Rediscover The Carolinas!
Without warning, an island has emerged off North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore, inspiring curious travelers to go out into the waters and investigate what they are calling Shelley Island. The island was first spotted by locals around the beach and was later photographed from …
A complete solar eclipse will carry across the U.S. on Aug. 21. You will have 14 states including the Carolinas that will encounter about two minutes of darkness. Due to its rarity, astronomers are calling the 2017 occurrence the Great American Eclipse which will cross …
North Carolina is opening its first heritage dive site, a Civil War blockade runner located off the coast at Fort Fisher. The dive site within the Condor can open Friday and will provide the possibility to discover what’s described as one of the best-preserved shipwrecks …
While a large number of UNC-Chapel Hill students flooded Franklin Street in April following the men’s baseball national championship game, Chapel Hill city staff were watching. Using data accumulated devices and by cameras that monitor traffic, these were able to strategically emergency medical personnel and …
Since the owner of Kazoobie Kazoos, a kazoo-manufacturing organization in Beaufort, Murray can also be — unsurprisingly — an incredibly popular speaker to the university career-day world. Showing a kazoo for each child, he visits with 4-6 universities every year and leads their courses in …
The South Carolina Tank was reviving its attempts to avoid similar travesties as information of the tropical island paradise full of garbage in the sea created worldwide headlines a couple of days ago. At its annual gala the Tank recognized a guy who encourages citizens …
The University of South Carolina was rated in an inventory launched by Forbes that ranks America’s Best Employers. USC was ranked No. 96, the sole Southeastern Conference college in set of 500. Forbes worked with research agency Statista to gather the definitive list of the …
Its reputation was short-lived — the destination shut down in 1980 a fire took down and following its owner passed away the website’s Emerald City. It hasn’t been left totally abandoned, though. In 1991, the park was opened for one day to curious visitors. So …
Steve Benjamin, the mayor of Columbia, South Carolina became a co chair for the Sierra Club’s Mayors for 100% Clean Energy Plan. Benjamin’s addition to the growing set of mayors who claim they’ll change their communities to completely renewable energy is basically symbolic: to date, …
The greatest solar project on the college campus in South Carolina has begun generating electricity. Furman University north of Greenville has switched on the $1.7 million solar village situated on a six-acre tract. It is expected to make about 5 percent of the institution’s energy …