STORY 1 From the Island Packet Running out of places to shop for your sports gear and outdoor apparel? Then you’re in luck because Beaufort is set to be the new home of an Academy Sports + Outdoors . This new retail location is taking over the vacant locations of T.J. Maxx and PetSmart from the Cross Creek Shopping Center, located at the intersecti…

STORY 1 From the WSAV Beaufort County Animal Services is offering for residents to have their female dogs and cats spayed for just $20. They reminded residents that dogs can have one or two litters per year with between one to 12 puppies per litter. For cats, they can have up to five litters per season with around three to eight kittens per litter.…

****STORY 1***** Fast-growing gas station and convenience store chain Parker’s Kitchen is opening new stores right and left as part of an ambitious expansion. That’s why a demolition of a Parker’s at the busy intersection at Ribaut Road and Lady’s Island Drive in Port Royal is turning heads. The town of Port Royal issued the demolition permit to a …

****STORY 1***** For years, the most controversial topic in grocery shopping has not been organic veggies versus non-organic, nor the angst over the scarcity and never-ending rise of egg prices. It’s been the concerns about the plastic bags used to tote groceries from the store to the car to the kitchen. Beaufort County has launched a survey of res…

STORY 1 Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the Statehouse visitors’ entrance, clad in the three-piece tuxedo he would have worn while serving in Congress, a legislative panel decided Wednesday, Jan. 8. Smalls, who escaped slavery on a Confederate steamship and later served in the Statehouse and Congress, will be the first…

STORY 1 Watching the comings and goings of tiny horses that looked right at home grazing on marsh grass or galloping on the beach was “magical,” according to residents of Horse and Little Horse islands who witnessed the unlikely scene over the decades. But those days are gone after a November roundup corralled the last members of the semi-wild herd…

STORY 1 It’s safe to say Irv Mulligan is already a star at home in Seabrook, but now his name is etched where an all-time legend’s used to reside. The former Whale Branch star had another big game for Jackson State in Saturday’s 41-13 rout of Southern University for the SWAC title, and in the process surpassed the great Walter Payton’s top single-s…

STORY 1 State Rep. Bill Herbkersman, R-Beaufort, will lead the House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, putting him in the forefront of guiding through a potential energy bill when it comes from the state Senate. Herbkersman, who has been in the House since 2003, most recently served as second vice chair of the Ways and Means Committee, tasked…