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Riley pushing anti-crime measures

By ⋅ September 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. is pushing a package of legislation that seeks to give police more tools to keep bad guys off the streets. “We have some people who are arrested and out on bail for 13 different offenses,” Riley told the Rotary Club of Charleston this week. He went on to highlight [...]

Don’t miss calming beauty at Caw Caw park in Ravenel

By ⋅ September 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When the great blue heron took to the air Saturday afternoon at Ravenel Caw Caw Interpretive Center, its six-foot wingspan was enough to make two little girls hush. We saw the great bird by the marsh during a hike on some elevated boardwalks and through some of the six miles of trails in the county [...]

City of Charleston needs better neighborhood debris policy

By ⋅ September 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

There are some people in West Ashley who still pretty ticked off at the City of Charleston and its Code Enforcement office for some unfriendly, impractical policies. Seems that a Code Enforcement officer was riding around the Wappoo Shores neighborhood on Sept. 1 and spotted some debris piles and unmowed grass. Yes, the world was [...]

Mystery solved and another Chamber of Commerce moment

By ⋅ September 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We were surprised when no one supplied an answer, guessed or made up something out of whole cloth about the Ashley cream sign pictured in our Aug. 31 edition. So we started snooping around. After asking a few people whether they knew what the old advertisement referred to on the side of a store at [...]

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