Middleton Lights Up The Night
Historic gardens take on a new glow from Feb. 6-22 from Staff Reports This month only, you can explore the Middleton Place Gardens at night in a rare opportunity to experience America’s Oldest landscaped gardens in a whole new light. Visitors can embark on a...
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Miss South Carolina 1958
Gene Lenoir Wilson was the Charleston Civitan nominee to the Miss Charleston pageant held on June 23 of 1958. The 5 foot 7 1/2 inch brunette lived with her parents on Colleton Drive in Byrnes Downs. The beauty also had talent. She began expressing her singing voice at...
Welcome to West Ashley 2.0
It’s 8:18 p.m. Friday night and the last of a line of subcontractor vans is leaving Rutherford Way, the cut through road connecting the Essex and Carolina Bay neighborhoods. Workers throw trash into rented dumpsters in the yard of one of many uncompleted homes along...
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program Saved By Local Donor
Less than a week after Big Brothers Big Sisters announced its closing, a significant contribution from an anonymous local donor came in. This investment will allow BBBS to keep its doors open and continue to offer support services to all 114 of its existing matches...
ELLE Gives Lava More Love
For the second year in a row, West Ashley-based Lava Salon was named to fashion, beauty, and lifestyle magazine ELLE’s annual list of Top 100 salon in the United States. Located in the Avondale business district, Lava joins the prestigious list as one of two salons...
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 off to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
West Ashley’s Music Man
On December 12, 1941, the students of St. Andrew’s Parish High School performed Blitzkrieg - A Musical Revue under the direction of their faculty advisor, E. Bernard Hester. This was just the first of Hester’s many musicals. Known to his students as “Fess,” short for...
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 off to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
Unclaimed Dry Cleaning To Find New Homes
Each year, Low Country Laundry & Dry Cleaners in West Ashley cleans out all of the clothing that has not been picked up by customers in over a year. The Aged Inventory Sale began Monday, July 20 and will run until 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 25. All unclaimed...
WEST ASHLEY'S MOST WANTED
Attention West Ashley residents: Be on the lookout for the following businesses. As part of the 2015 Summer Double Issue, West Of is highlighting 16 Most Wanted businesses in West Ashley. Every one of these businesses has an extensive record. Consider them armed with...
To Destroy Is To Create
Two West Ashley shopping centers are getting improvements, one via its destruction. After years of handwringing, letters, threats, and fines, demolition crews finally attacked the moribund Church Creek Plaza at the corner of Parsonage Road and Hwy. 61. Big, heavy,...
