Letter: West Ashley needs beauty, not pools
What we need in West Ashley is not another large building with a large concrete parking lot that would attract more people. We have no lack of people.
What we need in West Ashley is not another large building with a large concrete parking lot that would attract more people. We have no lack of people.
It’s interesting to watch opponents of I-526 take victory laps over the recent setback. I certainly can’t fault those who live in its path, since all of us are interested in preserving that little snapshot of the way we want things to be.
Home prices went up in March. That was the recent news from Standard & Poor’s.
The first anniversary of the murder of the Mother Emanuel Nine by a white supremacist is a painful reminder of the dark side of American history and challenges our belief in American Exceptionalism.
In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of an unfulfilled promise made by America to the poor and especially to African Americans.
Ralph Stoney Bates Sr. of Mount Pleasant has won The Post and Courier’s Golden Pen award for May for his letter to the editor "What a Marine veteran vividly recalls on every Memorial Day."
Gov. Nikki Haley made the right call by vetoing a proposal to "study" moving the Confederate Relic Room from Columbia to Charleston. The Relic Room ought to remain in Columbia, adjacent to the state museum. It is the capital’s oldest museum, and there is no reason to bring it to Charleston, where there already is a wealth of...
City leaders and residents have been debating for a long time whether the peninsula has too many hotel rooms.
NEW YORK — An online resource for literary content is hoping to create the publishing equivalent of Rotten Tomatoes.
Surfing is in, at least for travelers. More people are signing up for surf camps, and resorts are starting to give guests a chance to catch a wave. Four are below.
Home House Press, a small Charleston publisher run by Tom Tisdale and Stephen Huffius, has issued "Porgy & Bess: A Charleston Story," edited by local historian and "Porgy" expert Harlan Greene.
END OF WATCH. By Stephen King. Simon & Schuster. 448 pages. $30.
ORDINARILY WELL: The Case for Antidepressants. By Peter D. Kramer. FSG. 336 pages. $27.
THE FOOD & WINE OF FRANCE: Eating & Drinking from Champagne to Provence. By Edward Behr. Penguin Press. 293 pages. $28.
MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM. By Grady Hendrix. Quirk Books. 330 pages. $19.99.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A South Dakota wildlife official is trying to combat a scene she sees several times every summer: A mom and her children show up carrying a box with holes poked in the top and a baby wild animal inside.
A walking getaway is a popular pick for an active vacation, but for travelers who want to make sightseeing by foot only part of their trip and not the entire focus of it, tour companies around the world are now offering full- and half-day walking excursions.
Spoiler alert: "Hamilton" is going to win the Tony Award for best new musical on Sunday night.
Every year during Washington, D.C.’s Cherry Blossom Festival, I recall a gift sent to me by my grandfather in the 1960s.
Low-pitched roof lines, wide eaves, and bold squared porch support columns mark the Crownpoint as a contemporary Prairie-style home. Frank Lloyd Wright is the acknowledged master of the Prairie house, one of the few indigenous American styles.
The transactions listed below include properties sold for $200,000 or more and recorded between May 9-13.
"I'm just not sure anybody would remember me."
ANSEL, Joan, Texas
BALLARD, Carl Edward, 80, of Mount Pleasant, a Navy veteran, Naval engineering command accounting retiree and husband of Esther Goude Ballard, died Friday. Arrangements by Stuhr’s Mount Pleasant Chapel.
A lobbyist for Kiawah Partners "verbally attacked" a Charleston legislator at the close of a Judiciary committee hearing in May amid debate over development of Capt. Sam’s Spit on Kiawah Island, according to three lawmakers.