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Bringing Joy To The Classroom
For Lisa Trott, this year’s Charleston County School District Teacher of the Year, it’s all about bringing “joy” into the classroom Trott teaches fourth grade at the Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary, and is twice a National Board certified teacher. Thankfully,...
The Opening of Graham AME
A Dedication Service was held for the newly remodeled Graham African Methodist Episcopal Church on April 26, 1976. It was a Sunday afternoon. A program had been prepared for the service, which included a history of the church prepared by Diane Hamilton. An updated...
The Fool On Every Corner
Whether battling valiantly from behind the enemy lines of his dive-bar-underground past or blowing the doors off sold-out theaters as he’s done with Drive- By Truckers for the last decade, Mike Cooley has proved his mettle time and time again. He’s rock ‘n’ roll...
The Feast of St. John
In northeast Brazil, June is a time to celebrate a successful corn harvest, express gratitude for the rainy season as it draws to a close, and recognize the Feast of St. John. There’s dancing, music, fireworks, bonfires, paper parachute balloons, and many corn...
A Recycled Beer?
A friend who read last week’s column on Stone Levitation Ale posed the query and response: “why is low-gravity beer desirable again? Gimmie Stone’s Ruination or Arrogant Bastard or the Smoked Porter any day.” To which I responded something to the effect that brewing...
Home Team ‘Racks’ Up Accolades with Ribs
Charleston has been called many things. The Holy City. Chucktown. Tennis Town, U.S.A. America’s Most Friendliest City. West Ashley has also been called many things that aren’t near as flattering. Well, the snooty ol’ peninsula can keep its nicknames, because West...
With A Watchful Eye
Charleston County assistant administrator Jim Armstrong hasn’t been afforded the luxury of looking in the rear-view mirror of his 25-year career in the County’s Public Works and Transportation Departments. The job of planning the transportation infrastructure for a...
Heaven Can Wait … And So Can That Text
Sometimes, it takes hearing a mom’s pain before a teen can pay attention. Recently, local mom Latonia Wine told students at West Ashley High School the pain she feels after her 29-year-old daughter died while using a cellphone and driving. Her daughter had been trying...
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...
Documenting the History of West Ashley
In 1670, the English ship Carolina brought colonists to the west bank of the Ashley River. These settlers and their descendants built a flourishing plantation life in what became St. Andrew’s Parish, which is modern day West Ashley. The Civil War devastated the...
