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Radcliffeborough residents continue push against planned garage News

By Skyler Baldwin

Members of the historic Radcliffeborough neighborhood who live nestled between King Street and Ashley Avenue at Radcliffe Street have long fought against gentrification and development.

The 2020 purchase of a historic house on 15 Radcliffe St. — now a parking lot — heralded a new phase in the neighborhood’s decline, according to some neighbors. The buyer, well-connected Charleston developer Frank Brumley, had plans to move the house to make room for his new projects on the site.

“We were fighting to keep that house where it was and fix it up where it stood to use it as the cornerstone for our little neighborhood,” said Radcliffeborough resident Annie Sitton. “I canvassed the entire area, and I even talked to some other developers around here, and they agreed, too.”

Brumley did not respond to several requests for comment.

The house was moved in 2022 despite an outpouring of criticism from Radcliffeborough residents. Now, the developer has plans to build a new parking garage on the lot, reigniting the fight against overdevelopment in the small neighborhood just off of busy upper King Street.

“We knew that moving the house was the last-man standing, so to speak, in stopping this garage,” said Radcliffeborough Neighborhood Association President Liz Soule-Brainard. “Enough people voted to move the house because we wanted it to be

preserved, but that doesn’t mean anyone has any thoughts on the parking garage other than, ‘No.’ ”

Traffic, noise and crime

Residents say a new parking garage would be more than just an eyesore towering over the nearby homes.

“Traffic, noise pollution, crime, and you build this however-many-story concrete building, and it’s permanent,” said one Radcliffeborough resident who asked to remain anonymous. “It’s going to permanently change the appearance of this block.”

She added many of her neighbors are also concerned about being pushed out of their generational homes.

“That’s sort of what happens to these properties near parking garages,” she said. “They become rental properties because people don’t want to live near the garages.”

While national statistics show parking garages are often areas of elevated crime rates, Charleston police said earlier this year that crime around the city’s garages is typically low. Most incidents instead occur along major corridors rather than in parking areas, officials said at a Charleston City Council meeting March 25.

Traffic, however, remains a large issue.

“Assuming it’s a public garage with 300 to 400 spaces in it, that’s a lot of traffic coming in and out of Radcliffeborough that isn’t there now,” Soule-Brainard said. She added that residents along George Street and south of Calhoun have several garages with entrances

and exits onto King Street, alleviating some of the impact. But the site at 15 Radcliffe St. may not allow for that configuration.

“There’s just no good way to make it happen,” she said.

Project’s future uncertain

Despite the developer securing a zoning change in March to enable the parking garage to be built, the project hasn’t yet been brought to Charleston City Council for approval. Several residents speculated on what the holdup could be, from crossed wires with the College of Charleston to strategically timed construction.

Others, however, instead prefer to consider what they’d rather see at 15 Radcliffe St. instead.

“We’re really pushing for some sort of housing, whether it’s student housing or public,” Soule-Brainard said. “I believe we need a lot more attainable housing for workforce members. People can’t afford to live here anymore. Even [the Medical University of South Carolina] is having trouble recruiting doctors because they can’t afford to live downtown.

“If you work downtown, you have to drive in,” she added. “You sit in traffic and create pollution and noise. It’s bad all around.”

Regardless of the lot’s fate, the anonymous resident said it was important for it to be a benefit to the community of residents who live there.

“It’s David and Goliath,” she said. “We just need a couple good stones.”

Pendarvis indicted on 10 counts

A federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment against former S.C. Rep. Marvin Pendarvis, 36, of North Charleston, for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

According to the Nov. 18 indictment, Pendarvis, who was a personal injury attorney, pursued claims, filed lawsuits and negotiated settlements on behalf of his clients. He is accused of forging client signatures and not paying them any portion of settlement funds. Federal officials said that through the scheme, Pendarvis received at least $532,000 in settlement funds to which he did not pay his clients.

Pendarvis, who pleaded not guilty and was released on an unsecured $50,000 bond, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years for the wire fraud and money laundering counts. And each count of aggravated identity theft carries a mandatory two-year term of imprisonment. — City Paper Staff

“We already have one of the strictest bills in the country. To go any further, is just an outright attack on women and doctors.”

—S.C. Sen. Brad Hutto, D-Orangeburg, after a state Senate panel voted 3-2 Tuesday against a highly restrictive abortion bill. Four Republican senators abstained from the vote. Source: S.C. Daily Gazette

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The lot at 15 Radcliffe St. was once home to a historic house that was moved to make way for a new parking garage

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New downtown urban park already feels like comfortable community sweater

By Andy Brack

It didn’t take long for downtowners to adopt a new one-acre urban community park between King and Meeting streets as if it had always been there.

Early Wednesday morning, just four days after the grand opening of American Gardens adjacent to the Gibbes Museum of Art and Charleston Library Society, several pairs of people, some with dogs, strolled along the narrow park.

Nearby, a neighbor who said she has watched what’s been happening for weeks, exclaimed, “Isn’t it wonderful?” Another woman with a cup of coffee read at a nearby table in the morning sun. Park workers installed a merry-go-round behind a portable hedge. A large Fraser fir stood anchored for Christmas festivities where days earlier more than 300 people joined to welcome the gardens.

“This is such a gift to the community,” one bystander observed. The gift, worth an estimated $11 million that came through the leadership of Beemok Hospitality Collection founder Ben Navarro and his wife Kelly, protects a historic parcel at 174 King St. that might have become condominiums otherwise.

The gardens have a French-inspired feel with gravel-lined paths along an allee of 68 crepe myrtles, more than 100 magnolias and eight live oak trees. Two four-tiered foun-

Blotter of the Week

A West Ashley woman is believed to have stolen $10,000 worth of cigarettes from two stores where she worked in October. Store managers reportedly told Charleston police that their inventories did not match with sales records, and officers suggested possible theft that was later confirmed by security footage. The investigation is ongoing, and no charges have been filed yet.

Not lovin’ it

tains anchor the ends of the gardens, which includes a large grassy area perfect for picnic lunches. A cafe is expected to open on King Street soon. Already, a coffee stand offers a hot morning beverage for early visitors.

Navarro, the local billionaire and philanthropist who wasn’t able to attend the ceremony, said in a statement that the new park was dedicated to the American dream.

“This park honors that dream which my

father so believed in,” he said. “And despite all of our challenges as a nation, it stands as a testament to the fact that we live in the greatest country on earth.

“Our hope is that this new park will bring together the citizens of Charleston and become a place to celebrate all that we have in common as members of one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Charleston Mayor William Cogswell said during the Nov. 15 opening that the park was a place that showcases the best of the Holy City.

“It gives family and friends a place to slow down, talk, listen and appreciate the joys of nature and place and, perhaps, most importantly, the joys of being together.”

Former Mayor John Tecklenburg, also on hand to celebrate, tipped a hat to Dominion Energy President Keller Kissam, for facilitating the process to turn the land, once owned by his company, to Beemok through the city.

The park will have seasonal programming throughout the year, Beemok said. After Thanksgiving, it will transform into a Christmas village as “a glowing winter wonderland adorned with twinkling lights, a 30-foot Fraser fir and a whimsical carousel for guests of all ages.”

The park is open daily from 7 a.m. to dusk. More: americangardenschs.com

North Charleston police on Nov. 9 responded to an Ashley Phosphate Road fast food restaurant after receiving calls about a man “dancing around in the drive-through lane with his pants sagged below his waist.” When he resisted arrest, officers “helped” him into their patrol car and banned him from the restaurant. Can’t have it his way anymore.

A little jealous

A Mount Pleasant woman on Nov. 10 reportedly blew past police on Interstate 526 at 90 mph (about 30 mph over the speed limit). Officers stopped the driver, disposed of the small amount of weed she had in the center console and cited her for the speed. Honestly, we’re a little jealous — how often do you get the chance to drive faster than 20 mph around here?

By Skyler Baldwin

Illustration by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Nov. 3 and Nov. 10.

Photos by Andy Brack

Two four-tier fountains anchor the ends of the narrow new park

Warnings come after S.C. vaccination rates fall

By Jack O’Toole

Public health experts are warning South Carolina parents that children in every region of the state are at risk for diseases once thought eradicated. The reason: Falling vaccination rates.

Records collected annually by public and private schools show the state’s vaccination rate fell from 95.5% in 2020 to 93.5% in 2025 — a full point-and-a-half below the 95% “herd immunity” rate associated with prevention of outbreaks. Over the same period, the number of students with religious exemptions from state childhood vaccine requirements has grown from 12,545 to 27,730, or about 3.3% of the statewide school population.

Even more concerning, doctors say, are individual pockets where local vaccination rates have fallen further, with counties like Horry, Edgefield, Richland and Charleston now a full 3 to 6 percentage points below the needed 95%.

Since 2020, Charleston County has seen its vaccination rate fall from 94.6% to 92.0% — a drop that Dr. Robert Oliverio, chief medical officer of Roper St. Francis Healthcare, called “concerning” in a Nov. 13 interview.

“The fact that a single person with measles can infect 20 more people means

that you have to vaccinate about 95% of the community to keep it from spreading,” Oliverio said, noting that the disease can lead to severe outcomes, including brain damage, in some patients.

“That’s why vaccination rates are so important,” he added.

But to get those numbers up, he said, public health officials have to overcome what he called the “three C’s of vaccine hesitancy” — complacency, confidence and convenience. And it’s the first two that have become the most serious obstacles since the controversy over vaccines during the Covid pandemic, he said.

“We’ve seen complacency regarding these diseases go up and confidence in the public health system go down,” he said, adding that the volume of false and misleading information about vaccines on the internet is “not helpful.”

“Everybody knows that the sun’s gonna rise at dawn and set at sunset — it’s a shared reality,” he said. “There’s overwhelming evidence that these vaccines work and are safe. This should be a shared reality, too.”

Fighting hesitancy

S.C. Department of Public Health (DPH) officials tell Statehouse Report they’re

working at community levels in “high hesitancy” areas to overcome obstacles including access, transportation and misinformation about the safety of vaccines.

Their message to state residents is simple.

“Vaccines save lives,” DPH spokesperson Casey White said, noting that vaccines have long been a safe and effective way to protect against deadly childhood diseases. “These diseases historically killed or disabled many people, especially young children, prior to the development of vaccines against them.”

Asked last month about the Upstate measles outbreak, now up to 49 confirmed recent cases, Gov. Henry McMaster stopped short of explicitly recommending vaccination, stressing education efforts instead.

“You give people proper information, full information, and let them make their own decisions,” McMaster told reporters. “And they will make the right one.”

S.C. Senate panel rejects abortion ban proposal

A bill that would have made South Carolina’s abortion ban the strictest nationwide proved to be too extreme for a panel packed with anti-abortion Republican legislators. The proposal failed on a 3-2 vote with four Republicans declining to vote.

Dubbed the Unborn Child Protection Act, the bill called for a ban on abortions from the moment a pregnancy is “clinically diagnosable,” elimination of exemptions for rape and incest and a prohibition of abortions in any circumstances except to save the life of the mother.

Three Democrats — Sens. Brad Hutto, D-Orangeburg; Ronnie Sabb, D-Greeleyville; and Deon Tedder, D-North Charleston — voted against the bill.

“The vast, vast, vast majority of South Carolinians are against this,” Hutto said. “We already have one of the strictest bills in the country. To go any further, is just an outright attack on women and doctors.”

So far, 31 Upstate residents, including six children, have decided to receive free measles vaccinations at mobile clinics launched by DPH on Oct. 16. Speaking to reporters Nov. 12, state epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell acknowledged that state officials had hoped for “a more robust uptake,” but characterized the numbers as slow progress.

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Republican Sens. Richard Cash of Anderson, the bill’s chief sponsor, and Tom Fernandez of Summerville voted for the bill. Four Republican senators — co-sponsor Billy Garrett of Greenwood, Tom Corbin of Greenville; Jeff Zell of Sumter and Matt Leber of Johns Island — declined to vote, allowing the Democratic senators to sink the bill. —Staff reports

When superstition beats science, kids wind up paying the price Views

core another round for two of man’s oldest companions, ignorance and superstition.

That is the takeaway now that we’ve learned the United States will likely join countries such as Iran, North Korea and Haiti this January on the World Health Organization’s sad roll call of nations that just can’t seem to eliminate measles. In other words, we’re about to blow one of the easiest questions on what President Donald Trump — in his own infamous terminology — would no doubt call the “Shithole Country Test.”

And unsurprisingly, South Carolina is one of the students that can’t or won’t get it right.

Which brings us to the measles outbreak that’s currently spreading like, well, measles across Spartanburg County. And to the confederacy of cranks who foisted this opt-in epidemic on the rest of us. How? By turning childhood vaccination into just one more tragic and tiresome flashpoint in America’s neverending culture wars.

Of course, they’ll tell you that we’re the problem. See, they’ve done their homework. And after carefully weighing the evidence — a hundred years of gold-standard scientific research versus the latest findings of the TikTok Medical Association — they’ve arrived at the only possible conclusion.

The Earth really is flat.

Inevitably, this steaming pile of pseudoscientific nonsense has done real damage, pushing the state’s childhood vaccination rate down from 95.5% in 2020 to 93.5% in 2025 — a full point-and-a-half below the 95% needed herd immunity level to prevent outbreaks.

What’s worse, it’s left even the most conscientious parents confused about how best to keep their kids safe, as Lowcountry

pediatrician and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Annie Andrews told the City Paper this week.

“I have a lot of sympathy for parents who are trying to figure out who to listen to for accurate information,” said Andrews, a pediatrician, “And I worry about the long-term impact this will have on the health of South Carolina’s children as vaccination rates continue to go down.”

And adding to parents’ uncertainty, she noted, is the strange migration that vaccine denialism has made from left to right, culminating in Trump’s appointment of conspiracist-in-chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services.

“The anti-vaccine movement started in high socioeconomic far-left spaces on the West Coast,” Andrews said. “But now, the disinformation isn’t just coming from those groups on Facebook and Instagram. It’s coming from the federal government.”

Still, thanks to good people all across the state, some local efforts are making a real dent in the dysfunction.

Case in point: The Charleston County School District’s 2022 decision to become a federally authorized childhood vaccine provider, which has resulted in thousands of Lowcountry children getting the shots they need with their parents’ approval.

That’s an initiative worth celebrating. In fact, it’s exactly the kind of person-to-person program that experts say can ease realworld parental concerns — and sometimes even break through the internet-induced certitudes of the dangerously misinformed.

And that’s critical, because Mark Twain — a man who knew a thing or two about steaming piles of nonsense, pseudoscientific or otherwise — had it exactly right.

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble,” he once observed. “It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

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.

LINGERIE

Why the V.C. Summer deal is right for South Carolina

South Carolina stands at a crossroads. Our state faces surging electricity demand driven by population growth, advanced manufacturing and data center expansion.

