Port Royal News

When Candice Glover was announced as the next American Idol on Thursday night, her six younger siblings didn't hold back.

Nearly a year after the town completed a $9.8 million project to renourish and protect a mile-long stretch of the island's heel near Port Royal Plantation, another beach renourishment is just around the corner.

Takiya Smith wanted to expand her thriving business. Jill Egbert wanted to earn a degree to better market herself to prospective employers.

A company that wants to start a jellyfish-catching operation in Port Royal has asked to open a shrimping business at the town's shrimp dock, now that jellyfish season is over.

The town of Port Royal will discuss the budget for the police department at 6 p.m. Wednesday as part of ongoing preparation for the fiscal year 2014 budget.

A 39-year-old Port Royal woman was charged with aggravated domestic violence after she attacked her husband with a baseball bat, according to a news release from the Port Royal Police Department.

If Candice Glover comes to home this weekend for a concert and parade, city officials say the size of the crowd will be like few Beaufort has seen.

Residents watched Thursday as jellyfish were unloaded from a boat on a conveyor belt and were placed into white plastic containers and then packed with ice, The Beaufort Gazette reports.

One department at a time, Beaufort Memorial Hospital administration is moving into the nearly completed $17-million Medical and Administrative Center, across Ribaut Road from the main campus.

A 72-year-old Port Royal man was charged with leaving the scene of an accident Thursday after he hit a 41-year-old Port Royal woman earlier in the day and drove away, according to a town police report.

The Beaufort Gazette reports residents watched Thursday as jellyfish were unloaded from a boat on a conveyor belt and were placed into white plastic containers and then packed with ice.

People curious about how cannonball jellyfish would be unloaded from boats and shipped out on trucks from the Port Royal Shrimp Dock can see a demonstration from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday and Saturday.. Millenarian Trading Co.