAW!
Protectors of the Plantations. Perpetuators of Peace. Guardians of all that is Vulnerable in a Crazy World. They keep the Lowcountry and its citizens safe from the evil that lurks in the criminal mind. But despite their valiant and sometimes superhuman efforts, every now and again…
College Life Comes to Bluffton
She laughed. She cried. She is Kate Torborg, Student Life Director for the University of South Carolina Beaufort. She is one of the first people students meet when they arrive on campus, and it is her job to make sure their college experience is everything…
Corridor: Review Board
In her 1970 release, “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell sings: “They paved paradise to put up a parking lot.” The story behind the song goes that Mitchell wrote it during a trip to Hawaii. She looked out her hotel window at a beautiful mountain vista,…
Dating Online? Kiss & Tell List! wants your story
Finding true love has never been easy, but thanks to the Internet, looking for it has become a national pastime. “Plenty of fish in the sea”? You bet! Recent statistics indicate that 44 percent of the adult American population is single. That’s over 100 million…
Definitely Not Your Father’s Golf
It has a certain ring to it: “street legal.” It sounds like a new television series on FOX .The good guys in, say, a STAR-B48 Bubble 2 chasing the bad guys in some boring two passenger rig you could find at virtually any golf course.…
Double Play "Oswald L. Mikell, MD"
He can save your life and he can make you feel (and look) better. Dr. Oswald Mikell, named the 2008 Dermatologist of the Year by the South Carolina Dermatology Association, is certified by the American Board of Dermatology and the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery.…
Emory Campbell: Coming Home
“The military movements connected with the Civil War are well known. But the great mass of American people know but little, and so think less, of that other great event—the greatest in the history of the world—the emancipation of four million human beings held in…
Focus on Finance
> Is Your Money making you Mad? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know times are tight and it’s time to keep an eye on your finances. Locally, there are several professionals who have weathered previous storms and are equipped to help you…
Get Hitched on Hilton Head Island
The ultimate wedding dream-come-true wedding, all expenses paid, is now just 10 months away! The Get Hitched on Hilton Head Island contestants began registering their tales of true love online this month and as you can see though these samples, the range of explanations,…
HawkFest 2009 / Strive to Excel
This year, Strive to Excel celebrates its tenth year in the business of selling hope to the Hilton Head Island and Bluffton youth by providing them with the skills and support to move on to college and beyond. Strive to Excel (S2E) is a non-profit…
Hilton Head Fire & Rescue’s CPR Training and First Aid Class: Learning To Save Lives Was Never So Cheap, So Comfortable and So Easy
My dummy wouldn’t breathe. Here I was, kneeling on the ground, hunched over my dummy as he lay prostrate before me. He stared at the ceiling. His eyes blank and lifeless, a plastic bag wrapped over his mouth and stuffed down his throat to keep…
Hilton Head Island is Going Green: Don’t miss the 27th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade
There’s one day a year when “going green” doesn’t mean recycling or eating organic—it means attending the annual Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade! All the revelry without the drive to Savannah, Hilton Head’s beloved street party is now in its 27th year and…
Hilton Head Island’s Top Amenity: Healthcare
When you think of Hilton Head Island, what amenities immediately come to mind? Sunny beaches, lush golf courses? Tennis courts, waving palms, meandering leisure paths, heaping platters of fresh seafood? What you may be overlooking is one of our most valuable assets of all: The…
HILTON HEAD SEAFOOD FEST • APRIL 25 EVENT TO SUPPORT CANCER RESEARCH, ISLAND RECREATION.
