If you like working with revenue projections, financial state-ments, budgeting processes, costs for long-term projects and all the details that go with them, you could have an opportunity to become the financial analyst with the City of Isle of Palms. The new full-time position will not only solve a long-standing concern with administrative staff, but is intended to better … [Read more...] about City seeks first-ever financial analyst
Island Vibes Story
Behind the Badge: Non-emergency chat with IOPPD Sgt. Baldrick
Growing up in Greenville, Sharon Baldrick always followed the rules. When other children around her at school broke protocol, she got upset and wanted to set them straight. Watching “Silence of the Lambs” as a young adult, she was inspired by Jodie Foster’s role as protagonist Clarice Starling, a student at the FBI Academy with a dream of hunting down serial killers and … [Read more...] about Behind the Badge: Non-emergency chat with IOPPD Sgt. Baldrick
Then vs. Now Early days before The Dinghy
Editor’s Note: Then vs. Now is a new ongoing history series featuring today’s landmarks on Isle of Palms and their past developments from yesteryear. In the 1930s, few residents lived on the island full-time. Karl Klump and his wife, Ruth, were some of the earliest neighbors to reside here year-round. As owner of Hardaway Construction and the manager of the Isle of … [Read more...] about Then vs. Now Early days before The Dinghy
From the Archives: Oceanfront property prices from the past
Editor’s Note: From the Archives is a new ongoing history series featuring today’s landmarks on Isle of Palms and their past developments from yesteryear. To own a property on the Isle of Palms with a down payment of $50, a monthly mortgage of $52.24 and no closing costs would seem a dream, even in the late 1950s or early ’60s. However, a reading of the fie print in … [Read more...] about From the Archives: Oceanfront property prices from the past
At home with the Adams
Army veteran Richard Adams and his wife Shelly first came to the Isle of Palms when they were dating in 1998. On their first vacation to the island, they stayed at the Seaside Inn and spent some time at the nearby “Post on the Coast,” the island’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3137. Shelly explained, “We fell in love with the Isle of Palms not because of the VFW, but it … [Read more...] about At home with the Adams
