David Lauderdale

Hilton Head

Senior Editor at The State

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Harbour Town presses on with RBC Heritage, after losing its ‘right arm’

1 week ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

Bill Carson brought out the best in us, or so it seems each year when the PGA Tour comes to Hilton Head Island. When the $20 million RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing is played this weekend over the Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines, 72 of the best golfers in the world and tens of thousands of rollicking fans will little know what they owe Carson. He was there in the beginning, when it was all just a crazy idea without the first tee or green.
Harbour Town presses on with RBC Heritage, after losing its ‘right arm’

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | David Lauderdale

Bill Carson brought out the best in us, or so it seems each year when the PGA Tour comes to Hilton Head Island. When the $20 million RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing is played this weekend over the Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines, 72 of the best golfers in the world and tens of thousands of rollicking fans will little know what they owe Carson. AdvertisementHe was there in the beginning, when it was all just a crazy idea without the first tee or green.
Medal of Honor recipient whose name adorns SC veterans’ hospital should not be erased | Opinion

2 weeks ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

Helen Richards stands with a portrait of her brother and Medal of Honor recipient Ralph Henry Johnson. Provided photo Helen Richards was at home in Charleston when her 7-year-old daughter ran in with the news. Two men in white suits were coming toward the house. They told Richards that her younger brother had been killed in Vietnam. It would be many months before the family knew what happened: that U.S. Marine Corps Pfc.
Gov. McMaster set a good example for all public officials: Call out lies, demand due process | Opinion

3 weeks ago | thestate.com | David Lauderdale

S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster provides an update on the COVID-19 pandemic during a press conference at the South Carolina Emergency Operations Center in 2021 Tracy Glantz [email protected] I saw something in the paper the other day that almost took my breath away. A lie was called a lie. To his credit, Gov. Henry McMaster has done that publicly and repeatedly as he has addressed criticism against his choice to head the new South Carolina Department of Public Health, Dr. Edward Simmer.
A South Carolina lobbyist dishes out special recipes and Statehouse lore in a new cookbook

1 month ago | thestate.com | David Lauderdale

Mary Martha Greene aka the Cheest Biscuit Queen is pictured. Karen M. Peluso No third-grader has ever stood up on career day and chirped, “I want to grow up to be a lobbyist.”But that’s the career path Mary Martha Greene chose. She grew up in Beaufort and has spent 47 years winning friends and influencing people in and around Columbia.
Pride and sadness: Meet the grand marshal of the Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade

1 month ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

Diane Reilley, center, poses with family at the sashing ceremony on Feb. 11, 2025, when she was named grand marshal of the 40th Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade. David Lauderdale The Island Packet Diane Reilley has marched all of her life in a parade of humanity so it’s fitting she’ll the grand marshal of the 40th Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade. She comes from a family of six children — including five girls. Her husband, Tom, is the oldest of eight children.
Pride and sadness: Meet the grand marshal of the Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade

1 month ago | yahoo.com | David Lauderdale

Diane Reilley has marched all of her life in a parade of humanity so it’s fitting she’ll the grand marshal of the 40th Hilton Head Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade. She comes from a family of six children — including five girls. Her husband, Tom, is the oldest of eight children. And they had seven children of their own over an 11-year period. Until now, Diane has kept a low profile while her husband and their Reilley’s Grill & Bar became Hilton Head Island institutions.
What the graffiti at Hilton Head’s iconic gas station gateway is really telling us | Opinion

1 month ago | yahoo.com | David Lauderdale

Could it be that the state of our world-class community is etched in graffiti? I hope not. But the graffiti sprayed on a dilapidated, unoccupied former convenience store and gas station on U.S. 278 at the gateway to Hilton Head Island is making a big statement today. It stands in such a visible place that it could easily be seen as a symbol of who we are. It stands where a grand new half-billion-dollar bridge complex to the island was planned. And planned. And planned some more.
What the graffiti at Hilton Head’s iconic gas station gateway is really telling us | Opinion

1 month ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

The former gas station at the entrance to the eastbound bridge heading to Hilton Head Island was damaged during Tropical Storm Debby in August 2024, when a large buildup of rainwater caused the roof to collapse. It now sits vacant and has become the target of graffiti artists. Robert York The Island Packet Could it be that the state of our world-class community is etched in graffiti? I hope not.
Black history is our history: Life lessons from Hilton Head native Ben White Sr. | Opinion

1 month ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

Benjamin White Sr. and others important to the history of Hilton Head Island, but often overlooked, are included in the 2020 book, “Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before The Bridge, 1861-1956.” It wasn’t the humidity that made the work unbearable, the speaker said, it was the heat — summer heat embedded deep in your bones.

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