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Suicide at Sands Beach thwarted by Port Royal Police officer, bystanders
An officer with the Port Royal Police Department saved a 23-year-old woman who was apparently attempting to commit suicide at Sands Beach. Officer Karina Fraire-Galindo was patrolling Sands Beach on April 23, at around 6:30 p.m., when she noticed a woman on the floating dock who appeared to be in distress.
Disaster avoided in pickup truck fire at gas station
Burton firefighters extinguished a vehicle fire at a gas station Friday morning, April 26, without the fire spreading or anyone suffering injuries. Just past 8 a.m. today, Burton firefighters were dispatched to a vehicle fire at the Enmarket gas station on Trask Parkway near MCAS Beaufort. Firefighters arrived on scene to find smoke and flames coming from the engine compartment of a pickup truck with an attached trailer. The flames were rapidly spreading into the occupant compartment.
Two burned in morning fire in Burton
BURTON, S.C. (WTOC) - Tuesday morning the Burton Fire District, Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department, and Beaufort County Emergency Medical Services and Sheriff’s Office responded to a fire in a homeless encampment off Parris Island Gateway where two adults suffered burns. Just past 8:30 a.m. emergency crews responded to what...
Taste of Beaufort coming this weekend
Very quietly, A Taste of Beaufort will celebrate its 25th anniversary with an expected 10,000 people this weekend when the event, the City’s annual foodie festival, kicks off the month of May in Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park on Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4. “The weather is...
BCSO locates missing 30-year-old man, safe
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTGS) — The missing 30-year-old man from Seabrook has been found and is safe according to BCSO. The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) is seeking the community's help in locating a missing man. BCSO said 30-year-old Quincy Delaney was last seen by his family at around...
Burton Fire officials speak out following uptick in fires and car crashes
BURTON, S.C. (WTOC) - Since Friday, the Burton Fire District has responded to four different fires and several car crashes. The district’s assistant chief told WTOC the past week has been one of the most active of the year. Firefighters say the first incident happened on Friday, when a...
Second house fire of the day, third person burned for Burton Fire Department
BURTON, S.C. (WTOC) - Just before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Burton Fire Department and Beaufort County EMS responded to the report of a house fire on Broad River Dr. An adult female sustained minor burns in the fire but was not transported. This is the third person burned Tuesday, and second...
Finalists chosen for Beaufort Chief of Police job
City Manager Scott Marshall says the search for Beaufort’s next Chief of Police is entering the home stretch. Marshall said he’s aiming to introduce finalists for the job at a still-to-be-determined date in mid-May. He said he’s waiting to hear back on the availability of those finalists, as well as the City Council and the citizen’s panel assigned to provide feedback.
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1903: James Edwin McTeer, known as the High Sheriff of the Lowcountry, is born in Hardeeville. McTeer served 37 years as Beaufort County Sheriff from his initial appointment in 1926 until his retirement in 1963. McTeer was widely known as a root doctor and an expert on witchcraft, according to the Beaufort Gazette.
Damning with faint praise
As a professor for 31 years, I wrote a lot of letters of recommendation for students I’d had in class. Frequently, this required my needing to search hard for something positive to write or to put a positive “spin” on a rather mundane or spotty record. I did my best.
Beaufort Memorial Urology Specialists to add Urologist, Physician Assistant
The addition of two new providers to Beaufort Memorial Urology Specialists will expand the range of services available to residents of the Lowcountry and beyond. A board-certified and broadly experienced urologist, Louis Remynse, M.D., brings nearly four decades of clinical and surgical experience to Urology Specialists, where he will diagnose and treat a wide range of chronic and acute urological disorders, among them benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), kidney stones and urinary incontinence. A member of the Society of Urologic Oncology, Dr. Remynse specializes in robot-assisted surgical treatments for bladder, kidney and prostate cancers. In total, he has performed more than 1,250 da Vinci robotic surgeries.
Veteran of the Week – Thomas Loving
Beaufort County’s Thomas Loving, 66, joined the United States Marine Corps in Planeville, Ill., in 1975. After Boot Camp at Parris Island and Infantry training at Camp Lejeune, he began a series of assignments, mostly providing security services. He was stationed at Quantico, Va., in Hawaii and at Norfolk, Va., where he was at the Atlantic Fleet Commander’s headquarters and where he also worked with the Naval Sea Cadets. He then served at Twentynine Palms, Calif.; Recruiting Station Grand Rapids, Mich.; MCAS Tustin, Calif.; and MCAS El Toro, Calif.; on Okinawa; and at Camp Pendleton, from which he deployed to Saudi Arabia and was with the first units to invade Iraq during Desert Storm. His final assignment was at MCAS Beaufort, from which he retired as a Staff Sergeant with 21 years of service. Thereafter, he served as a Police Officer in Bluffton for 10 years and in Hardeeville for another 10 years. Today he is Pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church in Hardeeville.
Beaufort Memorial leaders win Palmetto Gold awards for outstanding nursing
Jaime Cuff, NP, and Kevin Kremer, RN, Among Top 100 in SC. Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) Nurse Practitioner Jaime Cuff, APRN, FNP-C, and Registered Nurse Kevin Kremer, RN, BSN, have each earned the Palmetto Gold Award, a designation given by the South Carolina Nurses Foundation. Established in 2002, the Palmetto...
Baseball, softball playoffs underway
The road to the Class 3A baseball and softball championships will go through Lady’s Island, as both Beaufort High teams host first-round games before likely having to hit the road if they want to advance to the Lower State bracket. Beaufort’s baseball team was set to open at home...
Off-duty sheriff's deputy helps capture would-be robber after incident at Ridgeland store
It was an unlucky day to try and commit an armed robbery at B & T’s Fresh Food Market in Ridgeland when an off-duty deputy just so happened to be the person in line behind the alleged suspect. Store manager Joe Robinson says the deputy and his market manager...
From staff reports
USC Beaufort celebrated Commencement exercises on Friday, April 26, awarding bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The ceremony took place outdoors on the library plaza on the Bluffton campus with USCB Chancellor Al M. Panu presiding. University of South Carolina system president Michael Amiridis addressed the graduates, their families, faculty, staff and honored guests.
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