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By Lolita Huckaby BEAUFORT An interesting headline recently in The Island Packet/Beaufort Gazette summarized a not-so-unfamiliar feeling being experienced in the Lowcountry. “700 homes being planned on two Beaufort County Islands. Is Anybody Listening?” read the headline about the ongoing development on Upper and Lower Cane Island but again, the question as to “anybody listening” seems almost colloquial.

By the time you read this, one or both of the USCB basketball teams could be sitting atop the Peach Belt Conference standings. The Sand Sharks kept pace in the races for the PBC regular-season crowns Saturday with a sweep of rival USC Aiken in front of a packed house in The Cove. Both the women’s and men’s squads sat one game out of first place heading into Wednesday’s road trip to Augusta.

By Barb Nash The United States has pulled out of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has turned the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) into a shell of its former self. So what? As a healthcare professional I am angry, disgusted, and afraid. While individuals are sadly being killed on the streets of America, these reckless actions have the potential to kill large numbers of us more efficiently, without the need for paid manpower. Organisms can be just as deadly as bullets.