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LETTER: Thanks for coverage of critical issues

Harriett Smartt: Thank you so much for writing on these critical issues now made even more so by recent weather damage.

by Charleston Currents · 10/26/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

HISTORY: Walterboro, S.C.

S.C. Encyclopedia | Just after the Revolutionary War, rice planters along the Edisto, Combahee, and Ashepoo Rivers, tired of an annual summer jaunt of fifty miles to Charleston, created an alternate refuge from the malarial swamps closer to home. By the 1790s, among local forests and freshwater springs, they built a village of about twenty log houses, which they called Walterboro, after two brothers whose retreat was prominent among them.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 10/26/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

FOCUS: 26th annual Holiday Festival of Lights is less than 3 weeks away

By Sarah Reynolds, CCPRC | The beloved Holiday Festival of Lights is returning for its 26th year with even more to experience! Featuring an estimated 2 million shimmering lights, Charleston’s most popular holiday event is open nightly at James Island County Park Nov. 13, 2015, through Jan. 3, 2016.

More than 4 million people have toured the Holiday Festival of Lights, which is hosted by the Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission at James Island County Park. The event has received many awards and mentions in publications throughout the country, and the three-mile driving tour delivers more every year.

by Charleston Currents · 10/26/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

BRACK: Today’s deadlines not as tough as those 150 years ago

By Andy Brack | The Civil War is alive every day for reporters and editors — and they may not even know it.

A couple of weeks back in a commentary taking the General Assembly to task for caterwauling about a court-imposed time limit on school funding, I observed how reporters face “deadlines” all of the time, just as courts impose deadlines frequently.

by Andy Brack · 10/26/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

Debris lines Screven Street in Kingstree, S.C. Photo by Linda W. Brown.

NEWS BRIEFS: Flood recovery to take months

In news briefs: Flood recovery to take months; Remembering Ken Burger; Remember to vote; Parris Island celebrates; Wheel of Time Companion to debut here.

by Charleston Currents · 10/26/2015 · Comments are Disabled · News briefs

MYSTERY: Green ironwork

You know you’ve seen this green ironwork somewhere in Charleston, but where. Look closely at the photo for clues (maybe in the background). Photo by Michael Kaynard, Kaynard Photography.

by Michael Kaynard · 10/26/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

Remembering Ken Burger, 1949-2015

We’re saddened this morning by the loss of longtime Post and Courier columnist Ken Burger, who died Tuesday following a long battle with prostate cancer.

Let’s remember him by being inspired from reading his outstanding, poignant writing, such as this sage advice from “Baptized in Sweet Tea,” a collection of columns published in 2011:

1. Always return phone calls: “Calling people back, you see, is a sign of respect, even if they don’t deserve it.”

by Andy Brack · 10/21/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Views

10/19 issue: Digital citizenship, Tecklenburg, great new book

In the Oct. 19, 2015, issue:
PHOTO: Sunrise on the Chehaw River
FOCUS, Pamela Lackey: On digital citizenship
BRACK: Why I’m voting for John Tecklenburg for mayor
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Morris Financial Concepts, Inc.
GOOD NEWS: Artists for Emanuel, more
FEEDBACK: Our children deserve better than legislators giving them
CALENDAR, Oct. 19+: From a block party to thanking Joe
REVIEW: The Ace Basin: A Lowcountry Legacy, by Pete Laurie
MYSTERY: It’s not Kansas, anyway
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Edisto Island

by Charleston Currents · 10/19/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

CALENDAR, Oct. 19+: From plant sale to thanking Joe

Oct. 19+ — North Charleston block party, native plant sale, Joe Riley

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HISTORY: Edisto Island

S.C. Encyclopedia | Located between the mouths of the North and South Edisto Rivers south of Charleston, Edisto Island is a Lowcountry Sea Island of approximately sixty-eight square miles. The island is shielded from the Atlantic Ocean by Edisto Beach, a barrier island municipality contained in Colleton County and linked to Edisto Island by a causeway.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 10/19/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia