From our Mayor – Billy K

Focusing on the good things taking place in Beaufort County schools

0 / February 2, 2012 5:23 am

By Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling My personal success beating dyslexia (before it was even recognized as a reading disorder) to become a college and graduate school honor student, and my two-year consulting on parent engagement in schools in Vermont, Delaware [...]

The option of urbanism: Investing in a new American dream

0 / January 25, 2012 7:56 pm

Over the past two years, the Carolinas Chapter of The Congress on New Urbanism has presented outside speakers to talk about issues important to our thinking about the future of our special hometown. This Thursday, there is another speaker who [...]

Big thanks to Beaufort Police Department

0 / December 22, 2011 10:08 am

By Mayor Billy Keyserling To Chief Matt Clancy and the men and women police officers, detectives and investigators who work under your leadership: During this holiday season, and in light of this week’s accomplishments, I want to take a moment [...]

The power of one community

0 / November 17, 2011 8:51 am

Residents work to keep our neighborhoods safe After several incidents when minors were caught brandishing guns and taking shots at classmates and/or people who live in different sections of the county, a few months ago I wrote a post praising [...]

Responding to visitor criticism

0 / November 9, 2011 9:10 pm

By Mayor Billy Keyserling Here is an email I received on Monday morning November 1: “Visited your city last Tuesday and received a parking ticket for an expired meter. My fault. I don’t understand how you can promote tourism for [...]

Straight Talk: Marketing Beaufort more efficiently

0 / October 27, 2011 12:36 am

By Mayor Billy Keyserling One of the most important lessons I learned while working in DC, through my training as a mediator and serving the public, is that we must separate the WHO from the WHAT. When we focus on [...]

A more environmentally, culturally and fiscally sustainable hometown

0 / September 29, 2011 1:19 pm

By Mayor Billy Keyserling Once the city made changes to provide a higher level of services at less cost, we began investing time and money in ensuring a more environmentally, culturally and fiscally sustainable Beaufort which we mandated through our [...]

A day to remember deserves more than a day

A day to remember deserves more than a day

0 / September 15, 2011 2:45 pm

For those who were not able to make it to the doubleheader Day of Remembrance ceremonies on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, you missed two moving back to back events. The first was [...]

The time has come to speak out

0 / August 4, 2011 3:45 am

By Mayor Billy Keyserling Very often when faced with unsettling experiences we sit back and look to the “experts” to move in and do the work. What I am writing about has nothing to do with experts, it is about [...]

The Silence . . . is Painful! Perhaps We Should Be Looking into the Mirror and Not Just to the Police For Answers!

The Silence . . . is Painful! Perhaps We Should Be Looking into the Mirror and Not Just to the Police For Answers!

0 / August 2, 2011 12:05 am

By:  Mayor Billy K Very often when faced with unsettling experiences we sit back and look to the “experts” to move in and do the work. What I am writing about has nothing to do with experts, it is…