Tyler Manion
MMJ
Savannah, Ga.
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Tyler Manion is the Lowcountry reporter for WTOC. He joined the team in June of 2021, shortly after graduating from Arizona State University.
Before finishing college Tyler covered events like the 2020 election, the women’s triathlon national championships, and everything in between. He was even awarded the Broadcast Education Association’s award for best collegiate television news anchor and placed second in the Hearst TV News Competition.
Although he grew up in the Philadelphia area, Tyler has been visiting Hilton Head Island every year since he was four months old and has loved the Lowcountry his whole life.
Have a pizza or cheesesteak recommendation? Or maybe even a story idea? Email him at tyler.manion@wtoc.com.
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The Second Annual Hardeeville Festival on Main has returned after it was canceled last year due to the pandemic.
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FBI agents were at Hilton Head Preparatory School earlier today, but nobody was in trouble.
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Jasper County mandated masks in schools, but not all districts are making that same decision.
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A mask mandate went into effect Tuesday morning in the Jasper County School District, following a board meeting Monday night.
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Four towns in Hampton County, S.C. have elections this year. All with a population under one thousand people, and one town with less than a hundred.
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Hilton Head Island is kicking off a month long celebration of arts and culture.
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The vast majority of counties in South Carolina are going to receive less state funding following the results of the 2020 census.
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Typically, you would have planes coming on the runway Saturday morning, but it will be runners and walkers during a 5K at the Beaufort Executive Airport
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Efforts continued Friday in the Lowcountry to raise their vaccination rate.
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With only three towns in Beaufort County holding general elections this year, the two referendums on the county-wide ballot are the focus points for most residents.
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We’re hearing from local health officials in Beaufort County after a company announced an experimental pill to treat patients with COVID-19
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After months of the delta variant driving the pandemic in the U.S., some good news on the current COVID-19 surge - the latest numbers show a downward trend.
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Coming into this period of in-person absentee voting, the general thought at the Beaufort County board of elections and voter registration was that turnout wouldn’t be in great numbers, and that was the case on the first day Monday when they only had two voters.
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What was once estimated to be 70,000 tons of debris standing 90 feet high in Jasper County, at this point has been cleared for years. The story now shifting from that field to the courts.
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Starting Monday, Oct. 4, registered voters can cast their ballot early for the Nov. 2 Election in Beaufort County.
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In-person voting in the Lowcountry starts in just a few days, but Friday Beaufort County voters had a chance to get up close and personal with the systems responsible for counting their ballots.
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A controversy over what to do with a historic Beaufort County park is now solved.
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A Lowcountry festival is approaching its 10th year.
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The Lowcountry has seen rapid growth in many areas over the last decade plus. But some places have seen significantly less progress than others.
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What was formerly known as the corridor of shame in the Lowcountry, now has another economic development to make that nickname truly a thing of the past.
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The Beaufort County School District (BCSD) will be adding extra security to its elementary schools in the form of armed security guards.
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A suspect has been arrested in connection with the mass shooting in Yemassee, S.C. on Sunday, Sept. 19.
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Election Day is just over a month away in the Lowcountry.
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The Burton Fire District did airborne trauma training in partnership with Colleton’s CARE Flight on Friday.
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South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster visited the Lowcountry on Friday.
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In downtown Beaufort, the start of fall means the end of summer tourists, but Mayor Stephen Murray says the city won’t actually see too much of a loss in business.
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One of Interpol’s 100 Most Wanted and a suspected MS-13 gang member was arrested in Beaufort County, according to police.
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We’re learning what’s next for one local community when it comes to federal relief money.
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Some school districts with low test scores in South Carolina also have some of the highest paid administrators.
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A Lowcountry family is out of their home after overnight storm damage.
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Air travel almost came to a complete stop at the start of the pandemic. WTOC talked to Hilton Head Island airport about a new expansion that will further help the recovery process in this week’s taking care of business.
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Yemassee town leaders will hold a news conference Monday afternoon a day after several people were shot.
The Yemassee Police Department is investigating a mass shooting that left one person dead and seven others injured.
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Alex Murdaugh has been arrested on charges of insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and filing a false police report.
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We’re learning more about the day Curtis Edward Smith spent in law enforcement custody. He’s charged with trying to help Alex Murdaugh in a suicide attempt by shooting the prominent former attorney in the head.
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Over the past few weeks, South Carolina’s COVID-19 rate has been slowly declining.
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Over the course of a few months, the Beaufort County Sherriff’s Office says a man stole seemingly everything he could get his hands on - from Jet skis to golf carts.
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With the summer tourist surge on Hilton Head unofficially ending last week, WTOC checked in with the local airport to see how the season went.
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One Lowcountry town has recently started a program to help get people to work easier and maybe help them find a job in the first place.
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Attorney Alex Murdaugh has resigned from his family law firm after being accused of diverting lawyer fees, his own attorney says.
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As Labor Day winds down, beachgoers begin to head home.
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Tourists on Hilton Head Island have now been through two straight summer seasons during a pandemic.
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Labor Day marks the end of the summer tourist season on Hilton Head Island.
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Labor Day weekend is the last opportunity for a lot of people to hit the beach for the year.
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As we continue to look at how COVID-19 is affecting our local communities, one in the South Carolina Lowcountry is struggling particularly hard with the Delta Variant.
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The South Carolina Department of Education released the state report card this week that details how each county and school did in the 2020-2021 school year.
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A new program in the City of Beaufort this week is lighting the way to helping save money and the environment.
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Recent data shows South Carolina has the worst rate of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the country, just slightly ahead of Alabama and Tennessee.
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Relations between law enforcement and their communities have been the focus of a lot of discussion in recent years.