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Beaufort County School District Superintendent Jeff Moss.

Editorials

School board members free to speak their minds

Something is terribly wrong when a school board member is told she cannot speak publicly about the school superintendent — unless, apparently, it is glowing puffery.

Letters to the Editor

I just spiked the NFL

To: NFL players, owners and their advertisers.

I dream of the way our country used to be, when policemen were respected and were able to sit in their cars or write a traffic summons without being killed. When students went to college to learn. When students allowed guest speakers to speak, even though they didn’t agree with them.

Letters to the Editor

Yes, we CAN make the world better

A Scripture reading in church recently, about Noah’s ark in Genesis 6, described God’s anger with what he sees happening in the world: “wickedness, violence, corruption, evil and depravity everywhere.” It compels him to flood the earth and his people.

Letters to the Editor

Speak now on Hilton Head future

Hilton Head Island elected officials, town staff and a group of community volunteers have initiated a future vision project for the Town of Hilton Head Island.

Letters to the Editor

Gun ownership should be a reserved privilege

Stephen Paddock shot almost 600 people in 10 minutes in Las Vegas … because he wanted to. He carefully planned and implemented a war on the people of that city and our lax gun regulations permitted him to do it. He amassed an arsenal, set up surveillance, secreted his weapons into a vantage point and rained down carnage onto the greatest number of innocent people that he could.

Letters to the Editor

Clinton’s loss clear and simple

I found a recent op-ed on this page to be both direct and informative, clearly showing why Hillary Clinton did not get the vote to put her in the White House. Since that day, we have heard many complaints from the Clinton team and, of course, Clinton herself, who very soon will run out of people or countries to blame for her defeat.

Other Views

About Pat Conroy’s famous 2 minutes in the ‘Corridor of Shame’ film

Producer Bud Ferillo to introduce screening during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at USCB in Beaufort.

Letters to the Editor

Remove threatening alligators sooner

A few weeks ago I went to the Sun City management group to issue a complaint that there was a knocking on my mother’s front door, and when the caregiver went there, she could see a 12-foot alligator mating with a 10-foot alligator. I was told they were here first and that until there is an incident, they cannot do anything about it.

Letters to the Editor

You have a right to protest, BUT

In a recent column about athletes kneeling at football games, Cal Thomas, after the dutiful curtsy to the First Amendment, spends most of his time finding fault.

Letters to the Editor

Protesters using issue of slavery to divide and conquer

What are the underlying causes of the division that is permeating our society? Why would protesters who are so woefully ignorant of history desecrate Confederate monuments and disrespect the flag? There is an inane belief that desecrating our heritage will somehow change the historical facts.

Letters to the Editor

Yes, it’s time to discuss gun control

NRA-controlled legislators responded to the Las Vegas slaughter by “acknowledging” that it might be an appropriate time “to enter into the discussion” on gun control issues. Gee, ya think so?

Letters to the Editor

How NFL players and Trump can improve

The athletes who are kneeling or otherwise not participating in the singing of the national anthem are sending the wrong message. Their coaches should remind them that they are earning millions of dollars to entertain us. They could use some of their earnings to make real change in their communities, instead of setting a bad example to younger athletes who look up to them. I understand the rich jock mentality.

Letters to the Editor

Closed minds fail to see

I continue to be amazed at many of the letters to the editor.

Letters to the Editor

Athletes insult their right to protest

There is a controversy stirring the emotions and conscience of Americans: kneeling or standing for the national anthem. The U.S. flag is a symbol of our country and for all that it stands. The playing of the anthem is a symbol of our pride and respect for the creation of our nation.

Letters to the Editor

Plastic bag ban won’t help

Much of the conversation around banning or taxing plastic bags in the area has been about improving our environment. I don’t think you will find one person who will argue that we shouldn’t do all we can to keep our communities pristine. However, I’d like to set the record straight on how a plastic bag ban would affect the environment.

From left, Agnes Pinckney, Kate Pinckney, Robert Pinckney and Karen Floyd stand next to their family’s old car that sat next to the Pinckney Colony Road on their property in Bluffton for more than 20 years. They were recently contacted by the county and asked to move it so that it wasn’t visible from the road.

David Lauderdale

Rural ways of old Bluffton pushed aside

Beaufort County orders junked car at Pinckney Colony moved so it cannot be seen from the roadway.

“Conrack” will be performed at 4 p.m. Oct. 21 and 3 p.m. Oct. 22 at the University of South Carolina Beaufort Center for the Arts.

Liz Farrell

Here’s what happens when you set a Pat Conroy memoir to music (and then meet Pat Conroy)

‘Conrack’ the musical is on stage for one last weekend, Oct. 21 and Oct. 22, 2017, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort Center for the Arts in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Charlie Golson holds handmade birthday cards with grandsons, Henry, left, and William Golson during a party on his 69th birthday Oct. 10 at NHC HealthCare in Bluffton.

David Lauderdale

‘I’m damn close to walking’: Longtime Hilton Head chef, restaurant owner fights mysterious spinal infection

Owner of Hilton Head’s Charlie’s L’etoile Verte restaurant is back in Bluffton, but still faces a long road to walk again.

Letters to the Editor

False claims set women back

The AP referred to the Anita Hill testimony on Clarence Thomas’s supposed sexual harassment of her in 1991 as a “watershed moment.” It indeed was such a moment for those of us on the right — we could not believe the extent to which those on the left would stoop to sink the nomination of an outstanding Republican man to the Supreme Court.

Videos

How popular is Hilton Head's stranded buoy? Watch this timelapse.

Oct 12, 2017

Here’s a time lapse video taken on Thursday morning of the U.S. Coast Guard's Buoy No. 8 that washed up on Hilton Head Island's South Forest Beach after Tropical Storm Irma on it's one month anniversary.

Jay Karr Staff video