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Last chance for Restaurant Week 2012
The best dining deals of the year are about to end. The last day for Restaurant Week 2012 is Saturday (Jan. 28).
The Hilton Head Island-Bluffton event brings together dozens of restaurants that offer fixed price menus of some of their most popular dishes. Most of the time, the discount ends up being pretty decent.
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Memorial Sunday for beloved search-and-rescue K-9
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday at 120 Okatie Center Blvd. in Bluffton for beloved search dog Bubba.
Dan Fuller, executive director of the volunteer Urban Search and Rescue team based on Hilton Head Island, said the 12-year-old German shepherd was “put down” Tuesday after a battle with cancer. Bubba participated in search-and-rescue operations up and down the East Coast, including the Caylee Anthony search, the Latoyia Figueroa search and the Petrone/Imbo search.
Details: Call Fuller at 843-247-0904.
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Beaufort County meetings and agendas for the week of Jan. 29, 2012
Wednesday, Feb. 1: Development Review Team; Stormwater Management Utility Board
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Currently ... Reading: Three blogs worth checking out (other than all of ours, of course)
The Internet is a vast — and often a very weird — place.
At any moment, you are a click away from bizarre worlds and volumes of websites dedicated to zombie fan fiction, Zac Efron news and the sometimes funny, often bizarre lives of America’s house cats.
But the Internet is more than just an encyclopedia of varied perversions and oddities. There’s some really cool stuff out there having nothing to do with the cast of “High School Musical” or felines. Hard to believe, but it’s true.
Here are three blogs I read every day and think you should, too:
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One of the last old-time net-makers leaves his story in our hands
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Savannah River named top 10 most endangered in the South
The Southern Environmental Law Center targeted the Savannah River as one of the top 10 endangered places in the southern U.S. http://bit.ly/x3C5Fg
On Thursday, the Charlottesville, Va.-based nonprofit legal advocacy group released its fourth annual list of places “that face immediate, potentially irreparable threats in 2012,” according to a press release.
The target areas were chosen based on their “exceptional scenic, ecological, or cultural value,” according to the SELC’s website.
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See you around the bowling alley snack bar ...
“You know, I was thinking about going to the basketball game, but I think I’m going to watch the bowling team instead.” — Nobody, ever
In high school, a lot of people play football. Or baseball. Or marching band.
I bowled.
Under the guidelines established by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, I was technically an athlete. I got a letter and everything. But I didn’t do it for the glory.
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If I am what I eat, does that make me a Girl Scout cookie?
If I were a Girl Scout, I’d deserve the biggest merit badge EVER.
Not for planting a tree. Not for camping. Not for building a fire using only twigs and a rock. Or for helping old people cross the street. Or for walking my neighbor’s dog. Or for building an animal habitat out of recycled plastic bottles and a can-do attitude.
No. I deserve a badge for single-handedly funding the Girl Scouts of America.
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Hilton Head mayor names citizens of the month
Hilton Head Island Mayor Drew Laughlin recognized four residents at his quarterly Citizens of the Month dinner Monday at Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks.
Terry Ennis and Bob Gentzler were recognized for working with town staff from March to July to streamline the town’s commercial permitting process. The result, according to the mayor, is a “more flexible and more predictable permitting process that should be very customer friendly and will result in cost savings to the applicants.”
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Beloved island search-and-rescue dog dies
Dan Fuller, executive director of the volunteer Urban Search and Rescue team based on Hilton Head Island, said beloved search dog Bubba was “put down” Tuesday after a battle with cancer.
A 12-year-old German shepherd, Bubba participated in search-and-rescue operations up and down the East Coast, including the Caylee Anthony search, the Latoyia Figueroa search and the Petrone/Imbo search.
Plans for a memorial service will be announced later, Fuller said.
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