Men's family calling encouraged

Author wants guys to explore adventure at home

Rich Wagner, author of "The Myth of Happiness" and "Christianity for Dummies," arrived in Charleston July 25 after riding a bicycle across the country to promote his latest book, "The Expeditionary Man: The Adventure a Man Wants, the Leader His Family Needs." Read More

Mentor offers a unique perspective

Summerville girl participates in mandatory summer research

The S.C. Governor's School for Science and Mathematics has 1,100 alumni, but this is the first time in the school's 20-year history that an alumni is mentoring a student during mandatory summer research. Read More

Mitchell Elementary joins Fit Club

Mitchell Elementary School children will have a chance to combat obesity this summer thanks to a new school program called Fit Club. Children participating in Fit Club will spend Tuesdays and Thursdays from June until September working out, gaining information on nutrition and holding weekly conference calls with a clinician. Read More

Governor's School gives day back

The Academic Governor's School of 205 students spent Wednesday, June 25, volunteering for 16 nonprofit organizations during the school's second annual Governor's School Gives Back Day. Students were divided into groups to perform tasks such as picking corn at Boone Hall Plantation Farm to benefit needy families, preparing barrels for recycling with James Island County Park employees and participating in the S.C. Department of Natural Resources' oyster renourishment project. Read More

Orphan Relief needs donations

With school beginning in August, Lowcountry Orphan Relief needs donations to meet the soon approaching demand for uniforms and supplies. Lowcountry Orphan Relief, based in North Charleston near the old Navy Base, is a nonprofit organization that provides necessary supplies for abandoned and orphaned children who generally have nothing but the clothes on their backs. Read More

Burke's AP Academy starts with filmmaking workshop

The Advanced Placement Academy at Burke High School kicked off orientation last week with a filmmaking workshop that ended Friday with the presentation of a film made by students titled "My Charleston." Filmmaker Portia Cobb, currently a visiting filmmaker at College of Charleston, instructed Burke's rising ninth-graders, members of the new academy. Read More

Convent in need of repair

Pauline nuns welcome guest from Rome

The Rev. Mother General Maria Antonieta Bruscato, who oversees the Catholic order of the Daughters of St. Paul, spends a lot of time on the road visiting nuns around the world. She gets to Charleston every six years. Read More

James Island student earns scholarship

Amy Hirschmann receives 4-year award

An 18-year-old James Island resident and Chick-fil-A employee has one less thing to worry about as she prepares for college. The worry of cost was erased when she recently learned that she will receive a full four-year scholarship to Berry College in Rome, Ga. Amy Hirschmann, daughter of June and Archie Hirschmann, was one of 30 winners out of 150 finalists across the country for a scholarship through the WinShape College Program. Read More

Stratford team ranks 11th among 110 in database contest

A team of three Stratford High School juniors ranked 11th among 110 teams in an international competition for computer databases and design sponsored by computer software company Oracle. Ethan Francis, Willis Long and Michael Rojas, all 17, also ranked second out of the United States' six competing teams in Oracle's Global Data Modeling Competition. Read More

Local Miata club members help to fill the gap in N.C.

Lowcountry Miata Club members, who come from here as well as other locales such as Florence and Myrtle Beach, flocked to Robbinsville, N.C., in late July to let their hair down at the state's annual Miata extravaganza, "Miatas at the Gap." ... Read More