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'Game-changing' park enhancements coming to Daniel Island

Life in this island town is about to get even better. Two outdoor areas, one along the Wando River near Children’s Park and another in the heart of the island’s town center, will soon get a $1.5 million spruce up, thanks to the Daniel Island Community Fund. “It’s a major investment being made on...

Volvo Car Open seeking volunteers

In just two months, Daniel Island will be buzzing with thousands of tennis fans from across the country eager to watch their favorite female pros compete at the Volvo Car Open, the largest women’s only tennis tournament in North America. Having moved to the Volvo Car Stadium in 2001, the Open will...

Rep. Nancy Mace is officially sworn in!

New S.C. House District 99 Representative Nancy Mace was officially sworn in at a special ceremony in Columbia on Tuesday, Jan. 23. Pictured with Rep. Mace as she takes her oath of office are her children, Ellison and Miles; her husband, Curtis Jackson; her mother and father, Anne Mace and Gen....

DI resident receives national American Red Cross award for excellence

Because of her myriad of contributions to the Palmetto S.C. Region of the American Red Cross, Daniel Island resident Sandy Klein was recently selected to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence, making her the first person from the Lowcountry to ever receive the national honor. “Sandy is a...

Developer shares status on various Daniel Island projects

Dirt continues to move on Daniel Island. Members of the Daniel Island Town Association (DITA) were updated concerning ongoing and upcoming developments planned for the downtown area, as well as the overall development of the island, by Daniel Island Company President Matt Sloan at the organization’...

DIHS program sheds light on slavery in the historic Holy City

Anne Blessing has spent the entirety of her life living in a classic Colonial-style single-family home in downtown Charleston that her grandmother, Elizabeth Lucas Hanahan, bought in the early 1930s. The house, like Charleston, is saturated with history, explained Blessing at the Daniel Island...

Daniel Island artists' works to be featured in exhibits

BETSY MCDONALD The Charleston Artist Guild Gallery will present “Everchanging Tides,” an exhibit featuring the oil paintings of Daniel Island resident Betsy Jones McDonald, during the month of February. The exhibit will include many of McDonald’s large format oil paintings of marshes, rivers and...

'My Kid is Not Crazy'

(Editor’s Note: At the request of parent Sophie Fowler for privacy purposes, The Daniel Island News is not revealing the gender of the child featured in the story below. The youth is described simply as “the child” or “they.”) After Mount Pleasant resident Sophie Fowler’s child came back from a...

School Briefs - February 1, 2018

TWO DIS STUDENTS QUALIFY FOR REGIONAL SPELLING BEE! Two Daniel Island School students have earned spots in the upcoming regional spelling bee, and, if they continue to perform well against their competitors, one of them could qualify for the Scripps National Spelling Bee later this year. Ian...

Land use and zoning activities on Daniel Island

These are the issues being brought before the various City of Charleston boards and committees that are specific to land use and zoning on Daniel Island. For more information on any of these proposed actions, visit dineighborhoodassociation.org (click on “Land Use and Zoning Activity”). All...