Lawyer, mom, author, and brand maker, Omolola “Lola” Campbell is, at the heart of it, Gullah. The beauty of her storefront Binya HHI is that Campbell and her family have “binya” (been here) all...
Special Home Section: The Home Experts
Special Section featuring the lowcountry’s home experts.
It Takes One. It Takes You.
Local pickleball tourney saving lives by getting people talking about life, loss, love, and surviving addiction
Taking the Party Outside: Sweetgrass Outdoor Kitchens & Grills is cooking up your new backyard paradise.
A good landscaping business can make your outdoor spaces. A great landscaping business can create an outdoor oasis beyond your wildest imaginings, but their work generally stops at the soil. Up...
The Real March Madness is at Coligny: It’s the first month of spring, and the party is heating up in Hilton Head’s downtown.
We can get out and mingle with friends and neighbors, listen to some great live music, toast a night out with a delicious meal and maybe get in a little retail therapy. And, as every year, we launch...
Diary of a Chicken Wing Judge
It has become something of an annual rite of spring around here—for me, anyway. There are a lot of people who obviously look forward to warmer temperatures. Many more look forward to anything green...
A Bird Lover’s Bonanza: Wild Birds Unlimited Hilton Head fuels backyard birds and your passion for them
Hilton Head Island and the entire Lowcountry is a mecca for birding enthusiasts. The diversity of bird life, which includes spring and fall migrants as well as local birds, is fascinating both for...
Lowcountry Dream Home in Moss Creek: Design Team creates family-friendly, cozy, welcome home
Just across the Hilton Head bridge and overlooking the marsh in the beautiful Moss Creek community lives an abode whose primary function is to keep a family of five cozy and close. On top of that,...
Neighborhood Stroll: Moss Creek
#7 North Fairway of Tom Fazio Devil’s Elbow Moss Creek is the first off-island community, just minutes from the Hilton Head Island bridge. Featuring over 1,000 acres of private, gated residential...
StoneWorks of the Lowcountry: Award-winning local business making a name nationwide
Everyone wants that one room in their home that makes a statement to their guests—that one element that people still remember long after their visit. Yet, we also want the room to be a functional...
A Note from Mayor Lisa Sulka
Inaugural Bluffton Buzzard Day, March 5 Leave it to Babbie Guscio, who so rightly is on the Wall of Honor in the Town of Bluffton, to come up with yet another eccentric event. She is one of the most...
A Note from Mayor Alan Perry
Enhancing Transparency for Town Government Transparency in government is one of the most important qualities I believe in when it comes to public accountability of elected officials. When I ran for...
Editor’s Note: March 2023
It’s never been an easy thing for me to ask for help As the hard-charging oldest of five children, I was raised to have everything under control from the time my second sibling arrived on the scene...
For Better or Worse: The Emotional Impact of Divorce
I’m going to go out on a limb here and insist that no one enters into marriage expecting to get a divorce. Case in point: At the time of your wedding, you were so in love. Just look at those...
Meet the New Disruptors: COAST Brokered by eXp Realty
To the paradigm shifting likes of Blockchain, Amazon and Uber you can add the disruptive crew at COAST Brokered by eXp Realty.
Real Treatment: Carolina Window Designs introduces a new way to make your home beautiful
There is an old proverb that says when a door closes, a window opens. It is one uniquely suited as an introduction to Teresa Knoll, interior design consultant with Carolina Window Designs. When her...
Two-Sided Coin: Why a standard homeowners policy may not be enough for luxury homes
Obtaining the right insurance coverage for a high-value home is like a two-sided coin. On one side is an individual with an attention to detail that has proved a cut above. The evidence of that...
From the Ground Up: What makes an Artisan Custom Homes – Hilton Head home different? Well, that’s entirely up to you.
In his nearly 40 years in the homebuilding business, Michael Saba has amassed an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the craft. He can talk you through the finer points of every aspect of construction,...
Palmetto Dunes Cares Zeros in on Environment and Youth: Sharpen the Focus, Expand the Impact
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself what you really care about? Outside of yourself, your family, and your loved ones, what matters to you? Chances are you care about many world issues and...
Spring Style Watch with Birdie James
Tie dye continues to steal the show, along with patterns that borrow from nature. Big shoulders, creative cut-outs and floral opulence mark the return of the Spring season with Birdie James.
Exceptional, Sophisticated, Smart: Idea Home in Palmetto Bluff’s Wilson Village has it all
Architecture by Wayne Windham Architect, P.A. ,Construction by H2 Builders, Interiors by KS McRorie Interior Design
Vacation Vibes: Spring fashion set in a stylish Sea Pines home
Special Thanks to The Prud’homme Team and Pacaso for hosting our shoot in this stylish Sea Pines home. Styled by Kaila Jeffcoat. Modeled by Julia Rockett & Gioia DiBartolomeo
Don’t Remodel … Just N-Hance: Local cabinet restoration and refinishing offers 5-5-5 guarantee
If it’s time for your kitchen to get a little facelift, you may be in for some sticker shock when you get an estimate for new cabinets. Not only that, but the time you may have to wait to get on the...
Property Envy: We’re hosting an open house of the five most fabulous Lowcountry homes on the market today.
Grab a complimentary cookie and join us for a tour.
Who’s Saving Who?
In partnership with Palmetto Animal League, May River High School students help build no-kill community through advocacy, fundraising, volunteerism, and education
Re-flect, Re-nourish, and Re-new at the Arts Re-Center Retreat
In harmony with their mission “to enrich and benefit the community through the arts,” the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina invites you to join a special four-day event, March 23-26, 2023. During this...
