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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Where Art Thou?
Piccolo Spoleto picks up where Spoleto left off in West Ashley with a handful of events by Bill Davis | News Editor Ever since Spoleto Festival USA pulled its annual finale from Middleton Place after the 2017 performance, it’s been up to Piccolo Festival to pick up...
Still ‘Rocking’ Out
Former Plane Jane drummer finds a new creative expression with business venture by Lorne Chambers | Editor For 25 years Trey Smith has been banging on the drums in various rock bands, including The Pondering, Heavy Water Meter, and The Rhythm Method. Most notably,...
Art Matters — Kate Kennedy
Painter, author, illustrator, new artist this year at Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Show ... My work ... Portrays nature’s rhythms. Flowing, like water or silk fabric. Simple but complex. Reflections, transparency, and lots of light. And goats. Lots of goats and other...
Farmer’s Market Returns To West Ashley
Weekly market officially opens season with a variety of produce, food vendors, and live entertainment from Staff Reports On a pleasantly warm and perfectly sunny day in late April, the 2019 West Ashley Farmers Market welcomed hundreds of local residents who converged...
West Ashley Flashback — Pieces of The Parish, Part 4
Revisiting some tidbits of history from the early days of St. Andrew’s Parish This is the fourth part of this who-knows-how-many-part series where I’ve started at the beginning of the journals/milk crates/digital information and shared random small tidbits entered...
Taking Care of the Skin You’re in
Dermatology & Laser Center of Charleston provides free skin cancer screening for the public from Staff Reports For the 14th year, dermatologists and certified dermatological providers from Dermatology and Laser Center of Charleston will offer free skin cancer...
Home Cooking
Gullah historian Theresa Jenkins Hilliard releases new cookbook featuring beloved family recipes from Staff Reports Local historian, artist, and cookbook author Theresa Jenkins Hilliard was born on Edisto Island, where she spent her early childhood under the...
Chopping Up the West Ashley Vote
Three candidates with deep West Ashley roots enter the mayoral race, threatening to divide the city’s largest and most powerful voting block by Bill Davis | News Editor West Ashley’s growing political clout may be its undoing in the coming mayoral election this fall....
Thinking Outside the Box
Local lawmakers searching for solution to the ‘Suicide Merge’ by Bill Davis | News Editor Everyone on Orange Grove Road can relax, for now, because there will be no traffic circle built next to the old Masonic Center. County and city planners heard you loud and clear:...
A Long and Mighty Table
West Ashley’s Longest Table will focus on discussing community action by Bill Davis | News Editor Have you seen that television commercial where disconnected residents of a big city apartment building of various ages and backgrounds come together after one of their...
