Charleston Currents – 2021

Archive for September, 2021

FOCUS: Champs! RiverDogs win first minor league title in 99 years

By Samantha Connors | The Charleston RiverDogs defeated North Carolina’s Down East Wood Ducks and secured the Low-A East Championship Series Sunday night at The Joe. It’s a franchise first for the RiverDogs and the city’s first minor league baseball title in nearly a century.

After winning the first two games and dropping the next two in the best-of-five series, the RiverDogs knocked the deciding fifth game of the series out of the park with a 9-2 win.

The RiverDogs led for the first eight innings, jumping out to a 7-0 lead by the fifth inning. The Wood Ducks were able to add two to avoid a shutout in the ninth, but it wasn’t enough.

And Sunday’s victory was no small feat. This is the first time a Charleston minor league team has taken home a minor league championship since 1922 when the Charleston Pals secured the South Atlantic League title.

by Charleston Currents · 09/27/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

Partain, being held by his mother on the day he was born at Camp Lejeune. Water bottle in bottom left. Provided.

BRACK: Congress must help Lejeune toxic water victims

From 1953 to 1987, more than 900,000 Marines, their families and civilian employees at Camp Lejeune drank water contaminated by toxic chemicals like gasoline and jet fuel that leaked into wells around the base. Across the country, 273,433 people have registered with the Marine Corps to receive notifications about the poisonous drinking water at Camp Lejeune. More than 7,600 live in South Carolina.

by Andy Brack · 09/27/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

NEWS BRIEFS: Thousands take part in Saturday’s Cooper River Bridge Run

Staff reports | An estimated 12,000 runners, walkers and wheelchair participants ran over the Ravenel Bridge from Mount Pleasant to Charleston in the 44th annual Cooper River Bridge Run, an event postponed from spring by the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, which traditionally attracts 40,000 entrants, this year was limited.

by Charleston Currents · 09/27/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

Ernie Watts plays with the Charleston Jazz Orchestra at the Charleston Music Hall in Charleton, SC.

CALENDAR: Jazz group to kick off season 14 in February

Staff reports | Charleston Jazz Orchestra will kick off season 14 in February 2022 with singer/saxophonist Camille Thurman, a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York City. Other performances will include a Marh big band show, a May tribute to Chick Corea, a September 2022 Cuban carnival and an October 2022 tribute to Miles Davis.

by Charleston Currents · 09/27/2021 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

MYSTERY PHOTO: A brick folly?

Here’s a brick structure sent in by a reader. What is it? Where is it? Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live. And if you’ve got a clever mystery photo for our readers, send it to the same address (Try to stump us!)

Our previous Mystery Photo

In our most recent mystery, “A real mystery” we asked readers to find out the story behind a sign along Folly Road in Charleston that asked for thieves to return some stolen jewelry.

by Charleston Currents · 09/27/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

NEW for 9/27: Baseball champs; Toxic water; Bridge run

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: RiverDogs win first minor league title in 99 years
COMMENTARY, Brack: Congress must help Lejeune toxic water victims
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
NEWS BRIEFS: Thousands take part in Saturday’s Cooper River Bridge Run
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: A brick folly?
CALENDAR: Jazz group to kick off season 14 in February

by Charleston Currents · 09/27/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

FOCUS: Pride Week offers plenty of events to celebrate diversity

Staff reports | There’s plenty you can do to take part in highlighting the diversity and uniqueness of the Charleston LGBTQ community during Charleston Pride week starting Sept. 25, even though the annual Charleston Pride Festival on Oct. 3 was postponed due to COVID-19 concerns.

Kicking off the week, Closet Case Thrift Store will host the inaugural Rainbow Market, a day-long event full of treasure hunting, tasty bites,and thrifty finds from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 25 at its store’s parking lot at 1801 Reynolds Ave. in North Charleston. Mask-wearing requested. There also will be a contest for best mask.

The event will feature more than 20 curated vendors Grease Kelly Vintage, Embellished Premium Apparel, Butter Fruit Frog Jewelry, Bitty Chip Cookies, and other community-based businesses offering clothing, accessories, records and home decor …

by Charleston Currents · 09/20/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

Alex Murdaugh turned himself in Thursday in Hampton County | CC license Ffuhr

BRACK: Murdaugh case’s twists, turns in national spotlight

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Keeping up the spectacle of South Carolina’s Murdaugh murder case is like riding a land rocket without steering. The rural killings of the wife and a son of a father later accused of plotting his own shooting to reap an insurance payout has more twists and turns than three television shows filmed in the Palmetto State — Southern Charm, Outer Banks and The Righteous Gemstones.

by Andy Brack · 09/20/2021 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views

An ancient actual milestone near Stonehenge. Photo via Unsplash.

NEWS BRIEFS: State sets pandemic milestones on vaccinations, deaths

Staff reports | The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced Thursday that the state reached a 50 percent vaccination rate among eligible residents. S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster says the milestone was important, but there was still work to do. Some 59 percent of South Carolinians have had at least one vaccination shot.

by Charleston Currents · 09/20/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

MYSTERY PHOTO: A real mystery

We’ll try something different this week: a real mystery. We’ll tell you where the sign is — it’s across from South Windermere shopping center on Folly Road on a fence in The Crescent neighborhood — but we want you to tell us about the story behind the sign. If you don’t know, make it up! (NOTE: We don’t know the answer and we’re looking for help in learning the truth about the jewelry theft. If you make up your answer, please let us know that it’s fiction. Have fun.) Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live. And if you’ve got a clever mystery photo for our readers, send it to the same address (Try to stump us!)

Our previous Mystery Photo: Our most recent past mystery, “Graffiti” showed boxcar art in the S.C. Port Authority rail yard along East Bay Street in Charleston near Cooper Street.

by Charleston Currents · 09/20/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos