Cow Bells Ring, Are you Listening?
Local toy store brings their holiday magic back to West Ashley with miniature Coburg Cows by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer The famous story series about Eloise, a young girl who grew up in the Plaza Hotel in New York has nothing on our local version. Elizabeth...
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Combing the Caw Caw Wilderness
Charleston County Parks is offering a new tour of Caw Caw Interpretive Center as part of this year’s Southeastern Wildlife Expo (SEWE). The Combing the Caw Caw Wilderness Tour will be offered to SEWE participants and the general public on Saturday, Feb. 13 from 1-4:30...
Remembering Joseph M. Harrison
Joseph M. Harrison was “one of the most conspicuous figures in the present-day history of South Carolina.” Quite the description for a man who was born in Norfolk, Virginia in September of 1871. A brief history of Harrison published in the “History of South Carolina”...
‘Centering’ on Avondale
Avondale just got a little bit hotter. Local attorney and developer John Hagerty just paid a bunch of money for a former school at the corner of Sycamore Avenue and Magnolia Road, and is promising to turn it into an “accelerator” for local businesses, both for- and...
All Eyes On West Ashley
Last week was a big week for the future of West Ashley. Not only did the City of Charleston host a public forum discussing the future of the Dupont-Wappoo area, cleverly being called “DuWap,” but newly elected mayor John Tecklenburg spoke to about 120 local...
Mug Shots
January 25 Drunkenness A man riding a bicycle near the intersection of Ashley River and Akers roads called police, saying there was a heavily intoxicated woman in the ditch who couldn’t walk or stand on her own. When police arrived, the woman was sitting on the ground...
Preserving West Ashley’s Water Access
Joe Riley may be gone from public office, but his legacy is living large along the banks of the Ashley River. Riley had for decades fought to preserve public access to the water on his beloved peninsula, carving out parks from the grasp of developers that probably...
Winter In Bloom
It has been a trying season for the beautiful camellias at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. First the 1,000-year floods of October and then an unseasonably warm December, followed by consecutive nights of below freezing temperatures have posed challenges for the...
“Hart” of West Ashley
Roy Hart. This name evokes food memories like no other. If you ask the question: “Do you remember Roy Hart’s?” A discussion will ensue about barbecue, or ham salad sandwiches, or grilled pimento cheese sandwiches, or chili, or milkshakes, or first dates, or gathering...
Mug Shots
January 19 Larceny by false pretenses A young couple from France found themselves without a place to stay after the “Airbnb” apartment they had rented for several days on Verdier Boulevard was padlocked on their arrival. After checking into a local motel, they met...
I'll Be Back
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that there are “no second acts” in American lives. Try telling that to Mark Sanford. Or Robert Ford. Three years ago, former state Sen. Robert Ford (D-Charleston) resigned from the office he’d held for more than 20 years. At the time, he...
