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A subdivision of 43 single-family homes is coming to Bluffton’s high-end Palmetto Bluff community.

This week, Bluffton’s Development Review Committee approved, with a few conditions, a subdivision plan from engineering firm Thomas & Hutton to build 43 single-family lots on 16.5 acres in Palmetto Bluff’s River Road neighborhood.

Adjacent to The Lodge at River Road, the new subdivision will be the final addition to Palmetto Bluff’s River Road neighborhood — a sprawling community of 330 homes along an inland waterway across from River Road Preserve.

Located on 20,000 acres facing Bluffton’s May River, the Palmetto Bluff community is known for its luxury Montage Palmetto Bluff resort. In 2018, Forbes named the resort one of “5 luxury resorts that might just save your marriage.” The resort recently caught national attention for hosting the weddings of pop star Justin Bieber in 2019 and projected No. 1 overall draft pick Trevor Lawrence last week.

The River Road community, on the eastern side of Palmetto Bluff, has been in the works for over a decade. The first phase of the project began just before the economic downturn in 2008.

Tucked away in the gated Palmetto Bluff community, the new subdivision will be located between Palmetto Bluff’s two largest neighborhoods — Wilson Village and Moreland Village. The River Road neighborhood is already home to The Lodge, which opened in 2016 with a fitness center, playground, dog park and lounge area.

After this week’s approval, Mike Hughes with engineering firm Thomas & Hutton said infrastructure on the subdivision (building water and sewer lines) is underway. Once that’s completed and the property is subdivided, Hughes said Palmetto Bluff’s real estate team will sell the 43 lots to prospective home builders.

Development planning appears to have picked up throughout Palmetto Bluff in recent months. The Town of Bluffton’s website shows dozens of permits in the area, from minor construction changes to new homes.

The new subdivision will be located about six miles from Bluffton’s bustling New Riverside area, where developers are clearing land and constructing the new Four Seasons at Carolina Oaks age-restricted community by K. Hovnanian Homes.

Asked about other developments in Palmetto Bluff, Hughes said his team is focused on completing the Moreland Village project.

Palmetto Bluff unveiled Moreland Village in 2017 with plans to build 500 homesites on 600 acres. The first phase of the project included a 60-acre site with 92 lots priced from $275,000 to $1 million.

Internet Services in Bluffton, South Carolina - An Insider's Guide

Accommodating approximately 52,087 people, Bluffton has it all, including businesses, sports teams and first-class colleges. This locale possesses an immense broadband substratum with 4 mobile broadband providers, 6 corporate broadband providers and 6 residential broadband providers. Picking which ISP is perfect for your household can be tough, so our team assembled this Insider’s Guide to help you uncover the best South Carolina broadband choice possible:

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Nevertheless, there’s a simple strategy to work out the worth of a high-speed plan: merely divide the cheapest plan’s asking rate by its speed. Our internet experts authored the following table to illustrate the best internet plan value in the Bluffton region:

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Picking a Broadband Plan Corresponding to Your Surroundings in Bluffton

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Frequently Asked Questions About Internet Services in Bluffton

Possessing speeds obtaining 1 Gbps, Hargray Communications supplies the fastest speeds in the Bluffton region. Hargray Communications offers coverage to 57.1 percent of the Bluffton area, making it a potential pick for your family.

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Cable is at this time the most widely available residential internet connection in the Bluffton region. Hargray Communications features cable download speeds up to 100 Mbps, providing service to 89.8 percent of Bluffton.

Supplying 4 mobile, 6 residential and 6 corporate internet service providers, Bluffton has up to 11 internet service providers.

Mbps is the abbreviation for megabits per second, and it also appears written as Mbits/sec. Internet providers use megabits per second to measure speeds. Broadband speeds are 25 Mbps or faster. Learn more about Mbps.

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Medicare Recipients Aren’t on Their Own Anymore

BLUFFTON, SC - It’s no secret that Medicare is complicated, but it doesn’t help that many insurance companies are looking to make a profit instead of actually help people. Because of this, it’s not uncommon for someone to end up spending too much money on the wrong kind of plan. Thankfully, experts like Kathe Kline, founder of MedicareQuick, are here to help those on Medicare get the coverage they deserve based on their needs.

