Checking Out
Local icon Doscher’s IGA Grocery Store closing after 48 years in West Ashley by Bill Davis | News Editor All the cashiers are leaning on their elbows this late April afternoon, outnumbering the customers. The top and bottom dry shelves are empty on every aisle. Only...
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A Promise Kept … Nine Years Later
CCSD comes through with new Stono Park Elementary by Bill Davis | News Editor There were more subcontractors doing finishing work at the new Stono Park Elementary at the end of last month than you could shake a stick at. And they were all busting their humps, backs...
A New Era For Wildcats Football
William Wineberg takes the helm at West Ashley High School by Lorne Chambers | Editor Many were surprised this off-season when in-coming principal Ryan Cumback relieved long-time West Ashley High School head football coach Bobby Marion of his duties. None more so than...
Sláinte and Prost
Ireland’s Own and Jägerhaus Pub takes the European pub theme to the next level by Lorne Chambers | Editor It’s fair to say that Charleston has never seen a place quite like Ireland’s Own and Jägerhaus Pub. Inside the brand new 10,200-square-foot space that was once...
West Ashley Flashback — Pieces of the Parish, Part 6
Remembering the early days of St. Andrew’s Parish A big “Thank You” to everyone who has reached out to add to the stories! Now time to move into Part 6 of this who-knows-how-many-part series where I have started at the beginning of the journals/milk crates/digital...
Let’s Get Together and Feel All Right
Sixth annual S.C. Reggae Jerk Festival returns to West Ashley on Aug. 25 from Staff Reports Come on out and celebrate all things Jamaican at the Sixth Annual South Carolina Reggae Jerk Festival. You can feast on the scrumptious jerk-seasoned foods and dance to Reggae...
Art Matters — Olivia Bergen
A conversation with Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School Art Teacher Olivia Bergan Describe your art: Clay. I had a concentration in ceramics in college. Teapots were my favorite. Indispensable tool: Potter’s Wheel. I wish I had a kiln. Finest of all the...
West Ashley Flashback — Taking the Long Road
The Long family story has deep roots in St. Andrew’s Parish Note: This West Ashley Flashback is written by yours truly with some recollections which Leonard Long, Jr. provided respecting his grandfather, Leonard Darlington Long, known as ‘LD.’ That J.C. Long built...
Comeback Puppy of the Year
Charleston Veterinary Referral Center saves Brees the puppy after terrible accident by Lorne Chambers | Editor One evening back in mid-May, local residents Natalie Kaiser and Ryan Hart rushed their 13-week-old puppy Brees from Folly Beach’s West Ashley Avenue to the...
Mas Matzo y Masa
Jewish-inspired Mexican pop-up restaurant Matzo y Masa is a culinary clash of cultures by Lorne Chambers | Editor In the local food scene it seems as if the pop-up restaurant has replaced the food truck. And one of the more innovative pop-ups you can find regularly...
Broadway Rewind
Brand new Cultural Arts Center Charleston officially debuts with show that highlights some of the best of Broadway by Lorne Chambers | Editor When the Cultural Arts Center Charleston (formerly Charleston Performing Arts Center) moved from James Island to its new space...
