Bluffton News

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is seeking help to identify a man suspected of exposing himself to people in or near three stores in Bluffton since January.

The Friends of Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry will present Eliza Lucas Pinckney, as portrayed by Peggy Picket, at 3 p.m. June 6 in the Bluffton library, 120 Palmetto Way.

The Downtown Deli and Downtown Catering Co. was named the 2012 Small Business of the Year by the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, and Mindstream Academy was the first recipient of an award for businesses less than five years old.

A Circuit Court judge is weighing his decision on whether a Bluffton man that police say threatened to harm himself and others is mentally unfit to own firearms after a Thursday morning hearing at the Beaufort County Courthouse.

Adam Choice of Thomasville, Ga., regarded as one of the top running backs in the Southeast, ended his recruiting on Wednesday with a commitment to Clemson, while late Tuesday South Carolina nabbed defensive end Shameik Blackshear of Bluffton, the state's top prospect in the 2015 class.

The University of South Carolina Beaufort women's golf team is in 18th place after the first round of the NAIA Women's Golf National Championships, as the Sand Sharks posted a team score of 328 on Tuesday at Wilderness Ridge Golf Club.

For The Sun Today Amiri Geuka Farris developed his artistic talents at a young age.

Hardeeville Police Chief Richard Nagy said this is the first double homicide he has handled since joining the Hardeeville Police Department six years ago.

A fight among teenagers in the parking lot of a Bluffton movie theater led to a high-speed chase that ended with a Jeep crashing into The Island Packet/Beaufort Gazette building late Friday, according to a police report released Monday.

Bluffton town leaders will consider Tuesday purchasing 11 parcels of land at Bluffton Village for a new Town Hall and municipal court.

Southern Beaufort County's golf industry has taken its licks from the Great Recession.

The island between Tybee and Hilton Head faces a threat to its drinking water, according to South Carolina's natural resources chief.

Four years ago I, and another longtime Pritchardville resident, Margaret Howell, circulated a petition in favor of naming the new school yet to be built and only known as the "Jones Tract elementary," to be formally called Pritchardville Elementary School.

The incident at Bluffton High School was a test of the school's, the police department's and the community's preparedness and ability to react to a real threat to our children and our community.

The crash of a Jeep Wrangler into The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette building late Friday was apparently the end result of an incident between two groups of teenagers at a local movie theater, according to a Bluffton Police Department spokesman.

Members of the 2013 Helton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class and town officials will debut the Shrimp Boat Playground at DuBois Park at 10:30 a.m. May 11.

St. Helena Island's Candice Glover will face Kree Harrison in the "American Idol" finale next week after Angie Miller was eliminated during Thursday's live results show on the FOX TV network.

With its sights set on influencing the 2014 statewide elections, the Greater Bluffton Republican Club knew it needed more members and more cash.

The state Supreme Court's refusal to take up whether the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce must follow the state's open records law had to be unwelcome news for the chamber.

Jessicah Peters/Bluffton Today Residents along Buckingham Plantation Road were advised to remove all personal property from the construction area.