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Pushing forward

Palmetto Project’s new leader open to new ideas to boost inclusivity

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Construction is moving quickly on the new bike-pedestrian bridge over the Ahsley River

Area infrastructure projects tackle flooding, traffic, more

Charleston’s rampant recent growth has exacerbated flooding and road challenges for residents and visitors as infrastructure struggles to keep up with the influx of people and new buildings crowding the city and surrounding areas.

While risks from flooding may not be going anywhere anytime soon, several projects serve to mitigate the harm that floodwaters do to homes and businesses. Similarly, new traffic projects should offer drivers additional options on their commutes or ways to cut commutes altogether.

Area leaders say they’re hopeful these projects, when finished and taken together, will make a significant impact on the Charleston area even as it continues to expand, pushing more development — and improvements — outward toward North Charleston, past Mount Pleasant and onto the sea islands.

“Growth shouldn’t mean that we lose the quality of life that we have and what we love,” Charleston County Council Vice-chair Larry Kobrovsky told the Charleston City Paper this week.

Kobrovsky said specific projects to bolster rural communities can keep them from losing their sense of place while still accom-

modating the Lowcountry’s growth.

“These cookie-cutter solutions proposed by national developers are often done with no sense or regard for the residents we have here. Once those rural areas are gone, you can’t get them back.”

New bridge into town

The under-construction bike-pedestrian bridge spanning the Ashley River between downtown Charleston’s hospital district and West Ashley has been a long-awaited boon to residents on both sides of the water.

The Ashley River Crossing project went through several iterations and designs before construction began in January. But progress since then has been quick.

“It feels amazing,” said Charleston City Councilman Ross Appel. “I’m excited about providing a safe and fun way for bikers, runners and walkers to access downtown from West Ashley for either work or play.”

Appel represents Charleston’s District 11, which encompasses parts of West Ashley, including the area in which the new bridge is being built.

“For all the years that the project has gone through design, permitting, grant applications, and public meetings, the actual construction makes it real, which is

The Rundown

City Paper nabs big press awards

The Charleston City Paper took home 13 state press association advertising awards in July for work done last year. Not only did the newspaper win the biggest award in the S.C. Press Association’s Palmy contest — the President’s Award for Best Overall Advertising for weeklies — but it also won best ad in show for large weeklies. Judges also named former production manager Dela O’Callahan as advertising designer of the year. The newspaper won 10 other awards, including five additional first places. Nationally, the newspaper won three awards at the annual conference of AAN, formerly the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Writer Herb Frazier won third place for a news story on a double opioid tragedy and former writer Chloe Hogan received honorable mention for an arts story on Sasha Velour. Art Director Scott Suchy got third in the AAN’s national editorial layout category. City Paper staff

thrilling!” said Katie Zimmerman, executive director of local mobility advocacy group Charleston Moves.

“Because the bridge crossing connects directly to the West Ashley Greenway, Maryville Bikeway, and Medical District, and is relatively short and flat, means we are going to see so many people using it when construction is completed. It’s easy to envision that usage now that some of the bridge is actually built.”

The Ashley River Crossing is estimated to cost around $90 million. This includes the cost of the bridge itself, as well as upgrades to surrounding intersections. The project is largely federally funded, with the City of Charleston, Charleston County, the state of South Carolina and the Medical University of South Carolina also contributing. The project is on schedule for completion in summer 2027.

Project to help neighborhood

Construction began in March on a $5.8 million flooding solution project in the Barberry Woods neighborhood of Johns Island.

The neighborhood has long struggled with flooding issues, which often block access due

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Number of years since the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War-era submarine lost at sea for over a century, was raised from the Charleston Harbor in an unprecedented recovery operation. As the 25th anniversary approaches next month, Friends of the Hunley is inviting people to submit memories and photographs from the day the Hunley was recovered. Source: hunley.org

CP GROCERY TRACKER

July 25–Aug. 1, 2025

Numbers are based on weekly average costs nationwide.

Milk (half-gallon): $1.67 ( $0.45)

Cheese (8-ounce block): $2.59 ( $0.02)

Eggs (dozen, large white): $2.50 ( $1.14)

Bananas (per pound): $0.56 ( $0.07)

Avocados (each): $1.30 ( $0.41)

Gas (per gallon, S.C. avg.): $2.849 ( $0.004)

Sources: ams.usda.gov, gasprices.aaa.com

Ashley Stanol

S.C. agritourism takes root as farmers open doors

In simple dollar terms, Italy’s most valuable contribution to South Carolina’s tourism industry is in the Lowcountry, where Charleston’s famed Spoleto Festival USA annually delivers about 65,000 arts-loving visitors and more than $40 million in economic activity. The Charleston festival grew from a similar event that started years earlier in Spoleto, Italy.

But experts say there’s a humbler Italian-born tourism tradition that’s quietly exploding in communities from the Lowcountry to the Upstate — agritourismo, or farm tourism. And while it got a much later start here than its Italian counterpart, which took off in the 1980s, officials say S.C. agritourism is already generating about $15 million a year to support farmers and rural communities across the Palmetto State.

“Agritourism is really taking the ag world by storm,” Clemson University’s Will Culler told Statehouse Report in an interview this week. “The tradition and culture around farming in South Carolina interests so many people — they want to see it and experience it for themselves.”

The breadth and diversity of those experiences were on display just last month, Culler noted, when Clemson’s annual Ag + Art Tour welcomed 30,000 visitors to farms in 22 S.C. counties, with attractions ranging from corn mazes to hiking trails to petting zoos and more.

“This year, we had 186 farms participating,” Culler said, noting that it represented about a third of the total agritourism farms in the state. “According to the Agriculture Department website, there are over 600 farms doing some form of agritourism in South Carolina, which is truly amazing.”

A growing industry

With Palmetto State agritourism revenues rising more than 300% since 2012, industry observers credit state officials for taking a number of early steps to foster and promote the once-rare practice.

On the legislative side, they point to two laws that cleared the way for farmers to begin opening their land up to visitors. First, in 2007, legislators updated the state’s tax assessment law to ensure farmers weren’t hit with higher local property tax rates if they began offering agritourism attractions. And second, in 2010, they passed a bill offering farmers liability protection as long as they posted signs warning visitors of the risks inherent in most farm-related activities.

S.C. Sen. Russell Ott, an Orangeburg Democrat who manages his family’s farm in rural Orangeburg County, told Statehouse Report he thinks the legislature has gener-

Newton Blueberry Farm in Hollywood has been offering “you pick ’em or we pick ’em” agritourism services since 1968

ally done “a good job” in supporting agritourism initiatives.

“Here in South Carolina, we’ve tried to give farmers who want to try agritourism a break,” he said in a July 14 interview. “Because a lot of times, that’s the difference between them staying in business and going out of business.”

And while he doesn’t practice agritourism himself, he says it can be an important driver of rural economic development.

“It’s got spinoff benefits for the whole community,” he said. “When we can attract people to come in and spend their money, it helps everybody.”

In addition to the state’s legislative efforts, the S.C. Department of Agriculture has maintained an active agritourism program since 2014, department spokesperson Eva Moore said this week.

Specifically, Moore pointed to initiatives like the department’s Agritourism Passport Program, which allows visitors to redeem stamps from more than 100 participating farms for official state merchandise, including hats and T-shirts. Other initiatives include a website promoting every farm that currently offers agritourism products and services, and ongoing state support for the S.C. Agritourism Association.

But perhaps even more important, Moore said, is the “back-end support” the department offers to farmers as they face the very real challenges of developing a workable agritourism plan.

“What do you need to know to invite people to your farm?” Moore said, outlining the kinds of questions the department helps farmers answer. “What are the legal considerations? What are the marketing considerations? How do you keep people safe? That’s

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Agritourism

Angel Oak Preserve gains community forest recognition

The national Old-Growth Forest Network on Tuesday designated the future Angel Oak Preserve on Johns Island as a community forest, placing the land among a select group of publicly accessible places with ecological and cultural significance.

The honor distinguishes the Angel Oak, a Lowcountry treasure said to be the largest live oak tree east of the Mississippi River, and its surrounding forest as local treasures and landscapes of national importance worthy of permanent protection, reverence and celebration. The sprawling tree, with a circumference of more than 25 feet, is thought to be 500 years old, but may be older.

“This recognition affirms what so many in Charleston have long known: The Angel Oak is more than just a protected landscape; it is a promise to future generations,” Samantha Siegel, Angel Oak Preserve director at Lowcountry Land Trust, said in a press release. “Being recognized by the Old-Growth Forest Network affirms our commitment to letting this forest thrive, protected forever, as a place of natural wonder, community connection and historical remembrance.”

The 44-acre preserve has a design that features boardwalk trails, a nature play area for kids and educational information about the historic tree and the native people who have long held it sacred.

to the neighborhood having only a single entryway, cutting off residents from emergency services and causing prolonged impacts.

The S.C. Office of Resilience (SCOR) partnered with the city of Charleston on the project. About $4.9 million is funded by the SCOR’s ARPA Stormwater Infrastructure Program.

“Johns Island has long needed flooding relief in this area, and we’re grateful for SCOR’s partnership in making this project a reality,” Charleston Mayor William Cogswell said in a March 12 press release. “Once completed, it will significantly improve the quality of life for residents.”

Charleston communications director Deja McMillan did not respond to July requests for comment.

The project includes a flood bypass channel, wetland storage cells, maintenance berms and features for passive recreation, like a pedestrian walkway, bridge and educational signage. The City of Charleston will also replant 5,000 native trees and 8,900 native

Fundraising efforts are still underway for the estimated $13.5 million project spearheaded by the Lowcountry Land Trust.

“The plans for the Angel Oak Preserve perfectly embody what the Old-Growth Forest Network recognizes and honors through our Community Forest designation,” Sarah Adloo, executive director at Old-Growth Forest Network said in a press release, “a place that is protected, cared for and shared through the investment of its community, offering an opportunity for people to be immersed in a beautiful forest whether they come from near or far.

“Without this kind of dedicated effort, forests like those surrounding the Angel Oak are far too easily lost when they are thought of as blank space on a map rather than part of the ecological and cultural fabric of the surrounding communities.”

The future Angel Oak Preserve is the first to receive the community forest designation in South Carolina. Two other South Carolina sites, St. Phillips Island and Congaree National Park, are areas recognized by the Old-Growth Forest Network under its flagship designation for protected, publicly accessible oldgrowth forests.

While not yet considered an oldgrowth forest, the future Preserve holds the potential to regenerate into one over time and become an enduring model of conservation, stewardship and community care, officials said.

shrubs throughout the entire site, creating a nature-based flood mitigation solution.

“We’re smooth sailing right now,” SCOR officials said in a statement. “There have been no significant changes since construction started, and nothing unexpected has come up. We’re on schedule and anticipate completion by the end of the calendar year.”

Expanding busy, clogged road

Charleston County and city officials are working with the state of South Carolina on a plan to expand Maybank Highway between River Road and the Paul Gelegotis Bridge, also informally known as the Stono River Bridge that connects James and Johns islands.

Coming onto Johns Island from the bridge are two lanes of traffic that become the so-called Northern Pitchfork. Going the opposite way, two lanes condense into one, creating massive traffic congestion on the bridge and stretches of road on either side.

“It should be all hands on deck to get this project done,” Kobrovsky said. “It doesn’t cost as much as other projects would, it

the kind of support we offer.”

Down on the farm

Lee Newton of Newton Blueberry Farm said his family has been offering “you pick ’em or we pick ’em” agritourism services in Hollywood since 1968, long before the term was coined.

“We have a big following of you-pickers that come get their blueberries every year,” Newton said. “And we host a festival once a year when we have a good crop.”

To give a sense of scale, he noted about 1,200 people attended this year’s festival in late June.

“We had 25 sets of vendors selling all sorts of various wares,” Newton said.

Another S.C. grower, Casey Price of Jeremiah Farm and Goat Dairy on Johns Island, said she and her husband Tim got into the agritourism business almost by accident, when friends and neighbors insisted on paying them for farm tours they conducted anytime people asked.

“And here we are 20 years later, still doing it,” Price said, noting that the farm’s agritourism activities have expanded over the years to include goat milk products, educational seminars, farm to table meals and more.

But Price made it clear that the ancillary farm income, while helpful, wasn’t the driving force behind the growth of her family’s agritourism activities.

“It’s our heart to connect people with the rural lifestyle,” she said. “All the things we just grew up knowing — how to grow food, how to make soap, how to make cheese. Because if we don’t share it, it’s lost.”

makes sense and it would make a difference in people’s lives.”

