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KATE FERRIS | The Beaufort Gazette
The Beaufort City Council today will decide whether the Maryland Fried Chicken sign on Ribaut Road, seen here, should be allowed to stand.

Signs from above

The city of Beaufort began enforcing an ordinance last year that required 60 business owners to tear down their signs because they were too large, the wrong type or too close to the street. Many businesses have complied, but several fast-food restaurants remain among the holdouts. (More)

It is unlikely anything can be done to restore cuts in the state budget to nursing and health care programs at South Carolina's technical colleges, Sen. Clementa Pinckney said Monday. (More)

A 16-year-old was stabbed in the scalp during a scuffle on Pine Court in Beaufort on Saturday night, according to police. (More)

Authorities are looking for a man suspected of robbing a Lady's Island jewelry store at gunpoint Friday afternoon. (More)

Sports

Stepping it up

Monday at 4:30 p.m., Beaufort Academy took its first step as a varsity football program with its inaugural spring practice. But even after the (More)

Newly hired Battery Creek football coach Carlos Cave will get the first look at his team today as the school begins spring football practice on the high school field. (More)

COLUMBIA -- A thin wire dictated destiny during this weekend's state track meet at Spring Valley High School. (More)

COLUMBIA -- Don't tell the Beaufort Academy girls soccer team that seven is a lucky number. (More)

Features

BOB SOFALY | The Beaufort Gazette
Gladys Pope received a volunteer lifetime achievement award for her work with Family Health Workers and Friends of Caroline Hospice.

Health care workers recall assisting area families

Helping families get health care, many times by improving living conditions and sources of drinking water, was the mission of an elite group of Family Health Workers in 1970. (More)

EVENTS (More)

BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL (More)

Gussie Sirovatka has always loved animals, especially cats, but even her mother was surprised when the 9-year-old Port Royal Elementary School third-grader decided to take on fundraising efforts for Big Cat Rescue, a Tampa, Fla.-based, nonprofit educational sanctuary dedicated to rescuing and providing a home for exotic cats that have been abused, abandoned, bred to be pets, retired from performing acts or saved from being slaughtered for fur coats. (More)

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