Checking Out

Checking Out

 Local icon Doscher’s IGA Grocery Store closing after 48 years in West Ashley  by Bill Davis | News Editor All the cashiers are leaning on their elbows this late April afternoon, outnumbering the customers. The top and bottom dry shelves are empty on every aisle. Only...
A Helping Hand

A Helping Hand

West Ashley community rises up to assist families impacted by Palms Apartment fire by Jenny Peterson | Contributing Writer   It’s been about a month since an early-morning fire tore through The Palms, a West Ashely apartment complex on Feb. 7, destroying five...
Foul Play

Foul Play

Violent crimes in West Ashley saw a sharp uptick in 2021   by Bill Davis | News Editor Twenty twenty-one has been a dubious year for violent crime in West Ashley. Phone trees light up whenever shots are heard in a neighborhood. Social media posts explode after every...
Retail Chain Donates  to Local School

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...
Wildcats Taking Big strides in 2021

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...
Gold Medal Dreams

Gold Medal Dreams

St. Andrew’s Running Club makes big strides with youth track & field sports by Lorne Chambers | Editor With the 2020 Summer Olympic Games well underway, the eyes of the world are on Tokyo as the best athletes from more than 200 countries compete in a host of...

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