Meanwhile, two partially built nuclear reactors at V.C. Summer in Fairfield County have sat dormant since July 2017. The Santee Cooper board’s unanimous decision on Oct. 24 to enter final negotiations with Brookfield Asset Management to sell and complete those reactors with private capital changes everything.

This proposed deal transforms an abandoned liability into a strategic asset. It delivers 2,200 megawatts of reliable baseload power without asking taxpayers for another dime, positioning South Carolina as the national leader in America’s nuclear resurgence.

Nuclear power remains the only reliable, scalable energy source capable of meeting our state’s growing needs. While wind and solar have their place, they cannot provide the around-the-clock baseload power that manufacturers, data centers and households depend on. As China accelerates nuclear deployment and states like Texas and Tennessee expand their energy portfolios, South Carolina cannot afford to sit on the sidelines.

The Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design represents a quantum leap in safety. It features passive safety systems that rely on gravity and natural circulation rather than pumps, meaning the reactor can safely shut down and cool itself even during complete power loss. This eliminates vulnerabilities that led to accidents like Three Mile Island and Fukushima. If power systems fail, physics itself takes over, with water naturally flowing downward to cool the reactor core, and heat naturally rising to dissipate through the containment structure. No human intervention, electricity or backup generators needed.

The deal itself has been thoroughly derisked. Since July 2017, Westinghouse has successfully delivered six AP1000 units worldwide, including Georgia’s Vogtle Units 3 and 4, which now power more than 1 million homes. Fourteen more units are under construction in China. Construction efficiencies improved 30% between Vogtle’s third and fourth units, and the design is fully licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission until 2046. Critically, Santee Cooper has maintained V.C. Summer in good condition since 2017, keeping the site among the best-preserved nuclear assets globally. We’re not starting from scratch; we’re finishing what we started. The financial structure protects South Carolina ratepayers while securing massive

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benefits. Brookfield’s proposal includes a multi-billion-dollar ratepayer relief package and provides Santee Cooper with percentage ownership and power share through a structure that delivers below-market electricity rates without equity investment or projectlevel financial risk.

Brookfield brings extraordinary resources: approximately $1 trillion in assets under management, including $500 billion invested in U.S. infrastructure. As majority owner of Westinghouse, Brookfield uniquely aligns capital, technology and execution expertise. The company is negotiating with major tech companies for long-term power purchase agreements at premium rates, ensuring stable revenues while guaranteeing that Santee Cooper’s customers receive power at below-market rates.

Beyond electricity generation, Brookfield’s investment will rebuild South Carolina’s nuclear workforce and strengthen the state’s manufacturing ecosystem. The project will prioritize South Carolina vendors and suppliers, creating sustained demand for local businesses. Through partnerships with trade schools and universities, Brookfield will establish comprehensive training pipelines for nuclear technicians, welders and engineers. This commitment to workforce development will revitalize the Midlands economy and position South Carolina as a hub for high-tech manufacturing and nuclear research. The ripple effects will extend far beyond Fairfield County, creating opportunities for the next generation of South Carolinians in careers that didn’t exist when the project was first conceived.

The completion of V.C. Summer’s two reactors also creates powerful synergies with the $80 billion initiative to build 10 additional AP1000 reactors nationwide recently announced by the Trump Administration. South Carolina gains transformative firstmover advantage: while the 10 new reactors require years for siting and permitting, VC Summer can deliver power sooner, positioning South Carolina as the anchor of America’s nuclear renaissance.

The alternative is leaving 2,200 megawatts of potential capacity on the table while competitors surge ahead. South Carolina has a chance to turn a painful chapter into a success story. The Brookfield-Santee Cooper partnership delivers reliable power, protects ratepayers, creates jobs, requires no new taxpayer funding and positions our state as a national energy leader. That’s not just a good deal. It’s the deal South Carolina needs.

The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen.

By Stephanie Barna

Larry Queen passed away on Nov. 7 in Greensboro, N.C. The news of his death spread quickly among his legion of friends, people he connected with across the country, from his time in Greensboro, Charleston, New York city Los Angeles. Back in the ’90s, he attended the College of Charleston, surfed endless waves at the Washout, made thousands of authentic connections and helped establish the City Paper as its first music editor.

To me, he was like an elf. And not just because of his (queen-sized) stature, but because there was a magical quality to him. He would just appear randomly at my office. We’d have an incredible conversation, he’d pitch a great story idea and then I wouldn’t know how to get in touch with him.

Weeks would go by, and he’d just appear again, ready to start writing. He wrote his first City Paper cover story about the 1997 Wavefest, the legendary music festival put on by the independent radio station 96 Wave. That was when I learned about his writing style and his deadline-violating ways. He agonized over every word and comma. And he literally never hit a deadline. I would have to force him to sit still and write. It was a maddening process, but, lucky for him, it always resulted in a great story.

Larry, or LQ as we called him around the office, was iconic for many reasons — his size, his surfer dude lilt, his long coconut-infused curls and his love of Jody Porter (most famously the guitarist for Fountains of Wayne) But I’d say he was most iconic for his ability to connect. He connected me personally to an entire community of musicians, artists, surfers, randomly brilliant people and even street characters, the people you’d see every day but kept your distance from. Larry not only knew their names, but he knew their circumstances and their history. He was kind and caring, treating even those most down on their luck with dignity.

Another sterling quality of his was the pride he took in his friends. When he believed in your talent, he’d shine a light of adoration your way. And it never flickered. (I wrote that last sentence just for him. Larry loved a literary flourish!)

I truly believe he was my biggest fan ever. I think that’s how a lot of his friends feel. Besides two of his most uber-talented and accomplished friends — musician Jody Porter and artist Shepard Fairey — he would talk about me and the City Paper, and a local musician whose show he caught the other night, and the guy who’s opening a new bar, and the friend who’s studying for her Ph.D., all in the same way. He was unabashed in his appreciation. What a sublime quality to have. No wonder he had so many friends.

The Charleston that Larry introduced me to during my first few months in town guided the City Paper ’s editorial point of view. We weren’t going to write about the old guard. We would focus on the vibrant music and art scene that had grown alongside the massive success of Hootie and the Blowfish. The level of talent and creativity was bursting at the seams. And who was shining a light on that? And how could we be part of that growth? Serious coverage and criticism were what I loved about Atlanta’s alt-weekly Creative Loafing, and it’s how I wanted to cover Charleston’s scene. Larry was an integral part of that. He interviewed hundreds of people, wrote profiles and reviews, and still never once made deadline.

I wanted to include other anecdotes about Larry and the impact he had on people, but there are too many. I’ve received so many messages over the last few days from people just like me — friends who are incredibly saddened at his sudden passing at the age of 58. All of us were flooded with memories of a singular human who touched so many lives in so many ways. You are gone way too soon, my friend. RIP LQ.

West Ashley resident Stephanie Barna is former editor and partowner of the Charleston City Paper.

Republican state Sen. Tom Davis represents Beaufort and Jasper counties.

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COGSWELL CAMP KEEPS QUIET WITH LOCAL PRESS

By Andy Brack

wo years ago after Republican developer William Cogswell beat incumbent Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg by 566 votes of more than 27,000 cast, City Paper reporter Skyler Baldwin asked for an interview.

Cogswell’s communications director, Deja Knight McMillan, told him he first needed to get

me, the editor, to phone for a discussion.

“We’re probably not going to do any interviews with you guys,” she said quickly, adding the campaign didn’t like a Facebook comment I made about a Cogswell ad that kept coming up on my personal page. The ad showed snapshots of supporters at several Cogswell functions, leading me to note, “I don’t see any Black or Brown faces.

That’s all I need to know.”

McMillan reiterated, “I’m certainly not going to bend over backwards when William’s extremely busy right now to give you an interview.”

A couple of minutes later, she added, “As soon as we can find some time, I will make sure to pencil him in.”

Two years later, Baldwin is still waiting.

Ashley Stanol file photo

The waiting game

In the intervening months, Baldwin and City Paper reporters asked dozens of storyrelated questions by email or voicemail, only to be generally ignored. Freedom of information requests are slow to arrive. Routine information that previous administrations were quick to provide has been scrubbed or simply not provided.

“They definitely said don’t talk to the City Paper,” one former city staffer revealed. “And The Post and Courier Those were the two big ones that were mostly holding them accountable.”

Over the last two years, several key administrators that worked for Tecklenburg or former Mayor Joe Riley left the city’s employment — either by resigning or by being forced out. Current public employees don’t return calls, vitally aware they aren’t supposed to talk with any media unless it’s cleared by McMillan’s office.

A different senior staffer was told “every request needs to go through communications, and if they deem it appropriate for staff to talk with media, they’ll facilitate.” Then sometimes, the request is ignored.

This zeal for message control makes it tough for city staffers when they’re approached by reporters at an event or in the field. What many have been told: “At least send a text and try to wait for direction” from the communications department.

An end run and a thaw

Two writers with The Post and Courier, both of whom asked not to be identified, said dealing with the Cogswell administration for information has been particularly vexing, especially in 2024.

“They see us as the enemy,” one writer observed, noting a feeling of being stonewalled.

“I’d just basically get no response,” the writer said. “So I said the heck with it and would work around them and would reach out and find someone. I didn’t keep badgering them. I just backed away and did an end run.”

Cogswell addresses a crowd when he was sworn in as mayor in January 2024

ting Cogswell on camera for short statements at events, but they also don’t have many sit-down interviews over policy.

What’s ahead

Publication of this story won’t endear the City Paper to the Cogswell administration, although many frustrated city staffers likely will quietly cheer from the sidelines for the focus on secrecy and message control.

From a public relations perspective, it’s not unheard of for politicians to tightly control messages. But with Cogswell, it’s different.

“It wasn’t a communications strategy, but was just a try to bully reporters, which is just so dumb,” one of the two former staffers noted. “And it’s unfortunate, too, because it didn’t have to be like that.”

“They definitely said don’t talk to the City Paper. And The Post and Courier. Those were the two big ones that were mostly holding them accountable.”

—Former city staffer who wished to remain annonymous

In a January story on the one-year anniversary of Cogswell being sworn in, the administration wouldn’t offer an interview with Cogswell, but did respond to written questions by email.

But then in June, Chief Policy Officer Logan McVey, a young hard-charging GOP political operative who had been Cogswell’s campaign manager, left the city’s employment. Since then, there’s been a message thaw for the daily newspaper, the writer said.

Meanwhile, local television reporters often say they don’t have much trouble get-

‘I will make sure to pencil him in’

TRANSCRIPT, NOV. 28, 2023

Andy Brack, editor and publisher of Charleston City Paper Deja Knight McMillan, Cogswell communications director

Andy Brack: Hello. Andy Brack.

Deja Knight McMillan: Hey, how are you?

AB: I’m alright, I’m just saying you wanted me to call.

DKM: Yes, I did. We’re probably not going to do any interviews with you guys. I’ll be honest.

AB: Why would that be?

DKM: I’m fine with everything until what you commented on Facebook, and that kind of just threw it all out the window. So I hate to do that to Skyler because I like him. I think he’s a good writer.

AB: Well, what are you …

DKM: I just wanted to let you know that.

AB: What are you talking about — what I said on Facebook?

DKM: I think you know if you made a comment about essentially referring to William [Cogswell], and I’m not saying you called him a racist, but [it was] a little close.

AB: All right, let me ask you a question. Do you understand the difference between news and opinion?

Over the next two years, the City Paper will continue to ask questions about Charleston public policy and how local government is functioning. A request for an interview with the mayor is pending. Still.

But regardless of whether Cogswell and his team open up a little, the newspaper will continue to provide insights so citizens can judge how the city is doing.

Like how reporters usually find out what happens in secret backroom meetings that are too often in vogue these days. Why? Because information will continue to flow from Cogswell’s independently elected political peers who don’t rely on him for influence. They will continue to explain what’s going on without sending a text first and waiting for direction from the mayor’s office.

DKM: In one video, out of the hundreds we put out.

AB: This was a repeatedly sponsored video that was on my Facebook feed all the time. I didn’t see other videos showing crowds and stuff. This was a video showing crowds, but anyway when you say all right, so that’s fine. I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with saying that — that’s an opinion. And that’s my personal opinion. It was not the newspaper’s opinion. So I think you kind of need to get over that. But if you persist in doing that, this … it will be become a story. So I’m really kind of interested: Does this mean that you guys for the next four years are not going to have any interviews with the City Paper?

DKM: I’m not saying that, but what what

AB: What are you saying they’re …

DKM: … but I’m certainly not going to bend over backwards when William’s extremely busy, right now, to give you an interview.

AB: All right. First of all, let’s be clear. I did not ask for an interview. A reporter here who you claim you like asked for an interview. A …

DKM: He’s your employee. You pay him, don’t you?

DKM: I do.

AB: OK. Could you define that for me?

DKM: Do you understand the difference between being professional and non-professional? That comment on Facebook was completely unprofessional.

AB: I need to know what comment you’re talking about if we’re going to have a discussion about it. What comment are you talking about?

DKM: I believe it was something along the lines of, “I see no Black or Brown faces in this video. That tells me everything I need to know.”

AB: And so was there anything inaccurate in that? ‘Cause I watched a video five or six or seven times looking for a Black or Brown face and did not see anything.

AB: That has nothing to do with him doing his job. He is covering city council, and he asked for an interview with the incoming mayor. I am a publisher.

DKM: I am telling you that I am not going to prioritize the City Paper based on you, the publisher and owner’s, actions. So I don’t know what to tell you. William’s swamped right now. We’re very selective with his time. And you guys just don’t make the cut this week. I’m really sorry.

AB: That’s fine.

DKM: If you want to make it a story, go for it.

AB: Can you consider this an ongoing request for an interview, not by me but by Skyler?

DKM: Sure. As soon as we can find some time, I will make sure to pencil him in.

Andy Brack

What To Do

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THIS WEEKEND

Christmas Tree Festival

Kick off the holiday season at Boone Hall this weekend with a variety of Christmas fun and activities perfect for the whole family. Santa will be available each day of the festival, and families can take as many photos with the Big Guy as their phones can hold for no additional cost. Enjoy fresh baked cookies, face painting, a huge selection of fresh-cut trees and a variety of other Christmas goodies. Nov. 22-23. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Free. Boone Hall Plantation. 1235 Long Point Road. Mount Pleasant. boonehallplantation.com

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MONDAY

Thanksgiving Farmers Market

Breathe in the fresh autumn air at Freshfields Village with a special Thanksgiving Farmers Market. This festive, food-focused market is the perfect place to gather everything you need from fresh produce and prepared dishes to artisanal goods and holiday-ready crafts. Bring family and friends to shop, savor and enjoy the community spirit as you get ready for the season’s celebrations with more than a dozen local vendors.

