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In today's newsletter:

  • How a Charleston healthcare leader challenged CSU’s newest graduates
  • How Charleston County kids in foster care are trading trash bags for hope
  • Which 2025 Charleston stories did News 4 say defined the year?

Also on today's calendar: Crawl 'Til The Ball Falls: Charleston NYE Bar Crawl 2026 and 9 more events.

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Today's riddle: What did the little needle say to the mother needle when it brought home a failing report card? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 75 and low of 57 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• CSU celebrates graduates (postandcourier.com) — Charleston Southern University just honored more than 200 new graduates at its Dec. 19 commencement, featuring HCA Healthcare Charleston president Jeff Wilson as guest speaker. Wilson urged students to lead with compassion, adaptability, and growth, while longtime supporter Roger Nielsen received an honorary business doctorate recognizing his deep philanthropic and mentoring ties to CSU and its business school.
   

• Seacoast Church replaces trash bags with Journey Bags' for children entering foster care (abcnews4.com) — Children entering foster care in Charleston County are among hundreds across the Lowcountry receiving “Journey Bags” instead of trash bags, thanks to Seacoast Church’s donation drive. The bags, packed with essentials and comfort items, aim to restore dignity during traumatic transitions. Residents can fill or fund bags at any Seacoast campus through January 4.
   

• Year in review: News 4's top digital stories of 2025 (abcnews4.com) — News 4 recaps 2025’s biggest Charleston and Lowcountry stories, from ICE raids and shrimp mislabeling claims at Charleston-area restaurants to protests over the Trump administration and climate concerns. The roundup also revisits key moments involving the International African American Museum, local crime cases, and police accountability that shaped conversations across Charleston this year.
   

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  • A Mount Pleasant barbershop offered free haircuts — and the community paid it forward (postandcourier.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I guess I’m not as sharp as I thought.
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