West Ashley’s ‘Palace’
Proposed convention center could sharply improve inside 526 by Bill Davis | News Editor It is hard for a reporter to describe D.E. “Jimmy” Palassis’s plan to build a massive hotel/convention center in West Ashley without making a “palace” pun. This thing is going to...
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It’s In The Bag
Starting this year, half of the Center for Women’s ‘Brown Bag Lunch Series’ will be held in West Ashley. The programs are educational seminars with a networking element. They are open to the public and topics vary each session, but are designed for help with your...
Neighborhoods Networking, Reworking
There has been a real resurgence in neighborhood association business for the past few years surrounding Avondale Point, thanks in part to the dual-edged sword of progress. Katherine Anderson welcomed scores of her Avondale neighbors into her home Wednesday evening to...
Countdown to 500
Sitting on 498 wins, West Ashley High School boy’s varsity coach Ronnie DuPre knows how loud to yell at his latest team in practice Thursday. Not very. Instead, DuPre focuses on teaching, redirecting during multiple whispered interactions with his teen players, who...
Avondale Restaurant Week Returns
If you didn't get enough discounted meals during Charleston Restaurant Week, don't worry. For the last couple years, immediately following the semi-annual “foodie-friendly” event held by The Charleston Restaurant Association, the businesses of Avondale Point host...
Coffee With a Cop
The Charleston Police Department will host an informal drop-in at the Savannah Highway Chic-fil-A Wednesday, Jan. 22, beginning at 8 a.m. The event dovetails with similar series of nationwide events whose intent is to improve relationships between police officers and...
Looking For the Best of the West
West Of, West Ashley’s weekly community newspaper, is out to honor a handful of people who’ve made the biggest, positive effect in our part of town this past year. But to think that we here at West Of know about all the good being done out there in West Ashley is...
West Ashley One-Liners
“Perspective”, “Bits and Pieces”, “Questions” - these are some of the working titles for previous West Ashley Flashback columns. Periodically it becomes necessary to relate the progress made while researching the modern history of St. Andrew’s Parish, West Ashley,...
Coming Home
Northbridge resident Glenn McConnell has been a great many things over the past three decades. A state senator, president of the state senate, chair of a powerful legislative committee, national political party delegate, county political party chair, movie actor,...
Bygones be Bygones
Despite objections, the old DuPont Crossing Vegetable Market was completely torn down last week. Big snorting machines finally moved last week on the old DuPont Crossing Vegetable Market (aka Limehouse Produce vegetable shed), reducing the massive structure to rubble...
WAHS Student Earns Award
A West Ashley High School freshman just won a prestigious award, beating out a host of students from around the Tri-county area. The Charleston Chapter of the American Council for the Blind named WAHS’ Zachary Waterman as its very first recipient of the Richard...
