The 23rd annual Polo for Charity event, organized by the Rotary Club of Okatie, is set for Oct. 23 at the Rose Hill Equestrian Center in Bluffton. Match tickets are $20 each on the day of the match or $15 in advance.
Bluffton town leaders approved the purchase Tuesday of a roughly 1.5-acre property in Old Town just south of DuBois Park. Town leaders say the land will likely be used to add green space and more parking spots in the heart of the historic district.
One lane in each direction along a stretch of U.S. 278 near the Bluffton Parkway flyover will close Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. and reopen the following morning at 6 a.m.
FOX News political commentator and former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino talks about her new TV show, “I’ll Tell You What,” and her love of Bluffton, where she owns a home.
Beaufort County Council’s Natural Resources Committee recommended moving forward with plans to redevelop the Executive Golf Club, a defunct par-3 course near the Bluffton Parkway flyover. Preliminary plans for the roughly 21-acre property include 125 new residential units, two commercial spaces totaling about 20,000 square feet, and a 120-room hotel. The owners of the adjacent and much larger Hilton Head National Golf Club are also planning to redevelop that property.
Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette newspaper columnist David Lauderdale will give a talk about Joseph Fraser — father of Sea Pines founder Charles Fraser — at an upcoming pancake breakfast at Bluffton’s Lowcountry Presbyterian Church. The public event is scheduled for 8:15 a.m. Saturday at 10 Simmonsville Rd., Bluffton.
Andy Fishkind hadn’t even signed the lease on an Old Town Bluffton building that does not yet exist for his restaurant idea that is still just in the pen and paper phase, when his longtime hope of opening a Peruvian chicken restaurant called Andes’ Fricken Chicken — simply because he craves Peruvian chicken and wants to give people the “best fricken chicken they have ever had” — got scrambled.
Those who were left with broken hearts after the closing of Vineyard 55 on Calhoun Street in Old Town Bluffton, SC, last year can find love once more now that Calhoun’s, a cocktail bar co-owned by Vineyard’s Jon Rinaldi, opened last week just up the street in the Promenade.
Old Town Bluffton has been experiencing a boom in its food scene lately with the recent openings of Calhoun’s and Alvin Ord’s, the recent soft opening of Sippin Cow, and the future openings of Twisted European Bakery and The Depot.
The Oyster Bar in the Calhoun Street Promenade will add sushi and sashimi to its menu, courtesy of Fujiyama sushi restaurant on Burnt Church Road in Old Town Bluffton, SC. Expect to see the change at the start of October.
Thomas Viljac, co-owner of popular Old Town Bluffton watering hole Old Town Dispensary, says he started his business when there were just three cars a day on nearby Calhoun Street.
Twisted joins the apparent boom in Old Town’s food scene lately with the recent openings of Calhoun’s and Alvin Ord’s, the recent soft opening of Sippin Cow, and the future openings of FARM and The Depot.
Alvin Ord’s is part of an apparent boom in Old Town’s food scene lately with the recent opening of Calhoun’s, the recent soft opening of Sippin Cow, and the future openings of FARM, Twisted European Bakery and The Depot.
Alljoy Road is blocked by two fallen trees. A road crew is cutting weight off a third tree that was leaning because of soft ground caused by rain bands from approaching Tropical Storm Hermine on Sept. 2, 2016. That third tree seemed poised to take down a power line.
Liz Farrellefarrell@islandpacket.com
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Two big trees fall in Alljoy Beach area, casualties of Hermine
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So windy, I almost lost my phone
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Savannah biologist preserving natural beauty at Belfair
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Day 1 at May River High; 're-grand opening' at HE McCracken Middle
