Like the majority of residents, I love living in Beaufort. And one reason is its abundance of “good neighbors,” people who go out of their way for strangers. This morning as I was turning on to the Woods Bridge, a woman pulled up beside me to tell me that my back tire was flat, that I was driving on the rim. I’d no idea. Contemplating the situation as I waited for a lovely sailboat with a mast that must’ve been 48 feet tall to pass through, I decided to limp across to the old White Hall turnoff and call AAA. This is the reason I pay for road service every year. Turns out, however, I didn’t have to use it.

Zach Grether’s artistic talent arrived as a gift. A birthday gift. In the four years since receiving his first DSLR camera for his birthday in 2011, he was able to transform his intrigue with the night sky and his Software/Aerospace Engineering career into an amazing body of work with a focus on the night landscape. His award-winning photos have been published by Oprah Winfrey Network, Sun Magazine, and locally, by Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

By the time you read this, at least two weeks will have passed since the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. As I write, it’s been about 10 days, and my fingers tremble and hesitate over the keyboard.

Boondocks restaurant at 1760 Sea Island Parkway, St. Helena, SC will be hosting The Starving Artist Market in its parking lot on Saturday mornings from 9 am to 1:30 pm.