Charleston Currents

NEW for 6/29: On Carolina Day, masks, Calhoun statue and new album

IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: Sullivan’s Island celebrates a different kind of Carolina Day
COMMENTARY, Brack: McMaster needs to issue statewide mask order now
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Titan Termite & Pest Control
PHOTO ESSAY: Calhoun statue comes down
NEWS BRIEFS: Calls to repeal Heritage Act gain ground
FEEDBACK: Got something to say? Let us know by mail or email
MYSTERY PHOTO: Marine scene
CALENDAR: Singleton to release 4th solo album July 3
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Savannah River Site

by Andy Brack · 06/29/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

MYSTERY PHOTO: Looks like another cemetery

We must be on a cemetery tour or something because here’s another mysterious graveyard. Where is it? Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our June 3 mystery, “This one could be tough,” turned out to be pretty easy for several familiar sleuths who identified the photo the cemetery across from St. Philip’s Church in Charleston.

by Charleston Currents · 06/09/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

Student Abigail Henry, third from left, smiles after winning the CDCA student app contest. Pictured with her, from left, are her dad Brian Henry, grandmother Sandy Bruorton and mother Amy Henry. Photo provided.

GOOD NEWS: Lowcountry students win mobile app competition

Staff reports | The Charleston Defense Contractors Association (CDCA), a non-profit advocacy group for the defense industry in the Southeast, on Friday announced student winners of the 7th Annual Student Mobile App Competition’

The organization annually holds a mobile app contest for students from middle school through graduate school to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. The contest allows students to develop creative unique applications that ae able to run on either iOS phone or Android platforms to solve a challenge. They are judged by sponsors and attendees at the event. Winners share STEM-related contest awards of $10,000 in prizes, scholarships and future jobs.

Also in Good News: Bridge Run’s sponsor; New online job board; Resurfacing rescheduled; and New language for Calhoun monument.