Charleston Currents

Hollings speaks to media in this 2008 photo.

BRACK: In renaming courthouse, Hollings still teaching us

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | At age 93, Fritz Hollings is still teaching us.

On Friday as a weekend deluge of rain started, dignitaries from all over gathered at St. Michael’s Church at the Four Corners of Law to rename the federal courthouse annex across the street that was named in 1988 for Hollings.

The senator, who got money put in the federal budget to construct the judicial center, never really wanted it named for him. U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, who had all sorts of things named for him by that time, apparently thought Hollings needed something named for him too.

by Andy Brack · 10/05/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

FOCUS, photo essay: Rain, rain go away

Photo essay: Dale Poulnot of Charleston wanted to know what Charleston harbor looked like around high tide during Saturday’s deluge of rain. So she stepped outside, walked to the Battery and snapped this photo. “I thought it was scary spectacular!” she told us. “Wasn’t surprised since it was a strong east wind and high tide. Sure made me glad that Hugo came at low tide!” For getting out in the storm and taking a striking photo of something familiar, she’s top winner of our first (and we hope last) Rain Photo Contest. Her prize: A can of beef stew!

by Charleston Currents · 10/05/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Photos

PALMETTO POEM: Rice

Kendra Hamilton: You speak of the rivers of your homeplace far to the north,
How you’d leave the city in summer for the long trek
to Minnesota, then gather at the creekside in boats,
singing, to beat the grasses till they yielded their sweet black grains.

by Charleston Currents · 10/05/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

HISTORY: Highway 301

S.C. Encyclopedia | Construction of this major U.S. highway in South Carolina began in 1932 during the Great Depression, when the federal government began taking over the maintenance and construction of many state roads. The route began at Baltimore, Maryland, and ended at Sarasota, Florida, crossing through many towns in eastern South Carolina, including Dillon, Latta, Florence, Manning, Olanta, Summerton, Bamberg, and Allendale.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 10/05/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

MYSTERY: Where’s this building?

This mystery photo should be pretty easy to folks in Charleston, but who knows — it might be a stumper. Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the town in which you live. If you’ve got a story about the building, send that along too.

by Charleston Currents · 10/05/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

Enter our fun rain photo contest now!

Not much to do with all of the rain soaking the Carolinas? You can win a can of beef stew — yes, a can of beef stew — if you send us the winning snapshot in Charleston Currents’ brand new, take-advantage-of-the-storm RAIN PHOTO CONTEST.

All you have to do is snap a photo of something that you believe best illustrates the continuing rain soaking the Carolinas. Qualifying photos will be those taken between Friday, Oct. 2, and 6 p.m., Oct. 4, 2015. The best photos will be published in the Oct. 5 issue of Charleston Currents, your source for good news about the Lowcountry.

by Charleston Currents · 10/03/2015 · 2 comments · Good news, Photos

CALENDAR: Sept. 28+ Festivals, festivals

Week of Sept. 28, 2015: Greek Festival, Latin American Festival, Thanks Joe rally

by Charleston Currents · 09/28/2015 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

9/28, full issue: Tecklenburg, state tax structure, blood supermoon

In the Sept. 28, 2015, issue:
PHOTO: Blood supermoon, courtesy of New Mexico
FOCUS, John Tecklenburg: Will put residents’ quality of life first as mayor
BRACK: State’s tax structure needs work, not praise
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
MORRIS: Blood supermoon: Astronomical phenomenon or apocalypse?
GOOD NEWS: Cannon Street Y All-Stars to be honored
FEEDBACK: On Stavrinakis candidacy, Haley’s posturing
CALENDAR, Sept. 28+: Festivals all over the place
MYSTERY: Where is this old bridge?
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Loggerhead turtles

by Charleston Currents · 09/28/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

LETTERS: Columbia attitudes, Haley’s posturing

Letters on Columbia attitudes and Haley’s posturing.

by Charleston Currents · 09/28/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

REVIEW: The Poacher’s Son

A mystery by Mike Bowditch: The Poacher’s Son, the first in Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron’s Mike Bowditch series, is set in the beautiful, vast, and treacherous wilderness of Maine. Doiron crafts a tortured, complex hero in Bowditch. Bowditch, a Maine game warden, struggles to prove his father’s innocence in the murder of a police officer, yet is haunted by his father’s past transgressions and inadequacies as a father. Bowditch’s investigation is inhibited by his colleagues’ disdain for his family, and by his own doubts in his father’s fiber.

by Charleston Currents · 09/28/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Reviews