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From staff reports The deactivation ceremony for 4th Recruit Training Battalion will be held at 9 a.m., Thursday, June 15 aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island at the Peatross Parade Field. The event is free and open to the public. Since 1949 and until recently, Parris Island has served as the sole point of entry into the Marine Corps for all enlisted female Ma-
rines. Since that time, female Marines have trained under multiple guidons, with 4th Recruit Training Battalion transforming Marines since 1986. Male recruits began training within 4th Battalion in 2020. Today, recruit training standardization makes an all-female training battalion un-
necessary, as all recruits imately half of the female Marine have been training population by fiscal year 2024. in gender-inte“On 1 Novemgrated companies ber 1986, 4th ReINSIDE since 2022. cruit Training A look at The Marine Battalion was the 80-year Corps will realign established as history of Women personnel between the Corps’ only Marines at the service’s two reunit through Parris Island, cruit training locations which women Page B1 – MCRD Parris Island and could earn the MCRD San Diego. MCRD San Dititle of U. S. Maego is scheduled to train approx- rine,” Brig. Gen. Walker M. Field,
Commanding General of MCRD Parris Island and the Eastern Recruiting Region said in May. “Since then, those Marines have transformed thousands of young women, and since 2021 men, through rigorous basic training and our Corps’ cherished legacy, preparing them to win our nation’s battles. On 15 June 2023, we will bid
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Judge denies injunction against hotel, parking garage
Tom Lamprecht sits for a portrait on the front stairs of his home at 290 Parris Island Gateway on June 13, 2023, in Beaufort. Tom’s wife, Cindy Lamprecht, also known as the Beaufort Chalkboard Lady, left on Friday, June 2, after allegations that she was stealing funds that she solicited as donations under the guise of having a 501(c)(3) surfaced. By Delayna Earley/The Island News
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t has been almost two weeks since Tom Lamprecht’s world imploded when he found out that his wife of longer than three years was a stranger to him and their marriage was based on lies. “I feel like my wife has died,” Lamprecht said the day after his wife, Cindy Lamprecht, left. “The
person that I have loved and supported for years is gone.” She spent three years inspiring people through the messages that she Cindy would write on the Lamprecht large chalkboard that was erected in her front yard. Cindy, also known as the Beaufort Chalkboard Lady, left her home on
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Argument at party leads to shooting death
Tom Lamprecht picking up pieces after learning his life was a lie
By Delayna Earley The Island News
From staff reports In a ruling on Thursday, June 8, Circuit Court Judge R. Scott Sprouse denied a request by plaintiffs West Street Farms, LLC and Mix Farms, LLC to overturn approvals granted by the City of Beaufort to 303 Associates, LLC for a new downtown hotel, apartments, and a parking garage. The plaintiffs, embodied by real estate developer Graham Trask, were represented by attorney W. Andrew Gowder, Jr., of Charleston-based law firm Austen & Gowder, and were unsuccessful in attempting to overturn a longstanding approval granted by the City’s citizen-led Historic Review Board.
Friday, June 2, after she was made aware of allegations against her claiming that she had been soliciting donations for various charities under the guise of having a 501(c)(3), when she did not. She has also been accused of collecting donations and pocketing them instead of delivering them to the charities and causes they were
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By Mike McCombs The Island News An argument between two men at a party at a Boundary Street hotel Friday night, June 10, resulted in the shooting death of 24-year-old Jaquavious Bakari Washington of Hardeeville, according to the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office. An autopsy was performed Monday. City of Beaufort Police are still searching for the shooter. At approximately 11:05 p.m., Friday, officers responded to a shooting incident at the Quality Inn At Town Center at 2001 Boundary Street, where a party was being held when an argument ensued
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