Lyn Riddle

1 week ago | thestate.com | Lyn Riddle

Here are 10 high-paying remote work jobs advertised in South Carolina. If you’re looking for a job paying more than $100,000 and want to work from home, SC Works has some opportunities for you. Here are 10 jobs among 394 companies listed by SC Works, a state government resource that also offers testing and training to help people find employment. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development is looking for an executive account manager, offering a salary between $190,000 and $446,000 a year.

1 week ago | thestate.com | Lyn Riddle

Though most beaches on Kiawah Island are private, Kiawah Beachwalker Park on the island’s west side is available to the public. Clayton Hanson/Getty Images A South Carolina beach community is among 15 places for best summer vacations named by U.S. News and World Report. The 10-mile-long Kiawah Island made the list due to its beaches, 30-plus miles of bike trails and five championship golf courses, the magazine said.

1 week ago | myrtlebeachonline.com | Lyn Riddle

There are invasive species and then there’s the northern snakehead, a fish so loathed, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources says in bold capital letters: DO NOT RELEASE. Exclamation point implied. They go on to say kill it immediately. DNR scientists have been looking for snakeheads — also known as Frankenfish — since some were found in small numbers in a private pond in Georgia and North Carolina in 2019.

2 weeks ago | thestate.com | Lyn Riddle

This Waterloo, S.C. house and 21 acres are for sale for $1.4 million. Herlong Sotheby's International Realty/provided Donna and David Holmes had been fostering children in their Spartanburg home for some time when they saw a piece of land in the tiny Laurens County town of Waterloo. A private lake is stocked with bass, catfish, bream and crappie. Herlong Sotheby's International Realty/provided David Holmes would drive by often and think what a great place it would be for kids.

2 weeks ago | thestate.com | Lyn Riddle

Alligators are native to the North Carolina coast and they typically avoid contact with humans, experts say. FWC photo/Tim Donovan Six people have been killed by alligators in South Carolina since 2016 — two women walking their dogs, a woman cutting hedges in her yard near a lagoon, a man and two women dragged into retention ponds. Such deaths are rare, as are attacks by alligators overall and the Department of Natural Resources wants to keep it that way.