Retail Chain Donates to Local School
Burlington, which recently opened back up in West Ashley, makes $5,000 donation to Stono Park Elementary from Staff Reports For more than 30 years, Burlington Coat Factory was a fixture in the Ashley Landing Shopping Center on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard, until that...
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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...
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,...
