A Helping Hand
West Ashley community rises up to assist families impacted by Palms Apartment fire by Jenny Peterson | Contributing Writer It’s been about a month since an early-morning fire tore through The Palms, a West Ashely apartment complex on Feb. 7, destroying five...
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Scratch Up Another “W” For the Wildcats
The West Ashley High School offense looked nearly unstoppable against crosstown rivals James Island Charter High School as they racked up 460 yards in the 23-17 victory. last Friday night at Wildcat Stadium But WAHS had to hold off a scrappy Trojans team that made...
Scooting the Issue
Peninsular Charleston’s problem of striking the right balance between development and quality neighborhoods has really found a home in West Ashley. This week, several neighborhood associations are in full-action mode after they discovered that the owner of the...
Wildcats Make A Statement
After an impressive showing at the Sertoma Classic, the West Ashley High School Wildcats showed last Friday that they are for real. Coming off a one-win season a year ago, WAHS has already matched their win total in just one week. And they did it by routing the...
A West Ashley Homecoming
Urban legends are strong in any community, particularly in situations where there is limited written and validated material. “J.C. Long built Byrnes Downs” is one such urban legend. Some of the particulars of this story are now lost, but occasionally someone comes...
Heavy Meddle
West Ashley resident Charlie Smith may have just succeeded in holding back the hands of time this week when he interrupted a permitted demolition of a piece of West Ashley’s history. Last Thursday, Smith, a local Realtor and preservationist, stopped the demolition of...
Wildcats Shine at Sertoma Classic
West Ashley High School had an all-around successful Sertoma Classic this past Thursday night. Not only did the Wildcat cheerleaders lead all competitors last and captured the coveted Spirit Award, but in the passing competition for the cheerleaders, Maddie Johnson...
Love of Animals
West Ashley resident Claire Boinest was a young girl when her Aunt Jo Fetzer showed up at Christmastime with a cobalt blue box. Inside, there was nothing, but on the outside, caricatures of her aunt’s three dogs were lovingly drawn. The personalized gift remains one...
Getting Centered
There are more wrinkles to the story of West Ashley getting its own senior citizen center than there are wrinkles in Tom Witman’s aging face. For the past five years, Witman, a retired Navy man and president of his local neighborhood association, has been meeting with...
Hot Nights and Holy City
Charleston summers are not for the faint-hearted. To combat the humidity-laden summer malaise, the Middleton Place Restaurant is presenting a new beer dinner. Hot Nights & Holy City will pair summer seasonal beers from Charleston’s Holy City Brewing with summer...
Checking Back Into The Old Town Motor Court
In 2013, Condé Nast Traveler declared that Charleston was the Best City in the World. Everyone knows that tourism is big business in the Lowcountry, but maybe you didn’t know that there was once a group called the “Charleston Colonels” who traveled to promote tourism...
