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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Every House Has a Story
“Housing Problem More Acute Here” ran the headline in the Sunday edition of The News and Courier in November of 1942. Many of the young families living in the area after World War II felt this acute problem. Camilla Blanton and her husband Samuel “Red” Blanton had...
2016 Westie Awards
It’s hard not to recognize that we’re on the verge of a new era is West Ashley. Things are turning around for our chunk of Charleston, which had largely been ignored in previous years. But the 70,000 people (and growing) who make up West Ashley cannot be ignored any...
A Reel Good Cause
Usually, when you hear the name “Comen” associated with a cancer charity, you think it’s spelled with a “K.” Not this time. Kyle Comen, the owner of the new South Side Bait and Tackle located on Savannah Highway near Dodge’s Chicken, is turning the store’s grand...
Mug Shots
March 1 Criminal domestic, simple assault A Parkdale Drive woman told police her husband physically assaulted her by throwing her to the floor and drug her by her ankles across the living room floor after she confronted him about his drug use. Her daughter came into...
The Secret Lives of Bill Walsh
Known by most folks around the Lowcountry as Chief Meteorologist Bill Walsh for WSCS Channel 5, but the mild-mannered TV personality has a couple sides to him that many viewers may not be aware of. In addition to being a two-time Emmy Award winner and five-time Telly...
Whole Foods is Coming to West Ashley
“Well, the secret is finally out,” said Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg, a West Ashley resident, at the announcement last week that Whole Foods will open a new location on Savannah Highway. After months of speculation of where the upscale organic and natural gourmet...
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...
Rebuild or Renovate
Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg has joined the chorus of voices in West Ashley calling for the county school district to rebuild, not just renovate, Stono Park Elementary. Last week, Tecklenburg, a West Ashley resident, appeared before the Charleston County School...
A Trip Across The Pond
Most 9 and 10-year olds make toy boats and sail them proudly down the creek behind their house or in the pond down the street. But a group of 4th graders at St. Andrew’s School of Math & Science sailed a boat across the pond … The Big Pond … the large, volatile,...
Mug Shots
February 15 | Aggravated assault Police responded to a report of an assault at a Tobias Gadson Boulevard healthcare office. When an officer arrived, he spotted a man and a woman in a car, where it was “clear a struggle was ensuing.” The officer reported the man was...
