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Jewish Community Center Under Contract
The board of the Jewish Community Center (JCC) announced last week that its Raoul Wallenberg facility has gone under contract and the sale of which will be final in late August. The 50-year-old center going up for sale was first reported here in West Of Last year. The...
To Read or Not to Read?
West Ashley High School principal Lee Runyon announced last week his decision to pull and review one of the novels on the required summer reading list for 9th grade honors English. The award-winning novel, a very modern take on some of the most current issues facing...
Mug Shots
The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left off to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
Miss South Carolina 1958
Gene Lenoir Wilson was the Charleston Civitan nominee to the Miss Charleston pageant held on June 23 of 1958. The 5 foot 7 1/2 inch brunette lived with her parents on Colleton Drive in Byrnes Downs. The beauty also had talent. She began expressing her singing voice at...
No Sugar Coating
What attracts listeners to singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Dave Desmelik tunes is the element of authenticity incorporated in them. There is no sugar coating involved. His songs are not wrapped in false smiles, rather they’re stark and open and tend to settle on...
A Revelation In Style
I have had several beer revelations in my lifetime. I guess revelation number one would have been tasting the great imported beers of Europe. Bass, Guinness, Spaten: wow, flavor! Throw in Sam Adams and Pete’s Wicked too. My next beer revelation was the introduction to...
Welcome to West Ashley 2.0
It’s 8:18 p.m. Friday night and the last of a line of subcontractor vans is leaving Rutherford Way, the cut through road connecting the Essex and Carolina Bay neighborhoods. Workers throw trash into rented dumpsters in the yard of one of many uncompleted homes along...
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program Saved By Local Donor
Less than a week after Big Brothers Big Sisters announced its closing, a significant contribution from an anonymous local donor came in. This investment will allow BBBS to keep its doors open and continue to offer support services to all 114 of its existing matches...
ELLE Gives Lava More Love
For the second year in a row, West Ashley-based Lava Salon was named to fashion, beauty, and lifestyle magazine ELLE’s annual list of Top 100 salon in the United States. Located in the Avondale business district, Lava joins the prestigious list as one of two salons...
MUG SHOTS
The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left off to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
