Charleston Currents

NEWS BRIEFS: Library offers two new streaming services

Charleston County residents now can stream a wide variety of music and award-winning independent films for free through two online services available from Charleston County Public Library.

by Charleston Currents · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

MYSTERY: What in the world is this flower?

Here’s another flower found at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. It’s something you’d hear about in novels by Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen, but what it it? Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include your contact details (hometown, phone number).

by Charleston Currents · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

8/3, full issue: Foundation, what’s next, Palmetto Poem

In the Aug. 3, 2015, issue, Charleston Currents outlines a new foundation by the Pinckney family. Andy Brack discusses the elephant in the state’s room — racial division. And Katrina Murphy offers a new Palmetto Poem.

Click to read lots more too.

by Charleston Currents · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

CALENDAR: July 27+: Comedy to back-to-school

Calendar for July 27+: Taming of the Shrew, back-to-school events, sales tax holiday

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

HISTORY: Charleston single house

S.C. Encyclopedia | The single house is the building form most closely associated with eighteenth-century Charleston architecture. It first appeared in the early eighteenth century and emerged as a favored residential form after the fire of 1740. The typical single house stands two or more stories in height and is built on a rectangular plan with its narrow end facing the street. Each floor has two rooms with a central stair-hall in between. Piazzas occupy the long wall facing the inside of the lot, and the chimneys are located on the opposite wall, in the rear of the house.

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

LETTER: Didn’t like “unscientific” poll on carriage horses

Letter: I wouldn’t put too much stock in an unscientific online poll that accompanies a distressing story about a very rare carriage mishap.

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

FOCUS: Get facts straight on sex ed curriculum

By April L. Borkman, special to Charleston Currents | Almost 20 percent of South Carolina middle school students have had sexual intercourse, according to the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey This number only continues to increase as students enter and attend high school with 57 percent of high school students reporting being sexually experienced. While we have made abundant strides in reducing teen pregnancy rates in South Carolina over the past 20 years, South Carolina still ranks 11th for teen pregnancy nationally.

On Aug. 4, members of the Charleston County School Board’s Secondary Education Committee (SEC) will vote on a new sex education curriculum, which is called “Making Proud Choices” (MPC). It is an evidence-based, proven, effective and comprehensive sex education curriculum.

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news