Retail Chain Donates to Local School
Burlington, which recently opened back up in West Ashley, makes $5,000 donation to Stono Park Elementary from Staff Reports For more than 30 years, Burlington Coat Factory was a fixture in the Ashley Landing Shopping Center on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard, until that...
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Flyover or Swim Under?
Charleston County Council voted 6-3 in a finance committee meeting last week to try to take back its $1.5-million portion from a project to create a “super” or “smart” street at the intersection of Main Road and U.S. Hwy. 17 South in West Ashley. Fueled by recent...
A Change Up
Bowing to public outcry and a half-packed gymnasium, members of the St. Andrews Parks & Playground Commission voted last week to delay a decision they made to alter its youth baseball and softball offerings. Two weeks ago, the commission voted to no longer be a...
Know your Candidates (Part 3 of 6)
This is the second in a several-week series of profiles of the six candidates to succeed Joe Riley as mayor of Charleston. The candidates are Ginny Deerin, W. Dudley Gregorie, Toby Smith, Leon Stavrinakis, John Tecklenburg, and Maurice Washington. Ginny Deerin is a...
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...
Music Through the Years
It’s a late September evening in West Ashley. The air is beginning to have a cool feel to it. It’s about to get hot though. Pick a venue and you just may encounter a “guaranteed to be awesome" live music experience. Live music is popular in the Charleston area and...
STILL #1
“Will you look at Big Boobie Nash!” yells out a former defensive lineman as he throws his arms around the still-tall shoulders of Bruce Johnson outside the West Ashley High School cafeteria Friday night. Inside the cafeteria, WAHS principal Lee Runyon was doing his...
Know Your Candidates (Part 2 of 6)
This is the second in a several-week series of profiles of the six candidates to succeed Joe Riley as mayor of Charleston. The candidates are Ginny Deerin, W. Dudley Gregorie, Toby Smith, Leon Stavrinakis, John Tecklenburg, and Maurice Washington. John Tecklenburg is...
A Class Act
University of South Carolina freshman Brandon Holmes was recently awarded this year’s $2,000 West Ashley Optimist Club Charles B. Carlisle Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded each year to a West Ashley resident who demonstrates a commitment to high academic...
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...
Thrown A Curve Ball
Public outcry over decisions to change the youth baseball and softball programs at St. Andrews Parks & Playgrounds (SAPP) has grown louder than any umpire’s third strike punch-out call. SAPP executive director Kevin Walsh put out a statement last week that at a...
