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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...
Gary Fest at Wolftrack Inn
This Sunday, June 16, The Wolftrack Inn will play host to a special fundraiser for a local man who is battling cancer. Friends of Gary Geer have chipped in to create "Gary Fest," featuring the comedic musical stylings of West Ashley's own Tuba Jim & Roy along with...
How Low Can Ya’ Go?
I know in recent weeks I have been trumpeting the horns of many big time beers. Double IPAs, Old Ales, a crazy curry Imperial Stout. There are some wild and wooly and strong beers on the shelves. But I want to again praise the continued trend of the craft beer that’s...
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...
