Новости за 05.03.2016

Some months ago, Mickey Bakst, general manager of Charleston Grill, was talking with representatives of Krug Champagne about a 2014 event Krug organized in Tokyo at which food, wine and music were combined.

Charleston Mayor John J. Tecklenburg on Saturday paid tribute to Lowcountry author Pat Conroy’s life and work, which he said touched "our lives and our hearts so deeply."

Sitting steps from a busy Mount Pleasant thoroughfare, Nese Zinn’s face warms with tenderness as she remembers her lifetime of travels through remote lands in search of rugs.

Charleston Mayor John J. Tecklenburg on Saturday paid tribute to Lowcountry author Pat Conroy’s life and work, which he said touched "our lives and our hearts to deeply."

Singer and Charleston native Darius Rucker has received the National Golf Course Owners Association 2016 Award of Merit while Terry Sedalik, executive director of both the Charleston and South Carolina Golf Course Owners Association, was named the winner of the organization’s Paul Porter Award. The awards were made in February in San Diego.

With his coaching staff set, new Citadel football coach Brent Thompson has turned his attention to his players. As the Bulldogs hit the field for their first scrimmage of the spring on Saturday, some new names appeared in some new places.

Capt. Geoff Bennett will lead a free seminar on Fishing Spring Transition Redfish at Haddrell’s Point Tackle West Ashley at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Call 843-573-3474.

If you walk into most area outdoors-oriented sporting goods stores, it’s not hard to figure out what season is just around the corner.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham can’t walk down a Capitol Hill hallway without being blocked by a mob of reporters, all desperate for the South Carolina Republican’s latest zinger on Donald Trump and the GOP presidential field.

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The famed 1991 Ryder Cup Matches, forever after known as "The War by the Shore." The 2007 Senior PGA Championship and its showdown of top senior professionals, then the 2012 PGA Championship, which crowned Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy as the world’s No. 1 player. And, waiting just ahead, the 2021 PGA...

I’m not a beekeeper, at least not yet. However, this week I was excited to observe as my colleague Catherine McGuinn, a nursery inspector for the Clemson Department of Plant Industries, took the practical exam to become a certified beekeeper.

SUMMERVILLE — The man accused of running the town from behind the scenes reiterated Friday that he is merely an adviser to Summerville Mayor Wiley Johnson but that he has now turned his attention to a new cause.

‘Who here thinks they’re a storyteller?"

ROEBUCK, S.C. — Walnut Grove Plantation in Spartanburg County is being transformed into a living colonial village this weekend.

If meteorologists could say it’s going to be a perfect weekend, today would be the day to do it.

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What: The Otranto Regional Library will be hosting a book sale which will also feature CDs and DVDs. Proceeds will benefit the Charleston Regional Library.

Pat Conroy had a very special way with the written word.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The College of Charleston defeated Providence, 4-1, and IPFW, 11-2, on Friday at the first day of the Under Armour Softball Invitational at South Florida.

Charleston Southern’s weekend baseball series with the University of Massachusetts was moved to Riley Park, beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday.

U.S. military forces are clearly stretched (personnel wise and financially) and something must be done in the near future to relieve this stress. It may be time to give serious consideration to re-instating a national draft (two to three years) for all military forces.

In the debates, discussions and diatribes relating to the race for the presidency, there has been very little in the way of discussion about the affordability of the wonderful ideas that have been tossed around.

I was saddened to hear that David Parsons passed away. I first met David at St. Johns High School where we both worked. He was a special education teacher who worked with some of the students who had behavioral problems that prevented them from attending the regular classes.

Although shoplifting is a crime and not to be taken lightly, reasonable people question whether capital punishment is an appropriate sanction. And how would such a draconian sanction be reconciled with these words in the Pledge of Allegiance: "... with liberty and justice for all." The operative word, of course, especially in the...