Happy Hour in the Great Outdoors

This fall Old Towne Creek County Park turned select Tuesdays into “Brewsdays,” and select Wednesdays became “Wine Down Wednesdays.” Over the next couple weeks, the final installment of each will take place at Old Towne Creek County Park, which is not yet regularly...

Fix Education Funding And Stop Caterwauling About Deadlines

You might not get much in your morning newspaper if reporters didn’t turn in stories by a certain time. Deadlines keep reporters — and columnists — on task. If there were not a specific time limit to submit a story for publication, the story might never get written....

Property Tax System Is A Mess

A recent news report indicated that the Charleston County School District (CCSD) finished the 2015 fiscal year June 30 with an $18 Million deficit. A school board member quipped, “That’s just a rounding error.” There are five school board seats on the ballot in 2016 –...

New Beers Released Every Day

New beers are released every day, I’m sure of it. And by new, I mean beers that have never before existed. Such is the world we live in, with the dizzying array of new breweries offering standards as well as fascinating original creations, it’s no surprise that you...

Spilling the Beans

Beans, beans the magical fruit… But wait, beans aren’t fruit are they? Well, kind of. They are a legume, which are often considered a vegetable but a legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae, or the fruit or seed of such a plant. Legumes include beans, peas, lentils,...

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