St. George News

ST. GEORGE a ' A penny just doesn't buy what it used to. So, as Dorchester County gets ready to issue the final $57 million of $125 million in bonds to pay for 22 road projects voters approved in 2004, its leaders continue to scramble to find other funding and lobby for more federal stimulus money.

Severe weather causes a tree to fall on a mobile home in Dorchester County. According to the Saint George Fire Department, around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16 they were notified about a tree that had fallen on a home on Raysor and Park Street.

ST. GEORGE a ' A penny just doesn't buy what it used to. Neither does 12.5 billion of them.

SUMMERVILLE a ' Imagine a woody parkland with schools and a vocational-technical school right in the heart of the crowded Oakbrook suburbs.

The idea of merging Dorchester County's two school districts isn't new. But it has gained renewed momentum.

Two Lowcountry men are dead following separate head-on collisions in Dorchester and Berkeley counties this weekend.

ST. GEORGE a ' Dorchester County Council torched a controversial leaf-burning ban at the last minute Monday night.

Money often causes friction in a marriage, so who can blame couples for trying to start their lives together with an extra $30 in their pockets? Charleston County Council thought it was a good idea to raise the cost of a marriage license to $70 a few years ago, but the decision may be sending a growing number of starry-eyed couples across the ...

By Jenny Peterson Summerville Journal Scene The countya s $41.2 million balanced budget next year calls for no tax increase and continues to fund county services and a number of county projects.

At least three people were in critical condition Saturday night at the Medical University of South Carolina after a three-car wreck occurred about noon on Interstate 95, four miles north of St.

ST. GEORGE a ' Dorchester County officials had all the optimism of wide-eyed kids with a Christmas list when they sat U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn in the seat at the center of the podium and presented nearly $60 million of projects they hoped to see federal stimulus money fund.

ST. GEORGE a ' Two godly resolutions were passed by Dorchester County Council on Monday, in short order.

Spring is the season for festivals celebrating flowers, frogs, families or just the freedom of the great outdoors.

Imagine hopping onto a bicycle on the Sawmill Branch trail in Summerville and peddling along a greenway all the way around Dorchester County.

Imagine climbing onto a bicycle on the Sawmill Branch trail in Summerville and pedaling on a greenway all the way around Dorchester County.

Congressman James E. Clyburn ST. GEORGE a ' The congressman came to town Monday looking for federal stimulus projects he can push.

ST. GEORGEa 'Sooner or later the old courthouse will come down. That's no big loss to this little town.

Mary Claire Jeffers Osborn, 81, of Columbia, S.C., died Tuesday, March 24. Born in St.

ST. GEORGE a ' Authorities have charged a man with robbing a local bank last week and are investigating whether the same man robbed other banks in the Lowcountry.

ST. GEORGE a ' Authorities are looking for a man who has robbed as many as five Lowcountry banks in recent months.