Local crime, high school sports, county politics, events tonight, and business closings — the daily Lowcountry report from HERE Beaufort.
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — College-bound high school seniors anywhere in South Carolina can now apply for as much as $10,000 toward their first year of college, after the Meeting Street Scholarship Fund opened its application to every county for the 2027-28 school year on Monday. This is the first year the…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is on track for an estimated $18 million surplus in the Education Improvement Act money that pays for many state school programs, and the Education Oversight Committee is using the cushion as a reason to ask hard questions about what those programs deliver. The committee…
Events
BEAUFORT, S.C. — The Beaufort County Veterans Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. today, Wednesday, Nov. 11, beginning at Beaufort National Cemetery. Floats and marching units line up at 8 a.m. on Adventure Street. The route follows Boundary Street onto Bay Street and finishes at Boundary and Bladen streets.…
Events
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. — Property owners with questions about their tax assessments can sit down with Beaufort County Assessor staff at four library branches over the coming weeks, and the next walk-in day is Tuesday, Nov. 10, on Hilton Head Island. Each day runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and…
Business
BEAUFORT, S.C. — An Italian maker of tubing and fittings for trucks and industrial equipment plans to set up a distribution and customer support operation in Beaufort County, the governor’s office announced Tuesday, Nov. 10. The company expects to put in roughly $5 million and hire at least 11 people…
From Merger Monday
On Tuesday the U.S. government paid 5% to borrow for 10 years. On the same day a five-year-old AI company asked public investors to value it at as much as $1.4 trillion. Both things can be true, and the gap between them says a lot about where capital is going. Start…
From Merger Monday
Akamai Technologies Inc. borrowed $2.2 billion at 1% by selling investors a piece of its stock’s upside, the latest technology company to tap the convertible-bond market to pay for computing capacity. The Cambridge, Mass., content-delivery and security company priced $1.1 billion of convertible senior notes due 2028 and $1.1 billion due…
Traffic
BEAUFORT, S.C. — Beaufort County has won an $8 million federal grant to make SC 170 safer, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace announced Tuesday, Nov. 10. The corridor in northern Beaufort County is expected to see daily traffic double over the next 25 years. Projections put the load at about 20,000…
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