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Bees Ferry Widening Completed
On Tuesday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held by local politicos to mark the completion of the Bees Ferry Road widening project between Highways 17 and 61. The project, begun in January 2012, was supposed to have been finished in the spring, but weather and...
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...
Successful Tree- Planting Year
10,000 Trees for Charleston, the municipal initiative begun in 2012 to improve livability, reported 80 new trees were planted in West Ashley over the last year. The most recent planting included seven Crepe Myrtles along the median of St. Andrews Boulevard and Old...
A Lifetime of Service Remembered
When Marilla Powell graduated in 1939 from St. Francis Xavier Infirmary Training School for Nurses, she didn’t have orderlies or a cleaning crew to help her take care of patients. “We did everything,” Powell said. Much has changed since Powell’s career as a nurse but...
Badges of Honor, Citizenship
Co-Den Leader Terance Wood led six members from West Ashley’s Webelos Den #7 in a trash pick-up day at Drayton Hall Elementary School this month that bagged as much as 10 pounds of trash. The six Webelos were doing more than showing pride in their community — they...
An Attitude of Optimism
The Optimist Club of West Ashley recently honored seven local students for their strong community involvement and service. The club has been honoring local youth through the national Youth Appreciation program for more than 50 years, as well as hosting annual...
Sticking It to Hunger
This Saturday and Sunday, in celebration of its fifth anniversary in West Ashley, Charleston Community Acupuncture is offering free acupuncture in exchange for a small donation of five or more non-perishable food items that will be donated to the Lowcountry Food Bank...
Photo by Major
“Photo by Major” is stamped on 8x10 glossy photographs preserved in the archives at Ashley River Baptist Church. In October of 1949, the Reverend Robert Wesley Major accepted the position of Pastor at the Ashley River Baptist Church. Reverend Major was called to the...
West Ashley's (un)official Tree
Johns Island may have the Angel Oak. Athens, Ga., may have the “Tree That Owns Itself.” The General Sherman sequoia and drive-through redwoods can call California home. Bahrain’s Tree of Life may be the original site of the Garden of Eden. And, sure, the Avenue of...
MADE IN WEST ASHLEYBirds of a Feather Sew Together
Dealing with your in-laws is something that most people dread. But not sisters-in-law Yana and Jennifer Wieckowski. The two West Ashley residents have combined decades of sewing experience, attention to detail, and creativity in design to form Hemming Birds Boutique,...