Morning Glow Time: Seven Tips for Starting Your Day Off Better
Obligatory. Mundane. Caffeinated. These are words you may use to describe how you think about or approach your day. But here is a gentle wake-up call: Your morning modus operandi is important. How...
Notes from Mayor Lisa Sulka
Blueprint Bluffton With another year ahead of us, we will be completing many of our capital projects and more. One item that is important to any town is an update of the comprehensive plan. Many...
Editor’s Note: February 2023
How to Not Die Alone … but also DOGS! Ever since I made the conscious decision to choose knowledge (reading books) over murder (podcasts like Dateline), I’ve been cruising through a plethora of...
5 Ways Pets Make Us Better Humans
Whether they are furry, feathery, scaly or hairless, pets groom us to be better humans. “Animals are fascinating, engaging and entertaining. But as companions, they connect with us on a deeper...
Hilton Head Island Seafood Festival
Practically any festival that has existed on Hilton Head Island for any decent length of time can trace its roots back to a small gathering of some well-intentioned locals hoping to raise some money...
Bad Spot! What do you do when Spot makes a spot on your rug? Call Lowcountry Clean Care.
We’re not sure where we read this, but it seems like common wisdom that you can have either clean rugs or pets. But you can only pick one. However, that’s not always realistic. Just as we need the...
Coping with Stress When You Can’t Change the Situation
“The more you try to control everything around you, the more anxious you’ll be.” Sage words from the therapist I saw in college, and I wasn’t having any of it. It was a cold-water-to-the-face...
Coming to Coligny: FOUR reasons to head to Hilton Head’s downtown this February
You can feel the excitement in the air, and it’s only going to build all month long. February on Hilton Head Island typically serves as sort of a preamble, a prelude if you will, to the rising...
A SPAW Experience Like None Other
Red Rover is an uber-clean facility staffed with well-trained professionals who oversee daily PlayCare, overnight boarding, bathing, grooming and an array of a la cart “spaw” services.
Neighborhood Stroll: Ribaut Island
At the most northern tip of Hilton Head Island, residents of Ribaut Island enjoy a truly unique community, comprised of 63 single-family homesites located on 52 magnificent acres—a place that each...
Stately, Spectacular, and Serene: Ribaut Island home stuns from every angle
Architecture by Kermit Huggins (Mark Bremmer, draftsman), Construction by Rick DeLong, Advantage Builders, Interiors by Mary Jane Bucci, MJ Design
Some Fine Canines (and one Fine Feline): Meet the shop dogs (and cat) that make the Lowcountry a great place to sit and stay
Why do we love pets so much? It’s something we almost take for granted, that among the billions and billions of species on this earth, none of them seem to have been put here specifically for humans...
Presenting Exceptional Voices through Exceptional Art: Full Spectrum Studio provides safe, supportive environment for special artists to develop, create, and sell their art
Cat McDermott, Victoria Bramson and Allison Good spend the afternoon painting. The mention of the word “artist” typically conjures up ideas associated with a person’s skill, creativity, and vision....
Martina the Therapy Dog: Bringing hope, joy, and smiles to seniors and special needs adults
These days, it’s not uncommon to see all kinds of pets in all kinds of places. Recently, someone posted a picture of a couple of sunbathers on the beach lounging beside their pet duck who seemed to...
Please Don’t Leave Me!
Imagine for a moment that you are the family dog. One day, the people you love load you up in the car and drop you off in an unfamiliar place where you are...
MoJo’s Island Records: Putting the Wax Back in Our Ears
A Tennessee record collector and his wife bring the vinyl wave to the shores of Hilton Head Island
Ordained by Pod: The Lowcountry’s resident ace reporter and her trusty producer took a moment away from their ultra-popular podcast to tie the knot.
Mandy Matney and David Moses have never tended to follow tradition. The most obvious example would be the way they parlayed Matney’s extensive reporting into the Murdaugh family into a smash hit...
A Second Chance: Two companies team up in defense of man’s best friend
No one knows exactly how Chance wound up on that stretch of road in Jasper County. An outgoing, friendly lab mix with a gorgeous white and brown dappled coat, Chance had stumbled onto something he...
From Fizzle to Sizzle: Rev up the romance with regular dates
Close your eyes and remember what it was like when you first fell in love. You were constantly plotting ways to spend time with your person. It hardly mattered where you were or what you were doing....
Meet the Medical Professionals
Jennifer Green, APRN‐BC AHC Affordable Health Care and the AHC MedSpa Primary Care and Aesthetics 150 State St. Bluffton, SC 29910 (843) 757-5559 affordablehealthcarebluffton.com After years working...
Modern Seaside Luxury in Forest Beach
Renovation captures light, brings the outdoors in, and offers a warm welcome
Goodbye, Purple Cow
“I need you to go check the back of my car! See if there is any powdered sugar in there! If not, I need you to go to the grocery store as fast as you possibly can.” It’s just before 9 a.m. It’s like...
The Tide Rolls Back In: Palmetto Ocean Conservancy sets course for the future.
The thing about the sea, as any sailor will tell you, is that it’s fickle. One minute, it can be a calm pane of glass stretching away to the horizon. The next, it can be boiling over with gale...
Neighborhood Stroll: Forest Beach
Forest Beach is one of Hilton Head Island’s most established and most unique residential neighborhoods, comprised of two main areas: North Forest Beach and South Forest Beach. Many locals refer to...