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The Powder Magazine Museum on Cumberland Street is now closed to general admission following a decision by the building’s owner, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina (NSCDA-SC)
By Herb Frazier
The distant clippety-clop cadence grew louder as Charleston tour guide David Collins’s horse-drawn carriage loaded with tourists approached the Powder Magazine Museum on Cumberland Street.
“This is the Powder Magazine,” Collins announced recently. “It is the oldest public building in South Carolina. It was built in 1713 and built for one purpose only: to store gun powder.” It is one of the earliest 18th century buildings left in the walled city, he said.
Hundreds of visitors may have visited the Powder Magazine’s tiny museum after hearing the narrative Collins has given since 2018 when he joined Palmetto Carriage Works.
A recent decision by the building’s owners, however, has now closed the one-room exhibit space to visitors except for scheduled school groups and planned events.
“The Powder Magazine Museum will begin a new chapter in its 123-year history as it explores an updated model for its operations,” Florence resident Angelyn Bridges, president of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina (NSCDA-SC), said in a press release.
“It was a business decision,” Bridges said in a later email to the Charleston City Paper. “This past year, our number of visitors has declined. While revenue declined, expenses increased. Insurance and salaries were the driving force, although our dedicated staffers were among the lowest paid museum staff in the city. They did their job for [the] love of colonial history.”
But the nonprofit organization’s federal 990 tax filings paint a slightly different financial picture.
In the 2024 fiscal year, the Dames reported income of $586,337, compared to $528,736 the previous year. Expenses in 2024 were $552,900, down from $554,666 the prior year. Net revenue in 2024 was reported at $33,437. In 2023, the organization lost $25,930 in net revenue.
Income from the museum for fiscal years 2023 and 2024, was $44,421 for both fiscal years. The Dames’ fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31.
“NSCDA-SC has no further comments at this time,” Bridges said in an email to the City Paper.
After Covid-19 restrictions were lifted, there was a “bump” up in the number of visitors for several months, Bridges said earlier. This past year, the number of visi-
The Charleston County Democratic Party on Feb. 28 issued a public apology to Republican County Councilman Brantley Moody of West Ashley after accusing him of entering Democratic headquarters and berating volunteers in October 2024.
Moody maintained his innocence from the onset, saying the accusation was a clear case of mistaken identity. He sued the party on Oct. 15 for slander. Moody has since dropped the lawsuit, as the public apology was the only requirement to settle, according to media reports.
Former Democratic Chairman Sam Skardon issued the apology the day before the party was set to meet for its county convention. The statement was among Skardon’s last acts as a local party leader, as he was succeeded by local pastor Thomas Dixon of North Charleston. —Skyler Baldwin
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tors has declined, she added.
This is true, according to the 990 form.
During the 2024 fiscal year 16,350 people went through the museum’s doors, down from 19,572 from the year before.
“With our new protocol of scheduled visits, our staffing needs were measurably reduced,” Bridges said in the email. “There is a gift shop in the museum. With scheduled visits, stock quantities will be reduced, which reduces expenses. Our situation is not unlike many other museum properties in Charleston.”
Bridges was not available for follow-up questions about the 990 report.
“I hope the Dames get it worked out,” Collins told the City Paper. “It is quite the challenge to keep [the museum] running fiscally sound. I am not privy to the finance, but if it does not open up, it will be a loss to bear for those of us who love the city’s history.”
The Dames purchased the building in 1902, operating it as a museum since then to advance its mission of “furthering
The amount awarded to the International African American Museum through a Mellon Foundation grant to fuel its effort to become a leading international connector within the African American and Black Diaspora. The foundation’s lifetime giving to the IAAM is $2.9 million. Source: IAAM
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We’re now keeping track of fluctuating costs so you don’t have to. Numbers are based on weekly average costs nationwide.
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Cheese (8-ounce block): $2.47 ( $0.10)
Eggs (dozen, large white): $8.30 ( $0.32)
Bananas (per pound): $0.56 (no change)
Avocados (each): $1.19 ( $0.03)
Gas (per gallon, S.C. average): $2.695 ( $0.122)
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By Skyler Baldwin
Two former North Charleston City Council members and two others pleaded guilty Feb. 28 to federal corruption charges in cases that are rocking North Charleston city hall. Four others were indicted.
“When elected officials take their oath of office, they make a sacred promise to the people they serve,” acting U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina Brook B. Andrews said at a Feb. 26 press conference about the scandal. “They pledge to uphold the law, act with integrity and place the public interest over their own. Public service should never merely be a job. It is a public trust.
“The allegations in this case describe a profound betrayal of that trust,” he continued. “These council members used their positions not to serve their community but to enrich themselves. They traded the power entrusted to them by the city of North Charleston for their own personal gain.”
Four men appeared Friday before U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel to enter pleas: Former North Charleston City Councilmen Jerome Heyward, 61, who represented District 5; Sandino Moses, 50, who resigned after representing District 3; nonprofit Core4Success founder Donavan Moten, 46, and lobbyist Aaron Hicks, 37, of North Charleston.
Heyward pleaded guilty to 14 charges, according to court documents, after he allegedly accepted payments from nonprofit organizations in exchange for his official action on the city council. Moses pleaded guilty to a single charge of misprision of a felony — which is an allegation of knowingly withholding information regarding a felony. Moten, founder of Core4Success, is associated in a separate alleged bribery scheme with Heyward. He pleaded guilty to bribery, honest services wire fraud, theft and money laundering, according to court documents. Hicks was charged in connection with a conspiracy to pay bribes to Brown and Heyward, and a separate conspiracy to bribe Moses. He pleaded guilty to four counts, including two counts of conspiracy to commit bribery.
Each defendant received a $50,000 unsecured bond, meaning none had to put up any money, due to having no prior criminal records. All four must appear for all future hearings, according to court documents. No sentencing date for any has been set so far.
Four others, including North Charleston City Councilman Mike A. Brown, 46, who represents District 1, are expected to be arraigned some time in March. Hason Tatorian Fields, 51 of Goose Creek; Rose
“Public trust in our elected officials is a fundamental pillar of our democracy, and it should never be taken for granted.”
—FBI Special Agent Steve Jensen
Emily Lorenzo, 65, of North Carolina; and Michelle Stent-Hilton, 56, of North Carolina, were also indicted in the case.
Brown is charged with conspiring with Heyward and Hicks to commit bribery and honest services wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Fields, Lorenzo and Stent-Hilton are each charged with bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery and honest services wire fraud. Stent-Hilton is also charged with money laundering. A full list of all charges of those involved are detailed at charlestoncitypaper.com.
The charges and indictments followed a 12-month investigation by the FBI and the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) into three different allegations of corruption. Court documents alleged charges stemmed from three different acts: a scheme to solicit payments in exchange for an official action, rezoning of the historic Baker Hospital site in North Charleston and the city’s violence reduction grants, Andrews said.
FBI Special Agent Steve Jensen, who leads the bureau’s Columbia Field Office, outlined the significance of the charges.
“Public trust in our elected officials is a fundamental pillar of our democracy, and it should never be taken for granted,” he said. “Unfortunately, as alleged in these indictments, the defendants abused that trust, using their positions of power and influence to orchestrate back-door deals for personal gain.”
North Charleston Mayor Reggie Burgess, the city’s former police chief, said in a statement that the investigation and subsequent charges were necessary to build a safer and brighter future for the city.
“From the outset, the city has fully cooperated with this inquiry, embracing the opportunity to ensure the continued trust and confidence of our community,” he said. “Transparency and accountability remain core principles of this administration, and we welcomed this review as a necessary step to uphold those standards.”
“In light of the indictments, the city is conducting a thorough review of any matters in which the implicated city Council members may have had involvement,” he said in a second statement on Feb. 27.
By Andy Brack
The quick and forced Feb. 28 evacuation of the 100+ units of Dockside condominium along the Cooper River might best be characterized as “unexpectedly expected.”
Residents were stunned on Feb. 26 to learn they had to be out of the swanky high-rise building, Charleston’s tallest, by 5 p.m. two days later due to suspected structural issues.
But for at least two years, they’ve known something has been going on structurally with the 49-year-old tower, situated on Cooper Street between the new International African American Museum and the Fort Sumter Visitor Center with sweeping views of the Arthur Ravenel Bridge.
In 2023, engineers found “structural issues stemmed from problems with the initial construction of the building, not from gradual deterioration,” according to one city report. That led an engineering firm to recommend temporary shoring to stabilize the building. Nevertheless, a report showed the building could “safely support the weight of firefighters, equipment and water in the event of an emergency.” And so it stayed open.
The 19-story building’s next door neighbor, the new museum, is pretty close, alarming some of its possible fate if the condo tower were to collapse.
“During this time, our hearts and prayers go out to our neighbors during
this challenging time,” IAAM spokesman Paul Holston said in a statement last week. “We are aware of the evacuation notice issued to our neighbors. Based on conversation with city officials, at present there are no immediate safety concerns for IAAM at this time.”
In recent months, the building has undergone examination by engineers, particularly on upper floors where borings were taken to probe structural elements. Just last week, one upper-floor residence clearly showed signs of structural stress with three-foot-long vertical cracks along some door frames.
On Feb. 25, the tower’s board of directors received a tough-to-swallow engineering report that said the building was “unsafe for continued occupancy.” The next day, directors notified residents that they would have to get out: “After additional meetings with our engineering firm, WJE, we received a phone call from city officials at 4 p.m. this afternoon that the city of Charleston has imposed an evacuation order for Dockside,” a Wednesday afternoon email from the board of directors said. “All residents must be out of the building no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, February 28 (48 hours), with the understanding that there will be no timeline for return.”
A city of Charleston spokesman confirmed the evacuation almost three hours later: “The city of Charleston was made aware today by Dockside Association board representatives that their engineering firm has recommended evacuation of the building
By Jack O’Toole
The GOP federal budget blueprint that passed Feb. 25 in the U.S. House of Representatives could blow about a billiondollar-a-year hole in South Carolina’s state budget over the next decade, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The reason? Almost $1 trillion in cuts assigned to the House committee that oversees Medicaid — cuts that, if modeled after past GOP proposals, could force S.C. lawmakers to slash benefits or hike state health care spending by as much as 35%. Medicaid, also known as Health Connections in S.C., is the national health care program funded primarily by the federal government — but with some state matching dollars — that helps to cover medical costs for many people with limited incomes.
Sue Berkowitz, who’s worked on health care issues with the S.C. Appleseed Legal Justice Center since the 1980s, called the proposed cuts “devastating” to S.C.
“The state is not going to be able to make up for what we don’t get from the federal government,” she said. “Medicaid is the foundation of our state’s health care system, and we all know what happens when the foundation crumbles — the whole house goes down.”
To understand the threat cuts could pose to state budgets and health care systems, analysts studied two Medicaid reform plans Republicans have floated that would achieve savings of the magnitude called for in the resolution.
The first plan, similar to one introduced by former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) in 2016, would place a hard cap on traditional Medicaid expenditures per person, costing South Carolina about $8 billion from 2026-2035. Under the second plan, a broader cap that also targets new Medicaid spending under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, would cost South Carolina $13 billion over the same period.
“The [Republican] talking points say this is all focused on waste, fraud and abuse,” said Katherine Hempstead, a health care policy analyst with the foundation. “But in reality, any kind of cut to Medicaid affects services for people who need them.”
All six of the state’s Republican House members voted yes on the spending resolution, which cut a total of $2 trillion in federal spending, while authorizing $4.5 trillion in income tax cuts. Democratic U.S. Rep. James Clyburn was the delegation’s only dissenter.
Closer to home, where the health care cost reductions would hit hardest, S.C. Senate Minority Leader Brad Hutto
(D-Orangeburg) said cuts could have “significant impacts” to the state budget.
“It’s particularly troubling for the hundreds of thousands of children who rely on this coverage,” he said.
According to health-care policy organization KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation), South Carolina spent $9 billion on Medicaid services in 2022, with the federal government picking up 75% of the cost, including administrative overhead.
Currently, Medicaid is estimated to cover 60% of all births in the state, as well as 63% of all nursing home patients. It also provides health care coverage for half the children in the state.
And according to Columbia policy analyst John Ruoff, major cuts to Medicaid would have impacts on all South Carolinians, including those with private insurance.
“These cuts would threaten providers across the state, for whom Medicaid dollars basically pay the rent,” Ruoff said. “And that would seriously raise costs for everyone else because those provider costs would have to be shifted onto the rest of us.”
Those provider problems, he noted, would be felt most acutely in the state’s small towns and rural areas, where Medicaid coverage rates run as high as 30%.
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A Mount Pleasant man on Feb. 21 reportedly stole several packages of raw pork and crab meat from a Johnnie Dodds Boulevard grocery store. Security footage showed the man stuffing the meat into his jacket before fleeing on a bicycle. All right everybody, looks like this is going to be a team effort — this guy forgot to steal some sides. We’ll bring the potatoes.
What is he paying you?
knowledge and appreciation of our colonial/national heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service and educational projects.”
That mission will take on new importance next year as South Carolina celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
A prolonged abbreviated schedule at the museum will mean fewer opportunities for visitors to Charleston to hear the city’s role in the revolution. The Powder Magazine is one of three public museums sites in the city with a direct tie to the revolution. The others are the HeywardWashington House and the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon.
Jack and Chris Mansfield, who live south of Syracuse, frequent Charleston to escape the harsh winters in upstate New York. They enjoy the city’s architecture and
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tower. In response, the city immediately contacted the engineering firm and verbally advised the Dockside Association representatives that residents should be prepared to evacuate by Friday at 5 p.m. … The safety and well-being of our community is our top
restaurants, but they had never visited the Powder Magazine until a sign in the museum’s cannon yard recently caught their eyes. They paid the $8 adult admission to venture inside for a tour of the 1,000-square-foot museum packed with Colonial-era exhibits.
