Oct 22, 2014
The recent 5th annual Avondale 5K was once again a runaway success, with more participants and money raised than ever before. On Saturday, Oct. 11, 510 runners, walkers, and in some cases, their dogs and children in tow took to the streets of several West Ashley...
Oct 22, 2014
West Ashley resident and county councilwoman Colleen Condon has sued the state in order to be able to marry her girlfriend. Condon and her partner, Nichols Bleckley, applied this month for a state marriage license in the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision...
Oct 22, 2014
This 1943 ad appeared in the Celebration of Progress brochure. DuPont Crossing was a hub for community activity in St. Andrew’s Parish. It wasn’t a road but more of a conceptual area and very easy to identify. The Seaboard Air Line tracks crossed Savannah Highway and...
Oct 22, 2014
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...
Oct 9, 2014
When West Ashley High School’s Sandy Pennekamp recently took a van-full of students to a “Hack Warz” competition at Trident Tech, half of the kids said they would never want to spend that much time in front of a computer again. Even if their lives depended on it. The...
Oct 9, 2014
Tow truck operator Dave Ferrara Jr. knows what it’s like to have the shoe on the other foot, or the hook on the other fender, or … whatever. Two weeks ago, Ferrara exited his Sam Rittenberg Boulevard apartment and walked to where his tow truck was supposed to be. Only...