January 21, 2009 – Coligny Plaza and The David M. Carmines Memorial Foundation announced that they will sponsor the second annual Hilton Head Island Seafood and Arts Festival, April 25. After a 20 year hiatus, the festival resurfaced in 2008 hosting record…
Island Car Wash: Incredibly Clean Cars Consistently
That’s not my truck. It can’t be. It looks too… what’s the word I’m looking for? “Awesome?” Yet, upon closer inspection, when you remove the tree sap, pollen, brake dust, two months worth of daily use and water spots, that is, indeed, my truck. The…
January Calendar of Events
Join Dolphin Head Golf Club and fulfill all of your 2009 New Year’s resolutions! Join now for $2009. A limited number of memberships available. Dolphin Head is a private, member-owned club located in Hilton Head Plantation. Memberships are all inclusive of unlimited…
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe: Celebrating the way Daufuskie was
Thirty years ago, when photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe first set foot on Daufuskie Island, she found not only inspiration in the Gullah community, but also friends for life. From 1977 to 1981, she created gorgeous black and white gelatin prints that portray the beauty of the…
Learning in the Lowcountry: Part 2
The variety of educational opportunities available to students—and parents—in the Lowcountry is nothing short of exceptional. What may be most challenging for parents is that, in terms of academics, there is little that could be called “traditional.” How students learn, the tools used in learning…
Love Him or Hate Him: Bluffton Town Councilman, Charlie Wetmor
Charlie Wetmore is a jerk. Or at least that is what I thought before we sat down together for a drink, at my request. So, I am sitting at a bar with Bluffton Town Councilman, Charlie Wetmore. He’s having a Coke (ah, a man of…
Meet Your New Best Friend
Dog lovers of the Lowcountry, there is a hidden gem full of beautiful, sweet adoptable dogs right in our backyard. Maranatha Farm, a 501 © (3) non-profit organization, is located in Ridgeland, about 30 minutes from Bluffton. Although my description of the farm could never…
Need a Loan? Atlantic Community Bank will help you get it
Here’s the deal. You want to buy a car. Detroit rejoices! Your local car dealer rejoices. Your family rejoices. You’ve had your eye on that new Prius. But then you check your RSS feeds on the Web, turn on the television or open the newspaper only…
Neighborhood Outreach Connection: Turning Hope into Reality
Nowadays, people can hardly get a good night’s sleep. Just try to find a few moments of free time, let alone a way to shake off the stress of work and family life. But slow down on your next drive past the Oaks Apartments. You…
On Equality: AAUW works to shatter a glass ceiling
Barack Obama’s campaign has reinvigorated the spirit of civil rights; his election to the presidency is clearly a milestone, and it is one that invites Americans to take a closer look at all facets of liberty—including women’s equality. Critics say the glass ceiling that limits…
One Luxurious Kennel
Three Black Dogs on Ulmer Road in Bluffton is what pets and their parents have been waiting for for years. It’s an extended-stay vacation home for animals, offering an array of services from boarding and doggy daycare to training and grooming. With two business-savvy animal…
Osprey Village: Independent Living Options for Challenged Adults
The desire for quality of life is basic to all human beings. Beyond just a roof over our heads, we want a comfortable environment in which we can be ourselves and order our lives as we see fit. This is no less true for intellectually…
Outside Hilton Head • Your guide to the ultimate island adventure.
“We protect only those things we love, We love only those things we understand, We understand only those things we are taught.”—Indian Proverb How can one truly understand an adventure that he or she has not experienced? It is impossible. We can only see imagine it…
Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort: Where Visitors Become “Locals”
Perhaps you’ve never been here before. Maybe it’s your first glimpse into this lush paradise—a world filled with palm trees and beach chairs, spacious expanses of immaculately manicured golf courses and tennis courts, a marina which plays host to boutiques, waterfront restaurants and the occasional…
Palmettoes: Where Shopping is a Party!
Remember the days before you became a local, and you came to Hilton Head Island once or twice a year to play golf or tennis, go to the beach, fish, kayak, drink at the Tiki Hut, and make life miserable for the drivers behind you…
Poverty in Paradise: Habitat Builds Hope for Families in Need
Imagine living in a house or apartment with no toilet, no stove, no HVAC. Imagine crowding your whole family into one tiny bedroom. Imagine leaky roofs, moldy air, faulty electrical wiring and roach infestations. Imagine living out of your car or sleeping under a bridge.…
Rotary: it’s not necessarily what you think!
What is Rotary, anyway? A bunch of do-gooders? A place to meet business contacts? An old men’s fraternity? Perhaps Rotary is a bit of all three, depending on the club you join. We go in search of answers, and end up at an oyster roast…
Sharron Cunningham: Accentuating the Positive
Sharron Cunningham creates positive change. In the process, she finds success instead of excuses for why it didn’t happen. As a consultant, motivational speaker and coach for business teams and individuals, she shows people how to “accentuate the positive” and “eliminate the negative” to reach…
Signs of the Times
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign” goes the lyric from the 1970s song by the Five Man Electrical Band. The ubiquitous nature of signage continues into the 21st century and is testament to what the folks at Sign D’Sign in Bluffton already know and promote: People…
Sleep Tight: Mattress Firm Guarantees It
When writing a business profile—under a tight deadline, as usual—evil inclination may tempt the writer to take the path of least resistance: Just get the basic facts and a few pithy comments from the owner, dash off what amounts to a thousand words of ad…
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Tips & Cautions!
