Building For The Future

There may be no parent who keeps a better eye on West Ashley’s middle schools than Tamara Avery. Avery, a mother of three, has already moved her family once to make sure her then-kindergarten-aged son could get into Drayton Hall like all the kids he grew up with in...

Mug Shots

The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left off to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent...

School Shopping Through The Ages

Properly outfitting the modern kid to attend high school these days is a different experience than it was 30 years ago when it was their parents’ turn to go. And a vastly different experience than it was in Maw-maw and Paw-paw’s day, 30 years before that. In 2014, a...

Delving Into the College Chronicles

With The College Chronicles: Freshman Milestones, local author Kelly Owen’s gives going “back to school” a whole new meaning and literary genre. This week West Ashley-based publisher Boxer Publishing is releasing Owen’s book, the first of four novels in the series,...

Season Creep

It was July 20 and Southern Tier’s Pumpking, the brewery’s monster fall seasonal Imperial release, a beer of 8.6 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), rich, sweet flavors, and spicy, mouthfilling cold weather goodness, was already on shelves. Along with it, there sat...

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