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OP ED: Bikes Banned on James Island Connector
City of Charleston Decides to Enforce Little Known Law By Christine Wilkerson With the ban on bicycles on the James Island Connector set to go into place as soon as signs are up, bikers will have no safe, legal way to get to the peninsula from James Island or the reverse. The news that the City... »
Not Even in a Cup: Group Organizes to Ban Drinking on the Beach
By Stratton Lawrence Despite Folly Beach being trumped by Isle of Palms in the annual ‘dirtiest beach on the Fifth of July’ contest, the mid-summer calls to curb drinking on the beach are sounding stronger now than in previous years. A group of supporters have formed on Facebook, using the secret (hidden) group name, B4aSaferFolly,... »
Man of the Sand
Half-rubber tournament brings back memories As indigenous to the low country as palmetto bugs and shagging on the beach, half-rubber is a game that resembles baseball but is played with half of a rubber ball and a broomstick. The game can be played anywhere, but everyone agrees the beach is best. (Italics?) Nine years... »
Planning Comission
City Meetings By Lauren Dean Planning Commission – June 7 Vacation Rental Management Strategy The Planning Commission is getting ready to tackle an issue many people say is long overdue – a revamp of trash and noise issues related to vacation rentals at Folly Beach. When the Planning Commission met on June 7, Chairman LaJuan Kennedy “introduced” the subject... »
Hands Across The Sand
Hands across the Sand By Dave Rauschkolb, Founder On June 26 at 12:00 noon Americans and the world will have an opportunity to join hands on our beaches and draw a line in the sand against expanded offshore oil drilling in our waters. This is an opportunity of national and global importance, an opportunity for any individual... »
Police Reports
Police Reports By Lauren Dean Free rent At about 8:30 a.m. on May 14, Public Safety was dispatched to a rental unit in the 1600 block of East Ashley when a neighbor called to report a bicycle in the yard that had not been there the night before. All the doors were locked but the officer could... »
Vagancy Ordinance
Folly Beach needs a vagrancy ordinance By Jamie McDonell In the old days Folly Beach had one vagrant. We all knew him and he was pretty harmless at first, but eventually he was not allowed back on the island because so many people had “no trespassing” orders against him that he couldn’t come across the bridge... »
Holiday Inn Now Tides Folly Beach
Holiday Inn Folly Beach To Be Renamed The Tides Folly Beach Guestrooms to be renovated this November FOLLY BEACH, SC (June 14, 2010) – 1 Center Street, LLC (1CS), the owner of the Holiday Inn Folly Beach, announced that beginning in November 2010, the hotel will end its affiliation with Holiday Inn Hotels and be renamed The... »
Animals Among Us
They live among us By Ralph Bryan, Folly Beach Animal Control Officer It is that time of year again when Animal Services receives numerous calls about nuisance, injured, and orphaned animals. These calls include everything from song birds, to fawns, foxes and raccoons just to name a few. If you see small deer fawns, please leave... »
Letter from the editor . . .
By Lauren Dean Some folks say excessive and abusive noise is something residents are expected to endure as the price of living in paradise. Those folks must not live within blasting range of the Center Street drinking establishment or scrunched between two rental houses regularly occupied by hordes of college kids who come to town... »
