Charleston Currents – 2021

Archive for October, 2021

MYSTERY PHOTO: Lots of vegetables in this image

Here’s another tough mystery photo, but it might be something you’ve seen while driving around downtown Charleston. 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

Last week’s mystery, “This one might not be easy,” showed a dilapidated house on Henrietta Street just behind Emanuel AME Church.

by Charleston Currents · 10/18/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

NEW for 10/18: New glasses; School-to-prison pipeline; Senate portrait

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Sanders-Clyde students are first in state to get group’s glasses
COMMENTARY, Brack: Vague school disciplinary law rightly blocked, but ruling appealed
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SC Clips
NEWS BRIEFS: Portrait of Civil War hero now out of closet and on Senate wall
FEEDBACK: Send us your letters
MYSTERY PHOTO: Lots of vegetables in this image
CALENDAR: Holiday Festival of Lights returns in November

by Andy Brack · 10/18/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

FOCUS: Bedshred’s recycling keeps mattresses out of landfill

By Skyler Baldwin | A local mattress manufacturer and retailer has helped to keep more than 125,000 mattresses out of landfills through aggressive recycling and disposal procedures.

K.C. Rennie told the Charleston City Paper last week that his company, The Charleston Mattress, started Bedshred six years ago after seeing the impact that discarded mattresses had on landfills. It now works with Nine Lives Recycling in Pamplico, S.C., where the materials are stored and processed.

“We started BedShred mainly as a way to dispose of old mattresses whenever we delivered new ones through The Charleston Mattress, just because we didn’t want to keep taking them to the landfill,” Rennie said. “They’re torn down, destroyed and never used in new mattresses — the foam becomes carpet padding and the metal goes to the scrapyard and the wood disappears real quick.”

by Charleston Currents · 10/11/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

A parent waits while a child is being treated for COVID-19 at MUSC. MUSC photo.

BRACK: Help your community by getting vaccinated

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Charter schools, by their very nature, have governing boards made up of parents. They’re publicly funded, which requires them to follow general state education rules and keeps teachers in the state system, but the schools also are independent operationally from county school boards. South Carolina has about 75, which is about 1 percent of the nation’s charter schools.

by Andy Brack · 10/11/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

NEWS BRIEFS: City Paper’s Ariail is finalist in national cartooning contest

Staff reports | Charleston City Paper cartoonist Robert Ariail is the only weekly newspaper cartoonist to be a finalist in a national contest for excellence in local cartooning.

by Charleston Currents · 10/11/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

MYSTERY PHOTO: This one might not be so easy

Unlike last week’s mystery, the one for this week might not be so easy. Hint: This dilapidated building is in Charleston County. But where? And can you tell us anything else about the photo? 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: Last week’s mystery, “Orange and blue,” was pretty easy for lots of regular Mystery Photo sleuths. It showed the tall steeple at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church on King Street in Charleston.

by Andy Brack · 10/11/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

CALENDAR: Musicians to be honored Sunday in Hanahan

By Chelsea Grinstead | The Lowcountry Hall of Fame will be back Oct. 17 for its sixth installment at Hanahan Amphitheater to honor those in the community who have taken part in shaping what the Charleston music scene is today.

by Charleston Currents · 10/11/2021 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

NEW for 10/11: Mattress recycling; Vaccinations; Ariail’s cartoons

IN THIS ISSUE
FOCUS: Bedshred’s recycling keeps mattresses out of landfill
COMMENTARY, Brack: Getting the vaccine is your responsibility to help your community
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: S.C. Ports Authority
NEWS BRIEFS: City Paper’s Ariail is finalist in national cartooning contest
FEEDBACK: Send us your letters
MYSTERY PHOTO: This one might not be so easy
CALENDAR: Musicians to be honored Sunday in Hanahan

by Charleston Currents · 10/11/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

SPOTLIGHT: South Carolina Ports Authority

Founded in 1942, the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) owns and operates public marine terminals at two port facilities, the Port of Charleston and the Port of Georgetown, in addition to inland ports in Greer and Dillon, S.C. These facilities are owner-operated terminals, meaning the SCPA owns the terminals, operates all container cranes, manages and operates all container storage yards and leads all customer service functions in both the yard and the lanes.

by Charleston Currents · 10/11/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Underwriters

FOCUS: Hundreds march to support reproductive freedom

By Andy Brack | More than 600 people, many of them shouting “My body, my choice,” marched midday Saturday from Charleston City Hall to the U.S. Custom House to support reproductive rights.

Across the state, hundreds more were expected at similar rallies in Columbia, Greenville and Myrtle Beach to send a strong message against a restrictive abortion measure, known as the “fetal heartbeat” law, that state legislators passed in February.

Organizer Erica Cokley, left, rallies the marchers at the U.S. Custom House.

“The marches this weekend continue to highlight the still heinous attitudes toward women in South Carolina,” said Charleston women’s right’s advocate Jennet Robinson Alterman “Consider that women did not serve on juries until 1969. We have among the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality in the U.S.

“Women’s reproductive rights are practically nonexistent. Women are still paid significantly less than men to name just a few of the reasons we march and march and march.”

by Andy Brack · 10/04/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News