Broadway-caliber productions may soon take center stage on Daniel Island. It was announced at the September 9 Daniel Island Speakers Series event that a Performing Arts Center is in the works for the island. Daniel Island Business Association (DIBA) President Pete Harper told those in attendance...
As a young girl in Nazi-controlled Poland, Rose Goldberg found herself fighting for survival. She and her family had been living in a Labor Camp set up by the Nazi’s. When troops came to cleanse the “Ghetto,” she fell behind a straw mattress and kept still. They didn’t find her. Rose managed to...
One good deed has sparked another.
You may recall a recent story in The Daniel Island News about Bryce Siebuhr, an island teen who received a complimentary piano and music lessons last month from Black Tie Music Academy owners Braeden Kershner and Kris Manning. The pair decided to make the...
At the call to order of the September 8 meeting of the Daniel Island Neighborhood Association (DINA), available seating was scant. Leadership had apparently successfully marketed a noteworthy evening, with hot-button topics on the table and some elected heavy-hitters serving as speakers.
But first...
Unless you’ve managed to stay indoors these last few weeks, chances are you’ve felt the sting of mosquito mania on Daniel Island. The mad dash from the house to the mailbox and back to avoid prolonged exposure, the swarm of tiny black clouds around players and families on athletic fields, and...
September is a time of plenty in the waters of the Lowcountry. Unless, of course, you were shrimping and fishing with me this weekend. It all started (badly) on Friday afternoon when Julian Levin and I decided to go shrimping. The tide was not optimal but we figured we would still be able to catch...
It was a touching and inspirational morning on Daniel Island as military personnel past and present, first responders, and community members gathered to take part in the 4th Annual Charleston 9/11 Heroes Run. Guest of honor - Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter -...
Tim Boyle has been with the Daniel Island library since the day it first opened its doors, more than eight years ago. At the time, he aspired to manage a library at some point in his career. But he could not have predicted his longevity at that particular branch (longer than any of his colleagues...
“YOU CALL THAT A BURPEE?!?” “MY NANA SQUATS LOWER THAN THAT!” “I HOPE THAT’S SWEAT FALLING FROM YOUR EYEBALLS!!!” These are things you may or may not hear at boot camp. Lucky for fitness-focused Daniel Islanders, they are not things you will hear at a Smythe Park boot camp. Dotted throughout any...