Opinions

The Big Pet Edition is coming soon – send your pet photos & stories

We love our pets! Each summer we publish the Big Pet Edition and feature your pets. This year, our Big Pet Edition will be published on July 21. We invite you to be a part of this special publication. It will include original stories from our reporters as well as reader submitted photos of...

A Father’s Day, remembered

The doctors said there was nothing more that could be done beyond very extraordinary measures. After a series of physical setbacks, his frail body was shutting down in the summer of his 87th year. His desire was for no further treatments and, hard as it was, the family was now asked to respect...

Letter to the Editor - June 9, 2022

What happened to our old trash collectors? They were efficient and accommodating. The new company is arrogant and uncooperative. For over eight weeks, sections of a rotted fence (cut and bundled as instructed) have remained uncollected in my backyard. Despite numerous calls and emails to both the...

Keep partisanship out of school boards

Just when you think partisanship could not boil any hotter, the heat is turned up again. Now, it’s school board elections. In only two districts in the state are the elections partisan, Lee and Horry counties, and no authorization in law can be found to require that. In fact, in numerous...

Please don’t take my sunshine away

Is it possible for your heart to be bursting and breaking at the same time? And, can you ever love anyone as much as you love your own child? Yes and yes. Kindergarten graduation, 2022. The timing was hard. As we drove up to the school, our hearts bursting – I was carrying...

Audiobooks offer travel options all summer long

Starting out this month with some adventurous nonfiction. Any of these would be great as audiobooks if you are taking a road trip or sitting in an airport! “Riding With Evil” by Ken Croke. This book scared the bejeezus out of me. Croke is an ATF agent who infiltrated, and became a reigning...

Letter to the Editor - May 26, 2022

Support for Lisa Kerns Oftentimes, our most essential elected positions are the ones grabbing the fewest headlines, such as clerk of court. I, like perhaps you, was not aware of this position’s significance until I was elected to Charleston City Council and recognized this is not a...

‘Thank you for your service’ on Memorial Day and every day

As a veteran of the armed forces, I am always taken aback when a complete stranger notices my Navy ball cap and says, “Thank you for your service.” This did not happen when I enlisted in the Navy, nor for many years after. Service members were not held in high esteem after the Vietnam War. The...

Letter to the Editor - May 19, 2022

Safer traffic solution I was driving on Seven Farms Drive, approaching the intersection with River Landing Drive, where I was going to turn left. The traffic light was red as I approached. There was a car behind me with its left-turn signal on as well. I try not to get into the...

Reflections on the water

I never met my great grandfather, but I have a photo of him standing atop the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. My father, a former submarine commander, still fishes, shrimps and gathers oysters at every opportunity. He is 82. I met my wife Jenny on a boat as her sailing instructor. We were SCUBA...