Big Cat on Campus
WAHS names two-time state champion Donnie Kiefer as new head football from Staff Reports In a surprise move last year, WAHS’s incoming principal Ryan Cumback relieved former Wildcat head football coach...
View ArticleMUSC Immediately Making an Impact
Thousands use new medical pavilion at Citadel Mall as leaders celebrate special to West Of Free Press A celebration of the opening of the MUSC Health West Ashley Medical Pavilion last month showed...
View ArticleScore One for the Home Team
Local BBQ restaurant is all fired up about giving back by Lorne Chambers | Editor Fourteen years ago Home Team BBQ opened it’s first restaurant in an old gas station along St. Andrew’s Boulevard in...
View ArticleWest Of Turns 15
West Ashley’s newspaper continues to cover our ever-changing community special to West Of Free Press On Feb. 1, 2005 the first edition of West Of hit the racks. “My main goal was to give West Ashley a...
View ArticleA Potential Park For Parsonage Road
St. Andrew’s Parks & Playground makes a pitch for Church Creek Plaza site by Bill Davis | News Editor For years, Church Creek Plaza was a neglected, decaying shopping strip at the corner of Ashley...
View ArticleMemorial FirEhouse Delayed
Hot construction market and limited supplies cool construction at future Station 11 site by Bill Davis | News Editor Work is several months delayed on the new firehouse on Savannah Highway that...
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In-Shore Fishing Report — March 2020
Time To Get Back on the Water The water is warming, which means its time to get ready to catch some fish by Captain Geoff Bennett | Special to West Of Free Press Warmer weather is arriving in the...
View ArticleRun with the Wild Ones
“Where the Wild Things Run” 5K Run and Walk returns to Caw Caw Interpretive Center on March 7 from Staff Reports Grab your running shoes, and get ready to run wild at Caw Caw! The Charleston County...
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Buzzing Around West of the Ashley
Revisiting the second oldest subdivision West of the Ashley In the ongoing discussion about the name we use for our section of Charleston, Cele insisted that “West of the Ashley” was the proper term,...
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Not-So-Horrifying For Vegetarians
For a barbeque place, Swig & Swine has plenty of meat-free options West Ashley vegans and vegetarians proclaimed a collective ‘Praise be!’ when Whole Foods opened the doors of its Savannah Highway...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleArt 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...
View ArticleWest 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...
View ArticleFuture 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...
View ArticleEthically 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
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West Of UnBound — Homebound
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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...
View ArticleGearing 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...
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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...
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