Hilton Head

Family of 94-year-old Josephine Wright says they've reached a settlement in the battle to preserve their ancestral land dating back to the Civil War.

The keyboard instrument’s collaborative side is set to be showcased in a range of performances at this year’s BravoPiano! Festival, presented by the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.

In her later years, Josephine Wright of Hilton Head Island became a symbol for saving the rapidly disappearing land of the direct descendants of enslaved Africans. But this weekend she was remembered by loved ones for her giving spirit.

The 22-year-old pianist and Honens prizewinner is back in South Carolina, excited for the chance to take on two formidable piano concertos in a single program.

“It really is staggering," new Hilton Head International Piano Competition Director Steve Shaiman says of the competitors' talent, "and it makes me grateful that I’m not a judge.”

In 2009, while scouring the internet to piece together any information she could on her missing brother, Ruth Bueso came across an article in the Island Packet announcing he had died two years earlier. In her first email to Tim Donnelly and Daniel Brownstein, the former Island Packet reporters who had written the story, she attached a photo of her brother, 42-year-old Hector Bueso Mejía."Please, I need to know if he is the same person," she said.He was.

Large quantities of starfish have been seen scattered along Hilton Head Island beaches recently. Although it may look alarming, this is actually a natural event that's fairly common in the Lowcountry.Users, both locals and tourists, took to Facebook shocked at their findings along the shores of Hilton Head Island beaches.

Illia Ovcharenko had already chosen the music he would perform for the 2022 Hilton Head International Piano Competition when his home country was invaded in February. By the time of the competition in mid-March, some of the works he selected were resonating on a deeper level.

At the end of the month, motorists traveling Hilton Head Island's Cross Island Parkway will no longer have to pay a toll.

It’s a campaign promise made during an ad last fall as he treaded water in the Atlantic Ocean. Now Congressman Joe Cunningham is swimming hard against the…