Wildcats Taking Big strides in 2021
WAHS football team aims to build off last year’s success by Lorne Chambers | Editor Expectations are high at West Ashley High School for the 2021 football season. The energy is electric around this team for the first time in school history. Last year marked the first...
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Former Middleton, WAHS Coach Dies
Jim Werden died last Thursday night of an apparent heart attack at the age of 64. Werden was a football coach in the West Ashley area for nearly 30 years, including 26 seasons at Middleton High School and later three at the newly-formed West Ashley High School. Werden...
The Yarn Lady
West Ashley resident Robin Tannenbaum is a very fortunate woman. She’s innately creative. Born in Elmont, New York to Eve and Bernie Bleicher, Tannenbaum was about 8 years old when she spied a basic how-to-knit book in a store. An only child, whose friends lived on...
THE GRAND DEBATE
An unexpected surprise came to the February 6 City Board of Zoning Appeals – Site Design meeting when several West Ashley residents showed up to express concern over a request to receive a variance allowing for the removal of 20 Grand Trees for an apartment complex development in the works at 1885 Ashley River Road.
A LIFE WELL LIVED
The Lowcounry lost a legend last month, with the passing of Greenhill Road neighborhood matriarch and entreprenuer Virginia “Evie” Smalls. Smalls passed away at the age of 87. Smalls' life was a life well-lived. Since “Evie,” as she was lovingly called, was born back...
MEMORIES OF MAGNOLIA
Fifty-four-year-old Isaac Leach walks back to the cabin he was raised in on the grounds of Magnolia Plantation. “This place never gets old,” he says, looking around at the Spanish moss dripping from live oaks. The scent of camellias that Leach has spent his life...
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
Stepping onto the grounds at Magnolia Plantation is like stepping back into time. Giant live oaks sprawl over the landscape with hushed memories of the Antebellum South. Bright pink camellias bloom around every corner. The plantation’s striking beauty captivates...
