A Labor of Love
West Of’s founder looks back on two decades of publishing West Ashley’s newspaper by Lorne Chambers | Editor I bought my first house right here in West Ashley when I was 25 years old. It was a small two-bedroom, one-bath cinderblock ranch off Wappoo Road that sat on a...
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Mug Shots
July 12 | BREAKING AND ENTERING Citadel Mall security cameras caught on video a man attempting to pry open a kiosk business’ safe with a yellow-tipped crowbar. The man and two apparent accomplices jumped a semi-secured part of the mall after hours, and attempted...
Backpedaling To The Future
Just riding a bicycle from the neighborhood right behind the West Ashley Mellow Mushroom to the base of the Legare Bridge to take the front-page picture for this story is a downright nightmare. Even at 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, well after standard rush hours have...
Continuing A Legacy
This month, the Charleston Friends of the Library present its second book sale of the year with a special tribute to Charleston County Public Librarian Cynthia Hurd, who worked for years at the St. Andrew’s Branch Library in West Ashley. Hurd was among the nine...
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...
Primary Objective
Local voters have four choices of which flavor of Republican candidate they want to replace the retiring state Sen. Paul Thurmond in the Statehouse. Because no Democrat candidate emerged to run for the District 41 seat, June 14 Republican primary will be the de facto...
Service Above Self
“If you ever feel like you are losing faith in the youth in America today, I recommend that you serve on [St. Andrew’s Rotary Club] Scholarship Committee,” said Shawn Flannigan, who is vice chairman of the Scholarship Committee for the West Ashley-based civic group....
Memories That Can’t Be Extinguished
Infrastructure. The word doesn’t evoke the same warm community emotion as planting trees, landscaping neighborhoods, building schools, establishing service clubs, or putting the spires on churches. But the basic infrastructures of fire service, police protection,...
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's Art Scene Evolves
It looks like everyone wants to get into the act, as several local groups have joined with City Hall’s recent effort to expand and strengthen arts programming in West Ashley. For years, the Charleston arts’ spotlight has been trained on the peninsula, with its...
Living History Comes To Magnolia
Last weekend visitors to Magnolia Plantation and Gardens experienced history with period-dressed “living historians” as they told stories and presented craft and cooking demonstrations to mark a time when enslaved Africans labored in America. The Slave Dwelling...
