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Search to resume Sunday for swimmer missing off Hunting Island
The U.S. Coast Guard and local rescue crews will continue searching today for a swimmer who went missing Saturday off the coast of Hunting Island. (full story)
- Embattled treasurer: "If the county wants me, I'll be here'
- Henderson pacing his campaign in bid for treasurer's post
- Bluffton man faces Florida sexual battery charges
- Heritage organizers face " a lot of work" if tournament is to continue after 2011
- Sunday's crime reports
- Hardeeville ramps up efforts to attract chain restaurants
- How to get killed without going to Atlanta
- U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson faces broader ethics investigation
- Colleton County golf club wants to fill wetlands to build new hole
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- Photo: “Flow of Form” by Sharon Licata
Abstract art arrives
While Joan Templer was an architecture professor at Georgia Tech, she challenged students to think of new ways of presenting their designs, to move past the traditional and into something more bold and striking. In her career as an artist, she was doing the same thing. (full story)
- Gardeners gear up for tour, sale
- Sun City photography club puts 'Lowcountry views' on display
- From The Beacon: Library full of true, strange stories
- Spay/Neuter Alliance to hold fashion show
- Join Hilton Head Dance Theatre for 'Tea for Tutu'
- 'Life of Bees' author to kick off Beaufort series
- Enjoy an 'Evening of the Arts' under the stars
- Photo club hosts renowned journalist
- Coming This Week for Sept. 5
- Photo: Marva Knight, left, works with Clayton Smith, 4, while his mother Chierie Smith watches at the Lowcountry Community School in Bluffton. "He's been more calm, verbal since he's been here," Smith said.
Tools to learn: Preschool focuses on autistic children
When Marva Knight moved to the area a year ago, she had trouble finding early-intervention programs for special-needs children. (full story)
- Nothing like nature to help father and son bond
- The swing set: Golf Academy opens performance center in Bluffton
- Choo Choo BBQ finds a new home on Burnt Church Road
- Bluffton officials say residents have to help protect May River
- In the news: Brief items
- The sweetest thing: New bakery opens in Bluffton
- Bluffton couple saw the need for a running club, so formed Palmetto Pacers
- No boat? No fishing buddies? No problem
- Bluffton gets its kicks -- kickball is alive and well for adults
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- Photo: Bluffton High School's Harris Reeves, center left, and Battery Creek's Rhakeem Brown, center right, lead the pack at the start of the fourth annual Run for RET 5k race Saturday morning outside of Hilton Head Preparatory Academy in Sea Pines. Reeves placed third overall with a time of 17:49 while Brown finished fifth in 18:05. First place overall went to Hilton Head resident Brian Knapp, far left, in 16:52. Proceeds from the event go to RET Pediatric Cancer Foundation, founded in memory of Hilton Head Prep student Ret Thomas.
Sarah Welliver | The Island Packet
County schools test their early legs with Run for Ret
Hilton Head Prep cross country coach Liz Nash wanted to use her team's first race of the season as a measure of how far the runners had come and what work was left to be done. (full story)
- Prep Roundup, Sept. 4
- Powerful running game lifts Beaufort High over Battery Creek, 48-6
- Bluffton stops Hardeeville with strong second half, 25-6
- Ridgeland rallies past Hilton Head in shootout, 44-33
- Sirgo shines as HHCA starts off with victory
- Prep Football Roundup, Sept. 3 -- Whale Branch stays unbeaten
- Meyer leads solid showing by Sand Shark runners at Fort Jackson
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