Taking Big Strides
St. Andrew’s track team makes strong showing at state, regional meets, qualifying 8 for nationals by Lorne Chambers | Editor In 2019 St. Andrew’s Parks & Playground (SAPP) started its track program with just a handful of enthusiastic young athletes. In 2020, just...
MORE NEWS
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...
Never Again, Never Forget
Raoul Wallenberg was said to have helped save the lives of close to 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis and fascists during World War II. Katherine Goldstein Prevost’s life was not one of them. But, she’ll tell you, she was lucky. Prevost was in her early 20s when...
Repaying The Debt
West Ashley will once again open its collective heart on Friday for a local firefighter who was severely injured in the line of duty earlier this year. “Concert for Kingery” will run from 7 p.m. until midnight at the Kickin’ Chicken at 1179 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. It...
Recycle. Reduce. Reuse. Re-Trend!
Re-Trend, a nomadic clothing swap started by local fashionista Lindsey Chambers (also this newspaper’s sales manager) will be setting up shop from 5-8 p.m. this Sunday, Aug. 17 at the Tin Roof in West Ashley. “It’s a fun way to keep your closet fresh, cute, and unique...
