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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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...
At the Crossroads
A third pedestrian in the past 15 months almost lost his life recently at a West Ashley intersection where the S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) had delayed a safety-improvement project. One city councilman has summed up the reason for the delay as “nuts”. In...
Bringing Joy To The Classroom
For Lisa Trott, this year’s Charleston County School District Teacher of the Year, it’s all about bringing “joy” into the classroom Trott teaches fourth grade at the Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary, and is twice a National Board certified teacher. Thankfully,...
The Opening of Graham AME
A Dedication Service was held for the newly remodeled Graham African Methodist Episcopal Church on April 26, 1976. It was a Sunday afternoon. A program had been prepared for the service, which included a history of the church prepared by Diane Hamilton. An updated...
Home Team ‘Racks’ Up Accolades with Ribs
Charleston has been called many things. The Holy City. Chucktown. Tennis Town, U.S.A. America’s Most Friendliest City. West Ashley has also been called many things that aren’t near as flattering. Well, the snooty ol’ peninsula can keep its nicknames, because West...
With A Watchful Eye
Charleston County assistant administrator Jim Armstrong hasn’t been afforded the luxury of looking in the rear-view mirror of his 25-year career in the County’s Public Works and Transportation Departments. The job of planning the transportation infrastructure for a...
Heaven Can Wait … And So Can That Text
Sometimes, it takes hearing a mom’s pain before a teen can pay attention. Recently, local mom Latonia Wine told students at West Ashley High School the pain she feels after her 29-year-old daughter died while using a cellphone and driving. Her daughter had been trying...
