Folly Beach News

On the Menu provides the latest news from the Charleston area's extensive culinary community, including new restaurants, new menu items and upcoming events, as well as details about local chefs.

This week is full of visual arts openings and exhibits to help you stretch out your cultural appreciation muscle before Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto start on Friday.

"State House for Sale" - That's the headline of a profile by The State of the role state-registered lobbyists play in major, high-stakes policy negotiations in the state's legislature, where at least 66 former lawmakers serve as lobbyists of their former colleagues.

On Saturday, conservation groups in 22 states and 8 nations overseas will stand along their coastlines in solidarity against offshore drilling in the annual "Hands Across the Sand" event.

Patio weather is officially here. Seek out these spots this weekend to bask in the sun while enjoying a light dish and a refreshing cocktail.

Get ready for summer – Shaggin' on the Cooper and the Moonlight Mixers are back.

Folly Beach Dogs aren't allowed on the beach at Folly between May 1 and Sept. 30 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. During all other hours, they can run on the sand and frolic in the surf, but they must be leashed.

Thanks to a few drunken meatheads who got all liquored up, picked a stupid fight with the cops, and more or less started a riot last July 4th, booze is now banned on Folly Beach.

A Folly Beach man has been arrested in connection with a burglary at a West Ashley home earlier this month.

Mayor Tim Goodwin says he was driving with his wife through Fayetteville, N.C., when they saw a sign displaying the title.

The field has been whittled down to 20 entries from which 10 winners will be picked.

Thanks to those three rainy weeks we had, you've got two chances to catch Movies in Marion Square this week.

A couple walks past beachfront homes at the east end of Folly Beach that have lost the dunes to erosion.

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Stacey Weiss had to build a sea wall under her house on Folly Beach to protect it from erosion.

College of Charleston's Bart Betenbaugh and Leslie Sautterer use a surveying rod to measure erosion and renourishment changes at Folly Beach County Park.

"A half dozen is six, and a dozen is 12," our server reminded us as we scanned the oyster board, debating between Carolina Cups, Blue Points, and Cape May Salts - as if the loud, fluctuating wave of bass-bumping island music was enough to dump the duodecimal file from my brain's vault - but a courteous reminder nonetheless.

Ariel Imler and Ariel Christensen, both College of Charleston seniors, collected and studied oysters from Bull's Island, Charleston Harbor and Folly Beach for a class project that showed deposits of microscopic fibers in the shellfish Wednesday.

Dredge pipes are now stacked at the closed Charleston County park here. Loaders wait.

Firefighters from Folly Beach, James Island and the City of Charleston were called to 210 W. Hudson at 6:51 p.m., Public Safety Director Dennis Brown said.