Category: Opinion

Christmas trees started popping up in homes across the country in early November – at least that’s when I first saw them – their full regalia gleaming and sparkling with all manner of fancy ornaments and lights, and that’s just...

The Don Ryan Center for Innovation (DRCI) is pleased to announce that one of their current STARTUP innovators will be launching a beta version of its operation next month. RightNowHelp is a digital marketplace that offers a...

To the Editor: I did not have an opportunity to thank everyone that was instrumental in assisting me in the process of the building of the Veterans Memorial at Buckwalter Place. I would like to formally do so. A wise man once...

Honoring Thanksgiving in various ways, all with gratitude With this feature, we seek to capture a glimpse of what you and your neighbors have to say about a variety of topics, issues, events – and just plain fun questions. For...

What is it with people these days? What’s gotten into us? Why is so hard to have a civil conversation with someone outside our various circles? (Answer: Election frenzy.) Why do so many of us seem so angry or short-tempered?...

In the past three months of my visits to this space, I have commented on several shades of “resiliency” in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. First, there was an administrative resiliency with several agencies of our state,...

To the Editor: My husband and I decided to do early voting today. Our neighbor, who uses a walker, came along. We were surprised when we saw the long, slow-moving line. Standing in the hot sun was going to be too much for our...

Sometimes we win; sometimes we win weird, cool stuff With this feature, we seek to capture a glimpse of what you and your neighbors have to say about a variety of topics, issues, events – and just plain fun questions. For the...

This is the last issue of the Bluffton Sun before Election Day. The next one will arrive on that day, Nov. 3. And that’s a smidge too late for the topic of this column. You might have noticed that we don’t report on politics in...

Here in Bluffton, in all the years I have been a resident and an elected official, I’ve always stressed the importance of transparency. It’s important the people who have been elected to represent the public, or those who are...

To the Editor: In July, Beaufort County was awash in Coronavirus, and our community felt it. One-third of Beaufort Memorial beds were occupied with COVID-19 victims. The ICU was full of ventilated patients. And, community...

Baby, it’s getting cool outside. What’s for dinner? With this feature, we seek to capture a glimpse of what you and your neighbors have to say about a variety of topics, issues, events – and just plain fun questions. Normally,...

We all know about the three little dots we were taught to use in high school English class. The official name is the “ellipsis,” from the Greek, meaning “leave out.” You will see the ellipsis used in print news stories when a...