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Saturday, April 27, 2024
GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–Homeowners of one Goose Creek subdivision woke up to more than just the Sunday paper in their driveway. Some told The Berkeley Observer they also woke up to recruitment flyers allegedly from the Loyal White Knights of the KKK. We’re told they were found in the Friars Grove subdivision off of Gainesborough Drive. “Take a stand, save our […]
GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–The Goose Creek Police need your help identifying the man in the photo. Officers say he is alleged to have taken a woman’s purse then used her credit cards at Walmart and Lowes. He has a large tattoo covering his right calf and is believed to drive a white Ford Crown Victoria. If you have any information on this […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Join the Berkeley County Library System (BCLS) for a series of writer’s workshops featuring special guest speaker, C. Hope Clark, a freelance writing expert, author of the Carolina Slade Mystery Series, the Edisto Island Mystery Series, and the editor of FundsforWriters.com (a weekly newsletter service reaching over 40,000 writers). The workshop series will offer a 6 workshops during […]
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is now accepting online applications for the 2016 Public Alligator Hunting season and the Wildlife Management Area Alligator Hunting Season at www.dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/alligator/index.html. More than 100,000 alligators live from the Midlands to the coast of South Carolina, and the population is not threatened by the regulated removal of a relatively small number of alligators. Last […]
GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–The Goose Creek High School Binary Botz VEX Robotics team competed at the VEX World Robotics Championship in Louisville, Kentucky last week. The team earned an 8-2 record and a 9th place finish in the Engineering Division, which consisted of 100 teams. The team qualified for the division finals, but lost in the quarterfinals to the top ranked […]
The Hurricane Genesis & Outlook (HUGO) Project at Coastal Carolina University anticipates a more active hurricane season in 2016 than last year, calling for a “near to above normal” season, according to its extended range forecast for the North Atlantic calculated in mid-April. The HUGO outlook (detailed in the table below) predicts that there will be a range of 11 […]
GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–Goose Creek Recreation’s first-ever Pickleball Tournament was a resounding success. Twenty-six teams, with players from all over the Lowcountry, competed in the double elimination, random draw tournament held on Thursday, April 28 at the Community Center. Congratulations to the winners:
Dear Editor: On April 9, 2016, the Goose Creek Police Department sponsored its 31st annual “Making a Difference for St. Jude” Bike-A-Thon to benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. I would like to report back to the community the success of this year’s campaign. We had another successful year with 20 participants who rode over 200 miles and raised […]
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced today the first case of travel-associated Zika virus infection in a South Carolina resident. The case was confirmed in a person who recently traveled to a country with active transmission of the Zika virus. The individual did not have symptoms and was not contagious by the time they returned to […]
GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–New Goose Creek City Council Members Brandon Cox, Kevin Condon and Greg Habib were sworn into office on Thursday evening, April 28, by Goose Creek Mayor Michael Heitzler. Dozens of family and friends of the new council members attended the swearing-in ceremony at the Municipal Center. Voters elected the three men to office on April 5th. Habib is […]
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