The ‘Heart and Soul’ of Charleston
County breaks ground on scenic Old Towne Creek Park in West Ashley from Staff Reports The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission (CCPRC) broke ground on Old Towne Creek County Park on Tuesday, April 25 for Phase 1 Development of this West Ashley site. “We...
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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...
Biking St. Andrew’s Parish
“A Wheelmen’s Retreat. A Club House In St. Andrew’s Parish For the Cyclists” is an intriguing headline from the January 4, 1897 edition of The News and Courier discovered while researching “Pleasure Grove” (the subject of a future West Ashley Flashback). A few months...
West Of Year in Review 2013
From the hotly debated District 41 seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives to community gardens, the tentative state of Citadel Mall and the Christmas gift of a new park, 2013 has been an exciting, contentious and memorable year. Take a look back with the...
A Green Christmas
Christmas may have come a week early in West Ashley, after City Council this week discussed creating a new waterfront park along the banks of the Ashley, a project that could tie together public access to the river and several other chunks of public land. Charleston...
