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Belk employees volunteer at Beaufort Elementary for store's 125th anniversary

Belk employees spruced up Beaufort Elementary School on Wednesday, building bookcases and a picnic table and painting a mural.

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Heritage Academy honors 36 graduates

The 36 students of the Heritage Academy's Class of 2013 graduated Wednesday at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Island.
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Beaufort County school board postpones decision on grade floors

The Beaufort County school board voted Tuesday to postpone a decision on the use of grade floors until July.
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Classroom conversation with teacher about sex act prompts meeting with parents

Robert Smalls Intermediate/Middle School officials met with some parents this month after a fifth-grader raised a question during class about a sex act.Principal Denise Smith met with about 10 parents May 10 after a student in teacher Lisa Sutton's Advanced English Language Arts class asked ...
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YMCA of Beaufort County to conduct pilot summer-reading program

The YMCA of Beaufort County will offer a new learning-loss prevention program for Whale Branch Elementary students entering first and second grade who are most at risk of falling behind in reading over the summer.
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Beaufort County school board scheduled to vote on use of grade floors

The Beaufort County Board of Education is expected to vote Tuesday on the issue of the district's use of grade floors.
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Lady's Island Elementary parents push for return of fifth grade

A group of Lady's Island Elementary parents is pushing for fifth-grade classes to return to the school.
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Camp exposes Beaufort County teens to 3-D technology (VIDEO)

Eight northern Beaufort County teens explored the use of 3-D design software and created plastic models with a 3-D printer during Beaufort Academy's Camp Make and Take.
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PHOTO: Historic Hilton Head mausoleum gets help from SCAD students

Students from the Savannah College of Art and Design are analyzing Baynard Mausoleum, the oldest intact structure on Hilton Head Island.
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Memorial book drive for drowned student

AMES Academy at Beaufort Elementary School will conduct the Norman "Kirk" Kirkland Memorial Book Drive Monday through Friday in conjunction with the school's spring book fair.
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Whale Branch school plans memorials for drowned student

Whale Branch Middle School has planned events next week to memorialize Norman Kirkland Jr., who drowned Saturday in Colleton County.