The 10th Annual Westie Awards
Honoring Those Who Have Made West Ashley Better over the last 10 Years This year’s Westie Awards are brought to you by the letter “P.” Why you ask? We don’t really know other than it seem to fit when we started listing things that have moved West Ashley in a positive...
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We Lose our Moose, Voodoo is Forced to Cast a New Spell
Local couple Mike & Jen Kulick are forced to close one of their West Ashley restaurants while cautiously reopening their other one by Lorne Chambers | Editor Since opening Voodoo Tiki Bar & Lounge in 2004, West Ashley couple Mike and Jen Kulick have been...
Vegging Out — A Gathering of Goodness
West Ashley’s The Gathering Café is one of the area’s best choices for plant-based diets I had such good intentions for the weeks I would spend in homebound quarantine. Finally, I would have time for self-improvement. I would work on that novel. I would learn to play...
Gearing Up For 2021
West Ashley Center for Advanced Studies names its first principal at new school set to open in Fall 2021 from Staff Reports Charleston County School District (CCSD) announced this week that Dale Metzger is principal of the new West Ashley Center for Advanced Studies...
West Ashley Flashback: Pieces of the Parish, Part 10
Remembering the early days of St. Andrew’s Parish Part 10 (can you believe it) of this who-knows-how-many-part series where I have started at the beginning of the journals/milk crates/digital information and shared random small tidbits gathered over the last 12 plus...
The 10th Annual Westie Awards
Honoring Those Who Have Made West Ashley Better over the last 10 Years This year’s Westie Awards are brought to you by the letter “P.” Why you ask? We don’t really know other than it seem to fit when we started listing things that have moved West Ashley in a positive...
Ethically Correct
West Ashley High Philosophy Club takes 1st place at Ethics Bowl by Donnie Newton | Contributing Writer West Ashley High School competed in the South Carolina High School Ethics Bowl at Wofford recently and came in first place! They competed against 18 teams from 12...
Future Wildcats Get a Taste of WAHS
Annual event gives local elementary and middle schoolers a chance to see what high school is all about by Donnie Newton | Contributing Writer According to author Mitch Albom, it is important to “devote yourself to your community around you and to devote yourself to...
West Ashley’s Grass is Blue
7th annual Bluegrass Festival returns to the Woodlands Nature Preserve with some of the biggest names in the business from Staff Reports There has been a noticeable leap in star power for the seventh annual Charleston Bluegrass Festival held Friday, March 20 and...
Art Matters — A Conversation with Gale Ray
Artist actively painting, retired weaver and faux finish painter Describe your work I capture passages and pathways, both manmade and in nature by painting landscapes and sculpting and making paintings of shells. Current project Making pottery based on shells that I...
A Tale of Two Stores
South Windermere Earth Fare says good-bye while Harris Teeter says hello to West Ashley Circle by Lorne Chambers | Editor Not too long ago, much of West Ashley bordered on being designated a “food desert,” according to federal officials. A big swath of 29407 and 29414...
