Staff reports | Hands Across the Sand: About 100 people joined hands Saturday to “draw a line in the sand” and support efforts to cancel plans for Atlantic offshore drilling and to raise awareness of the dangers of seismic airgun blasting off the East Coast. Also: Online Emanuel tribute, Pinckney portrait, summer reading, shade tree, poll managers.
Staff reports | A new foundation is honoring the life of a much-loved librarian who was one of the nine people murdered last year by a gunman at Emanuel AME Church. The Cynthia Graham Hurd Foundation for Reading & Civic Engagement has been set up by her family to increase literacy and spread a passion for reading throughout Charleston, where […]
Trident United Way announced last week it would make $2.1 million in grants over three years in 33 programs delivered by 22 nonprofits in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties in its three core areas: education, financial stability and health. Also in Good News: P-Nut returns; rain barrels for sale; Community Pride has winners.
Staff reports | The North Charleston Arts Fest, started 34 years ago as a half-day community celebration, kicks off nine days of free and ticketed activities on April 29 with a bevy of activities.
Staff reports | It’s only two weeks until Lowcountry Giving Day, the annual day of celebration and chance for people to give to more than 350 area nonprofits.
The community-wide event is scheduled for May 2, but you can already schedule a donation to one or more charities of your choice. Click here to schedule a donation.
Staff reports | The Charleston RiverDogs embraced their hometown’s “Holy City” moniker Sunday night with new specialty uniforms that display the “Holy City” namesake across pinstriped tops and a new HC emblem on baseball caps in the latest of the team’s innovative weekly promotions.
If you haven’t been to downtown Charleston lately from West Ashley, you’ll soon find out that the roadway looks a little different. Instead of four lanes of vehicles crossing the Ashley River into Charleston, there are now three. The outside lane has been partitioned into a walk/bike lane to test how traffic will react. Also: two winners, a scholarship, water parks and a new film.
Staff reports | Nationally-recognized attorney Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, will share insights into America’s justice system March 31 at the College of Charleston’s Race and Social Justice Initiative 2016 event series.
The free event, which will occur 6 p.m. at the Sottile Theatre, 44 George Street, in Charleston, will highlight Stevenson’s advocacy for some of America’s most marginalized people – the men, women and children in the nation’s criminal justice system.
Staff reports | Coastal elected and environmental leaders are tickled pink that the Obama Administration last week reversed itself on the potential for offshore gas and oil development in the Atlantic Ocean.
The plan was opposed by more than two dozen coastal South Carolina communities, including Charleston and Beaufort. Both of the towns’ mayors met with White House officials on March 14, the day before the reversal was announced.
“Slave Auctions” is a new historic marker unveiled March 10 at the corner of Gillon and East Bay streets next to the Old Exchange Building.
The new marker acknowledges the significance of the area around the building as a destination for the domestic slave trade. The marker focuses on slave auctions that occurred just north of the Exchange while also acknowledging other areas downtown where slaves were often sold.
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