Staff reports | SC7, or the South Carolina 7 expedition, is bringing a group of hikers from across South Carolina to explore the state’s outdoors between Upstate and the coast. They’ll be in the Lowcountry in about two weeks after traversing hundreds of miles.
Started in 2020 as a way to bring attention to the state’s Floodwater Commission report, it has since become an annual July tradition.
“We’re taking South Carolina and encouraging people to understand the greatness of our state and the unparalleled uniqueness and beauty of our environment and ecology,” Camden resident and attorney Tom Mullikin, the man who led the commission in 2020, recently told reporters.
The expedition takes passengers across South Carolina on boats, rafts and their own two feet, starting in the Upstate, crossing through the Midlands and Pee Dee and ending along the coast. Over the course of 30 days, from July 1 to July 30, the group will visit national parks and historic sites, with a different adventure scheduled every day. This year’s stops include a visit to Parris Island to learn about its resiliency efforts and a day spent diving for fossils in the Cooper River.
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S.C. residents lost $137K from scams in June. Ninety-one scams reported to the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs in June, resulting in a total loss of $137,068.93 among South Carolinians.
Price, fugitive for weeks after early release revoked, captured in N.Y. Fugitive Jeroid Price of South Carolina was captured Wednesday without violence at a New York City apartment after 11 weeks on the run since the S.C. Supreme Court revoked an unannounced deal that cut 16 years off of his 35-year murder sentence.
Charleston again voted best U.S. city by Travel + Leisure readers. The readers of Travel and Leisure magazine voted Charleston their number one city in the nation for the 11th consecutive year.
Charleston County shouldn’t have withheld information, Toal says. A judge ruled in favor of a local television station Monday in its lawsuit against the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office over its refusal to release jail video calls made by a suspect in a deadly DUI crash that killed a newlywed in Folly Beach in April. Former S.C. Supreme Court Justice Jean Toal, who retired from the high court in 2015 but serves as a judge when needed in other South Carolina courts, ruled the office violated the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when it denied a request from WCSC-TV.
Inabinett laid to rest. Hundreds gathered Saturday to remember the life of former S.C. Rep. Curtis Inabinett Sr. Inabinett, a longtime state representative who served the Ravenel area, died at age 91 on June 26. “He was a good mentor, leader and a quiet voice in my ear,” Ravenel Mayor Stephen Tumbleston said. “And even though he walked softly, obviously he threw a lot of big influence in this town and this state.”
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