The Mansfields were among the last group of tourists to Charleston who were able to step inside the museum before it was closed Feb. 28 to general admission.
“I like the Revolutionary War history over the Civil War history,” Mansfield said.
“England was such a large powerful force, and a ragtag bunch of colonists were able to defeat them. I hope we have the same backbone today to repel invaders to keep our freedom.”
Chris Mansfield lamented the decision to close the museum to general admission. She’s encouraged, however, that it will remain open to school groups to supplement the students’ understanding of the American Revolution.
priority, and we urge all affected residents to take the necessary precautions.”
The disruptive news about one of the city’s toniest addresses in its tallest building hit residents and their family members like a ton of bricks, with one saying, “It’s the story
The Dames’ decision to restrict the museum’s hours eliminated four part-time positions at the museum and Katherine Saunders Pemberton’s position as the museum’s director.
“I will say that the NSCDA-SC is very committed to the museum and its educational mission and has convened an ad hoc committee to take input and make recommendations for the path ahead,” she said.
“I am really proud of the work we’ve been doing lately with the Revolutionary War era research, exhibit updates, lecture series and special events like the reenactment of the Charleston Tea Party,” she said. “We also renovated the gift shop.”
The museum will remain open for the already scheduled school groups in the spring. “We do many of those field trips in coordination with the Old Exchange Building and the Heyward- Washington House museum for a Revolutionary era multi-site field trip,” Pemberton said.
of the lives upended.”
About 30 minutes before the evacuation deadline, the always-packed parking lot under the building was a shadow of its former self. Fewer than 20 vehicles had open doors and trunks as residents rushed to remove their belongings. One resident wandered around as if shell-shocked, stunned to have to uproot her life.
A West Ashley man on Feb. 26 told Charleston police his ENT doctor was holding his cat against his will. The man threatened to file a complaint if his cat was not returned, but police later confirmed that in “no way, shape or form” is a cat involved whatsoever, and that the man, in fact, has no medical issues requiring an ENT. Yeah, right, you probably just want the cat for yourselves.
North Charleston EMS on March 2 reportedly treated a man involved in a single-car accident, but he fled the scene before police arrived. The suspect, however, gave his full name and date of birth to EMS, meaning officers will likely be able to find him anyway. Listen, if you’re going to flee the scene of anything — don’t give out your real contact information beforehand.
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The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Feb. 21 and March 1.
ur founding fathers rolled in their graves last week after America’s mad-king president and his toadying number two trampled the nation’s highest ideals during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
OThe bullying attacks by President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance on the heroic leader of an embattled democracy were nothing less than a despicable tantrum. Rather than thank Ukraine for its courageous defense of freedom, Trump and Vance soiled our soil by favoring dictators of the ilk that our founding fathers revolted against.
The world watched, stunned and gobsmacked that the very America that has embraced freedom for generations today has leaders who showed active opposition to the values of liberty that Ukrainians are fighting and dying to keep.
Trump and Vance’s behavior was simply disgraceful, a betrayal of
American values. Their blustering display made many Americans, us included, ashamed — ashamed of this unbelievable departure from truth, justice, freedom and the much-vaunted American Way.
Trump and Vance caused immeasurable global damage to America, making it far less in the eyes of free people who fight tyranny. For this, we apologize.
But the world should know that Trump and Vance don’t represent the vast majority of Americans whose relatives sacrificed in wars from the founding of the country to today.
America can do better. America will do better. Now is the time for Congress and the courts to stand up and shut down the dangerous nonsense coming from this White House. Now is the time for peaceful protest against the defiling of our most sacred values. Now is the time for America to be America again.
By Elizabeth Chew
During the American Revolution, a wealthy French teenager was willing to risk his fortune and his life for people he had never met who lived an ocean away. Why? Because of their stirring fight for freedom from British colonial rule. Against the wishes of his family and the French crown, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834), financed a ship and crossed the Atlantic to join our cause. He was 19 years old.
He was commissioned as a major general in the Continental Army, became an influential member of General George Washington’s staff, endured the brutal winter at Valley Forge, and befriended Alexander Hamilton and South Carolinian John Laurens. He encouraged French King Louis XVI to send critical military support and led a division at the Battle of Yorktown, where the British surrendered in 1781.
As I have talked with people over the last year about the Marquis de Lafayette’s role in the American Revolution, colleagues have had to remind me to explain who he was. Despite his 21st-century reappearance with Hamilton and Laurens in the blockbuster Broadway musical Hamilton, Lafayette is no longer a household name. That is a shame. He remains a hero.
More than 40 years after the Revolutionary War ended, Lafayette certainly was a household name. In March 1825 during a 13-month return visit to the United States, he spent just under two weeks in South Carolina, stopping in Cheraw, Camden, Columbia, Charleston, Edisto Island and Beaufort. As the nation he helped to establish approached its 50th birthday, Lafayette, the last surviving Revolutionary general, had written to President James Monroe expressing his longing to “seek those friends of my youth with whom I may still enjoy the most pleasing recollections, to revisit the happy shores of an adopted country, which has so well fulfilled our early and
most sanguine expectations, and where I find, in a third and fourth generation, testimonies of benevolence that fill my heart with the most affectionate and devoted gratitude.”
Lafayette may have invited himself, but President Monroe and the U. S. Congress readily obliged. In January 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution requesting President Monroe, himself a Continental Army officer and friend of Lafayette, to provide a ship to convey Lafayette to our shores.
Lafayette and his party arrived in New York on Aug. 16. Greeted and feted as a rock star or Hollywood icon in all (the then) 24 states of the union, Lafayette attracted rapt public attention and overwhelming hospitality—processions, artillery salutes, speeches, dinners and balls—from aging Revolution veterans, military and civic leaders, the press and Americans of every stripe. He visited Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon, laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill monument, and participated in ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown.
This month’s bicentennial of Lafayette’s 1825 visit to Charleston provides us with an opportune moment of reflection as we approach the 250th anniversary of the Revolution. Why was the American cause so attractive to the young Frenchman in 1776 and the memory so important in 1824-5? Why should we care about his visit today?
In short, we should care about Lafayette’s visit because of the way Lafayette saw us.
During the Revolutionary era, Lafayette made it clear that while he championed the cause of American liberty from Britain, he also supported the manumission of slaves. In the 50 years between the Revolution and his return, he participated in abolitionist activities in the United States and France.
During his return trip, Lafayette was accompanied by his son, George Washington Lafayette, and his secretary, Auguste Levasseur. In 1829, Levasseur published a two-volume account of their journey. Of their visit to James and Dolley Madison’s Montpelier plantation in Virginia, Levasseur wrote that Lafayette “who never fails to take advantage of an opportunity to defend the right which all men, without exception, have to liberty, introduced the question of slavery among the friends of Mr. Madison.”
Of their time in South Carolina, Levasseur wrote “the state of things in relation to slavery in South Carolina, is the more distressing from its singular contrast with the character of the inhabitants of that state. The Carolinians are particularly distinguished for the cultivation of their minds, the elegance of their manners, their politeness and hospitality towards strangers.”
Throughout his time in America, Lafayette emphasized that though he loved the United States, he opposed slavery. He loved and respected Americans and he wanted them to live up to the founding edict that liberty is a natural human right for all people.
Lafayette’s ability to see America for better and for worse should still be a model for us today.
Elizabeth Chew has degrees from Yale University, the University of London and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is CEO of the S.C. Historical Society. More: https://schistory.org
Country is in place it’s never been, Bernstein says By
Andy Brack
If you’re looking for a refresher about what reporting is supposed to be, you should watch the movie, All the President’s Men, which portrayed the Watergate scandal that brought down a president.
“It’s a primer on reporting,” legendary investigative reporter Carl Bernstein, portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the movie, said during a Feb. 26 talk at the College of Charleston. It was kind of surprising advice because he recommended a movie as a teaching tool to remind Americans what the media does. But then again, movies are mass media tools that can make complex information more digestible, so maybe it wasn’t too surprising.
Bernstein reminded the audience of 500 about how good reporters strive to tell the “best obtainable version of the truth,” based on the information on hand at the time. As more information becomes available, the story may twist in a new direction or reveal new layers — kind of like peeling an onion to get to the middle.
What’s worrying these days, he said, is how the whole concept of truth on which American democracy is based is suffering, in part because of the perpetuation of the notion of “alternative facts” that conservatives launched. Another description of alternative facts” simply is, “lie,” not truth.
“Now, the whole idea of the best obtainable version of the truth is getting erased — by social media and by a president who has no interest in the truth,” Bernstein said.
Nevertheless, the pervasiveness of media outlets through traditional press and today’s quality online journalism led Bernstein to note, “The reporting on the Trump era has been great in many regards by many organizations.”
In other words, the information about what’s happening is out there, but it may be hard for many to find. And some just don’t want to believe it because they’re in their own polarized bubble.
These are the kind of things that journalism is struggling with. So what to do? Keep doing the kinds of things that work by asking questions, knocking on doors, tracking down leads and trying to find out what’s really going on. Relying on press releases and unchecked statements are not paths to truth.
“Our job is to make truth available and knock on those doors,” Bernstein said.
Part of what’s hindering the quest for and understanding of truth, in part, is that Americans tend to have a poor knowledge of government, how it works and history, particularly involving other countries.
“Our knowledge of what goes on in the world between people and nations is really parochial,” Bernstein said. “Not enough people in this country know history.”
[Side observation: Do you think you could answer six out of 10 civics questions on U.S. citizenship test required for immigrants who want to become naturalized citizens? You might be surprised that you may not be able to.]
More than 50 years ago when Bernstein and colleague Bob Woodward knocked on doors, relied on frightened anonymous sources and dug into records, people tended to trust government. Back then, the system worked.
“The press did its job. Investigators did their job. The second special counsel did his job. The Senate Watergate hearings were probably the greatest congressional investigation in history,” Bernsteins said. Additionally, the Supreme Court did its job in a unanimous decision that said President Richard Nixon did not have an absolute privilege to withhold information, such as audiotapes about the scandal.
These days? The country’s foundational institutions — the press, the courts, Congress, the rule of law — are under attack by idealogues defending Trump and who are putting party over country and democratic ideals.
The assault on truth with the intentional spread of false information, the grandstanding, the bots that promote disinformation and leaders who flat-out lie without compunction is chilling. Good reporting seeks to cut through that.
“What is happening now has never happened in our history,” Bernstein said. “We’re somewhere we’ve never been.”
Andy Brack is editor and publisher of Charleston City Paper. Have a comment? Send to: feedback@ charleston citypaper.com.
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Robin Woods
Lucy Beckham High
Shannon Doughty
Malcolm C. Hursey Montessori
Christi Lotz
Mamie P. Whitesides Elementary
Shauntel Foreman
Mary Ford Early Learning and Family Center
Katie Winch
Matilda F. Dunston Elementary
Jennifer McKenzie
Meeting Street Elementary at Brentwood
Dwayne Crankfield
Memminger Elementary
Cara Butcher
Midland Park Primary
Hannah Eaddy
Military Magnet Academy
Chef Kim Ortego
Minnie Hughes Elementary
Meaghan Porterfield (Spring)
Minnie Hughes Elementary
Amy Coghlan (Fall)
Morningside Middle
LaToya Dent
Moultrie Middle
Janette Baker
Mt. Pleasant Academy
Dot Hook
Mt. Zion Elementary
Jessica Williams
Murray-LaSaine Montessori
William Franklin Smith, Jr.
North Charleston Creative Arts Elementary
McKenna Hakanson **
North Charleston Elementary
Angela Asby-Shervington
North Charleston High
Stevie Shirey *
Northwoods Middle
Ridge Welch
Oakland Elementary
Stephanie Johnson
Orange Grove Charter
Candyce Lyon
Pepperhill Elementary
Taylor Miller
Pinehurst Elementary
Kirstin Martin
R.B. Stall High
Lynette Alston
Sanders-Clyde Elementary
Myeshah Sims
Septima P. Clark Academy
Grace Barry *
Springfield Elementary
Melanie Maier
St. Andrew’s School of Math and Science
Lauren Schavel
St. James-Santee Elementary Middle
Cathy Lynn Damico
St. John’s High
Ivie Froehler
Stiles Point Elementary
Kathleen Atkins
Stono Park Elementary
Jessica Collins
Sullivan’s Island Elementary
Kim Deaton
Thomas C. Cario Middle
Hannah Farrell
Turning Point Academy
Mary Rivadeneyra
W.B. Goodwin Elementary
Alysia Lambert
Wando High
Bev Salvo
West Ashley Center for Advanced Studies
Nicholas Holmes
West Ashley High
Julia Royall *
Mercantile and Mash is joining forces with Pup Country, a local small business that specializes in realistic sculptural food and plant candles, for a unique class next weekend. Guests will get their own vintage vessel to create a cocktail candle with soy wax and fragrance oil. Your candle will be ready to take home by the end of the class. Just be sure to bring an apron or an old T-shirt in case you spill wax.
March 14. 6 p.m. $65/person. Mercantile and Mash. 701 East Bay St. Downtown. mercandmash.com
SATURDAY
The annual Black Expo is taking over the Charleston Area Convention Center in North Charleston this weekend for a day filled with enriching talks, cultural exhibitions and a showcase of Black business excellence. Visit to network, shop with local vendors and be inspired to do more in the community. Go online for a full list of vendors and chefs.
