Set In Stone
Great-granddaughter of the builder of Savannah Highway’s historic “Stone House” honors her Appalachian roots through music by Bertha Booker | Contributing Writer Local musician Lane Gregory’s small Avondale cottage is built in what she likes to call the “Lowcountry...
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West Ashley Nets a Champ
Some might think that it’s time Brian Burke to slow down, and stop winning national championships. Nope. Burke, 40, and his wife not only just welcomed home his second child, but he also finished up a tough year as the general manager trying to makeover St. Andrews...
Building West Ashley’s Future
By next Christmas, the Charleston County School District will likely be ready to throw open the doors on a “new” K-5 elementary school in West Ashley — St. Andrew’s School for Math and Science. Drive by its construction site at its longtime address on Chadwick Dr. in...
West Ashley Innovation
From the moment the boat landed at Albemarle point, the name for the area where Charles Towne Landing is located, entrepreneurship has been in action. The explosion of plantation life and wealth that happened within 50 years of the landing and continued until the...
The Missing Piece
This week, the Charleston County Legislative Delegation, made up of 14 state representatives and six state senators, will select the newest member of the county’s School Board. For the second time in two years, a West Ashley boardmember has stepped down, leaving a...
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...
