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First-year college trend a social effect from COVID?

The event was so well attended it took on the feel of a festival. There was a large band with cheerleaders, giveaways, raffles, and games to play. Colleges typically organize such orientation and homecoming events when students return to college. But at Clemson this event was so widely...

DI Neighborhood Association declares goals for 2023

Mayor Joseph Riley had a vision to preserve the unique personalities and cultures of the individual neighborhoods that comprise the beautiful City of Charleston. As Charleston grew to be more and more complex, neighborhood associations were conceived to be a vital conduit between those who live...

The Australian Open – Connections from Daniel Island to Down Under

When the Women’s Tennis Association relocated the Family Circle Cup, now the Credit One Charleston Open, to Daniel Island in 2001, my casual interest in women’s tennis piqued. When I started the paper in 2003, my attention to tennis and its connection to Daniel Island became more intense. ...

Daniel Island Property Owners’ Association shares goals for 2023

As we enter an exciting new year, the Daniel Island Property Owners’ Association will continue to strive for excellence in strengthening our relationships with residents and guests, as well as, improving our stewardship of Daniel Island’s amenities and common areas. We will regularly...

Take your shoes off

My son Ben and I followed our guide Tim up a narrow path through the Australian bush of Bouddi National Park. Our vision was hemmed in by the trees and vegetation that reached far above our heads and grabbed at our ankles. As we emerged into a clearing and stepped foot on a sandstone rock cliff,...

Legal advice, resolutions to keep in mind for the new year

No sooner than you have recovered from the holidays and eased back into a schedule, does life begin moving quickly and sometimes too quickly. Usually, at least for us, those moments always seem to be in conjunction with issues which had long been forgotten or ignored. Sometimes, those issues...

Live life without the what-ifs

Just got a really, big dose of how life can change in the blink of an eye. Cliché? Maybe. It all started when a group of us had big dinner plans downtown and our 7 p.m. reservation turned out to be at 7 a.m. No wonder it was so easy to get. Have you tried getting a reservation at an upscale...

Needle ice – an anomaly in the dead of winter

“What in the world?” my father-in-law asked as we pulled into his driveway last Christmas Eve. Having built the house half-a-century ago, he quickly noticed that something didn’t look right around the family home. An out-of-place shimmer in the front yard had caught his attention. It caught mine...

The most important New Year’s resolution

We at The Blood Connection, your community blood center, would argue there is one New Year’s resolution that should top the list: save lives through blood donation. While January is the start of the New Year, it is also National Blood Donor Month – an opportunity to recognize those across...

Damar Hamlin: A symbol of hope, unity and prayer for America

It was turning into the National Football League’s worst nightmare; a fear that was finally going to be painfully realized on national television as the Buffalo Bills battled the Cincinnati Bengals at Paycor Stadium in a Monday Night Football showdown just over a week ago. But a week later...