Pushing Westward
City Offices Moving to West Ashley by Matt Poust | Contributing Writer More than 100 residents attended the first public meeting on Monday, Aug. 25, where City of Charleston Mayor William Cogswell introduced his plans to bring government offices to West Ashley. The...
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West Ashley Flashback — Going Back To School
August is the month where the freedom of summer vacation fun turns to back-to-school preparation. Today there are many schools involved in the education of the students living in West Ashley. But step back to the 1930s and the main school for many of the students in...
Mug Shots
July 31 | SIMPLE ASSAULT At approximately 1 a.m. an officer responded to an Ashley River Road bar in response to a physical altercation between a male and female. The female’s friend said they were at the bar when she and her friend were approached by the suspect and...
From Hoop Dreams to Community Leader
Born and raised in West Ashley, Odell Cleveland was a star basketball player at Middleton High School when they won the State Championship in 1977. He then went on to become captain of the National Champion Division II University of South Carolina at Spartanburg (now...
Honoring a Local Legend
Dave Spurlock has been the athletic thread that has held together Charleston County schools for more than four decades and he is a coaching legend in West Ashley. Spurlock retired in June, but his impact is still felt all over the county and especially in West Ashley...
Mug Shots
July 20 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Police responded to the food court at Citadel Mall, where a woman said her coworker pulled a pocketknife on her and threatened to kill her if she called police. Apparently, the man’s open-hand slapping of the woman in the back of the head...
Clearing A Path
West Ashley’s livability and traffic problems just got three steps closer to improving, or took two steps closer to disaster last week, depending on who you ask. Charleston County Council defeated a measure to place a referendum for a 25-year, $2 billion local sales...
Repairing The Rift
Work is underway to close the rift in City Council that stretches all the way to West Ashley. Two weeks ago, City Councilmen Bill Moody and Keith Waring responding to criticism submitted a letter to the Post and Courier that detailed their ongoing concerns with the...
A Real Iron Man
Adam Gorlitsky may have crossed the finish line nearly three hours after the race began, and riding in a golf cart, but he was surely the biggest winner of last week’s Run the Landing race at Charles Towne Landing. Gorlitsky, paralyzed from the waist down for the...
Ladybugs Flying Free at Magnolia
Hundreds of smiling children will scatter throughout Magnolia Plantation and Gardens on Saturday, July 23 to launch 150,000 ladybugs skyward during the Lowcountry’s largest release of the environmentally friendly insect. The Third Annual Ladybug Release will begin at...
Famous Charleston Recipes from St. Andrew’s Center
In 1961 St Andrews Center published “Famous Charleston Recipes from St. Andrew’s Center.” On the first page it was stated that this book was “A Gift” and not for sale. Not only no charge but no obligation to purchase. “We hope you will use it to your advantage and in...