Nov. 24. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Free to attend. Freshfields Village. 165 Village Green Drive. Johns Island. freshfieldsvillage.com

MONDAY AND TUESDAY

Dragon Boat Holiday Festival of Lights

See the Holiday Festival of Lights from a whole new perspective — the cockpit of a dragon boat! As the sun goes down and the lights come on for the evening, you’ll enjoy an on-thewater introduction to this ancient sport, while also getting an up-close view of some of the festival’s most iconic light displays. Guests will be treated to tasty hot chocolate and free admission to the festival that evening. No experience necessary.

Nov. 24-25. 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. $30/person. James Island County Park. 871 Riverland Drive. James Island. ccprc.com

WEDNESDAY

Wild Dunes Harvest Festival

Join Wild Dunes for its annual Harvest Festival, and enjoy a delightful fall-themed event chock-full of autumn bites, carnival games, a petting zoo and more. This family-friendly event is the perfect way to embrace the fall season with your loved ones. Wild Dunes members get 20% off ticket price, and children age 3 and under get in free.

Nov. 26. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. $50/adult; $20/children 4-12. Wild Dunes Resort. 5757 Palm Blvd. Isle of Palms. wilddunesresort.com

SATURDAY

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Sweetgrass basket workshop

Create your own one-of-a-kind sweetgrass basket in a special class with Jennifaye Singleton of Geechee Gyal Baskets. Singleton has been making baskets since 1990, an art she learned from her aunt. Each piece is unique, and each artist develops his or her own style. Enjoy complimentary garden admission with your ticket. Space is limited. All materials will be provided. Nov. 22. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. $100/ticket. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. 3550 Ashley River Road. West Ashley. magnoliaplantation.com

Courtesy Boone Hall

Cuisine

Charleston chefs get dishy about Thanksgiving

By Becky Lacey

Americans eat 46 million turkeys on Thanksgiving Day, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

That’s a lot to gobble about.

The origin of this bird as the preferred protein for the holiday is disputed, but the prevailing theory attributes the tradition to a 19th century writer.

“Some give credit for the turkey’s preeminence to Sarah Joseph Hale, the ‘Godmother of Thanksgiving,’ whose accounts of early New England celebrations emphasized a roast turkey and eventually became the model for the festivities adopted by the rest of the country after Abraham Lincoln declared it a national holiday in 1863,” as explained in a 2015 Time magazine article.

While turkey may be the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving table, it is undeniable that the sides can often be the stars of the show. Charleston City Paper spoke with Charleston chefs about their favorite dishes to enjoy on the holiday.

Turkey alternative

It may be no surprise that Pat Martin, owner of Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint and Hugh-Baby’s BBQ & Burger shop, serves pork on his Thanksgiving table. A pitmaster legend, Martin is known for his West Tennessee’s whole-hog barbecue.

“Around here, the Thanksgiving spread starts with a proper centerpiece, and for me, that’s a ham big enough to feed a crowd,” said Martin. “I’ll cook one that’s 20 pounds or more so there’s plenty to go around and enough left for good sandwiches and good company in the days that follow.”

A veggie riff

Charleston Chef Kevin Johnson does masterful things with vegetables at The Grocery and Lola Rose — and his Thanksgiving side dish is no exception. He prepares a butternut squash ceviche, a vegetable-forward play on the classic with coconut leche de tigre (the traditional Peruvian ceviche marinade), citrus, basil and pepitas.

What’s new

Coffee and art. The Washington Café , an art-filled coffee shop and community space, has opened at 1111 McKnight Road in Mount Pleasant. The café is owned and operated by Cainhoy native Peter Washington III,, and it celebrates his Gullah Geechee heritage. Open from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday, expect items like sweet potato pie and strawberry cornmeal cake with a selection of coffee and tea. More: thewashingtoncafe.com

More dough. Girl Nextdough, the beloved food truck, has opened a brick and mortar location at 1939 Maybank Highway on James Island. Open from 8 a.m. to noon Thursday through Sunday, the menu features items like lemon sprinkle donuts, cinnamon buns, bagels and breakfast sandwiches. More: girlnextdough.com

“When choosing an interesting side for the Thanksgiving table, I always look for something that brings texture and brightness,” Johnson said. “So many of the traditional dishes are casseroles or purées. Delicious, but often lacking that crunch or acidity that makes a meal feel balanced.

“The ceviche fits perfectly. It still carries that sense of fall but offers a refreshing contrast to the heavier classics. I also think about ease of serving. While it requires some prep ahead, it can be plated in advance and stays fresh on the table, so you can have it ready even before the turkey is carved, and

it’ll still be great when everyone sits down.”

Puerto Rico’s national dish

On Thanksgiving, Palmira Barbecue pitmaster Hector Garate loves to serve arroz con gandules. The dish is a combination of rice, pigeon peas and pork, and it is Puerto Rico’s national dish along with roasted pork.

“Arroz con gandules is one of those dishes that always brings me home,” said Garate. “It’s the heart of every Puerto Rican celebration. Serving it at Thanksgiving is a great way to bring a non-traditional side to the table that still feels deeply connected to family and heritage.”

Arroz con gandules is available for Thanksgiving pickup at his West Ashley restaurant.

Bringing a little crunch to the table

Michael Zentner, executive chef of Merci, brings a crispness to his holiday table and to the restaurant menu with a cabbage Caesar salad. He prepares it with aged gouda and focaccia crumbs, and it is available for Thanksgiving pre-order at Petit Merci.

“Our cabbage Caesar salad has become a favorite at Merci,” Zentner said. “The cabbage gives it a great seasonal crunch, and it’s the kind of dish that feels just as good on a Thanksgiving table as it does in the restaurant. It’s fresh, unexpected and fun to share with family and friends.”

Street food. Newly opened Mazal is serving Mediterranean street food at 1901 Ashley River Road. Open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Friday, expect food like shawarma, hummus, falafel and a sabich sandwich. More: mazaleat.com

What’s happening

Brews and bivalves. Fleet Landing is teaming up with Commonhouse Aleworks for a Lowcountry oyster roast from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 23. The event will take place at Commonhouse Aleworks at 4831 O’Hear Ave. in North Charleston. Oyster shells will be recycled. Tickets are $30. More: Eventbrite. Festive punch. Cheerwine Holiday Punch returns to Charleston, introducing cans for the first time along with the classic 2-liter bottles of the special holiday beverage. To toast the debut of cans, Cheerwine teamed with local Charleston mixologists at King BBQ, Sorghum & Salt and Swig & Swine to serve cocktails throughout December. More: cheerwine.com

Going dark

The Select , an American restaurant that opened at 465 Meeting St. in July 2024, is closing its doors. The original restaurant in Sandy Springs, Georgia, will continue operating. More: theselectcharleston.com Becky Lacey

Courtesy Pat Martin

Pitmaster Pat Martin opts for a ham on his Thanksgiving table that’s large enough to feed a croud

Courtesy Pelato

The Saucy Bird at Pelato is filled with an Italian sausage, rice, mozzarella and parmigiano reggiano stuffing

Better with bite.

How women are shaping Charleston’s food and bev scene

By Liz Regalia

Labor shortages and high turnover are making it hard for many restaurants in the Holy City to stay in business. From beloved establishments like Cru Cafe to Rutledge Cab Co., the number of closures has felt daunting in recent months.

“The cost of living has gone up, and a lot of hospitality workers can’t necessarily afford it,” said Marbled & Fin General Manager Meg Mina, who oversees about 100 employees at the steakhouse that opened in 2024. “And if they can, it’s not enough to just offer decent pay anymore. Our teams want to feel cared for.”

Simultaneously, guests’ values have changed, too.

“People are investing in experiences and ways to emotionally connect,” Mina said. “The only way we’re going to get people through the door and keep them coming back is to create these experiences.”

But in the sea of restaurant closures, some continue to thrive. Many have women at the helm.

“We’re starting to see more women in leadership roles,” said Mina, who arrived in the Lowcountry in 2019 with two decades of leadership experience at critically acclaimed restaurants in New York City. “I think that’s because we have to be more open-minded to creative ways of making money now — which I’ve found is pretty instinctual for women.”

Turning challenges into creative opportunity

Executive Chef Analisa LaPietra’s kitchen at Prohibition can only fit about four people comfortably. And because of the structure of the building on King Street, there’s little she can do to expand it.

“I like to say it’s very efficient,” LaPietra said with a laugh. “Everything is within an arm’s reach, but the equipment we have does dictate things. I don’t have a broiler. I don’t have a steamer. I have two ovens and six burners. So, what can we do?”

It’s that logistical challenge coupled with the creative freedom she’s granted from management that has kept LaPietra content at Prohibition since 2019 — and has kept the restaurant evolving.

Alongside chef and owner Greg Garrison, LaPietra has led the development of Prohibition’s seasonal menus utilizing fresh ingredients as well as the execution of local events like its Sippin’ Santa annual holiday pop-up.

In turn, everything from the Prohibition’s business model to staff size has changed drastically for the better. In 2024, the team opened a second location in Columbia, and LaPietra expanded her role to the capital city.

“Actions have always spoken louder than anything else in this profession.”

—Analisa LaPietra

Ryan Jones first in catering then in restaurant ownership.

Since 2019, the duo has opened four restaurants in Charleston under their Free Reign Restaurants group, including Community Table, Southbound, Honeysuckle Rose and the latest, Allora, this fall. At each establishment, Ryan runs the kitchen while Jones runs the front of the house, which includes everything from reservations to building maintenance and interior design.

“We’ve been a husband and wife team for 25 years,” Jones said. “But I’ve always been the ‘wife of the chef.’ Across the industry, chefs get the spotlight while the front of the house always goes unrecognized. Yet if that experience isn’t great, the restaurant can’t be great.”

“Actions have always spoken louder than anything else in this profession,” LaPietra said. “It’s your cooking, it’s your professionalism and it’s leading by example as a manager. All those things speak volumes more than anything else. It’s always been, can you or can’t you?”

Serving experiences, not just food

At 21, Kelleanne Jones started a catering company out of her third floor apartment in Hartford, Connecticut. She’s owned her own business ever since, partnering with her husband and Executive Chef

As the culinary industry tries to catch up in prioritizing not just food, but rewarding experiences, women like Jones are gaining the lead. Perhaps her most unique experience-based dining offering is Honeysuckle Rose, a concierge fine dining restaurant in an intimate livingroom like setting.

“In laying out the space there was intentionality,” Jones said. “The tables being close allows you to meet your neighbors, many diners leave with new friends or, at least, enjoy conversation and the shared experience.” Guests are also greeted with hand-written place cards upon arrival, a surprise that makes for an instantly memorable experience.

“Service is black and white; hospitality is color,” Jones said. “It’s something unexpected. I try to teach all of our people that that’s what we aim for. When you go to any restaurant, you expect good food and good service. But when you leave our restaurants, you take an experience that can’t be replicated.”

Courtesy Allora Caterer Kelleanne Jones (above) started her company out of her thirdfloor apartment in Hartford, Connecticut

Meg Mina (left), general manager of Marbled & Fin, oversees 100 empoyees at the steakhouse that opened in 2024

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eaters!) and the rice is cooked al dente with a similar texture to risotto.

An Italian spin on stuffing

Anthony Scotto, owner of Pelato, prepares his family’s beloved stuffing recipe for Thanksgiving both at home and in the restaurants.

“The origin of the dish is unclear like most of our old recipes,” said Scotto. “They are passed down from generation to generation. But it has been made in our family for at least three generations. It came from our ancestors who wanted to put their Italian spin on a Thanksgiving classic when they arrived in the United States.”

The stuffing is made with rice, sausage and house-made mozzarella cheese. Bread is not used (so it’s safe for the gluten-free

The leftover sandwich

Many people — this writer included — look forward to the leftover sandwich even more than the meal itself. Tyler Hunt, chef at Legend Deli, serves The Gobbler, which includes Boar’s Head oven-roasted turkey breast, stuffing, Duke’s mayonnaise, cranberry sauce and spiced crispy sweet potato on toasted Normandy Farms sourdough with turkey gravy for dunking. There is “something special about reliving your favorite holiday through your favorite food, one delicious turkey sandwich at a time,” said Hunt. “It’s the ultimate Thanksgiving encore.”

Fleet Landing Pecan Pie

A Southern classic often associated with the holidays, this sweet and nutty pie is enjoyed year round at Fleet Landing. The restaurant spikes it with a splash of bourbon for depth of flavor and tops it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. “Our pecan pie is one of the most requested desserts during the holidays,” said Fleet Landing Executive Chef Andy McLeod. “It’s that perfect balance of tradition and indulgence. We spike the filling with a touch of bourbon to bring out the richness of the pecans and give it that unmistakable Southern warmth. It’s our way of honoring classic Lowcountry flavors while adding a little festive spirit.”

Makes 6 to 8 Servings.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 (9-inch) frozen piecrust

• 1½ cups pecan pieces or chopped pecans

• 1 cup granulated sugar

• 3 large eggs

• ½ cup light corn syrup

• 1½ tablespoons bourbon

• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

• Vanilla ice cream, to serve

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Parbake the piecrust according to package instructions. Let cool to room temperature, then fill the crust with the pecans.

In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, corn syrup, bourbon, and vanilla. Pour filling over the top of the pecans.

Bake until evenly browned on top and center is just a little bit wiggly, about 45 minutes. Keep an eye on it, covering with foil toward the end of cooking if it starts to become too brown. Serve warm or let cool to room temperature. Top with ice cream.

Courtesy Fleet Landing

Culture

Grinch composer’s heart swells as show heads to his native S.C.

By Maura Hogan

When it comes to the perenially popular holiday tale by Dr. Seuss, the misguided green protagonist is not the only wandering soul affiliated with a change of heart. Some 60 years ago, Mel Marvin, composer of the Broadway hit Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, had an epiphany. Without it, Charleston audiences would not be anticipating the musical adaptation of the iconic 1957 book. On Dec. 9, the Best of Broadway production opens at North Charleston Performing Arts Center.

And Marvin’s own realization happened right in Charleston.

In the late 1950s, the Walterboro native was on an altogether different path. True, he was already a fan of the musical form, thanks to his mother’s cast recordings.

“I was very affected by Singing in the Rain, which is still one of my favorite movies,” he said.

On a trip to New York City at 16, he saw his first Broadway show, Li’l Abner, at the St. James Theatre, along with an enviable trifecta of first-run productions of West Side Story, The Music Man and My Fair Lady.

But when he enrolled at the College of Charleston, he delved instead into premed studies — that is until he found a $46-a-month apartment atop the Dock Street Theatre.

Soon, he was offering to help backstage, while also playing the green room piano. Among those who listened were Emmett and Patricia Robinson. The legendary Footlight Players dramatic duo invited the 19-year-old

to write incidental music for a comedy.

“I had no idea I could write anything, and they started me out. They really believed in me,” he said.

