Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
Sgt. Joseph Harvill named West Ashley Optimist Club’s Community Hero of the Year from Staff Reports Sgt. Joseph Harvill was recently honored by the West Ashley Optimist Club as the Charleston Police Department’s Community Hero of the Year. Sgt. Harvill is a 12-year...
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Flashing Back on West Ashley Flashback
Three years ago this West Ashley Flashback column was born out of the research done for the book “West Ashley” published by Arcadia as part of their Images of America series. This series focuses on photographic history, but during the process of discovering...
Brother From Another Mother
Bradley Adams didn’t have any brothers growing up. He had a little sister, but never a brother … until this year. That’s when the 34-year-old West Ashley man met his “Little Brother” Daijon through the Carolina Youth Development Center (CYDC), which pairs caring adult...
Reaching A Milestone
On the cover of the Jan. 23 issue of West Of there was an article entitled “Countdown to 500,” anticipating the 500th career win for West Ashley High School head boys’ basketball coach Ronnie Dupre. There were a couple more games left in the 2013-2014 season and it...
On The Waterfront
It’s not hard to see why the City of Charleston — or a host of developers — would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for 1065 Bender St., an overgrown property along the Ashley River in the Ashleyville neighborhood. Or, in the city’s case, recently launch an effort...
Bees Ferry Widening Completed
On Tuesday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held by local politicos to mark the completion of the Bees Ferry Road widening project between Highways 17 and 61. The project, begun in January 2012, was supposed to have been finished in the spring, but weather 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...
Successful Tree- Planting Year
10,000 Trees for Charleston, the municipal initiative begun in 2012 to improve livability, reported 80 new trees were planted in West Ashley over the last year. The most recent planting included seven Crepe Myrtles along the median of St. Andrews Boulevard and Old...
A Lifetime of Service Remembered
When Marilla Powell graduated in 1939 from St. Francis Xavier Infirmary Training School for Nurses, she didn’t have orderlies or a cleaning crew to help her take care of patients. “We did everything,” Powell said. Much has changed since Powell’s career as a nurse but...
Badges of Honor, Citizenship
Co-Den Leader Terance Wood led six members from West Ashley’s Webelos Den #7 in a trash pick-up day at Drayton Hall Elementary School this month that bagged as much as 10 pounds of trash. The six Webelos were doing more than showing pride in their community — they...
An Attitude of Optimism
The Optimist Club of West Ashley recently honored seven local students for their strong community involvement and service. The club has been honoring local youth through the national Youth Appreciation program for more than 50 years, as well as hosting annual...
