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Gulf Oil Spill Remembered: Students Seek to Learn Lessons on Folly
Provided by Jan Brewington, Oceana Organizer Conservation group Oceana hosted a mock oil spill on Folly Beach this past April 20 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. Local residents and volunteers helped stage the event, which was also attended by Folly Beach Mayor Pro-Tem Laura Dukes Beck and Surfrider Charleston Chapter... »
Wangs “Best at the Beach” Store to Open on Folly Beach
Editor’s note: Since this is the first time since our little paper started out on Folly Beach that our publication date landed on April 1, we had a little bit of fun and wrote several “April Fools” articles for this edition, including the article posted below, which appeared on our front cover. Please enjoy... »
Beach Management
By Lauren Dean With unusual foresight, Folly Beach City Council passed a resolution right before the 2009 Fourth of July debacle that transferred $15,000 in funds allocated for beach management to create a civilian beach patrol. The Beach Management Patrol, which originally consisted of Ali Akhyari , Eric Cadiz and John Crisco, was quickly... »
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... »
Woman on a mission
Folly Beach among first recipients of oxygen masks for pet rescues By Chris Wilkerson “My inspiration comes from my love of animals,” Janet Fincannon says simply. A recent newspaper article made Janet realize that there was such a thing as oxygen masks for pets that could be used in rescues. In the event of a fire dogs... »
Folly Beach City Council – December 8
Staff Report The Folly Beach City Council held its monthly workshop and regular meeting, back-to-back, on December 8. Council member Tim Goodwin was absent from the meeting and Mayor Carl Beckmann explained that he was sick. Council coup fails Council member Tom Scruggs surprised the rest of Council when he made a motion to hold a special... »
Folly’s forgotten sons of the Union
By Robert Bohrn I love Folly Beach. Being born and raised on James Island, Folly Beach is a part of my soul that I have always cherished and loved. As an infant in the 1950s, I cut my teeth on the surf and sands of her beach. As a child I learned to swim, body... »
Economy Series Part 3: High end home sales
By James T. Sears, PhD There has been good news on existing home sales in recent weeks. Nationally, sales of previously owned homes have improved and locally pending home sales have increased as first time buyers take advantage of the federal tax credit. However, a Wall Street Journal article, after previously reporting other improvements in... »
An island trash-edy
By Ali Akhyari Shameful. Outrageous. Disrespectful. All of these adjectives could be used to describe the condition in which parts of Charleston County’s beaches were left after the recent Fourth of July holiday. However, one must hesitate to use the word “surprising”. All of our barrier islands, from Isle of Palms to Folly Beach, saw an... »
Folly Food Fairytale
By Lindsey Conklin Once upon a bad economy, the world fell into a recession. Not only did paychecks, stocks, and jobs dwindle, but luxuries too. Vacations, shopping, and extravagances were cut back and money was spared for necessities. But in a land far away from the Market of Stock is a small town at the... »
