Green Pond News

No, it wasn't a mermaid. Roberta Mason and other homeowners in Harmony Township saw a manatee at Friendfield Marina Sunday morning, between 9 and 10 a.m. The marina, on the Sampit River about three miles from ...

As Tim Scott slides into his chair in the S.C. House chambers in January, he'll become the first black Republican to do so since Reconstruction ended in 1877.

Scott is the first black Republican elected to the state House since Reconstruction.

“He was a wonderful man, he really was”

Order a reprint Winston Hardegree and his wife, Beth, look over an iris at their Blessed Earth Farm. via Spartanburg Herald-Journal

Premiere battlefield historian, author and tour guide Ed Bearss returns to the Lowcountry Civil War Round Table to discuss "the Crater and the Siege of Petersburg" at 6:45 p.m. today at the Bluffton High School ... via Island Packet

“Often you see them fly in huge flocks catching thermals. It wouldn't be too uncommon to have 100 in a flock soaring like wood storks”

White pelicans feed with great egrets at the Bear Island Wildlife Management Area in Colleton County. via The Post and Courier

State Rep. Cola Hudson, a veteran lawmaker who fell ill in Montpelier on Friday, has died at a hospital in Lebanon. via International Herald Tribune

“You just can't judge by one year what's going on. You have to look at trends over the years”

GREEN POND -- Volunteers counted nearly 400,000 birds in a protected wilderness area along South Carolina's coast -- ten times more than the previous year. via GreenvilleOnline.com

“When you're talking about child molestation, you're talking about the destruction of someone else's life”

Several local lawmakers said Thursday they are interested in drafting legislation that would toughen child abuse laws to keep jailed molesters like former Coosa Elementary School teacher Philip ... via Island Packet

“The first order of Bill's care has been to stop the bleeding and save his life”

Doctors were unable to reattach a snorkler's arm after it was torn from his shoulder Sunday by an 11-foot, 10-inch, 550-pound alligator in Lake Moultrie. via The State

Ken Dillard of Gray Court won the renegade race at the Anderson Motor Speedway on Friday night. via GreenvilleOnline.com