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By Jack O’Toole
Lowcountry leaders from both political parties are pushing back against a new Trump administration initiative that could open up the South Carolina coast to offshore oil drilling.
“We’ve always opposed offshore drilling off South Carolina’s coast,” Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, whose district runs from Charleston to Beaufort, said in a June 2 social media post. “President Trump banned it [in 2020] … to protect our tourism, our fisheries, and our way of life. We stand with the people of South Carolina who oppose it too.”
Mount Pleasant state Sen. Chip Campsen, a longtime Republican conservation advocate, said the issue boils down to a tale of two coasts — and two economic models.
Here in South Carolina, he explained in a June 4 interview, our pristine coastline has helped create a $30 billion tourist economy and a booming beachfront real estate market. Conversely, Louisiana’s refinery-lined Gulf coast has produced perpetually oil-slicked waters and a lower quality of life for residents.
“Seventy years ago, we made our choice, and they made theirs,” Campsen said. “They hung their hat on oil. We hung our hat on a pristine coast. And we have a much more profitable coastal economy as a result.”
Any effort to reverse that choice now would make “absolutely no sense” environmentally or economically, Campsen added.
“With drilling, you’d see the massive industrialization of our coast,” he said. “We don’t want South Carolina to turn into that.”
Across the political aisle, former Democratic First District Rep. Joe Cunningham, who won an uphill congressional race in 2018 due largely to his opponent’s rare support for offshore drilling, said it’s frustrating — but not surprising — to see the issue return.
“Offshore drilling brings Republicans and Democrats in South Carolina together like no other issue,”
Cunningham said. “To see it rearing its ugly head again is really frustrating, but it shows how vigilant you have to stay on these kinds of issues.”
Still, he sounded optimistic, particularly given Trump’s closeness to the state and many of its leading GOP officials.
“Sitting here objectively, South Carolina helped propel Trump into office in 2016,” Cunningham said. “I hope that he would
Charleston-area faith leaders and activists are calling for people to join a nationwide spending “fast” every Friday.
The boycott is in response to the 10th anniversary of the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church and what activists perceive as a White nationalist takeover of the federal government.
“Every day, White supremacists kidnap everyday people who also happen to be immigrants,” said Everyday People co-chair the Rev. Charles Heyward. “Every day, White supremacists work to erase jobs, funding and resources from programs.
The boycott kicks off with a June 18 press conference at Lance Hall at Circular Congregational Church in Charleston. —Skyler Baldwin
“The votes are in! Please welcome Rucker and Riley to CPD’s Mounted Patrol!”
understand that this is a core issue to the people of our state and that he’d return their support by taking it off the table.”
The renewed threat comes after the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced a formal review that could undo a 2020 executive order by President Trump banning offshore drilling along the South Atlantic seaboard through 2032.
That earlier order was a hard-fought win for Palmetto State coastal communities. But a more recent Trump order, signed on his first day back in office in January 2025, directed federal agencies to “unleash American energy.” That directive prompted BOEM’s review, and opened the door to possible new drilling leases off the South Carolina coast.
Reached for comment last week, Gov. Henry McMaster’s office reiterated his long-standing opposition to the practice.
“Governor McMaster has long opposed drilling off South Carolina’s coast,” said spokesperson Brandon Charochak. “And he continues to do so today.”
But the oil and gas industry celebrated the move.
—This week’s announcement of contest results for naming two new police horses: Rucker (whose name received 62% of votes) and Riley (whose name received 56% of votes). The horses are to be sworn in June 13. Source: CPD
June 6–June 13, 2025
Numbers are based on weekly average costs nationwide.
Milk (half-gallon): $1.76 ( $0.20)
Cheese (8-ounce block): $2.79 ( $0.26)
Eggs (dozen, large white): $3.52 ( $0.47)
Bananas (per pound): $0.57 ( $0.02)
Avocados (each): $1.06 ( $0.06)
Gas (per gallon, S.C. avg.): $2.798 ( $0.020)
Sources: ams.usda.gov, gasprices.aaa.com
In last week’s edition of the Charleston City Paper ’s What to Do section, we erroneously printed the anniversary date for D-Day as June 4, instead of June 6. We regret the error and have corrected it online.
By Ankit Bandyopadhyay
Marsha Gewirtzman, a Kiawah Island resident, first heard about the June 1 flame attack that happened in Boulder, Colo., over an Apple Breaking News alert.
The anti-Semitic attack reportedly involved an Egyptian man who threw Molotov cocktails and used a makeshift flamethrower to set fire to a group of demonstrators, injuring 12. The 45-year-old man has since been arrested and charged with 118 counts including attempt to commit murder, assault in the first and third degrees, use of explosive or incendiary devices and animal cruelty, according to the Associated Press.
The Boulder group’s peaceful demonstration was to spread awareness about freeing Israeli hostages in Gaza immediately became an international incident.
“Anyone who thinks they live in a town or city where this is not a possibility is delusional,” said Gewirtzman, a member of Synagogue Emanu-El in West Ashley. For Gewirtzman, attacks like these have become a harsh reality for many in the Jewish community. The incident reminds her of the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh where 11 people were killed. As president of her congregation at that time, she was tasked with making the community feel safer with improved protections.
“I worked with the [Charleston Jewish] Federation, the Charleston Police Department and the FBI on everything to make our congregation safer, from putting buzzers throughout the building, increasing cameras, to even getting rid of the shrubbery around the building.” Gewirtzman said.
Gewirtzman, 74, said she’s thankful to Charleston police for providing law enforcement services and being proactive with protections throughout the Jewish community. But the fact that the recent attack took place in what she says is a “sleepy college town” shows that no one is immune to these kinds of attacks.
“We’re on an upward trend in terms of incidents reported nationally and locally in terms of hate crimes targeting Jews in the community,” said Brandon Fish, community director for the Charleston Jewish Federation.
Fish said the need for security also increased since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, more than 10,000 anti-semitic incidents were reported in the year following Oct. 7, described as a 200% increase from the 2022-2023 statistic. In South Carolina, the reported number of hate crimes rose 77% from 66 incidents in 2022 to 115 in 2023, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
“There has been a lot of fear from all the activity post Oct. 7, [including] anti-Israel activities and protests which may have led to acts of violence like these,” Fish said.
When asked what he would say to other Jews who are nervous about attending services, Mark Swick suggested to be resilient in the face of these attacks and to continue being a part of the community.
“One of the most important takeaways from these incidents is not to be discouraged from gathering as a community, practicing
your faith, and coming together as a system of mutual support,” said Swick, executive director for the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagogue in downtown Charleston.
Swick said he has been encouraged by the support from people outside the Jewish community, saying it’s been a great show of support, regardless of party identification.
“We’ve been grateful for support when we hear it,” he said. “It’s good to know who our support is, irrespective of political beliefs.”
Joseph Rosen, a rabbi at KKBE, said attacks are unacceptable, regardless of religion.
“It’s just not acceptable whether it’s happening to us, whether it’s happening to the Muslim community, or for any community to be faced with any violence,” Rosen said. “We have to do better on calling that out.”
Ross Appel, a Jewish city councilman in Charleston for District 11, said that the city of Charleston was committed to ensuring safety for religious groups. Appel reiterated that local police have been supporting places of worship in general.
“We’re certainly by no means alone, [Charleston] has got its eyes on everybody and all our community members,” Appel said. “We make sure things are safe at the mosque downtown, everybody has to be safe, period.”
When asked what he will say about the Boulder attack at Friday’s service at the synagogue, Rosen said that while it’s going to be on the back of everyone’s mind, he will treat everything as normal to communicate a message of strength.
“It will not dominate the service. We’re not going to be dictated by fear. We will respond to it. We will reflect on it. But we will not let it control us.”
North Charleston police on June 8 chased a construction excavator after it apparently destroyed the front of a U.S. Highway 78 business. The chase zipped down the highway at about 3 mph, according to a police report, which apparently kept pursuing officers busy for more than an hour until the excavator got stuck in the Charleston County Fairgrounds. The driver was, of course, arrested. This one sounds like a pretty dirty job for the cops.
Fashion police to the rescue
A Mount Pleasant kid on May 29 reportedly tried to steal a pair of socks and sandals from a U.S. Highway 17 department store but was caught by store security. The child’s mother took the juvenile, now banned from the store, home with no charges filed. Perhaps this is for the best in more ways than one — socks and sandals are totally out … right?
Well, at least his aim is bad Charleston police on May 28 stopped to talk to a couple arguing loudly on the sidewalk on North Market Street. The two were apparently drunk, and the man reportedly attempted several times to throw things at the woman, including his phone and a baby stroller. Good on the police for stopping this fight (we’ll use the term loosely) because who knows what he would have thrown next!
By Skyler Baldwin
Illustration by Steve Stegelin
The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between May 28 and June 8.
By Damian Bertrand
South Carolina slightly improved in an annual ranking of overall child well-being, according to the 2025 KIDS COUNT data book, a 50-state report of data on children that will be released Monday.
Last year, the Palmetto State ranked 40th nationally. It is now ranked 38th.
“We celebrate these small victories. More families have steady income, and more children are not struggling with obesity,” said Sue Williams, CEO of Children’s Trust of South Carolina, in a press release.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private nonprofit organization based in Maryland, works with the Children’s Trust to give in-depth information annually related to the well-being of children across the state.
The percentage of children in S.C. who are overweight or obese went down significantly, from 39% in 2021 to 34% in 2023. Children’s parents who lacked secure employment decreased from 28% in 2022 to 27% in 2023.
Reducing childhood obesity and its health risks are huge wins for the state, said Demetrius Abshire, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina’s College of Nursing.
“It’s important to ensure children are on a weight trajectory that promotes optimal health,” Abshire said. “It’s very important in terms of ensuring the longterm health of children and their ability to do well in school.”
Abshire speculated that the obesity rates lowered, possibly because of students going back to their regular routines after the COVID pandemic. He said he believed the pandemic disrupted kids’ routines and may have led to increased obesity rates.
Not everything is improving. Children’s advocates say there is still a concerning
We cannot lose sight of the fact that as a state, we continue to stagnate on critical measures for economic well-being, education, health and community.”
—Sue
Williams, CEO of Children’s Trust of South Carolina
number of children living in singlefamily homes, which is at 37%, among other issues.
“We cannot lose sight of the fact that as a state, we continue to stagnate on critical measures for economic well-being, education, health and community,” Williams said. Health and poverty indicators are especially concerning:
Health insurance: The percentage of children in South Carolina without health insurance increased from 4% in 2022 to 5% in 2023.
Poverty: The percentage of children living in poverty has gone down across the country over the past decade, but South Carolina still has a higher rate than the national average. In S.C., 19% of children lived in poverty in 2023, compared to the nation’s 16%.
“With too many children lacking health insurance and too many living in areas of concentrated poverty, children and their families are vulnerable in our state,” Williams said. “We want every child in South Carolina to thrive, and this means they have a safe and stable place to sleep at night, a community with enough resources to help support them when they need help and access to
a doctor for regular check-ups and when they get sick.”
According to the Children’s Trust, Charleston County improved with the rest of the state, but at a more dramatic pace, jumping up quite a bit in its rank among other counties. In 2021, it ranked 13th in child well-being, and it is now ranked 7th, according to the trust’s profile of child well-being. York County is ranked at the top of the list, while Lexington and Pickens country follow at second and third.
In Charleston County, among areas of improvement are economic well-being, education and family and community. Children experiencing food insecurity and infant mortality have worsened.
To continue to improve the state’s ranking on child well-being, there needs to be a lot more resources and programs available for families, said Sarah Knox, senior director of policy and advocacy at Children’s Trust of South Carolina.
“Whatever the ranking, we see an opportunity for prevention programs and investments from the state and federal governments,” Knox said in an interview. “That’s what we believe, that’s what we would call for, is for there to be more prevention efforts in the state.”
Prevention programs include its network of family resource centers—community places where families can access support services and information such as parenting classes, job training, school support, childcare and more.
One goal stays in the mind of Knox, who has remained dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect: Always strive to be greater.
