Bluffton News

ABluffton woman who embezzled money from two employers, including a local development company, was sentenced to serve five years in prison Thursday.

Two men were sentenced to life without parole after being convicted Friday on charges stemming from a 2008 shooting of two brothers at a Bluffton, S.C., apartment that left one of them paralyzed, according to the South Carolina 14th Judicial Circuit Solicitor.

Good news was in the air Thursday at the Farmers Market of Bluffton. It blended in the breeze with the aroma of boiled peanuts, gumbo from "We Island" of St.

In other action, the board: Delayed its annual performance evaluation of superintendent Valerie Truesdale.

A 42-year-old Bluffton woman must serve at least 51 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy while she was baby-sitting him in August 2008.

A 42-year-old South Carolina woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy she was baby-sitting. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports Susan Tappeiner of Bluffton was sentenced Monday.

A 42-year-old Bluffton woman must serve at least 51 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy she had been baby-sitting. Susan Tappeiner must also serve three years of probation after being released from prison, according to the sentence issued to her today in the Beaufort County Courthouse.

Bluffton began part one of a two-phase project Monday that aims to reduce runofffouling Verdier Cove and the May River.

Council appointed Town Manager Anthony Barrett the town's representative on the Lowcountry Economic Network, a county-wide economic development group that meets monthly.

A memorial placed in honor of an artist remembered for his dedication to the Bluffton arts community has disappeared.

The 2010 All Saints Garden Tour is seeking applications from Bluffton and Hilton Head Island nonprofit organizations that would like to be considered as beneficiaries for next year's event.

Dino Riganas kept his eye on the building behind his Squat & Gobble restaurant in Bluffton for almost a decade.

A Palmetto Bluff couple whose partially built house was allegedly burned by a security guard who also worked as a Lady's Island firefighter still awaits the outcome of a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages from the security company that hired him.

A man wanted in a string of thefts at a Bluffton Laundromat was arrested Monday, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office news release.

A former town employee apparently has drawn the most votes in a three-way race for two Bluffton Town Council seats, ousting one incumbent.

A Bluffton committee had the unpleasant chore Monday of paring $65,000 in requests to the only $37,252 generated by bed taxes.

Two former Hardeeville police officers pleaded guilty today to charges they illegally pocketed money during traffic stops, charges that stem from an investigation by the S.C. Law Enforcement Division.

One of the suspects charged in the brutal attack on two men as they grilled steaks in a Bluffton backyard a year ago Friday is expected to go to trial the week of Nov.

Three candidates will run Tuesday for two seats on the Bluffton Town Council. Incumbents Oliver Brown, 56, and Charlie Wetmore, 43, seek re-election. Former town employee Mike Raymond, 58, also is vying for a seat.

The Bluffton Historical Preservation Society will sponsor an All Saints Eve Cemetery Clean Up from 10 a.m. to noon today in the Bluffton Cemetery off May River Road.