Wildcats Taking Big strides in 2021
WAHS football team aims to build off last year’s success by Lorne Chambers | Editor Expectations are high at West Ashley High School for the 2021 football season. The energy is electric around this team for the first time in school history. Last year marked the first...
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Know your Candidates (part 1 of 6) — Leon Stavrinakis
This is the first 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. Leon Stavrinakis is a...
Candidates Face Off
On Wednesday, Sept. 23 the West Ashley-James Island Business Association (WAJIBA) will host a special luncheon and candidates forum for the four seats representing West Ashley. Moderated by respected newsman Warren Peper, four incumbents and four challengers will be...
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...
Going Back to the Market
The West Ashley Flashback, “Going Back to the Market”, ran in the August 7, 2013 edition of the West Of. It dealt with the construction of the Charleston County Market building along the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and a brief history of truck farming in St. Andrew’s...
Mmmm … New School Smell
There’s nothing better than new school smell. It’s better than pulling off the top of a magic marker and sticking the felt tip deliciously close to your nose and taking in a big honking whiff. It’s better than when you take in that first rush of escaping air from a...
It's Harvest Time
As an integral part of its educational programming, Middleton Place will celebrate Low Country Rice Culture Days again on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 18-19 at the Outdoor Educational Center in the Middleton Place Stableyards. All activities associated with this event...
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...
All Along The Waterfront
Looks like West Ashley is about to get yet another waterfront park. Last week, City Council gave initial approval to purchase 3.3 acres of waterfront property along the Stono River adjacent to Wappoo Road leading up to Edgewater Park Bridge. Council voted to pay...
Path to Salvation or Road to Ruin?
Hundreds piled into the Holliday Alumni Center at The Citadel on Wednesday to witness a county government presentation of a plan to convert a northbound U.S. Hwy. 17 lane of the bridge linking West Ashley to the peninsula to bicycle and pedestrian usage. City and...
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 off to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