“We want to be better than what we were,” she said. “You know, 10 years from now, I want to be better than where we are today.”
READ THE REPORT: We will post a link to the full KIDS COUNT report when it is available.
“We applaud … the administration for taking action to unleash America’s vast offshore oil and natural gas resources and restore a pro-American energy approach to federal [offshore oil] leasing,” said the American Petroleum Institute (API), which represents oil and natural gas companies, in an April 18 statement lauding the BOEM review.
The API did not reply to a request for comment for this story.
The first step in BOEM’s review process is a public comment period, which is currently underway.
And according to political and environmental leaders, it represents the best opportunity South Carolinians will have to make their voices heard before any decisions are made.
“We encourage everyone to reach out and comment,” said Taylor Allred, the Coastal Conservation League’s energy and climate program director. “You don’t have to have a lot of expertise or a lengthy comment for it
to be impactful.”
But like Cunningham, Allred stressed the importance of staying vigilant.
“Just because it’s deeply unpopular in our state doesn’t mean that it’s not a real risk,” Allred said. “We need to do everything we can to push back against this possible destruction of our coastal way of life.”
The BOEM public comment period runs through June 16. To comment online, visit regulations.gov/commenton/boem-20250015-0003.
ne of the most iconic protest photos ever captured shows a blond hipster stuffing a carnation into the muzzle of an M14 rifle during a 1967 antiwar protest in Washington.
This week, people across the nation are erupting to protest questionable immigration policies and the nation’s troubling rightist tilt toward autocracy. Americans unhappy with their government should resist violence and turn to their First Amendment constitutional protection to assemble in peace:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
More than 1,800 peaceful protests are planned across the nation Saturday, including one for 9 a.m. at Hampton Park in Charleston. They will challenge President Donald Trump and his administration’s spiral down into anti-democratic actions and policies, including a planned Soviet-style military parade in Washington that will cost millions of taxpayer dollars. This comes at a time when Trump has set the dangerous precedent of deploying Marines to Los Angeles, Calif., as part of an overthe-top federal response to protests of heavy-handed federal immigration raids.
Indivisible Charleston’s No Kings National Day of Action demonstration, like others planned in 13 South Carolina
communities from Seneca to Myrtle Beach to Bluffton, will highlight how the Trump administration is trampling the U.S. Constitution, which was enacted after a bloody war to throw off a king. “They’ve defied our courts,” the No Kings website says, “deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.”
More than 700 people have registered to show up Saturday morning in Hampton Park, but more are expected. Another similar demonstration by a different group is planned for 9 a.m. Sunday in Brittlebank Park.
If you plan to attend Saturday, be prepared for a strong law enforcement presence. And be peaceful.
We urge you to take bunches of flowers to the park as a way to recall that day in October 1967 when peaceful protesters stared down a military police unit, stuffing flowers into barrels.
Where to put flowers? Near picnic tables at the park pond where speakers will address the crowd.
It is a crying shame the country is being steered by Trump and his minions away from the righteous path of democracy. Now is the summer of our discontent. Protest Saturday or Sunday, but in peace — with flowers — to illustrate your voice.
We encourage community leaders to act on these audacious priorities:
1. Deal with the water. Build a strong resiliency plan to harden infrastructure and make smart climate change decisions about development, roads and quality of life.
2. Fix roads, traffic. Repair and improve roads and reduce traffic. Speed up alternatives, including more public transportation.
3. Be smarter about education. Inject new energy into the broken Charleston County school board by focusing on kids, not national mantras.
4. Conduct public business in public. Be transparent in public business. Stop the secrecy.
5. Invest in quality of life. Build more parks. Have more festivals. Invest in infrastructure that promotes a broad sense of community.
6. Engage in real racial conciliation. If we embark on more conversations and actions on racial reconciliation, our community will strengthen and grow.
7. Develop fewer hotels, more affordable housing. Make Charleston a more affordable place to live for everyone.
8. Develop Union Pier at scale. Let’s not put ship-sized buildings on the coveted Union Pier property downtown. Instead, make what comes appropriate.
9. Build and follow a 50-year plan. Plan for the county’s long-term future and follow the plan.
10. Pay people more. Pay a living wage. Push South Carolina lawmakers to set a real minimum wage.
By Andy Brack
Richland County has the courage. So do 19 different municipalities across the state, from Cayce in Lexington County to Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Mount Pleasant and North Charleston. All have passed ordinances against hate crimes and intimidation.
But the state of South Carolina’s General Assembly? No courage.
In the 10 years since a White racist slaughtered a state senator in a church massacre that killed nine and truly shocked the world, state legislators haven’t had the guts to pass a law against hate crimes. For 10 legislative sessions, the Republican-led House and Senate have kicked the can down the road, again and again.
Only two states — South Carolina and Wyoming — do not have a state law against hate crimes and intimidation. Interestingly, Wyoming was the flash point of the eventually successful national demand for a federal hate crimes law after the 1998 torture and murder of student Matthew Shepard over his sexuality.
So far, the state of South Carolina has been incapable of taking the right, just and moral path to combat hate in a state with a long history of violence based on what a person looks like or seems. These days in South Carolina, data show race and religion are key drivers in the increasing number of reported hate crimes — up 77% from 66 reports in 2022 to 115 in 2023, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
In the Palmetto State, top hate reports were related to race, ethnicity or ancestry. But about one in four of reported incidents of hate linked to a specific religion, according to a September 2024 report by WPDE. Other reports involved sexual orientation, gender identity, disabilities and gender biases.
Only two states — South Carolina and Wyoming — do not have a state law against hate crimes and intimidation.
“The FBI data shows assaults, intimidation and vandalism to be the most common offenses, but the list contains many disturbing crimes like arson, criminal sexual contact and kidnapping.”
So with reported incidents of hate on the rise, here’s a blunt challenge: Each county and municipality that hasn’t got a local ordinance against hate crimes and intimidation should pass one immediately. Follow the example of Richland County, which this week became the first county in the state to join at least 19 municipalities.
It looks like Richland County’s leadership got some quick attention. Charleston County Council Chairman Kylon Middleton, one the the best friends of slain Emanuel Nine state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, said he’s on the case. “I’m on top of it,” he told us in recent days.
In Richland County, council members Tyra Little and Allison Terracio sponsored the new ordinance, according to The State newspaper, in part because some cities had a similar measure and some didn’t.
“Full justice should not be decided upon where you live,” Little said in a story. “Full justice should be afforded to everyone.”
Some may think a misdemeanor ordinance on hate crimes and intimidation is not a big deal, especially since there’s a federal law against hate. But local measures like the one in Richland County add a level of legal protection against crimes motivated by bias against someone’s race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality or disability. Perhaps even more notable, Richland County’s ordinance covers dissemination of “hate material,” with violations having potential fines of up to $500 per offense, The State reported.
All of these measures send clear messages of what will — and won’t — be tolerated in a civil society.
The 10th anniversary of the racist attack at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston is June 17. Let’s honor the nine people who died with renewed vigor in making South Carolina safer from hate and prejudice through intentional actions by local governments.
Andy Brack is editor and publisher of Charleston City Paper. Have a comment? Send to: feedback@ charleston citypaper.com.
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By Toni Reale, special to City Paper
In my former life, I studied paleoclimatology (the variability in Earth’s climate over time) and earned a master’s degree in geology. I later worked for a green nonprofit where I spent a few years educating lawmakers and decision-makers across the Southeast about climate change — its science, impacts and solutions.
What shocked me wasn’t the juvenile politicking or unhinged party I attended with politicians in Tallahassee. It was the staggering lack of basic scientific understanding among the very people making decisions that shape our quality of life. Most didn’t understand the difference between weather and climate, which is average weather over a 30-year period. Concepts like ocean acidification, tipping points or carbon sinks were completely foreign. Additionally disappointing was the lack of desire to learn.
Even harder? We weren’t allowed to center our discussions around human suffering or the loss of ecosystems. Everything had to be translated into dollars and cents. If we wanted to talk about intensifying hurricanes, we had to frame it in terms of real estate losses. If we talked about ocean warming, it had to be about the loss of fisheries and tourism revenue.
levels fluctuated naturally between about 180 and 280 parts per million (ppm). Things that influence natural variability include changes in the Earth’s orbital parameters, changes in solar output, volcanic activity and changes in land ice and ocean interactions.
Second, modern measurements have been collected continuously since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The data show a dramatic rise in CO2 levels: from about 315 ppm in 1958 to over 427 ppm today. This rise is not only unprecedented in the span of human civilization — it’s accelerating. It should not be a surprise — human activity is “unequivocally” the cause.
While CO2 doesn’t directly cause hurricanes, it fuels them by warming sea surface temperatures.
It was sobering. And it made one thing clear: if we’re going to engage lawmakers on climate, we as citizens must first understand the basics.
So this is the start of a short series: Causes, impacts, solutions. This month, we begin with carbon dioxide — what it is, how we know it’s rising and why it matters for the Lowcountry.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a natural gas that helps trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere. In small, stable amounts, it’s essential to life on Earth. But burning fossil fuels, deforestation, changes in land use and industrial activity have caused a surge in atmospheric CO2 that our planet cannot naturally balance. That imbalance is warming the globe, driving sea-level rise and reshaping climate patterns and intensity.
We know this increase is happening through two key scientific methods. First, ancient air bubbles trapped in ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland provide a long-term record of Earth’s atmosphere, going back over hundreds of thousands of years. They show that until the Industrial Revolution, CO2
To put it in context: CO2 levels were around 280 ppm before the Industrial Revolution. By 1900, they had risen to about 296 ppm. By the year 2000, they reached approximately 369 ppm. As of spring 2024, we’re over 427 ppm and counting. In the 1960s, CO2 levels were rising by about 0.8 ppm per year. Now, we’re seeing increases of 2.5 ppm or more annually. That’s a huge increase in the rate of change and it’s only going to increase. Why does this matter for the Lowcountry? First, sea-level rise. Charleston already sees flooding during high tides — a phenomenon once rare, now common. Second, saltwater intrusion. This affects marshes, aquifers, farmland and drinking water supplies. Third, hurricanes. While CO2 doesn’t directly cause hurricanes, it fuels them by warming sea surface temperatures. Climate change, driven by rising CO2, is raising the ceiling on what storms can do. Guess who is paying attention — insurance companies! Just ask Florida.
Next month, we’ll explore the impacts of climate change on fisheries, ecosystems, our homes and our health. After that, we’ll focus on solutions: what we can do locally, and how we can advocate for meaningful change.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Celebrate Caribbean culture in honor of Caribbean American Heritage Month with Charleston Carifest this weekend. Enjoy the colorful costume-clad masqueraders, pulsating music, mouth-watering Caribbean food and the international steelpanist Khan Cordis from Antigua and Barbuda the 2025 Winner of Trinidad and Tobago’s Panorama. Go online for a full list of performances and special guests.
June 13 through June 14. Event times vary. $20/ticket. Jenkins Youth and Family Village. 3923 Azalea Drive. North Charleston. charlestoncarifest.com
THURSDAY
Celebrate Juneteenth in a meaningful way at the International African American Museum. Join friends, family and neighbors in the museum’s African Ancestors Memorial Garden for a day of music, food and community connection. With free admission all day, it’s the perfect opportunity to tour the museum and honor this important day in a space dedicated to reflection, joy and healing.
June 19. Noon to 5 p.m. Free. International African American Museum. 14 Wharfside St. Downtown. iaamuseum.org
SATURDAYS
Browse through a bounty of seasonal fruits and vegetables, handcrafted goods and prepared foods as you explore the charming stalls inside Marion Square. From farm-fresh produce to food truck favorites, there’s something for everyone at the Charleston Farmers Market. Bring the whole family and enjoy live music, special events and activities for all ages in the heart of downtown. Saturdays. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free to attend. Marion Square. 329 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonfarmersmarket.com
SATURDAY
Welcome the summer and its bright sunshine with a relaxing brunch paint and sip at Ruby Sunshine Saturday with Charleston Paint Party. Guests will get guided, step-by-step instructions through a two-hour painting. Tap into your creative side, and create your own unique work of art to take home. No experience needed, all materials provided.