Kobrovsky added that the rejection of a county sales tax referendum last year that would have funded a large-scale expansion for Interstate 526 increases the need for smaller projects like this to be prioritized. Kobrovsky campaigned heavily against the referendum, calling it “fiscal madness.” But he said its rejection was not a rejection of the community’s need for traffic help.

“I thought it was wrong to put all of our eggs in one basket,” he said. “This would show the people who live there that we weren’t rejecting their needs.”

The corridor is currently owned by the state, creating a roadblock for community leaders to start construction.

“There’s such a patchwork that for most people, it’s like hieroglyphics,” Kobrovsky said. “It’s hard to get things done, and that does create a problem.”

Both the county and city of Charleston have broached the topic of taking ownership of the stretch of road to enable the project to move forward. But nothing has been decided yet.

Blotter

Someone on July 11 apparently broke into a Mount Pleasant home on Foxwood Drive and tracked white paint through the backyard, garage and residence. Town police investigated, noting that nothing seemed to be stolen or out of the ordinary — aside from the white footprints all over the house. Well, at least it shouldn’t be too hard to find the culprit.

Did we read that right?

North Charleston police on July 11 responded to a Tanger Outlet Boulevard clothing store after employees complained about two people grabbing $2,574.99 worth of children’s clothes and running out of the store. We imagine that’s just the start of these folks’ back-to-school shopping. Excited to see how many pencils they can grab next time.

There’s always one Charleston police on July 17 approached a man sitting on a Meeting Street curb underneath a “No Loitering” sign. Not a big deal, but when police asked him to move, he stood shakily, slurred, nearly fell over the curb and tried to fight the officer. Yeah, that’ll do it. He was arrested for public intoxication.

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between July 11 and July 19.

Charleston’s silent surrender on statue exposes larger problem of council’s secrecy

eaders of a certain age will remember the literal “cone of silence” that frequently descended over the slapstick spies of TV’s Get Smart, a 1960s James Bond spoof that gleefully mocked the culture of secrecy in government.

Today, our local elected officials have a loftier-sounding name for the cone of silence they employ to keep us from overhearing their private discussions about public business. They call it “executive session” — a legally allowed but often misused mechanism for closed-door meetings.

And as we saw once again on July 15, Charleston Mayor William Cogswell and Charleston City Council have grown all too quick to lower their executive session cone of silence anytime a real debate threatens to break out in public view.

Five years ago, city council openly and hotly debated a resolution to take down the controversial John C. Calhoun monument, ultimately voting unanimously to do so. At the time, elected members said it would be placed in storage until the city could find an appropriate institution — probably a museum — to display the staunchly pro-slavery statesman’s visage with context required.

But then last Tuesday night, city council voted to go into executive session to receive legal advice on several issues, including on a legal settlement with the “heritage” group that sued the city over the Calhoun statue decision. After meeting for 45 minutes behind closed doors, they voted in public unanimously — without any public debate whatsoever — to settle the suit by giving the statue to the plaintiffs. Hmmm. Curious. Never mind that the city had already won the case at a lower court level. Or that the only meaningful restriction on those receiving the statue was that they not display it within

the city limits — an agreement that must bring real joy to neighboring leaders.

But the real issue here isn’t the Charleston council’s final decision to just make the whole problem go away. Instead, it’s the fact that the public never got to witness and hear a real debate about this deeply controversial question in open session.

Which, to be clear, is exactly what South Carolina law anticipates. And it’s exactly what Cogswell and city council members sidestepped by going into executive session for the legally-acceptable reason of receiving legal advice — only to spend 45 minutes outside of public view doing … something.

It’s that something that should set off the alarms of freedom for every city resident. Because if the closed session included substantive debate and agreement among the members, then it wasn’t just legal advice — it was backroom decision-making, which state law forbids.

We’ll leave it to readers’ imaginations to determine what went on in secret for the better part of an hour — and then how members voted without even a pro forma public discussion.

And that brings us to another point: Under previous mayors and councils, Charlestonians didn’t have to use their imaginations to fill in the blanks on city business. The press didn’t have to coddle the administration to get its questions answered. And the public didn’t have to wonder what kind of deals were being cut when their leaders met behind closed doors. The Cogswell administration breaks these traditions.

Bottom line: Democracy is loud. Governing is hard. And trying to hide all that noise and effort under a newfangled cone of silence doesn’t make Charleston better — it just makes our public officials less accountable to the people who elected them. Stop it.

CHARLESTON CHECKLIST of

community objectives

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.

ATTORNEY

GARY A. LING

GOP gubernatorial race might

get really testy

The Republican race for a gubernatorial candidate in 2026 could easily become a B-team bloodbath.

As of July 23, there were three announced candidates. And with more likely to jump into the wide-open race in the weeks ahead — incumbent Gov. Henry McMaster is term-limited — it easily could spin out of control, with ever shriller opponents trying to distinguish themselves as the 2026 primary approaches. Or not — if you think the current version of the GOP can keep itself out of the gutter and focused on policy differences. (Fat chance.)

The problem Republican voters will face in 2026 is that most of the candidates are not true leaders in the style of former Gov. Carroll Campbell or even McMaster. They’re followers, at best — B-team players who have hung on for years trying to reach the next rung of power.

Just look at current Attorney General Alan Wilson, who many consider the front-runner. He’ll be a law-and-order candidate, for sure, but he’s not done that much to distinguish himself in big-picture policy or intellectual rigor over the years. About all he’s known for on a national level is lemming-like chiming in on every partisan lawsuit filed against Democratic presidential administrations.

Incumbent Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, a political unknown elected on McMaster’s ticket in 2018, is still pretty much an unknown after years in Columbia.

State Sen. Josh Kimbrell, elected as a newcomer in 2020 to a Spartanburg seat in the state Senate, looked like the fresh, young voice when he announced a few weeks ago — a face that could inject something new in a staid race. But his campaign seems to be falling apart before our eyes after accusations of financial shenanigans earlier this month by a business partner in an aviation leasing company.

Two other names you’ve likely heard as possible gubernatorial candidates are U.S. Reps. Nancy Mace of the Charleston area and Ralph Norman of the Rock Hill area. Both are making moves to expand their outreach across the state with Mace taking several stunt-laden scouting trips to see voters and Norman using lots of spammy texts to try to engage with potential voters outside his district.

The problem Republican voters will face in 2026 is that most of the candidates are not true leaders in the style of former Gov. Carroll Campbell or even McMaster.

Mace might want to try to become the state’s big political deal after McMaster to feed her ego and because she’s wearing out her welcome in Washington — where it’s harder to get on national television because some of her antics have crossed the line. And Norman, 72, may be looking to wind up a career as governor because he’s become something of a conservative pariah in Washington — opposing Trump on items the president wants, only to pull back and cave at the end.

The one name you might not have heard of as a possibility is state Sen. Sean Bennett, a solid old-school Summerville Republican who we hear is getting pressure from the business community to jump into the race. A financial planner who is seen as having a long-term strategic view of the state, he’s been in the state Senate since 2013.

Conventional wisdom holds that the more people who are in a primary race, the more likely that race could devolve into a personality contest with high-falutin’ charges and countercharges as people try to make themselves more memorable.

Maybe the smart thing, however, in 2026 is for candidates to distinguish themselves through serious campaigns about public policy and their vision for South Carolina instead of social media attention grabs.

Andy Brack is editor and publisher of Charleston City Paper. Have a comment? Send to: feedback@ charleston citypaper.com.

What To Do

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THIS WEEKEND

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Musical

Middle school is the worst, but it doesn’t have to be. Follow Greg Heffley as he moves from elementary school to the big leagues and hatches a new plan to make upward moves on the popularity ladder. Join Jeff Kinney’s classic graphic novel characters in this hilarious musical adaptation. Tickets are on sale online for two performances on Saturday and two shows on Sunday. July 26 and July 27. Show times vary. Ticket prices vary. Dock Street Theatre. 135 Church St. Downtown. charlestonstage.com

WEDNESDAYS

Kid Tours: Beach Buddies

Is it a sea star or a starfish? Where do shells come from? How much is a sand dollar really worth? Get the answers to these questions and more as you learn all about animals who you may encounter on the beach. Kid Tours is a series designed to highlight artifacts from The Charleston Museum’s collection that have fascinated children for years. Kid Tours is free for members and with general museum admission.

July 30. 3:30 p.m. Free for members or general admission. The Charleston Museum. 360 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonmuseum.org

SATURDAYS

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SATURDAY

Pickle Fest

Pickles will take over New Realm Brewing Co. on Saturday for its first-ever Pickle Fest. Join the team for a dill-icious day featuring pickle-themed food and drink specials, local vendors bringing all things pickle, a pop-up pickleball court (yes, it counts) and live music and good vibes with DJ Cilo and Drew Marler. Whether you’re a die-hard picklehead or just in it for some wacky fun, there’s something for everyone.

July 26. 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Free to attend; menu prices vary. New Realm Brewing Co. Island Park Drive. Daniel Island. newrealmbrewing.com

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Charleston Farmers Market

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

NEXT FRIDAY

Reggae Nights finale

Wrap up this year’s summer concert series at James Island County Park. Party with Jamaican native and Charleston-based Mystic Vibrations. Also, enjoy a variety of food options from local food trucks and vendors. Crafters will be on-site with souvenirs and gifts available for purchase. Guests are encouraged to bring their own chairs and blankets. (And umbrellas just in case, as this party is on rain or shine!)

Aug. 1. 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. $20/advance; $30/day-of. James Island County Park. 871 Riverland Drive. James Island. charlestoncountyparks.com

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Pushing forward

Palmetto Project’s new leader open to new ideas to boost inclusivity

orty-five-year-old Aaron Tobias

Polkey is unlike some members of his generation who grew up in Charleston but left to seek their fortunes.

Polkey returned home last year after a nineyear stint as an attorney with a gender-based anti-violence organization in Washington, D.C., to give back to a city that launched him into careers in law and advocacy.

Polkey said in an interview that knew ties to his family and supporters in Charleston would bring him home again.

“I am a proud Gullah Geechee Charlestonian,” he boasted. “The core of what it means to have a home and a connection and a sense of responsibility to this place is the foundation of everything.”

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The return for Polkey, who announced this week that he was running for the peninsular 4th district seat on Charleston City Council, was made possible when Steve Skardon retired as the second person to serve as president and CEO of the Palmetto Project.

The Palmetto Project’s board of directors last year placed Polkey at the helm of the Charleston-based nonprofit that for four decades has met some of South Carolina’s greatest needs with big solutions.

Listening to South Carolina

Since settling in the agency’s office on Rivers Avenue in North Charleston, Polkey has traveled to more than half of the state to get first-hand responses to the problems and concerns of South Carolinians.

The listening tour is guiding a recently launched We Are South Carolina initiative to identify the next big issues for the organization to tackle.

Dozens of individuals have offered future goals ranging from affordable childcare, sustainable land use to resiliency and expanding opportunities for juvenile offenders.

Some South Carolinians, Polkey added, also are calling for ways to break through the social media bubbles that block community cohesion in a rapidly expanding state.

We Are South Carolina, a name that evokes inclusion, seeks ideas from other nonprofits and “everyday people,” he said.

A decade from now, if We Are South Carolina is successful, “I hope that openness to try new ideas will culminate with us [doing] something that began at the grassroots and found its way to a sustainable solution,” Polkey said. More listening sessions are planned over the next year, he added.

Toot your horn

The Palmetto Project boasts that it has sparked more than 330 successful public-private partnerships throughout the state and some of them have been copied elsewhere. Since its founding in 1984, the Palmetto Project has helped to expand electronic voting in South Carolina, held conversations around racial conciliation and distributed free books to children under 5. It is also the state’s only nonprofit insurance agency, specializing in subsidized plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

a better job of getting the word out about what we do.”

With a staff of 18 employees in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Georgetown and Marion, the Palmetto Project offers programs that are as broad as the state’s economic and social needs, he said.

With so many lanes to travel in, it is “challenging to communicate which lanes we occupy when we are open to any new idea that addresses any need,” he said.

Health care threat

In South Carolinians, more than 500,000 people receive health insurance through the federal ACA Insurance Marketplace.

The Palmetto Project serves about 3,000 of them.

Skardon, who has counseled Polkey while retired, said the challenge for Polkey and the Palmetto Project is restructuring their work to help South Carolinians who are likely to lose health coverage as result of expected cuts in federal spending.

The agency is bracing for those reductions by identifying consumers “we suspect may be impacted and contacting them well in advance to begin to figure out solutions together,” Polkey explained.

“The second part is reaching out to have a mass marketing campaign to inform concerned residents that we are available to answer their questions and allay their concerns,” he added.

