Saint Martin's kicks off big basketball weekend

Saint Martin's Lady Saints will try to shake a three-game losing streak tonight when they host nationally ranked Western Washington at home.

It's the Great Northwest Athletic Conference opener for both schools.

Saints coach Tim Healy has seen glimpses of solid play in a team with just one returning starter.

"We don't have an identity yet," Healy said. "There are times we play really well together. But we're not playing with consistency."

The three-day Wilson's Weekend lets guests relive the Gilded Age

Palmetto Bluff is preparing to turn back the clock to 1918, a time when the exclusive community was even more, well, exclusive.

At that time, its 18,000 acres along the May River only had a single mansion, an extravagant estate that hosted some of the South's most lavish dinners and spectacular balls.

Richard T. Wilson Jr., a wealthy banker and industrialist, built the four-story home on the property with his wife, Marion, in the early 1900s. From 1915 until it burned in 1926, the estate welcomed some of New York's elite for weeks at a time, who dined well and partied well into the night.