Beaufort, South Carolina the 1990s, expanding the city limits northward near the unincorporated Seabrook community. Previous attempts at bringing large-scale residential development north of the air station were defeated after protests from long-time citizens and environmental advocacy groups. The Beaufort area has several printed publications. The daily newspaper "The Beaufort Gazette" is the oldest and most circulated newspaper of record in South Carolina and is the sister publication to the Bluffton-based "Island Packet". There are two weekly print newspapers: "The Island News" and an alternative newsweekly called "Lowcountry Weekly". There are five online-only publications, the, Beaufort Online.com, EatSleepPlayBeaufort.com, "TheDigitel Beaufort" and "The Beaufort
Daily Breeze along with his Illinois newspaper holdings. The newspapers in the two states would form the basis for what eventually would become The Copley Press. Transfer of ownership of the Breeze from Kellogg to Copley become official on September 1, 1928. The Copley organization would own the Breeze for the next 78 years. Copley saw the possibilities of increased revenue from including other cities in the South Bay area into its coverage instead of concentrating primarily on Redondo Beach, and changed the paper's masthead accordingly from Redondo Daily Breeze to South Bay Daily Breeze in 1930. When the Bank of America