Sep 2, 2014
Last week the West Ashley High School varsity football team officially kicked off the 2014 regular season when they gave the Bishop England Bishops a whipping on the road. Coming into the season ranked #9 in the Lower State, many in West Ashley are excited about this...
Aug 28, 2014
Usually, when the Charleston County School District builds a new school on an old site, it tears down the original school before construction begins. But just off Ashley River Road, at the conjoined campus housing Springfield Elementary and Montessori Community...
Aug 20, 2014
What is “Leadership?” According to various sources, it’s defined as the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. Throughout history, this term has determined the rise and fall of nations, the success or...
Aug 13, 2014
There’s something vaguely familiar about West Ashley High School’s new principal, William Runyon; something that hearkens back to his predecessor, Mary Runyon. It’s not the hair: his is shaved black stubble, hers a shock of white. She’s married to local attorney Bill...
Aug 13, 2014
People always seem to complain about school lunches. But, truthfully, I have mostly fond memories of my grade school cafeteria. OK, so it wasn’t haute cuisine, but it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve eaten in my life either. Or maybe those memories of grade school lunches...
Aug 13, 2014
There may be no parent who keeps a better eye on West Ashley’s middle schools than Tamara Avery. Avery, a mother of three, has already moved her family once to make sure her then-kindergarten-aged son could get into Drayton Hall like all the kids he grew up with in...
