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Bishop England to host 'Revolutionary' Drama Festival on April 28

Revolution is swiftly approaching at Bishop England High School. On Friday, April 28, at 6:30 p.m., the Advanced Drama class will present their end of year festival, “Breaking the Mold: An Evening of Revolutionary Tales.” This festival will include four student-directed, ten-minute plays. Each play...

School Briefs - April 27, 2017

DI RESIDENT PART OF WINNING USL MATHLETICS TEAM Jack Woodward, a Daniel Island resident and 8th grade student at University School of the Lowcountry, helped his team take first place at a state Mathletics competition on Saturday, March 25. Hosted annually by Christ Our King-Stella Maris School, the...

Making DI Delicious: Ali Baba Deli & Catering

There is a "buzz" in the air these days at Daniel Island lunch, dinner, and catering favorite Ali Baba Mediterranean Deli & Catering, a “feeling” experienced by customers and staff members alike. It’s a good feeling, and one akin to that of being helpfully and knowledgeably guided on an...

Teach children to manage money

April is officially financial literacy month. Most of the messages and promotion of financial literacy month focus on adults and specifically statistics about our nation’s savings rate, or rather lack of savings rate, towards retirement. I choose instead to focus on our children—because I truly...

DI News History - April 27, 2017

TEN YEARS AGO - Tim Callanan runs for Berkeley County District 2 seat In the April 26, 2007 issue of the Daniel Island News, the annual Bocce Bash was highlighted with photos from the event. The Bocce Bash event still takes place today and is scheduled for May 20 at the MUSC Health Stadium on...

Daniel Island Luxury Home Tour

As part of the Charleston Home + Outdoor Living Festival, the Daniel Island Luxury Home Tour will take place on Saturday, April 22 from 1 to 5 p.m. at six custom built homes located on Daniel Island to benefit the American Red Cross, Lowcountry Chapter. Each home on the self-guided tour will be...

Charleston Home + Outdoor Living Festival

For the sixth year in a row, Charleston Home + Design Magazine is hosting a high-end home show on Daniel Island, but this year is going to be a little different. Most notable is the new name - The Charleston Home + Outdoor Living Festival - which better reflects some of the exciting new additions...

Go 'Around the World' in 80 minutes!

Daniel Island is not a small world after all! On Saturday, April 29, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Pierce Park Pavilion, local volunteers will be putting up international flags and gathering folks from around globe for the first annual “Around the World in 80 Minutes.” “This is a community event intended to...

The return of the pink flamingos!

Daniel Island’s annual “flocking” fundraiser is back! The pink flamingos campaign to benefit Young Life and Wyldlife on Daniel Island is set to take place April 21-27. We caught up with local Wyldlife Director Tracey Lengyel Thomas to get some details on the initiative before it takes flight. Q....

Can Daniel Island be 'fantastic without plastic'?

Last January, we surveyed readers of The Daniel Island News to come up with “101 ways to improve our community.” One of the suggestions submitted was to make Daniel Island “fantastic without plastic,” meaning that the community should ban the use of plastic bags. Just how feasible is this idea? In...