A New Life for the Dead Pig
Plan for former Piggly Wiggly site is finally starting to take shape by Bill Davis | News Editor Sometime this month, Charleston City Council is supposed to vote on turning over the redevelopment of the former Piggly Wiggly site, a 2-plus acre swath of concrete and...
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Feed Me Seymour!
This week the Drama Studio of West Ashley High School (WAHS) presents the classic comedic musical Little Shop of Horrors. The cast, featuring more than 70 advanced drama students, plus members of the Travel Cats, a percussion segment of the school band, stages the...
Not Your Average Camper
Talk to Phil Burke for more than five minutes about the best way to mold the lives of young kids, and you start to doubt that his last name really isn’t “O’Sopher.” As in “Phil O’Sopher.” On top of being the director of tennis programs at the St. Andrews Parks &...
Sign, Sealed, Delivered
The list of a community’s defining features would include churches, schools, stores, homes, and a post office. The ability to send and receive mail has always been a key element in the growth of a community and the way its people stay connected. The first St. Andrew’s...
Money ‘Parks’ Two Parks
If there’s one place that needs a facelift, it is the proposed site of the Northbridge Park just on the West Ashley side of the Cosgrove Bridge. But that facelift, along with one for a proposed park in the Ashleyville Neighborhood, may have to wait an extra year...
The Magic Of Giving
Recently Wonder Works, the locally owned toys and game shop with a location in St. Andrews Shopping Center, was named the Small “For Profit” Business of the Year by the coastal chapter of SCORE, a local chapter of a national organization providing free business advice...
Lean on Me
In 2001, West Ashley resident Jo Carson strolled the beach with her husband, Larry, after finishing chemotherapy, and quietly gathered white oyster shells. “I’ll make an angel out of these,” she thought. Little did she know the shells would lead far beyond a healing...
Sam Ritt’s Changing Face
For decades, Sam Rittenberg Boulevard has been the main commercial jugular of West Ashley. But, according to local officials, experts, and observers, its economic dominance is now being threatened by a host of challenges: * cyclical national economic realities,...
Race The Landing
If you were in Charles Towne Landing last Thursday, the woosh-woosh-wooshes you heard weren’t cannonballs of yore tearing by, but a record turnout for a race series, Race for the Landing. According to race publicity chairman Bob Seidler, close to 300 runners took part...
March of Love
Students at Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School in West Ashley are welcoming the community to come May 17 and march for a “princess of smiles” who needs a live kidney transplant. “The March for Mary Ashley” will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the school, and will...
Shrimp and Quinoa
Black Bean Company 1529 Savannah Hwy. www.blackbeanco.com With in the next couple weeks Black Bean Co. will open its newest restaurant in West Ashley in an old Burger King location along Savannah Highway. The location is appropriate as owner/chef Ellis Grossman is...
