Turning Dirt and Getting Going
City’s West Ashley municipal hub at Ashley Landing is one step closer to reality by Matt Poust | Contributing Writer The 35.5-acre Ashley Landing redevelopment project, which broke ground in May 2025, is steadily advancing through its first phase with major...
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West Ashley Screams
Popular neighborhood haunt is bigger and scarier than ever by Elise Lusk | Contributing Writer Years before West Ashley residents Michael and Karen LaMar ever dreamed of opening a haunted house, they were the family that was famous for their over-the-top Halloween...
Don’t Call it a Comeback
Lowcountry radio legend The Critic makes a triumphant return to the airwaves by Lorne Chambers | Editor Two years ago, longtime local radio fans paid a fond farewell to one of the most beloved radio personalities in the Lowcountry. After nearly 30 years on the air,...
The Giving Tree(s)
West Ashley becomes home to the state’s first food forest by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer There is nothing as delicious as biting into ripe fruit handpicked from a tree. Nothing. I picked fruit one summer as a teenager and remember it like it was yesterday....
Rethinking, Rewriting, Reshaping
Can changing the City of Charleston’s zoning codes help make West Ashley’s corridors more appealing? by Jenny Peterson | News Editor Over the years, residents have often been asked and have long provided input on ways they felt West Ashley could be improved. But in...
A New Chapter for Middleton Place
Visionary museum leader Dana Hand Evans takes the helm at Middleton Place Foundation from Staff Reports Last month, Middleton Place Foundation welcomed Dana Hand Evans as the organization’s new President & CEO. Evans, recognized for her visionary leadership,...
Running For a Cause
West Ashley resident Allie Holland runs marathon for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston by Lorne Chambers | Editor West Ashley resident Allie Holland has been running for as long as she can remember. However, at the end of this year, she will participate in...
Escaping a Personal Prison
Charleston County Coroner’s Office Takes on the Opioid Crisis right here in West Ashley by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer There have been 15 confirmed unintentional drug-related deaths in West Ashley between January and June of this year. The numbers for Charleston...
Honoring our Ancestors
Juneteenth celebrations at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens by Jenny Peterson | News Editor Juneteenth acknowledges the date of June 19, 1865 and the issue of “General Order No. 3,” which informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free. The date...
Demolition Leading to Major Upgrade
Wappoo Road and Savannah Highway intersection improvements break ground by Jenny Peterson | News Editor A post by City of Charleston councilmember Ross Appel, who represents West Ashley, announced an exciting update to West Ashley’s curb appeal—the demolition of a...
The Don of Time
West Ashley pooch celebrates 20th birthday with a huge party and parade by Lorne Chambers | Editor Twenty years is a long time. In dog years, it’s an eternity, an improbability, almost an impossibility. Yet, sometimes, things defy convention. And some dogs deny...
