Tuesday: Very hot, with a high of 100 and low of 78 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
Wednesday: A t-storm around in the p.m., temps: high: 97, low: 78.
Thursday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 93 and low of 79 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Do you live there? - 6 riskiest places to live: hurricane edition (weatherandradar.com) — Beaufort County ranks among the riskiest U.S. places for hurricanes, with a FEMA risk index above 99 driven by high expected annual losses despite good community resilience. The article compares Beaufort's vulnerability to other coastal hotspots in Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama, underscoring the potential for hundreds of millions in damage if a major storm hits.
• 'P' is for Port Royal Experiment (southcarolinapublicradio.org) — Long before modern Beaufort life, the Sea Islands of Beaufort District were the setting for the Port Royal Experiment, an early effort to help formerly enslaved people transition toward freedom. After Union forces seized the islands in 1861 and planters fled, federal authorities and Northern philanthropists worked together to employ, educate, and support nearly 10,000 abandoned enslaved residents.
• 27-year-old South Carolina man pleads guilty in brutal federal Fall River sex trafficking case (fallriverreporter.com) — A 27-year-old man from Beaufort has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking tied to a brutal 2023 case in Fall River, Massachusetts. Prosecutors say he and co-defendants used violence, threats, and coercion to force an adult victim into repeated commercial sex acts, and he now faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison at sentencing in December.
Birding at Crystal Lake: Land Preservation Nature Program Beaufort County Government Center Crystal Lake Park, 124 Lady's Island Drive, Beaufort, SC 29907 8:00 am
Historic Preservation Review Board Beaufort County Government Center Executive Conference Room, Administration Building, Beaufort Co 1:00 pm
2026 Legislative Reception Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce New Location: Bridges Preparatory School 555 Robert Smalls Parkway Beaufort, SC 29902 4:30 pm
"They encourage insubordination by precept as well as example": Beaufort's Free Persons of Color through the Civil War and Reconstruction Reconstruction Era National Park 913 West Street, Beaufort, South Carolina 29902 6:00 pm
Chat with Council (CANCELED) Beaufort County Government Center St. Helena Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Sr Rd, St Helena Is 6:00 pm
Sheldon Township Fire District Beaufort County Government Center 5 Fire Station Lane, Sheldon SC 29941 - Fire Station Headquarters 6:30 pm
Friday August 21
Pollinator Census at Crystal Lake: Land Preservation Nature Program Beaufort County Government Center Crystal Lake Park, 124 Lady's Island Drive, Beaufort, SC 29907 9:00 am
Bluffton Township Fire District Board Beaufort County Government Center 357 Fording Island Road, Bluffton, SC 29910 4:00 pm
Broad River Boulevard and Riley Road Sidewalk Project Public Meeti Beaufort County Government Center Broad River Elementary School, 474 Broad River Blvd, Beaufort 5:00 pm
Beaufort Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees (EXECUTIVE MEETING) Beaufort County Government Center Boardroom, Third Floor, Beaufort Memorial Medical and Administr 5:30 pm
Cultural Protection Overlay Committee Beaufort County Government Center 6355 Jonathan Francis Senior Road, St. Helena Island - St. Helen 5:30 pm
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
Whoop whoop! Club Karate's got some new Purple and Orange belts. Congratulations all. (Nextdoor Ashdale)
My cat is missing since 08/12. Near Gay Dr. lady's island. Please let me know if you see her. She's white/grey, what looks like a white stingray on her back, a half gray mustache… (Nextdoor Professional Village)
Kentucky Fried Chicken posted a job opening for Shift Lead in Beaufort. Apply here.
University of South Carolina posted a job opening for Adjunct Faculty in Nursing in Beaufort. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Beaufort here.
🗞 Nearby News
Port Royal
Injured driver was trapped in crashed SUV. Here's how Burton firefighters saved him (islandpacket.com)
Smoke from monthlong Wassaw Island wildfire drifting into Tybee, Hilton Head (wtoc.com)
Hilton Head Island is adding armed security to local parks (wsav.com)
Brothers in Arms: John Alagna's Million Dollar Decision to Apply for FourNew TLDs Was Easier to Make With a Key Family Member in His Corner (dnjournal.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
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