Wednesday, May 4, 2011

May 2011 articles

Home Discovery: Aspiring to greatness in Palmetto Dunes

You need only one word to describe the great room in Don and Kim Thompson’s Palmetto Dunes home: stunning.
It’s vast and angular, full of windows, sunlight and vistas of the Palmetto Dunes Golf Course. It’s also pleasantly dominated by a European villa-style limestone fireplace.

And, a little chat with the then-new mayor of Hilton Head, Drew Laughlin:

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

New articles

Home Discovery: ‘It’s old meets new’
When they moved in, Dianne and Randy Fix’s Hampton Lake home was technically new — even if their favorite parts came from other homes, a textile mill, a barn and a factory.
Hilton Head Monthly magazine, April 2011

Chipping in: Hilton Head rallies in a “12th-hour” search for a Heritage title sponsor
With the future of the Heritage in doubt, the island is rallying in a ‘12th-hour’ search for a title sponsor.
Hilton Head Monthly magazine, April 2011

Wing and a prayer: A Hilton Head pilot lands in Japan a minute before the earthquake
Talk about timing. When pilot and Hilton Head Island resident Nick Esposito landed his United Airlines Boeing 777 at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport at 2:45 p.m. Friday, March 11, he wondered if the touchdown had damaged the wide-bodied passenger airliner’s landing gear. The plane, with its 275 passengers and 13 crew members, was shaking a lot as it taxied off the runway.
Hilton Head Monthly magazine, April 2011

Phyllis Mauney: Have harp, will travel
Retired U.S. Marine Corps E-9 gunnery sergeant Phyllis Mauney has never fired a weapon, but she wields a mean harp.
Hilton Head Monthly magazine, April 2011

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Savannah Business Journal article on ports 'battle'

Savannah Business Journal

It was kind of nice getting my feet wet again 'covering' the waterfront...
Way back, from 1984 to around 1992, I roamed the waterfront, the port of Savannah, dreaming those maritime dreams, crazy with romance of freighters, longshore and tugboat battles, picket lines and stirring the Savannah Pilots Commission's pot.
Those were the days.

South Carolina’s Savannah River Maritime Commission members exchanged heavy sighs of frustration during their quarterly meeting on a raw wintry morning in mid-January as they surveyed the current status of the port of Savannah’s proposed deepening of its harbor ship channel.