June 14. 11:30 a.m. $37/person. Ruby Sunshine. 835 Savannah Highway. West Ashley. charlestonpaintparty.com
SUNDAY
The annual Charleston Sprint Triathlon Series kicks off this weekend at James Island County Park, offering an exhilarating challenge with a 600-yard freshwater swim, a 12-mile bike ride and a fast-paced 5K flat run. The event has attracted more than 30,000 participants over the years. Registration for the June race has closed, but registration for July and August races is still open.
June 15. Race starts at 7:15 a.m. $66/registration. James Island County Park. 871 Riverland Drive. James Island. ccprc.com/1507/charleston-sprint-triathlon
Why Chris Singleton forgave his mother’s racist killer
By Emily Rutkowski
Chris Singleton received a phone call 10 years ago about 9 p.m., just after he got home from playing in a summer baseball game. That call changed his life.
It was from Felicia Sanders, a friend from church. She told him he needed to come down to the church because something “really bad” happened.
“At 18, that’s when I figured out that the worst day of my life was about to happen,” Singleton recently said. “That was 10 years ago, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.”
By June 2015, Singleton wrapped up his freshman season as an outfielder for Charleston Southern University’s men’s baseball team. His first collegiate season was impressive for the quick outfielder who made big-time plays and hit sixth overall in the lineup. His summer seemed as if it was going to be baseball-focused until the phone call that changed everything.
June 16 marks the 10-year anniversary of Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old self-proclaimed White supremacist, opening fire on a room full of people praying because of the color of their skin.
It was a massacre. Nine worshippers died at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston including Singleton’s mother, The Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton. Sanders, who phoned Singleton that night, was one of five survivors of the shooting.
The oldest of three, Singleton, who now lives in North Charleston, has always carried a significant amount of responsibility for looking after his younger brother, Caleb, and sister, Camryn. In 2015, Caleb was 12 and Camryn was 15.
On the night of the tragedy, Camryn said she was the first to feel something was wrong. She started to worry after babysitting because her mom hadn’t come home
and was not answering phone calls. That night, her mom had work, then Bible study and would have answered her calls if everything was OK.
When her big brother got home, he got the call to go to the church and immediately left.
As the night went on, the families of those who died went to the Embassy Suites on Meeting Street as police investigated and identified the nine who perished. Singleton, with the help of Sanders, told his younger siblings their mom had been killed in the shooting.
Life unfolded. Camryn noted she and her brothers were in transformative years of their lives, but stuck together. She graduated in 2022 from Claflin University in Orangeburg. About a year after their mother’s death, the children’s father passed away, leading the three Singleton siblings to grow closer.
“My mom always taught us to be very close with each other, protect each other,” said Camryn. “So I think that kind of kicked into overdrive.”
Chris Singleton is known as the first family member of one of the Emanuel Nine victims to have forgiven Roof, the racist caught within a day of the shooting on Calhoun Street. He did that publicly only 24 hours after the murders, shocking many, including his siblings. But forgiveness also came soon from members of other families at a bond hearing seen around the world.
Photos by Ashley Stanol
“People would say, ‘Man, Chris, you know, you let him off the hook by forgiving him?’ ” he recalled. “I used to hear some things said of that nature, until they realize the work that I do every single day. I truly do care about putting an end to racism, and I don’t know if that’ll ever, ever happen, but I’ll try. I promised my
While Singleton forgave the killer pretty quickly, it wasn’t as easy for his sister.
“I was taken aback, but it set the tone and forced me to forgive because if we started with hate and didn’t lead with love, then hate would have just spread,” she said. “Chris has been a rock. He has been somebody who’s always been stable, steady, and always going to
While Singleton said he felt the grief, he said he also didn’t show it or talk about it the same way others did.
“I didn’t really talk about the pain I was going through,” he said. “I talked about forgiving my mother’s killer. I talked about the pain that I knew I could get through.”
“ I don’t want him to ever see the light of day. It doesn’t mean that I can’t forgive him or move forward in my life, and that’s what I’ve done.” —Chris Singleton
As a boy, Singleton said he attended church because he was told to. He was a believer because he was supposed to be. It was not until after his mom died that he started to strengthen his relationship with God. Through prayers and readings, he said his faith began to grow.
“I do think that my faith has grown after what happened to me, which is crazy, because when most people have their mom killed in church, they don’t have any more faith after that,” Singleton said. “And mine was the opposite. It’s strange, but I knew that I couldn’t do things by myself.”
He explained he never expected to forgive Roof, who he never mentioned by name during an interview at a North Charleston restaurant.
“I would have never thought in a million years I would do that, because why would I? After she was killed because she’s Black. The fact that I did it let me know that it wasn’t just me that was forgiving. It was something out of this world.”
Singleton said forgiveness gave him control of his life.
“I don’t have to think about him all the time,” he said. “I don’t have to think about what he did to my mom all the time. I don’t have to think about where he is. You know all those things, and forgiveness freed me from that stuff.”
Singleton emphasized his act of forgiveness wasn’t a coping mechanism to forget.
“I want people to know that when you forgive someone, it doesn’t mean I ever want this man to walk free,” he said. “Some people think, ‘Oh, Chris, you forgive your mother’s killer. Man, you’re better than me. I would want that guy to rot forever,’ and I do, right?
“I don’t want him to ever see the light of day. It doesn’t mean that I can’t forgive him or move forward in my life, and that’s what I’ve done. I wouldn’t be able to talk about it if I hadn’t forgiven him, I wouldn’t be able to do the work that I do across the country if I hadn’t forgiven him. So all those things played into a role, but I didn’t know that at the time.”
One of Singleton’s biggest fears is that people will forget about the lives lost at Emanuel A.M.E. He promised his mom and his church family that he would try to keep their names and legacies alive.
Singleton described his mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, as athletic, competitive and smart. Her dissertation was finished when she died. She gave back to the community and guided youths, serving as a track coach, children’s church pastor and ordained minister. A big hugger, she would kiss people on the cheek — no matter if she knew them for 10 minutes or 10 years.
“What can I do to keep them alive even though they’re not here in the flesh anymore?” he asked. “It’s telling people about Tywanza Sanders and how awesome he was. It’s telling people about Miss Susie [Jackson]. It’s telling people about my mom, telling people about everybody whose lives were lost.
“So I want people to remember them and say, ‘Man, even though they’re not here anymore, they helped our state, they helped our country, they definitely helped our city.’ I don’t want that to be lost in all the madness that came with what happened.”
Singleton’s experiences over the last 10 years led him to become an inspirational speaker and author. He travels 100 days a year to teach about the power of love and resilience. He reminds people that it’s OK to disagree, but everyone deserves love and respect, regardless of race, appearance or first language.
“This is home. I don’t want to move away,” said Singleton, who is raising three children with his wife. “I owe it to this city to pour into it like it poured into me when I needed it most. So that’s why I’ll be here.”
On June 17, Singleton will release his new children’s book, Love Your Neighbor, as a way to honor the 10 years. He said he wants to put an end to racism and spread love — the theme of the book.
People across Charleston and the nation will pause June 17 to remember the nine worshippers who died on that evening 10 years ago in a massacre at Emanuel A.M.E. Church on Calhoun Street. Those who lost their lives during a Wednesday Bible study were (in alphabetical order):
• The Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
• Cynthia Graham Hurd
• Ethel Lee Lance
• Susie Jackson
• The Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor
• S.C. Sen. and The Rev. Clementa Pinckney
• Tywanza Sanders
• The Rev. Daniel L. Simmons
• Myra Thompson
Remembrance and memorial events across the area include:
• June 17, 11 a.m.: Emanuel Nine Day of Observance , an ecumenical service at Emanuel AME Church, 110 Calhoun St.
• June 17, 8:30 p.m.: Unofficial annual remembrance gathering that marks the time of the shooting , Emanuel AME Church, 110 Calhoun St. Non-permitted event.
• June 18 , 5:30 p.m.: Tables of Ten Bible study, Emanuel AME Church, 110 Calhoun St.
• June 19, 6:30 p.m.: CommUNITY mental health discussion, Emanuel AME Church, 110 Calhoun St.
• June 19, 8 p.m.: Healing with Grace, a one-hour television show of stories related to the tragedy. To be aired statewide on SCETV.
• June 20, 6:30 p.m.: Acts of Amazing Grace Day, CommUNITY Dinner by Transformation Table, Joseph Fields Farm, 3129 River Road, Johns Island.
• June 21 , 11 a.m.: Cynthia Graham Hurd Community Day, Cynthia Graham Hurd/St. Andrew’s Library, 1735 N. Woodmere Drive, West Ashley.
• June 21 , 6:30 p.m.: Humanitarian Awards Gala , The College Center, Trident Technical College, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston.
• June 22 , 10 a.m.: AME Day of Remembrance , Emanuel AME Church, 110 Calhoun St.
• June 22 , 6:30 p.m.: Morning Grace Gospel Concert , Sottile Theatre, 44 George St.
• June 28 , 12 p.m.: Unity in the CommUNITY Fair, International African American Museum, 14 Wharfside St. Damian Bertrand
By Becky Lacey
Two Bit Club, the newest restaurant concept from Charleston-based Indigo Road Hospitality Group, opens June 19 in Hotel Richemont, 93 Society St. Led by Executive Chef Jelo Tria, Two Bit Club honors the ingredients, traditions and vibrancy of Southeast Asian cuisine with a Lowcountry spin.
“Indigo Road has always believed in creating concepts that leave lasting impressions on guests, and Two Bit Club’s soulful and vibrant offerings will bring that and more,” said Steve Palmer, founder of Indigo Road Hospitality Group.
“Charleston diners are sophisticated and curious, and we think Two Bit Club’s blend of authenticity and our signature Indigo Road hospitality will be a great addition to our family of concepts and Charleston’s incredible dining scene. [Vietnamese is] a cuisine that I love, and as someone who is eternally curious and inspired, I was excited at the opportunity to explore the cuisine with Chef Jelo.”
Tria was born in Naga, a city in the Bicol region of the Philippines, and grew up as his mother’s right hand in the kitchen. From shopping the market at sunrise to preparing dishes for family meals, Tria said he loved to cook from an early age.
His family moved to the United States when he was 14. After initially studying medicine, he soon realized his heart was in the kitchen. He worked at a Filipino and a Japanese restaurant before enrolling at the Culinary Institute of Charleston, all while immersing himself in other Southeast Asian cuisines including Indonesian, Malaysian and Vietnamese in friends’ home kitchens. He noted that Vietnamese became like “soul food” for him in large part due to it using the same fresh flavors that are found in Filipino food.
The menu at Two Bit Club offers small plates, salads, sandwiches, noodles, sides and large format dishes. Diners will find familiar items like spring rolls, bánh mì and pho��, but the restaurant also offers a twist on the more traditional offerings. A yellowtail ceviche is prepared with coconut tamarind vinaigrette, basil oil, Thai basil and micro cilantro while Littleneck clams are accompanied by bamboo shoots, coconut broth, basil oil and baguette. The spice level varies, but Tria said guests can control the heat. For example, the Happy Tiger steak — his riff on the classic Crying Tiger steak — is a 16-ounce prime ribeye served with a spicy Vietnamese steak sauce on the side.
The club’s cocktail program complements the flavors found in the food. The cutelynamed Eight-Pho �� -Three, for example, has Grey Goose vodka, St. George Basil Eau de Vie, pho �� broth, sherry, ginger, lemon and orange. The Yuzu Gia�i Khát features hibiscus-yuzu, citrus, cardamom, and rice lager. And the zero-proof Tonkin Time blends cream of coconut, ginger, lemon, pineapple and black tea. There is also an extensive wine and beer list as well as sake offerings.
Tria said he saw the opening menu as a starting point on his interpretation of Southeast Asian cuisine, one rooted in the classics with contemporary, local elements.
“This is definitely a new flavor in town so I’m very, very excited to introduce it,” Tria said. “And it’s going to keep evolving. We’re going to introduce traditional Vietnamese food, and hopefully in the future, we can go somewhere where we get more creative with Vietnamese ingredients. There’s no limit to it.”