Chucking the doctor trajectory, Marvin was off to Columbia University for a graduate degree in comparative literature with a concentration on theater. Since then, he has made a great deal of music, creating scores for 30 works of musical theater, 47 plays, 3 films and 3 operas — picking up Tony nominations as co-author of Tintypes and writing the music for the Broadway productions of Yentl and Chris Durang’s A History of the American Film.

A Grinch is born

The Seuss musical was first commissioned by the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis in 1994, and Marvin never envisioned it as the commercial powerhouse it has become. He was more focused on his own Cindy Lou Who, his 9-year-old daughter Kate.

“Basically, I wrote it for her,” he said, adding that she even sang an early demo.

Nonetheless the crowd-pleasing, familyfriendly, inventive take on the original Grinch tale rose to Broadway stature at the St. James Theatre, 60 years after Marvin saw Li’l Abner there.

“On the first day we were in the theater going to tech rehearsals, I went a half an hour early and went and sat in the seat that I had sat in when I was a kid.”

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical now tours the country year after year, boasting impressive, Seussian black-and-white backgrounds popping with costumes bright pinks and oranges.

“We wrote it for families, not just for little children,” Marvin said. “In a lot of ways, it’s

Arts+Music

Dance to the beats at Latin American concert

Otro Sur, the College of Charleston’s student ensemble that performs folk and popular music from across Latin America, takes the stage 4 p.m. Nov. 23 at Gage Hall, 4 Archdale St. The concert’s dance hall setting offers ample space for all to move and groove to Latin beats. For those who need a little primer, a dance class will take place at 3 p.m. prior to the concert. More: bit.ly/cofcotrosur

VISUAL ARTS

• Through Jan. 10 : Tiny Zoo is a new exhibition by Charleston-based artist Cara Fisher, who works in blackand-white drawings, murals and installations. Public Works Art Center, 135 West Richard Ave., Summerville. More: publicworksartcenter.org

AUCTION

a very sophisticated, cranky, dark, bizarre kind of show that appeals to adults as well as kids.”

It no doubt made an impression on his daughter, Kate Marvin, who first sang the musical for a demo. She is now also a musical composer, whose work resounds on some of New York’s most revered stages.

A Charleston landing

Each year, Marvin scans the list of tour destinations in search of Charleston.

“So I’m really delighted,” he said of the creative homecoming. “So much of my compositional ability is rooted in influences from the South.”

When, like the Whos of Whoville, Charleston welcomes Christmas, it will also welcome the music of one of their own, too. And that will surely swell the heart of one South Carolina son.

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical runs from Dec. 9 to 14 at various times at North Charleston Performing Arts Center, 5001 Coliseum Dr., North Charleston. More: northcharlestoncoliseumpac.com

• Through Nov. 23: Charleston Jazz is hosting an online silent auction with a bounty of delights from Charleston businesses, including items, like food baskets, restaurant gift cards, concert tickets, a bourbon package and original artwork. More: charlestonjazz.com/silentauction

MUSIC

• Nov. 21 , 9 p.m.: The Simplicity, Royal American

• Nov. 22 , 9 p.m.: Supper Club, Royal American

• Nov. 22 , 5 p.m.: Wax Monkey, Pour House

• Nov. 22 , 7 p.m.: Crowder/Zach Williams, North Charleston PAC

• Nov. 22 , 8 p.m.: Winter Solstice Ball, Music Farm

• Nov. 23, 9 p.m.: Godwin Falcon, Royal American

• Nov. 23, 7 p.m.: Klept, Tin Roof

• Nov. 23, 6 p.m.: Elise Testone’s Student Concert , Pour House

• Nov. 25, 5 p.m.: Jim Rubush & Friends, Pour House

• Nov. 28 , 7 p.m.: Danae Hays, North Charleston PAC

• Nov. 28 , 8 p.m.: Toubab Krewe , Pour House

• Nov. 28-29, 9 p.m.: Little Bird presents Jay Hurt VI , Royal American

Photos by Jeremy Daniel/courtesy NNM Marketing Charleston audiences will welcome the traveling holiday musical featuring the titular Grinch for the first time

Marvin

Atlanta-based hard rock band Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ will play the Pour House Nov. 29 with an unpredictable set list

Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ returns Nov. 29 to Pour House

By Vincent Harris

For the last 40 years or so, Atlanta’s Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ has been one of the best hard rock bands that the South has produced. It has also been one of the best folk bands. Oh, and one of the best country bands.

In other words, Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ can be a totally different band from one moment to the next, and that’s especially true of its live shows, like the one coming up at the Charleston Pour House on Nov. 29.

Depending on how the band is feeling, you might hear a set of hard-rocking riff monsters like “Fly Me Courageous” or “Build A Fire,” from its 1990 gold album Fly Me Courageous. Or you might hear alt-country gems like “Honeysuckle Blue” or “Ain’t It Strange” from 1989’s Mystery Road, perhaps the band’s most beloved album.

And don’t worry, you’ll definitely hear “Straight to Hell,” with its classic chorus of “I’m going straight to hell/Just like my mama said” becoming a crowd singalong at every show.

And that’s how Drivin’ N’ Cryin’s frontman, songwriter and guitarist Kevn Kinney likes it: No set lists, ever.

Kinney, bassist Tim Nielsen and drummer Dave Johnson have around 100 songs ready to go at any given moment, depending on how Kinney perceives the mood of the day or the audience itself.

“Earlier in life, I would make set lists,” Kinney said in a recent interview with the Charleston City Paper. “And then I would play those songs at the sound check. Then four hours later, it’s the show, and I don’t feel like playing that song now because I already played it. Now I’m only playing it because I said I would play it, and I’m not

“

Earlier in life, I would make set lists. And then I would play those songs at the sound check. Then four hours later, it’s the show, and I don’t feel like playing that song now because I already played it.”

—Kevn Kinney

doing the best version of it.”

“Now, before we go out, I don’t even know what the first song is,” Kinney continued. “I say, ‘Let me look at the audience and then I’ll decide.’ ”

That approach basically means every Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ show is typically completely different from the last, and Kinney says he’s thrilled to be bringing that unpredictability back to the Pour House, one of the band’s most beloved tour stops.

“I love that it’s like 20 miles from the Windjammer,” he said with a laugh. “The Windjammer is like our summer gig and then the fall gig is the Pour House. I really love that south part of Charleston. The whole Folly Beach area still has this rogue kind of purity to it. And of course, I really love the owners, and I love that it’s an independent venue, and I think they’re great people.”

If you’re a longtime Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ fan — someone who is thrilled to the sty-

listic twists and turns on Mystery Road or Fly Me Courageous — you might have noticed three names in the band lineup instead of four.

Since Mystery Road, it had been a fourpiece band, with a revolving lead guitar spot that has featured former Jason and the Scorchers guitarist Warren Hodges and Sadler Vaden from Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit.

But the band started as a trio in 1985, and that’s how it will be set up at the Pour House. Longtime guitarist Laur Joamets is on tour with Sturgill Simpson at the moment.

“I’ve always been graced with some of the world’s greatest guitar players,” Kinney said. “So I really had to start practicing when Laur went with Sturgill. I set up a little amp by my dining room chair and started playing. And I’ve been listening to a lot of three-piece rock bands like The Jimi Hendrix Experience.”

“I’ve really been enjoying it,” he continued. “I take advantage of the space, and I can really explore some psychedelic stuff.”

Fans at the Pour House show will also hear songs from Drivin’ N’ Cryin’s as-yet-unreleased new album, tentatively titled Crushing Flowers. And the good news for fans is that Kinney planned this album by looking back at the band’s most beloved releases.

“It’s like Mystery Road or Fly Me Courageous,” he said. “It’s a hybrid of hard rock, some really interesting psychedelia and some beautiful folk music. I wrote all of it specifically for Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ fans.”

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Doors open at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 29. Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway, Charleston. $25-$30. charlestonpourhouse.com

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2025-DR- 08-1804

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS ALLISON KLINE AND JAMES BRUCE HEARNE, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2025.

TO DEFENDANT: ALLISON KLINE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on September 19, 2025 at 2:46 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, John McCormick, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

John McCormick, SC Bar # 100176, 2 Belt Dr, Moncks Corner, SC 29461 (843) 719-1007

OF GABRIEL HAYNES, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS OR ESTATES NAMED ABOVE CLAIMING ANY RIGHTS, TITLE, ESTATE, INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINTOR ANY PART THEREOF, DEFENDANTS.

SUMMONS (Suit to Quiet Title)

TO: THE DEFENDANTS 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 upon the subscriber, at his office situated at 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, within thirty (30) days after service thereof, 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 the relief demanded in the Complaint.

LIS PENDENS

Referee for Berkeley County, for the purpose of holding a hearing into the merits of said cause, together with the authority to enter final judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment of the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee, as aforesaid, that such appeal shall be made directly to the Supreme Court of South Carolina or alternatively to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2025-DR- 08-1572

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS BRANDI L. MURPHY, RECO MCDANIEL, STEVEN BROWN, DEBRA MENDOZA, ALFREDA ALSTON, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2013 & 2015

TO DEFENDANT: RECO MCDANIEL

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for BERKELEY County on AUGUST 19, 2025 at 9:09am and amended on SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 at 3:12pm. 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, Stacey L. Kaufman, 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.

Stacey L Kaufman, SC Bar # 12105, 2 Belt Dr, Moncks Corner SC 29461, (803) 608-7417

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO: 2023-CP-08-01334

SUSAN MAJOR PLAINTIFF VS. THE ESTATE OF LEROY HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF GABRIEL HAYNES, THE ESTATE LUCY HAINES, THE ESTATE OF ANNE HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF SUSAN PIN HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF HESTER HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF JESSIE HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF MARY HAYNES MCNEIL, THE ESTATE OF EVE HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF MOLLY HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF MATTIE HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF DAVID HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF SANDY HAYNES, THE ESTATE OF HEZEKIAH HAYNES, LEROY HAYNES, BERNICE HAYNES WILLIAMS(deceased), HESTER HAYNES(deceased), ROBERT SHEPPARD, CHARLENE HAYNES, VIOLA HAYNES(deceased), MELVIN JOHNSON, ABBIE HAYNES, BUB HAYNES, JULIA SHEPPARD, ROBERT SHEPPARD, WILHELMENIA MCNEIL, MARY HAYNES, JULIUS HAYNES, THOMAS HAYNES, LUCILLE HAYNES, DAVID HAYNES, HEZEKIAH HAYNES, EVA BROEN, MATTIE HAMILTON, JESSIE MCNEIL, MARY MCNEIL, ANNIE HAYNES, ELIJAH HAYNES, HESTER HAYNES, MOLLY HAYNES, SUSAN HAYNES, JOHN DOE AND MARY ROE, FICTIOUS NAMES USED TO DESIGNATE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 50, UNITED STATES CODE, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE SERVICE MEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF ACT OF 2003,AS AMENDED, IF ANY, AND THE UNKNOW HEIRS AT LAW, DEVISEES, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, FIRMS OR CORPORATIONS OF THE ESATE

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that an action has been commenced and is now pending in Court of Commons Pleas for Berkeley County, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 53, Title 15, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, commonly known as the “Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act”, Chapter 67, and of Articles 1 and 3, Chapter 67, Title 15, and Chapter 61, Title 15, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, for the purpose of obtaining a determination of this Court that the plaintiff is an owner of the below described parcel of real estate; to determine adverse claims thereto, if any; and to quiet title thereto in the name of the Plaintiff and others, as tenants in common, and with fee simple title thereto pursuant to the provisions of Rule 71, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

THE BELOW DESCRIBED parcel of real estate was at the time of the filing of this Lis Pendens, and at the time of the commencement of the action, situated, lying and being in the County of Berkeley, State of South Carolina, and is more particularly described as follows:

ALL that piece or parcel of Land containing Ten Acres situate and bounded as follows, North by lands of Mitt n Plantation, South by lands of E. C. Bunch, East of lands of Edward Reid, West by lands of Castle Green. Also being the same property depicted in a survey entitled “Boundary Survey Depicting Land Owned By Heirs of Gabriel Haynes Located in Moncks Corner Berkeley County, South Carolina. TMS 123-00-04-002 & 132 Total Area For Both Parcels”. Dated August 20, 2012, filed and recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Berkeley County in Plat Cabinet O, page 216-R on March 23, 2011.

TMS No.: 123-00-04-002

TMS No.: 123-00-04-132

NOTICE NISI

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the expiration of thirty days (30) following the service of a copy of the within Notice of Intent to Refer upon you, the Plaintiff intends to and will appear before the Honorable Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berkeley, State of South Carolina, at the usual place of judicature, and will move His or Her Honor for an Order referring the above entitled action to the Master-in-Equity or Special

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the expiration of thirty days (30) following the service of a copy of the within Notice of Intent to Refer upon you, the Plaintiff intends to and will appear before the Honorable Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berkeley, State of South Carolina, at the usual place of judicature, and will move His or Her Honor for an Order referring the above entitled action to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for Berkeley County, for the purpose of holding a hearing into the merits of said cause, together with the authority to enter final judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment of the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee, as aforesaid, that such appeal shall be made directly to the Supreme Court of South Carolina or alternatively to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

NOTICE OF THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the expiration of thirty days (30) following the service of a copy of the within Notice of Intent to Refer upon you, the Plaintiff intends to and will appear before the Honorable Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berkeley, State of South Carolina, at the usual place of judicature, and will move His or Her Honor for an Order referring the above entitled action to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for Berkeley County, for the purpose of holding a hearing into the merits of said cause, together with the authority to enter final judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment of the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee, as aforesaid, that such appeal shall be made directly to the Supreme Court of South Carolina or alternatively to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

s/Willie B. Heyward Attorney for the Plaintiff 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200 Charleston, S. C. 29407 843-225-8754 wheyward80@gmail.com

October 28, 2025

CHARLESTON COUNTY

Serge Lajeunesse, Plaintiff, -versusPhenelope Chestnut and David H. Sadler, 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 February 12, 2026 at 12:00 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 after a tax sale for the property known as:

TMS # 472-16-00-180

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 Charleston, South Carolina November 17, 2025

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW

This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name (YADA-BEY ASCENCIO BROWN) and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, (YADA-BEY ASCENCIO BROWN, yada bey ascencio brown, yada bey), an American State National, In Propria Persona Sui Juris, Proprio Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with the intent of obligating me, plus costs, plus triple damages.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NUMBER: 2025-CP-1004874

Section 15-53-10, et seq., (known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act), 12-51-40 et seq. and 12-61-10 et seq. and Section 15-67-10, et seq. of the Code of Laws of the State of South Carolina, for the Quieting of a Title for the purpose of obtaining a decree establishing that the Plaintiff is the owner of the said property.

