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Tom Voytek's famil calls this guy "Chompers." The alligator has lived in the lagoon behind their house in Port Royal Plantation for several years, he said. Voytek estimates he is about 7 feet long and has never exhibited aggressive behavior. However, on the afternoon of May 18, he did attack a soccer ball floating at the lagoon’s edge. He carried the ball around for about an hour before it deflated and he let it go.

Untamed Lowcountry photo submissions, week of May 20

We launched, and you responded: Here are reader-submitted photos to Untamed Lowcountry for the week of May 20, 2013. If you would like to submit photos, videos or stories for publication in Untamed Lowcountry, email them to editor and blog curator Jeff Kidd at jkidd@beaufortgazette.com. To submit, you must be the photographer or owner of the image, and by sending it to us, you agree to allow us to publish it. For purposes of this blog, we're interested in photos of wildlife and nature from around the Lowcountry.

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Hilton Head sailing, rowing center too expensive, council says

Hilton Head Island Town Council is balking at a new, higher price tag of nearly $1 million for a sailing and rowing center.

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Major Short, bassist of the musical group Somethin' Smith and the Redheads, is photographed holding one of the group's album covers on Tuesday. The group helped popularize the banjo in popular music, and, as lone surviving member, Smith is about to be inducted into the Banjo Hall of Fame.

Hilton Head Island resident gets inducted into banjo hall of fame

Hilton Head Island resident Major Short was recently inducted into The National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame. Not bad for a guy who never played the banjo.

Crime & Public Safety

Man rescued from Beaufort River overnight Thursday arrested for public drunkenness

A North Carolina man pulled from the Beaufort River by emergency responders early Friday was arrested by Beaufort police for public drunkenness shortly after the rescue.

Sports

Members of the Beaufort Academy girls soccer team celebrate on the field with their trophy after winning the SCISAA Class 2-A/1-A state championship. Star player Miranda Weslake was named the SCISAA girls soccer player of the year.

Weslake named SCISAA soccer player of year; other area stars earn all-state honors

Beaufort Academy's Miranda Weslake was named Girls Soccer Player of the Year on Friday when the South Carolina Independent School Coaches Association...

Lowcountry Current

Cherokee Rose by Trailer McQuilkin

Exhibit of Joe Bowler's most recent work on display at Hilton Head gallery

It was a warm spring evening when, at the Morris & Whiteside Gallery, set in the leafy green Sea Pines forest, Joe Bowler and Trailer McQuilkin, gathered...

Opinion/Letters

Military's quality of life should be made better

The legislative goals are good whether or not they affect the base closure process.

Nation

FILE - In this March 18, 2013, file photo, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, holds a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee about immigrant women and immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington. For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hirono never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation. Instead, the hidden hand of the bipartisan Gang of Eight reached out and rejected her attempt to create an immigration preference for close relatives of citizens with an extreme hardship _ the same force that had already derailed dozens other proposals deemed to violate the delicate trade-offs made by the bill’s bipartisan authors.

Key senators tightly control immigration debate

For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win... 9 minutes ago

State

New SC Aquarium exhibit focuses on critter care

With 5,500 creatures from bald eagles and river otters to sharks, stingrays and thousands of smaller sea life, the South Carolina Aquarium is giving visitors a glimpse at just how staff members care for all those critters. 19 minutes ago

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