The Future of the Auto Mile
What’s in store for West Ashley’s long stretch of car dealerships? by Bill Davis | News Editor Which way is West Ashley’s “Auto Mile” headed? On one hand, over a hundred acres of dealership parking lots could shrink and be repurposed for other commercial uses as...
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Winterfest is Coming
It’s beginning to look a lot like … a great time for a community-wide holiday street party! This weekend, Saturday, Dec. 14, from noon until 6 p.m., the second annual Avondale Holiday Winterfest will welcome everyone to its shops and streets and tables for a day of...
A Stroke of Nostalgia
On its surface, Mark Beale’s award-winning painting, “Creekside Dusk,” is simply a riverbank backlit by the setting sun. And he did such a fine job of it, it recently won a major local art award. Last week Beale was awarded a $3,000 first-prize from an art contest,...
Stavrinakis Honored
The Maritime Association of South Carolina honored West Ashley resident and state Rep. Leon Stavrinakis (D) recently as its Legislator of the Year for 2013. The organization gave Stavrinakis the award for his work on securing bipartisan funding for the Port of...
A Bumper Crop
Thanks to West Ashley High School’s refocused academic structure, the school’s athletic class of 2014 is turning out to be one for the record books. This year, for the first time in anyone’s memory, there are already five student-athletes who have signed national...
A Safe Route To School
Last week, students, parents, teachers at Stono Elementary School celebrated the culmination of a eight-year-long project involving poured concrete during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new sidewalk that sits along its front on Garden Street. According to...
Happy National Recycling Day
It just got a little bit lonelier for trash at the Bees Ferry Landfill, thanks to the good work of the Charleston County Environmental Management Office. Last week, as part of the national annual America Recycles Day, county officials collected more than 5,200 items...
The Original Social Network
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. These are the conduits of modern social networking. Jump back a few decades (maybe 5 or 6) and the newspaper was the main conduit to get information about the social workings of the community. The News & Courier, Charleston Evening...
Putting The Lowcountry First
One of Charleston’s biggest local business boosters, Jamee Haley, calls West Ashley home, and thinks parts of this neck of the woods holds the perfect balance of local and national stores. For the past six years Haley, a native of Tulsa, Okla., has spearheaded...
SEED-ing the Future
This weekend, assembly began on a shed that will be the first cornerstone in the growing Magnolia-Sycamore Community Vegetable Garden. Led by Clemson architecture professor David Pastre, who teaches classes downtown at the Charleston Architecture Center, students and...
Rooting For The Home Team
Home Team BBQ Owner and Pitmaster Aaron Siegel was presented with area non-profit Operation Home’s annual “Kris Basala Person of the Year “award at a special ceremony during the annual fundraiser Drum It Up event on October 20, 2013. The Basala Award is in honor of...
