Local Track & Field Stars Shine on the Big Stage
Four St. Andrew’s Parks & Playground athletes head to Oregon for the National Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships from Staff Reports It was another great year for the St. Andrew’s Parks & Playground track and field team. It had approximately 70 boys and girls,...
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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...
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,...