Indigo Road tapped Betsy Berry — a nationally celebrated, locally based interior designer — to create a space that looks as beautiful as the food that guests will find on their plates.
“Designing Two Bit Club was about striking the right balance between nostalgia
Littleneck clams are accompanied by bamboo shoots, coconut broth, basil oil and baguette at Charleston’s newest Vietnamese restaurant
The Eight-Pho ˇˇ-Three cocktail blends Grey Goose vodka with pho ˇ ˇ broth and hints of basil, sherry, ginger, lemon and orange
and modern charm — it’s layered, intimate, and a little indulgent, in the best way,” said Berry. “While the menu draws from FrenchVietnamese traditions, we let that influence whisper rather than shout — in the textures, palettes, and collected details. It’s a space that invites you to linger.”
Two Bit Club serves dinner and drinks nightly — from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays — and offers a year-round outdoor patio as well as a private dining space, the Garden Room, that seats up to 14 guests. More: twobitclub.com.
Table conversation
By Helen Mitternight
No matter your age, your color or your creed, you still have to eat. And when you face someone across a dinner table rather than across lines drawn by your differences, you might make a friend.
That’s the premise behind Transformation Table, a series of dinners started by Tina L. Singleton nine years ago. Transformation Table’s June 20 dinner is part of the commemoration of the brutal slaying at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church where nine people died at the hands of a racist gunman “This year’s theme is unity in the community, which is really our raison d’etre,” Singleton said in a recent interview.
The dinner, held at the Johns Island farm of third-generation Gullah Geechee farmer Joseph Fields, will be prepared by Gullah Geechee chef-advocate B.J. Dennis.
“It’s the perfect environment and setting to have this dinner and it’s also an opportunity for us to reflect on and honor and celebrate the legacies of the Emanuel Nine and continue with their message with grace and love and transformation,” Singleton said.
The June 20 dinner marks a complete circle from the start of the Transformation Table.
Singleton moved to Charleston about a year after the shooting and attended a number of commemorative events, one of which was a talk by Bernice A. King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. At the talk, she challenged attendees to “find ways to love and understand each other, despite our differences, go looking to overcome hate to, go to each other’s homes, have dinner,” Singleton recalled.
Singleton once lived in Afghanistan as a disability rights and inclusion technical advisor where she would host dinners to bridge the differences between her and those immersed in local culture. Food became a bond and those dinners,
Transformation Table’s founder Tina L. Singleton sets the table at a past event
along with the advice of King, sparked Transformation Table in November 2016.
“I met a woman at the College of Charleston and I asked if she’d be willing to host a 10-person dinner with strangers, and then another friend introduced me to our first chef, Janice Hudgins, formerly of Little Miss Ha. It was completely experimental, but everybody got along really well and they were really into the conversation, and so I started monthly home-based dinners,” she said.
The dinners, prepared by a host from the community or by a local chef, continued evolving to include a “tamada,” a term from the Republic of Georgia meaning “toastmaster.” In Georgian culture, the tamada’s role is to help bridge the gap between the past, the present and the future. The Transformation Table tamada gently leads the conversation and ensures that everyone is heard and that the conversation stays positive. There is no set agenda.
Singleton said the evening starts with a drink and a welcome from Singleton and
the host followed by a talk from the chef about their heritage and what ingredients they will be using that guests might not be familiar with. Once guests are settled, the tamada usually asks people for their favorite food memory growing up.
“That’s when people start connecting, and the conversation jumps off from there,” Singleton said. “There is no specific topic for the dinners because I find that when you tell people what the topic is going to be, people have in their heads what they want to say and it becomes less about listening. Instead, the conversation grows organically and I find that 99.9 percent of the time, the topics that come up are the ones that need to be discussed by that particular group of people.”
So far, the group has hosted 26 chefs from 21 countries and has had more than 700 guests. Some guests have stayed connected via a Facebook group or at an alumni gathering.
Singleton said there are moments during each dinner that stay with her.
“We had one dinner where an undocumented person was going through the process of getting a green card but couldn’t go on their honeymoon because they couldn’t leave the state. After the dinner, a guest told me that put a human face on the issue for her.
“We had a gay woman at the table who talked about how her very conservative, very religious mother had rejected her, and a Baptist minister at the table was very empathetic, and they wound up having a really good conversation. I know from these dinners that giving people space to ask questions without judgment and being shut down is really crucial.”
Singleton has since moved to Portugal, managing the dinners from there with help from Charleston-based staff and returning to the Lowcountry twice a year. She said she has had other states ask about hosting Transformation Table dinners and is working on a community toolkit to enable them to do dinners on their own. More: transformationtable.org
What’s new
Cane Pazzo, a neighborhood eatery in Hanahan from chef/owner Mark Bolchoz, opens June 14 and will serve classic Italian dishes highlighting Lowcountry ingredients. Bolchoz, who has worked in several Charleston kitchens such as The Grocery and Indaco, presents a menu featuring starters like housemade braised fennel sausage with tomato, basil and pecorino followed by housemade pastas like She Crab Raviolo with blue crab, sherry cream, crab roe, tarragon and chive. The restaurant is open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday; reservations are available and walk-ins are welcome. Visit: canepazzorestaurant.com
Ready-to-drink Tip Top Proper Cocktails is launching the Kindred Spirits Series, a first-of-its-kind brewery collaboration project that reimagines classic cocktails through the lens of craft beer. In late June, Tip Top and Holy City Brewing will release CosmoALE, a crisp blonde ale inspired by the Cosmopolitan, brewed with tart cranberry and citrus. It will debut at Holy City’s taproom as well as select locations throughout South Carolina. More: tiptopcocktails.com.
Hannah Marie Welton, who owns Welton’s Tiny Bakeshop along with her husband Zachary, has started a Substack to share everything from recipes and research to kitchen and garden hacks. And as the temperatures rise, make sure to check out her mint milk frozen custard recipe. More: weltonsfinefoods.substack.com.
On Thursdays throughout the Summer, The Dewberry is offering Summer Supper in The Living Room . The fourcourse seasonal menu from executive chef Alex Ursprung and his team will feature ingredients from local farms and purveyors. This communal table experience is designed to be shareable and costs $85 per person with an optional $45 beverage pairing.
Duke’s Mayonnaise’s Hot Tomato Summer is returning to Charleston for the fifth time. The registration deadline is June 17 and the celebration takes place July 17 to July 27. During the 10-day event, participating restaurants will offer signature dishes showcasing the beloved condiment, from sweet to savory to cocktails. Sign up and learn more: hottomatosummer.com.
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By Vincent Harris
Without the late Sam Cooke, there really is no modern R&B.
Without his multi-faceted talents as a performer, vocalist, songwriter and behindthe-scenes entrepreneur, it’s difficult to imagine versatile artists like Prince or John Legend or Keith Sweat.
All three artists wrote, performed and produced their own music, just like Cooke, who died at 33 in 1964. Without the template he set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it’s possible we would never have enjoyed those artists.
New Jersey’s Bradd Marquis is another artist who Cooke influenced. On June 14, he’ll pay tribute to Cooke with a show called The Music of Sam Cooke: King of Soul at the Charleston Music Hall.
Marquis and his band, who dress in period-appropriate 1950s and early ’60s styles, recreate classic Cooke tunes like “You Send Me,” “Wonderful World” and the iconic social anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come.” Marquis holds center stage as he intersperses soaring, passionate vocals with stories about Cooke’s life.
As a child, Marquis fell in love with Cooke’s music. And that music inspired Marquis to start his own R&B career. Since then, he’s released Billboard charting hits like “Thank You,” put out three studio albums and performed at Showtime At The Apollo at the legendary Apollo Theater in New York.
To hear Marquis tell it, his introduction to Cooke’s music was more subliminal than anything else.
“There’s a connection between him and my grandparents,” Marquis said in an interview with the Charleston City Paper “That’s what started it all for me. Without knowing that I grew up on him, I grew up on him. But I didn’t understand what I was listening to until I was older and I went back and did my research.”
Sam Cooke tribute show since 2009
In honor of Caribbean American Heritage Month, Charleston Carifest is a Caribbean carnival of food, fun, music and costumes. From 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on June 14, you can play Mas, savour Caribbean cuisine, dance to soca and reggae and more. Jenkins Family and Youth Village, 3923 Azalea Drive, North Charleston.
• June 14 , 11:30 a.m. A step-by-step, all-inclusive guided class covers the Kokedama art of growing ornamental plants. Roadside Blooms, 4491 Durant Ave., North Charleston
Once he did that, Marquis discovered an artist that he could model himself on in multiple ways.
“It’s about more than his music,” Marquis said. “It’s his entrepreneurship. And his social impact resonated with me. After discovering his true impact, he felt so relevant because nowadays, artists want to control their own music and their own distribution, marketing and promotion. And he was a template for that before it became the thing to do.”
Of course, it’s not all about the business side of things. Marquis readily admits that he loves Cooke’s music now just as much as he did as a child.
“He’s one of the greatest male singers of all time,” Marquis said. “He evolved from a crooner like Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis, Jr. or Frank Sinatra. And then he made that transition where he started incorporating his gospel roots into his own original music. That really hit home for me.”
Marquis has been perfecting his Sam Cooke tribute show since 2009, and he says the current edition is his favorite.
“It’s 100% better than what it was in 2009,” he said. “The show started out being a hybrid show, making the correlation between his life and mine and finding parallels in his journey and mine. And then it just became all about his music. Sometimes I may intertwine a couple of my songs here and there, but it’s really an homage to him and his journey.”
“ I’ve been doing it so long now that it’s really Bradd Marquis singing Sam Cooke. I’m not attempting to be Sam Cooke.” —Bradd Marquis
Taking on the songbook of one of the most talented and beloved R&B singers ever is no easy task. One might think that Marquis feels some sort of pressure to deliver those classic songs with passion and authority.
“I don’t feel pressure anymore,” he said. “I’ve been doing it so long now that it’s really Bradd Marquis singing Sam Cooke. I’m not attempting to be Sam Cooke. My perspective is that if Sam Cooke was alive in 2025, I believe this is how he would perform and this is how he would showcase his music.”
And occasionally, Marquis gets a message that he’s doing the right thing.
“Folks who have seen him say that I remind them of Sam,” he said, “and that means the world to me. That means I’m doing him justice.”
IF YOU WANT TO GO: The Music of Sam Cooke: King of Soul, featuring Bradd Marquis. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., June 14, Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St. Tickets are $38-$118. charlestonmusichall.com.
• June 17, 6 p.m. Jazz pianist Abdiel Iriarte performs at this free outdoor sunset concert presented by North Charleston POPS! Riverfront Park, 1061 Everglades Ave., North Charleston.
• Through July 3: The George Gallery presents Connected, a solo exhibition of work on paper created with sumi ink by Charleston-based artist Isabel Bornstein. The George Gallery, 54 Broad St., Charleston.
• June 13 , 6 p.m.: Colby T. Helms & The Virginia Creepers, Pour House.
• June 14 , 6 p.m.: Dante’s Camaro, Tin Roof.
• June 15, 8 p.m.: Drayton Farley, Music Farm.
• June 18 , 7 p.m.: Avril Lavigne , Credit One Stadium.
• June 18 , 6 p.m.: Collie Buddz , The Windjamme.
• June 19, 8 p.m.: Satin Jackets, Music Farm.
• June 20, 6 p.m.: Gyasi, Pour House.
• June 20, 9 p.m.: Slow Funeral (album release), The Royal American.
• June 20, 9 p.m.: Southern Culture On The Skids, Pour House.
• June 20-21 , 8 p.m.: Dave Matthews Band, Credit One Stadium.
• June 21 , 8 p.m.: Aimee Mann w/ Jonathan Coulton, Charleston Music Hall.
• June 22 , 8 p.m.: Heart , North Charleston PAC.
• June 24 , 7 p.m.: Stick Figure , Credit One Stadium.
If truth has become an increasingly slippery thing to grasp in recent times, memory can be just as elusive. This year’s Spoleto Festival USA brought that notion home across disciplines.