A family of achievers

The Palmetto Project multi-faceted portfolio is as diverse as Polkey’s upbringing in one of Charleston’s classic middle-class Black families of educators, entrepreneurs and civil rights activists whose address books read like a who’s who of Black Charleston.

Polkey’s maternal grandfather, Sumterborn Sylvester Jackson, set the foundation for the family’s generational wealth. As a skilled carpenter, he built homes for his

often reminisced about the time she hosted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at her Alexander Street home.

The core of what it means to have a home and a connection and a sense of responsibility to this place is the foundation of everything.

Many of those achievements, however, are not widely known, Polkey admitted to the Charleston City Paper in his first in-depth interview since joining the statewide nonprofit.

“I have a hard-working and very humble staff that oftentimes is reluctant to toot their own horn,” he said. “We’ve got to do

—Palmetto Project CEO Aaron Polkey  “ “

family and others in the upper Meeting Street and Wagener Terrace neighborhoods decades before gentrification began to change peninsula Charleston.

Ernestine Tobias Felder, Polkey’s maternal grand aunt, was the secretary of Charleston’s branch of the NAACP. She

Polkey’s mother, Charleston educator Sylvia Polkey Smalls, was among the 300 students who graduated in 1960 from Burke High School. That mega-class included Harvey Gantt, the first Black student at Clemson University and former Charlotte mayor, and noted Charleston educator Cecilia Gordon Rogers. Polkey’s stepfather, Robert Smalls, a retired bus driver for the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. (SCE&G), was also in that famous Burke class.

But it is perhaps Polkey’s maternal grandmother, Ida Tobias Jackson, who had the most lasting influence on him.

“She cultivated in me a specific set of interests focused on community, public speaking and advocacy,” Polkey recalled.

Jackson lived on Addison Street next

door to former Charleston City Council member Hilda Jefferson. Through that friendship, Polkey, an 8-year-old student at Buist Academy, was chosen to ride on a horse-drawn carriage during a Christmas parade with then-Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr.

Now with degrees from the University of South Carolina School of Law and Georgetown University, Polkey said, “My story is a story of education, housing and access to mentorships.

“A lot of people who grew up in similar circumstances weren’t afforded those same opportunities,” he lamented. “That’s why I feel a responsibility to break down the barriers that deny those opportunities to other children.”

Editor’s Note: This story on Polkey was assigned and written before his announcement this week that he will be a candidate in the Nov. 4 nonpartisan election for Charleston City Council.

Aaron Polkey is the third leader in the 41-year history of the Palmetto Project, which was launched by a group of the state’s business leaders who believed that every problem in South Carolina has a solution

Cuisine

A summer spotlight on hangover-free cocktails

Americans are drinking less than they have in decades. According to a 2023 Gallup poll, 62% of American adults under the age 35 say they drink, down from 72% 20 years ago. And they are also drinking less frequently and are less likely to drink to excess.

For those that are looking for non-alcoholic cocktails in Charleston and yes, there are people who are looking — there are abundant options — from zero-proof spins on classics to new creations. Bottom line: Today’s tasty non-alcoholic cocktails can be enjoyed on their own or as a complement to a meal.

On the marketplace

Emily Heintz is the founder of Sèchey, a no-and-low alcohol retail shop located at 540 King St. in downtown Charleston. Sèchey has its own line of beverages as well as a co-op program with national retailer Target, in which Heintz curates an assortment of non-alcoholic options including Ghia, Bella Hadid’s Kin Euphorics and Katy Perry’s De Soi. She believes Americans, including young adults, are still drinking, but they are just drinking differently.

“There’s a clear generational shift where health, mindfulness and authenticity are guiding how and when we consume traditional alcohol,” she said. “Younger consumers are prioritizing mental health, sleep and social clarity over hangovers and excess.

And all consumers are redefining how we socialize, celebrate and connect. The ‘why’ behind the drink matters more now.”

At Sèchey, the staff doesn’t speak about sobriety. They speak about alcohol flexibility and a person’s decision to opt in and out of drinking based on how they are feeling, who they are with and what they are doing. Heintz says what has stayed the same since Sèchey opened in 2021 is the consumer’s desire for alternatives to traditional alcohol.

But, what’s changed is the diversity of choices now available in the zero-proof market.

“Non-alcoholic cocktails have gotten better, and more brands have paved the way for better-for-you and complex options that do not lean heavy on sugar and juice,” she said.

“Today’s zero-proof cocktails are developed with the same care and craftsmanship as traditional ones. Bartenders are using infused syrups, adaptogens (natural substances, primarily herbs and mushrooms) and layered techniques. But more importantly, people are finally taking them seriously.”

The zero-proof evolution

Lane Becker, a general manager at FIG — the beloved Charleston restaurant that won the 2018 James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program — also believes the shift coincided with increased focus on wellness.

“At places like FIG, our guests are interested in the quality and provenance of the things they’re eating and drinking,” he said. “For people who make a point to eat farmfresh produce and drink low-intervention wine, it makes sense that they’re thinking about the impact that drinking has on their health in general.”

In the non-alcoholic realm in recent years, Becker said he believes traditionally, zero-proof cocktails were once reserved for those abstaining temporarily like during pregnancy or dry January.

“Offering a non-alcoholic cocktail was more a gesture of hospitality than a promise of something delicious,” he said. “In the old days, a bartender would consent to a guest’s request for a non-alcoholic cocktail, but that drink wasn’t always part of the same rigorous testing and approval process that’s required to put an actual dish or cocktail on a menu.

“Now tons of people drink non-alcoholic

drinks, so they’ve got to stand on their own among the rest of the unqualifiedly good items on a beverage menu.”

Becker said he also believes non-alcoholic beverages have improved.

“They’ve gotten much better,” he said. “The same competitive forces that drive decision making on the rest of the drink menu now apply to this category.”

And what is the next evolution in the zero-proof space according to Becker?

“I’m really hoping for two trends to take hold: one that emphasizes simplification of these kinds of drinks — with the caveat that ‘simple’ doesn’t have to mean ‘easy’ — and a second wherein we stop thinking of nonalcoholic cocktails only as alcohol-free versions of known alcoholic cocktails,” he said.

Non-alcoholic cocktails to try in Charleston

Sample some of these zero-proof drinks around town (in alphabetical order):

Seafood all-star 167 Raw Oyster Bar has two non-alcoholic options on its current menu: the Grapefruit Spritz and Ginger Mule. Each is a refreshing choice that complements a food menu offering items like a pastrami’d swordfish sandwich and clam linguine. More: 167rawoysterbar.com

Mount Pleasant’s Abbracci Italian Cuisine & Cocktails offers an assortment of non-alcoholic beverage options. The Give Me Mora mixes pomegranate, blackberry, orange blossom water and soda water while the NOgroni is a zeroproof Negroni with notes of juniper and

citrus St. Agrestis. More: abbraccichs.com

Beautiful South’s cocktail menu has a way of making everything feel just a little more poetic — even without the spirits. Each drink is named for a literary reference that reflects its mood and composition. Love Park, inspired by the poem by “Yahia Lababidi,” is a standout and it is made of a layered, botanical blend of matcha coconut cream, lemon and lavender. More: beautifulsouthchs.com

Recently named Best Cocktails in Charleston City Paper ’s annual Best of Charleston contest, Félix Cocktails et Cuisine brings the same thoughtful craft and seasonal inspiration to its zero-proof offerings. The current lineup includes three housemade non-alcoholic creations including the Citron-Fraise, a bright blend of fresh strawberry coulis, lemon juice, and simple syrup, the La Tahitienne featuring pineapple and lemon juice, hibiscus syrup and tonic and La Fleur du Désert, a bold mix of Seedlip Notas de Agave, grapefruit and lime juice and jalapeño simple syrup. More: felixchs.com

Kultura’s Halo Halo mocktail is inspired by the Filipino dessert and it mixes lime juice, pineapple juice, lychee juice, ube milk, ube whip and fruity pebbles, which are made with ube extract. Ube is a purple yam, native to the Philippines, and this drink is as delicious as it is beautiful. More: kulturacharleston.com

Courtesy Scarborough & Squirrel Bar
The Haunted but Spirit-Free at The Ansonborough’s Scarborough & Squirrel Bar
Courtesy Ma’am Saab Ma’am Saab’s Truckstop Cooler

Get your fix with the best local chicken sandwiches

Chicken sandwiches are a religion for many in the South and Charleston has fantastic places at the altar. While a fried version is always a great choice, you can find a variety of preparations in the Holy City, from shawarma to roasted chicken.

One place to check out is Berkeley’s Sandwiches + Suppers, a family-friendly gem in the Wagener Terrace neighborhood. It takes the chicken sandwich so seriously it has a dedicated chicken cutlet sammie section on the menu.

“So much of our menu at Berkeley’s is based in nostalgia,” said Marc Hudacsko, owner of Berkeley’s, and New Jersey native. “Chicken cutlets were such a part of growing up for me. Kids in school argued over whose mother, or grandmother, made the best. Chicken parm was in high demand for birthday dinners. Italian delis had cutlets piled high behind the counter.”

You can’t go wrong with any of Berkeley’s options. The classic has iceberg lettuce, tomato, red onion and Duke’s mayo while the Parmesan has grandma’s red sauce and mozzarella. The buffalo version has buffalo sauce, iceberg and blue cheese and for any vegetarians out there, you can substitute eggplant cutlets in place of chicken on any of the sandwiches.

“Whenever your food can connect with someone’s memories, I feel you start building an authentic relationship right there, which is such an important part of what makes a restaurant work,” Hudacsko said.

• Berkeley’s: 6241/2 Rutledge Ave., downtown. Open daily. More: eatatberkeleys.com

Below are some more of the best chicken sandwiches you can find in Charleston (in alphabetical order):

Adam’s Kitchen

Adam’s Kitchen specializes in Mediterranean flavors and serves everything from a fattoush salad to kefta kebabs. The chicken shawarma sandwich has chicken marinated with the chef’s blend of spices that is then cooked on a rotating spit and served with garlic sauce and pickles on

Cocktails

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Lillian’s Petite Market & Eatery offers a robust zero-proof cocktail menu. New options are often added to the menu and the current standout is Good Thoughts, which is a refreshing blend of Arise Aplós, ginger, turmeric, blood orange and pineapple. More: lillianschs.com

The Truckstop Cooler from Ma’am Saab uses pomegranate, mango, citrus

Berkeley’s bases much of its menu on nostalgic tastes

pita bread. Add on anything from hummus, baba ghanoush, labneh or muhammama, which is crushed walnuts mixed with red peppers, pepper paste, olive oil and spices.

• Adam’s Kitchen: 920 Houston Northcutt Blvd., Mount Pleasant. Open daily. More: adamskitchensc.com

Circe’s Grotto

Stop by Circe’s Grotto and you’ll often find a long line with a mix of locals, college students and visitors. Paninis, sandwiches, wraps, salads and breakfast are just as good on the beach as they are sitting at the shop’s outdoor picnic tables. Circe’s makes a great chicken salad as well as a chicken burrito, but it’s the chicken Caesar wrap — with oven-roasted chicken, romaine lettuce, parmesan cheese and Caesar dressing — that delivers a classic punch.

• Circe’s Grotto: 85 Wentworth St., downtown. Open Tues. through Sat. More: circesgrotto.net

Moe’s Crosstown

A quintessential sports bar, Moe’s Crosstown satiates many cravings from wings to burgers to a Cuban. Its Gold Rush serves fried chicken strips along with Swiss cheese, bacon, honey, Dijon mustard, lettuce and tomato on a bun. It’s perfect alongside fries or onion rings, washed down by any of Moe’s on tap beers.

• Moe’s Crosstown: 714 Rutledge Ave., downtown. Open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily. More: Moescrosstowntavern.com

and tonic water. This refreshing, citrus forward drink pairs beautifully with the complex flavors at this Pakistani gem. More: maamsaabchs.com

Satellite Rooftop Bar at Stars Restaurant on King Street features several zeroproof drink options including the Silver Lining, featuring lavender, blueberry and lemonade, and the Midnight Train to Georgia , a blend of passionfruit, ginger beer and bitters. More: starsrestaurant.com

A la carte

What’s new

Washington, D.C.-based Timber Pizza Co. , which was recognized as pizzeria of the year by Bon Appetit magazine, opened a Charleston location on July 22 at 741 Meeting St. Serving artisan wood-fired pizzas, the Charleston location has a full service bar and patio, and is open Monday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m to 10 p.m. More: timberpizza.com/charleston

Park & Grove

Wagener Terrace’s Park & Grove has several chicken items on its lunch, dinner and brunch menus including chicken liver pâté and a chicken add-on to salads. But it’s the crispy chicken sandwich with bacon and onion jam, buttermilk dressing and lettuce on focaccia that is a contender for best chicken sandwich in town.