March 8. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $15/general admission; $40/VIP pass. Charleston Area Convention Center. Coliseum Drive. North Charleston. blackexposouth.com/charlestonsc
THIS WEEKEND
Calling all Octonauts! The S.C. Aquarium is welcoming the stars of The Octonauts to meet fans and fellow explorers from Friday through Sunday. Join the team for fun-filled days of aquatic glee with special dive shows, a scavenger hunt for a prize as well as the opportunity to meet and take a picture with Captain Barnacles and Kwazii. Go online for a full schedule of meet and greet time slots. Capacity is limited, so arrive early.
March 7 through March 9. Event times vary. Ticket prices vary by day. S.C. Aquarium. 100 Aquarium Wharf. Downtown. scaquarium.org
SATURDAY
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Visit historic Middleton Place in West Ashley this weekend for a drop-in indigo dying workshop and program. Learn more about the indigo plant and the labor it took to grow, harvest and process it, as well as the importance of indigo and what it was used for throughout the Lowcountry’s history. Guests will hand-dye their own square of fabric to take home.
March 8. Noon to 2 p.m. Free with general admission. Middleton Place. 4300 Ashley River Road. West Ashley. middletonplace.org
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Unravel the mysteries of the past with Fossil Fridays at the Charleston Museum, hosted by curator of natural history Matthew Gibson. A great opportunity for families of history lovers and dinosaur addicts, this weekly event lets you get hands-on experience with different fossils found in the Lowcountry and elsewhere. Gibson will also share what projects he is currently working on and help you identify your own fossil finds.
Every Friday. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free for members; free with museum admission. Charleston Museum. 360 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonmuseum.org
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Can avoid or reduce estate taxes
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By Skyler Baldwin
outh Carolinians aren’t the only ones who spend their summers in the Palmetto State’s many rivers and creeks. Manatees periodically venture north every year from their Florida homes as the waters warm, taking several through South Carolina. About 50 manatees are estimated to meander their way through South Carolina every year, with sightings reported as early as February and as late as November, depending on temperatures.
“Manatees are seasonal visitors to South Carolina waters,” said Erin Weeks, who works with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). “They come in the spring and leave in the fall, usually when water temperatures are warmer. Mostly, they’re just vacationing.”
All manatees are managed and protected by Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Service, even the ones that routinely visit the Palmetto State. Florida handles the tagging and monitoring, and historically, there wasn’t really a presence in South Carolina. But in the last several years, SCDNR and smaller groups like the Lowcountry Marine Mammal Foundation (LMMN) have stepped in to assist when possible.
But new restrictions and permitting have made it difficult to continue.
“A few years ago, we were able to offer more assistance,” said LMMN Executive Director Lauren Rust. “They asked if we wanted to apply for a permit to handle the manatees — we’re permitted for dolphins, whales and seals — and at the time, we didn’t have the capacity to do that. … Now, we take a lot of the calls and then shoot it off to the right person.”
Thanks to a federal grant given to the SCDNR, that right person will soon often be Kelly Lambert, a wildlife biologist and the agency’s new manatee coordinator.
The John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant — or the Prescott Grant for short — awarded $92,000 to SCDNR for two years at the end of 2024 to help build a stronger support
network for South Carolina’s manatees, Lambert said.
“Over the next two years, we’re really going to be looking at expanding partnerships and looking for more people to be our eyes and ears on the water,” she said. “Of course, there will be opportunities for us to respond to animals, too.
“Florida’s Fish and Wildlife will continue to be the leaders in tagging and tracking,” she added, “but hopefully, we’ll be better equipped to support them. We can be a little more involved, more boots-on-the-ground and more proactive instead of just reactive.”
SCDNR’s Marine Turtle Conservation Program Coordinator Michelle Pate, who previously headed the agency’s manatee programs, said the grant offers a huge opportunity.
“What we are able to dedicate more time to now, thanks to this grant, is public outreach and education,” she said. “We are able to work more intensely on pushing out our online sightings form, getting that information out to folks recreating on the water.”
Pate said the agency can coordinate sightings with water temperature and vegetation data to build a better understanding of where the state’s manatees frequent, how long they’re staying and how that’s shifting over time.
Manatees in South Carolina face unique threats as temperatures cool down in November and December. When most manatees start migrating back to Florida’s warmer waters, others hang around longer in warm pockets and eventually become stranded, surrounded by water too cold for them to swim through.
“Manatees that do not migrate back to Florida when they’re supposed to can experience the manatee equivalent of hypothermia,” Weeks said. “It can cause significant damage, or even death. We had two animals documented in the last year where we think that was the cause of death.”
Some of these warm spots were frequently caused by industrial sites close to the river’s edge, like the former paper mill in North Charleston. But as more of these facilities shutter, environmental advocates hope temperature patterns will regulate, and fewer manatees will need rescue.
“They shouldn’t stay here that long,” Rust said. “If they do, we have to capture them and take them back to Florida. They just really can’t survive here.”
And rescue operations are huge. Two years ago, she said, a small group became stranded in North Charleston, resulting in a large team of volunteers and leaders from Florida and South Carolina agencies spending a week capturing them.
Manatees are endangered animals, and that label already comes with several restrictions regarding human interaction. But due to South Carolina’s murky waters, many people may not even know they’re swimming with manatees.
“In Florida, you can’t walk or boat anywhere without signs in your face,” Rust said. “They are so aware of their manatees and love them. But here, a lot of people don’t really know the rules.”
The two most important rules to remember:
Give manatees their space. Don’t encourage them to your boat, don’t approach them and certainly don’t touch them. Never feed them or give them fresh water. Manatees love drinking fresh water from bottles or hoses, and they often congregate around marinas where people are washing their boats. Just don’t give in to their begging faces, Weeks said.
Desensitizing manatees to human interaction puts them at greater risk of boat strikes and other potential harm that comes from human activity.
“It’s so difficult to convey how dangerous it is for animals to be fed or otherwise habituated to us,” Weeks said, “because they really are so cute.”
Manatees sightings are expected to begin by the beginning of April. If you spot any manatees in the water, especially those that look injured or sick, contact SCDNR at its 24-hour hotline at 1-800-922-5431, or at manatee@dnr.sc.gov.
By Connelly Hardaway
Pearce Fleming knows a thing or two about innovation and the beer industry.
The proprietor and CEO of Commonhouse Aleworks has been implementing new features at his popular Park Circle brewery for years now, incorporating a wide variety of non-beer beverages, an in-house kitchen partner with Swig & Swine and a number of community events.
Now, Commonhouse Aleworks, in partnership with Fleming’s new company, Commongreen LLC, is producing a hemp-based seltzer, CAVU, available for purchase and consumption at the brewery.
Common Green, which owns the brand CAVU, is contracting with Commonhouse to produce, package, store and sell CAVU.
“One of the reasons for creating a separate company is to provide us with the greatest amount of flexibility which would allow, with CAVU’s growth, the ability to go somewhere else and enter into another co-packing agreement to make it [at another brewery],” Fleming said.
Inspired by the aviation term “ceiling and visibility unlimited,” CAVU is made with Delta-9 THC and cannabinoids like CBD, CBG, CBC and CBN. It’s the first hemp-infused seltzer produced by a Charleston brewery.
“The [hemp] market has grown,” Fleming said. “States across the country have started to work with small businesses in this space and specifically in South Carolina. The attorney general issued an opinion this past fall that solidified our stance, and that was when I made the decision to research and really move into this space.”
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Here’s what’s new and fresh at many area breweries. Are we missing the scoop on a spot? Send all the deets to food@charlestoncitypaper.com.
Low Tide Brewing celebrates nine years on Johns Island with its annual blowout bash, Lowcountry Luau, on March 8. It will feature food from Rebel Taqueria and Pineapple Express, live music by the Holy City Steel Collective, a limbo contest and more.
New Realm hosts a night market on the first Friday of each
month, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Check out local vendors and enjoy live music.
Make your way to Indigo Reef Brewing for its monthly sip and shop market. This month, it will be held from noon to 4 p.m. March 8. Shop more than 40 local vendors, nosh on food from Cachita’s Kitchen and enjoy live music from Megan Thrift. Future spring markets will be held on April 12, May 10 and June 14.
The South Carolina Brewery Running Series heads to Over the Horizon at 11 a.m. March 8 for a 5K fun run. The walk/run begins and ends at the brewery. Beer will be served. In fact, registration
DOWNTOWN
Bevi Bene Brewing
Cooper River Brewing Co.
Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co.
LO-Fi Brewing
Munkle Brewing
Over The Horizon Brewing
Palmetto Brewing Co. SC
Revelry Brewing
Rusty Bull at Chucktown Brewery
DANIEL ISLAND
Indigo Reef Brewing Co.
New Realm Brewing Co., CHS
FOLLY BEACH
Revelry Brewing Folly Beach Outpost
JAMES ISLAND
Charles Towne Fermentory James Island
Fam’s Brewing Co.
JOHNS ISLAND
Edisto River Brewing Co.
Estuary Beans & Barley
Low Tide Brewing
MOUNT PLEASANT
Free Reign Brewing Co.
Hobcaw Brewing Co.
Two Blokes Brewing
Westbrook Brewing Co.
NORTH CHARLESTON
Coast Brewing Co.
Commonhouse Aleworks
Freehouse Brewery
High Score Brewing
Holy City Brewing
Rusty Bull Brewing
SNAFU Brewing Co.
Stones Throw Brewing
Tideland Brewing
Wyrd Sisters Brewing
SUMMERVILLE
Frothy Beard Off World
WEST ASHLEY
Charles Towne Fermentory
Frothy Beard Brewing Co.
The Garden by Charles Towne Fermentory New brewery opening?
Email food@charlestoncitypaper.com and let us know about it.
That opinion concluded that hemp products in the state were above board as long as they did not contain a Delta-9 THC concentration of more than 0.3% on a dry weight basis.
Fleming thinks that it’s important to emphasize that these hemp seltzers, while non-alcoholic, are still intoxicating beverages.
“It’s [important to] remind people that there are indeed effects from these beverages,” he said. “You need to be conscious and aware of what you’re doing.”
CAVU beverages are labeled with the words “start low and sip slow,” encouraging drinkers to take their time to figure out how the drink may affect them.
“We want to make sure we are being transparent and people are educating themselves as they seek out different ways to enjoy themselves and socialize,” Fleming said.
Fleming said that, increasingly, customers had been coming into the brewery and requesting hemp-based drinks. He said he’s also seen a lot of growth in the hemp market regionally with brands like Charleston’s High Rise Beverage Company and Greenville’s Rebel Rabbit.
Creating Commonhouse’s own hemp product was a no-brainer.
The brewery started the product rollout with CAVU’s blood orange and tangerine beverage which has the lowest dose of Delta-9. Fleming said the initial response was “very good” and that people liked the drink’s flavor. How the drink affects each person, of course, varies by individual.
Making a hemp seltzer is a different process from brewing beer, but Fleming said that “finding flavor” is something he and the Commonhouse team are used to. He said the greatest trial and error came in the dosing of the drink.
“Someone had to go home and dose that liquid appropriately and be willing to sit at home and record their thoughts about that experience,” he said about the team effort involved in crafting the ideal hemp seltzer.
When it comes to the ever-present question, at least in today’s industry — is craft beer on the decline? — Fleming said the jury is still out. “I think you’re going to get as many answers on that as people you speak to,” he said.
What he says he does know, though, is that people are drinking differently than they used to, seeking out nonalcoholic and alternative beverages in numbers we’ve never seen before.
“You hear people talk about omnichannel drinkers or multiimbibers because they drink a little bit of everything,” he said. “[CAVU] is another beverage that will be in the portfolio of things people will be able to enjoy drinking that is not alcohol.”
includes a craft beverage of your choice from Over the Horizon, your choice of a collector’s pint glass or series swag item from the running series and access to the day’s festivities like live music, food trucks and raffle prizes.
Holy City Brewing has a snazzy new dock — check it out now. The brewery is planning on having a “grand opening” at 4 p.m. March 14 with oysters from its raw bar, The Walrus, and acoustic music from Weighstation.
Rusty Bull Brewing Downtown hosts a special Second Sunday event March 9. Enjoy live music from Carl Wine from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and fresh oyster shooters from Vince Lendacki.
Partake in a new monthly event at Frothy Beard Brewing , Jeo-Beardy, which launches March 12. On the second Wednesday of each month, the brewery will host two games of Jeopardy, hosted by Tip of the Tongue Trivia, with three players each. The winners of each game will defend their title in the following months’ games, and the top three champions will face off for victory Nov. 12.
Head to the new Park Circle microbrewery, Wyrd Sisters, every
Thursday night to listen to new and classic metal and punk vinyl.
Snafu Brewing hosts a Star Warsthemed trivia night, hosted by Publik Education, at 7 p.m. March 21. In addition to Star Wars trivia, the brewery will also release two new themed beers on tap and prizes for trivia winners.
Edmund’s Oast Brewing Company presents a vintage goods event, Eight Four Flea from noon to 5 p.m. March 22. Enjoy drinks and food from EOBC while shopping for treasures Connelly Hardaway
St. Patrick's Day Party St. Patrick's Day Party
Sunday, March 16 Sunday, March 16 2:00 - 8:00 pm 2:00 - 8:00 pm
Tickets on sale at the restaurant $15 Pre-Sale | $20 Day-Of
Sláinte! Our annual St. Patrick's Day Celebration is happening on Sunday, March 16 and we'll be partying all day long! We are kicking things off with our Sunday Brunch at 10am. The parking lot party will begin at 2pm. takes the stage from 5-8pm! You also don't want to miss.....