Kathe Kline was a professional financial planner who helped thousands of clients for over 30 years. When Kathe’s husband turned 65, he conducted extensive research about Medicare until he thought he knew everything there was to know. When he spoke to a Licensed Insurance agent to help him get set up, the agent casually asked him if he took medications, and since he didn’t, he said no. The agent helped him sign up for a Medicare Supplement Plan F, the best plan available, but also the most expensive. Since he didn’t take any medications, the agent told him he didn’t need a drug plan and didn’t bother to sign him up for one.

A few years later, she found out that her father’s prescription drugs cost over $5,000 per month. Her husband then attempted to sign up for a prescription drug plan. Since they had to wait for open enrollment, it would be months before he would be able to get even a basic drug plan—as time went on, a penalty was racking up. Five years after becoming eligible, he was able to get a prescription drug plan, but he now has to incur a penalty fee for the rest of his life—and it’s higher than the cost of the drug plan!

From that point on, Kathe dedicated herself to understanding the Medicare system, offering her expertise to clients to make sure they don’t make (unfortunately common) similar mistakes. Her decades of experience as a financial planner gave her the skills to break down complicated subjects into easily understandable snippets of information. She put her skills to use when she founded MedicareQuick.com, a website designed to help those on Medicare make big decisions about Medicare, including finding the right Medicare options, choosing the right Medicare Supplement or Advantage Plan, or helping people become Medicare experts themselves!

In order to help her clients navigate the complexities of the Medicare system, she set up a series of online courses available on MedicareQuick, including “Medicare for Newbies” and the fifteen-minute “Making Medicare Decisions.” These courses are designed to help eligible Medicare recipients make beneficial, well-informed decisions about their health, their finances, and their futures. She is also happy to serve as a Licensed Insurance broker for anyone requesting her services.

For more information about Kathe and MedicareQuick, her online courses, and some of the major principles of enrolling for Medicare, visit her website. Her fifteen-minute introductory course, “Making Medicare Decisions,” can be found here.

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A trio of conservative activists have filed a lawsuit against the South Carolina Republican party (SCGOP) and its chairman Drew McKissick – as well as the Greenville county Republican party (GCGOP) and its chairwoman Jennifer Black – seeking to overturn the state party’s recent decision to hold a “hybrid” convention next weekend.

According to the lawsuit (.pdf) – which was submitted by attorney Lauren Martel of Bluffton, S.C. on behalf of activists Pressley Stutts, Walter Horin and Cole Kazmarski – the party’s decision to hold a hybrid convention on May 15, 2021 violates its own rules, state law and the state constitution.

Sound familiar? It should … the SCGOP violates its rules all the time. With impunity … and often with unintended consequences.

Will the courts hold the party accountable this time?

Late last month, party leaders voted not to hold a statewide in-person convention – ostensibly due to lingering concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Rather than gathering together in one location (as party rules dictate), county parties will instead host in-person “caucuses” at local level. At these caucuses, delegates will cast their votes for party chairman (and three supporting statewide party offices) via paper ballot.

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These paper ballots will then be reported to the SCGOP “credentials committee” in Columbia, S.C. – which will tabulate and release the final results of the elections.

Sound fair? Yes … but given the high stakes of this race, ballot integrity is of the utmost importance.

Wait … high stakes? In a party chairman’s race?

That’s right. This year’s race for SCGOP chairman has drawn statewide and national attention due to the candidacy of famed First Amendment lawyer Lin Wood – who moved from Georgia to South Carolina earlier this year to challenge McKissick. To say Wood’s candidacy has stirred things up is an understatement … as every day has generated some new dramatic headline (as well as fresh evidence of his surprising viability).

More importantly, Wood’s insurgency represents a new flank in the ongoing GOP civil war – which my news outlet has been following closely. As such, it could have potentially seismic repercussions on next year’s partisan primary races in the Palmetto State – as well as the 2024 “First in the South” presidential primary (assuming the SCGOP agrees to follow its rules and hold such an election this go-round).

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Wood’s candidacy has been fueled by the unmitigated failure of the SCGOP’s new “super-majority” in the S.C. General Assembly – as well as McKissick’s previous meddling on behalf of fiscally liberal candidates in GOP primary elections. Of course it has been held back by some of his … how do I put it … “unorthodox” views.

All of the activists supporting the legal challenge are Wood supporters – but to me, that does not add to or detract from the merits of their legal argument. According to their suit, state law – as well as the due process clause of the South Carolina constitution – compel political parties to “follow their own rules before depriving members of the right to vote in a primary election.”