That said property affected by said Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice, described as follows:

All that lot, piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being on Johnson Island, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot D, measuring 1.03 acres on a Plat titled, Plat to Subdivide The Estate of Andrew Magwood, located on Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina”, dated May 23, 1992 and revised June 2, 1992 and recorded in Book H215, Page 582.

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, Law Offices of Cezar E. McKnight, 126 West Mill Street, Kingstree, South Carolina, 29556, Within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for a judgement for default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Signed at Kingstree, South Carolina, this 3rd day of November 2025.

Cezar E. McKnight

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

126 West Mill Street

Kingstree, South Carolina 29556

Telephone: 843-374-4529

Facsimile: 843-401-0197

sanitation, as the Commission shall from time to time deem necessary to protect the health of those living in the Special District.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY

IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NO.: 2025-DR-08-1586

ELKA M. STEVENS, Plaintiff, vs. ADRIAN SHIGGS, Defendant.

IN RE: SANAIYAH KANAI FRANK, DOB: 6/8/2009 and DERIAN LAMAR SHIGGS, DOB: 4/22/2013

SUMMONS / NOTICE OF ADOPTION

TO: THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED

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 said Complaint upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, Tyla N. Bowman, Esquire within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you, not counting the day of service, If you fail to submit your Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TYLA N. BOWMAN, ESQUIRE

Attorney for the Plaintiff

P.O. Box 63384 North Charleston, SC 29419-2252

T: (843) 300-0373

F: (843) 273-8481

E tyla@bowman-law.net

August 14, 2025 North Charleston, SC

Johnny Burch, Sr. Plaintiff, vs. James Wilder, Carolyn B. Doctor, Debra B. Green, Robert Birch Jr., Carolyn B. Doctor Successor Trustee Maddis & Maddison Trust, Annabelle Smiley Ramsey, Jeanette Smiley Brown, Antionette Ramsey Green, Cyrus Birch Jr., George Birch, Jr., Harrison, Birch Jr., Janice Burch, Sonya Burch Cordova, Kayden Burch, Honesty Burch, Deontae Burch, Malika Hassan, Arnold Wigfall, Deceased, Rosa Wigfall, Deceased, Annabelle Smiley Ramsey, Deceased, Harrison Burch, Deceased and Devine Brown Burch, Deceased and JOHN DOE, adults, RICHARD ROE, as fictitious names for a class of unknown persons being infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of the United States of America, and being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distribute, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of the deceased persons; and any unknown persons, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed, known as Portion of TMS # 273-00-00-122. Defendants.

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this Action dated August 28, 2025, which has been filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 28th day of August 2025. A copy of said Complaint is herewith served upon you, and you are to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff or his Attorney, Thomas H. Brush, at his office located at 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants, that said Action is brought under the provisions of

Said Lot is a portion of the land shown on a plat of Subdivision of “Contentment Hall” tract, formerly of Dr. J. E. Mathewes land made by Summons & Huger Civils Civil Engineers in November 1898 and recorded in the RMC Office Charleston County in Book A, Page 39.

TMS#273-00-00-126

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDEN AD LITEM

Upon reading and filing the within Petition for the Appointment of a Guardian ad Litem, and after mature consideration of same, and it being made to appear to my satisfaction that it is necessary that a Guardian ad Litem be appointed to appear in this action and represent the interest of such of the Defendants as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under any disability, it is

ORDERED, that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esq., Post Office Box 30266, Charleston, South Carolina 29417, be and he is hereby appointed Guardian ad Litem for such of the Defendants herein as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under disability, to appear herein and represent their interest; it is further

ORDERED, that such appointments shall become absolute unless within thirty (30) days after the last publication of the Notice of the Appointment of Guardian ad Litem herein, exclusive of such last day of publication, such Defendants, as may be infants, incompetents; or otherwise under any disability appear herein or someone appears in their behalf to procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem; it is further ORDERED, that a Notice of Appointment and of the name and address of the person so appointed shall be sufficient publication of this Order. AND IT IS SO ORDERED!

s/ Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court, by BLC

SUMMONS

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE# 2025CP1004855

IN RE: SHANEKA NEWELL (PLAINTIFF) VS. JOHNNY RAY BIRCHFIELD (DEFENDANT)

Email:cezar@cezarmcknight.com

laquandra@cezarmcknight.com

The joint Petition for consolidation is based on several reasons. The Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission no longer performs its powers, is not operational, has no employees, owns no property, has ceded its powers to the City of North Charleston, is administered and has four of its seven commissioners appointed by the North Charleston District, has the same geographic boundaries and tax base as the North Charleston District, and now shall no longer be able to be composed of seven commission members as provided in its enabling legislation. Act No. 640 of 1942 provides that three trustees of the School District No. 4 of Charleston County, the State of South Carolina shall serve ex-officio as commissioners of the Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission for a term commensurate with their term of office as school trustees. Act No. 77 of 2025, provides that the constituent districts of Charleston County School District and their respective boards of trustees are abolished effective July 1, 2025. As a result, three of the seven commissioners of the Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission shall no longer be able to be filled by operation of law. Pursuant to S.C. Code of Laws § 6-11-430, petitions of the commissioners of both the Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission and North Charleston District have been submitted to effectuate such consolidation.

The proposed consolidation of the Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission into the North Charleston District will not change the function to be performed by the North Charleston District on account of the Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission no longer functioning its powers. There is no cost of proposed improvements associated with such consolidation.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

ORDERING A PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON COUNTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING A DETERMINATION AS TO WHETHER THE COOPER RIVER PARKS AND PLAYGROUND COMMISSION SHALL BE CONSOLIDATED INTO THE NORTH CHARLESTON DISTRICT.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing shall be held beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at the Beverly T. Craven Council Chambers, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, 29405, on the question of whether the Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission, a special purpose district created by Act No. 640 of 1942, shall be consolidated into the North Charleston District, a special purpose district created by Act No. 1768 of 1972.

The function of the Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission is the charge of all parks and playgrounds within the area of St. Phillips and St. Michaels Parish and Goose Creek Parish No.1, and to supervise, regulate, operate, and manage any buildings within said area constructed by the Federal government, or agencies thereof, and designed for recreational purposes. The function of the North Charleston District is the construction, operation, maintenance and enlargement of fire protection, street lighting and

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-10-1106

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS

Courtney Sweat, Stephon Johnson, Rachel Threatt and Tamayo Willis DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2009

TO DEFENDANT: Courtney Sweat

CHARLESTON, SC 29407 *******

Estate of: J. PETER GRANT 2025-ES-10-1400

DOD: 6/11/25

Pers. Rep:

LIVINGSTON G. GRANT

307 SURFSONG RD., KIAWAH ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: M. JEAN LEE, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 *******

Estate of:

JOANNE JONES KASSIS 2025-ES-10-1729

DOD: 8/8/25

Pers. Rep: DANIEL F. KASSIS 7 1/2 WOODALL CT., CHARLESTON, SC 29403

Atty: ROBERT S. DODDS, ESQ. 25 CALHOUN ST., #400, CHARLESTON, SC 29401 *******

Estate of: JAMES MIDDLETON 2025-ES-10-1790

DOD: 5/26/25

Pers. Rep: CAROLYN E. PRIOLEAU 1871-A FERGUSON RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412 *******

Estate of: MARIE WITTRELL MIDDLETON 2025-ES-10-1795

DOD: 7/4/25

Pers. Rep: CAROLYN E. PRIOLEAU 1871-A FERGUSON RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412 *******

Estate of: EVELYN CHARLOTTE BENNETT 2025-ES-10-1802

DOD: 8/23/25

COLUMBIA, SC 29204

Estate of:

HAROLD LEWIS ZACHARIAH

2025-ES-10-1849

DOD: 9/4/25

Pers. Rep:

ROBIN ASCHENBRENNER 93 GLEBE RD., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29485

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: PEGGY ANN ADKINS SCOTT 2025-ES-10-1753

DOD: 6/26/25

Pers. Rep: JEFF RYAN SCOTT

2533 RIVERTOWNE PKWY., MT. PLEASANT, SC 29466 Atty: PETER G. MCGRATH, ESQ. 782 JOHNNIE DODDS BLVD., #C, MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 *******

The aforesaid hearing shall be conducted publicly, and both proponents and opponents of the proposed action shall be given full opportunity to be heard. Following the said public hearing, the County Council of Charleston County shall, by resolution, make a finding as to whether the Cooper River Parks and Playground Commission shall be consolidated into the North Charleston District. The said public hearing is authorized by, and shall be conducted pursuant to, the provisions of Article 3, Chapter 11, Title 6, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended.

BY ORDER of the County Council of Charleston County.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2025-DR-10-0944

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS ASHLEY WIGGINS-BROWN aka ASHLEY WIGGINS, BRIAN BROWN aka BRIAN BROWN SR. DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2010

TO DEFENDANT: ASHLEY WIGGINS-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 4:12 pm. Upon proof of

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 23, 2025 at 2:50 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 Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 294055714 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Charleston County Department of Social Services, Legal Office, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 (843) 953-9625.

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

Estate of: CHESTER MICHAEL MOCZYDLOWSKI 2025-ES-10-1375

DOD: 7/17/25

Pers. Rep: LINDA ANNE ART 9448 AYSCOUGH RD., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29485

Atty: KEVIN SEIBERT, ESQ. 3 GAMECOCK AVE., #308B,

Pers. Rep: DONALD JEROME BENNETT 6357 TOUCHSTONE DR., FAYETTEVILLE, NC 28311 *******

Estate of: GEORGE THOMAS SULLIVAN

2025-ES-10-1816

DOD: 9/7/25

Pers. Rep: LESLIE LEE HOPPER 775 PICCADILLY DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Pers. Rep: VALERIE JONES MURLINE 4478 MARSEILLES ST., SAN DIEGO, CA 92107

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:

JEREMY JAMES WEAVER

2025-ES-10-0959

DOD: 11/22/24

Pers. Rep: ERICA WELBOURN 2740 JOBEE DR., #7, CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: ROGER S. DIXON, ESQ. 105 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #3B, CHARLESTON, SC 29412

*******

Estate of: DAVID LEE PENDER, SR. 2025-ES-10-1631

DOD: 4/5/25

Pers. Rep: MONICA D. PENDER

13 FALKIRK DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

Atty: MICHAEL P. MORRIS, ESQ. 1735 ST. JULIAN PL., #103,

Estate of: NICHOLE RENE BELL 2025-ES-10-1877 DOD: 6/16/25

Pers. Rep: ERNEST BELL 7636 VALLEY VIEW CIR., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29418

Estate of: DUDLEY SPORE SPANGLER 2025-ES-10-1900 DOD: 10/6/25

Pers. Rep: GLENDA JEAN SPANGLER

1010 OCEAN BLVD., #303, ISLE OF PALMS, SC 29451

Atty: ANDREW E. RHEA, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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: JOHN NEIL RAGLAND 2025-ES-10-1379

DOD: 6/25/25

Pers. Rep: VICTORIA R. PHILLIPS 209 WHITE OLEANDER CT., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty: LISA WOLFF HERBERT, ESQ. 864 LOWCOUNTRY BLVD., #C, MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 *******

Estate of: BRITTANY LASHAY GADSDEN 2025-ES-10-1899

DOD: 6/22/25

Pers. Rep: KECIA BRADLEY-GADSDEN 1209 HARCOURT LN., CHARLESTON, SC 29414 *******

Estate of: FRANK OLIN HUNT, JR. 2025-ES-10-1907

DOD: 8/18/25

Pers. Rep:

SHEILA ANN TAYLOR HUNT

865 WELLINGTON DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: THOMAS H. BRUSH, ESQ.

12-A CARRIAGE LN., CHARLESTON, SC 29407 *******

Estate of:

MARCIE ANNE JONES

2025-ES-10-1915

DOD: 9/27/25

Pers. Rep: TINA MARIE RAPSTINE

5041 GOVAN RD., HOLLYWOOD, SC 29449 *******

Estate of:

CLARE LOUISE WEATHERLY 2025-ES-10-1918

DOD: 9/29/25

Pers. Rep: JEANNE KANE 1511 BLAZE LN., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: KERRY W. KOON, ESQ.

147 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #203, CHARLESTON, SC 29412 *******

Estate of:

TODD ERIC ZIEGERT

2025-ES-10-1923

DOD: 10/19/25

Pers. Rep:

LUCAS JAY ZIEGER

994 UNION RIDGE RD., FRANKFORT, KY 40601 *******

Estate of:

BERKELEY BLOCKER, JR.

2025-ES-10-1934

DOD: 10/7/25

Pers. Rep:

CLYDE WILLIAM JEFFCOAT, JR.

193 WESTVIEW DR., NORTH, SC 29112 *******

Estate of:

THOMAS EDWARD TIMBERLAKE

2025-ES-10-1949

DOD: 1/5/25

Pers. Rep:

SAMNOA ADCOCK TIMBERLAKE 17 9TH AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29403

Atty:

MELODY J. E. BREEDEN, ESQ.

PO BOX 2116, MYRTLE BEACH, SC 29578

*******

Estate of:

CAROLYN RICHARDSON MIKELL

2025-ES-10-1954

DOD: 6/20/25

Pers. Rep:

JESSE JAMES RICHARDSON, III 1950 DELANEY DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty:

JEFFREY C. MOORE, ESQ.

1 CARRIAGE LN., BLDG. H, FL. 2, CHARLESTON, SC 29407

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-01760

NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Plaintiff, -vsChristina Lewis; Paula Kullmann aka Paula Kullman; United States of America acting by and through its agency the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; South Carolina Department of Revenue Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing vs. Christina Lewis; Paula Kullmann aka Paula Kullman; United States of America acting by and through its agency the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; South Carolina Department of Revenue, I, Mikell Scarborough, Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on December 2, 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 tract of land, situate, lying and being in what was formerly Christ Church Parish, now Moultrie School District No. 2 in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina and being a part of White Hall Plantation and being known and designated as Lot 7, Block J, on a plat of A.L. Glen, R.L.S., dated October 1957, and entitled, “Section 2, Copahee View Subdivision”, which plat is recorded at the Charleston County R.M.C. Office in Plat Book M, at Page 97, and having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as are shown on said plat, which is hereby incorporated by reference in said deed and made a part and parcel hereof.

This property is conveyed subject to all applicable restrictions, covenants, conditions, limitations, easements and rights-of-way filed of record in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina, and all applicable amendments thereto.

Derivation: Being the same property conveyed to Christina Lewis and Paula Kullman by deed from Tin V. Pham and Trang T. Pham, dated April 23, 2018 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina December 5, 2018 in Book 764 at Page 195.

TMS #: 614-13-00-098

1459 Periwinkle Dr., Mount Pleasant, SC 29466

SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES

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.