Car Bombs
Green Beer
Irish Food Specials featuring
Lots of Irish Swag
Pints o' Guinness
Jameson
By Connelly Hardaway
In honor of International Women’s Day (March 8) and a week dedicated to food (hello, Charleston Wine + Food!), we asked several local women in the food and beverage industry what it means to be a woman working in food today.
Here’s what they had to say:
Beverage director at Félix Cocktails et Cuisine and La Cave
“Women bring passion, resilience and a fresh perspective to the fast-paced world of hospitality,” said Hailey Knight, beverage director at King Street hotspots Félix Cocktails et Cuisine and La Cave. “It comes with its challenges though. I still find myself needing to be louder or more assertive to command the same level of respect that my male counterparts seem to receive more naturally.”
Despite the challenges, Knight said she sees change on the horizon. “The landscape is slowly progressing, with more and more
women in leadership positions, and I’m proud to be a part of that,” she said.
Co-founder of Fleet Landing
“My husband and I opened Fleet Landing together 20 years ago,” said Weesie Newton, co-owner of longstanding waterfront restaurant, Fleet Landing. “At the time, I was overlooked by most men — everyone would go directly to him for answers despite us working as a team. As the business developed and time went on, I became [the] leadership for the restaurant.”
Newton said that times have changed, but more change — and guidance from other women in the business — can only help.
“I would say that women have gained a lot more momentum in the industry in the last two decades, but we’re still a bit outnumbered,” she said. “Lately, I’ve been thinking it’d be great to come together with other female F&B leaders in Charleston to mentor the next generation and offer guidance with the knowledge we’ve gained. It’s something I would’ve
A new Morrison Drive ramen restaurant, JINYA Ramen Bar, recently launched its latest seasonal chef’s specials, available now through May 31. Crafted by vice president and executive corporate chef Kazuya Takebe, these dishes include Birria Ramen, which fuses Mexican and Japanese cuisine and a chicken salad. It is served with diced red onion, cucumber and crispy wonton chips. Learn more at jinyaramenbar.com.
Speaking of salads — chef Jason Stanhope has whipped up a special new one at Lowland. The Chicory Caesar is Stanhope’s wintery take on a Caesar salad, made with gem lettuce, Treviso (a slightly bitter leafy green), house-made Caesar dressing and pecorino cheese. Check out the full menu at lowlandcharleston.com.
MOMO Crowfield recently announced its grand opening at the Crowfield Golf Club. This is the second MOMO location (the first is located at North Charleston’s Riverfront Park) from chef/owner Justin Moore and his wife and co-owner Iryna Moore. The golf course and restaurant are public spaces, so anyone can stop by the new spot. Diners can look forward to lunch, dinner, Sunday brunch and a full patio bar with snacks and sandwiches for the golf course. Learn more at momocrowfield.com.
Lately, I’ve been thinking it’d be great to come together with other female F&B leaders in Charleston to mentor the next generation and offer guidance with the knowledge we’ve gained.” —Weesie Newton
loved to have as a resource when I first started out.”
Co-founder of The Drifter and Merci “I feel like women are pioneering a new
The Independent Restaurant Coalition (IRC) recently expanded its board of directors to include Corrie Wang, owner and CFO of Jackrabbit Filly and King BBQ. The IRC is a national organization that fights for the future of independent restaurants and bars. In a press release, executive director Erika Polmar said: “This year, the IRC will engage in nationwide discussions to explore sensible approaches to compensation that offers restaurant workers a livable wage while providing independent restaurant and bar owners with the tools they need to operate successfully,” among other initiatives. Wang joins 14 other volunteers from across the country on the IRC’s board of directors. Learn more at independentrestauarantcoalition.com. Connelly Hardaway
Head to the Trident Tech Palmer Campus March 7 for a conversation with chef, recipe developer, video producer and author of Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook, Sohla El-Waylly
By Connelly Hardaway
The Charleston Wine + Food Festival (CHSWF) kicks off March 5 but the foodie fun around town is going on all week long. We’ve rounded up food-and-drinkfocused events taking place throughout the Charleston area that are not officially associated with the festival but still contribute to the experience.
Lovingly referred to as “fringe” events*, these parties, dinners and bar takeovers offer an opportunity to indulge even if you never got around to buying CHSWF tickets.
*Some of these events call themselves “fringe,” while some are simply foodie events we wanted to highlight that happen to be taking place this week. Don’t get too caught up in the labels and get out there and eat, drink and be merry.
Happy Hour
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. March 7
Free to attend
Beautiful South’s David and Tina Schuttenberg host a Ham & Whisky Happy Hour with the folks from Lady Edison Pork and Virgil Kaine. Enjoy complimentary, collaborative bites and cocktails, with samples of Lady Edison’s Country Ham and tastings from Virgil Kaine. Diners can also partake in Beautiful South’s full happy hour menu.
JMB Provisions at Dalila’s
6 p.m. to 12 a.m. March 7 and March 8
Free to attend
Dalila’s on Spring hosts pop-up JMB
Provisions, from chefs Mark Bolchoz and Jalen Reeves, all weekend long. Head to the Spring Street bar for JMB goods, which include pizzas, pastas and more. Hot tip: This is a great way to check out the food of Bolchoz, who is opening an Italian restaurant, Cane Pazzo, in Hanahan later this year.
An Evening with Sohla El-Waylly
6 p.m. March 7
$30, $65/with signed copy of Start Here
Head to the Trident Tech Palmer Campus Amphitheater (66 Columbus St.) for an event presented by Blue Bicycle Books. Chef, recipe developer, video producer and author of Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook Sohla El-Waylly joins Lindsay Collins, host and creator of Effin B Radio, for a conversation on Waylly’s Start Here. Buy your tickets online.
Porron Party at Stems & Skins
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. March 7
Free to attend
Join Philippe Broom, aka Philly Bottles, from de Maison Selections for a lively porron party. Not sure what a porron is? Shame! (It’s a glass pitcher with a long
path for food and beverage,” said Courtney Zentner, co-founder of The Drifter and forthcoming restaurant, Merci, which she runs with her husband, chef Michael Zentner.
“Yes, [traditionally], chefs are men, and women are front of house, but small businesses post-COVID have changed the norm,” she said. “I started in the event planning world. … Now that I’m in the restaurant world as well, I’m happy to see strong women leading the charge in that industry, whether it’s front of house, design or in the kitchen.”
Zentner, who has lived and worked in Boston and Washington D.C., said Charleston’s creative community is “unparalleled” compared to other cities.
“[Charleston is] a place where everyone is really working together to elevate the industry as a whole,” she said.
Chef de cuisine at FIG
Jillian Schaffer, chef de cuisine at FIG, said that she’s seen the food and bev industry evolve significantly over the past decade.
“When I was in culinary school, the field was predominantly male and pastry was more female-oriented, but that’s no longer the case,” she said. “I’ve worked in kitchens that were mostly female and others that were all male, and in each situation, success depended on individual ability. Today, I think women in the food and beverage industry receive the same level of respect as their male counterparts.”
Schaffer said that the future of women in food and bev is bright. “I am happy to see women succeeding in every area of the industry, from farming to running restaurants and everything in between,” she said.
Owner of Lillian’s Petite Market & Eatery and Director of Operations of Stars/Satellite Bar
“As a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field, I’ve had moments where vendors
and investors assumed I couldn’t possibly be the one in charge or doubted my expertise simply because I didn’t fit their expectations,” said Heather Greene, who recently opened Lillian’s Petite Market & Eatery on Congress Street and who also serves as Director of Operations of Stars/Satellite Bar.
“Early on, it was disheartening to be dismissed or underestimated, but my father’s words — ‘You can do and be anything’ — always echoed in my mind. Over time, I’ve learned that demonstrating competence, resilience and unwavering confidence earns respect more powerfully than any title.”
Greene said her various roles — as the Director of Operations at Stars/Satellite Rooftop, an investor in multiple restaurants and owner of her own restaurant — is proof that women “belong at the table.”
She said she is always looking to build empowering spaces for women in food and bev.
Chef de cuisine at Charleston Grill
Suzy Castelloe, chef de cuisine at Charleston Grill, feels like women and men face similar struggles in the food and bev industry today.
“Maybe it is that I have been lucky for the last 9 years following in the footsteps of chef Michelle Weaver but this latest chapter of my career has seen less and less disparity in both challenges and opportunities,” she said.
Castelloe said she always finds her job rewarding when she can surprise even herself — and when a diner is pleasantly surprised by a dish.
She hopes the future of food and bev doesn’t even have a distinction between men and women workers. “My hope … is that there is no longer a distinction: Male or female [chefs] creating great dishes and experiences is the goal. We are first and foremost chefs.”
Courtney Colangelo
Owner of Cakette Bakeshop
“Being a woman in the food and beverage industry today presents a powerful oppor-
tunity to show other women that this is a space where we can thrive,” said Courney Colangelo, owner of new Park Circle bakery Cakette Bakeshop. “With ambition and resilience, a woman can’t be stopped!”
Colangelo said she’s seen a shift in the “hustle” culture traditionally found in the food and bev industry, and that people are trying to find a healthier work/life balance.
“Women are at the forefront of this change, demonstrating our ability to perform multiple roles — not only as chefs and business owners, but also as mothers, partners, friends and more,” she said. “I believe women possess an inherent ability to manage high-stress situations, as we’re accustomed to juggling so many things at once.”
She emphasized that the food and bev industry is not a solo gig — it takes a village to stay afloat in such a competitive market.
Executive chef at Herd Provisions
“I have been in this industry for twenty years,” said Jeanne Oleksiak, executive chef at Herd Provisions. “Though I have finally found a home where women are respected and uplifted, it has taken years of harsh working conditions, ignoring the various forms of sexual abuse and pushing through not being taken seriously by men.”
Oleksiak said the back of house part of the food and bev industry is still a “boys club.”
“I cannot count how many events I have participated in where the attendees automatically look at my CDC or sous chef, both men, and ask them how the dish was created etc.,” she said. “I wonder how often that happens to male chefs?”
“I have seen a change in the industry, though, and while progress is slow it is happening!” Oleksiak added. “We see more women celebrity chefs, more women being seen as chefs and not just as pastry chefs, and more men supporting women in leadership roles. … Equality is what this industry needs. What this world needs.”
For even more women’s perspectives, read the online version at charlestoncitypaper.com.
spout protruding from the side that’s meant to be shared among a group.)
7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. March 7
$100/general admission, $275/friends of taste
The Charleston Visitor’s Center’s annual Taste of Black Charleston features tasting stations that highlight local chefs, caterers and bakers. Guests can also enjoy an open bar, access to the Luxe Cigar Bar and an evening of live entertainment. Buy tickets online now.
9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. March 7
$50
The Hue Society joins Graft for a killer CHSWF after party. Additional hosts The Sipping Socialite and First Wives Karaoke contribute to the fun, as do welcome bubbles from Don Luchi and late-night snacks.
at Counter Culture Coffee
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 8
$45
The crew from babas pairs up with Counter Culture Coffee for an aptly titled biscuit brunch featuring, well, biscuits, as well as blood orange mimosas and espresso martinis. Jam out to tunes from DJ Blacksmith. Buy your tickets online.
Anniversary Party
11 a.m. to 10 p.m. March 8
Free to attend, $10 wine tastings
Celebrate one year of bookstore/bar Philosophers & Fools with an all-day event that features a variety of local vendors such as Briggs Leather and Hermosa permanent
jewelry, wine tastings with several different wine distributors and the debut of a limited-edition tote bag made by J. Stark and screenprinted by local artist Taylor Faulkner. Enjoy free popcorn all day (woo!), select books on sale and a pop-up from De Mare Raw Bar. From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. De Mare will be slinging $1 oysters and $5 bubbles by the glass.
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 8
Free to attend
As part of its March series of burger pop-ups, Herd Provisions hosts chef Chris Coleman of Charlotte-based The Goodyear House to collaborate with Herd’s chef Jeanne Oleksiakon a special burger lunch series. Each week the visiting chef will create their own signature burger to be featured alongside Herd’s classic burger. Proceeds from the series benefit The Southern Smoke Foundation.
Starts at noon March 8
Free to attend
Low Tide celebrates nine years on Johns Island with its annual blowout bash featuring food from Rebel Taqueria and Pineapple Express, live music by the Holy City Steel Collective, a limbo contest and more. There will be a specialty can release, a make-you-own seltzer Tiki bar and plenty of Hawaiian shirts.
Women in Wine at Stems & Skins
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. March 8
Free to attend
This International Women’s Day, join Kellie Holmes, Angie Tunstall and Shelley
Lindgren for a celebration of women in wine.
6 p.m. to 9 p.m. March 8
Free to attend
Lillian’s Petite Market & Eatery hosts an unofficial rooftop after party after Saturday’s CHSWF Culinary Village, which is held just around the corner from the Congress Street restaurant. Enjoy music, a photobooth and Lillian’s full cocktail menu, available at the bar.
Doors at 10 p.m. March 8
$150/per person, book on Resy
167 Raw throws down during this latenight after-party. Guests can look forward to an open bar, raw bar, lobster rolls and other 167 favorites. Enjoy music from DJs Shane Barrett and Jack Callahan.
Fish + Slow Wine at Counter Culture Coffee
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. March 9
Free to attend
Last year Slow Fish + Slow Wine got together to throw an impromptu party during Wine + Food and it was such a hit, they’re bringing it back this year. Enjoy Tarvin
Starts at 9 p.m. March 9
Free to attend
Join local foodie influencers Cookin’ With Booze and Cloudy With a Chance of Vodka for an unofficial CHSWF after party at Rebel Taqueria. Guests can enjoy food specials from Luis Martinez and tunes from DJ Sparkbox.
