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Saturday, September 16, 2017, 11 am – 4 pm Be sure to come hungry to the 8th annual Hilton Head Island Italian Heritage Festival at Historic Honey Horn Plantation. This event gets bigger every year and this year’s celebration will be no exception. As always, the festival is a robust celebration of Italian culture with […]

Friday, Oct. 6th, 2017 (6pm-10pm) & Saturday, Oct. 7th 2017 (11am – 5pm) Time to Celebrate and Eat Shrimp! As Pvt. Benjamin Buford ‘Bubba’ Blue from Forrest Gump says,  There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that’s about it.” Entry is free! Happening at the […]

When you are a home owner, you are responsible for the upkeep of your home. That includes yard maintenance, any wear and tare that may occur, keeping it clean and good condition, and fixing anything that breaks. When things break or you need to preform routine maintenance, you NEED to ask yourself before you undertake any large task […]

How to Declutter Your Home Have you found yourself with more items than you would care to have? Is your home filled to the brim and you need more space? It may be time to unclutter your home. When you are uncluttering your home, it helps take away from the everyday chaos. It really helps when you don’t come home […]

5 Steps to Listing Your Home for Sale Lets just say you want to sell your home. You are researching and exploring all your options and looking to hire a licensed real estate professional to help market and sell your home. But even before you reach out to a realtor, there are several things that […]

Solar eclipses have historically been viewed as omens that bring about death and destruction. But in reality, they are harmless—and they even helped prove Einstein’s theory of relativity. The word eclipse comes from ekleipsis, the ancient Greek word for being abandoned. Scientific Discoveries The British Sir Arthur Eddington, used the total solar eclipse of May […]

A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s orbit places it between the Sun and the Earth. When the Moon completely obscures the Sun, the Sun’s fiery atmosphere – the corona – can be seen.   This years eclipse path will traverse the continental United States all the way from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, […]

The town of Bluffton tops a list of the most enterprise-friendly places in South Carolina compiled by the nonprofit research group Palmetto Promise Institute. Bluffton scored a total of 81.07 points out of a possible 100, Palmetto Promise said. Mauldin, Greer, Simpsonville and Fountain Inn round out the top five and Hilton Head Island ranks […]

Most people think of manatees as lazily floating about the waterways of Florida. But each spring, these docile creatures get the urge to travel. Their search for cooler waters brings them north, with many making Beaufort County rivers and estuaries their summer homes. Some migrate as far as Cape Cod, until fall and winter temperatures […]

U.S. mortgage rates dropped for a fifth week, sending home-loan costs down to their lowest point since the week after the presidential election. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 3.97 percent, down from 4.08 percent last week and the lowest since November, Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday. The average 15-year […]