Edisto Beach News

The unofficial 2009 Election results for three towns in Colleton County came in shortly after the polls closed Tuesday night.

Some years back, I put in two years of near-work at the University of South Carolina Aiken , and I got out of there with a near-meaningless Associate's Degree in English.

Friday, October 09, 2009 at 10:14 a.m. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is reminding coastal residents that turtle nesting season continues this month, making it important that lights along the oceanfront be turned off after dark.

For as long as shea s been in the business, which is approaching 40 years, change has been the one constant in the life of Broadway star Patti LuPone.

The last meal of our vacation at Edisto Beach, S.C., starred shrimp, of course. Shrimp boats dock daily on the island; it's one of the few places where the catch is sold fresh, not frozen.

Me and the beau are taking a trip from Knoxville to Edisto Beach at the end of August.

Me and the beau are taking a trip from Knoxville to Edisto Beach at the end of August.

Me and the beau are taking a trip from Knoxville to Edisto Beach at the end of August.

Me and the beau are taking a trip from Knoxville to Edisto Beach at the end of August.

Me and the beau are taking a trip from Knoxville to Edisto Beach at the end of August.

Coastal residents who want to learn more about keeping their homes more resistant to hurricane and wind damage through predisaster planning will have a chance next weekend.

Gardens are a form of autobiography. -- Sydney Eddison It was my best boxwood. Big and green and trimmed square, it had stood as a sentinel to the left side of my front door for almost two decades.

Gardens are a form of autobiography. -- Sydney Eddison It was my best boxwood. Big and green and trimmed square, it had stood as a sentinel to the left side of my front door for almost two decades.

Bob Edwards was picking tomatoes in his garden when a lightning bolt struck him in the back late Tuesday afternoon, putting him face down in the dirt.

Joe Dennis of Bermuda Bluff Island ran away from home when he was 13. His mama in Columbia told him he absolutely could not go to Ocean Drive with older boys for the summer, but he was pulled like a speck in the tide.

The National Weather service says residents of and visitors to the Coastal Carolinas should expect partly cloudy skies today with a 30 percent chance of showers and thundershowers mainly before 3 p.m. Highs are forecast to be in the mid to upper 80s.

"Has anyone else noticed that ever since they went to digital television, the mouths are not quite in sync with the sound? It doesn't seem to matter which channel or which cable service." "I wonder what NBC was thinking when they replaced Jay Leno with Conan O'Brien. The only thing they accomplished was increased ratings for David Letterman." "A ...

I truly knew I was in the South when I ate pork for the fourth meal in a row. Every summer, I spend two weeks of vacation on Edisto Beach in South Carolina with my wife, Sara, and her southern family.

With people still looking for inexpensive vacation alternatives, the S.C. State Park Service finished the fiscal year with its second highest revenue ever.

The National Weather Service has issued a Coastal Flood WARNING in effect from 6 p.m. today until 1 a.m. tomorrow morning along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts.