Make Way for the “CowFartBus”
Orange Grove Charter School goes Green(er) with school bus that runs off renewable natural gas by Jenny Peterson | Staff Writer It's name may be funny, but its mission is sincere. The “CowFartBus” looks exactly like any other school bus at Orange Grove Charter...
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Ending on a High Note
One month and some change. That’s what it has come down to for J. Edward Shealy, the director of bands at West Ashley High School. Shealy is synonymous with marching bands and the West Ashley area. Now after 33 years of teaching music and directing bands, the Maestro...
Full Nelson
When West Of last interviewed young Tyler Nelson in 2012 he was a budding wrestling talent. Wrestling at 55 pounds, Tyler had just won the state title in only his first year of real organized wrestling. People began to notice that Tyler had a knack for the sport, a...
Time Machine … Engaged!
Middleton Place will host a reenactment of U.S. Gen. Nathaniel Greene’s encampment there during the Revolutionary War this weekend. Costumed historians will portray the Continental Army sent here in the fall of 1782 by Greene’s superior officer, Gen. George...
Stuck In The ‘Middle’
All Tamara Avery wants is what’s best for her five-year-old son, Tripp, and if that ends up helping all of West Ashley, then all the better. When it came time to enroll Tripp in kindergarten, Tamara and her husband, a local member of law enforcement, wanted to send...
Breaking Ground
Work crews were busy this week at the Charleston Parks Conservancy Magnolia-Sycamore Community Garden, breaking ground for walking paths. While rain interrupted work a few times, the skeleton of what will be home to over 60 planting beds is beginning to be filled in.
Local Boy Done Good
West Ashleyian Glenn McConnell has been a great many things - businessman, state senator, statesman, lieutenant governor, and now a president. Last week, the College of Charleston board of trustees voted unanimously to hire McConnell as the school’s next president....
Creative Meaning through Literature
Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School welcomed noted author Claudia Cornett to its campus for the public launching of her just-released book, “Creative Meaning through Literature and the Arts.” The book is already used widely by many universities and in other...
New I-526 Plans Throws Residents for a “Loop”
Looks like 526 will, pardon the pun, come “full circle” now that local greenies have voiced support for a design that will allow the embattled roadway to be completed. Under the new plan, a hugely deadly loop-to-loop section will be included, nearly ensuring the...
What’s in a Name?
Bowing to considerable pressure, local politicians are being forced to consider a name-change for West Ashley by local elderly groups who want the area to return a simpler, angrier time. Historically, West Ashley has been known by many names — St. Andrew’s Parish,...
‘Charm’ Finds a New Home
West Ashley will be getting it’s own nationally-broadcast reality television show, thanks in part to the outrageous success the Bravo TV cable channel has enjoyed with “Southern Charm.” Entitled “Worst Ashley Charm,” the show will follow six West Ashlians … Ashleyites...