A personal or deficiency judgment having been demanded by the Plaintiff, the sale of the subject property will remain open for thirty (30) days pursuant to Section 15-39-720, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976; provided, however, that the Court recognizes the option reserved by the Plaintiff to waive such deficiency judgment prior to the sale, and notice is given that the Plaintiff may waive in writing the deficiency judgment prior to the sale; and that should the Plaintiff elect to waive a deficiency judgment, without notice other than the announcement at the sale and notice in writing to the debtor defendant(s) that a deficiency judgment has been waived and that the sale will be final, 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. 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 5.00000% per annum.

Mikell Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County

CRAWFORD & VON KELLER, LLC

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)

Roman A. Dodd

(SC Bar# 105612)

Crawford & von Keller, LLC

1640 St. Julian Place (29204) PO Box 4216 (29240) Columbia, SC Phone: 803-790-2626

Email: court@crawfordvk.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT l, BLOCK B, ISLAND ESTATES SUBDIVISION, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT MADE BY SIGMA ENGINEERS, INC., DATED MAY 16, 1973, AND RECORDED IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK AC, PAGE 98; SAID LOT HAVING SUCH SIZE, SHAPE, DIMENSIONS, BUTTINGS AND BOUNDINGS AS WILL BY REFERENCE TO SAID PLAT MORE FULLY APPEAR, SUBJECT TO ANY AND ALL RESTRICTIONS, EASEMENTS AND/OR RIGHTSOF-WAY AFFECTING THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROPERTY AS RECORDED IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

Derivation: BEING THE SAME PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE DEED TO JOAN C. MAXWELL, FROM WILLIAM M. CROOM AND DONNA B. CROOM, RECORDED ON JANUARY 18, 2000, IN DEED BOOK Z-340 1 AT PAGE 522, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

TMS #: 279-10-00-060

3285 Peyton St., Johns Island, SC 29455

SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES

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).

Roman A. Dodd (SC Bar# 105612)

Crawford & von Keller, LLC

1640 St. Julian Place (29204)

PO Box 4216 (29240)

Columbia, SC

Phone: 803-790-2626

Email: court@crawfordvk.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-00095

NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Plaintiff, -vsJoan C. Maxwell aka Joan Maxwell; Bank of America NA; Island Estates Homeowners Association Inc. Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing vs. Joan C. Maxwell aka Joan Maxwell; Bank of America NA; Island Estates Homeowners Association Inc., I, Mikell Scarborough, Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on December 02, 2025, at 11:00 AM, at the Front Entrance of County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, to the highest bidder.

THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN DEED BOOK Z-340, AT PAGE 5221

Jeleah Mclean Couch, mattress, table, boxes

Propman Systems, LLC. Job materials

Facility 6: 1951 Maybank Hwy Charleston, SC 29412

12/02/2025 11:30 AM

Sonali Batra Personal Items, clothes, Decorations

Makenzie Buck Clothes, Bed, Couch

Patrick Kamleiter Boxes, Clothes

Facility 7: 810 St Andrews Blvd Charleston, SC 29407

12/02/2025 11:45 AM

Jonathan Lundy Couch bed desk tv dresser

Andrew Brown Household goods

Facility 8: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 12/02/2025 12:45 PM

a/k/a Rose Marie Herriott, and if any of the same be dead any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; Any unknown adults, any unknown infants or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being a class designated as Richard Roe; Laura Herriott as Personal Representative of the Estate of Billy R Herriott a/k/a Billy Ray Herriott Sr; Lakesha Dudley a/k/a Lakesha Sherrel Dudley, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rose Herriott a/k/a Rose M Herriott a/k/a Rose Marie Herriott; Anita Lesal Herriott a/k/a Anita Herriott; Antoinette Marie Herriott Coaxum a/k/a Antoinette Herriott Coaxum; Billy Ray Herriott, Jr a/k/a Billy Herriott, Jr; South Carolina Department of Revenue; Charleston County, DEFENDANT(S)

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE)

C/A NO: 2025-CP-10-03207 DEFICIENCY WAIVED

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED:

that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed

NOTICE TO APPOINT ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT(S) IN MILITARY SERVICE

TO UNKNOWN OR KNOWN DEFENDANTS THAT MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED that Plaintiff’s attorney has applied for the appointment of an attorney to represent you. If you fail to apply for the appointment of an attorney to represent you within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you Plaintiff’s appointment will be made absolute with no further action from Plaintiff.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

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. 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 4.37500% per annum.

Mikell Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County

CRAWFORD & VON KELLER, LLC

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)

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

Facility 1: 1108 Stockade Ln. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466

12/02/2025 10:00 AM

Katrie Christopher 1967 Dodge D200 truck, blue

Thomas Cooper Household goods

Alexi Watkins Clothing

Facility 2: 1904 N Hwy 17 Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

12/02/2025 10:15 AM

Neita Wiese Household Goods

Reggie White Household

Scott Collins Boxes, Furniture

Neita Wiese Household Goods, Furniture

Huber James Household Items, Tools

Facility 3: 1471 Center St Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464

12/02/2025 10:30 AM

Cara Treece Household items, motorcycles

Facility 4: 1514 Mathis Ferry Rd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464

12/02/2025 10:35 AM

Zachary Ruona Household Goods/Furniture

Devin Holmes Household goods lamps shoe boxes

Facility 5: 45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414

12/02/2025 11:15 AM

Kavon Moultrie Clothes

Deanna Perry Ironing board clothing in luggage

Cale Wiley 9ft. surf board small items

Facility 9: 1861 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 12/02/2025 1:15 PM

Lori Mathis

Contents of a 3 bedroom home, w&d, double mattress, boxes, clothes

Facility 10: 1540 Meeting Street Road Charleston, SC 29405 12/02/2025 1:00 PM

Kenneth Mobley Household item and 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 CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R6, PLAINTIFF, vs. Billy R Herriott a/k/a Billy Ray Herriott Sr and Rose Herriott a/k/a Rose M Herriott a/k/a Rose Marie Herriott, and if Billy R Herriott a/k/a Billy Ray Herriott Sr and Rose Herriott a/k/a Rose M Herriott a/k/a Rose Marie Herriott be deceased then any children and heirs at law to the Estates of Billy R Herriott a/k/a Billy Ray Herriott Sr and Rose Herriott a/k/a Rose M Herriott a/k/a Rose Marie Herriott, distributees and devisees at law to the Estates of Billy R Herriott a/k/a Billy Ray Herriott Sr and Rose Herriott a/k/a Rose M Herriott

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy/copies of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCAR, effective June 1, 1999.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

s/ Gregory Wooten

October 7, 2025

John S. Kay (S.C. Bar No. 7914) Ashley Z. Stanley (S.C. Bar No. 74854)

Alan M. Stewart (S.C. Bar No. 15576)

Sarah O. Leonard (S.C. Bar No. 80165)

Gregory Wooten (S.C. Bar No. 73586)

M. Celeste Bowers (S.C. Bar No. 100981)

Attorneys for Plaintiff Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 (803) 726-2700

john.kay@hutchenslawfirm.com ashley.stanley@hutchenslawfirm. com alan.stewart@hutchenslawfirm. com

sarah.leonard@hutchenslawfirm. com

k.gregory.wooten@ hutchenslawfirm.com celeste.bowers@hutchenslawfirm. com

Firm Case No: 17460 - 132210

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-00178

VANESSA COUSINS, Plaintiff, vs. SILVANO LOPEZ MORALES, Defendant.

SUMMONS (Negligence) (Jury Trial Demanded)

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer thereto on the subscribers at

within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,

s/Jerod D. Frazier

Jerod D. Frazier (SC Bar #102031)

2185 Ashley Phosphate Road, Suite B N. Charleston, SC 29406 (843)900-4529

jerod@frazierlawoffices.com

March 25, 2025 Charleston, South Carolina

AFFIDAVIT OF DOMICILE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

NORTH CHARLESTON, Defendants.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NO.: 2025-DR-10-2275

ANTHONY MONK, Plaintiff, vs. TRISHIA MONK, Defendant.

AMENDED SUMMONS

TO: THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED TO ANSWER the Amended Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to this Amended Complaint on the Clerk of Court for Charleston County and upon the subscriber at office, 534 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Suite 202, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service.

YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and fail to answer the Amended Complaint as required by this Amended Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint.

Futeral & Nelson, LLC

Thomas C. Nelson, Esquire

S.C. Bar ID 71178

534 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Suite 202

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

29464

Telephone (843) 284-5500

Facsimile (843) 284-5501

email to: tnelson@charlestonlaw.

net Attorney for Plaintiff

Dated: September 3, 2025

Before me, the Undersigned authority, this day personally appeared, Byron Thomas Greene, who being first duty Sworn, under oath disposes and says that affiant resides in and maintains a place of abode in the City of Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, which he/she recognizes and intends to maintain as his/her permanent home; affiant declares that he/she also maintains a residence at in care of 8759 Yearling Dr Apt 7-H Charleston, South Carolina, and that he/she formerly resided at Charleston, South Carolina, but that his/ her abode in South Carolina Constitution his/her predominant and principal home, and affiant intends to continue it permanently as such; affiant further declares that he/she affirms the Registrar of Titles is authorized to receive for registration of memorials upon any outstanding certificate of title an official birth certificate pertaining to a registered owner named BYRON THOMAS GREENE in said certificate of title showing the date of birth of said registered owner BYRON THOMAS GREENE, providing there is attached to said birth certificate an affidavit of an affiant who states that he/she is familiar with the facts recited, stating that the party named in said birth certificate is the same party as one of the owners named in said certificate of title; and that thereafter the Registrar of Titles shall treat said registered owner BYRON THOMAS GREENE as having attained the age of the majority at a date 18 years after the date of birth shown by said certificate. Affiant further declares, the natural person known as the MOORISH NATIONAL EXPRESS TRUST holds a claim of ownership of the above said Certificate of Title No: 25022186-2, dated February 16” 2025. Affiant further declares that he/she is an actual bona fide and legal resident of the State of South Carolina, and the filing of this affidavit is to be accepted by all persons or any court as proof of such legal residence and permanent domicile.

Affiant Signature: s/Byron Thomas Greene

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of September, A.D. 2024 s/Cheryl D. German Notary Public, State of South Carolina at Large: Notary Public Commission Expires Date: June 25, 2030

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-05660 RIOTOWN PROPERTIES LLC, Plaintiff,

v.

STACEY L. STURM, a deceased person, her heirs-at-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as:

1809 Grayson Street Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 469-12-00-316 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the military service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, DONNA L. MULLER and CITY OF

AMENDED SUMMONS & NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if 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 the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Amended Summons and Notice, Amended Complaint and Amended Lis Pendens were filed on November 5th, 2025, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on October 10th, 2025 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 21st, 2025 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B. Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated October 10th, 2025 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows:

ALL that certain lot of land, with any buildings thereon, situate, lying and being in Chicora Place, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being known, numbered and designated on plat of Chicora Place, recorded in Plat Book D, Page 197, RMC Office for Charleston County, as Lot 9, Block D.

BUTTING AND BOUNDING north on Third Street, east on Lot 7 in said Block D, south on Lots 10 and 12 in said block, and west on Carolina Avenue.

MEASURING AND CONTAINING

fifty-five feet (55) on the north line, one hundred and five feet (105) on the east line, and ninety-eight feet (98) on the south line, be the said dimensions more or less; the western boundary on Carolina Avenue being a curved line.

TMS # 469-12-00-316

November 5th, 2025

Date

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell

Attorney at Law 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 jeff@jeffspell.com (843) 452-3553

Attorney for the Plaintiff

Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice, Complaint and Lis Pendens were filed on October 30th, 2025, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on October 31st, 2025 and the Order of Publication was filed on November 7th, 2025 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate (Dock Unit) described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, and SUNSET CAY MARINA COUNCIL OF CO-OWNERS, INC., Defendants.

SUMMONS

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-06086

V2K PROPERTIES, LLC, Plaintiff,

v. NEIL O. REGAN, JOYCE R. BUTLER

a/k/a JOYCE RAVENEL BUTLER, ELIZABETH BUTLER and PAUL M. MACMILLIAN, and if they be deceased, their heirs, distributees, personal representatives, successors and assigns and spouses, if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the complaint, commonly known as:

0 Arbutus Ave. Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 466-08-00-196

and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS & NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, SC 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if 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 the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B. Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated October 31st, 2025 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows:

ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, and comprising Lot Number One Hundred Twenty Two (122) on Arbutus Avenue, on a map of the westerly part of Union Heights, prepared for the Kopp-Isenhour Realty Company in 1919, by J. E. Thomas C. E. and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book C and at page 137 and having such size, shape, location, dimensions, and bounds as may be seen by reference to the said plat.

TMS # 466-08-00-196 November 11th, 2025 Date

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell Attorney at Law 925 Wappoo Road Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3443 jeff@jeffspell.com Attorney for the Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-04831

IRVING ARIEL PURATA SANCHEZ, Plaintiff, vs. STEPHEN T. AUST AND NANCY M. AUST, and if either or both be deceased, then JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of STEPHEN T. AUST AND/OR NANCY M. AUST, if either or both deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities,

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon John J. Dodds III at his office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Complaint, Certificate of Exemption, Lis Pendens and Notice were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 19, 2025.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff against the Defendants to quiet title to and to confirm a tax title relative to the following described real property, together with improvements, located in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina: Dock Unit A-5, Sunset Cay Marina Horizontal Property Regime, a Horizontal Property Regime established pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Regime Act, Section 27-31-10, et seq., and submitted by Master Deed of Sunset Cay Horizontal Property Regime, dated August 18, 2005, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”) on August 18, 2005, in Book W-549, at Page 258, and as shown and delineated on that certain plat entitled “EXHIBIT “B” TO THE MASTER DEED FOR STAGE 1 OF THE SUNSET CAY MARINA HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME SHOWING DOCK “A”, DOCK “B”, DOCK “C”, DOCK “D”, DOCK “E” AND COMMERCIAL UNIT AND RESTROOM FACILITY, LOCATED IN THE CITY OF FOLLY BEACH, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC”, prepared by Horner, Eelman & Gearhart, LLC, dated August 15, 2004, and recorded in the ROD as Exhibit “B” to the aforementioned Master Deed. Said Master Deed may thereafter be amended from time to time (hereinafter described as “Master Deed”), together with an undivided interest in the appurtenant common elements, all as more fully described in the Master Deed.

BEING the same property conveyed to Stephen T. Aust and Nancy M. Aust by deed of Sunset Cay, LLC, dated July 31, 2006, and recorded in the ROD on August 1, 2006, in Book A-593, Page 651. ALSO, being the same property conveyed to Irving Ariel Purata Sanchez by Tax Deed, dated May 16, 2025, and recorded in the ROD on June 3, 2025, in Book 1316, Page 957.

