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6 days ago | 
islandpacket.com | Chloe Appleby |Karl Puckett
Father Andrew Trapp and students at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Lady’s Island watch a live feed from Vatican City Thursday when a new pope was chosen. St. Peter's Catholic Church Church leaders in Beaufort County, located across 7,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean from Vatican City, were among the worldwide audience that reacted with relief when the telltale white smoke wafted from the Sistine Chapel.
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1 week ago | 
islandpacket.com | Chloe Appleby |Evan McKenna
A teacher from Hilton Head Island High School was placed on administrative leave amid a police investigation into “a situation involving a staff member and student,” the school’s principal wrote on Thursday. Students’ parents and guardians were told of the incident via a message sent Thursday afternoon from Principal Steve Schidrich. Classes taught by the teacher would be covered by other certified educators or substitute teachers, the note said.
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2 weeks ago | 
islandpacket.com | Drew Martin |Chloe Appleby
Signage for the Beaufort County Government Robert Smalls Complex which includes the county courthouse, sheriff’s office and jail and administration offices as seen on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 located in Beaufort. Drew Martin [email protected] The chairman of Bluffton’s fire department board has been suspended. The suspension comes from actions he took in relation to a pending investigation, which has been referred to the state’s Ethics Commission.
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3 weeks ago | 
islandpacket.com | Chloe Appleby |Karl Puckett
An agreement between Beaufort County and Port Royal that will allow a $400,000 splash pad to be constructed at Bruce Edgerley Field in Port Royal has been approved by the Beaufort County Council in a 9-1 vote. The vote came after an “interrogation” of the town’s top elected official from one council member about whether Port Royal was compliant in their use of federal COVID-19 funds for a splash pad in a county-run park.
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1 month ago | 
islandpacket.com | Isabella Douglas |Chloe Appleby
Hundreds of locals and vacationers gathered on Hilton Head Island on Saturday, April 5, 2025 for a rally to join in on “Hands Off!”, a nationwide demonstration. Courtesy of Kristin Jones and Julia Stefanini Nancy Wilbraham’s jaw dropped as she drove through the intersection of Folly Field Road and U.S. 278 on Hilton Head Island.
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1 month ago | 
islandpacket.com | Chloe Appleby |Evan McKenna
The entrance of the Beaufort County Detention Center in Beaufort. File photo In the three days since Darran Vaughn’s arrest for second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor in Beaufort County, new details have been discovered from police records, the arrest warrant, a review of his employment history and an analysis of the South Carolina Code of Laws regarding these accusations. Vaughn served for three years as the deputy director of Jasper County Fire-Rescue prior to his arrest.
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2 months ago | 
islandpacket.com | Drew Martin |Chloe Appleby
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Chloe Appleby |Evan McKenna
Minutes before the attack that would change her life, Maria Hernandez, 46, drove through her bank’s ATM on Hilton Head Island. A trip and a task she had done countless times before. The normal task was preceded by a normal day: driving her youngest daughter to school, cleaning up fallen leaves from the banana tree in her front yard, working her shift at a nearby restaurant, cooking dinner for her kids, attending a church service and shopping at Walmart for Christmas gifts.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
islandpacket.com | Chloe Appleby |Evan McKenna
Minutes before the terror attack that would change her life, Maria Hernandez, 46, drove through her bank’s ATM on Hilton Head Island. A trip and a task she had done countless times before. The normal task was preceded by a normal day: driving her youngest daughter to school, cleaning up fallen leaves from the banana tree in her front yard, working her shift at a nearby restaurant, cooking dinner for her kids, attending a church service and shopping at Walmart for Christmas gifts.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
islandpacket.com | Chloe Appleby |Isabella Douglas
A look at the bridges to Hilton Head Island photographed on Sept. 8, 2023, with the C.C. Haigh Jr. Boat Landing on Pinckney Island pictured to the right of center. File photo by Drew Martin With an urgent deadline approaching in 60 days, town and county officials will meet with the South Carolina Department of Transportation Thursday afternoon to address longstanding questions regarding the U.S. 278 Corridor Project with a focus on the outdated bridge to Hilton Head Island.
