Remembering a Local Legend
Family, community mourns the loss of barbecue pioneer Thomas Bessinger Special to West Of Free Press It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Thomas Bessinger, Sr., fondly known as “Tee,” to those who know him well. He peacefully entered into eternal...
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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 out to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
Signs of Improvement
This is not an infomercial. Ben and Erika Greco are not paid actors, and they have not been compensated for their testimony. They are just a nice young couple, happy they could get the obscene graffiti message washed off the wall and driveway of their home in the East...
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 out to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
Painting The Town
DB’s Cheesesteaks will open in the next few weeks in the former Papa Murphy’s spot in the Avondale Business District, that long-timers will remember as the old Krispy Kreme that had been replete with spinning stools and starburst linoleum counters. Inside the color...
The Strolling Singer
On Friday, like she’s done every Friday since her husband Gene died 15 years ago, Mary Neal Kunsman is singing in the main waiting room at Roper St. Francis Hospital in West Ashley. Her oeuvre is 1940s, especially show tunes. Between warbles, the almost-90-year-old...
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 out to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
County Agrees To Take On I-526 Funding
Charleston County Council voted to reaffirm its intention to pay its part, whatever that turns out to be, for the completion of Interstate 526 beltway. But don’t start a naming contest for the new section of roadway that would bend from where it terminates near...
West Ashley Flashback
The Charleston Savannah Railroad, The Atlantic Coast Line, and The West Ashley Greenway are all names that have a place in the history of a linear path from the Ashley River that heads south paralleling the road that has been known as Savannah Highway, The Public...
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 out to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
Rooted In Family
When asked three years ago to talk about his oldest son, Brian, being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor, City Councilman Bill Moody said, “Now isn’t the right time.” When Brian got sicker, Moody held firm. “It’s not time.” When Brian died early Easter morning...