“A major South Carolina political party cannot simply choose not to convene an in-person convention at a single location,” the lawsuit stated. “Rather than complying with clear state law … the Defendants and other elected leaders of the South Carolina Republican party have announced a procedure whereby there will not be a single convention, but separate conventions throughout the state connected ‘virtually.'”

According to the lawsuit, the three plaintiffs “have been effectively disenfranchised by their own political party and have no other remedy than this action to protect their right to participate in a state-wide party convention.”

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The lawsuit asks the court to declare that the SCGOP and its codefendants are in violation of party rules, state law and the state constitution. Additionally, it asks the court to block the SCGOP from engaging in “further violations of the law” – and seeks an order requiring the party to hold its convention “in-person … at a single location.”

Incidentally, hosting an in-person convention (and using paper ballots) is exactly what I recently recommend the party do …

During his campaign for party chairman, Wood has repeatedly accused McKissick and his supporters of attempting to rig the upcoming chairman’s vote. Meanwhile, McKissick backers maintain Wood has no “path to victory” and that his vote-rigging claims are unfounded.

Again, there is an easy way to settle this: Get all of the 870 SCGOP delegates in a room together and have them vote using paper ballots.

In an affidavit (.pdf) accompanying what has become known as the “MAGA lawsuit,” Kazmarski – a recently elected Laurens county executive committee member – warned that the SCGOP’s proposed hybrid model could create “a situation that is ripe for fraud.”

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“I made promises to the people who elected me at our recent Laurens county convention to represent them at the state party meeting, and if we cannot get the SCGOP to play by its own rules there is no way I can fulfill those promises,” Kazmarski (above) wrote. “As a result, my voice, and the voices of those who elected me to present them on votes for party leaders and positions, will go unheard, and all of us will be disenfranchised.”

That is a fair point …

Do I believe Wood is within striking distance of McKissick in this race? No … I do not. I think the race is probably closer than the pundits and party establishment are expecting it to be, but I believe McKissick has a legitimate lead.

Do I believe McKissick backers are engaged in some sort of nefarious plot to rig the upcoming election? Again, no … I do not.

But irrespective of the competitiveness of this election (or lack thereof), there is absolutely no reason not to hold an in-person convention and put all of these delegate votes on the record … especially seeing as the SCGOP and GCGOP are currently praising “Republican” governor Henry McMaster for “fully reopening South Carolina” in light of collapsing Covid-19 cases.

Optics and legality aside – the SCGOP’s failure to hold an in-person convention will guarantee the delegitimization of this election (even if the vote winds up being conducted legitimately). And such delegitimization could widen what are already huge fault lines within the party.

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Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and seven children.

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May 10, 2021 - The Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion at St. Joseph’s/Candler will open a new cancer treatment center in Pembroke this fall, bringing the latest oncology infusion treatments closer to home.

“We will provide evidence-based cancer care and the benefits of the latest clinical trials closer to those in Pembroke and nearby communities including Statesboro,” said Paul P. Hinchey, President & CEO of St. Joseph’s/Candler. “Chemotherapy can be a very rough treatment for many, and having to travel a long distance after a lengthy chemo session can be an unbearable burden. We are very excited to be expanding our cancer treatment services into areas that, in the past, haven’t had access to such advanced treatment options.”

The Pembroke program will benefit from the expertise of the National Cancer Institute’s Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP), which the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion has been a part of for more than six years.

Summit Cancer Care is partnering with the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion to provide medical oncologists to staff the location, all of whom participate in the NCORP program and Clinical Effectiveness Teams in Savannah.

St. Joseph’s/Candler has been rapidly expanding cancer treatment programs across the region for the benefit and convenience of our patients. Centers have been opened in Jesup, Waycross, Statesboro, Hinesville and expanded in Bluffton, S.C. The new Pembroke facility will be located next to the St. Joseph’s/Candler Primary Care practice, which has been serving the community since 1994.

This facility will serve as a medical oncology practice with space for consultations, exams, procedures and chemotherapy infusion.

Once completed, this new infusion center will be a 5,300 square foot facility with an estimated completion cost of $2.5 million.

The program will work collaboratively with the Summit Cancer Care specialists at the LCRP. The centerpiece of the LCRP model are the Clinical Effectiveness Teams who meet regularly to assure best practices in treatment regimens offered. Physicians present cases for multi-disciplinary discussions with physicians in Savannah for individualized treatment plans.

Clinical Effectiveness Teams are comprised of physicians with related specialties and support personnel who meet regularly to review individual cases. St. Joseph's/Candler has Clinical Effectiveness Teams for the following areas: