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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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...
Tecklenburg to Speak to Local Business Community
Last week John Tecklenburg was sworn in as the new mayor of the City of Charleston. It’s the Holy City’s first new mayor in 40 years. Many are excited to hear Tecklenberg’s plan for continuing to keep Charleston not only as a world class city to visit, but also a...
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...
Not in ‘Harmony’
Phone trees and social media lit up across West Ashley last week in response to a national builder asking permission to fill in 5 acres of wetlands near Church Creek. Locals, with the recent memory of the flooding associated with Hurricane Joaquin still floating in...