In my own life, Spoleto Festival USA, and Piccolo Spoleto, too, have held a particularly potent agency.
That started with its 1977 launch, when I was tapped to sing in a children’s chorus in the first act of Spoleto’s production of The Queen of Spades, which involved performing along with the Westminster Choir. Since then, the annual arts infusion has marked each year of my growth like the rings on a tree, in ways both small and more profound. I simply would not be the person I am today had Spoleto not come to town to so extravagantly broaden my worldview. That happened as often on the sidewalks as the stages. As teenagers, my friends and I would head to the city market, perching in the former square nearby to rubberneck at the thus-dubbed Spoletians. These Bohemian creatures swanned into a profoundly preppy town with all their flair and finery to show us a thing or two about self-expression.
While at the College of Charleston, I’d talk my way into the Garden and Gun Club, the famously freewheeling, disco-powered social experiment of a private watering hole. First started by a Spoleto staffer, it was singular in the South, gathering everyone from drag queens to Broad Street lawyers to bend elbows and live and let live.
There was, naturally, all that high-caliber art from the across the world literally out my front door: an entree into apartheid via playwright Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca at the Dock Street Theatre; a sneak peek through the Cistern Yard gates to hear Ella Fitzgerald; the high-voltage jolt of Phe Zulu Theatre Company; an intimate private concert at a neighbor’s Legare Street home by the then tween Joshua Bell; the eye opener that was Ken Russell’s logo-addled take on Madama Butterfly
Throughout a fine, effusive 2025 Spoleto Festival USA, artists from places near and far circled around the act of remembering. In striking convergence of word, song and image, they demonstrated that, time after time, truth will bear out. It may span years or in some instances even astral planes, but sooner or later, the missing fact or indisputable action lands sufficiently to change perception.
In the transfixing, two-way mirror that was director Rodula Gaitanou’s world pre-
By Maura Hogan
miere production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, the truth came haunting, as ghosts lured innocents from their waking world. In the stunningly executed White Box, which was created and directed by Stockholm-based Sabine Theunissen, the final days of decades-ago disappeared trio of Swedish adventures were revealed in a trove of revelatory photos.
Chicago-based Manual Cinema availed of vintage-looking silhouette puppets to reenvision Macbeth, with memory in mind. The 4th Witch tolds the story of a girl whose World War I memories of her parents’ death has entrapped her in a thrall of grief and rage, with three witches from the Scottish play enabling her to transcend memory and restore order in her life and land.
There was a probe into the nature of truth itself, and its crucial role in collective memory. This was made manifest in the deeply affecting Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, based verbatim on recollections of a former government courier in Poland. In the play, actor David Strathairn recounts wartime atrocities that Karski witnessed during the Holocaust in Poland, probing for a rapt audience the limits of truth when mankind is unwilling to believe.
Kronos Quartet, whose foursome includes Spoleto’s chamber music series director, composer and cellist Paul Wiancko, also mined source material, creating compositions around recordings concerning race in America. An interview between Mahalia Jackson and Studs Terkel shared an intimate exchange on her utter pain in witnessing her treatment off the stage; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” was given new sonic urgency. The quartet also brought it home with Mende Funeral Suite, a Spoletocommissioned work from Charleston’s Charlton Singleton featuring guest percussionist Quentin Baxter, breathing joyous new life into recordings of Sea Island songs.
At TD Arena, Baxter joined renowned composer and trumpeter Etienne Charles. In “Gullah Roots,” a jazz ensemble gave global context to Lowcountry sounds. As he neared the end, the composer and renowned trumpeter gave pause to recall, in the harrowing “Weeping Time,” the largest known domestic slave auction of 603 individuals, sold and separated from their families in 1835 in Charleston. Charleston was again represented, by way of the locally based Band of Horses. The oak-blanketed Cistern Yard had once been stomping grounds of the band’s lead singer, College of Charleston alumnus Ben Bridwell. Gazing over the audience, he gave thanks to the festival for bringing such artistry from around the world to our city.
On a similarly heaven-sent evening in Cistern Yard, and in an earlier surprise pop-up concert at Second Presbyterian Church, the legendary Patti Smith inhabited each space with soulful recollections and song, often involving artists like photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and poet Allen Ginsberg, whose presence and departure from her life have left their mark.
While marveling in the life of an artist, she hewed to her punk roots and rallied us all, reminding an attentive crowd that people have the power. Such communal agency was evidenced also by way of dance, by way of Limon Dance Company’s Join, in which 11 dancers supported one another in ways that emphasized both their individual weight and communal strength.
In these turbulent times, with troops deployed at protests, Smith’s rallying cry can be easy to forget. But with the successive, startling reflections on truth and memory mined by so many of artists at this year’s excellent, energizing festival, together we will all remember.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE MAGISTRATE’S COURT 2025CV1010600598 CIVIL CASE NUMBER
SUMMONS
Stephan Ryan Allard 2287 Skyler Drive Mount Pleasant, SC 29466 (843) 608-0107
PLAINTIFF(S) Vs BNB Formula 164 Market #164 Charleston, SC 29401
DEFENDANT(S)
TO THE DEFENDANT(S) NAMED ABOVE:
YOU ARE SUMMONED and required to answer the allegations of the attached complaint and present any appropriate counterclaims/crossclaims to the attached Complaint within THIRTY days from the first day after receipt of this summons, Your Answer must be received by the:
Small Claims - City 101 Meeting Street, 3Rd Floor P. O. Box 941 Charleston, SC 29403
Phone: (843) 724-6720
Fax: (843) 724-6785
If you fail to answer within the prescribed time, a judgment by default may be rendered against you for the amount or other remedy requested in the attached complaint, plus interest and costs. If you desire a jury trial, you must request one in writing at least five (5) working days prior to the date set for trial. If no jury trial is timely requested, the matter will be heard and decided by the Judge.
April 3, 2025
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS SHANTIA SIMMONS, SHIRLEY MUSTAPHER DEFENDANTS.
IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2024.
TO DEFENDANT: SHANTIA SIMMONS
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on April 17, 2025, 9:25 AM. 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 Dr. Moncks Corner, S.C. 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 Dr. Moncks Corner, SC 29461, 843-719-1007.
MASTER’S SALE CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-01122
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Circuit Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, heretofore granted in the case of Jesse Rivera, Jr., INDIVIDUALLY and as a member and/or director by and through Exchange Club of North Charleston Project Association., Inc., f/k/a Exchange Club of North Charleston v. Estate of Norman R. “Bobby” Knight, III; North Charleston Community Interfaith Shelter, d/b/a NCCIS; Emory Infringer Construction Co.; City of North Charleston; and South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority, I the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina or my agent, will sell on 1st day of July, 2025, at 11:00 A.M., in the County Council Chambers, at the Charleston County Public Services Building, located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: ALL those certain pieces, parcels or lots of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on the West side of South Carolina Highway No. 525 (Spruill Avenue) near Five Mile in St. Phillip and St. Michael’s Parish, County and State aforesaid, and being shown on Plat thereof made by Joseph Needle, C.E., dated March 27, 1951, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book T, Page 43 and Book W at Page 37 and being designated thereon as “Portion of “Lot V” and “Lot U.”
Beginning at a point at the intersection of Burton’s Lane and said S.C. Highway No. 525 and from said point along the West edge of said Highway 23 degrees 45 minutes, East One Hundred
Seventy-One and Five Tenths (171.5) feet to a point; thence South 63 degrees West One Hundred Seventy-Five and Fifty-Eight Hundredths (175.58) feet to the South on portion of Lot P and Lot O as shown on said plat, West on Lot T, as shown on said plat and North on Burton’s Lane. Said lands are also shown and delineated on a plat made by J. O’Hear Sanders on June 30, 1965, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book “T” at Page 43, with tracing cloth copy filed in File No. 4, Drawer No. 1, Folder No. 19, Drawing No. 11.
Being the same property conveyed to North Charleston Community Interfaith Shelter by deed from Nancy Cook dated March 5, 1999 and recorded March 16, 1999, in Book N-322 at Page 484, in the RMC Office for Charleston County, SC.
TMS Number: 466-03-00-097
Property Address: 1905 Burton Lane North Charleston, SC 29405
SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/ OR RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY. TERMS OF SALE: An immediate deposit of 5% is required on the amount of the bid. The deposit will be applied to the purchase price when total compliance is made. In the event compliance is not made, the deposit shall be forfeited without further hearing and applied first to the costs and expense of the action and then to the Plaintiff’s debt. Should the successful bidder at the regularly conducted sale fail or refuse either make the required deposit at time of bid or to comply with the other terms of the bid within 30 days, then the property may be re-sold on the same terms and conditions on the same or some subsequent sales day and at the risk of the defaulting bidder. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments; existing easements or restrictions; and any other senior encumbrances, and also all other matters of record except for the liens and interests extinguished through this action.
Purchaser shall pay for any statutory commission on sale from the proceeds of the final bid amount.
Purchaser to pay for deed preparation, costs of recording the deed and the satisfaction of mortgage, and transfer taxes on the deed.
Purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the premises only after Purchaser fully complies with the bid amount and a deed is issued by the Master in Equity Deficiency Judgment not being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.
In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the same terms and conditions as set forth in above or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.
Judge Mikell R. Scarborough Master-In-Equity for Charleston County Charleston, South Carolina June 6, 2025
BREWER LAW FIRM, LLC /s/ Amanda F. Davis Barrett R. Brewer, Esq. Amanda F. Davis, Esq. Post Office Box 1847
510 Mill Street #2B (29464) Mount Pleasant, SC 29465
o: (843) 779-7454
f: (843) 779-7456
e: barrett@brewerlawfirmsc.com
e: amanda@brewerlawfirmsc.com
Attorney for the Plaintiffs
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: TANGIE EVETTE JENKINS 2025-ES-10-0716
DOD: 5/14/24
Pers. Rep: TIA M. JENKINS 134 CALEB CT. LADSON, SC 29456
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Estate of: THOMAS V. READEN 2025-ES-10-0852
DOD: 3/3/25
Pers. Rep: RENEE READEN-PARSONS 6043 CHISOLM RD. JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455
Atty: MICAH S. JOHNSON, ESQ. PO BOX 20458 CHARLESTON, SC 29413
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Estate of: MITTIENA GILREATH JOHNSON 2025-ES-10-0856
DOD: 1/31/25
Pers. Rep: RAINEE JOHNSON 881 GODBER ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29412
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Estate of: ISAIAH WALKER MILLER, JR. 2025-ES-10-0857
DOD: 11/5/24
Pers. Rep: KRYSTON JOEL MILLER 6108 MARTIN ST. RAVENEL, SC 29470
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Estate of: ROBERT CAMPBELL JOHNSON 2025-ES-10-0879
DOD: 3/24/25
Pers. Rep: SALLIE S. JOHNSON
114 LIVE OAK DR. MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464
Atty: ANDREW E. RHEA, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401
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Estate of: ABRAHAM BILL JENKINS, SR. 2025-ES-10-0899
DOD: 5/1/25
Pers. Rep: DEMETT E. JENKINS 1206 SYMMES DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29407
Atty: ELAINE JENKINS, ESQ. PO BOX 364
JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29457
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Estate of:
RALPH WILLIAM ERVIN, III
2025-ES-10-0900
DOD: 4/16/25
Pers. Rep: RICHARD TUCKER ERVIN
671 OLDE SALT RUN
MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464
Atty: F. PATRICIA SCARBOROUGH, ESQ.
115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401
ESTATES’
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: SUSAN GORDON LEWIS 2025-ES-10-0922
DOD: 3/23/25
Pers. Rep: JAMES E. DUFFY 631 ST. ANDREWS BLVD. CHARLESTON, SC 29407
Pers. Rep: ELIZABETH R. COOPER 151 BROAD ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-01438
FIRESIDE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. ANTHONY DEDRICK BALAOROSS & HELEN SIMONE JONES, Defendant.
SUMMONS (Breach of Contract, Non-Jury HOA Lien Foreclosure) (Deficiency Not Applicable) TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint of the Plaintiff in this action, a copy of which is served herewith upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office at 753 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Suite 100, Mr. Pleasant, SC 29464, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof upon you, 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 such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded therein, and 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 TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S), 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.
YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended effective September 1, 2002, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity or Special Referee for Charleston County,
Fireside Homeowners Association,
Inc.
v. Anthony Dedrick Balao-
Ross & Helen Simone Jones SUMMONS
which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the SCRCP, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action.
Respectfully submitted, CLARKSON MCALONIS & O’CONNOR, P.C.
By: /s/Sean A. O’Connor Adam H. Clarkson, Esq. (SC Bar No. 80673)
Sean A. O’Connor, Esq. (SC Bar No. 68382)
Clarkson McAlonis & O’Connor, P.C. 753 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Suite 100, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
Ph: 843-885-8005
aclarkson@cmolawpc.com soconnor@cmolawpc.com
Attorneys for Fireside Homeowners Association, Inc.
March 14, 2025
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) RESIDE(S), 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.
YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended effective September 1, 2002, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity or Special Referee for Berkeley County, which Nexton Residential Association, Inc. v. Stacey Elyse Freiwald SUMMONS
Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the SCRCP, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action.
Respectfully submitted, CLARKSON MCALONIS & O’CONNOR, P.C.
By: ls/Adam H Clarkson
AN/OR TO PERSON UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABLILITY, INCOMPLETENTS AND PERSONS CONFINED AND PEERSON IN THE MILITARY:
YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within (30) days after service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.
NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE THAT the Summons and Complaint in the above-captioned action were filed on April 02, 2025, in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston, South Carolina.
Crawford & von Keller, LLC PO Box 4216 1640 St. Julian Place (29204) Columbia, SC 29240 Phone: 803-790-2626
Email: court@crawfordvk.com
Attorneys for Plaintiff
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Adam H. Clarkson, Esq. (SC Bar No. 80673) Sean A. O’Connor, Esq. (SC Bar No. 68382) Clarkson McAlonis & O’Connor, P.C. 753 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. Suite 100 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 Ph: 843-885-8005 aclarkson@cmolawpc.com soconnor@cmolawpc.com
Attorneys for Nexton Residential Association, Inc.
April 15, 2025
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-01830
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2025-CP-8-01419
NEXTON RESIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. STACEY ELYSE FREIWALD, Defendant.
SUMMONS (Breach of Contract, Non-Jury HOA Lien Foreclosure) (Deficiency Not Applicable)
TO THE ABOVE NAMED
DEFENDANT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint of the Plaintiff in this action, a copy of which is served herewith upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office at 753 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Suite I 00, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof upon you, 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 such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
minors and persons who may be under a disability (which are constituted as a class designated as “Richard Roe”), it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Kelley Y. Woody is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (constituted as a class and designated as “John Doe”), all unknown minors or persons under a disability (constituted as a class and designated as “Richard Roe”), any all other persons entitled to claim under or through them being a class designated as Mary Roe; All Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein, being a class designated as Jane Doe, all of which have or may claim to have some interest in the property that is the subject of this action, commonly known as 7708 Peggy Drive, Charleston, SC 29418 that Kelley Y. Woody is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, constituted as a class and designated as “John Doe”, all unknown minors and persons under a disability, constituted as a class and designated as “Richard Roe”, unless the Defendants, or someone acting on their behalf, shall, within thirty (30) days after service of a copy of this Order as directed below, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for the Defendants constituted as a class designated as “John Doe” or “Richard Roe”.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be served upon the unknown Defendants by publication 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.
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company. Plaintiff, -vsThomas E. Marx; South Carolina Department of Revenue; United States of America acting by and through its agency the Internal Revenue Service; Crafts House Homeowners Association Inc.; SoFi Lending Corp. as Attorney-inFact for PA Investment Corp V; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Mortgage Network Inc. Defendants
SUMMONS
(Deficiency Judgment Demanded) (Mortgage Foreclosure) Non-Jury
TO THE DEFENDANT(S), Thomas E. Marx
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their office, 1640 St. Julian Place, Columbia, SC 29204, within (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer to Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for a judgment by default granting the relief demanded in the Complaint.
TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOME THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S),
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
an action has been commenced and is now pending or is about to be commenced in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendant for the purpose of foreclosing a certain mortgage of real estate heretofore given by to Nicole A. Gethers, Maurice Gethers, Joseph Gethers and Bernita K. Gethers bearing date of March 25, 2003 and recorded March 28, 2003 in Mortgage Book F442, at Page 77. Thereafter, Nicole A. Gethers and Maurice Gethers assumed the Note and Mortgage by Mortgage Assumption Agreement recorded September 10, 2013 in Book 0359 at Page 721. in the Register of Mesne Conveyances/Register of Deeds/ Clerk of Court for Charleston County, in the original principal sum of $78,800.00 that, and that the premises effected by said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof are situated in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is described as follows:
All that piece, parcel or lot of land with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 25, Block CC, Forest Hills Subdivision, as shown on a plat made by Sigma Engineers, Inc., dated September 28, 1973, and recorded In the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AC, Page 105, said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.
SUBJECT to all conditions, covenants, easements, reservations, restrictions, and zoning ordinances that may appear of record, on the recorded plats or on the premises.
time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for a judgment by default granting the relief demanded in the Complaint.
TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOME THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S), AN/OR TO PERSON UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABLILITY, INCOMPLETENTS AND PERSONS CONFINED AND PEERSON IN THE MILITARY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within (30) days after service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.
NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Summons and Complaint in the above-captioned action were filed on April 07, 2025, in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Berkeley, South Carolina.
Crawford & von Keller, LLC PO Box 4216 1640 St. Julian Place (29204) Columbia, SC 29240 Phone: 803-790-2626 Email: court@crawfordvk.com Attorneys for Plaintiff
ANY THEREOF WHO MAY BE MINORS, IMPRISONED PERSONS, INCOMPETENT PERSONS, UNDER OTHER LEGAL DISABILITY OR IN THE MILITARY SERVICE, IF ANY, WHETHER RESIDENTS OR NON-RESIDENTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND TO THE NATURAL, GENERAL, TESTAMENTARY GUARDIAN OR COMMITTEE, OR OTHERWISE, AND TO THE PERSON WITH WHOM THEY MAY RESIDE, IF ANY THERE BE:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Motion for an order appointing Kelley Woody, Esquire, as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as Richard Roe or John Doe, defendants herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, imprisoned persons, incompetent persons, or under other legal disability, and as Attorney for said parties who may be in the military service, whether residents or nonresidents of South Carolina, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County.
YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone in their behalf or in behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or either of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi and Attorney shall be made absolute.
SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:
the said action were situated in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and are described as follows:
All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with any and all improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, in Wildwood Subdivision, being known and designated as Lot No. 3, Block L, on a plat of Wildwood dated March, 1956, made by J. O’Hear Sanders, Jr., Surveyor, recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book K, at Page 82; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.
This conveyance is made subject to any and all restrictions, easements and/or rights-of-way affecting the above-described property as recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.
This being the same property conveyed to Margaret T. Fox by deed of Patrick H. Bos and Mary B. Bos dated November 27, 2000 and recorded December 1, 2000 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book N359 at Page 237.
TMS#: 475-05-00-122
For a complete description of the property encumbered by the Mortgage, the undersigned craves reference to the Mortgage, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.
ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
C/A NO. 2025-CP-10-02475
Capital M Financial Services, Inc. dba SWC Financial Services, as to an Undivided 25% Interest, Second Chance Lending, Inc. as to an Undivided 75% Interest VS Nicole A. Gethers; Maurice Gethers aka Maurice G. Gethers (Deceased) and any other Heirsat-Law or Devisees of Maurice Gethers aka Maurice G. Gethers, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all Unknown Heirs of Deceased Defendants, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through them being a class designated as Mary Roe; All Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein, being a class designated as Jane Doe; also any Unknown 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, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the Appointment of 7. Kelley Y. Woody as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (which are constituted as a class designated as “John Doe”) and any unknown
SUMMONS AND NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT(S) 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 ANY ALL OTHER PERSONS ENTITLED TO CLAIM UNDER OR THROUGH THEM BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS MARY ROE; ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WITH ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED HEREIN, BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JANE DOE; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at their offices, PO Box 4216, Columbia, South Carolina 29240, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for relief demanded in the Complaint.
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 29, 2025.
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
Being the same property conveyed to Joseph Gethers and Mostella M. Davis by Deed of Marlin R. Poole, Jr. dated December 2, 1987 and recorded December 3, 1987 in Book Wl70 at Page 363 in the RMC Office for Charleston County., and also by Deed of Mostella M. Davis to Joseph Gethers dated and recorded December 3, 1987 in Book W170 at Page 363.
TMS#: 404-07-00-215
Physical Address: 7708 Peggy Drive Charleston, SC 29418
Crawford & von Keller, LLC PO Box 4216 1640 St. Julian Place (29204) Columbia, SC 29240
Phone: 803-790-2626 Email: court@crawfordvk.com
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-08-01139
NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing. Plaintiff,
-vs-
Philip J. Lien aka Phil Lien; 254 Seven Farms Drive Condominium Association Inc. Defendants
SUMMONS
(Deficiency Judgment Demanded) (Mortgage Foreclosure) Non-Jury
TO THE DEFENDANT(S), Philip J. Lien YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their office, 1640 St. Julian Place, Columbia, SC 29204, within (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer to Complaint within the
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT C/A #: 2024-CP-10-05638
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, Plaintiff, Vs.
THOMAS EDWARD FOX, AS HEIR AT LAW OF MARGARET T. FOX, DECEASED, AND ANY OTHER HEIRS-AT-LAW OR DISTRIBUTEES OR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND THEIR SPOUSES, IF ANY THEY HAVE, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS UNKNOWN WITH ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN; ALSO ANY UNKNOWN ADULTS AND THOSE PERSONS WHO MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ALL OF THEM BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE; AND ANY UNKNOWN MINORS OR PERSONS UNDER A DISABILITY BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE and DISCOVER BANK, Defendants.
NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI AND ATTORNEY
TO: THE DEFENDANTS HEREIN, NAMES AND ADDRESSES UNKNOWN, INCLUDING
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Amended Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint upon the subscribers, at their office, 508 Meeting Street, West Columbia, South Carolina 291639 or Post Office Box 11682, Columbia, South Carolina 29211, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Amended Complaint in the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
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 November 8, 2024 and the Amended Complaint was filed March 29, 2025.
AMENDED LIS PENDENS
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action will be commenced in this Court upon the Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants for the foreclosure of that certain Mortgage of Real Estate given by Margaret T. Fox, now deceased, to Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successors and assigns, dated November 27, 2000, and recorded on December 1, 2000, in the office of the Registrar of Mesne Conveyance for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book 0359 at Page 143 (the “Mortgage”). By Mortgage Assignment (the “Assignment”), Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. assigned the Mortgage to the Plaintiff, and the Assignment was recorded December 1, 2000, in Book 0359 at Page 805 in the office of the Registrar of Mesne Conveyance for Charleston County, South Carolina. At the time of the filing of this notice, the premises affected by
s/Ryan J. Patane S.C. Bar No. 103116 Benjamin E. Grimsley S.C. Bar No. 70335 D’Alberto, Graham & Grimsley, LLC Attorneys for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 11682 Columbia, S.C. 29211 (803) 233-4999 rpatane@dgglegal.com bgrimsley@dgglegal.com
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT CASE NO.: 2024-ES-10-01930 IN RE: ESTATE OF RICHARD R. HAMILTON
WINSTON MAZYCK Petitioner, vs. DELORIS HAMILTON, DELORES HAMILTON, LYNETTE HAMILTON, ALESHIA HAMILTON, KIMBERLY HAMILTON AND JULISA HAMILTON, Respondents.
