Nov 27, 2014
Dealing with your in-laws is something that most people dread. But not sisters-in-law Yana and Jennifer Wieckowski. The two West Ashley residents have combined decades of sewing experience, attention to detail, and creativity in design to form Hemming Birds Boutique,...
Nov 27, 2014
Started in 2013, The Lucky Shucker was founded by friends Will Altman and Josh Silverman who met through their involvement with the financial advocacy group Slow Money. Both were interested in locally developed, sustainable products, and recognized in each other a...
Nov 27, 2014
West Ashley wood-turner Ashley Harwood was told in college at Carnegie Mellon University to give up the art of glassblowing, that she was too smart for an endeavor deemed by the art scene as too “crafty.” But that’s not what turned her to turning wood. Her dad wanted...
Nov 24, 2014
More and more peninsular problems are finding a home in West Ashley — impacts of bars, flooding, parking, traffic, and now tricky redevelopment. Downtown, gentrification has often tainted the redevelopment of neighborhoods, as it did in Radcliffeborough the West Side,...
Nov 24, 2014
West Ashley may soon be home to the state’s first married same-sex gay couple, thanks to a ruling from a federal judge. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel, from the Fourth District, traditionally one of the most conservative benches in the country, struck down...
Nov 24, 2014
“Holy City” is one of many names given to Charleston. With the many church spires decorating the skyline it is easy to see why. But the small cruciform church, located on Ashley River Road and formed as the place for the Anglicans of St. Andrew’s Parish to worship, is...
