Taking Big Strides
St. Andrew’s track team makes strong showing at state, regional meets, qualifying 8 for nationals by Lorne Chambers | Editor In 2019 St. Andrew’s Parks & Playground (SAPP) started its track program with just a handful of enthusiastic young athletes. In 2020, just...
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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...
The Recipe For Success
David Lowe is probably the only South Carolinian regularly driving to Miami and other southern port of calls, carrying gallons of Key West limejuice in the back of a Suburban. But unlike the trucker who drives his rig into the Pacific with a load of coconuts in tow,...
Making the Most Of Their Second Chance
Errica Watkins has spent the last two months watching her 10-year-old daughter, Sylvia, heal and get closer and closer to being her old self. In November, Watkins, who owns Bashful Boutique in the Avondale Point business district, gave one of her kidneys to Sylvia,...
WAHS Admin Wins Statewide Award
Looks like the West Ashley High School has another award to be very proud of. Recently, the South Carolina Association of School Administrators named Andre Dukes as its 2014 statewide assistant principal of the year. This is Dukes’ first year at WAHS, having just left...
