A Helping Hand
West Ashley community rises up to assist families impacted by Palms Apartment fire by Jenny Peterson | Contributing Writer It’s been about a month since an early-morning fire tore through The Palms, a West Ashely apartment complex on Feb. 7, destroying five...
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Major Shake-ups at West Ashley High
Superintendent finally removes principal after previous attempts, football coach also out by Bill Davis | news editor Threatened regime change has finally come to West Ashley High School, as last month it became public knowledge that Superintendent Gerrita Postelwaite...
Fixing the Fix
Solutions to Hwy. 17/Main Road intersection revealing more problems by Bill Davis | News Editor For years, locals trying to get to work in the morning and home in the evening have complained about the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 17S and Main Road. The traffic would back...
Standup Being Counted
West Ashley’s comedy scene continues to grow by Bill Davis | News Editor The only thing that’s migrated over from the peninsula to West Ashley that’s been welcomed has been comedy. Thank God (or Richard Pryor, your choice). Not traffic or gentrification or development...
Magnolia in Miniature
A glimpse of Magnolia Gardens finds a home in nation’s capital from Staff Reports A landscape designer in Arlington, Vir., and a carpenter from Charleston, have built a miniature version of Magnolia Plantation and Gardens on display at the nation’s capital. Jeff...
Another Chapter for Cynthia Graham Hurd
CCPL & USC Launch Teen Book Club in honor of beloved librarian from Staff Reports Last month, the Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) honored the memory of Cynthia Graham Hurd, a 31-year veteran of CCPL who most recently worked in West Ashley at the St Andrews...
Art Matters
Why Does Art Matter? Eight local artists were asked this question, this is what they said Henry Wolfe | Expressionist Painter There has to be a medium on the earth to show creativeness, what I do with my hands matters. It blurs the lines. Kristi Ryba | Painter...
A Fighting Chance
Innovative program teaches skills that go far beyond the ring by Lorne Chambers | Editor Growing up in West Ashley, Beth Matenaer was a defiant kid. By her own admission she frequently butted heads with authority and often found herself in trouble in and outside of...
A Helping Hand in the Fight Against Flooding
West Ashley to receive $120 million of Charleston’s $2 billionfunds for flooding by Bill Davis | News Editor Two and half years ago, soon after Mayor John Tecklenburg came into office, a member of his administration was asked how much it would cost to fix Charleston’s...
The Flipside of Avondale
Major changes pending for the former Food Lion site by Bill Davis | News Editor For years, the Sycamore Center shopping center on St. Andrews Boulevard has been, let’s be polite, a bit of an eyesore. Unlined parking, aisles and aisles of it, have stood as a stark...
Use Your Head, Not the Earth
After a month of dumping all the county’s recycling in a West Ashley landfill, Charleston County’s recyling program is back on track by Bill Davis | News Editor Mind what you put in your recycling bins at home, it could end up buried in the county landfill on Bees...