• Park & Grove: 730 Rutledge Ave., downtown. Open daily. More: parkandgrovechs.com

The Pass Panino +

Provisions

You can find many sandwich superstars at The Pass, from Such a Nice Italian Boy — its homage to the classic Italian — to the Cacio e Pepe, The Pass’s grilled cheese made with three cheeses and fresh cracked pepper pressed on local sourdough and drizzled housemade truffle honey. But if you have a hankering for chicken, the Southern (Italian) Hospitality is stuffed with warm herb-roasted chicken, gabagool (which is the American-Italian slang term for capicola, an Italian cured pork), housemade pepper shooter aioli and Parmesan rain on a toasted long seeded roll.

• The Pass Panino + Provisions: 207-A St. Philip St., downtown. Open Weds. through Sun. More: thepasschs.com

More: Visit online to learn about more great dishes from herd Provisions, King BBQ, Pink Cactus and da Toscano Porchetta Shop. charlestoncitypaper.com

Zero-proof options from The Ansonborough’s Scarborough & Squirrel Bar are the Prohibition Punch, a blend of ginger, yuzu and three citruses, and the Haunted, but Spirit-Free cocktail blends peach, honey and lemon sour. More: theansonborough.com

The bar at Zero George offers a Garden Suite Spritz, a hibiscus and blackberry spritz, perfect for the warmer months, with a zero-proof sparkling rosé to top off the drink. More: zerogeorge.com

Beautiful South, which serves Szechuan-style food from the regions south of the Yangtze River in southeastern China, recently rolled out a new menu with daily dim sum so guests can now enjoy the restaurant’s signature dim sum every day, not just on Sundays. Handmade pork dumplings, Cantonese-style wings, dry-rubbed ribs and rotating bao are available alongside takeout classics like Hunan chicken, moo goo gai pan and char siu pork lo mein, available for both lunch and dinner. On weekends, brunch-inspired additions like Hong Kong-style French toast and an egg sandwich on housemade milk bread are available. More: beautifulsouthchs.com

PETA named its picks for the nation’s Top Eggsellent Vegan Breakfast Sandwiches and Charleston’s Huriyali made the list. The restaurant’s vegan breakfast sandwich features a savory chickpea mash, smoky tempeh, cashew cheese, chipotle aioli, avocado, greens and grilled tomato on local artisanal sourdough bread. More: huriyali.com

What’s happening

This year’s eagerly anticipated red sauce week at Renzo runs from July 29 to August 2 and is BBQ themed. Guests will find dishes like chicken wings, carpaccio loaded potato chips, shrimp scampi and smoked porchetta. More: Resy.

Kultura , the acclaimed Filipino restaurant led by James Beard Foundation nominated chef Nikko Cagalanan and Paula Kramer, is moving to a larger space in the CannonboroughElliotborough neighborhood this fall. The new location at 267 Rutledge Ave. allows for a larger dining room, a fully equipped kitchen and the addition of a full bar program led by beverage director Jessica Ford. The restaurant will remain open in its current location at 73 Spring St. until the new space is ready. More: kulturacharleston.com. Becky Lacey

Be the first to know. Read the Cuisine section at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Culture

What’s funny about Emmy-nominated

The Righteous Gemstones series

In a glorious “Amen” to its four-season run, The Righteous Gemstones received a blessed bounty of Emmy nominations.

The categories in which it garnered nods speak to the show’s production values, including cinematography, music supervision, stunt coordination, costumes and sound editing.

There is method to creator Danny McBride’s mayhem.

For South Carolinians, the show is far more than the sum of its lauded cogs. Pry loose the oafish onslaught of the sophomoric, warring Gemstone siblings and you might detect this country’s faintly beating, if woefully misguided, heart. Based and baked in the South, its deceptively broad lens also sheds cinematic light on the headscratching stuff of today’s American way.

My firsthand, if fleeting, experience with the show revealed that when you lift the hood of this jokey Southern-fried jalopy, there is an enterprise as refined as its characters are rough. On-screen and off, McBride calibrates a transfixing tension between the sacred and the profane, the misbegotten and the ill-informed.

In June 2024, I answered a children’s casting call on behalf of my then 11-yearold daughter Beatrice. When she was selected, they offered to place me, too. The proof is a few skinny seconds of Season 4, Episode 3. A blurry pan catches

me summoning my inner church lady and nodding self-righteously aside a befuddled tween in Sunday’s finest plaid. The scene was a worship service set in a Goose Creek strip mall church sufficiently dispiriting for me to envision the production design team gleefully reporting how sublimely it sapped the soul.

That morning, a friendly, focused crew herded dozens of us from parking lot to wardrobe to a holding room, a fluorescentlit cattle call with hours-long spells spent praying our phones didn’t run out of lifewhile ingesting endless reserves of vendingmachine snacks.

Filing into a no-frills sanctuary, we gathered as the congregation for the three Gemstones at the altar. The elder son Jesse, the unsubtle egoist, is portrayed with good-ole boy bluster by McBride. Judy, his trash-talking train wreck of an alpha sister, had actor Edi Patterson dancing spasmodically in a pitch-perfect, pastel sequin getup. Adam DeVine realized, Kelvin, the minimuscle-man baby brother,with equal parts twinkle and twang.

At the runthrough, the actors paced through blocking and lines at an amiable half-measure, seemingly reserving energy for cameras to come. Crew members trained their gazes on the pews, remixing and matching us for reasons not disclosed.

Then, after once again cooling our heels in the holding room, we returned to the sanctuary. An action-ready director David Gordon

Green commanded the movements of a massive, dollied camera, positioned to swoop in on our front row seats like a stalking pterodactyl unnerving the bejesus out of me and Beatrice, who sat directly in its cross hairs.

The context, which was not then given, would turn out to be nothing short of explosive. McBride, all hue and battle cry, served a sermon involving the fate of the dynasty. With each new pronouncement, we praised the Lord euphorically as the film-wielding beast bore down on us, with production assistants behind it gesticulating wildly to widen our enraptured smiles.

A single take, and it was over. We spilled out into a sun-blanched Goose Creek parking lot, back to the glare of our everyday existence.

In its final season, the show tracks the Gemstone bloodline to its first Biblethumping huckster, Elijah Gemstone, during the Civil War, where so much of our country’s ongoing, fraught dynamic played out. As Elijah, Bradley Cooper trained his beguiling baby blues that glint with sparkle and sketch–the first notch in a Bible Belt tale converging sinners and Holy Men, Godliness and greed.

In recent years, I have steered nonAmerican friends to the series. As the saying goes, it’s funny because it’s true. McBride and company may be in it first and foremost with the laughs, but that does not diminish the glaring realities the humor ingeniously leverages.

Arts+Music

Laugh along in August with PURE Theatre’s Zelda in the Backyard

PURE Theatre presents Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s Zelda in the Backyard as part of its preseason summer slam Directed by Miles Boinest and starring Camille Lowman, the comedic play involves a junker of a Rolls Royce that sends a woman named Libby into a serious tailspin. Performances take place at various times through Aug. 16 at Cannon Street Arts Center, 134 Cannon St., downtown Charleston. More: puretheatre.org.

VISUAL ARTS

July 26, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.: The annual, free Sweetgrass Festival celebrates the Gullah Geechee people’s history, culture, traditions and their sweetgrass basket art form originating in Mount Pleasant, via entertainment, activities and sweetgrass merchandise. Mount Pleasant Memorial Waterfront Park, 99 Harry M. Hallman Jr. Blvd., Mount Pleasant.

RETURNING

Arts leader Nicole Taney returns to Charleston to take on the inaugural role of vice president of artistic programming at Charleston Gaillard Center. Taney, who was most recently artistic director of Celebrity Series of Boston, was previously director of artistic planning and operations for Spoleto Festival USA.

MUSIC

• July 26, 9 p.m.: CHS Underground presents IndiGold, Royal American

• July 26, 6 p.m.: Holler Choir, Pour House

• July 27, 8 p.m.: EST Gee , Music Farm

• July 27, 8 p.m.: Mumford & Sons, Credit One Stadium

• July 28 , 8:30 p.m.: Shy Blossom, Tin Roof

• July 31 , 8 p.m.: Pony Bradshaw, Music Farm

• July 31 , 9 p.m.: Superfine , The Windjammer

• Aug. 1-2 , 8:30 p.m.: Dumpstaphunk , Pour House

• Aug 2 , 9 p.m.: Exaggerators, The Royal American

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The Righteous Gemstones ’s Season 4 episode “To Grieve Like the Rest of Men Who Have No Hope”

Charleston rockers Abrevity emerge with new EP, Royal American show

The Charleston trio Abrevity has a July 27 show at the Royal American that’s important for a couple of reasons.

First, it’s the first time Abrevity has played its hard-rocking “post grunge” music live since last May. Second, it comes after the band, consisting of singer/guitarist Igor de Souza, singer/ bassist Nick Moody and drummer Dylan LaFong, released its first new material in four years. The Era EP came out earlier this year.

“I guess it has been a minute, hasn’t it?” Dylan LaFong said in a recent conversation with the Charleston City Paper. “But we never truly went inactive at any point.”

So what caused the disappearance?

“There was a lot going on internally that we had to figure out that led us to where we are now,” LaFong said. “We decided as a band to take a break from shows to focus on everything else happening behind the scenes. Not just for us, but also the people that listen to our music and come out to our shows.”

The Era EP proves that it was the right decision.

Over five tracks, Abrevity sounds tighter than it ever has, careening through the Foo Fighters-style rocker “Affray,” the sleek, propulsive “Dust,” the hypnotic, polyrhythmic jam “768,” and the heartfelt emo-leaning ballad “Medusa” before wrapping up with a

Charleston trio Abrevity will play its hard-rocking “post grunge” music live for the first time since last May

pop-punk gem called “Hope So.”

It’s a dramatic expansion of the band’s sound, which de Souza said meant that getting the EP done took a while.

“It took a year of experimenting with sounds and bouncing ideas until it arrived at a point where we felt ready to release it,” he said. “In fact, there’s another version of Era that wasn’t released that started production even before that, but ultimately we made the decision to go this route.”

With new material out, the next step was a tour, which Abrevity is now on with a fellow Charleston band, the emo rockers Newgrounds Death Rugby.

Tin Roof helps Texas flood victims with open mic fundraiser

West Ashley’s Tin Roof is hosting an acoustic open-mic night for professionals and amateurs from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. July 27 to raise funds for the victims of the recent catastrophic flooding in Texas.

Charleston singer/songwriter James Young regularly runs open-mic events at Tin Roof. He said you can bring more than just an acoustic guitar.

“Performers of all kinds are welcome,” Young told the Charleston City Paper “Be they musicians, comedians, poets or magicians. It’s free to sign up, so all you have to do is show up.”

The event also is free to attend, but Young said there will be donation bins for people to donate money.

And after more than a year away, bassist Nick Moody said the band has missed being onstage.

“We missed the energy, the music, and most importantly, the people,” Moody said. “There’s something so surreal about that feeling you get on stage, seeing people having fun and vibing with the music. We love the wave of adrenaline, and it makes us extremely excited to hit the road again.”

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Doors open at 9 p.m., July 27, The Royal American, 970 Morrison Drive. Charleston. Tickets are $10: theroyalamerican.com

“All funds raised in our donation bins will be sent to World Central Kitchen,” Young said. “It’s a nonprofit that helps to feed those who have been displaced by disasters.”

Young said that World Central Kitchen is already on the scene and they need all the help they can get.

“They are currently on the front lines in Texas, New Mexico and North Carolina helping with the aftermath of the recent floods,” he said.

Young added that brochures and fliers at the event will further explain World Central Kitchen’s mission for those wanting more information.

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Doors open at 7 p.m., July 27, Tin Roof, 1117 Magnolia Road, West Ashley. Admission is free: charlestontinroof.com

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NOTICE OF SALE - 2024-CP10-04654

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CIVIL ACTION NO.: 2024-CP10-04654

South Carolina Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff(s), v. Peter J. Dieppe, III and Antonia C. Dieppe, Defendant(s)

NOTICE OF SALE CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-04654

Deeds obtained via the foreclosure process are not warranty deeds. Interested bidders should CONDUCT DUE DILIGENCE REGARDING title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search. The successful bidder shall take the property subject to any superior liens or interest.

BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of South Carolina Federal Credit Union vs. Peter J. Dieppe, III and Antonia C. Dieppe, I, Mikell R. Scarborough, Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, will sell on August 5, 2025, at 11:00 am, at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building (PSB) - located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC 29405, to the highest bidder:

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on James Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 2, as shown and designated on that certain Plat entitled,

“PLAT SHOWING A 5.0’ SWERE EASEMENT & SEPTIC TANK TITLE EASEMENT SHOWN AS LOT 3 TO SERVE LOT 1 ONLY AND THE SUBDIVISION OF A 5.911 ACRE TRACT KNOWN AS TRACT A, INTO LOT 1, LOT 2, LOT 3, ACCESS R/W AND RESIDUAL PRESENTLY OWNED BY KENNETH B. MUCKENFUSS, JR. LOCATED ON BATTERY ISLAND IN THE JAMES ISLAND PUBLIC SERVICE DISTRICT, CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C.”, dated November 2, 1989, and revised December 13, 1989, prepared by W. Mason Lindsey, Land surveyor, and duly recorded in Plat Book BY, at Page 173, in the RMC Office for Charleston County. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said Plat more fully appear.

DERIVATION: This being the same property conveyed to Peter J Dieppe, III and Antonio Dieppe by Deed of Kenneth B. Muckenfuss, Jr. dated January 12, 1996, recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, SC in Deed

SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES - - TERMS OF SALE: The sale shall be for cash, and the highest bidder shall be required to make a cash deposit of five (5%) percent of the bid as earnest money and as evidence of good faith, provided, however, the Plaintiff shall be entitled to apply the debt or any portion of the debt due them against their respective bids in lieu of cash. Should the person making the highest bid at the sale fail to comply with the terms of its bid by depositing the said five (5%) percent cash, then the property shall be sold at the risk of such bidder on the same sales date or some subsequent date as the Master-in-Equity may find convenient and advantageous.

Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the terms of its bid within thirty (30) days of the final acceptance of this bid, then the Masterin-Equity shall readvertise and resell the property on the same terms on a subsequent date at the risk of such bidder.

Persons submitting additional bids after the initial sale shall deposit five (5%) percent of the bids in cash as prescribed above. The Master-in-Equity shall return all deposits except the deposit securing the highest bid. - - Should the Plaintiff, or its representative, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Order and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. - - As a personal or deficiency judgment is not applicable to this action, bidding will conclude at the fall of the gavel on the date of the sale.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. - - The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the statutory rate for judgments.

Jonathan D. Waller, Esq., 312 Richland Avenue W, Aiken, SC 29801 Phone: 803-335-1449 jonathan@angellmolony.com (803) 226-9089 jwaller@ hawklawgroup.com

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF BERKELEY

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DOCKET NO. 2025-DR- 08-241

SOUTH CAROLINA

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS CANDIE LAMB; JEROME MYERS

DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2010.

TO DEFENDANT: Jerome Myers

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on February 7, 2025, 12:11 PM. 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, Jason D. Pockrus 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.

Jason D. Pockrus, SC Bar # 101333 2 Belt Dr. Moncks Corner, SC 29461, 843-719-1080.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-00922

Cameron Campbell, Plaintiff, v.

Estate of Eva Mae Freeman and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees of Eva Mae Freeman, deceased, and all persons entitled to claim under or through her; also, all other persons, corporations or entities unknown claiming any right, title interest in or lien upon the subject real estate described herein, any unknown adults, whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants, persons under disability, or person in the Military Service of the United States of America whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as Richard Roe. Defendants.

NOTICE OF HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing in this matter has been scheduled before the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough and will be held on September 4, 2025 at 1:00 p.m., at the Charleston County Courthouse, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, Courtroom 2A. The purpose of this hearing is to quiet the title in the Plaintiff’s name for the property known as

TMS No.: 165-00-00-074

ADDRESS: MAINS NURSERY ROAD, JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29449

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A.

s/ J. Chris Lanning

J. Chris Lanning chris@brushlawfirm.com

12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 766-5576 - Phone

LEGAL NOTICE:

PUBLIC NOTICE TO ALL LOT HOLDERS OF MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, State of South Car0lina, County of Charleston, of an action commenced in the Court of Common Pleas, MC 1068 #14, to wit: MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, Plaintiff, -vsCAROLINA SAVINGS BANK, as Trustee, et al, Defendants.

WHEREIN, upon Petition of the Trustees of Magnolia Cemetery Trust, and Pursuant to the Order of this Court, a hearing will be held before a Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit via virtual courtroom, Charleston County, South Carolina, at 9:30 a.m. on the 8th day of September, 2025, to consider a proposed amendment to the Decree heretofore issued in this case on June 25, 1954, to allow the Board of Trustees to transfer of funds for use in accordance with its eleemosynary purposes and obligations to maintain the property. If you are a named party in interest, the link to the virtual courtroom is available on the South Carolina Judicial Branch web page at https://www.sccourts. org/calendar/ AND IT IS SO ORDERED.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION

BY Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court,

FILED 07/07/2025 AT 1:37 P.M.

ATTEST: A TRUE COPY Julie A. Armstrong (SEAL) Clerk of Court, C.P. & G.S.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2025-DR-10-0392

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS KIMBERLY MCLEOD, CHRISTOPHER MCLEOD, TYLER BATES, AND BRITTANY COLLINS, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2013.

TO DEFENDANT: KIMBERLY MCLEOD

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on February 12, 2025, at 3:01 PM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Fredrick Mogab, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405 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.

Fredrick Mogab, SC Bar # 105639, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, (843) 953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2025-DR-10-0962

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS TINIQUA GRANT, MARVIN GRANT, CHRISTINA GRANT. DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2008, 2015, 2017

TO DEFENDANT: MARVIN GRANT

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for CHARLESTON County on April 8, 2025, at 4:04 pm. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Sally R. Young, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Ave., Suite 101, N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714 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.

Sally R. Young, SC Bar # 4686, 3685 Rivers Ave., Suite 101, N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714, (843) 953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2025-DR-10-0942

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS ASHLEY EDWARDS AND DENNIS LEE BROWN, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2010.

TO DEFENDANT: DENNIS LEE BROWN

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 4, 2025, at 3:23 PM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Fredrick Mogab, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405 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.

Fredrick Mogab, SC Bar #105639, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, (843) 953-9625.

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: AMANDA J. DOSCHER

2025-ES-10-1073

DOD: 1/21/25

Pers. Rep: NANCY PEEPLES 1090 SEA EAGLE WATCH, CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: KERRY W. KOON, ESQ. 147 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #203, CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ***********

Estate of: MARY ALICE KOCH PAPADIMITRIOU 2025-ES-10-1137

DOD: 1/24/25

Pers. Rep: JUDY M. PAPADIMITRIOU 160 GRIMBALL AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Pers. Rep: KATHLEEN M. PAPADIMITRIOU 160 GRIMBALL AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-DR-10-0940

DEQUINN NAQUAIN BROWN, Plaintiff, vs. SHERIEKA C. MEIKLE, Defendant.

SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber, Charlie L. Whirl, Esquire, at this office, 2112 Commander Road, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, within thirty (30) days after the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default may be entered against you.

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: GERONIMO IGNACIO FERIA GARCIA

2025-ES-10-0665

DOD: 9/11/24

Pers. Rep: ADALINDA PATRICIA LOPEZ

4803 BREEDERS CUP DR., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420

***********

Estate of:

REBECCA J. SHEHANE BUSBY

2025-ES-10-0712

DOD: 2/13/25

Pers. Rep: MELONY INMAN 2261 DEBORD RD., CHILLICOTHE, OH 45601

Atty: ROBERT SAWYER, II, ESQ. 252 LATITUDE LN., LAKE WYLIE, SC 29710

***********

Estate of: SANDRA A. LEWIS

2025-ES-10-1087

DOD: 5/24/25

NOTICE OF FILING. The Summons and Complaint for a divorce action were filed in Family Court, Charleston County, Case Number 2025-DR-10-940 on April 4, 2025. The Final Hearing is scheduled for September 5, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. at Charleston County Family Court, 100 Broad St., Charleston, SC 29401.

CHARLIE L. WHIRL 2112 Commander Road N. Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 566-9705- Office Attorney for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON

PLEAS

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-02827

MEPKIN CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff,

v. DAVID M. JACKSON & STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS

(Breach of Contract, Non-Jury HOA Lien Foreclosure) (Deficiency Not Applicable)

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S):

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, 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.

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, 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 Mepkin Condominium Association, Inc.

May 14, 2025

COUNTY OF

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-03765

Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc.

Plaintiff, -vsNorma Jones a/k/a Norma J. Jones; Republic Finance, LLC; and Comcast Georgia/South Carolina, II, LLC Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc. vs. Norma Jones a/k/a Norma J. Jones; Republic Finance, LLC; and Comcast Georgia/South Carolina, II, LLC I, Mikell Scarborough, Master in Equity, for Charleston County, will sell on August 5, 2025 at 11:00 am, at the Front Entrance of County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, to the highest bidder:

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in St. Johns School District #9, Wadmalaw Island, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina and being delineated as LOT 3 containing 0.75 acres on a plat of Robert L. Frank, Surveyor, titled “A SURVEY OF LANDS OF SALINA GADSEN, LOCATED ON WADMALAW ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC”, dated January 6, 1978 and being of record in Plat Book AM at Page 118 in the RMC Office for Charleston County. Said lot measures and contains the measurements, boundings, buttings, courses and distances as shown on the aforementioned plat and will more fully and at large appear when reference is made hereto.

Derivation: BEING the same property conveyed to Norma Jones by deed of Ronald Jones, Jr. dated May 15, 2008 and being recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County on May 26, 2009 in Book 0056 at Page 374.

TMS #: 197-00-00-125

5215 Maybank Hwy, Wadmalaw Island, SC 29487

Mobile Home: 2007 FROM VIN: RIC242049NCAB

SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES

Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.500%per annum.

B. Lindsay Crawford, III (SC Bar# 6510)

Theodore von Keller (SC Bar# 5718)

B. Lindsay Crawford, IV (SC Bar# 101707)

Jason M. Hunter (SC Bar# 101501)

Eric H. Nelson (SC Bar# 104712)

Katharyn L. Sophia (SC Bar# 105541)

Roman A. Dodd (SC Bar# 105612)

Crawford & von Keller, LLC P.O. 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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Kimberly Stanley Bedroom furniture, kitchen table, tv, small loveseat

Michael Bivona Household Goods/Furniture

Facility 5: 1951 Maybank Hwy Charleston, SC 29412

08/05/2025 11:30 AM

Ronald Jackson Tools

Ebony LaFayette Twin bed, Queen bed, Boxes

Wallace Wiggins Containers, Furniture, bed set

Facility 6: 810 St Andrews Blvd Charleston, SC 29407 08/05/2025 11:45 AM

Jermaine Jenkins Household Goods

Facility 7: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 08/05/2025 12:45 PM

Laetitia Singleton 10-12 boxes

Deleta Hodges 2 bedrm sets live rm table chairs

Carol Grant Table clothes, chair covers

Teressa Prucha Furniture, washer, dryer

Facility 8: 1861 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 08/05/2025 1:15 PM

Ashley Meggett Household Items

Facility 9: 2118 Heriot Street Charleston, SC 29403 08/05/2025 12:15 PM

Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated:

Shada Fabers Washing machine, living room set, bed set

Madelyn Osborne Holiday decor, furniture

The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. STATE OF SOUTH

Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated:

Facility 1: 427 St. James Ave Goose Creek, SC 29445

8/05/2025 11:00 AM

Kristina Solara Household Goods

Facility 2: 609 Old Trolley Road Summerville, SC 29485

8/05/2025 10:30 AM

Wanda Davidson Exercise equipment and a set of car rims

Jody Stiltner Tools

Kimberly Gall Furniture, Wall Art, Lamps, Boxes

Daniel House Instruments

Facility 3: 8850 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406

8/05/2025 10:45 AM

Christine Johns Clothes, Computers, Bikes, Electronic Items, Tools

Facility 4: 208 St. James Ave, Ste C Goose Creek, SC 29445

8/05/2025 11:00 AM

Arkel Singleton Appliances, furniture

Facility 5: 3781 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston, SC 29418

8/05/2025 11:00 AM

James Schuckers Car Parts

Lakeisha Brown Household Goods

Ryan Adamson Clothing, guitar, household goods

Facility 6: 434 Orangeburg Road Summerville, SC 29483

Alexa Otterson Clothes 70 inch Samsung TV books furniture

Austin Turko Furniture, bed 2 tv tables

Facility 12: 9670 Dorchester Rd Summerville, SC 29485

8/05/2025 10:15 AM

Bonnie Graziuso Furniture, household goods, books

Zay Wallace Household items

Lillia Green Electronics, clothes , toys

Tristan Duggan Boxes, headboard, bags

Zanarick Dixon One bedroom apartment

Terrence wright Household items

Thomas Fowler Bike

Facility 13: 6941 Rivers Ave North Charleston, 29406

8/05/2025

12:30 PM

Jacob Perry Perry TV, mini fridge, Xbox, boxes of clothes.

