Following In Father’s Footsteps
Five West Ashley businesses share their experiences carrying on the family legacy by Lorne Chambers | Editor West Ashley has deep roots. And a lot of them come from strong family trees that spread throughout our community and into our local businesses. Mom and Pop...
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Old Flames
Infrastructure. The word doesn’t evoke the same warm community emotion as planting trees, landscaping neighborhoods, building schools, establishing service clubs or putting the spires on churches. But the basic infrastructures of fire service, police protection,...
Something Wicket This Way Comes
Understanding what’s happening during a cricket match doesn’t get any easier when everyone is yelling alternately in Hindi and Bengali and Punjabi. Or Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Bihladi, or Manipuri. The air is full of Indian languages and cricket balls nearly every...
Grain In Focus
What was life like for enslaved African Americans on a Lowcountry rice plantation at harvest time? For more than a decade the interpretive staff at Middleton Place has recreated the experience of planting, caring for, harvesting and processing the heritage-breed...
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...
