Editions

🌿 Why Mount Pleasant agreed to buy 129 acres on Highway 41

Inside: Mount Pleasant's two-year data center pause, Folly Beach's $50,000 rental study, and 34 more rooms at Ronald McDonald House.

🏛️ Why CofC scanned its Coming Street dorm site

Inside: 332 apartments proposed for the old Pepsi site, a city push to study traffic beyond project entrances, and Sunday's record rain.

📚 Where to borrow books while Charleston's Main Library is renovated

Inside: the Eastside chapel's demolition, Parkshore Park's pickleball delay, and pork dumplings at Jackrabbit Filly.

🚧 How SCDOT plans to make Ladson Road safer

Inside: Four public meetings are coming up on Charleston County’s half-cent transportation tax, a new fire engine can take up to four years to arrive, plus $4.5 million in James Island drainage work, 20 years of Home Team BBQ, Senegalese prix fixe on Line Street, a closer look at your lawn treatment, and this week’s Real Estate Corner.

🌧️ What 35-foot wetland buffers could change in Charleston

Inside: A $1 million boost completes the EMS headquarters funding plan, 61 Kiawah Homes units reopen downtown, plus James Taylor and his All-Star Band, and a handwritten menu lands on Restaurant Radar.

🏥 How MUSC’s $1B hospital would change cancer care

Inside: Two major local projects are moving forward, a Charleston food stop worth knowing, a farewell tour comes to town, and more things to do around the area.

North Charleston starts 18-month zoning rewrite

Inside: A local data center pause, a must-see show this weekend, and okonomiyaki in a most unexpected location.

🚒 Records flag 146 Charleston Water System hydrants out of service

Inside: CCSD's 75.8% reading goal, Robert Mills Manor's $60M renovation, The Obstinate Daughter, and Goo Goo Dolls

🏝️ Court voids Folly Beach's 800-rental cap

Inside: Palmira Barbecue, 167 Summerville solar jobs, the $15.7M Solar Factory, and Nikki Glaser.

Hanahan's Blackwell's Corner goes local-only

How Sol Legare's 200-year-old oak was saved

Inside: Highway 41's 5-4 vote, an eight-guest rental cap, Riverstone High, and Hannibal's crab rice.

⚓ Union Pier's post-cruise chapter begins

Inside: Jerome Heyward's six-year sentence, CCSD's $38.5M James Island project, Jackrabbit Filly, and Waterfront fireworks.

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