A Cut Above
Area business helps raise money for hometown hero from Staff Reports Drew Leilich, Founder and President of Carolina Exterminating, in West Ashley, is calling on the local community to support one of West Ashley’s unsung heroes—Rick Fowler, a longtime resident and...
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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...
The Hunt For The South Windermere Scrapbook
It all started with a statement made in passing during an interview with Julian Keil about his knowledge of the beginnings of South Windermere. Julian and his wife Barbara purchased their lot in the new West Ashley neighborhood of South Windermere in 1953. W.L. Riggs...
And So it Begins …
The first phase of construction of the Ashley River Bridge bike and pedestrian lane began last Friday. Charleston County spokesperson Shawn Smetana said earlier that day that construction of the first phase, enhancements to the new dedicated left turn lane onto...
Mug Shots
February 7 | Criminal domestic violence An Ashley River Road woman told police that she and her husband got into a fight over past relationship troubles when he became “enraged” and pushed her into their tub and struck her in the face several times. The woman had a...
Where the wild things REALLY are
All the visitors clad in fluorescent orange and camouflage crowding downtown to ogle pricy paintings of wildlife this week should just come to West Ashley and see nature up close and personal. You can just about name it, when it comes to animals, and West Ashley’s...
