Jul 12, 2018
West Ashley Public Schools Have A Glaring DeficitIn Visual Art Teachers Local parents and art lovers are fed up with the tiny visual arts offerings at West Ashley High School. The school currently has no visual arts teachers on staff and is advertising for only a...
Jul 12, 2018
Planning West Ashley’s greener future Ongoing planning to enhance West Ashley’s greenway and bikeway are focused largely on the various meanings of the word “safety.” Last month, the Charleston Parks Conservancy brought together over a dozen landscape architects and...
Jul 12, 2018
Portrait unveiling celebrates the life and legacy of Cynthia Graham Hurd On the evening of June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old white supremacist walked into the “Mother” Emanuel A.M.E. Church in downtown Charleston and murdered nine African-Americans. He claimed he did it...
Jul 12, 2018
Council issues official apology without strong support from West Ashley councilmen Last month, Charleston City Council voted to officially apologize for the role it played and how it profited from the institution of slavery. But Council’s apology carried only a single...
May 30, 2018
A Local author reveals what he discovered in an antebellum church registry and what it tells us about race and reconciliation in West Ashley The discovery of a tattered, old book takes us back in time into a world we can scarcely imagine today. A world of cotton and...
May 30, 2018
Demolition of former Piggly Wiggly raises more questions Heavy equipment has already begun rolling at the former site of a Piggly Wiggly at the suicide merge of Sam Rittenberg Boulevard and Old Towne Road. But there is still no definitive plan of what to do with the...
