Birding in West Ashley
From the Greenway to County Parks, there are lots of feathered friends to meet by Jenny Peterson | Staff Writer Bird watching increased in popularity during COVID as a safe outdoor activity and more and more people continue to discover the charm of observing and...
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2017 Westie Awards
West Of started The Westie Awards in 2010, highlighting 25 people who we felt had the most positive impact on West Ashley during the first decade of the 21st Century. Every year since then, we’ve let our readers nominate people who they felt went above and beyond to...
If You Need a Jerk, Call The Turk
Werner “Turky” Burky’s first memories of life in St. Andrew’s Parish were of the home his father, Howard F. Burky, built at 9 Penn Ave.. As a very young boy Burky explored the marsh along the banks of the Ashley River behind his home. Soon the heavy machinery and road...
Where The Wild Things Run
Where do wild things run? At Caw Caw Interpretive Center! The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission (CCPRC) hosts its annual Where the Wild Things Run, a 5K Run and Walk on Saturday, March 4. Nature lovers get a little slice of heaven as they make their way...
State of the Art
Recently, Mt. Pleasant City Council voted 4-3 to have a mural by a renowned international artist removed from the exterior wall of a locally-owned business. It wasn’t the only piece of public art that council targeted either. So as Mt. Pleasant continues to whitewash...
Through Their Eyes
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens will present in February the first in a series of demonstrations in 2017 by living historians to vividly depict the contributions of enslaved people before and after the end of chattel slavery. “Living History Through the Eyes of the...
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...
Apartment Fire Displaces Families
At approximately 9:56 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3 the Charleston County Consolidated Dispatch Center received notification of a structure fire at the Palmilla Apartments on Ashley River Road. Emergency responders with Charleston and Saint Andrews Fire Departments,...
Wes Ashley Flashback
Elizabeth Ann McKenzie, known to her friends and family as Betty, smiled at Luther Bootle in front of St. Andrew’s Parish High School on a sunny day during her senior year — 1942/1943. Luther Bootle was the photographer for the school’s yearbook The Pelican. Maybe he...
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...
Now Hear This!
John Dixon is up against some pretty staggering competition. There are more than 50 radio stations, AM and FM, in the Charleston area, and the majority of them are backed by piped-in Internet feeds and big national communications companies. Dixon, though, is just one...
