By Arielle Alpino for Island Eye News The PGA of America today announced that the 2021 PGA Championship will be contested with a limited number of spectators on-site, May 17-23, at The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island (S.C.) Golf Resort. Collin Morikawa will defend the 2020 PGA Championship he won with no spectators present last …
Father McInerny’s Memories
By Maddie Heid for The Island Eye News On Feb. 18, viewers tuned into a Zoom interview to hear the beloved Father Lawrence McInerny share stories and photos from Sullivan’s Island’s past. In the hour …
Letter To The Editor: Bridge Stripping
This re-striping of the bridge is ludicrous. We have tried for years to get SCDOT’s approval for pedestrian crossovers along Palm to no avail. Now, within 30 days, you notify the city of SCDOT’s intentions …
Letter To The Editor: Free Parking For All?
SCDOT Secretary of Transportation Christy Hall blessed us with her presence at the IOP City Council meeting on Wednesday (Feb. 10). Contrary to established law, she proceeded to dictate to Council how to accommodate day …
Letter To The Editor: Accreted Land Chart
My recent Opinion-Editorial, in the Feb. 12. 2021, issue of the Island Eye News, was accompanied by a chart that was inadvertently omitted when the article was published. The complete article, with the chart, is …
Letter To The Editor: Let Local Government Make Local Decisions
Dear Mayor and Council members, For more than 200 years, we in this country wisely have favored that level of government closest to its constituents being served by that level of government which can provide …
Feb 19 2021
Volvo Car Open To Be Conducted Without Fans
By Arielle Alpino for The Island Eye News The Volvo Car Open, the premier women’s only professional tennis tournament in North America, will be held as scheduled, April 3-11, 2021, in Charleston without fans. With public health and safety as the event’s top priority, the tournament will forgo its traditional on site fan environment to …
Feb 18 2021
Letter To The Editor: H. Blair Hahn, Esq
Dear Editor, I am shocked to read in David Slade’s article in the Post and Courier that SCDOT Secretary Christy Hall has “revoked” the department’s approval of the Isle of Palms 2015 parking plan. This is a power neither Christy Hall nor the SCDOT now or has ever had! Christy Hall wrote in a 1/9/2015 …
Feb 17 2021
Perspective Gallery: Jim Rowe
By Perspective Gallery for The Island Eye News Watercolorist Jim Rowe is artist of the month for January at Perspective Gallery in Mount Pleasant. One of his works, “Sunday Races,” was juried into the 2020 South Carolina Watermedia Society Show, which can be seen at the society’s website. Rowe has won several awards in Mt. …
Feb 16 2021
Justin Novak
By Justin Novak for The Island Eye News After much thought, consideration, and conversation, I am honored to announce that I will be seeking to serve as a member of Sullivan’s Island Town Council. Our island is at a crossroads and the decisions we make in the coming years will shape the future of this …
Feb 16 2021
Gary Visser
By Gary Visser for The Island Eye News One day my neighbor, then Mayor Mike Perkis, walked to our house and said “Hey, I’ve got a job for you!” With that I began nine years service on the Planning Commission for Sullivan’s Island. We’ve lived here over 30 years, but the past nine have allowed …
Feb 16 2021
Scott Millimet
By Scott Millimet for The Island Eye News My name is Scott Millimet and I am excited to announce my candidacy for the Town Council of Sullivan’s Island. I have been a resident of the island for nine years and the uniqueness of our Sullivan’s is reinforced each and every day. Having semi-retired from the …
Feb 16 2021
Taking The Lead On The Land
By Meghan Daniel for The Island Eye News The committee proposal addressed at Isle of Palms’ Jan. 26 City Council meeting is, as council member Susan Hill Smith described, a fitting direction for the island to go in, considering its “history of environmental leadership.” Ideas for an Environmental Advisory Committee have been tossed around for …
Feb 15 2021
Message From The Mayor: February 2021
By Pat O’Neil for The Island Eye News Dear Island Neighbors, 2020: IT WAS A BUSY YEAR FOR SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, OUR HOMETOWN No doubt the year that recently (and thankfully) exited the stage was exhausting for nearly everyone. Our great Town employees may well have felt the same way, and they certainly earned it, what …
Feb 12 2021
Op-Ed: Lawsuit Settlement For Management of The Accreted Land
By Susan Middaugh for Island Eye News Town Council members who approved the lawsuit settlement on management of the Accreted Land and their supporters have characterized the court-approved plan as a beneficial compromise that will have a “light touch” on the land. Those who are vigorously opposing this settlement have characterized it as a recipe …