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GOOD NEWS: Big bucks awarded for No Kill South Carolina

Staff reports | The Petco Foundation on Saturday awarded a $400,000 grant to the Charleston Animal Society to fund the organization’s effort to try to save every healthy and treatable animal in the Palmetto State.

The funding by the Petco Foundation, which help the Charleston Animal Society launch the No Kill South Carolina (NKSC) program earlier, will help it bring together 350 rescue organizations across South Carolina with funding over the next two years.

by Charleston Currents · 06/26/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

GOOD NEWS: Coates to speak Tuesday in race, social justice series

Staff reports | Author Ta-Nehisi Coates will speak 6:30 p.m. March 21 at the College of Charleston’s TD Arena as part of the college’s Race and Social Justice Initiative lecture series. Doors open at 5 p.m. for Coates’s lecture, “A Deeper Black: Race in America.” Also in Good News: Wi-Fi on some buses; Wine Down Wednesdays; and colleges want money.

by Charleston Currents · 03/20/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

FOCUS: Daffodils to be planted Nov. 13 to remember holocaust

Staff reports | College of Charleston sophomore honors student Samantha Krantz is hoping to beautify the Charleston Holocaust Memorial in Marion Square by working Nov. 13 with volunteers to plant 1,800 daffodil bulbs as a living memorial.

You can join the effort at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 13 to remember the 1.5 million children who perished in the holocaust. The garden will be planted at the memorial, which was erected in 1999, “to remember those who were murdered in the Holocaust and to honor the survivors who came to South Carolina to rebuild their lives,” according to the college.

Krantz felt empowered to launch a living garden after discovering her family’s history with the holocaust, and traveling to Eastern Europe over the summer with College of Charleston Zucker/Goldberg Professor of Holocaust Studies Theodore Rosengarten, a press release said. Krantz is the recipient of the Klaper Fellowship in Jewish Studies, which charges recipients with bettering the Lowcountry.

by Charleston Currents · 10/24/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

GOOD NEWS: City launches online platform for boards, commissions

Staff reports | With more than 40 boards and commissions, the city of Charleston has long encouraged independent citizen oversight and participation in local government—at least in theory, according to a press release last week.

But with the debut of Boards+, a new city website that allows citizens to view the members, duties and actions of city boards, committees and commissions and to apply for open positions as they become available, that theory is now becoming a reality for residents throughout the Charleston area.

by Charleston Currents · 08/22/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

Artist's rendition of bike/walkway project. From Charleston County.

GOOD NEWS: Ashley River bridge project underway for next 6 weeks

Construction started Friday on a bike/pedestrian project on the Ashley River bridge that will allow officials to test whether a bike-walk lane will work as commuters travel between downtown and West Ashley. Also in the news: C of C exceeds $125 million fundraising goal; Magnolia hosts actress, plantation demonstrations; North Charleston park gets public Wi-Fi.

by Charleston Currents · 02/15/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

CALENDAR, Feb. 8+: From shows to diversity to Valentine’s

Check out our weekly listing of cool coming events. This week: Stuff for Valentine’s Day, a speech and several plays.

by Charleston Currents · 02/08/2016 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

GOOD NEWS: Lott leads new CofC creative writing master’s program

New at CofC: An MFA in creative writing — “The two-year, full-residency program, which begins in the fall of 2016 pending approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Schools, is designed to sharpen the writing skills of graduate students interested in fiction and poetry. ” Also: Singing Valentine’s, she-crab celebration and a new Charleston County park.

by Charleston Currents · 02/01/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

"Justice riders" at a Sunday rally at the College of Charleston.

GOOD NEWS: College of Charleston to host race, social justice series

Three nationally-known speakers are scheduled to present in a new Race and Social justice Initiative 2016 Event Series at the College of Charleston.

Speakers include education activist Marion Wright Edelman, social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. The program series will feature several nationally known thought leaders discussing issues surrounding race and social justice in the Charleston area and throughout the nation.

by Charleston Currents · 01/18/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

Barrack, a junior at left, and Caroway, a freshman, attend the College of Charleston

FOCUS: CofC student painters look to summer

Student Painters gives college students the tools and training to successfully run a painting business during the spring and summer. Students get this position through a series of interviews with the hopes of becoming a branch manager, each of whom are responsible for the marketing, sales, hiring and production of their own business.

The company offers a variety of services, focusing mainly on exterior painting, pressure washing and deck staining.

Although this experience looks good on a resume and can be financially rewarding, those are not the only two reasons that we decided to embark on this once in a lifetime journey.

by Charleston Currents · 04/13/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

FOCUS: Program offers “engaging” summer camps

By Robin Berlinsky | Eight years ago, the Charleston County School District saw a need for arts-integration support in its schools so it reached out to a non-profit in Dallas, Texas, called Big Thought. The district gathered community leaders, educators and government agencies together to work with Big Thought to create a similar program here in Charleston.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 03/23/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news