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...
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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...
Free as a Bird Now
West Ashley resident Marc Haley is a man drawn to music and nature. Both have shaped his life. He played guitar as a young man, loves radio, and later became a local disc jockey at 98 WCCG, now known as 98 Rock in South Windemere. But today his favorite music flies...
Center of Care
Brandi Tomberlin wasn’t supposed to live. Doctors gave her a “window” of four to six hours to live as they treated a large blood clot on the left middle cerebral artery in her brain. It looked grim. But that was nine months ago. Since then, it’s seemed like a...
A Couple of Bad Aces
An amateur tennis team based at the St. Andrew’s Parks & Playground facility won a state championship in Aiken over the Memorial Day weekend. Captained by local plumbing and gas contractor Mark Riling, The East Coast Bad Aces defeated a team from Anderson 3-2 to...
The Owls Whist Club
This story is almost 100 years old and a really amazing piece of West Ashley history, but the story begins on the peninsula of Charleston on Feb. 14, 1914. According to the website, the history of the club does not explain why this romantic date was chosen as the time...
Pulling Out All the Stops
Located on the rural end of the Savannah Highway motor mile, out past the Interstate 526 onramps, sits the Melrose Neighborhood. Built in the late 1950s, Melrose’s layout is a mix of urban and rural, with bigger yards and old school working class cinderblock slab...
Driving Force
A major member of West Ashley’s motor mile has put his money where his heart is. For the past 25 years, Tommy Baker has operated some of the most successful car lots and dealership along Savannah Highway. Over that time, Baker’s name has become synonymous for some...