Sarah Coulter Clothes

Facility 14: 5146 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston, SC 29418 8/05/2025 12:00 PM

John Taber Household goods

Raechelle McKelvey 2 br furniture, clothes, TV

The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

RMC Office in Plat Book H, page 145. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions and buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

This being the identical property conveyed to B&M Homes, LLC by deed of Merita P. Fishburne dated November 3, 2023 and recorded December 29, 2023 in Deed Book 1220 at Page 883

TMS #: 350-08-00-217

Current Property Address: 50 Briarcliff Drive, Charleston, SC 29407

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 sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

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

Finkel Law Firm LLC (843) 577-5460

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 5th day of August 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL, OR LOT OF LAND, TOGETHER WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 188 ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT ENTITLED, “FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT PHASE 1C THE GARDENS AT WHITNEY LAKE PREPARED FOR: WHITNEY LAKE,” SAID PLAT RECORDED AUGUST 30, 2007 IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA IN PLAT BOOK EK, AT PAGES 970 THRU 972. SAID LOT HAVING SUCH SIZE, SHAPE, DIMENSIONS, BUTTINGS AND BOUNDINGS AS WILL BY REFERENCE TO SAID PLAT MORE FULLY AND AT LARGE APPEAR.

THIS BEING the same property conveyed unto Joshua Cayne Jeanes and Jessica Ann Jeanes, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, by virtue of a Deed from Christopher J. Jones dated September 23, 2020, and recorded October 5, 2020, in Book 0922 at Page 646 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

1751 Brittlebush Lane Johns Island, SC 29455 TMS# 312 11 00 188

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms or the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the former highest bidder).

Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order.

That a personal or deficiency judgment being waived, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed.

Facility 1: 1117 Bowman Rd. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 08/05/2025 10:25 AM

Joel Smith Household goods

Facility 2: 1514 Mathis Ferry Rd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 08/05/2025 10:35 AM

Jacqueline Nall Boxes, shoes, clothes, etc.

Facility 3: 3510 Glenn McConnell Pkwy Charleston, SC 29414 08/05/2025 10:00 AM

Nicole Frazier Household goods

Facility 4: 45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414 08/05/2025 11:15 AM

Brian Mack Clothes, electronics

Jasmine Whitsett Personal items

Xingxiang Gao

Facility 10: 1540 Meeting Street Road Charleston, SC 29405 08/05/2025 1:00 PM

WILLIAM FORD Household Goods/Furniture, Acct. Records/Sales Samples

8/05/2025 11:15 AM

Bronnie Crosby Furniture, Bed Frame, Dressers, Clothes

Facility 7: 422 Old Trolley Rd Summerville, SC 29485

8/05/2025 10:45 AM

Vernon Trappier Furniture, boxes

Facility 8: 2130 N Main St Summerville, SC 29486

8/05/2025 10:00 AM

Joella Copeland 2br - household items/furniture, deep freezer

Kinleney Riley

3 bedroom- Furniture, Washer Dryer, Boxes

Scott Conway Tools/Appliances

Facility 11:

344 Nexton Creek Circle Summerville, SC 29486

8/05/2025 11:45 AM

Charlotte Gadsden Clothes, 3 TV’s, tables and containers

Master’s Sale CASE NO. 2024CP1005103

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

PIC FUND I, LLC, PLAINTIFF VERSUS

B&M Homes LLC; Brandon Barnes; Margaret Barnes; MVP Homes INC.; Cream City Home Buyers; Legend Assets, LLC; Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC; LVNV Funding, LLC; Credit Corp Solutions Inc.; and Midland Credit Management, Inc., DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated April 11, 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, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC. August 5, 2025, at 11:00 A.M. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being known as Lot 1, Block B located in St. Andrew’s Parish, County of Charleston, in the subdivision known as Forest Acres, on a plat entitled “A Portion of Forest Acres”, dated June 23, 1952, by J. O’Hear Sanders, Jr., Surveyor, recorded in the Charleston County

Master’s

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 John S. Kay, Esquire Telephone: 803-726-2700 FOR INSERTION

July 18, 2025; July 25, 2025; August 1, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Freedom Mortgage Corporation, PLAINTIFF,

Joshua Jeanes a/k/a Joshua Cayne Jeanes; Jessica Jeanes a/k/a Jessica Ann Jeanes; The Gardens at Whitney Lake Phase 2A Homeowners Association, Inc.; South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services; Charleston County Clerk of Court, DEFENDANT(S)

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 16th day of June,

Master’s

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Guild Mortgage Company LLC, PLAINTIFF, vs. Shelly A McKnight, as Guardian for T.C.. (a minor); Oakleaf Estates Homeowners Association, Inc.; Greenhouse Investment Properties LLC, DEFENDANT(S)

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 16th day of June, 2025 I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 5th day of August 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in Oakleaf Estates Subdivision, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot 8, Building 2722, on a plat entitled “PLAT SHOWING THE ABANDONMENT OF THE PROPERTY LINE BETWEEN TRACT A TMS NO. 484-00-00058 (5.29 ACRES) AND TRACT B TMS NO. 484-00-00-059 (11.61 ACRES) TO FORM TRACT A (16.90 ACRES), INTO LOT 1 (0.47 ACRES), LOT 2 (0.39 ACRES), LOT 3 (2.40 ACRES), LOT 4 (0 60 ACRES), LOTS 5 THROUGH 68 (4.71 ACRES), OAKLEAF DRIVE R/W (3.77 ACRES) AND COMMON AREA (4.61 ACRES), AND SHOWING NEW 20’ DRAINAGE EASEMENTS, PREPARED FOR THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” made by Hoffman Lester Associates, Inc, dated July 14, 2003, revised September 9, 2003, and recorded in Plat Book EG at page 823. Said Lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

Being the same property conveyed to LaQuaisia Wilson by Deed of Greenhouse Investment Properties LLC, dated June 1, 2021 and recorded June 8, 2021 in Book 1000 at Page 218, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

Subsequently, LaQuaisia S. Wilson aka Laquaisia Wilson aka Laquaisia Shantina Wilson passed away and her interest in the subject property was passed to Shelly A. McKnight as Guardian for Teavon Capers by probate of Estate File No. 2021-ES-10-02166. See also Deed of Distribution dated December 21, 2022 and recorded December 21, 2022 in Book 1155 at Page 086, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

7912 Angel Court North Charleston, SC 29420

TMS# 4840000329

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting

record affecting said property.

David B. Wheeler

Telephone : 843-579-7000

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

John S. Kay, Esquire Telephone: 803-726-2700

FOR INSERTION

July 18, 2025; July 25, 2025; August 1, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

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 Program Extension Act of 1996, P.L. 104-120, was provided or for another purpose involving the provisions 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 origin. 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:

FOR INSERTION

July 18, 25 & August 1, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

1-800-Pack-Rat (SCCharleston-5472) 7704 South Rail Road Charleston, SC 29420

877-774-1537

Notice of Sale

Tenant: Unit # Davis Gray, Marcella D72281 Going & Jenkins, D58455

Monterris & Tylisia Martin, Denise D63551

Jalen Gomez (LDM) D72547 Miranda Garcia (LDM) D58968

1-800-Pack-Rat (SCCharleston-5472), 7704 South Rail Road, Charleston, SC 29420, has possessory lien on all of the goods stored in the units above. All these items of personal property are being sold pursuant to the assertion of the lien on 8/14/2025 at 10:00 AM in order to collect the amounts due from you. The sale will take place on www.storagetreasures.com from 8/14/2025 to 8/21/2025 at 12:00 PM.

Deeds for Charleston County in Plat Book D361 at Page 039, said plat being incorporated herein by this reference for a more complete and accurate description.

This also includes a mobile/ manufactured home: 2002 Bellcrest VIN# BL02GA0211211AB

SUBJECT to assessments, Charleston Ad Valorem Taxes, any and all restrictions, easements, covenants and rights-of-way of record, and any other senior encumbrances.

This being the same property conveyed to Anna Lee Chisolm by deed of Paul A. Foster dated December 5, 1960, and recorded December 5, 1960, in Book J72 at Page 107 in the Register of Deeds’ Office for Charleston County.

TMS # 802-00-00-065

Case#: 2021CP1000178

Current Property Address: 835 South Santee Road McClellanville, SC 29458

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Master’s Sale Case No.: 2024CP1005814

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee of CIM Trust 2023-I1, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS Bannacheck, LLC; Angela JonesGreen; Groundfloor Real Estate 1, LLC; , DEFENDANTS.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 16th day of June, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at CHARLESTON COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 5th day of August, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

2024CP1005814

FOR INSERTION July 18, 2025, July 25, 2025, August 1, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough

Master’s Sale Case No. 2022-CP-10-03379

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, INC., Plaintiff, vs. EFRAIN CAMPOS A/K/A J. EFRAIN CAMPOS; IMELDA CAMPOS; SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSING TRUST FUND, Defendants.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 17th day of March, 2023, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at CHARLESTON 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:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Johns Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and known and designated as Lot No. 48, SEA ISLAND PLACE SUBDIVISION on a Plat entitled, “A FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF LOTS 28 THRU 48 PHASE II SEA ISLAND PLACE CONTAINING 9.580 ACRES OWNED BY SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, LOCATED IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, which Plat is dated November 5, 2003, and was recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Plat Book O 480, at Page 775; 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

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 Berkeley Electric Cooperative’s safety requirements is expressly prohibited.

This being the same property conveyed to Efrain Campos and Imelda Campos by Deed of Sea Island Habitat for Humanity, Inc. dated March 9, 2005, and recorded on March 22, 2005, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book V-529 at Page 725.

TMS # 279-10-00-151

ADDRESS:

3335 ISLAND ESTATES DRIVE, JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within 20 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.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Master’s Sale Case No.: 2021CP1000178

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

UMB Bank, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Legal Title Trustee for TOCU Title Trust 2017-1, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS Anna Lee Chisolm; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles; , DEFENDANTS.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 12th day of August, 2021, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at CHARLESTON COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 5th day of August, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that certain lot, piece, parcel, or tract of land situate, lying, and being in St. James Santee Parish, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, containing one acre, more or less, being shown and delineated on that certain plat prepared for Anna Lee Chisolm by James E. McClellan, III, dated November 6, 2000, and recorded in the Office of the Register of

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, certified funds in the amount of five per cent (5%) 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. IF for any reason the Plaintiff’s agent does not appear to bid at the sale, the sale will be deemed canceled. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Brian P. Yoho (803) 744-4444 013225-03846 2021CP1000178

FOR INSERTION

July 18, 2025, July 25, 2025, August 1, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Charleston County, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 461, Block D-Z, on a Plat of the subdivision known as Dorchester Terrace, Section 4, which plat is duly recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County, in Plat Book F, at Page 146; the said lot in general having such size, shape, metes and dimensions as an actual survey of the said lot will show.

SUBJECT to assessments, Charleston Ad Valorem Taxes, any and all restrictions, easements, covenants and rights-of-way of record, and any other senior encumbrances.

This being the same property conveyed to Bannacheck, LLC by deed of Dorothy R. Brown n/k/a Dorothy Reynolds Brent, dated November 4, 2021 and recorded December 13, 2021 in Book 1060 at Page 173 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County.

TMS # 411-16-00-051

Case#: 2024CP1005814

Current Property Address: 2749 East Surrey Drive North Charleston, SC 29405

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, certified funds in the amount of five per cent (5%) 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. IF for any reason the Plaintiff’s agent does not appear to bid at the sale, the sale will be deemed canceled.

The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Brian P. Yoho (803) 744-4444 011847-05348

said lot having such size, shape, location, dimensions, butting and bounding as will by reference to the said plat more fully appear.

SUBJECT to assessments, Charleston Ad Valorem Taxes, any and all restrictions, easements, covenants and rights-of-way of record, and any other senior encumbrances.

This being the same piece of property conveyed to Thomas Maynard and Helen Maynard by deed from Thomas M. Evans Realty Co., Inc. dated March 8, 1968 and recorded March 21, 1968 in Book Y89 at Page 25 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County. Subsequently, Thomas Alva Maynard died testate on April 4, 1983, leaving the subject property to his devisee, namely, Helen Mae Maynard, as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 83-ES-10-358; subsequently, Helen M. Maynard died on May 11, 2011, leaving the subject property to her devisee, namely, Rebecca M. Eaton, as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 2011ES1000847; also by Deed of Distribution dated July 10, 2012 and recorded July 20, 2012 in Deed Book 265 at Page 398. Subsequently, Lawrence Claude Eaton, Jr. died on December 3, 2020 leaving his interest in the subject property to his heirs or devisees, namely, Shinira Michelle Eaton and Shani Nicole Eaton, as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 2021ES1000154. Subsequently, Rebecca M. Eaton died on May 22, 2023, leaving the subject property to her heirs or devisees, namely, Angelia Rogers and Thomy Eaton.

