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Get the schedule for HHI's Wine and Food Fest
Here's the rundown for the wine and food festival tomorrow (March 12). The fest runs from noon to 4 p.m. at Honey Horn. Cost is $40. (The $60 premium admission will get you in at 11 a.m.)
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News Bites: Is this the best weekend of the year on Hilton Head Island?
This upcoming weekend is about as busy as they come on the island. We've got The Hilton Head Island Wine and Food Festival Saturday and the St. Patrick's Day Parade Sunday.
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"Remember Me" and "Precious"
IN THEATERS
Out this weekend is the drama, “Remember Me.” The film stars Robert Pattinson as Tyler, an angry and troubled teen who comes from a broken family. It’s when he meets Ally (Emilie de Ravin) that things take a turn and his life is changed for the better. But with new romances come new complications that force him to see what he finds most important.
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And on the eighth day there was Dunkin' Donuts in Beaufort, and it was good
By JEFF VRABEL • 843-706-8140
So they opened a Dunkin’ Donuts in Beaufort. I know they opened a Dunkin’ Donuts in Beaufort because I have been pleading for it, because I have bothered the business reporter about it for months with the fierce relentlessness of the tiger, because I lived for a short while at the work site, having built a lean-to out of whatever discarded items I could scrounge up — tires, playground equipment, THANK YOU VERIZON FOR YOUR ROCK-SOLID SPONSORSHIP signs — and waited patiently, living there for months, like the “Into The Wild” guy except less in search of pure personal revelation and more of things filled with jelly that leave your face a swamp of icing.
I did this not necessarily just for the donuts, but also for the majestic moment when I could walk through that door, into that breathtaking wonderland of dough and sprinkles and future heart concerns, and order a Large Coffee With Cream And Sugar, which represents the pinnacle of human achievement as it pertains to coffee and, as a bonus, arrives in a cup the approximate size of a container ship (with a Large Coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts, one could, very easily, caffeinate a horse).
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Did you get that email we sent last night?
Did you get that breaking news email alert we sent last night? The one about the two Marines who ejected to safety before their jet went down in the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina? If you did get it, you were the first to know the news (after our newsroom, of course).
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USCB baseball rained out today
USC Beaufort's scheduled baseball game at Savannah State has been rained out today; it has not yet been rescheduled.
Next up for the Sand Sharks is a home doubleheader against Oswego (N.Y.) State, which is scheduled for noon Sunday. Adam Miller and Spencer Cromer are slated as Sunday's starting pitchers for USCB.
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Beaufort County athletes combine for 30 medals at Special Olympics tennis event
The 11th annual Special Olympics North America National Invitational Tennis Championships (SONA) concluded with its medal ceremony this afternoon at Van Der Meer Shipyard Racquet Club.
Beaufort County athletes proved up to the task at the two-day event hosted by Professional Tennis Registry. A year after claiming 15 medals at the event, 23 athletes from the area combined to take home 30 medals.
Seventy players — representing eight different states — competed in the tournament.
Here are the list of medal winners from Beaufort County...
Singles Match Play:
Wallace Gamble, gold
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The best thrills and spills from the Wine Fest waiters race
Today we took a look back at the beginnings of WineFest, which has now morphed into the Hilton Head Island Wine and Food Festival.
The fest celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The centerpiece of the two-week long event, the Public Tasting, is Saturday (March 13).
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"The Lightkeepers"
A special blog for "Flicks Picks" comes this week to call attention to the new Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner film, "The Lightkeepers."
Filmed in Cape Cod, Mass. comes the story of a lonely Lighthouse keeper, Seth (Richard Dreyfuss). When a mysterious boy named John Brown (Tom Wisdom) washes ashore one day unable to remember where he has come from, he soon becomes Seth's new assistant to where a friendship grows. But when two women move into a nearby cottage for the summer, all four of them soon find themselves in unexpected and eye-opening relationships.
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Terrance Simien at the Arts Center: "People see the accordion and immediately start smiling"
When the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl last month, Terrance Simien watched from the safety of his home — for fear that his excitement would be too much for Lafayette to handle. But when the Louisiana native takes the stage next week on Hilton Head Island, the Lowcountry won’t be spared: Simien has too much Cajun groove to share.
With Creole roots that run eight generations deep, Simien has been performing the indigenous music of Louisiana for more than 25 years. He calls zydeco a “melting pot” that features two core instruments — the accordion and the rubboard — and blends a variety of cultures, from French and African to Native American, Spanish and German.
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