NOTICE OF HEARING TO: ALL HEIRS AND INTERESTED PARTIES: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above-captioned action was filed on October 23, 2024 in the Probate Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina. This action seeks the determination of the heirs of the Estate of Richard R. Hamilton who died on December 20, 2006. An in-person hearing has been scheduled in connection with this matter on the 5th day of August 2025 at 3 p.m. at the Charleston County Probate 4Court, 84 Broad Street, Second Floor, Probate Courtroom, Charleston, SC 29401. Please be present at said hearing if you are an heir or interested party in the aforementioned Estate of Richard R. Hamilton, if so minded. s/Arthur C. McFarland Arthur C. McFarland Attorney for Petitioner 1847 Ashley River Road Suite 200 Charleston, S.C. 29407 843.763-3900 cecilesq@aol.com Charleston, S.C. June 2, 2025
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT CASE NO.: 2024-ES-10-01104
IN RE: ESTATE OF WILLIAM RAINEY
WILLIAM RAINEY, JR. Petitioner, vs. ANTHONY RAINEY AND LORETTA ANN RAINEY, Respondents.
NOTICE OF HEARING
TO: ALL HEIRS AND INTERESTED PARTIES:
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE that the above-captioned action was filed on June 11, 2024, in the Probate Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina. This action seeks the determination of the heirs of the Estate of William Rainey who died on January 12, 1986. An in-person hearing has been scheduled in connection with this matter on the 5th day of August 2025 at 2 p.m. at the Charleston County Probate 4Court, 84 Broad Street, Second Floor, Probate Courtroom, Charleston, SC 29401. Please be present at said hearing if you are an heir or interested party in the aforementioned Estate of William Rainey, if so minded. s/Arthur C. McFarland
Arthur C. McFarland Attorney for Petitioner 1847 Ashley River Road Suite 200 Charleston, S.C. 29407 843.763-3900 cecilesq@aol.com
Charleston, S.C. June 2, 2025
after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint, or otherwise to appear and defend, within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will obtain a judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
May 15, 2025
CHARLESTON, SC
NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT
TO DEFENDANT WILLIAM JAMES MILLER:
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above-entitled action, together with the Civil Action Coversheet, Summons, Exhibits and Verification, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on May 15, 2025, at 11:59 a.m., the object and prayer of which is the recovery of a sum certain due Plaintiff by Defendant, WILLIAM JAMES MILLER, and for such other and further relief as set forth in the Complaint.
s/Cynthia Jordan Lowery Cynthia Jordan Lowery #12499 MOORE & VAN ALLEN, PLLC
78 Wentworth Street
Post Office Box 22828
Charleston, SC 29413-2828
Telephone: (843) 579-7000
Facsimile: (843) 579-8714
Email: cynthialowery@mvalaw. com
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF
May 28, 2025
CHARLESTON, SC
claiming any right, title, estate, interest, in or lien upon the real estate described in the Amended Complaint herein, commonly described as 3363 Habitat Blvd., Johns Island, SC 29455; also any unknown 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, imprisoned persons, incompetent persons, and/or persons under a legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe; SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSING TRUST FUND, Defendants.
AMENDED SUMMONS AND NOTICES (FORECLOSURE/NON-JURY)
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Amended Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Amended Complaint on the subscribers at their offices, Moore & Van Allen PLLC, 78 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC 29413-1428, or to otherwise appear and defend, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint, or otherwise to appear and defend, within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will obtain a judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint.
YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this action.
NOTICE OF FILING AMENDED COMPLAINT
RMC for Charleston County, SC
Mortgage #3:
By: COREY J. JENKINS & ARICA L. JENKINS
Dated: May 20, 2008
Recorded On: May 21, 2008 at 3:59:08 PM
Recorded In:
Book C660 at Page 864
Office of: RMC for Charleston County, SC
and to sell the property described below for the purpose of paying the lien thereon.
That the real estate affected by such action is now and was at the time of commencement of such action situate in the County and State aforesaid, and the following is a description thereof, as contained in the above-referenced Mortgages:
ALL that piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on Johns Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and known and designated as Lot 10A, containing 0.47 acres, more or less, on a Plat entitled, “PLAT SHOWING THE SUBDIVISION OF LOT 10 OWNED BY THE EASTERN MONNONITE BOARD OF COMMISSIONS AND CHARITIES, JOHNS ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, which Plat is dated April 5, 1985, and was recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Plat Book BE at Page 13; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as are shown and delineated on said Plat.
THIS CONVEYANCE is subject to any and all Restrictions, Covenants, Easements and Conditions of record affecting said property.
Berkeley Electric Cooperative’s safety requirements is expressly prohibited.
THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following: That certain Appreciation Sharing and Right of First Refusal Agreement attached as Exhibit “C” to that certain Limited Warranty Indenture Deed in favor of Mortgagors, recorded in the Office of the ROD for Charleston County in Book B660 at Page 788.
BEING the same property conveyed to Corey J. Jenkins and Arica L. Jenkins by Limited Warranty Indenture Deed of Sea Island Habitat for Humanity, Inc. dated May 20, 2008 and recorded on May 21, 2008 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book B660 at Page 788.
TMS No. 203-00-00-108
ADDRESS: 3363 HABITAT BLVD. JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455
MOTION AND CONSENT FOR APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR JOHN DOE AND GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOR RICHARD ROE
1. That an action has been commenced to foreclose mortgages affecting real property located in Charleston County, South Carolina, against unknown persons who may be in the military service, or unknown persons who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent, or under a legal disability, cited and represented in the above caption as John Doe and Richard Roe; further that the residence of the unknown persons are not known and cannot be ascertained with reasonable diligence.
who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and Guardian Ad Litem for any unknown persons who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent and/or under a legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 3363 Habitat Blvd., Johns Island, SC 29455.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, unless those unknown persons who may be in the Military Service or who are minors, imprisoned, incompetent, and/or under a legal disability, shall, in person, or through someone on their behalf within 30 days after final publication of this Order, procure to be appointed some other suitable person as Attorney or Guardian Ad Litem in the place and stead of Kelley Y. Woody, this appointment shall be final.
AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a notice of filing of this Order shall forthwith be served upon said unknown persons who may be in the Military Service or who are minors, imprisoned, incompetent, and/ or under a legal disability, by publication in the City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation published in Charleston County, for a period of not less than once a week for three consecutive weeks. Such publication may be accomplished jointly with the service by publication as hereinafter authorized. SO ORDERED s/Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court, by BLC
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 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, in the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building (PSB) 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 5th day of August, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.
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 Paul R. Rahn
Robertson Hollingsworth Manos & Rahn, LLC 40 Calhoun St., Suite 330 Charleston, SC 29401 Telephone: 843-723-6470
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-02651
U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee of CIM Trust 2023-R2, PLAINTIFF, VS. Bryan A. Seward a/k/a Bryan Seaward, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Evelyn Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Seward a/k/a Evelyn N. Seward, Deceased; et. al. DEFENDANT(S).
(251106.00019)
TO
YOU
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COURT FILE NO. 2025-CP-10-00045
SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, INC., Plaintiff, vs. COREY J. JENKINS; ESTATE OF ARICA L. JENKINS, deceased; and all other unknown children, issue, and spouses, as heirs of ARICA L. JENKINS, deceased, and any other unknown heirs, heirs-at-law, distributees, devisees, creditors, if any, of ARICA L. JENKINS, deceased, and, if any of the same be deceased, then their heirs, personal representatives, administrators, successors and assigns, and all others entitled to claim or claiming through them, also all other persons unknown,
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Amended Complaint in the above-entitled action, together with the Amended Lis Pendens, Amended Summons and Notices, Amended Civil Action Coversheet, Amended Certification of Exemption from ADR, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on January 8, 2025 at 1:26 p.m., the object and prayer of which is to obtain foreclosure without deficiency, of mortgages of subject property in a non-jury action, and for such other and further relief as set forth in the Amended Complaint.
AMENDED LIS PENDENS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been initiated and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas for the County and State aforesaid, by the above-named Plaintiff, against the Defendant above named, and that the object of such action is the foreclosure of those certain Mortgages to the Plaintiff, described as follows (the “Mortgages”):
Mortgage #1: By: COREY J. JENKINS \ & ARICA L. JENKINS
Dated: May 20, 2008
Recorded On: May 21, 2008 at 3:57:06 PM
Recorded In: Book C660 at Page 852 Office of:
THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following: During such time as the property described herein is used for a purpose for which assistance under the Housing Opportunity Extension Act of 1996, P.L. 104120, was provided or for another purported purpose involving the provision of similar services or benefits, then no person having an interest in this property shall refuse service for or accommodation or other benefits to any person with respect to the property on account of the person’s race, color, or national origin or otherwise engage in discrimination conduct of any kind on account of a person’s race, color, or national original. This covenant is appurtenant to and shall run with the land described herein.
THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following: The grantee(s)’, their heirs, successors and/or assigns, herein agree to pay Berkeley Electric Cooperative Inc. or any successor electric utility company regulated by the South Carolina Public Service Commission, a monthly charge, plus applicable State of South Carolina Sales Tax, for operation and maintenance of street lighting system.
THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following:
The lot owner, lessor, and/ or his heirs, successors and assigns, shall contact Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. or their successors, three (3) days prior to any digging or excavation work on said property, including swimming pool installations, trenching, or any type of digging. Upon notification by the lot owner, lessor and/ or his heirs, successors and assigns, a field survey will be conducted by Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. personnel to insure that there are no conflicts with the Cooperative’s safety requirements. Any excavation in violation of
2. That an attorney should be appointed for unknown persons who may be in the military service, being a class designated as John Doe (50 U.S.C. App Section 521), and a Guardian Ad Litem should be appointed to protect the interests of unknown persons who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent, or under a legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe (SCRCP 17(d)).
3. That the Plaintiff is informed and believes that Kelley Y. Woody, Esquire, whose address is PO Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260, is a discreet, competent and suitable person to be appointed and to serve as attorney for the unknown persons who may be in the military service, being a class designated as John Doe, and as Guardian Ad Litem for the unknown persons who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent, or under a legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe.
4. That unless said unknown persons who may be in the military service or who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent, or under a legal disability, represented by classes designated as John Doe and Richard Roe, or someone acting in their behalf, shall within 30 days of the last publication of the Order Appointing Attorney and Guardian Ad Litem, procure another suitable person to be appointed as attorney or Guardian Ad Litem in the place and stead of Kelley Y. Woody, the Plaintiff requests that this appointment be final.
I SO MOVE: s/David B. Wheeler
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF
I SO CONSENT: s/Kelley Y. Woody
ORDER FOR APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR JOHN DOE AND GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOR RICHARD ROE
After consideration of the Motion and Consent For Appointment of Attorney for John Doe and Guardian Ad Litem for Richard Roe, it is ORDERED, that Kelley Y. Woody, a competent and discreet person, be and hereby is appointed Attorney for the unknown persons
MV Transportation Inc. (MV) is proposing as a prime contractor in response to the CARTA Management Operations and Maintenance Services: Fixed Route and Paratransit. The proposal’s due date is 06/25/2025. We would appreciate letters of interest from Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) firms who are currently certified, active and without restrictions with the SCDOT for the following services: Uniforms, Janitorial Services, Landscaping Services, Vehicle Servicing, and Mystery Rider Services. For additional information, assistance with bonding, lines of credit, insurance, to receive a copy of the RFP, or to receive a quote form and scope of work detail, please contact Aleena Beaty at MVDBE2@mvtransit.com or (972) 689-8831. The DBE Quote Deadline is June 11, 2025.
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
SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT
TO THE DEFENDANT BRYAN A. SEWARD A/K/A BRYAN SEAWARD, AS LEGAL HEIR OR DEVISEE OF THE ESTATE OF EVELYN SEAWARD A/K/A EVELYN NELSON SEAWARD A/K/A EVELYN SEWARD A/K/A EVELYN N. SEWARD, DECEASED 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 May 6, 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
May 23, 2025
the Petition seeking appointment in this action was filed in the Dorchester County Probate Court on June 21, 2024.
Note: Probate Court recommends that all interested parties be represented by counsel licensed to practice law in South Carolina.
If any interested party wishes to represent him/herself, he/she will be required to adhere to the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure and South Carolina Rules of Evidence.
