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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35 Questions for West Ashley
One of the first discussions in the West Ashley Flashback was on perspective. I’ve gained a lot of this while researching the modern history of St. Andrew’s Parish, West Ashley. But mostly what I’ve gained is a list of questions. Each time I meet someone new, fill in...
Writing A New Song
While all the rocks have been turned hundreds of times and the melodies have become inverted to a fray, music still creates the freedom, expression, and escape that makes our world continue to search for innovation. From a man who originally set out to play jazz...
A Farm Fresh Idea
Stephanie Chambliss, 25, wants what’s best for West Ashley, and as such she’s running a petition drive for a new farmers’ market here. On Change.org, Chambliss has garnered 325 signatures asking City of Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. to bring another market to...
Call of the Wild
Endangered red wolves, which used to roam wild in these parts, have found a second home in West Ashley. In this case, a newly minted habitat located at Charles Towne Landing. In olden days, red wolves, so called due to their distinctive head and legs coloring, roamed...
Heart like a Lion
West Ashley resident Laura Deaton possesses a generous, honest spirit. Deaton is compelled to reach out to help, whether it’s a child who learns to swim, a dog in dire straits, or protecting native wildlife species. Her stellar record of service rises from the...
2013 West Of Almanac
This year's West Of Almanac is all about growing, gardening and American Gothic. Check out gardening tips from the Charleston Horticultural Society and see what West Ashley businesses are going out of their way to support the local economy. 2013 West of Almanac
The Girl with the Silver Thimble
Sigrid Rothchild is what you might call a clothing anthropologist. A graduate in Art History from the College of Charleston, Rothchild enjoys applying her seamstress skills not only to the everyday alterations and adjustments that make up her day to day business, but...
This Too Shall Pass
About this time next year, traffic will flow like poetic water along Bees Ferry Road, as county roadway widening projects there will have been completed, and the City of Charleston’s “circle” that borders it will also be finished. Well, “probably” by this time next...
Middleton Place Hosts Naturalization Ceremony
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness….” Those words, drawn from the Declaration of...
Fortitude: A Musician Rises
Despite a formidable start in life, local musician Daniel Walker has risen to life’s greatest challenges. “Pain can break you, or take you places you never imagined,” says Walker. “It’s how you roll with the punches that matters.” The nightmarish grist that could have...
