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  • 1 week ago | postandcourier.com | Jessica Wade

    The email was waiting for South Carolina Humanities leader Randy Akers bright and early April 3. It came overnight from the acting chair of the National Endowment for Humanities to inform the nonprofit of major cuts in funding by the Department of Government Efficiency. Widespread layoffs and rescinded grant funding by DOGE have left humanities councils across the country reeling.

  • 2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Jessica Wade

    The National Parks Service has reversed course and restored references of celebrated abolitionist Harriet Tubman to its webpage about the Underground Railroad. A quote and image of the legendary freedom fighter — who also served a pivotal role in Beaufort County and the S.C. Lowcountry during the Civil War — that led the park service's Underground Railroad webpage disappeared recently during an effort to scrub federal websites of certain content.

  • 2 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Jessica Wade

    HILTON HEAD ISLAND — There are a few things to know before the crab traps and nets hit the water this summer. Starting July 1, new laws on blue crab fishery will go into effect in South Carolina waterways. The changes, which passed after a fraught legislative battle in 2024, aim to get a handle on what some call the state's "wild west" blue crab regulations.

  • 3 weeks ago | postandcourier.com | Jessica Wade

    BEAUFORT — The county just got a financial boost to protect its eroding shorelines. A $169,667 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s National Coastal Resilience Fund will bolster Beaufort County's efforts to develop living shorelines along its coasts.

  • 1 month ago | postandcourier.com | Jessica Wade

    BEAUFORT — A proposed wildlife management policy intended to prevent the feeding of stray cats roaming around the Hilton Head Island Airport has been passed by a county committee. The policy intends to prevent the feeding of animals on or near airport grounds as a measure to prevent bird and critter strikes on the airfield. It would also relocate a cat colony that for years has roamed on or near airport property.

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