Whether it’s an overgrown shrub, hedge, tree or trellis you should have a goal in mind when you prune. Unfortunately many shrubs and trees were improperly planted in the landscape. Foundation plants may be too close to the building and too close to each other. Trees may have been installed as specimens but over time began to crowd or shade other plantings.

The mission of the Santa Elena Foundation is the discovery, preservation, and promotion of the “lost 100 years of European colonization” through the international story of Santa Elena, the 16th Century settlement and colonial capital on present-day Parris Island. Lowcountry Weekly recently interviewed some key players in the evolution of the Santa Elena Project: Executive Director Andrew Beall, Chairman of the Board Daryl Ferguson, and County Council Chairman Paul Summerville, who just announced that the Foundation will be moving into the Federal Building on Bay Street.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

Well, they went and did it again. They made us spring forward.

   Seems like only yesterday we were falling back, doesn’t it? In reality, it was four months ago. We now spend only four months a year on Standard Time. (Is it just me, or does that completely upend the meaning of “standard”?) Yes, my friends, Daylight Savings Time is steadily expanding – creeping like kudzu right under our noses – and we’re just letting it happen. Some people even like it.

Publicists aren’t supposed to run out of superlatives. Ever. But the return of singer/songwriter Susan Werner to the Fripp Island Friends of Music stage on March 22^nd could change that.