Timbo Comes Back From the Brink
Community shows support for beloved West Ashley boiled peanut man by Bill Davis | News Editor It just rained and Tim “Timbo” Grainger is placing both of his hands on the handrail to help guide himself, one step at a time, down from his 52-year-old orange trailer on...
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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...
Father’s Best Friend
My name is Bernie, I’m a West Ashley resident, and this is my true story. When I was just a pup, the two-leggeds who first took me couldn’t keep me in their dwelling, because pets weren’t allowed. Meanwhile, I grew weak, because the food was crap, even for a dog. On...
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...
