Articles by: Charleston Currents

Frazier, third from left, is flanked by clients Barb Miller and Joe Miller. Daughter Deborah Miller is at the far left. Photo provided.

GOOD NEWS: Charleston caregiver honored with big award

When Charleston resident Demonica Frazier reported to work September 28 at the Ashley Park retirement community in West Ashley, she got a big surprise. She was awarded BrightStar Care’s Caregiver of the Year for the care she provides to 90-year-old couple, Barb and Joe Miller.

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FOCUS, photo essay:  Rain, rain go away

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!

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Hamilton

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.

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MYSTERY:  Where’s this building?

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.

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Enter our fun rain photo contest now!

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.

CALENDAR:  Sept. 28+  Festivals, festivals

CALENDAR: Sept. 28+ Festivals, festivals

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

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

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

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LETTERS:  Columbia attitudes, Haley’s posturing

LETTERS: Columbia attitudes, Haley’s posturing

Letters on Columbia attitudes and Haley’s posturing.

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REVIEW:  The Poacher’s Son

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.

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HISTORY: Loggerhead turtle

HISTORY: Loggerhead turtle

S.C. Encyclopedia | The loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), a threatened species, was named the state reptile in an act signed by Governor Carroll Campbell on June 1, 1988. Recognizing the loggerhead as “an important part of the marine ecosystem” and that South Carolina’s coastline provides “some of the most pristine nesting areas” for the turtle on the East Coast, the General Assembly declared that the state’s responsibility is “to preserve and protect our wildlife and natural resources.”

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