Parris Island News

We saw the Garden District which lives up to the name, mature trees, lovely shrubs and flowers, magnificent homes, many as big as hotels.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is starting a 2-day tour of South Carolina to warn leaders that he thinks proposed cuts to military spending will be bad for national security.

This year, Memorial Day is also my dad's birthday. My dad was born on May 28, 1931 and turns 81 on Monday.

After a scorching South Carolina summer at Parris Island, followed by a half-year of infantry training, I landed in Vietnam in May 1967.

"Pretty much ever since I was a little kid, I felt it was the duty of every male citizen to serve in the armed forces of some sort.

Neighbors, historians, and Marines gathered at the Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Friday, to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the landing of Jean Ribaut in Beaufort County.

Authorities on Friday released the name of a 19-year-old Marine found dead in his barracks room at Fort Meade.

On a Temecula street, military wife Stephanie McKay used her best Pinterest skills to paint a red, white, and blue American flag.

As a child, he shook when he walked, so he carried the nickname to his grave Wednesday in the Beaufort National Cemetery.

The joy Tony Schillig and his wife, Brenda, felt when their son, Tyler, graduated from boot camp in Parris Island, S.C., and became a U.S. Marine was to be cut short by a tragic automobile... Some complete stories are available only to print and paid web subscribers of The Review.

Please obtain guest ID cards for your guests before their arrival, if possible, at the Logo Building, Lakehouse Fitness Center, Hidden Cypress Fitness Center or Palmetto Commons.

The city of Beaufort is getting some spring cleaning done as its codes enforcement official turns up the heat on owners of unsightly properties.

Beaufort's Nichakorn Williams, Yanisa Silalai and Rasita Williams walk down the aisle wearing clothing from Thailand Friday evening during the fashion show at the Tri-Command Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration inside the Lyceum at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island.

When overnight thunderstorms knocked out telephone lines and electricity in Beaufort around 1920, June Gardner's grandfather, Robert Raymond Fitts, braved the wind and rain on his horse and buggy to locate the tangled lines with his 5-year-old son, J.E., in tow.

Interesting local controversy . A kid that has enlisted in the USMC wants to wear a non-sanctioned patriotic tassel, even though school rules are very clear that graduation is about official high school achievements only.

When Josh Stinson graduates from James Monroe High School on June 15, he'll be decorated with honor cords earned from his achievementsA over the past four years.

The oldest known European settlement in what is now the United States wasn't in Virginia or Florida – it was on the marshy coast of South Carolina, and it came to a desperate and grisly end.

There was a time when he never thought he would be where he is today, Clifton Taulbert told the graduating class of the Technical College of the Lowcountry on Friday.

If you'd like to take in a little Asian-Pacific culture right here in the Lowcountry, make plans to stop by the 2012 Tri-Command and Beaufort County Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month celebration May 18 on Parris Island.

Derek Laaser lost his job as a mechanic when he told his boss he'd joined the Marine Corps Reserves, according to his attorney.