Don’t miss out, vote through March 22!
Charleston®
By Jessica Mischner
Art often challenges us to stretch our imagination, shift perspective and adopt — or, at least, acknowledge — viewpoints outside of our normal frames of reference.
That’s why we may seek it and spend so much time contemplating its many forms. One thing that we don’t always consider on its own, though, when it comes to artistic expression? The physical canvas. At Nidum Studios, it’s impossible not to do just that. Half of the gallery is devoted to works on skin (also known as tattoos).
Nidum (pronounced “Need-um”) is a local art gallery and private tattoo studio that recently opened in the Storehouse 9 building in the Navy Yard near Park Circle. Founded in September 2024 by husband-and-wife duo (and North Charleston residents) Bradley and Betsy Butler, along with partner Dave Riley, the space is split into two — literally and figuratively. Walk in and veer right, there’s the art gallery, which specializes in work from area artists. Go left and you’ll find the body art salon.
Nidum offers an experience that feels separate from and different than either of its halves would suggest — its vibe matches neither that of a traditional gallery nor tattoo shop. And yet, it makes complete sense the moment you walk in the door. According to Betsy Butler, this is intentional and a natural reflection of the symbiosis between the two artistic realms.
“Dave and I are tattoo artists who met in our previous jobs. We both love and appreciate art, and we’d been talking about doing something together for years,” she said. “My husband [Brad] is a natural curator, and we love art. It fills our home. Bringing the two together happened organically but also made total sense to us.”
In fact, it was the Charleston area’s zoning restrictions that ultimately mapped the trio’s path to the Navy Yard.
A visit to Nidum Studios in the Navy Yard’s restored Storehouse 9 building is an immersive experience
“To do body art, you’re really limited to spaces classified as ‘light industrial,’ ” Butler explained.
A serendipitous discussion with friend Thea Anderson, the Navy Yard’s marketing manager, by a pool last summer sealed the deal.
“I do the marketing for Storehouse 9, and I knew immediately that it would be the perfect place for Betsy, Brad and Dave. They are exactly what we envisioned for the maker spaces,” Anderson said. “Nidum represents what we look for [in the people who occupy Storehouse 9’s 12 ground-level studios]. The thing that unites everyone here is being the best at what they do.”
Nidum held its grand opening in midJanuary, and has been welcoming visitors and private clients ever since. Last week, the gallery completed an installation of its latest show, a collection of mixed-media pieces entitled Memoria y Diseno by local artist Cristina Victor. A blend of sculpture, textiles and framed works, it references Victor’s Cuban-American roots.
The viewing experience is immersive, something Brad Butler, who curated the show, says is key to Nidum’s approach.
“We don’t just hang art,” he said. “We view our exhibitions as takeovers. They are experiential. We worked with Cristina not just to display her ceramics and textiles, but also to use our relationship with Paul Harris of Island Bazaar to procure furni-
The South Carolina Arts Commission recently announced five recipients of its 2025 Governor’s Awards for the Arts, among them a Charleston area group. Engaging Creative Minds is a public-private partnership led by the Charleston County School District; the College of Charleston; the cities of Charleston, Mount Pleasant and North Charleston; the Charleston Regional Alliance for the Arts; the Youth Endowment for the Arts; and Crystal-Barkley Corporation. The award recognized the initiative’s efforts to advance arts education and address equity gaps in local schools. More: southcarolinaarts.com.
ture. Pairing the pieces with the right chair, for instance — something Cristina could imagine her Cuban grandmother drinking iced white wine in, a favorite childhood memory — evokes a deeper sense of place.
“That’s crucial for us,” Brad Butler continued. “When Cristina’s friends came in for the preview, they immediately said, ‘Wow! This feels like home.’ ”
That level of detail and devotion has already endeared Nidum to area artists, which is the goal — but it also helps on the client side, too, Brad Butler said.
“When we build out the entire space, make it an experience, it gives people a sense of what these pieces could look like at their homes. They can imagine fully what it would be like not just to see them but to live with them forever.”
All of which, Betsy Butler said, translates seamlessly to the philosophy behind the tattoo salon.
“Art changes a person. It changes the way you think and feel about yourself,” she said. “When you extend that concept of transformation to the body, you can see how important it is to have a place like Nidum. We offer a body-positive experience, a safe place to land. We build trust and create memories through art.
“In the end, Nidum is for artists and art lovers. On either side of the salon, we’re a place you’ll find someone who could be your son or your grandmother. People can relate to us.”
Channel the spirit of New Orleans via Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents concert, coming to the Gaillard Center March 10 at 7:30 p.m. Led by acclaimed pianist Luther S. Allison and featuring the vocals of Quiana Lynell and Milton Suggs, backed by an all-star band, this concert celebrates the New Orleans Songbook, a collection of timeless tunes from legendary composers that define the Crescent City — the historic epicenter of jazz. Expect to hear everything from the pioneering sounds of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong to the distinctive stylings of Ellis Marsalis and James Black. More: gaillardcenter.org/ events.
The Charleston Library Society and Drayton Hall welcome interior designer Timothy Corrigan March 21 at 10:30 a.m. to share his latest book, At Home in France, ahead of the opening of The Charleston Show, where he will host as the honorary chair for the weekend. Corrigan’s in-depth discussion will cover everything from his own French domiciles — a dazzling Parisian apartment, along with a new countryside château — as well as decorating ideas and advice on topics such as antiquing and hanging art. More: charlestonlibrarysociety.org.
Jessica Mischner
By Jessica Mischner
Springtime is for lovers — music lovers. From blues to bluegrass, Gary Clark, Jr. to Gladys Knight, homegrown funk to a Hendrix review, the performance calendar in and around Charleston is packed with must-see shows throughout March and April. Here are some of the coming headliners and highlights bringing live tunes to a venue near you.
Chris Boone
Boone is a Palmetto State native, but he’s lived all over the world, as a child in Belgium and France and as a professional musician in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and most recently Portland, Oregon, before returning to the Lowcountry. Details: 7 p.m., March 8 at the Basement, Mount Pleasant.
Pine Ridge Boys
Established in 1963, this Southern gospel quartet features a signature sound brought to life by an evolving roster of voices. And the group’s tagline says it all: hits, horns and harmony! Details: 11 a.m., March 9 at Pittman Street Baptist Church, North Charleston.
Gary Clark, Jr.
Gary Lee Clark, Jr. is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and electric guitarist from Austin, Texas, who blends blues, rock, soul and hip hop. Austin-based impresario Clifford Antone introduced Clark to Jimmie Vaughan, the original guitarist for The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s older brother, who then mentored Clark in Austin’s music scene. The rest, as they say, is history. Clark comes to North Charleston fresh off per-
formances at Nashville’s famous Ryman Auditorium. Details: 7:30 p.m., March 11 at the North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston.
Blake Shelton
Any fan of country music over the past decade and a half — or viewer of The Voice — will recognize Shelton’s name. He’s also the other half of a musical powerhouse couple, alongside wife Gwen Stefani, so don’t rule out a cameo appearance. Details: 7 p.m., March 14 at the North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston.
Dear Dive Bar
Elliotborough Mini Bar’s singer-songwriter storytelling series kicks off its 5th season this month. Organizers are remaining tightlipped about the night’s guest performer (as is custom), but if past is prologue, you can bet it’ll be an unforgettable night. Details: 7:30 p.m., March 23 at Elliotborough Mini Bar, Downtown.
OPUS by Circa
Ten acrobats and a string quartet celebrate the music of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in a work of stunning power, virtuosity and physical poetry. Beginning with a solo performer suspended on a rope serenaded by musicians, the dynamic show then moves through rapidly alternating scenes of dislocated stillness and explosions into extreme physicality. Details: 7:30 p.m., March 25 at the Charleston Gaillard Center, Downtown.
Rebirth Brass Band
The Grammy Award–winning group will bring its instruments and vocals to the Pour House for an intimate listening experience that blends audience interaction and
living room (back porch?) vibes with the sophisticated sound of veteran musicians. Details: 8:30 p.m., April 1 at the Pour House, West Ashley.
Ranky Tanky
Less than a month after their March 8 performance at the Kennedy Center, this group of five musicians and lifelong friends — all from Charleston — take center stage at the Gaillard. Details: 7:30 p.m., April 4 at Charleston Music Hall, Downtown.
Experience Hendrix
An arena-sized tribute to Jimi, featuring a legendary lineup of standout artists of all ages and genres. Need we say more? Details: 7:30 p.m., April 8 at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center, North Charleston.
Kelsey Ballerini
A country-crossover artist who has collaborated with everyone from Halsey to alt-pop crew LANY, Ballerini blends powerhouse vocals with hyper-relevant lyrics and oldschool stagecraft. Details: 7 p.m., April 9 at the North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston.
High Water Music Festival
The 5th annual local music festival returns to North Charleston with a weekend long performance lineup that includes Wilco, Counting Crows, Trampled by Turtles and more. Details: Times vary, April 26 and April 27 at Riverfront Park, North Charleston.
Gladys Knight
It’s Gladys Knight! Enough said. Details: 7:30 p.m., April 22 at the North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY
IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-08-1316
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS CLAIRE-LYNN BORDEAUXREHBERG, ANDREW REHBERG, NAOMI REHBERG, AND DAVID REHBERG, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN IN 2014 AND 2020.
TO DEFENDANT: CLAIRE-LYNN BORDEAUX-REHBERG
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on July 16, 2024 at 9:17 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, John McCormick, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.
John McCormick, SC Bar # 100176, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, (843) 719-1007.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-00922
Cameron Campbell, Plaintiff, v.
Estate of Eva Mae Freeman and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees of Eva Mae Freeman, deceased, and all persons entitled to claim under or through her; also, all other persons, corporations or entities unknown claiming any right, title interest in or lien upon the subject real estate described herein, any unknown adults, whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants, persons under disability, or person in the Military Service of the United States of America whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as Richard Roe. Defendants.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the Action, a copy
of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff, through his Attorney, J. Chris Lanning, at his office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such Service; and, if you fail to answer the Compliant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in the Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for the aforesaid County which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee shall be made directly to the Supreme Court.
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on February 19, 2025. Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on February 19, 2025.
LIS PENDENS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above named Defendants, that said Action is brought under the provisions of Sections 12-16-10 and 15-67-10, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, for the Quieting of a Title after Tax Sale, for the purpose of obtaining a decree establishing that the Plaintiff is the owner of the said properties described in paragraph 6 of the Plaintiff’s Complaint, and that the Defendants have no right, title, interest, claim or estate in or lien upon the said properties.
That said property affected by said Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice is described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in St. Pauls School District, 23 Charleston, South Carolina, containing One (1) acre, more or less, as shown on a plat prepared by J. N. Frank Surveyor, dated July 22, 1923. Butting and bounding, now or formerly, North by Lot No. 17; East by Lot No. 19, property of Limit Isham; South by lands of August Williams; and Wes by a 20 foot (20’) road, separating this lot from the lands, now or formerly of Tony Williams.
SAID lot having such shape, dimensions, size, metes and bounds, more or less, as will more fully appear by reference
NOTICE that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esquire, 659 St. Andrews Blvd., Charleston, SC 29407, by Order of this Court Common Pleas dated February 20, 2025 and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the Defendants herein as may be unknown infants, persons insane, or otherwise incompetent or under legal disability, claiming any right, title, estate claim, interest in, or lien upon the property described in the Complaint herein, such appointment to become absolute unless they or someone on their behalf shall procure an Order appointing a Guardian ad Litem for such persons within (30) days after past publications of the Summons herein.
BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A.
s/ J. Chris Lanning J. Chris Lanning 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone – 843-766-5576
Social Services, Legal Office, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405, (843) 953-9625.
ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES
All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.
Estate of: BARBARA A. TAMSBERG 2025-ES-10-0107
DOD: 12/25/24
Pers. Rep: CHARLOTTE S. LEMON 1050 LOYALIST LN., MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464
Atty: DAWN CLARK, ESQ. 497 BRAMSON CT., #101-A, MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464
Estate of: ESTHER COPEN KENDZIORA 2025-ES-10-0115
DOD: 1/1/25
Pers. Rep: NOREEN K. MILLIGAN 335 KEISLER RD., GILBERT, SC 29054
Pers. Rep: PATRICIA K. WANSTREET 2622 MARSH CREEK DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29414
Estate of: DANIEL ALBERT SIMANAITIS 2025-ES-10-0147
DOD: 12/14/24
Pers. Rep: SUSAN MARCOU 5587 POLWORTH ST., MADISON, WI 53711
Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401
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Estate of:
DANIEL JULES LERNER
2025-ES-10-0157
DOD: 12/26/24
Pers. Rep: ROSALYN KRAMER MONATHALLER
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-10-1214
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Ginnell Gibbs and Tyrieq Gordon DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2024 TO DEFENDANT: Tyrieq Gordon
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on May 2, 2024 at 8:37 am. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 294055714 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.
Charleston County Department of
Estate of: RODGER C. WILSON
2025-ES-10-0191
DOD: 1/19/25
Pers. Rep: CHRISTIAN LEE WILSON 1902 FRUITWOOD AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29414 ***********
ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES
All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.
