Herb Frazier

Charleston attorney Stephen Schmutz is excited that a different kind of shingle will soon hang on his law office at 24 Broad St. It will reveal the building’s hidden past.

U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., recently told the Charleston City Paper that he fears the nation’s Electoral College is a potential barrier to a Harris-Walz victory, even if the Democratic team wins the popular presidential vote on Nov. 5.

Barbados-born Kevin Farmer ended his first visit to Charleston recently with the vision of an annual festival to celebrate the historic ties between his Caribbean homeland and South Carolina.

The S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) estimates it will cost $2.2 million to make safety improvements for walkers and bikers along the Septima P. Clark Parkway in Charleston where eight people have been killed since 2012.

Charleston hemp farmer and certified public accountant Harold Singletary works in a tiny office just a short walk along East Bay Street to the Old Exchange Building, the location of a historic sale of enslaved people that likely led to his birth.

Rosemont in Charleston’s Neck area truly is between a rock and a hard place, squeezed by challenges like flooding, an accident-prone chemical plant and gentrification. In the midst of this is a January election in which most of the community’s neighborhood association will be replaced.

Seventy percent of the preschool suspensions in the Charleston County School District (CCSD) after August 2020 involved a Black child, according to four years of the district’s data.

The Anson African Burial Memorial, envisioned as a lush garden surrounding a bowl-shaped fountain rimmed with bronze water-spraying hands, could be installed before the early summer on the southside of the Charleston Gaillard Center, according to organizers.

Rosemont residents Monday night elected the Rev. Christopher X. Buggs as president of the Rosemont Neighborhood Association along with a slate of six other new officers.

The rustic blacksmith shop and cottage where legendary artisan Philip Simmons worked and lived until his death in 2009 will become a classroom for historic preservation students at a local college he inspired.Students in a preservation research methods class at the American College of the Building Arts (ACBA) took on a new history assignment Jan. 13 to write a report on the Simmons property at 30½ Blake St., said the college’s provost Christina Rae Butler.