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Two finalists named for Beaufort’s Police Chief job Interim Chief Price, NC’s Klamar will meet Council, Citizen’s Council, staff, public on Friday, May 17
the public can become much more familiar with them on Friday, May 17, in three different events. Beaufort’s In- Stephenie terim Police Chief Price By Mike McCombs Stephenie Price The Island News and Kenneth J. “Ken” Klamar, The City of Beaufort has nar- Chief of Police in Sunset Beach, rowed its searched for a news N.C., are the two finalists for the Chief of Police to two finalists, and job, left vacant when Chief Dale
McDorman retired in January. Price, acting as Beaufort’s Interim Chief for the past four months, called making the cut down to two finalists “humbling and an absolute honor.” And Klamar told The Island News, “I’m excited to be this far in the process. I’m looking forward to meeting the city staff.”
view process, as well as the introduction of the finalists to the public, will happen Friday in three stages. Kenneth J. From 9 to 11 Klamar a.m., the two candidates will be interviewed by a Citizens’ Panel in the Police DepartThe big day is Friday ment Training Room. Mayor Phil The home stretch of the inter- Cromer and each City Council
member each appointed a citizen to this five-member panel. City Manager Scott Marshall said he asked each member of the council to name one member of the community they’d like to serve on the committee. Marshall said if the city had taken applications for the committee, the process would have taken a considerable amount of time.
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BEAUFORT ast week was Hurricane Preparedness Week and it was ironic part of that was spent, at least in the city circles, talking about flooding. Specifically, the city fathers were being updated on plans for the King Street drainage improvements designed to improve existing flooding problems within a 40-acre neighborhood. Unfortunately, drainage plans which include replacing existing pipes have drawn opposiINSIDE tion because of Scott Graber has a controversial the story on 20x25x10-foot the drainage pump station, plan for The generator and Old Point, Page A6 outfall structures proposed for the very small Knott passive park at the corner of East and King, close to the center of the Point
Work has begun at the Harriet Tubman Memorial site on the grounds of Tabernacle Baptist Church as seen here Monday afternoon, May 13, 2024. The statue is complete and ready for its new home at the 156-year-old church on Craven Street. Bob Sofaly/The Island News
Harriet almost ready Tubman memorial to be unveiled June 1, will commemorate raid freeing 700 slaves By Skylar Laird SCDailyGazette.com A historic Black church in Beaufort will unveil a much-anticipated sculpture of Harriet Tubman on the 161st anniversary of the raid she led that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The June 1 unveiling of the sculpture, which is eight years in the making, will add to the long history of Tabernacle Baptist Church, where Civil War hero and South Carolina lawmaker
Robert Smalls was buried in 1915. Born enslaved in Maryland in 1822, Tubman is the best-known conductor of the Underground Railroad, as she led at least 70 slaves in Maryland to freedom before the Civil War. But her work in South Carolina during the Civil War often gets overlooked, said Rev. Kenneth Hodges, the church’s pastor for 29 years. The monument will be the first in the state marking her daring mission in June 1863 along the Combahee River as the first woman to lead a
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A monument to Harriet Tubman, which Tabernacle Baptist Church leaders will unveil June 1, the anniversary of the raid in which Tubman helped free more than 700 slaves. Photo courtesy of Tabernacle Baptist Church
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