Estate of:
GERALD STEPHEN TANENBAUM 2025-ES-10-0180
DOD: 1/28/25
Pers. Rep: GRETCHEN J. TANENBAUM 37 LEGARE ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401
Atty: M. JEAN LEE, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401
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Estate of: WILLIAM JOSEPH CARETTO 2025-ES-10-0197
DOD: 1/31/25
Pers. Rep: JULIE K. GIBSON 21 EVERLEIGH CT., SIMPSONVILLE, SC 29681
Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401
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Estate of: JEANARIS LEE BANNISTER 2025-ES-10-0220
DOD: 11/14/24
Pers. Rep: CORLISS N. BANNISTER 1872 NOLA RUN, SUMMERVILLE, SC 29485
Atty: SARAH M. SMITH, ESQ. 1180 SAM RITTENBERG BLVD., #310, CHARLESTON, SC 29407
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2244 ASHLEY CROSSING DR., #424, CHARLESTON, SC 29414
Atty: DAVID K. HALLER, ESQ. 604 SAVANNAH HWY., CHARLESTON, SC 29407
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Estate of: ANN BYRUM JOHNSTON
2025-ES-10-0159
DOD: 1/20/25
Pers. Rep: CROFT WHITENER LANE 30 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401
Atty: ANDREW W. CHANDLER, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ***********
Estate of: DONALD REESE SMITH
2025-ES-10-0186
DOD: 1/16/25
Pers. Rep: JOHN A. LINKER, JR. 30 SOCIETY ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401
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Estate of: JUANITA CAMPBELL GIBSON
2025-ES-10-0188
DOD: 1/23/25
Pers. Rep: SLOAN D. GIBSON, IV 114 HIBBEN ST., MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464
Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ***********
Estate of: THERESA B. RICHARDSON 2025-ES-10-0244
DOD: 12/17/24
Pers. Rep: MATTHEW RICHARDSON 567 ROSERIDGE DR., BLYTHEWOOD, SC 29016
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-05509
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON SOLICITOR, NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Plaintiff, vs. 5 lbs of Marijuana; Four Cell Phones; one FN handgun S#386408558; One duffle bag, one rifle magazine, One Thousand One Hundred Eighty-Five Dollars Zero Cents ($1,185.00) in US Currency, and Eight Hundred Ten Dollars Zero Cents ($810.00) in US Currency, Defendant )
AMENDED SUMMONS
To: Ervan L. Jeanpierre 1300 Longcreek Dr. - 521 Columbia, SC 29210
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Forfeiture in this proceeding, a copy of which is
hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint for Forfeiture on the undersigned attorney at 180 Lockwood Blvd., Charleston, South Carolina within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service, and, if you fail to Answer the Complaint for Forfeiture within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint and Forfeiture of the subject property will be ordered.
Charleston, South Carolina February 26, 2025
NOTICE
TO: ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE ABOVE CAPTIONED PROPERTY
TAKE NOTICE that the original Summons and Complaint for Forfeiture in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on October 31st, 2024, the subject and prayer of which is to obtain civil forfeiture of property named above.
/s/ Steven Ruemelin, Esq. Charleston Police Department 180 Lockwood Blvd. Charleston, SC 29403 (843) 720-3787 Attorney for Plaintiff
Charleston, South Carolina February 26, 2025
Notice of Self Storage Sale
Please take notice Extra Room Self Storage - North Charleston 8911 University Blvd. North Charleston SC 29406 intends to hold an Auction of storage units in default of payment. The sale will occur as an Online Auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 3/18/2025 at 10:00 AM. This sale is pursuant to the assertion of lien for rental at the self-storage facility. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods, furnishings and garage essentials.
Storme Smith; Courtney Green.
This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply.
NOTICE OF LIQUIDATION OF MOMENTUM RISK RETENTION GROUP, INC
The Court of Common Pleas for the Fifth Judicial Circuit, Richmond County, South Carolina, has entered a Consent Order effective January 20, 2025, authorizing the Insurance Commissioner of South Carolina, Michael Wise (“Commissioner”) to liquidate Momentum Risk Retention Group (“Momentum”). Under the Order, the Commissioner, as Liquidator, is directed to take possession of all assets of Momentum and to administer those assets under the general supervision of the court. A copy of the Order is available online at www.MomentumRRGInLiquidation.com. The Liquidator is authorized to deal with the property, business, and affairs of Momentum for the benefit of the policyholders and creditors and to take any and all necessary actions to effectuate an orderly and timely liquidation. This Notice is being sent to all individuals, partnerships, corporations, associations, estates, trusts, governmental bodies, or other entities which the books and records of Momentum reveal may have a right to claims against Momentum. Enclosed is a Proof of Claim form which must be presented to the Liquidator in accordance with S.C. Code Ann. § 38-27-540, (See proof of claim instructions). The proof of claim form is also available
Claims presented against Momentum will be reviewed by the Liquidator in accordance with S.C. Code Ann. § 38-27-10 et seq. Notices of the Liquidator’s determination on claims presented against Momentum will be given to claimants and/or their specified counsel. Disputed claims will be resolved in accordance with S.C. Code Ann. § 38-27-580.
No claims, suits, or other proceedings against Momentum or against any of its assets may be made or further prosecuted except through the filing of a proof of claim with the Liquidator or in a proceeding brought in the liquidation court. THE DEADLINE FOR FILING PROOFS OF CLAIM IS August 1, 2025.
NO PROTECTION FROM SOUTH CAROLINA INSURANCE SOLVENCY GUARANTY FUND
As a Risk Retention Group, Momentum claimants and policyholders are not covered by the South Carolina Insurance Guaranty Associations (S.C. Code Ann. § 38-87-50). All claims must be forwarded to the Liquidator for processing as a claim against the assets of the receivership estate of Momentum as described above.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated:
Facility 1: 1108 Stockade Ln. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466
03/18/2025 10:00 AM
Brandy McElveen House hold items
Dianne Tindal-Sutton Office supplies
Sterling Eason Household goods
Tony Bas Household Goods
Facility 2: 1904 Hwy 17 N. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
03/18/2025 10:15 AM
Sophie Drager Boxes, Clothing, Furniture
Daniel Mercado Furniture
Facility 3: 1640 James Nelson Rd Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
03/18/2025
10:20 AM
Renee Williams Household items
Facility 4: 1471 Center St Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
03/18/2025
10:30 AM
Anita Baker Furniture and household items
Facility 5: 1514 Mathis Ferry Rd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
03/18/2025
10:35 AM
Daniel Runza
Household Goods/Furniture Acct. Records/Sales Samples
Christopher Ettson Household Goods and Furniture
Facility 6:
Melvin Ellington Household Goods/Furniture, TV/ Stereo Equipment
Crystal Huggins Sofa, Loveseat, TVs, Bed, Stereo, Portable Fireplace, boxes
Antonio Mitchell Bags
Alphonso Seabrook Clothes, Hanger, Boxes
Kelvin Snipes Clothes, furniture
The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999.
TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.
NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
the South Carolina
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Freedom Mortgage Corporation, PLAINTIFF, vs.
Joshua Jeanes a/k/a Joshua Cayne Jeanes; Jessica Jeanes a/k/a Jessica Ann Jeanes; The Gardens at Whitney Lake Phase 2A Homeowners Association, Inc.; South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services; Charleston County Clerk of Court, DEFENDANT(S)
SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE)
C/A NO: 2025-CP-10-00237
DEFICIENCY WAIVED
TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, PLAINTIFF,
vs. Tina S Davis a/k/a Tina S Gonzalez; Carolina Kitchens of Charleston, Inc.; Ashleytowne Recreational Development, Inc.; Ashleytowne Village Horizontal Property Regime (B), Inc., DEFENDANT(S)
SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE)
C/A NO: 2025-CP-10-00723 DEFICIENCY REQUESTED TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court on January 14, 2025.
THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.
IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.
s/ Gregory Wooten
February 17, 2025
John S. Kay (S.C. Bar No. 7914)
Ashley Z. Stanley
(S.C. Bar No. 74854)
Alan M. Stewart
(S.C. Bar No. 15576)
Sarah O. Leonard
(S.C. Bar No. 80165)
Gregory Wooten
(S.C. Bar No. 73586)
Gregory T. Whitley
(S.C. Bar No. 100792)
Attorneys for Plaintiff Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 (803) 726-2700
john.kay@hutchenslawfirm.com
ashley.stanley@ hutchenslawfirm.com
alan.stewart@hutchenslawfirm.com
sarah.leonard@ hutchenslawfirm.com k.gregory.wooten@ hutchenslawfirm.com gregory.whitley@ hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 23918 - 119219
HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.
s/ Gregory Wooten
February 17, 2025
John S. Kay (S.C. Bar No. 7914)
Ashley Z. Stanley (S.C. Bar No. 74854)
Alan M. Stewart (S.C. Bar No. 15576)
Sarah O. Leonard (S.C. Bar No. 80165)
Gregory Wooten (S.C. Bar No. 73586)
Gregory T. Whitley (S.C. Bar No. 100792)
Attorneys for Plaintiff Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 (803) 726-2700
john.kay@hutchenslawfirm.com ashley.stanley@ hutchenslawfirm.com alan.stewart@hutchenslawfirm.com sarah.leonard@hutchenslawfirm.com k.gregory.wooten@ hutchenslawfirm.com gregory.whitley@ hutchenslawfirm.com
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon John J. Dodds III at his office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
NOTICE OF FILING
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Complaint, Certificate of Exemption, Lis Pendens and Notice were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 16, 2025.
LIS PENDENS
YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999.
TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:
YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.
NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court on February 7, 2025.
THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.
IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-00269
SANDRA C. LOY, Plaintiff, vs. JESSIE NELSON AND VASSELTON NELSON, JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of JACK JENKINS AND NED JENKINS, BOTH DECEASED, AND JESSIE NELSON AND/OR VASSELTON NELSON, IF EITHER OR BOTH BE DECEASED, ESTATE OF NED JENKINS, and any or all other persons or legal entities,known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, Defendants.
SUMMONS
J. Dodds,
FOR PLAINTIFF
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-00337
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff against the Defendants to clear title to the below described real property purchased by Plaintiff’s father at a Charleston County Delinquent Tax: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in St. Pauls 19, Charleston County, South Carolina, measuring and containing Twelve (12) acres more or less, and being the same premises forfeited for non-payment of taxes assessed in the name of Estate of Ned Jenkins and duly sold and conveyed by the Sheriff to the said Forfeited Land Commission by deed, dated July 18th, 1938, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”) in Book R-40, Page 17. BEING the same property conveyed to Jack Jenkins by deed of the Forfeited Land Commission, dated March 23, 1945, and recorded in the ROD in Book B-45, Page 026. ALSO, being a portion of the same property conveyed to Moniker V. Coker by deed of William Coker, dated September 25, 2018, and recorded in the ROD on September 25, 2018, in Book 0749, Page 035. ALSO, being the same property conveyed to Sandra C. Loy by Deed of Distribution in the Estate of Monica Victor Coker, Charleston County Probate Court Case No. 2019-ES-10-01009, dated August 7, 2019, and recorded in the ROD on August 18, 2019, in Book 0816, Page 601.T.M.S.#: 059-00-00-244.
NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI
You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on February 14, 2025, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 294650459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Jack Jenkins, Ned Jenkins and Estate of Ned Jenkins, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.
KOK KON CHAU AND XIAO Z. LIU, Plaintiffs, vs. ESTATE OF REV PAUL G. DANIELS, JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of REV PAUL G. DANIELS, deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, Defendants.
Petition for Appointment of Guardian ad Litem Nisi SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon John J. Dodds III at his office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
NOTICE OF FILING
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint in the above action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 20, 2025 and the Amended Certificate of Exemption, Amended Lis Pendens and Amended Notice were filed on January 21, 2025. AMENDED LIS PENDENS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiffs against the Defendants to clear title to the below described real estate which Defendants purchased at a Charleston County Delinquent Tax Sale: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the City of North Charleston, Charleston County, State of South Carolina, and identified as “RG Daniels” on a plat entitled “Plat of 11 Lots Owned by Atlas Realty Co.,” and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”) in Deed Book F44, Page 99. The said lot having the following dimensions, more or less: On the North line, one hundred (100’) feet; On the East line, sixty (60’) feet; On the South line, one hundred (100’) feet; and on the
West line, sixty (60’) feet. Being the same property conveyed to Plaintiffs by Tax Deed, dated March 27, 2017,and recorded in the ROD on April 4, 2017, in Book 0627, Page 878. T.M.S. #: 411-15-00-151.
NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI
You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on February 14, 2025, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 294650459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Rev Paul G. Daniels, deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Amended Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.
John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530 john@cisadodds.com
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS
McNEAL, a/k/a ROBERT C. MACNEAL, if he be deceased, and ISAAC EDWARDS, BESSIE EDWARDS, BEATRICE GREEN, ANDREW GREEN, LILLIE MAE SEWARD and ALBERT SEWARD, all of whom are deceased, and any all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcels of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, Defendants.
SUMMONS
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon John J. Dodds III at his office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
NOTICE OF FILING
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens, Notice and Complaint in the above action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on November 14, 2024.
LIS PENDENS
You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on December 30, 2024, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 294650459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Robert C. McNeal a/k/a Robert C. Macneal, if he be deceased, Isaac Edwards, Bessie Edwards, Beatrice Green, Andrew Green, Lillie Mae Seward and Albert Seward, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.
John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530 john@cisadodds.com ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF
RAVENELL, RACQUEL RAVENELL, IVORY RAVENELL, SANAII
RAVENELL, KRYSTAL HARRISON, SHAUN JEFFERSON, ARTHUR
JEFFERSON, JR., WILLI MAE
JEFFERSON, RUTH CUMMINGS, LATARSHA LATHAN, LARRY
JEFFERSON, CLAYTON
JEFFERSON, CURTIS JEFFERSON, SHELDON JEFFERSON, JOAN
BROWN JONES, JEAN BROWN BRADLEY, KATHLEEN BROWN
GOLD, CHARLES BROWN, GENEVA BROWN WISE, LLOYD BROWN, BETTY BROWN
ALSTON, CHRISTOPHER BROWN, MARION BROWN, DARLENE BROWN, KAY
BROWN PORCHER, THEA BROWN, PAMELA COHEN, JOHNETTA HOWARD, ALAN FORDHAM, CAREY BROWN
A/K/A HAMPTON BROWN, JR., LUCILLE COAKLEY, SHARON
SINGLETON A/K/A SHARON SINGLETON MARKS, ULYSSES
SINGLETON A/K/A YULLECE
SINGLETON, TONY SINGLETON
A/K/A MAURICE SINGLETON, HELEN G. BROWN, YOLANDA
BROWN A/K/A VOLANDA
BROWN, SUSETTA BROWN
BROWN, JR., EDDIE BROWN, DOROTHY BROWN, EDDIE
BROWN, JR., LORETTA BROWN
LUCAS, FRANCIS BROWN, SR.,
EVELYN BROWN, FRANCIS
BROWN, JR., GLADYS BROWN, MARION BROWN, DEBORAH
BROWN WASHINGTON, ROBERT WASHINGTON, ELOISE BROWN GERMAN, CEPHUS GERMAN, MATILDA G. STARKS, VIOLA BROWN
RAVENELL, FRED RAVENELL, FRED RAVENELL, JR., STEPHANIE RAVENELL, KENNETH RAVENELL, BERTHA BROWN CAPERS, HELEN BROWN NORTON, VIRGINIA BROWN JEFFERSON, ARTHUR JEFFERSON, FRED JEFFERSON, NATHANIEL JEFFERSON, JULIE JEFFERSON
of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, located at 1847 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Complaint.
LIS PENDENS
Charleston, S.C. September 6, 2023
Master’s Sale Case No. 2023-CP-10-00573
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Heritage Village Horizontal Property Regime, Inc., Plaintiff
KRISTIN 843-885 4086
STATE OF SOUTH
JACKIE SEWARD, Plaintiff, vs. SANDRA THOMAS, WILLIE SEWARD, ROBERT C. McNEAL, and if he be deceased , then JOHN DOE, adults, RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of The United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons or legal entity of any kind who may be an heir, distributee, legatee, widower, widow, assign administrator, executor, creditor, successor personal representative, issue or alienee of ROBERT C.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff against the Defendants to establish title to the following two (2) parcels of real estate located in Charleston County, SC, in the names of Plaintiff and Defendants, Sandra Thomas and Willie Seward, Parcel # 1 pursuant to the laws of intestacy and Parcel # 2 on the grounds of adverse possession, to-wit:: ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being near Adams Run Depot, St. Paul’s Township, District 23, Charleston County, South Carolina, containing one-half (½) of an acre, more or less.Bounded as follows: Northwardly by lands of the Grantor, William Mack; Eastwardly by a Fifty Foot (50’) strip of land left for a road and owned by Robert C. MacNeal; South by U.S. Hwy. # 17; and Westwardly by Lot No. 9 of the Robert C. MacNeal Subdivision. Being a part of Lot No. 10 of the MacNeal Subdivision conveyed to William Mack by deed of the said Robert C. MacNeal, recorded in Book T-44, Page 366, in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”). Also, the same property conveyed to Isaac Edwards by deed of William Mack, dated February 27, 1954, and recorded in the ROD on March 20, 1954, in Book K-58, Page 151.Said Lot described above measures ninety-six feet (96’) on Hwy. # 17 by three hundred twenty feet (320’) on the side lines and being a parallelogram in shape. TMS#: 120-00-00-006. (“Parcel # 1”)
ALSO
ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land located upon the Fifty Foot (50’) strip of land left for a road and owned by Robert C. MacNeal which is encircled by a fence erected by Isaac Edwards more than forty (40) years ago around his residence located mostly upon Lot No. 10, TMS# 12000-00-006, but also extending onto the said Fifty Foot (50’) strip of land left for a road and owned by Robert C. MacNeal. No TMS# has been assigned to this land, which is NOT a Charleston County asset, nor a dedicated road. (Parcel # 2).
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-04266
LEONARD BROWN, PATRICIA A. BROWN, STANLEY BROWN, HAROLD CAPERS, LESTER CAPERS, RENEE B. LEMMON, GINA GREENIDGE, ROBI WASHINGTON, and CYNTHIA WHITESIDE, Plaintiffs, vs. EDDIE BROWN, III, CELESTINE BROWN, BRUCE LUCAS, MICHAEL LUCAS, DONNIE LUCAS, DIONE LUCAS, CRYSTAL LUCAS, SHELLIE LUCAS, FRAN BROWN a/k/a LASHELIA BROWN, JACKIE BROWN, MARGARET BROWN, WILHELMENIA G. SINGLETON, LILLIAN MCBRIDE, ALMA PARHAM, SANCHA STARKS, DEBRANK RAVENELL, FREDRICKA RAVENELL, FRED RAVENELL, III, JEFFREY RAVENELL A/K/A FREDRICK RAVENELL, MELINDA RAVENELL, ANTHONY RAVENELL, CANDICE
A/K/A GENITHA SUSETTA BROWN, ROSE MARIE BROWN, LESLIE CROXTON, CHRISTOPHER JOE BROWN, WALTER BROWN, JR., SHAWN BROWN, LESLIE BROWN, JANIE BROWN FISCHER, CHLOE A. COMBS, JOHN BROWN, WAYNE BROWN, JENNIFER BROWN RIVERS, JANICE BROWN SHAW, LYNNETTE BROWN, ARTHUR BROWN, FRANK BROWN, KENNETH HUTCHINSON, CHARMAINE HUTCHINSON, HENRY WHITESIDE, JACQUELINE WHITESIDE SHAW, GWENDOLYN WHITESIDE, MARGIE BROWN PINCKNEY, CLEMENT BROWN, JR., ANNETTE CLARK, LESLIE CARSON, JAMES SHAW, LOUVENIA GRANT, EDWARD ALSTON, BARBARA ANN WALKER, BETTY RICHARDSON, ANTWAN WILLIAMS, LATASHA WILLIAMS, KIARA VICE WALKER, JULISA WILSON, JALYA WALKER, JAYVEON GADSON, SOLOMON WALKER, JACQUELINE WALKER, ARTHUREE WALKER, PAULETTE DAVIS, ZOLA DAVIS, PENNY FORREST, PENNY ALSTON, ISAIAH FORREST, BARBARA, MCCORMICK, LESER SMALLS, JANET WHITE, ABRAHAM WHITE, III, MARY GRADDICK, CYNTHIA WALLS, MARILYN HAMMETT, JAMES HARRISON, CHRISTOPHER BROWN, III, ALVIN BROWN, JR., RODNEY BROWN, HERBERT MIDDLETON, LASHONDA MIDDLETON, ANNETTE MIDDLETON SOTO, TANYA MIDDLETON, TERRELL MIDDLETON, MARRISSA PELLETIER, CATHERINE BROWN, YVONNE GREEN, LILLIE MAE BROWN, SHIRLEY PARAMORE, REGINALD BROWN, LEONARD BROWN, DARLENE BROWN, DERRICK BROWN, MELVIN BROWN, JR., DONNA BROWN, ANNETTE BROWN, CYNTHIA BROWN, CARRIE PINCKNEY, ALBERTHA PINCKNEY HUGER, NORMAN PINCKNEY, RAY ALLEN, DONALD ALLEN, RICKY ALLEN, ANNETTE THOMPSON, DAVID THOMPSON, LOUIS THOMPSON, WENDY GREEN, CARLA WHITE, MARION PINCKNEY, JR., CHARLES PINCKNEY, MARVENIA PINCKNEY, PERSCILLA WILLIAMS, IMMA BRADFORD, CLARA LESESNE, ODESSA WILSON, VIRGINIA L. PINCKNEY, MYRA PINCKNEY, FRANCES E. PINCKNEY, JAMILA S. MARTIN, AJANI PINCKNEY, JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, being fictitious names used to designate the unknown heirs at law distributees, devisees, legatees, widow, widowers, successors and assigns, if any, of BELLA MITCHELL A/K/A BHELLA MITCHELL, (deceased), and the following deceased Individuals: JERMIMA BROWN a/k/a ANADIDE MITCHELL BROWN, JAMES BROWN, SR., JAMES
WILLIAMS, GERALDINE HAILE, JAMES BROWN, III, ESTELLE SEABROOK BROWN, MARY BROWN. ANTHONY BROWN, TILLMAN BROWN, MARIE BROWN, ROSCHELLE BROWN, ANTHONY BROWN, JR., BEULAH BROWN, ANTHONY BROWN, III, CLARENCE BROWN, SR., VICTORIA BROWN, CLARENCE BROWN, JR., JANIE BROWN FORDHAM, ABRAHAM FORDHAM, SR., BEATRICE FORDHAM BROWN, LEE BROWN, JR., MARIE P. FORDHAM COAKLEY, BERNICE FORDHAM
HOWARD, JOHN HOWARD, JR., FREDERICK FORDHAM, ABRAHAM FORDHAM, JR., ADA FORDHAM, WILLIAM BROWN, LOUIS BROWN, HAMPTON BROWN, ETHEL WRIGHT BROWN, LENA
BROWN SINGLETON, EDWARD
SINGLETON, JR., SHIRLEY
SINGLETON A/K/A JACQUELINE
SINGLETON CRUDUP, TERRY SINGLETON, JEFFREY
SINGLETON, PETER BROWN, PETER EARL BROWN, FRANK BROWN, SR., JANIE HARRELL
BROWN, WALTER BROWN, LEILA
BROWN CROXTON, NANCY
BROWN, ARTHUR BROWN, DOROTHY BROWN, HENRY
BROWN, ROSE BROWN WALKER, GENEVA BROWN HUTCHINSON, MARY BROWN WHITESIDE, ESTELLE BROWN ROSS, FRANK BROWN, JR., CARRIE BACOT
BROWN, CLEMENT BROWN, VICTORIA BROWN FORREST, JOHN FORREST, WILHELMENIA
BROWN, ANNA ALSTON, JASPER WALKER, ARTHUR FORREST, JOHN ALSTON, JR., CHRISTINA
BROWN, BEN BROWN, EMILY BROWN, ARTHUR BROWN, MAMIE BROWN, MATILDA
BROWN WHITE, ABRAHAM
WHITE, SR., ABRAHAM
WHITE, JR., LOUISE WHITE VENNING, JAMES VENNING, CHRISTOPHER BROWN, SR., CATHERINE JOHNSON BROWN, CHRISTOPHER BROWN, JR., ANNA HUTCHINSON BROWN, ALVIN BROWN, VIRGINIA SANDERS, ELIZABETH MIDDLETON, LEON BROWN, REBECCA BROWN, MELVIN BROWN, WILHELMENIA BROWN
PINCKNEY, LOUIS PINCKNEY, SR., ALFREDA PINCKNEY, CATHERINE PINCKNEY
THOMPSON, WARREN THOMPSON, CHRISTOPHER PINCKNEY, FRANCES PINCKNEY
MCBRIDE, JOHN MCBRIDE, HAZEL PINCKNEY, MARION
PINCKNEY, ESTER PINCKNEY, JACK PINCKNEY, LOUIS PINCNEY, VIRGINIA J. PINCKNEY, LOUIS
PINCKNEY, III, WAYNE PINCKNEY, and all other persons known claiming by, through or under them or having or claiming any interest in the real estate described in Complaint, whether infants, incompetents, insane persons under any other disability. Defendants.
SUMMONS (Quiet Title Action/Partition) (Non-Jury)
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Charleston, which action was brought by the above-named Plaintiffs against the above-named Defendants to determine the rightful owners and partition in kind and or by allotment the below described real estate.
That the premises affected by this action is located within the County and State aforesaid and is more particularly described as follows: All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in Christ Church Parish about ten and a half miles from Mt. Pleasant C. H. and formerly a part of the Bee Hive Plantation measuring and containing about Ten (10) acres more or less. Butting and bounding North on lands now or formerly of (Bush) or Cyrus Grant, East on lands now or formerly of Morris Fordham, South on lands now or formerly of James Brown and Jerry Bright and West on lands now or formerly of the said Mary Ann Toomer.
TMS NO.: 614-00-00-101
NOTICE NISI
TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Plaintiffs have applied to the Court for appointment of a suitable person as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown and known Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability, and said appointment shall become final unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf, within thirty (30) days of the service of this Notice, shall procure to be appointed a Guardian ad Litem for them.
NOTICE OF FILING
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Complaint and Lis Pendens were filed on August 30, 2023 and the Notice Nisi was filed on September 6, 2023 in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, South Carolina.
FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Kelvin M. Huger, Esquire of 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200, Charleston, S.C. 29407, has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated the 12th day of September, 2023 and the said appointment shall become absolute thirty (30) days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf, shall procure a proper person to be appointed as Guardian ad Litem for them within (30) days after the final publication of this Notice.
/s/ Arthur C. McFarland Attorney for Plaintiffs 1847 Ashley River Road, Suite 200 Charleston, SC 29407
E-mail: cecilesq@aol.com
843.763-3900
843.763-5347 (fax)
v. Darcy Thompson and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Defendants.
Upon authority of a Decree dated the 3rd day of February, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the Front Entrance of CHARLESTON COUNTY JUDICIAL CENTER, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, on the 1st day of April, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.
