Cold Water Warriors
Cold-water waves and the surfers who love them by Liz Wolfe | Contributing Writer On Folly Beach, the cold weather doesn’t stop the surf; it transforms it into something magical that only those brave enough to experience it have come to know and love. For many, winter...
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Beach Blotter
Monday, April 3 Stolt Clothes A 27-year-old woman called Folly Beach Public Safety (FBPS) to report a theft. She said she had been doing her laundry at the West Hudson Avenue Laundromat earlier that day. She left her clothes drying and went home for a few minutes. She...
A Crowning Achievement
Seven are crowned at 2017 Miss Sea & Sand Pageant Special To The Current The 2017 Sea & Sand Festival officially kicked off on Friday, April 7 with the annual Miss Sea & Sand Pageant at the Folly River Park. It was another great year with Kalen Simpson...
A Brave New World
FOLLY BRACES BEFORE ‘DIGITAL ONSLAUGHT’ By Bill Davis | Current Staff Writer Aldous Huxley’s classic 1932 novel Brave New World warns of the dangers of giving the state control over new and powerful technologies. The citizens in this futuristic society have lost most...
Farmers Market Makes Move to Mondays
City Council donates park fees, but does little else to support Farmers market By Lorne Chambers | Editor Folly Beach Farmers Market managers Sarah Poe and Megan Day made a passionate plea to City Council at its March 14 meeting, requesting support from a group that...
A Sweeping Success
Folly Green Team takes over beach sweeps, local students offer a helping hand By Lorne Chambers | Editor The task of handling the many different beach sweeps that take place on Folly every year could not be in better hands than with the Folly Beach Green Team, a local...
Beach Blotter
Saturday, March 4 When Activism Goes Wrong The Responding Officer (R/O) was dispatched to the Folly Beach Pier around 10:30 a.m. in reference to a possibly mentally unstable person. EMTs were on site when the officer arrived. The EMTs pointed out the subject, a...
Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Shamrock SUP Race raises $1,500 for Y2O By Lorne Chambers | Editor Charleston SUP Safaris and Flipper Finders hosted the sixth Annual Shamrock SUP (Stand Up Paddle) Race on the Folly River Sunday, March 19. The event was a huge success with more than 25 participants...
A Toothy Situation
11-year old beachcomber finds several megalodon teeth that could be 30 million years old By Lorne Chambers | Editor A couple weeks ago, 11-year-old Brooklyn Putnam was visiting Folly Beach from Summerville along with her mother, father, and older brother, when she saw...
Ice Box Warms Up
Winter surf competitors enjoy unseasonably warm weather, nice waves By Lorne Chambers | Editor It has been an unseasonably mild winter here on Folly. But that doesn’t mean the water isn’t chilly. Wetsuit or not, jumping in 60-degree surf doesn’t feel good … until you...
Growing Pains
Is Folly's Farmer's Market getting thrown under the bus? By Bill Davis | Staff Writer For the past few years Folly artist and waitress/bartender Megan Day has worked with fellow local Sarah Poe to organize and run the weekly Folly Beach Farmers Market. Last year, the...