T.M.S. #: 325-15-00-079

NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on October 31, 2025, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465-0459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem

Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Nancy M. Aust, if she be deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone on their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530

john@cisadodds.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

Butting and bounding on the North on said street thirty (30’) feet, laid out on said plat, on the East by Lot No. 14 in said plat and hereinafter described, and on the West by Lot No. 12 in said plat. BEING the same property conveyed to Hazel Carroll and Laurie Carroll by deed of Charles Realty Company, Inc., dated May 31, 1995, and recorded in the ROD on June 2, 1995, in Book Z-255, Page 234. Also, being the same property conveyed to Statewide Properties ESC by Tax Deed, dated April 5, 2024, and recorded in the ROD on May 15, 2024, in Book 1244, Page 811. TMS No.: 469-08-00-292.

NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on September 22, 2025, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 294650459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Hazel Carroll aka Hazel C. Carroll, Laurie Carroll aka Laurie Edgar Carroll, and Judy Carson, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone on their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530 john@cisadodds.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

SUMMONS

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon John J. Dodds III at his office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Complaint, Certificate of Exemption, Lis Pendens and Notice were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 19, 2025.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff against the Defendants to quiet title to and to confirm a tax title relative to the following described real property, together with improvements, located in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina: ALL those certain lots, pieces or parcels of land, with any and all improvements located thereon, known and designated as Lots 13 and 13-A, Block X, as shown and designated on a plat entitled “PLAT OF THE SUBDIVISION OF THE LANDS OF THE CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON INTO LOTS 6-A THROUGH 15-A, ABOUT TO BE CONVEYED TO EACH ADJOINING OWNER AND COMBINED WITH THE CORRESPONDING LOTS 6 THROUGH 15, BLOCK X, NORTHWOOD SUBDIVISION, THE CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, dated November 24, 2003, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”) on December 19, 2003, in Plat Book EG, Page 862. Said lots having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will appear on said plat. BEING the same property conveyed to IRA Resources FBO Uillamis Da Silva IRA #35-22558 by deed of Renato Luis Dos Santos, dated October 24, 2017, and recorded in the ROD on November 1, 2017, in Book 0676, Page 890. Also, being the same property conveyed to Statewide Properties ESC by Tax Deed, dated April 5, 2024, and recorded in the ROD on May 15, 2024, in Book 1244, Page 812. TMS No.: 485-06-00-174

John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530 john@cisadodds.com ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser: See Exhibit A, LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided ownership interest (SEE EXHIBIT A), and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation

Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number (SEE EXHIBIT A). You are currently in default of payment for the Mortgage recorded in the Public Records of Horry County, South Carolina as identified in Exhibit A. The total amount presently delinquent, with Attorney fees and costs is listed below in Exhibit A. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32-325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR

ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582. EXHIBIT “A”, Owner(s), Address, TS Interest, Interval Control No. (Unit, Week, OEB), Deed BK/PG, MTG BK/ PG, Default Amount, Costs, Attorney Fee, Total Amount Due, Per Diem;

CARL DAVID RACKLEY & LAURA L RACKLEY

8773 TILBURY DR, WILMINGTON, NC 28411

0.00798748443817687%, 98-0525-1B, 1089/723, 1089/743, $26,939.84, $460.26, $450, $10.36.;

WENDY M. KUTZ

808 SUNSET DR, SHOREWOOD, IL 60404

0.01682244733133270%, 980310-44B, 1258/393, 1258/394, $43,380.06, $460.26, $450, $18.94.;

MIKAEL DELORIAN WALKER & TEARRA DANIELLE BLACK WALKER, 5004 BRISCOE DR, CHARLOTTE, NC 28214

0.00798748443817687%, 98-0325-40B, 1218/075, 1218/101, $31,429.78, $460.26, $450, $14.97.

The Court finds that Plaintiff filed a Summons and Complaint by publication pursuant to Court Order dated March 7, 2025, and Defendant has failed to appear, answer, or otherwise defend as required by law.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Defendant Stella McCormick is in default under Rule 55, SCRCP, and this matter is referred to the Master-in-Equity for Charleston County for a damages hearing. Any appeal shall be directed to the South Carolina Supreme Court or Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 14-11-85, SCRCP. (843) 606-2755 reception@mcgrathlawfirm.com

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 2nd day of December, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter:

appurtenant to and shall run with the land described herein.

THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following: The grantee(s)’, their heirs, successors and/or assigns, herein agree to pay Berkeley Electric Cooperative Inc. or any successor electric utility company regulated by the South Carolina Public Service Commission, a monthly charge, plus applicable State of South Carolina Sales Tax, for operation and maintenance of street lighting system.

THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following:

The lot owner, lessor, and/ or his heirs, successors and assigns, shall contact Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. or their successors, three (3) days prior to any digging or excavation work on said property, including swimming pool installations, trenching, or any type of digging. Upon notification by the lot owner, lessor and/or his heirs, successors and assigns, a field survey will be conducted by Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. personnel to insure that there are no conflicts with the Cooperative’s safety requirements. Any excavation in violation of 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

NOTICE OF SALE

Docket No. 2025-CP-10-03396

By virtue of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Robert Barnett, as Trustee of the RH 401(k) Plan against Thomas Bailey, Jr., I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at the Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, N. Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder:

All that piece, parcel or lot of land, together with any improvements thereto, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina. Said parcel being shown and designated as Lot 3, Block 28 on a Plat of Pepperhill No. 1 recorded in Plat Book U at Page 41 in the RMC Office for Charleston County.

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 Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

Being the same property conveyed to Thomas Bailey, Jr. and Jaquira Symone Alston by deed of Southern Harbor Properties, LLC dated October 4, 2019 and recorded October 14, 2019 in Book 829 at Page 902 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 395-14-00-162

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY IS:

3354 Mountainbrook Avenue North Charleston, South Carolina 29420

J. Kershaw Spong

[SC Bar # 5289] C. Elizabeth Weston [SC Bar # 103305] Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC P.O. Box 11449 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 929-1400 kspong@robinsongray.com lweston@robinsongray.com

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 2024-CP-10-03813

MARIA CHILDERS, Plaintiff, Vs. STELLA McCORMICK, Defendant.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Peter G. McGrath, Attorney for the Plaintiff has filed an Affidavit of Default, Notice and Motion for Default and Reference, Proposed Order, Order for Default Judgment and Reference to the Master, Affidavit of Attorney’s Fees, and Affidavit of Non-Military Service.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that upon application of Peter G. McGrath, Attorney for Plaintiff, the Court has found Defendant, Stella McCormick, to be in default for failure to plead or otherwise defend as required by the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

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 record affecting said property.

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

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.

BE ADVISED THAT PURSUANT TO THOSE CERTAIN AMENDED ORDERS FILED ON OCTOBER 10, 2025 IN SC BANKRUPTCY CASE #25-03030-JD, THE SALE OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS NOT SUBJECT TO A BANKRUPTCY STAY IN THE EVENT OF A BANKRUPTCY FILING.

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 David B. Wheeler Telephone : 843-579-7000

FOR INSERTION

November 14, 21 & 28, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY.

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at the conclusion of the bidding, Five per cent (5%) of the bid in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the 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 non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within 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 said highest bidder.)

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.

Purchaser to pay for preparation of the Master in Equity’s deed, documentary stamps on the deed, recording of the deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.25% per annum.

The sale is subject to the right of the United States of America to redeem the subject property within 120 days after the date of sale as provided by law.

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County

Plaintiff’s Attorneys:

property conveyed to Ferris Geiger Singley and Brenda A. Singley by deed of John Robert Pye dated May 21, 1970 and recorded May 22, 1970 in Book M94 at Page 304 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County. Subsequently, Ferris G. Singley died on August 23, 2001, leaving the subject property to his heirs or devisees, namely, Brenda A. Singley, Ferris G. Singley, Jr. and Brian G. Singley, as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 2002-ES-10-01966; also by Deed of Distribution dated January 28, 2004 and recorded February 3, 2004 in Deed Book B483 at Page 812 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County; subsequently, Brenda A. Singley died leaving the subject property to her heirs or devisees, namely. Ferris G. Singley, Jr. and Brian G. Singley

TMS # 470-02-000-50 Case#: 2024CP1003014

Current Property Address: 4744 Spruce St 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.

Master’s Sale Case No.: 2024CP1003014

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

U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as collateral trust trustee of FirstKey Master Funding 2021-A Collateral Trust, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS Ferris G. Singley, Jr.; Brian G. Singley; OneMain Financial, Inc.; Portfolio Resolutions, Ltd.; Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Brenda A. Singley, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; DEFENDANTS.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 14th day of August, 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 2nd day of December, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that lot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of S.C., and being known and designated as Lot #3 in Block “D” as shown on a plat of Morningside Subdivision made by W. L. Gaillard in August, 1946 and duly recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book “F”, at Page 60; the said Lot #3 in Block “D” having such size, shape, metes, bounds, location and dimensions as shown on the aforesaid Plat to which Plat reference is hereby made for a more full and complete description.

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

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 2nd day of December, 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 Summerville, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 589, Phase 4C-II, Lakes of Summerville, as shown on that certain plat of SWA Surveying, LLC entitled, “A FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF A PORTION OF PHASE 4C-II CONTAINING 2.760 ACRES LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, OWNED BY LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, LLC, LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF SUMMERVILLE, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” dated November 14, 2012 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Cabinet L13 at Page 0088 on February 22, 2013. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to 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.

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 011847-05283 2024CP1003014

FOR INSERTION 11/14/2025, 11/21/2025, 11/28/2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale Case No.: 2025CP1001858

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

PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS Jeffrey W. Tichenor; Ana Nia Tichenor; The Lakes Master Association, Inc; The United States of America acting by and through its agency, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; South Carolina Department of Revenue, DEFENDANTS.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 20th day of October, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest

This being the same property conveyed to Jeffrey W Tichenor and Ana Nia Tichenor as Joint tenants with Rights of Survivorship and not as tenants in common by deed of John L. Montalvo and Solinay Falcon dated January 16, 2020 and recorded January 31, 2020 in Deed Book 857 at Page 33 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County.

TMS # 388-13-00-864

Case#: 2025CP1001858

Current Property Address: 153 Coosawatchie St Summerville, SC 29485

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. Subject to a one year right of redemption from date of sale afforded to the United States of America pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. §2410(c).

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 016487-01679 2025CP1001858 FOR INSERTION

11/14/2025, 11/21/2025, 11/28/2025

Mikell R. Scarborough

CALL KRISTIN 843-885 4086

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 October 15, 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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-05809

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, PLAINTIFF, VS. Jason W. Grooms, DEFENDANT(S).

(250268.00052)

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANT JASON W. GROOMS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 1800 St. Julian Place, Suite 407, Columbia, SC 29204 or P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.

below. If you fail to answer the Complaint, judgment by default could be rendered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 25, 2023. An Amended Complaint was filed on February 5, 2025. The Cross Claims and Third Party Claims were filed on March 4, 2025.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that this action has been referred to the Charleston County Master in Equity pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

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:

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

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-04195

Barbara Berry, James Gethers, Jr., Alfair Hibbert, Wendy Carter, Anthony Gethers, and Carroll Gethers, as Trustee of the Trust f/b/o/ Grandchildren under the Last Will & Testament of James Gethers dated September 15, 2004, Plaintiffs, vs. Lois McGee, Marthena Rivers, Carroll Gethers, Cory Gethers, Jamall Gethers, Trevee’ Gethers, Lasonya Canty, Anthony Jenkins, Breon Gethers, and Brent Canty, and John Doe, adults, Richard Roe, Carroll Gethers, Jr., Fetima G. Shaw, Shamon Gethers, Katawba Delarosa, Kaweda Gethers, Kenjavar Gethers, Kattina Jenkins, Anthony Jenkins, Shadreka Rore, Belinda Devine, Lasonya Canty, Brandon McGee, Brandi Flaig, Brittney McGee, Brian McGee, Sandra Rivers, Kyle Rivers, Jr., Defendants.

vs. JOHN DOE and JANE DOE, fictitious names designating the unknown heirs, devisees, distributees, issue, executors, administrators, successors or assigns of WILHELMINA GETHERS AND JAMES GETHERS, and RICHARD ROE and MARY ROE, fictitious names designating infants and persons under any disability or incompetent, including those persons who might be in the Military Services within the meaning of The Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act, Title 50, United States Code, and any other person or legal entity who or which has or claims any right, title, interest or lien in or to the real property described in this Complaint, Third Party Defendants

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO: THE DEFENDANTS AND THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and notified that an action has been filed against you in this court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you. Within thirty (30) days after the day you receive this Summons and Cross Claims and Third-Party Claims, you must respond in writing to this Complaint by filing an Answer with this court. You must also serve a copy of your Answer to this Complaint upon the Defendants’ Attorney at the address shown

42 Poplar Street, Charleston, SC 29403

NOTICE OF ORDER NISI APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM

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 Notices upon you. If you fail to do so, Defendants shall apply for such appointment.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, upon the Complaint of the Plaintiffs named above against the Defendants named above to confirm and quiet title to the property described as follows:

ALL that lot, piece, and parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying. and being on the south side of Poplar Street, in the City of Charleston, Charleston County. South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 129 on plat of properties of Rutledge Avenue Improvement Co., made by D.C. Barbot, Surveyor. dated March 11, 1912, and recorded in Plat Book C, page 68, RMC Office for Charleston County. Said property also being known as #45 Poplar Street; Measuring and containing in front on Poplar Street forty (40’) feet, by the same on the back line. and being one hundred fifteen (115’) feet in depth, be the said dimensions, a little more or less; Butting and bounding to the North on Poplar Street. to the East on Lot 130, to the South on lands of George W. Seignious, III and Irvin L. Major, Jr. and to the West on Lot 128, all as shown on the aforementioned plat.

SUBJECT to all restrictions, easements and covenants of record

BEING the same property conveyed to JAMES GETHERS and WILHELMINA GETHERS by deed of David J. Mack, Jr. and Dorothy P. Mack dated November 6, 1974 and recorded on November 7, 1974 in the ROD Office of Charleston County in Book P105 at Page 21. ALSO being the same property that was conveyed to WILHELMINA GETHERS as a life estate, with remainderman being Carroll Gethers, as Trustee, in trust for the grandchildren of James Gethers by deed of distribution from the Estate of James Gethers administered under Case Number 2007ES000706 in Charleston County Probate Court dated May 21, 2009 and recorded on May 22, 2009 in Book 56 at Page 92 in the ROD Office for Charleston County.

TMS No. 463-12-01-120

Property Address:

Charleston County in Plat Book AA, at Page 117. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as reference to the aforesaid plat will more fully appear.

