Daufuskie Island News

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Daufuskie Island residents and property owners will elect a nine-member council in February to serve as a liaison between local, state and federal governments, residents said Monday.

Elsewhere, golf carts are used primarily on golf courses. Here, they're almost everywhere.

Miller, 44, and Auckerman, 54, co-owners, Bliss Accessories & Gifts, 4345 W. Dublin-Granville Rd.

The Gibbes Museum of Art is teaming up with the Center for Women in November for the Women in Art lecture series.

Happy weekend-before-Halloween. Get out there and have some spooky fun. The event everyone is buzzing about is the Skinful Halloween Party .

MY HUSBAND, Weller, and I recently returned from a trip to South Carolina's Gullah country.

Sixth-generation native Daufuskie Islander Sallie Ann Robinson, author of two Gullah cookbooks, is passionate about preserving the nature and history of her island home.

We just cracked open a new oyster season here in the Lowcountry. And rice never goes out of season.

The bankrupt Daufuskie Island Resort & Breathe Spa has at least one qualified potential buyer.

Call it a book-signing with a Lowcountry twist. To Roger Pinckney of Daufuskie Island, the events where he rolls out his new novel -- "Reefer Moon" -- are "throw-downs." That means live music on a Lowcountry dock, adult beverages and souvenir T-shirts and baseball caps are a bigger part of the gig than readings.

To learn more on the Beach Sweep/River Sweep cleanups today from 9 a.m. to noon, call: Harbor Island -- Fran Nolan at 843-838-4878 Hunting Island -- Karen Whitehead at 843-838-7627 Fripp Island -- Collins Strickland at 843-706-4593 Bluffton Beach, All Joy, Pinckney Island, Coligny and Islander beaches -- Phyllis Neville at 843-681-3646 Daufuskie ...

Before the recession, booming growth helped Beaufort County's fire districts generate enough tax revenues to fund their operations.

A full house greeted Southern writer Pat Conroy as he signed hundreds of books Saturday afternoon.

World-famous writer Pat Conroy will be back in Augusta on Wednesday, Sept. 16, to autograph copies of his new book South of Broad , but it actually was about two blocks north of Broad Street in Augusta where I first crossed his path more than 36 years ago.

Some Lowcountry neighbors will be without power tonight as utility workers make emergency repairs.

The Beaufort Garden Club is celebrating it's 75th anniversary this fall with a day of garden seminars and workshops, "Making It Lovely," on Sept.

Muddy Creek Road has never been on the travel brochures for Hilton Head Island. Police reports, maybe.

Two dispatch centers serve Beaufort County. The Beaufort County Dispatch Center dispatches the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office; Beaufort, Bluffton, Port Royal and Yemassee police departments; Beaufort County EMS; and all the county's fire departments, excluding the Town of Hilton Head Island Fire & Rescue Division and the Daufuskie Island Fire ...

Some came carrying not-yet-opened copies of the newest novel. Other had of well-worn copies of their favorites tucked under their arms.