The Sky is the Limit for Skye Dominguez
Local 17-year-old becomes Wahine Classic’s First sponsored surfer by Liz Wolfe | Contributing Writer The Folly Beach Wahine Classic, a long-running women’s surf contest and nonprofit, has launched a new initiative to support young athletes in the local surf community....
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Get Ready for Sea & Sand!
Festival organizer discusses the 25th annual event By Warren Cobb | Managing Editor The 25th Annual Folly Beach Sea & Sand Festival is coming April 10-11 with a weekend full of family-friendly events for this milestone anniversary. The Sea & Sand Festival is...
Glitz and Glamour Raises Awareness, Money
Planet FollyWood’s Womanless Beauty Pageant brings in more than $2,500 for local cancer patient By Lorne Chambers | Editor Last month Planet Follywood hosted its sixth annual Womanless Beauty Pageant, where 10 male contests donned their most fabulous dresses, wigs,...
What’s SUP Folly?
Shamrock SUP Race raises $1,300 for Youth to Ocean From Staff Reports On a beautiful spring morning on the Folly River, Sunday, March 15, Charleston SUP Safaris and Flipper Finders hosted the Fourth Annual Shamrock SUP (Stand Up Paddle) Race, to great success with 35...
City Council Gets an Earful
Street Festivals Denounced; Green Team, Surf Schools Discussed By Charlie McCarty | Contributing Writer Folly Beach City Council met for its regular meeting and Work Session on Tuesday, March 10. The Work Session began promptly at 6 p.m. The first to speak was Folly...
Beach Blotter — March 2015
The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City Folly Beach Public Safety Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left off to protect the innocent. All suspects are ...
Coastal Communities Galvanize Against Off-shore Drilling
By Jennifer Tuohy | Contributing Writer The City of Isle of Palms is leading what looks likely to be a chorus of disapproval from area coastal towns against the government’s proposal to lease waters offshore of South Carolina for oil and gas development. The draft...
City Initiates New Emergency Notification System
Special to The Current The City of Folly Beach has contracted with ECN CODE RED (Emergency Communication Network) to provide Community Alerting System services. The system is used to notify all residents in the event of an emergency or other information of importance....
New Showers Coming To Washout
From www.oceansurfshop.com The City of Folly Beach has some good news for surfers at The Washout. The City has just completed the process of building public changing houses at the east end of The Washout just north of the “Contest Shack” walkover (approximately 1700...