TMS # 408-08-00-169 Case#: 2024CP1001357

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Towd Point Mortgage Trust 2018-3, U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Rebecca M. Eaton and Lawrence C. Eaton, Jr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Angelia Rogers; Thomas Eaton a/k/a Thomy Eaton; Shani Nicole Eaton; Shinira Michelle Eaton; , DEFENDANTS.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 14th day of March, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at CHARLESTON COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 5th day of August, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot No. 8, Block M, on a place or a portion of Glyn Terrace Subdivision, made August 2, 1955, by W. H. Matheny, R.L.S., and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, in Plat Book T, Page 88,

Current Property Address: 5313 Mcroy Street North Charleston, SC 29418

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, certified funds in the amount of five per cent (5%) 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. IF for any reason the Plaintiff’s agent does not appear to bid at the sale, the sale will be deemed canceled. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Brian P. Yoho (803) 744-4444

011847-05287 2024CP1001357

Master’s Sale

2025-CP-10-00822

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Federal Home Loan Mortgage

Corporation as Trustee for Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2022-1, PLAINTIFF

VERSUS Richard F. Cornwell a/k/a Richard Franklin Cornwell, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Patsy A. Cornwell a/k/a Patricia Cornwell a/k/a Patsy Cornwell a/k/a Patrice Ann Donahue Cornwell a/k/a Patrice Ann Cornwell a/k/a Patrice A. Cornwell, Deceased; et.al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated June 20, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Emergency Operations Center, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 5th DAY OF AUGUST, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Mount Pleasant, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot 70, Rivertowne Country Club, as more fully shown and delineated on a plat of survey made by Thomas & Hutton Engineering Co., entitled “Final Plat of Palmetto Isle, Phase 3A Rivertowne County Club owned by Centex Homes Town of Mt. Pleasant Charleston County, South Carolina,” dated September 19, 2000, and recorded on October 20, 2000 in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina in Plat Book EE at Page 389. Said lot having suck size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Patsy A. Cornwell by deed of Centex Homes, a Nevada general partnership, dated December 28, 2001 and recorded January 4, 2002 in Book Z392 at Page 209 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Subsequently, Patsy A. Cornwell a/k/a Patricia Cornwell a/k/a Patsy Cornwell a/k/a Patrice Ann Donahue Cornwell a/k/a Patrice Ann Cornwell a/k/a Patrice A. Cornwell died testate on September 4, 2024, leaving the subject property to her devisees, namely Richard F. Cornwell a/k/a Richard Franklin Cornwell, as shown in Probate Case No. 2024-ES-10-01734.

TMS No. 583-10-00-132

Property address:

1800 Palmetto Isle Drive, Mount Pleasant, SC 29466

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) 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

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R Scarborough Master in Equity

property described in said Master Deed (“Common Elements”) attributable to the said unit; (2) An easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Dwelling Unit on any adjoining unit or common elements existing as a result of construction of the Condominium Unit(s) or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of settling or shifting of the dwelling unit(s) or of the other condominium unit(s), after damage or destruction by fire or other casualty, or after taking in condemnation or eminent domain percentages, or by reason of alteration or repair to the common elements made by or with the owners of the Board of Administration; (3) An easement in common with the owners of other condominium units to use any pipes, wires, ducts, flues, cables, conduits, public utility lines and other common elements located in any other rights and easements in common with the other condominium unit owners, all as described in the Master Deed, Bylaws and any and all Amendments thereto as recorded in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina.

Subject to any and all Restrictions, Covenants, Conditions, easements, Rights of Way and all other matters affecting subject property of record in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina, including, but not limited to those contained in said Master Deed and/or Bylaws, and any and all Amendments thereto.

Master’s Sale

2025-CP-10-00987

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Ian Joel Barker Matijak a/k/a IanJoel Barker Matijak; et.al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated June 20, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Emergency Operations Center, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 5th DAY OF AUGUST, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that certain Unit G, Building 341 Woodscape Horizontal Property Regime established by Master Deed dated January 19 2006 and recorded January 25 2006 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book R570 at Page 001 and all Exhibits and Amendments thereto Together with an und1vIded percentage interest in the common elements described in said Master Deed and the rights to any limited common elements assigned to said Unit by Master Deed.

Master’s Sale 2010-CP-10-06060

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: I N THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF10 Master Participation Trust, PLAINTIFF

VERSUS

Johnson D. Koola, First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc. f/k/a First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company of South Carolina, and Cambridge Lakes Condominium Homeowners Association, Inc. f/k/a Cambridge Lakes Horizontal Property Regime, DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated April 13, 2023, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Emergency Operations Center, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 5th of AUGUST, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that certain condominium unit known and designated as Unit 208, Building E, Cambridge Lake Horizontal Property Regime, a Horizontal Property Regime established pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Act, Section 27-31-10 et seq., 1976, South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended, and submitted by Master Deed dated February 24, 2003 and recorded in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book T-437 at Page 047. Said Dwelling unit conveyed hereby being shown as Exhibit “F” attached to the Master Deed.

Conveyed together with: (1) An undivided percentage in the common elements, restricted common areas, and facilities of the STATE

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 2024CP1006230

Nationstar Mortgage LLC, PLAINTIFF, VS. Susan G. Gentry, DEFENDANT(S).

(251070.00082)

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANT SUSAN G. GENTRY 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.

Being a portion of the same property as conveyed to Cambridge Two, LLC by deed of Cambridge Lakes, L.P., A SC Limited Partnership, dated April 2, 2003 and duly recorded in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Book Z-442 at Page 141. This being the same property conveyed to Johnson D. Koola by virtue of a Deed from Cambridge Two, LLC, a SC Limited Liability Company, dated February 20, 2004 and recorded February 24, 2004, in Book Y484 at Page 813, in the ROD Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 5591400159

Property address: 1587 Cambridge Lakes Drive, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) 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.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R Scarborough Master in Equity

This being the same property conveyed to Ian-Joel Barker Matijak by deed of Parker R. Bocklet and Michael T. Bocklet dated June 11, 2020 and recorded June 23, 2020 in Book 892 at Page 369 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

TMS No. 5170600146

Property address: 337 West Coleman Boulevard, Unit 341G, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) 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.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R Scarborough Master in Equity

Hedge Hog Industries, Corp., Plaintiff, v. Alycar Investments, LLC and Oak Bluff Homeowners Association, Inc., Defendants. SUMMONS

TO: THE DEFENDANTS NAMED ABOVE:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is served upon you, and to serve a copy of your written response to the said Complaint on the subscribers at the law office of Smith | Closser, P.A., 7455 Cross County Road, Suite 1, Post Office Box 40578, Charleston, South Carolina, 29423-0578, within thirty (30) days after the date of service hereof, exclusive of the day of 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.

SMITH | CLOSSER, PA

s/Zachary J. Closser

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 July 2, 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

July 15, 2025

CAROLINA, AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 10, “KING’S ACRES’, AS SHOWN ON A PLAY ENTITLED, “KING’S ACRE’S” DATED SEPTEMBER 1955, BY J. O’HEAR SANDERS, JR., WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK K, AT PAGE 45, R.M.C. OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. THE PREMISES HAVING SUCH BUTTING AND BOUNDINGS, MEASUREMENTS AND DIMENSIONS DATED NOVEMBER 21, 1955, AND RECORDED NOVEMBER 21, 1955, IN BOOK H-65, AT PAGE 43, R.M.C. OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. BEING ALSO THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO DOROTHEA B. ALSTON FROM US DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, BY DEED DATED MAY 26, 1989, AND RECORDED ON JUNE 7, 1989, IN BOOK 184, PAGE 901. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO ATHENA ALSTON MCFADDEN BY DEED OF DISTRIBUTION FROM ATHENA A. MCFADDEN AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF DOROTHEA BERRY ALSTON, DECEASED, DATED DECEMBER 4, 2021, AND RECORDED ON DECEMBER 21, 2021, IN BOOK 1062, PAGE 386.

Zachary J. Closser (SC Bar No. 74005) 7455 Cross County Road, Ste 1 (29418) P.O. Box 40578, Charleston, SC 29423 843-760-0220; 843-552-2678 (fax)

zclosser@scnlaw.com

Attorney for the Plaintiff

December 17, 2024 24-34

NOTICE OF SALE

2021-CP-10-03667

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of:

SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON JAMES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1339 Ronald Lane Charleston, SC 29412 Parcel No. 427-03-00-011

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 # 24-41563

FOR INSERTION July 18, July 25, & August 01, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 6952

UMB Bank, National Association not in its individual capacity, but solely as legal title trustee for LVS Title Trust VI against Darrell McNealy, Carole T. McNealy, Emanuel McNealy, Kenya McNealy, Susan Manigault, and Shirley Warren, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on August 5, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., or on another date, thereafter as approved by the Court, at the Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Council Chambers, Bridge View Drive in North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: All of mortgagors Carole T. McNealy, Kenya McNealy, Emanuel McNealy, and Darrell McNealy’s undivided one-half interest in the following described property, to-wit: All that lot, piece, parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being on the North side of Poinsette Street, in the City of Charleston, State of South Carolina formerly the property of Union Realty and Investment Company made to McCrady and Chaves, C.E. in August 1918 and recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County in Plat Book C Page 100. Measuring and containing according to said plat in front of Poinsette Street

Twenty Six and 9/10 (26.9’) feet by Twenty Seven and 1/10 (27.1’) feet on the back line by Eighty Nine (89’) feet on the West line; and Eighty Nine and 8/10 (89.8’) feet on the East line; the said dimensions, more or less, butting and bounding to the North on lands at East on Lot 15 on said plat to the South on Poinsette Street, and to the West on Lot 13 on said plat. The premises conveyed herein are known in the present measuring of Poinsette Street as No. 30 Poinsette Charleston, SC. Being the same property conveyed unto Darrell McNealy and Carole T. McNealy, for an during their joint lives and upon the death of either of them, then to the survivor of them Emanuel McNealy and Kenya McNealy by deed from Phillip Seabrook, dated February 2, 2018 and recorded April 26, 2018 in Deed Book 714 at Page 462 in the ROD Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 4631203034

Property Address: 30 Poinsett Street, Charleston, SC 29403

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, by certified funds, cashier’s check, or money order, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff’s debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order.

The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 16.5000%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. Since a deficiency judgment is being demanded, the bidding will remain open for thirty (30) days after the date of sale, pursuant to S.C. Code ANN. Section 15-39-720, (1976). The deficiency judgment may be waived by the Plaintiff upon written request prior to sale.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date.

RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC Post Office Box 11412 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993

Attorneys for Plaintiff SIGNATURE PAGE TO FOLLOW

will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 5th day of August, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. All that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on the North side of Westway Drive, James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, and known and designated as Lot No. 10, Block D, as shown on a plat of Westchester No. 1, recorded in Plat Book T at Page 3, RMC Office for Charleston County. Being the same property conveyed unto Charles Smith by deed from Mikell R. Scarborough, Master in Equity for Charleston County, dated August 12, 2005 and recorded August 24, 2005 in Deed Book P550 at Page 226; thereafter, by deed from Charles Smith aka Charles O. Smith unto Charles O. Smith, dated April 3, 2008 and recorded May 29, 2008 in Deed Book P660 at Page 164 in the ROD Office for Charleston County, South Carolina. Thereafter, Charles Smith aka Charles O. Smith aka Charles Orlando Smith died December 1, 2019, leaving the subject property to his heirs at law or devisees, namely, Tawanna Browne Smith, A.C.S. (minor) and A.J.S (minor).

TMS No. 4270500079

Property Address: 1439 Westway Drive, Charleston, SC 29412

Sale 2021-CP-10-02287 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust, PLAINTIFF versus The Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Charles Smith aka Charles O. Smith aka Charles Orlando Smith; Tawanna Browne Smith, A.C.S. (minor), A.J.S (minor), and any other Heirs-atLaw or Devisees of Charles Smith aka Charles O. Smith aka Charles Orlando Smith, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 16th day of June, 2025, I

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. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. 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. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.3750%.

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.

Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING. Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC (803)

August 18, 2010 and recorded September 9, 2010 in Book 0142 at Page 781.

