Council Sinks Plans for the Dead Pig
Former Piggly Wiggly site remains a slab of concrete after City Council fails to pass development plan by Jenny Peterson | Staff Writer Getting anything done by consensus in West Ashley has been a struggle.” That line, said by Charleston City council member Peter...
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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...
Giving It Up for Avondale
Lava Salon co-owner Geoff Richardson has been called many things: hairdresser, husband, father, the unofficial Mayor of Avondale, arts booster, Airstream enthusiast, and involved citizen. Mostly, as many who know him best will tell you: he’s nuts. Never able to focus...
Goodbye, John Graham
West Ashley lost one of its most iconic, if not iconoclastic, sons when John Graham Altman III died last week at age 79. Graham had reportedly been in declining health for the past few years. Until then, he had been many things: a liberal, a conservative, a lawyer, a...
