Opinions

Business Briefs - January 19, 2017

NEW DANIEL ISLAND SQUARE BUILDING UNDERWAY Amplify, LLC, a Charleston based real estate, development, and consulting company, recently announced the formal ground breaking for the Daniel Island Square building located in the heart of the island’s commercial district on Island Park Drive. This...

City update for District 1

As we begin the New Year I thought it would be a good time to provide an overview of 2016 and an update on initiatives being undertaken in 2017. We accomplished a number of significant projects in 2016 as well as had the City’s first administration change in 40 years with the inauguration of Mayor...

Arrest made in car break-in cases

An arrest has been made in connection with a recent string of thefts from motor vehicles on Daniel Island. According to Lt. James Byrne of Team 5, at least ten cars were hit between January 1 and January 2 in the Smythe Park and Pierce Park neighborhoods. The suspect, an adult male who resides in...

Flu flurries hit the Lowcountry

Feeling feverish with muscle aches, headaches, chills? If it seems like everyone you know is getting sick lately, you may be right. Cases of the flu virus are hitting the Lowcountry hard again this year. Nationwide, flu season typically peaks in the months of January and February, which is exactly...

Perfectly Imperfect

One day several years ago, when our family was going through an uncomfortable period of separation and divorce and when my three kids were in middle and high school, I wrote these words in pink and green magic marker on the back of a sheet of paper and put it on the refrigerator: “We have the...

School district report cards released

Berkeley County School District high school students scored their best academic results yet on an ACT standardized assessment. Those scores, as well as graduation rates and other testing results, for the 2015-2016 school year were part of the recently released South Carolina State Department of...

Meet the kid behind 'Kids Say'

Each and every week, Daniel Island resident Søren Spina poses a question for our popular Kids Say series in The Daniel Island News. His queries often relate to a theme in the paper that week or to a particular news story. Since starting at the paper in 2014, Søren has asked over 100 questions and...

How do you celebrate the holidays?

From baking Christmas cookies to delivering treats to those who serve our community to lighting a menorah for Hanukkah, Daniel Island residents have a variety of ways to celebrate this joyful time of year. No matter how they choose to observe the holidays, they do it surrounded by the people they...

Letter to the Editor - December 8, 2016

It’s not easy to open a discussion about teens and addiction. Yet it’s a discussion that needs to happen - and it did at a Teens and Substance Abuse Forum at Bishop England High School on Tuesday evening, November 29. The panelists for the program, which was sponsored by The Daniel Island News,...

The Island of Altruism

If rising property values are any indication, there are some who may define Daniel Island by its wealth. But for island residents and others in the know, the area’s most distinguishing characteristic is not its affluence, but what the community does with it. Daniel Island is at its core a body of...