TMS No. 459-09-03-102

Property Address: 46 Mary Street, Charleston, SC 29403

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust, PLAINTIFF versus Luiz Robert DeMoura; Julie A. DeMoura, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 15th day of January, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 5th day of August, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

All that lot, piece or parcel of with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being on the North side of Mary Street, East of the corner of Nassau Street, known as numbers 44-46 Mary Street.

Measuring and containing in front of Mary Street, forty nine (49’) feet, the same on the back or north line, by eight (80’) feet on the East and West lines; be all said dimensions more or less; Butting and bounding to the North on Lands of Elizabeth Dewees, to the East on lands now or late of Sara Hamlin, to the South on Mary Street, and to the west on lands formerly William Dewees. Said property is subject to all applicable covenants, conditions, restrictions, limitations, obligations and easements of record. This being the same property conveyed to Luiz Robert DeMoura by deed of James S. Heyward dated September 5, 2001 and recorded September 6, 2001 in Book R381 at Page 21 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County; subsequently Luiz Robert Demoura conveyed ½ interest to Kristina DeMouraDiaz by Corrective Deed dated November 15, 2006 and recorded December 8, 2006 in Book C608 at page 98. Subsequently, Kristina DeMoura Diaz conveyed her ½ interest to Luiz Robert DeMoura by deed dated November 27, 2006 and recorded December 8, 2006 in Book C608 at Page 130; subsequently, Luiz Robert DeMoura conveyed ½ interest to Julie Ann DeMoura by deed dated

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. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. 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. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 3.0000%. 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. Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING. Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC (803) 799-9993 FOR INSERTION July 18, 2025, July 25, 2025, August 1, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

7044

Master’s Sale 2024-CP-10-02616

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, as Trustee for the benefit of the Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2021-1, PLAINTIFF versus The Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Hawkins Freeman; Akilah Kali Berry, Freeman Hawkins, Jr., Charmaine Freeman, Natasha Gregory a/k/a Wyetta Latasha Gregory, Tiawana Freeman a/k/a Tiawana White, and Tanya Saunders, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Hawkins Freeman, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons

entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 18th day of June, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 5th day of August, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with any improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in St. Andrews Parish, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 1, Block B, on a plat of Sunset Shores Subdivision by A. L. Glen, dated July, 1955 and recorded in Plat Book K, Page 32 in the RMC Office for Charleston County. Reference is hereby craved to said plat for a more complete and accurate metes and bounds description. This being the same property conveyed to Hawkins Freeman by deed of Teodulo C. Bernados, Jr. and Jessica L. Bernados dated December 20, 1999 and recorded December 29, 1999 in Deed Book Y339 at Page 0649; thereafter, upon information and belief, Hawkins Freeman passed on October 20, 2023 leaving the Property to his heirs, namely Akilah Kali Berry, Hawkins Freeman, Jr., Charmaine Freeman, Natasha Gregory a/k/a Wyetta Latasha Gregory, Tiawana Freeman a/k/a Tiawana White, and Tanya Saunders.

TMS No. 285-14-00-031

Property Address: 3610 Moonglow Drive, Johns Island, SC 29455

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. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. 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. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.2500%. 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. Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure

sale date. ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING. Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC (803) 799-9993

FOR INSERTION July 18, 2025, July 25, 2025, August 1, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 7059

Contract bearing date of November 17, 2023 and given and delivered by Defendant(s) Shantel Elise Cobbs to Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. in the original principal sum of One Hundred Fourteen Thousand Six Hundred Twenty and 83/100 Dollars ($114,620.83). Said collateral is described as a 2024 CLAY VIN: CAP041356TNABAC mobile home and is located in the County of Charleston, South Carolina.

RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC 2838 Devine Street Columbia, SC 29205 (803) 799-9993

Attorneys for Plaintiff 7070

MASTER IN EQUITY’S SALE 2024-CP-10-05009

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF 2 ACQUISITION TRUST v. Angela J. Jones-Green; Bannacheck, LLC; Ground Floor Real Estate 1, LLC

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 # 25-42383 FOR INSERTION

JULY 18 & 25, AUGUST 01

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 7010

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

C.A. No.: 2025-CP-10-00480

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO. 2025-CP-10-03119

Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc., Plaintiff vs. Shantel Elise Cobbs and Unknown Occupant(s), Defendants

TO THE DEFENDANT(S): Shantel Elise Cobbs; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office, 2838 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, 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 May 29, 2025.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above Defendant(s) for the purpose of claiming and repossessing collateral, which secures the repayment of a certain

Upon authority of a Decree dated June 16, 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, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on August 5, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. ALL THAT LOT, PIECE, AND PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE IN CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 15, BLOCK 25 AS SHOWN ON A PLAT OF PEPPERHILL NO. 3, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK V, PAGE 123, IN THE ROD OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY. FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF SAID LOT, REFERENCE MAY BE MADE TO THE AFOREMENTIONED PLAT OF RECORD. THE HEREIN DESCRIBED PREMISES ARE CONVEYED SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK Z86, PAGE 60, IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC, AND MADE APPLICABLE TO THE SUBJECT PREMISES BY A DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK H87, PAGE 266, SAID RMC OFFICE. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO BANNACHECK LLC HEREIN BY DEED OF WADE E. STONE DATED FEBRUARY 1, 2023 AND RECORDED APRIL 14, 2023 IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY ON APRIL 13, 2023 IN BOOK 1173, PAGE 814

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 3308 Londonderry Road North Charleston, SC 29420 Parcel No.395-14-00-075

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

Curlene Singleton n/k/a Curline J. Chenoweth, Plaintiff, vs. Shockkeice Jones, Dorothy White Johnson, Estate of Lydia Geiger, Estate of Johnnie Jones, Clarence Patterson, Buster Patterson, Byron Patterson, Frederick Patterson, Lee Patterson, Jr., Estate of Tommy Frayer, Estate of Gwendolyn Jones, Virginia Jones, Helen Jones Mohammed, Mary Ann Jones, Estate of Hattie Jones, Blondell Jones, Mack Patterson, Estate of Dorothy Frayer Ellis, Estate of Ollie Frayer a/k/a Arlee Frayer, and all persons claiming any right, title, estate interest in or lien upon the real estate described and any unknown adults or persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, being as a class designated as John Doe, whose true name is unknown; and any minors or persons under disability, being as a class designated as Mary Roe, whose true name is unknown, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the Complaint on the subscriber at his office in Charleston, South Carolina, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the Summons and Complaint in the above-entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 27, 2025.

s/Lawrence M. Hershon Lawrence M. Hershon (SC Bar No. 77514)

The Hershon Law Firm, P.A. 1565 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., Suite 103 Charleston, SC 29407 Telephone: 843-829-2022 Facsimile: 843-829-2023 lawrence@hershonlawfirm.com

Attorney for Plaintiff July 3, 2025 Charleston, South Carolina PLEASE RECYCLE

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In Hindu cosmology, the Sanskrit term “Lila” refers to divine play. It’s the idea that all of creation is a sacred and artful amusement that’s performed by the gods with joy, sorrow, artfulness, and flair. I hereby proclaim Lila to be your theme of power, Aries. You have been so deep lately, so honest, so drenched in feeling. Now, life is giving you a big wink and saying, “It’s playtime!” You can start this fresh phase by making a list of all the experiences that bring you fun, recreation, and entertainment. I hope you emphasize these pursuits in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the high desert of Chile, astronomers work at observatories on mountaintops where the air is dry, and the sky is clear. There, away from light pollution, the universe reveals itself with astonishing intimacy. But even the most powerful telescopes can’t function during the day. I suspect you will be like those observatories in the coming weeks, Taurus: capable of seeing vast truths, but only if you pause, quiet the ambient noise and look during the dark. This approach should embolden you to use your intelligence in new ways. Stillness and silence will be conducive to your deep explorations. Night will be your ally.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are you courageous enough to let go of sparkly clean but unfruitful fantasies so as to clear space for reality’s disorderly richness? Are you wild enough to relinquish naïve fears and hopes so you can see the raw truths blooming right in front of you? Are you cagey enough to discard the part of your innocence that’s rooted in delusion even as you bolster the part of your innocence that’s fueled by your love of life? Here’s my response to those questions, Gemini: Maybe you weren’t mature or bold or crafty enough to accomplish these heroic feats before, but you are now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Coral polyps are tiny, soft-bodied creatures. Over centuries, they assemble massive reef systems, turning their fragile exoskeletons into monumental architecture. These creatures can be a symbolic reminder that your sensitivity is not a weakness; it’s your building material. Keep that in mind during the coming weeks, when tender care and your nurturing ability can be primal sources of power. I invite you to start creating an enduring sanctuary. Generate a quiet miracle. Construct an elegant masterpiece. For best results, allow your emotional intelligence to guide you. You have the precise blend of aptitudes necessary to coax beauty to grow from vulnerability.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that your imminent future will be a ticklish and tricky but ultimately uplifting masterpiece. It will feature guest appearances by members of your private hall of fame, including one future luminary you have not yet fully appreciated. This epic series of adventures may begin when you are nudged to transform your bond with a key resource. Soon, you will be encouraged to explore frontier territory that offers unexpected help. Next, you will demonstrate your understanding that freedom is never permanent but must constantly be reinvented.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Sci-fi author Octavia Butler wrote, “All that you touch, you change. All that you change changes you.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to honor and celebrate that prayer, Virgo. You won’t be a passive dreamer, gentle traveler, or contemplative wanderer. Rather, I predict you will be a tidal force of metamorphosis. Parts of your world are pliable and ready for reshaping, and you will undertake that reshaping. But it’s important to know that the shift will go both ways. As you sculpt, you will be sculpted. As you bless, you will be blessed. Don’t be shy about riding along on this feedback loop. Do it with reverence and glee. Let the art you make remake you. Let the magic you give become the magic you are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In certain Hindu traditions, the deity Ardhanarishvara is depicted as half-male, half-female — a divine fusion of opposites. They are not torn, but whole in their duality. I invite you to be inspired by their symbolism in the coming weeks, Libra. For you, balance will not be

about making compromises or pushing to find middle ground. It will be about embracing the full range of possibilities. Energies that some people may imagine are contradictory may in fact be complementary and mutual. Benevolence will coordinate well with fierceness and vice versa. Your craving for beauty will not just coexist with but synergize an affinity for messy fertility. This is a time for sacred synthesis. Don’t dilute. Integrate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The medieval mystic Meister Eckhart wrote, “God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.” Subtracting what? He wasn’t referring to losing something valuable, but rather to letting go of obstacles that obscure our direct experience of the divine. I invite you to make abundant use of this principle, Scorpio. Slough off layers of illusion, outmoded fantasies and self-images soaked in others’ longings. As you let go, do so not in bitterness but in a joyous quest for freedom.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m hoping that the Season of a Thousand Feelings hasn’t confused you. I’m praying that you have maintained a measure of composure and aplomb while navigating through the richest emotional flow you’ve experienced in many moons. It’s true that in some ways this barrage has been draining. But I’m certain you will ultimately regard it as being highly educational and entertaining. You will look back at this bustling interlude as a gift that will take a while to harvest completely.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Greek myth tells us that Persephone didn’t just return from the underworld each spring; She ruled there half the year. Yes, she was taken there against her will, but she adapted, transformed and ultimately wielded great power in the depths. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, you will have the chance to navigate realms that other souls may not be brave enough to enter: taboos, unusual yearnings, ancestral memories. My advice is to go gently but with intense resolve. Don’t act like a tourist. Be a sovereign explorer, even a maestro of mystery. Claim your throne in the underworld. Use it to create healing maps for others. When your work is done and the right moment comes, you will rise again into the light.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In my astrological opinion, you are ready to graduate from the University of Senseless Suffering. It’s time to get your diploma and treat yourself to a vacation. I’m not saying you will never again experience pain, of course. Rather, I’m telling you the good news that your dilemmas in the coming months will be more fully useful and redemptive. They will feel more like satisfying work than unpleasant ordeals. Congrats on the upgrade, Aquarius! You are forever finished with at least one of your arduous lessons.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said you can’t step in the same river twice. Like everything else in nature, the river is in constant flux. It may appear to be the same, but the water is always flowing. What Heraclitus didn’t say is that you are never the same, either. Eternal change is your destiny. I invite you to ruminate eagerly on this truth, Pisces. Hopefully, it will help you let go of any hyper-perfectionist urges you might have. It will inspire you to see that the plan you made a while ago may need revision — not because you were wrong, but because you have grown. So yes: It’s time to reassess and recalculate. The goal isn’t to stick to the blueprint, but to build something that breathes with your becoming. Let the ever-new version of you draw a fresh map. It will be wiser than the last.

Homework: There’s an important thing you can’t do yet but will be able to in two years. What?

LINGERIE

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