West Ashley Year-In-Review 2023
After two years of being in a pandemic-induced funk, West Ashley got its groove back in 2023 by Jenny Peterson | Staff Writer Leading into 2024, West Of Free Press took a look back at some of West Ashley’s biggest announcements, news, and shakeups from 2023. What lies...
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A New Chapter
Lovers of the Charleston County library located in South Windermere have spoken: “leave us be.” Sunday, County Councilman Colleen Condon and Janet Segal, chair of the board of trustees for the county library system, met with more than 60 area residents to discuss...
Where the Wild Things Run
Where do wild things run? At Caw Caw Interpretive Center in Ravenel. The Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission (CCPRC) hosts its third annual Where the Wild Things Run on Saturday, April 26. This 5K is another in a series of trail runs offered this year...
Returning to Pleasure Grove
In 1916 Rene Ravenel surveyed a tract of land along the Ashley River known as the “Crafts Tract” for Joe Harrison. Included on the survey were four structures. One of these structures was to become Harrison’s home, but first it would need renovation from its previous...
‘Living Better Than It Presents’
City officials and local experts met last week in a downtown third-floor conference room to begin planning the future of West Ashley — and not just Citadel Mall. Called by the present Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., and prompted by five City Councilmen representing this...
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....