SHELBOURNE LAW FIRM
/s/ Cooper E. Eppes Cooper E. Eppes, Esq. (Bar #104957)
131 E. Richardson Avenue Summerville, SC 29483 (843) 871-2210
ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER
RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO SAID PROPERTY, WHICH ARE SET FORTH IN THE DECLARATION OF THE SAME DATED APRIL 9, 1960 IN BOOK D-70 AT PAGE 634 IN THE RMC OFFICE AFORESAID. BEING THE SAME PREMISES CONVEYED TO MARY KING LUCAS, THE MORTGAGOR HEREIN, BY DEED OF GRANGE S. LUCAS, THE MORTGAGOR HEREIN, BY DEED OF GRANGE S. LUCAS, III AND MARY CATHERINE LUCAS, EXECUTED MAY 23, 1989 AND RECORDED MAY 24, 1989 IN P-184, AT PAGE 350, AND RE-RECORDED JUNE 25, 1992 IN BOOK H. 215 AT PAGE 889, AND BY DEED OF RENEE J. LUCAS, EXECUTED MAY 7, 1985 AND RECORDED JULY 29, 1985 IN BOOK W-148, AT PAGE 810. TMS#: 352-12-00-104
CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1412 Tara Road Charleston, SC 29407 Parcel No. 352-12-00-104
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DORCHESTER IN THE PROBATE COURT CASE NO.: 2024ES1800328
LATASHA FORREST, Petitioner, vs. JAMARI FORREST, DEMETRIUS GREENE, MARCUS GREENE, BRANDON GREENE, TAREEM GRAHAM, KELLIE FORREST, JOSHUA PHILLIPS, Respondents.
SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF FORMAL PETITION FOR TESTACY AND APPOINTMENT FOR THE ESTATE OF KELVIN FORREST
TO: THE RESPONDENTS ABOVENAMED:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and notified that an action has been filed against you in this court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you. Within thirty (30) days after the day you receive the Summons and Petition, you must respond in writing to the Petition by filing an Answer with this court. You must also serve a copy of your Answer to the Petition upon the Petitioner or the Petitioner’s Attorney at the address shown below. If you fail to answer the Petition, judgment by default could be rendered against you for the relief requested in the Petition.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that
MASTER IN EQUITY’S SALE 2015-CP-10-00377
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Nationstar HECM Acquisition Trust, 2015-2, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not individually, but solely as Trustee v. Grange Simons Lucas, III, Individually and as personal representative for the estate of Mary King Lucas (2014-ES-100682), Renee Jervey Lucas, Mary Catherine Lucas Jakeman, James A. McAlister Funeral Home, and the United States of America, acting by and through its agency the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Upon authority of a Decree dated August 28, 2015, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on July 1, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. ALL THAT LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IN ST. ANDREWS PARISH, IN THE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT THREE (3), BLOCK F, ON A PLAT BEARING THE LEGEND “PLAT OF SECTION 3, LENEVAR SUBDIVISION, CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C.” DATED MARCH 24, 1960 BY A.L. GLEN, REG.
AND L.S. AND
No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with 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 J. Martin Page, Esquire Telephone: 803-509-5078 File # 21-49077
FOR INSERTION June 13, June 20, & June 27, 2025
Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 6946
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A# 2024-CP-10-00663
Santander Consumer USA Inc. v. Perla Lopez, Angel Lopez Lara, Lenders Service Company LLC
SUMMONS (Non-Jury) (Breach of Contract) (Claim and Delivery) (Conversion)
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their office, 1901 Main Street, Suite 900 (29201), Post Office Box 1473, Columbia, SC 29202 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.
NOTICE OF FILING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM*
and
County Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed Main Road Corridor Segment A tree removal and mitigation at 6:30 PM on June 24, 2025, in Council Chambers (second floor of the Lonnie Hamilton, III, Public Services Building, located at: 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC 29405). The hearing will be live streamed at: https:// www.charlestoncounty.org/ departments/county-council/ cctv.php. Public comments may be made in person or sent to the case email address (MainRdTrees@publicinput. com) by 5:00 PM on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Packet information and additional ways to provide comments can be found online at: https:// engage.charlestoncounty.org/ MainRdTrees. Contact the Public Works Department at (843) 202-7600 for additional information. *Note that this item will be included on the agenda for the Charleston County Council Planning and Public Works Committee meeting, which starts at 6:00 PM on June 24, 2025 in Council Chambers.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your definition of home is due for revamping, deepening and expansion. Your sense of where you truly belong is ripe to be adjusted and perhaps even revolutionized. A half-conscious desire you have not previously been ready to fully acknowledge is ready for you to explore. Can you handle these subtly shocking opportunities? Do you have any glimmerings about how to open yourself to the revelations that life would love to offer you about your roots, your foundations, and your prime resources? Here are your words of power: source and soul.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you have any frustrations about how you express yourself or create close connections? Are there problems in your ability to be heard and appreciated? Do you wish you could be more persuasive and influential? If so, your luck is changing. In the coming months, you will have extraordinary powers to innovate, expand and deepen the ways you communicate. Even if you are already fairly pleased with the flow of information and energy between you and those you care for, surprising upgrades could be in the works. To launch this new phase of fostering links, affinities and collaborations, devise fun experiments that encourage you to reach out and be reached.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’ve always had the impression that honeybees are restless wanderers, randomly hopping from flower to flower as they gradually accumulate nectar. But I recently discovered that they only meander until they find a single good fount of nourishment, whereupon they sup deeply and make a beeline back to the hive. I am advocating their approach to you in the coming weeks. Engage in exploratory missions, but don’t dawdle, and don’t sip small amounts from many different sites. Instead, be intent on finding a single source that provides the quality and quantity you want, then fulfill your quest and head back to your sanctuary.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Let’s talk about innovation. I suspect it will be your specialty in the coming weeks and months. One form that innovation takes is the generation of a new idea, approach, or product. Another kind of innovation comes through updating something that already exists. A third may emerge from finding new relationships between two or more older ways of doing things — creative recombinations that redefine the nature of the blended elements. All these styles of innovation are now ripe for you to employ.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo psychotherapist Carl Jung was halfway through his life of 85 years when he experienced the ultimate midlife crisis. Besieged by feelings of failure and psychological disarray, he began to see visions and hear voices in his head. Determined to capitalize on the chaotic but fertile opportunity, he undertook an intense period of self-examination and selfhealing. He wrote in journals that were eventually published as The Red Book: Liber Novus. He emerged healthy and whole from this trying time, far wiser about his nature and his mission in life. I invite you to initiate your own period of renewal in the coming months, Leo. Consider writing your personal Red Book: Liber Novus.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming weeks, you will have chances to glide deeper than you have previously dared to go into experiences, relationships, and opportunities that are meaningful to you. How much bold curiosity will you summon as you penetrate further than ever before into the heart of the gorgeous mysteries? How wild and unpredictable will you be as you explore territory that has been off-limits? Your words of power: probe, dive down, decipher.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When traditional Japanese swordsmiths crafted a blade, they wrapped hard outer layers around a softer inner core. This strategy gave their handiwork a sharp cutting edge while also imbuing it with flexibility and a resistance to breakage. I recommend a similar approach for you, Libra. Create balance, yes, but do so through integration rather than compromise. Like the artisans of old, don’t
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choose between hardness and flexibility, but find ways to incorporate both. Call on your natural sense of harmony to blend opposites that complement each other.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio journalist Martha Gelhorn (1908–1998) was an excellent war correspondent. During her six decades on the job, she reported on many of the world’s major conflicts. But she initially had a problem when trying to get into France to report on D-Day, June 6, 1945. Her application for press credentials was denied, along with all those of other women journalists. Surprise! Through subterfuge and daring, Gelhorn stowed away on a hospital ship and reached France in time to report on the climactic events. I counsel you to also use extraordinary measures to achieve your goals, Scorpio. Innovative circumspection and ethical trickery are allowed. Breaking the rules may be necessary and warranted.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): My spirit guides enjoy reminding me that breakthrough insights and innovations may initially emerge not as complete solutions, but as partial answers to questions that need further exploration. I don’t always like it, but I listen anyway, when they tell me that progress typically comes through incremental steps. The Sagittarian part of my nature wants total victory and comprehensive results NOW. It would rather not wait for the slow, gradual approach to unfold its gifts. So I empathize if you are a bit frustrated by the piecemeal process you are nursing. But I’m here to say that your patience will be well rewarded.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Sometimes I’ve got to pause and relax my focused striving, because that’s the only way my unconscious mind can work its magic.” My Capricorn friend Alicia says that about her creative process as a novelist. The solution to a knotty challenge may not come from redoubling her efforts but instead from making a strategic retreat into silence and emptiness. I invite you to consider a similar approach, Capricorn. Experiment with the hypothesis that significant breakthroughs will arrive when you aren’t actively seeking them. Trust in the fertile void of not-knowing. Allow life’s meandering serendipity to reveal unexpected benefits.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are you interested in graduating to the next level of love and intimacy? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to intensify your efforts. Life will be on your side if you dare to get smarter about how to make your relationships work better than they ever have. To inspire your imagination and incite you to venture into the frontiers of togetherness, I offer you a vivacious quote from author Anais Nin. Say it to your favorite soul friend or simply use it as a motivational prayer. Nin wrote, “You are the fever in my blood, the tide that carries me to undiscovered shores. You are my alchemist, transmuting my fears into wild, gold-spun passion. With you, my body is a poem. You are the labyrinth where I lose and find myself, the unwritten book of ecstasies that only you can read.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What deep longing of yours is both fascinating and frustrating? To describe it further: It keeps pushing you to new frontiers yet always eludes complete satisfaction. It teaches you valuable life lessons but sometimes spoofs you and confuses you. Here’s the good news about this deep longing, Pisces: You now have the power to tap into its nourishing fuel in unprecedented ways. It is ready to give you riches it has never before provided. Here’s the “bad” news: You will have to raise your levels of self-knowledge to claim all of its blessings. (And of course, that’s not really bad!)
7. “Stormy” sea bird
8. Beast of burden
Across
1. Tee off
5. Bouncy music genre
8. “Know your rights” org.
12. Co. offering insurance to military members and their families
13. Biblical mountain (hidden in “offshore banking”)
15. Court litigant
16. Literary tilter at windmills
18. Baseball card datum
19. Ostentatious
20. Hosp. workers
22. Ending for cyan
23. Shoulder muscle, briefly
24. September 22, 2025 occurrence
28. “Feliz cumpleaÒos ___” (“Happy birthday to you”)
29. “You’ve got mail!” co.
30. Hog noise
31. Muscles above the abs
33. Dropped prop
34. River starting in Switzerland
35. Sudden getaway
38. Noise
40. “Dynamite” K-pop group
41. “Ditto”
45. Louvre Pyramid architect
46. Spam-sending software
47. Negative vote
48. Modern phrase for high-quality elegance over showiness
52. Beats by ___ (audio brand)
53. “Psych” cable network
54. Cerumen site
55. Add carbonation to
57. “___ Be in Love” (song by Kate Bush)
59. Japanese publisher of the “Final Fantasy” series
62. “Aqua ___ Hunger Force”
63. “Boyhood” actor Ethan
64. Peak near Palermo
65. Latin for “to be”
66. Sargasso, e.g.
67. Game side
Down
1. Semi-protector?
9. Interrupt, as a dancing couple
10. Galena, e.g.
11. Composition’s original form
13. “Greetings!”
14. Taiwanese maker of Mobiuz gaming monitors
17. “Weird Al” Yankovic movie with janitor Stanley Spadowski
21. Food on a conveyor belt
25. Not of the clergy
26. Secure storage space
27. Monogram pts.
32. Excited cry
33. Average, as the kids say
34. Walgreens pickups, for short
36. Bring together
37. “___, Brute?”
38. Presses together
39. Sleep-inducing drugs
42. Medium tempo
43. Navratilova of tennis
44. Test using a Snellen chart
45. “The exact words were ...”
46. Muslim coverings
49. Lid hair
50. Like pricy collectibles
51. “___-haw!”
56. “___ Petite” (1957 Jackie Wilson song)
58. Yellow pool ball
60. Director Boll
61. “Wanted” poster abbr.