ALL that certain Condominium or Apartment Unit, situate, lying and being in the Town of Mount Pleasant, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina known and designated as Apartment Unit Number 3, Building C, in Heritage Village Horizontal Property Regime, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a horizontal property regime established by Mount Pleasant Investments (A Partnership) pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Act, Section 57-494, et seq., South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended, and submitted by Master Deed dated March 5, 1974, recorded on March 8, 1974 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book X-103 at Page 234, which Apartment Unit is shown on a Plat of said Regime, recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AC at Page 154. Said Apartment/Condominium conveyed together with an undivided percentage interest in and to the common elements and facilities and easement(s) and is subject to those conditions all as stated in Deed recorded in Book X173, at Page 122.
SUBJECT to all easements, restrictions, and rights of way record.
Being the same property conveyed to Scott A. Shank by deed of C. Denise Pfaff, dated January 14, 2005 and recorded on January 19, 2005 in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County in Book W522 at Page 593.
TMS# 535-05-00-061
Property Address: 305 Lakeside Drive, Unit C Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.
The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.
Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.
PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY
STATE OF
CAROLINA
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2024CP1003014
U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as collateral trust trustee of FirstKey Master Funding 2021-A Collateral Trust, Plaintiff, v. Ferris G. Singley, Jr.; Brian G. Singley; OneMain Financial, Inc. Portfolio Resolutions, Ltd. Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Brenda A. Singley, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe Defendant(s).
(011847-05283)
SUMMONS
Deficiency Judgment Waived
TO THE DEFENDANT(S):, Brian G. Singley, Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Brenda A. Singley, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 4744 Spruce St, North Charleston, SC 29405, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 470-02-000-50, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 292023200, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Ian C. Gohean, Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxley, PA, 325 Rocky Slope Road, Greenville, SC 29607, made absolute.
NOTICE
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy Paul R.
TO THE DEFENDANTS: Brian G., Singley Any Heirs-At-Law or
Devisees of Brenda A. Singley, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe,
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on August 28, 2024.
s/ Brian P. Yoho Rogers Townsend, LLC
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF
John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com
Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com
Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400)
Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com
R. Brooks Wright SC Bar #105195) Brooks.Wright@rogerstownsend. com
1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444
Columbia, South Carolina
ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the appointment of Ian C. Gohean as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for Brian G. Singley and any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability, it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Ian C. Gohean, be and hereby is appointed Guardian Ad Litem Nisi on behalf of Brian G. Singley and all unknown minors and all unknown persons under a disability, all of whom may have or may claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 4744 Spruce St, North Charleston, SC 29405; that Ian C. Gohean is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendant(s), unless the said Defendant(s), or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians Ad Litem for the said Defendant(s), and it is FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendant(s) Brian G. Singley and Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Brenda A. Singley, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, .by publication thereof in the Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.
s/Julie J. Armstrong by BLC Clerk of Court/Judge for Charleston County Charleston, South Carolina
2/12/25
FIRST AMENDED LIS PENDENS
Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Ferris Geiger Singley and Brenda A. Singley to Associates Financial Services Company of South Carolina, Inc. dated August 31, 1998, and recorded in the Office of the RMC/ ROD for Charleston County on September 3, 1998, in Mortgage Book H310 at Page 172. This mortgage was assigned to CitiMortgage, Inc. by assignment dated September 26, 2014 and recorded October 1, 2014 in Book 432 at Page 440; subsequently, this mortgage was assigned to U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee for Towd Point Master Funding Trust 2022-PM3 by assignment dated January 16, 2023 and recorded January 30, 2023 in Book 1161 at page 76; subsequently, this mortgage was assigned to Firstkey Mortgage, LLC by assignment dated March 20, 2024 and recorded April 5, 2024 in Book 1237 at Page 615; subsequently, this mortgage was assigned to U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as collateral trust trustee of FirstKey Master Funding 2021-A Collateral Trust by assignment dated March 20, 2024 and recorded April 5, 2024 in Book 1237 at Page 616. This loan is subject to a Loan Modification Agreement dated November 16, 2004
The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, described as follows:
All that lot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of S.C., and being known and designated as Lot #3 in Block “D” as shown on a plat of Morningside Subdivision made by W. L. Gaillard in August, 1946 and duly recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book “F”, at Page 60; the said Lot #3 in Block “D” having such size, shape, metes, bounds, location and dimensions as shown on the aforesaid Plat to which Plat reference is hereby made for a more full and complete description.
This being the same piece of property conveyed to Ferris Geiger Singley and Brenda A. Singley by deed of John Robert Pye dated May 21, 1970 and recorded May 22, 1970 in Book M94 at Page 304 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County. Subsequently, Ferris G. Singley died on August 23, 2001, leaving the subject property to his heirs or devisees, namely, Brenda A. Singley, Ferris G. Singley, Jr. and Brian G. Singley, as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 2002-ES-10-01966; also by Deed of Distribution dated January 28, 2004 and recorded February 3, 2004 in Deed Book B483 at Page 812 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County; subsequently, Brenda A. Singley died leaving the subject property to her heirs or devisees, namely. Ferris G. Singley, Jr. and Brian G. Singley
Property Address: 4744 Spruce St North Charleston, SC 29405
TMS/PIN# 470-02-000-50
s/ Brian P. Yoho
Rogers Townsend, LLC
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF
John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com
Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com
Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400)
Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com
R. Brooks Wright SC Bar #105195)
1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-00239
loanDepot.com, LLC, PLAINTIFF, VS. George Edward Dorr a/k/a George Dorr; Vicki A. Dorr a/k/a Vicki Ann Dorr; South Carolina Department of Revenue; and The Lakes at Northwoods Town and Garden Home Owners Association, Inc., DEFENDANT(S).
(242315.00010)
SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT
TO THE DEFENDANTS GEORGE EDWARD DORR A/K/A GEORGE DORR; AND VICKI A. DORR A/K/A VICKI ANN DORR ABOVE NAMED:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 1800 St. Julian Place, Suite 407, Columbia, SC 29204 or P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.
TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED
AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 14, 2025.
SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A.
By: _/s/Angelia J. Grant
Ronald C. Scott (rons@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996
Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #69453
Angelia J. Grant (angig@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334
Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530
H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64134
Jordan D. Beumer (jordanb@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #104074
ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF
1800 St. Julian Place, Suite 407 Columbia, SC 29204
803-252-3340
February 5, 2025
Summons Service - Vinh Do HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA SUPERIOR COURT CASE NO: 2024V131104A
Natalie Nghiem, Plaintiff, vs. Vinh Do, Respondent.
TO THE RESPONDENT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer thereto on the subscriber, Thanh Tran, within 30 days after the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default may be entered against you. NOTICE OF FILING. The Summons and Complaint for a name change action were filed in Houston County Superior Court, Case Number 2024V131104A on October 31, 2024. Thanh Tran, 209 Steeplechase Run, Warner Robins, GA 31088 - (478) 951-4616, Agent for Plaintiff
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The world’s darkest material is Vantablack. This super-black coating absorbs 99.96% of visible light, creating a visual void. It has many practical applications, like improving the operation of telescopes, infrared cameras, and solar panels. I propose we make Vantablack your symbol of power in the coming weeks. It will signify that an apparent void or absence in your life might actually be a fertile opportunity. An ostensible emptiness may be full of potential.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The authentic alchemists of medieval times were not foolishly hoping to transmute literal lead and other cheap metals into literal gold. In fact, their goal was to change the wounded, ignorant, unripe qualities of their psyches into beautiful, radiant aspects. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to do such magic. Life will provide you with help and inspiration as you try to brighten your shadows. We all need to do this challenging work, Leo! Now is one of your periodic chances to do it really well.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Cosmic rhythms are authorizing you to be extra demanding in the coming days — as long as you are not frivolous, rude, or unreasonable. You have permission to ask for bigger and better privileges that you have previously felt were beyond your grasp. You should assume you have finally earned rights you had not fully earned before now. My advice is to be discerning about how you wield this extra power. Don’t waste it on trivial or petty matters. Use it to generate significant adjustments that will change your life for the better.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In North America, starlings are an invasive species introduced from Europe in the 19th century. They are problematic, competing with native species for resources. They can damage crops and spread diseases that affect livestock. Yet starlings also create the breathtakingly beautiful marvel known as a murmuration. They make mesmerizing, ever-shifting patterns in the
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sky while moving as one cohesive unit. We all have starling-like phenomena in our lives — people, situations, and experiences that arouse deeply paradoxical responses, that we both enjoy and disapprove of. According to my analysis, the coming weeks will be prime time to transform and evolve your relationships with these things. It’s unwise to sustain the status quo. I’m not necessarily advising you to banish them — simply to change your connection.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Buildings and walls in the old Incan city of Machu Picchu feature monumental stone blocks that fit together precisely. You can’t slip a piece of paper between them. Most are irregularly shaped and weigh many tons. Whoever constructed these prodigious structures benefited from massive amounts of ingenuity and patience. I invite you to summon some of the same blend of diligence and brilliance as you work on your growing masterpiece in the coming weeks and months. My prediction: What you create in 2025 will last a very long time.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Bioluminescence is light emitted from living creatures. They don’t reflect the light of the sun or moon, but produce it themselves. Fireflies do it, and so do glow-worms and certain fungi. If you go to Puerto Rico’s Mosquito Bay, you may also spy the glimmer of marine plankton known as dinoflagellates. The best time to see them show what they can do is on a cloudy night during a new moon, when the deep murk reveals their full power. I believe their glory is a good metaphor for you in the coming days. Your beauty will be most visible and your illumination most valuable when the darkness is at a peak.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn-born Shah Jahan I was the Emperor of Hindustan from 1628 to 1658. During his reign, he commissioned the Taj Mahal, a magnificent garden and building complex to honor his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. This spectacular “jewel of Islamic art” is still a major tourist attraction. In the spirit of Shah Jahan’s adoration, I invite you to dream and scheme about expressing your devotion to what you love. What stirs your heart and nourishes your soul? Find tangible ways to celebrate and fortify your deepest passions.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Over 2,100 years ago, Greek scientists created an analog computer that could track astronomical movements and events decades in advance. Referred to now as the Antikythera mechanism, it was a unique, groundbreaking invention. Similar machines didn’t appear again until Europe in the 14th century. If it’s OK with you, I will compare you with the Antikythera mechanism. Why? You are often ahead of your time with your innovative approaches. People may regard you as complex, inscrutable, or unusual, when in fact you are simply alert for and homing in on future developments. These qualities of yours will be especially needed in the coming weeks and months.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): No cars drove through London’s streets in 1868. That invention was still years away. But the roads were crammed with pedestrians and horses. To improve safety amidst the heavy traffic, a mechanical traffic light was installed — the first in the world. But it had a breakdown a month later, injured a police officer, and was discontinued. Traffic lights didn’t become common for 50 years after that. I believe your imminent innovations will have better luck and good timing, Pisces. Unlike the premature traffic signal, your creations and improvements will have the right context to succeed. Don’t be shy about pushing your good ideas! They could revamp the daily routine.
“GALLERY DISPLAY” —you’ll know it when you see it.
Across
1. Aromatic resin
7. Pose the question
10. Letters before gees
14. “Like sands through the hourglass, so ___ days of our lives ...”
15. “Got it!”
16. Spread on a BLT
17. Remain aboard
18. Negative responses
19. Almond shade
20. Boxer Liston and his new constitution?
23. German article
24. Looking with no subtlety
25. 157.5 deg. from N
26. Luau garland
27. Take care of
30. ___ Rafferty, “Baker Street” singer
32. Accept, like a coupon
33. Mixed drink with gin, vermouth, cheese, vegetables, and pastry crust?
36. Speechify
37. Groan-inducing
38. Malbec, for one
39. “Celebrity Jeopardy!” winner Barinholtz
40. Swab the deck
43. Hang on the line
47. “Brave New World” happiness drug
48. Scottish player who’s a hit at all festivities?
52. Tiger noise, to the under-2 set
53. It may be tapped
54. Palindromic 1976 greatest hits album with the track “Ma-Ma-Ma Belle”
55. Jai ___ (fast game)
56. Noteworthy stretch
57. Having an outer layer, like fruit
58. Tailless domestic cat
59. Shortest Morse code unit
60. Like some beer or bread
Down 1. Low end of the choir
2. Belgian beer Stella ___ 3. Grayson who was the title character in the Apple TV+ thriller “Servant”
9. Healthy cereal brand
10. Reason for a siren
11. Something proven
12. ___ Festival 2 (recently announced sequel to a 2017 disaster)
13. Like some gummy candies
21. Irish actor Kristian of “Our Flag Means Death”
22. “Training Day” director Fuqua
26. Calligraphy introduction?
28. Classic Japanese drama form
29. Beats creator
30. International auto race
31. Puppy sound
32. Peachy keen
33. Trim a lawn
34. Melber of MSNBC
35. 1/20th of a ream
40. Bikes with engines
41. Egg dish (in this economy?)
42. Yankovic genre
44. Annoyed
45. Prefix before dactyl
46. Use a shovel on
47. Cathedral city of Tuscany
48. Airport people mover
49. Hi, in Hidalgo
50. Actor McGregor
51. “Swan Lake” bend
MARCH 13 - APRIL 13, 2025
Formerly known as the Festival of Houses & Gardens, this five-week celebration of Charleston includes more than 100 events across multiple locations on the peninsula. Events include House & Garden Tours, lectures, social events, and the Festival Music Series! Tickets are on sale now.
All proceeds benefit Historic Charleston Foundation
Festival Music Series performing at The Riviera
MARCH 20: Kanika Moore debuting NEW solo jazz project
MARCH 27: Charlton Singleton & Honeycomb Jazz Orchestra
