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Bo Petersen covers environmental issues, Dorchester County and general assignment. Has written for daily newspapers for more than 25 years, including the Gaston Gazette and New Bern Sun-Journal. He is the author of "Soldier's Stories," a collection of the accounts of World War II veterans in Gaston County, N.C. Kayaker, hiker. Plays guitar upside down and backwards.

Dorchester County to ask voters for local-option sales tax

By Bo Petersen
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:24 p.m.
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A 1 percent local-option sales tax — a tax to reduce property taxes, in theory — can be hard to sell. Dorchester...

Charleston Waterkeeper loses nonprofit status

By Bo Petersen
Monday, June 17, 2013 6:26 p.m.
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The grass-roots pollution watchdog of Lowcountry waterways is in tax trouble after failing to file required Internal Revenue...

Sticky wickets coming to Summerville with new cricket field

By Bo Petersen
Sunday, June 16, 2013 5:20 p.m.
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Cricket is a pitch Summerville just couldn’t seem to resist.

The heart pine: longleaf restoration underway in Lowcountry, the Southeast

By Bo Petersen
Sunday, June 16, 2013 2:32 p.m.
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Longleaf pine savannas are like cathedrals — pillars of trees towering through shafts of sunlight to tufted needle crowns.

South Carolina moms are demanding action on gun control

By Bo Petersen By Robert Behre
Friday, June 14, 2013 1:44 p.m.
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It’s an unusual development in a state whose residents generally champion their firearms: A group of women from South...

Summerville fireworks to be muffled; mayor to get raise

By Bo Petersen
Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:14 p.m.
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SUMMERVILLE — This town can only hope the Fourth of July passes as quietly as the law restricting fireworks its council...

Ship slow-down rule to protect right whales is up for review

By Bo Petersen
Saturday, June 8, 2013 11:54 p.m.
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The right whales that winter offshore from the Lowcountry are the rarest of the large whales. They were hunted so close to...

Dead, stinky horseshoe crabs raise questions by residents about harvest methods for medical research

By Bo Petersen By Lauren Sausser
Saturday, June 8, 2013 11:56 p.m.
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Charleston County Councilman Dickie Schweers’ waterfront home in McClellanville looked like a horseshoe crab graveyard...

Tropical Storm Andrea to miss morning commute?

By Bo Petersen
Friday, June 7, 2013 7:06 a.m.
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If you just fetched the newspaper, you already know. If you’re popping up online, take a look outside at daylight.

Tropical Storm Andrea poised to worsen wet weather; tornadoes confirmed in Dorchester County

By Bo Petersen
Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:10 a.m.
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Tropical Storm Andrea formed Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico and was forecast to skirt the Lowcountry coast. A tropical storm...

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