Heading Back to School
25 years after Middleton and St. Andrew’s merged, alumni try to preserve their identity by Donna Jacobs | Contributing Writer Lights. Camera. Action. Calling all alumni of St. Andrew’s High School (Rocks) and Middleton High School (Razorbacks). You are wanted front...
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Through Their Eyes
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens will present in February the first in a series of demonstrations in 2017 by living historians to vividly depict the contributions of enslaved people before and after the end of chattel slavery. “Living History Through the Eyes of the...
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...
Apartment Fire Displaces Families
At approximately 9:56 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3 the Charleston County Consolidated Dispatch Center received notification of a structure fire at the Palmilla Apartments on Ashley River Road. Emergency responders with Charleston and Saint Andrews Fire Departments,...
Wes Ashley Flashback
Elizabeth Ann McKenzie, known to her friends and family as Betty, smiled at Luther Bootle in front of St. Andrew’s Parish High School on a sunny day during her senior year — 1942/1943. Luther Bootle was the photographer for the school’s yearbook The Pelican. Maybe he...
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...
Now Hear This!
John Dixon is up against some pretty staggering competition. There are more than 50 radio stations, AM and FM, in the Charleston area, and the majority of them are backed by piped-in Internet feeds and big national communications companies. Dixon, though, is just one...
Hospital Celebrates Platinum Anniversary
Bon Secours St. Francis, the national award-winning hospital known for its compassionate care and quality service celebrated its 20th anniversary in West Ashley on Sunday, Jan. 22. Hundreds of Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital teammates and their family members...
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...
West Ashley Flashback — Plugging In to West Ashley’s Past
There are common threads found in the telling of community stories: family moved to Charleston in the 1920s; a young man having to help support the family; an interest in the newest technology; turning a vocation into a life long career that touched the entire...
West Ashley Powers Up
West Ashley has become the center of political power with the recent election of Vic Rawl as the chair of Charleston County Council. Rawl, a former judge who lives in West Ashley, represents the next step in the consolidation of political might in the Charleston area....
