Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:59:30 -0800

By Dan DeWitt, Times Columnist Thursday, February 2, 2012 The warm weather is giving us an early opportunity to witness an especially pointless Florida ritual: Homeowners rake up their live oak leaves — now falling to make way for new growth — and stuff them into plastic garbage bags that are stacked by the road and eventually carted off to the landfill. The homeowners then drive to the lawn and ...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:52:08 -0800

Irving Bell’s children are struggling with the fact that they will never find out how their father died.

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:28:16 -0800

They mean it this time: Starting today, most Charleston County residents must put their yard debris in paper bags. A ban on yard waste bagged in plastic is in effect at the Bees Ferry Landfill. County leaders first said the ban would start last June 1, but they deferred it twice. They the...