No, not the one in New York (the biggest) nor Savannah (biggest in the South). It’s the Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Celebration. Dozens of floats, thousands of people, in excess of 50 distinguished members of the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department and…
Stephens Pharmacy
If you’ve been to the Health & Wellness Center at 2 Marshland Road, you’ve probably discovered Stephens Pharmacy, the independent pharmacy that could be mistaken for an extension of the physicians’ offices. If not, you might want to visit the shop, which pharmacist and owner…
Stock Market? What Stock Market?
Have you gone into “stock shock?” Are you trying to figure out what to do with your money, other than deposit it in the Bank of Sealy Posturepedic (under your mattress)? James Lockhart, president of Harbor Light Wealth Management, and Robert Star, the firm’s managing…
Talk To Me
Dr. Patrick Jordan likes to listen. “History taking, spending time with patients—it’s my blessing and my downfall. Spending too much time slows things up. People don’t like to wait,” Jordan said. Two years ago, when he opened his own practice, the Comprehensive Family Care clinic…
Tee it Up! "Here’s your 22nd chance to win that Mercedes-Benz"
Just imagine. You’re on Harbour Town’s #17, that par 3 you love and hate. But the wind is down, the light is just right, and there’s that Mercedes-Benz off in the distance, just waiting for you to drop that little white ball in the cup…
The Bluffton Christmas Parade
It may not have the reputation of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or the frenetic fans of Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, but the Old Town Bluffton Christmas Parade has its own history. And it’s certainly grown from its beginnings 30-some years ago, when half the…
The Heat is On—in February!
Sample gourmet food prepared by 16 of the top restaurants in the area. Watch a heated Iron Chef competition among 10 of the finest Lowcountry chefs. Mingle with Southern authors and purchase autographed books. If this sounds like the perfect recipe for curing the mid-winter blahs,…
Thomas Viljac: Adding More Charm to Old Town Bluffton
One of the really cool things about Bluffton, South Carolina is that it has its own state of mind. That’s what Blufftonians say anyway, and who is an islander to argue? An unfortunate circumstance of Bluffton’s land annexation initiatives that rival the Louisiana Purchase is…
Why Do You Ask?
There probably isn’t a question under the South Carolina sun that residents and visitors to Bluffton and Hilton Head Island haven’t asked of the Beaufort County Library’s reference librarians. Where does our sand come from? Why are there ripples on the beach? What causes the tides? Why do we…
If you didn’t make it to the 7th Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance & Motoring Festival October 30 thru November 2, you truly missed “An Affair to Remember.” Depending on which cars you were hanging around, you might even have thought you caught a glimpse…
A Menu of Great Dining Options as Chamber Restaurant Week Returns
Last year’s inaugural Chamber Restaurant Week was a “first course” in a new tradition that met with delicious success. Area restaurants will be presenting even more great cuisine for the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce’s second annual Chamber Restaurant Week, January 23-30. During Chamber Restaurant…
A Simply Extraordinary Idea: Volunteers in Medicine Celebrates 15 Years
In a sense, it is like a fairy tale. Once upon a time (1993), on Hilton Head Island, there lived hundreds of retired doctors and dentists and nurses and other medial professionals. And once upon a time (1993), one out of three people who called…
A Tour Of Bluffton with Mayor Sulka
What do you get when you mix a pile of old tires, a half-naked mannequin, and a butcher’s knife? Believe it or not, these are just a few of the things you may find at Bluffton Mayor Lisa Sulka’s favorite haunts. I recently ventured out…
Aladdin Shines and Shimmers
Hilton Head Prep’s holiday musical has all the dazzle of a New York Radio City Show! Performing arts director, Don Hite, promises that Hilton Head Prep’s production of Walt Disney’s Aladdin, this December 10th, 11th and 13th, will absolutely capture all the franticness and energy of…
Amos Hummell: Coloring outside the Lines
“Coloring outside of the lines is scary business. Some days I don’t have the courage for it at all. On my big, bold days, though, I let my red crayon just streak across a line. Then I swirl my purple and orange out there with…
“My Name is... and I Am Currently Serving in Iraq...”—from an e-mail to Hilton Head’s Operation R&R
It’s different now, of course, with e-mail and cell phones to keep in touch with family back home. But the dirt on his boots and the dirt in her hair is still the soil of Iraq or Afghanistan, both hostile, dangerous environments. Even though images…
“This is Hargray, May We Help You?”
Here’s an easy riddle to solve: What do the elegant building on the USCB South Campus and 15 kids at The Children’s Center on Hilton Head Island have in common? Answer: Hargray, the company that has been a good corporate neighbor to the Lowcountry since Miss…
Banana Open Junior Challenge
A large banana has been sighted around Hilton Head Island and Bluffton. Hard at work promoting next month’s Banana Open Junior Challenge tennis event, the banana visited local high school tennis teams and even went to a party or two. It is fitting that the…
Beaufort Festiv-ALE
What could be better than spending a sunny day strolling along the water sipping a cold beer? How about spending two days sampling dozens of finely crafted brews from around the world and helping out a couple of good causes at the same time? “Beaufort Festiv-ALE…
Belfair: Golf and a Whole Lot More
It’s labeled a “private golf community.” While golf is definitely king at Belfair, the “community” part of that label is the glue that binds residents together. “Sure, it’s a wonderful golf community. But it’s a lot more than golf,” said William Thorpe, a retired orthopedic…
Betty Melkon on Facebook: It’s not just for kids anymore
Betty Melkon isn’t one to take the challenging economy and real estate market at face value. Instead, the successful and enterprising realtor is using Facebook and other Internet networking and marketing tools to adapt to the changing real estate environment. A licensed Realtor for Charter…
Bluffton Christmas Parade
What started last year as my family’s annual ritual to the Bluffton Christmas Parade ended with a muddied shoe and a bruised ego. That’s the day I fell into a drainage ditch along May River Road. Now, I didn’t take a header straight into a…
BREAKIN' THE LAW!
Protectors of the Plantations. Perpetuators of Peace. Guardians of all that is Vulnerable in a Crazy World. They keep the Lowcountry and its citizens safe from the evil that lurks in the criminal mind. But despite their valiant and sometimes superhuman efforts, every now and again…
College Life Comes to Bluffton
She laughed. She cried. She is Kate Torborg, Student Life Director for the University of South Carolina Beaufort. She is one of the first people students meet when they arrive on campus, and it is her job to make sure their college experience is everything…
Corridor: Review Board
In her 1970 release, “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell sings: “They paved paradise to put up a parking lot.” The story behind the song goes that Mitchell wrote it during a trip to Hawaii. She looked out her hotel window at a beautiful mountain vista,…
Dating Online? Kiss & Tell List! wants your story
Finding true love has never been easy, but thanks to the Internet, looking for it has become a national pastime. “Plenty of fish in the sea”? You bet! Recent statistics indicate that 44 percent of the adult American population is single. That’s over 100 million…
Definitely Not Your Father’s Golf
It has a certain ring to it: “street legal.” It sounds like a new television series on FOX .The good guys in, say, a STAR-B48 Bubble 2 chasing the bad guys in some boring two passenger rig you could find at virtually any golf course.…
Double Play "Oswald L. Mikell, MD"
He can save your life and he can make you feel (and look) better. Dr. Oswald Mikell, named the 2008 Dermatologist of the Year by the South Carolina Dermatology Association, is certified by the American Board of Dermatology and the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery.…
Emory Campbell: Coming Home
“The military movements connected with the Civil War are well known. But the great mass of American people know but little, and so think less, of that other great event—the greatest in the history of the world—the emancipation of four million human beings held in…
Focus on Finance
> Is Your Money making you Mad? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know times are tight and it’s time to keep an eye on your finances. Locally, there are several professionals who have weathered previous storms and are equipped to help you…
Get Hitched on Hilton Head Island
The ultimate wedding dream-come-true wedding, all expenses paid, is now just 10 months away! The Get Hitched on Hilton Head Island contestants began registering their tales of true love online this month and as you can see though these samples, the range of explanations,…
HawkFest 2009 / Strive to Excel
This year, Strive to Excel celebrates its tenth year in the business of selling hope to the Hilton Head Island and Bluffton youth by providing them with the skills and support to move on to college and beyond. Strive to Excel (S2E) is a non-profit…
Hilton Head Fire & Rescue’s CPR Training and First Aid Class: Learning To Save Lives Was Never So Cheap, So Comfortable and So Easy
My dummy wouldn’t breathe. Here I was, kneeling on the ground, hunched over my dummy as he lay prostrate before me. He stared at the ceiling. His eyes blank and lifeless, a plastic bag wrapped over his mouth and stuffed down his throat to keep…
Hilton Head Island is Going Green: Don’t miss the 27th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade
There’s one day a year when “going green” doesn’t mean recycling or eating organic—it means attending the annual Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade! All the revelry without the drive to Savannah, Hilton Head’s beloved street party is now in its 27th year and…
Hilton Head Island’s Top Amenity: Healthcare
When you think of Hilton Head Island, what amenities immediately come to mind? Sunny beaches, lush golf courses? Tennis courts, waving palms, meandering leisure paths, heaping platters of fresh seafood? What you may be overlooking is one of our most valuable assets of all: The…
HILTON HEAD SEAFOOD FEST • APRIL 25 EVENT TO SUPPORT CANCER RESEARCH, ISLAND RECREATION.
January 21, 2009 – Coligny Plaza and The David M. Carmines Memorial Foundation announced that they will sponsor the second annual Hilton Head Island Seafood and Arts Festival, April 25. After a 20 year hiatus, the festival resurfaced in 2008 hosting record…
Island Car Wash: Incredibly Clean Cars Consistently
That’s not my truck. It can’t be. It looks too… what’s the word I’m looking for? “Awesome?” Yet, upon closer inspection, when you remove the tree sap, pollen, brake dust, two months worth of daily use and water spots, that is, indeed, my truck. The…
January Calendar of Events
Join Dolphin Head Golf Club and fulfill all of your 2009 New Year’s resolutions! Join now for $2009. A limited number of memberships available. Dolphin Head is a private, member-owned club located in Hilton Head Plantation. Memberships are all inclusive of unlimited…
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe: Celebrating the way Daufuskie was
Thirty years ago, when photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe first set foot on Daufuskie Island, she found not only inspiration in the Gullah community, but also friends for life. From 1977 to 1981, she created gorgeous black and white gelatin prints that portray the beauty of the…
Learning in the Lowcountry: Part 2
The variety of educational opportunities available to students—and parents—in the Lowcountry is nothing short of exceptional. What may be most challenging for parents is that, in terms of academics, there is little that could be called “traditional.” How students learn, the tools used in learning…
Love Him or Hate Him: Bluffton Town Councilman, Charlie Wetmor
Charlie Wetmore is a jerk. Or at least that is what I thought before we sat down together for a drink, at my request. So, I am sitting at a bar with Bluffton Town Councilman, Charlie Wetmore. He’s having a Coke (ah, a man of…
Meet Your New Best Friend
Dog lovers of the Lowcountry, there is a hidden gem full of beautiful, sweet adoptable dogs right in our backyard. Maranatha Farm, a 501 © (3) non-profit organization, is located in Ridgeland, about 30 minutes from Bluffton. Although my description of the farm could never…
Need a Loan? Atlantic Community Bank will help you get it
Here’s the deal. You want to buy a car. Detroit rejoices! Your local car dealer rejoices. Your family rejoices. You’ve had your eye on that new Prius. But then you check your RSS feeds on the Web, turn on the television or open the newspaper only…
Neighborhood Outreach Connection: Turning Hope into Reality
Nowadays, people can hardly get a good night’s sleep. Just try to find a few moments of free time, let alone a way to shake off the stress of work and family life. But slow down on your next drive past the Oaks Apartments. You…
On Equality: AAUW works to shatter a glass ceiling
Barack Obama’s campaign has reinvigorated the spirit of civil rights; his election to the presidency is clearly a milestone, and it is one that invites Americans to take a closer look at all facets of liberty—including women’s equality. Critics say the glass ceiling that limits…
One Luxurious Kennel
Three Black Dogs on Ulmer Road in Bluffton is what pets and their parents have been waiting for for years. It’s an extended-stay vacation home for animals, offering an array of services from boarding and doggy daycare to training and grooming. With two business-savvy animal…
Osprey Village: Independent Living Options for Challenged Adults
The desire for quality of life is basic to all human beings. Beyond just a roof over our heads, we want a comfortable environment in which we can be ourselves and order our lives as we see fit. This is no less true for intellectually…
Outside Hilton Head • Your guide to the ultimate island adventure.
“We protect only those things we love, We love only those things we understand, We understand only those things we are taught.”—Indian Proverb How can one truly understand an adventure that he or she has not experienced? It is impossible. We can only see imagine it…
Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort: Where Visitors Become “Locals”
Perhaps you’ve never been here before. Maybe it’s your first glimpse into this lush paradise—a world filled with palm trees and beach chairs, spacious expanses of immaculately manicured golf courses and tennis courts, a marina which plays host to boutiques, waterfront restaurants and the occasional…
Palmettoes: Where Shopping is a Party!
Remember the days before you became a local, and you came to Hilton Head Island once or twice a year to play golf or tennis, go to the beach, fish, kayak, drink at the Tiki Hut, and make life miserable for the drivers behind you…
Poverty in Paradise: Habitat Builds Hope for Families in Need
Imagine living in a house or apartment with no toilet, no stove, no HVAC. Imagine crowding your whole family into one tiny bedroom. Imagine leaky roofs, moldy air, faulty electrical wiring and roach infestations. Imagine living out of your car or sleeping under a bridge.…
Rotary: it’s not necessarily what you think!
What is Rotary, anyway? A bunch of do-gooders? A place to meet business contacts? An old men’s fraternity? Perhaps Rotary is a bit of all three, depending on the club you join. We go in search of answers, and end up at an oyster roast…
Sharron Cunningham: Accentuating the Positive
Sharron Cunningham creates positive change. In the process, she finds success instead of excuses for why it didn’t happen. As a consultant, motivational speaker and coach for business teams and individuals, she shows people how to “accentuate the positive” and “eliminate the negative” to reach…
Signs of the Times
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign” goes the lyric from the 1970s song by the Five Man Electrical Band. The ubiquitous nature of signage continues into the 21st century and is testament to what the folks at Sign D’Sign in Bluffton already know and promote: People…
Sleep Tight: Mattress Firm Guarantees It
When writing a business profile—under a tight deadline, as usual—evil inclination may tempt the writer to take the path of least resistance: Just get the basic facts and a few pithy comments from the owner, dash off what amounts to a thousand words of ad…
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Tips & Cautions!
No, not the one in New York (the biggest) nor Savannah (biggest in the South). It’s the Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Celebration. Dozens of floats, thousands of people, in excess of 50 distinguished members of the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department and…
Stephens Pharmacy
If you’ve been to the Health & Wellness Center at 2 Marshland Road, you’ve probably discovered Stephens Pharmacy, the independent pharmacy that could be mistaken for an extension of the physicians’ offices. If not, you might want to visit the shop, which pharmacist and owner…
Stock Market? What Stock Market?
Have you gone into “stock shock?” Are you trying to figure out what to do with your money, other than deposit it in the Bank of Sealy Posturepedic (under your mattress)? James Lockhart, president of Harbor Light Wealth Management, and Robert Star, the firm’s managing…
Talk To Me
Dr. Patrick Jordan likes to listen. “History taking, spending time with patients—it’s my blessing and my downfall. Spending too much time slows things up. People don’t like to wait,” Jordan said. Two years ago, when he opened his own practice, the Comprehensive Family Care clinic…
Tee it Up! "Here’s your 22nd chance to win that Mercedes-Benz"
Just imagine. You’re on Harbour Town’s #17, that par 3 you love and hate. But the wind is down, the light is just right, and there’s that Mercedes-Benz off in the distance, just waiting for you to drop that little white ball in the cup…
The Bluffton Christmas Parade
It may not have the reputation of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or the frenetic fans of Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, but the Old Town Bluffton Christmas Parade has its own history. And it’s certainly grown from its beginnings 30-some years ago, when half the…
The Heat is On—in February!
Sample gourmet food prepared by 16 of the top restaurants in the area. Watch a heated Iron Chef competition among 10 of the finest Lowcountry chefs. Mingle with Southern authors and purchase autographed books. If this sounds like the perfect recipe for curing the mid-winter blahs,…
Thomas Viljac: Adding More Charm to Old Town Bluffton
One of the really cool things about Bluffton, South Carolina is that it has its own state of mind. That’s what Blufftonians say anyway, and who is an islander to argue? An unfortunate circumstance of Bluffton’s land annexation initiatives that rival the Louisiana Purchase is…
Why Do You Ask?
There probably isn’t a question under the South Carolina sun that residents and visitors to Bluffton and Hilton Head Island haven’t asked of the Beaufort County Library’s reference librarians. Where does our sand come from? Why are there ripples on the beach? What causes the tides? Why do we…
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