TO THOSE OF THE DEFENDANTS NAMED ABOVE WHO MAY BE UNKNOWN PERSONS OR ENTITIES HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST IN OR TO, OR LIEN UPON, THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS TMS #463-12-01-120, INCLUDING MINORS OR THOSE UNDER LEGAL DISABILITY, OR JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE, REPRESENTING ALL PERSONS WHO MAY BE THE HEIRS, DEVISEES, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE, ADMINISTRATORS, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS OF THOSE UNKNOWN PARTIES OR THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS; AND RICHARD ROE AND MARY ROE, REPRESENTNING ALL PERSONS WHO MAY BE IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES WHO HAVE, CLAIM OR MAY CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE KNOWN AS TMS #463-12-01-120.

NOTICE is hereby given that the order appointing Danielle Murphy, attorney at law, 120 S. Magnolia Street, Summerville, South Carolina 29483, telephone number 843-501-0602, fax number 843501-0607, as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for all persons designated as JOHN DOE and JANE DOE or as RICHARD ROE and MARY ROE for purposes of this action, was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Charleston County Courthouse, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401, on March 6, 2025.

Unless any of you or someone on your behalf shall cause, within thirty days after the service of this notice, exclusive of the date of service, a different person to be appointed to represent you, the Defendants will apply for an order making absolute the appointment of Danielle Murphy.

NOTICE OF FILING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in this court upon complaint of the above-named plaintiffs against the above-named defendants. This Complaint and Lis Pendens address a quiet title action for ownership of the property identified as TMS #46312-01-120.

SHELBOURNE LAW FIRM

/s/ P. Brandt Shelbourne P. Brandt Shelbourne, Esq. (Bar #15143)

131 E. Richardson Avenue Summerville, SC 29483 (843) 871-2210 brandt@shelbournelaw.com

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

AMENDED MASTER IN EQUITY’S SALE CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-01890

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority against Tameika M. Anderson, et al., I, the Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the Charleston County Courthouse, Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot No. 5, Block 3, as shown on a plat of Pepperhill No. 7, recorded in the RMC Office for

This being the same property conveyed to Tameika Anderson by deed of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, of Washington, D.C. a/k/a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, an agency of the United States of America dated December 16, 1999 and recorded December 29, 1999 in the Office of the Registrar of Mesne Conveyance for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book B340 at Page 728.

TMS # 395-15-00-097

Property Address: 7618 Vanderbrook Place Charleston, South Carolina 29420

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity for Charleston County at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the 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 non-compliance. If the Plaintiff’s representative is not in attendance at the scheduled time of the sale, the sale shall be canceled and the property sold on some subsequent sales day after due advertisement. Should the last and highest 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, the deposit shall be forfeited and the Master in Equity for Charleston County may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). As a deficiency judgment is being Waived, the bidding will not remain open thirty days after the date of sale. Purchaser shall pay for preparation of deed, documentary stamps on the deed, and recording of the deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.250% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Charleston County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

SMITH|ROBINSON

By: s/Ryan J. Patane

Benjamin E. Grimsley, SC Bar No. 70335

Ryan J. Patane, SC Bar No. 103116 P.O. Box 11682 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 (803) 233-4999 ben.grimsley@smithrobinsonlaw. com ryan.patane@smithrobinsonlaw. com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER 2025-DR-10-1276

Israel Green Plaintiff, vs. Elizabeth P. Brown Defendant.

SUMMONS

TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: Elizabeth P. Brown

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 certified Answer to said Complaint on South Carolina Legal Services, at 2803 Carner Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. If the within pleadings were served upon you by certified mail, then in that event, a copy of your Answer to said Complaint shall be received by said attorney within thirty-five (35) days after the service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service, as provided by Rule 6, of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE that if you fail to answer the Complaint as required by this Summons, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

DATED at North Charleston, South Carolina on the 14th day of May 2025.

SOUTH CAROLINA LEGAL SERVICES

s/Stephanie M. van der Horst, Esq. Stephanie M. van der Horst, Esq. SOUTH CAROLINA LEGAL SERVICES 2803 Carner Avenue North Charleston, SC 29405 Bar No.: 101614 (843) 266-2163 (phone) stephanievanderhorst@sclegal.org

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.

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 November 14, 2025; November 21, 2025; November 28, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

7339

MASTER IN EQUITY’S SALE 2024-CP-10-01962

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

CalCon Mutual Mortgage LLC dba One Trust Home Loans v. Athena Alston McFadden

Upon authority of a Decree dated April 3, 2025, 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 December 2, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. ALL THAT LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON JAMES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH 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

ON

NINE (309) ON A PLAT OF THE LANDS OF FOLLY BEACH CORPORATION MADE BY JEFFERSON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY DATED FEBRUARY 1920 AND RECORDED IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK C, PAGE 158. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO THE MORTGAGOR HEREIN BY DEED OF KENNETH B. REPSHER DATED MAY 14, 2006 AND RECORDED AT BOOK S-584, PAGE 445 IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY:

318 E Erie Avenue, Folly Beach, SC 29439 Parcel No. 328-15-00-202

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 # 22-51069

FOR INSERTION 11/14/25, 11/21/25 and 11/28/25

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 7344

Master’s Sale 2025-CP-10-03105

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

MASTER IN EQUITY’S SALE 2016-CP-10-06572

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

Nationstar Mortgage d/b/a Champion Mortgage Company v. Ruth M. Repsher a/k/a Ruth Marie Repsher; The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, an Officer of the United States of America; and Cathy Repsher

Upon authority of a Decree dated October 20, 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 December 2, 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 ON FOLLY ISLAND, IN THE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLIN,

Greenspring Capital Management LLC, not in its individual capacity but solely as administrator of RMH 2023-4 Trust, PLAINTIFF versus Cecil Ryan Barwick, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Laura I. Barwick aka Laura Ingram Barwick aka Laura A. Barwick, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 20th day of October, 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 2nd day of December, 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 the State of South Carolina, County of Charleston, being shown as the Northernmost section in North Charleston service district, owned by Ralph and Laura Barwick, butting’s and bounding to-wit: on the South along West Montague Avenue, beginning at an iron pipe located 318.6 feet from Cindy Lane, said pipe

being the point of beginning: North 40° 00’ West along the Southern section of Lot 1, Block A for a distance of 101 feet, plat incorrectly state this as a distance of 180.1 feet; North 4° 28’ 16” East along Lots 4, 5 and 6, Block A for a distance of 133.04 feet; North 40° 00’ West along lands now or formerly of R.L. Wells for a distance of 180.00 feet;” and North 41° 00’ East along West Montague Avenue for a distance of 106.9 feet to the point of beginning. Being more particularly shown as Lot 1-X on a plat recorded in Plat Book BG at page 172 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County. This being a portion of the property conveyed to Ralph R. Barwick and Laura I. Barwick by Deed of Heber J. Evans Dated June 7, 1963 and recorded June 10, 1963 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County in Book X75 at Page 44; thereafter, Ralph R. Barwick died testate on September 4, 2014 leaving the Property to his devisees, namely, Laura Ingram Barwick as set forth in the Deed of Distribution dated July 26, 2018, recorded in Deed Book 0743 at page 840 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County; thereafter, Laura I. Barwick aka Laura Ingram Barwick aka Laura A. Barwick died testate on May 23, 2018 leaving the Property to her devisee, namely, Cecil Ryan Barwick as is more fully preserved in the Probate Records for Charleston County, in Case No.: 2018-ES-10-01243.

TMS No. 4081500077

Property Address:

4046 West Montague Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29418

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 5.0600%.

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 November 14, 2025, November 21, 2025, November 28, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 7401

Master’s Sale 2023-CP-10-03592

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, PLAINTIFF versus Carl Louis Youngblood aka Carl L. Youngblood Sr. and Crystal Youngblood, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 18th day of July, 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 2nd day of December, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, containing (.99) acres, more or less, on a plat made by William H. Dennis (LLS) on September 13, 1999, situated, lying and being in St. Paul’s Parish District No. 23, Charleston County, State of South Carolina. Butting and bounding as follows: On the North by Mauss Hill Road; on the South by lands of Lot C, on the East by the Estate of Ester Leary. and on the West by Lands of Bobby Smith. Property also known as: all that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, containing 1.00 acre more or less and known as parcel “B” as shown on that certain plat entitled “Plat to Subdivide +/- 13.8 acres the lands of Ernest Youngblood et al a 1.00 acre lot to be known as parcel “B” located at St Pauls Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina”, prepared by James G. Penington, PLS No. 10291, dated September 5, 2001, revised September 26, 2001 and recorded October 19, 2001 in the Charleston County RMC Office in Plat Book DC, at Page 982 to which plat reference is hereby made for a fuller description of said lot. This being the same property conveyed to Carl L. Youngblood, Sr. by Master’s Deed from Mikell R. Scarborough, as Master in Equity for Charleston County, dated May 21, 2010 and recorded June 2, 2010 in Book 0125 at Page 638 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina; thereafter, conveyed to Carl L. Youngblood, Sr. by Amended Master’s Deed dated July 16, 2010 and recorded August 16, 2010 in Book 0138 at Page 542.

TMS No. 059-00-00-150

Property Address: 5024 Mauss Hill Road, Hollywood, SC 29449

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 6.3750%.

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) 799-9993

FOR INSERTION November 14, 2025, November 21, 2025, November 28, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 7413

NOTICE OF SALE

By virtue of a partition decree in the case of Stephen A. Welt v. Susan E. Reed, C/A # 2023-CP-10-02441, the Master in Equity will sell on December 2, 2025, at 11:00 A.M., at the Charleston County Public Services Building, County Council Chambers, at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder the below-described real property (“Real Property”) which is currently owned by Stephen A. Welt and Susan E. Reed:

ALL that piece, lot or tract of land, situate, lying and being on James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, and being shown and designated “Lot 12, 21,425 SF, 0.492AC” on a plat by General Engineering & Environmental, LLC, dated November 1, 2006 entitled “FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT TO CREATE LOT 1 THROUGH 12 OF HALE STREET SUBDIVISION, TMS NO. 425-01-00-012 OWNED BY HALE STREET, LLC CONTAINING 3. 886 ACRES LOCATED ON HALE STREET ON JAMES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” and recorded November 6, 2006, in Plat Book EK at page 18 9, RMC off ice for Charleston County, South Carolina, and having such size, shape, buttings, boundings,

dimensions and location as will appear by reference to said plat which is incorporated herein by reference, be all the dimensions and measurements shown thereon a little more or less.

TMS No.: 425-01-00-055

Address: 835 Hale Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29412

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, (other than an owner, who must pay 100% of the purchase price on the date of sale), is required to deposit 5% of the bid with the Master in Equity, in cash or equivalent, on the date of sale. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit, or comply with his bid within 30 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder’s risk.

The Property is subject to two mortgages, which will be satisfied from sales proceeds:

Mortgage to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as designee for Renasant Bank, by virtue of that mortgage recorded in the Charleston County RMC Office on February 24, 2021 at Book 0963, Page 420. Approximate current outstanding balance (subject to change): $264,145.86 Mortgage to Synovus Bank, by virtue of that mortgage recorded in the Charleston County RMC Office on March 28, 2018 at Book 0707, Page 731. Approximate current outstanding balance (subject to change): $94,779.49.

Upon satisfaction of any mortgages or liens on the Property from the sales proceeds, the Court will issue a Master’s Deed 30 days after the sale to the successful bidder, who will be required to pay all interest due on the outstanding mortgages encumbering the Property from the date of sale through recordation of the Master’s Deed. Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and costs of sale incurred.

THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, TAXES, EASEMENTS, AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD AND OTHER ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY.

NOTICE: The Master’s 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.

Matthew Tillman WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP

5 Exchange Street Charleston, South Carolina 29401 (843) 720-4629

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Public comments, written and oral, are invited. Those wishing to provide written public comments for the public hearing should email comments to public-comments@ charlestoncounty.org by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.

Kristen L. Salisbury

Clerk of Council

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that Charleston County Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at 6:30 pm in the Beverly T. Craven Council Chambers, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, regarding an ordinance amending Ordinance Number 2185 the Business License Ordinance of the County of Charleston, adopted December 7, 2021, to update the class schedule as required by the South Carolina Business License Tax Standardization Act.

Public comments, written and oral, are invited. Those wishing to provide written public comments for the public hearing should email comments to public-comments@ charlestoncounty.org by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.

Kristen L. Salisbury

Clerk of Council

DORCHESTER COUNTY

PUBLIC AUCTION

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

Facility 1: 427 St. James Ave

Goose Creek, SC 29445

12/02/2025 11:00 AM

Colby Thomas Boxes, Storage bins

Gene Kaminer

Household items

Facility 2: 609 Old Trolley Road Summerville, SC 29485

12/02/2025 10:30 AM

11:15 AM

Twala Scott Household Goods

Facility 7: 422 Old Trolley Rd Summerville, SC 29485

12/02/2025 10:45 AM

Laquandra Scott Appliances, tvs

Ronald Luke Household goods

Facility 8: 2130 N Main St Summerville, SC 29486

12/02/2025 10:00 AM

Carole Wyatt Baby items and camera equipment

Delaney Fischer Dresser, Bed Frame, Boxes

Abraham Bradham Chairs, boxes, tv

Facility 13: 9670 Dorchester Rd Summerville, SC 29485

12/02/2025

10:15 AM

Aisha Smalls Furniture, boxes

Arthurlee Brown Bedroom set

James Blocker Bedroom set, boxes, clothes

Olivia Smith Furniture

Facility 14: 6941 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 12/02/2025 12:30 PM

Kenneth Broderick Electronics, General Household goods

Leah Funderburk Clothes, furniture

Daniel Snook Speakers, lights, video cameras

Tyrone Nelson Furniture

Daniel Snook Business supplies

Emanuel Head Winter clothes, shoes

Edvino Lopez Chairs, tables

Facility 15: 5146 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston, SC 29418

12/02/2025 12:00 PM

Cherrel Nelson Bedroom and household furniture, garage items, fridge and AC, misc boxes

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.

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2025-CP-18-01380

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation as Trustee for Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2019-3 vs.

Caroleen Stephanie Mello a/k/a

Caroleen S. Mello a/k/a Carol Stephanie Mello, as Personal Representative, and as Devisee of the Estate of Clifton Jones a/k/a

Clifton D. Jones a/k/a Cliffton D. Jones a/k/a Clifton Donald Jones, Deceased,

I, the undersigned James E. Chellis, Master in Equity for Dorchester County, will sell on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM, at the County Courthouse, 5200 East Jim Bilton Boulevard, St. George, SC 29477.

The property to be sold to the highest bidder:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in Pinehill Acres Subdivision, near the Town of Summerville, in the County of Dorchester, State of South Carolina and being shown and designated as Lot 3, Block N, Section U, on a certain plat of Pinehill Acres Subdivision by Thomas E. Young, Sr. RLS dated July 2, 1967, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County in Plat Book 16, at Page 119; said lot having buttings and boundings and measuring as will fully appear by reference to said plat.

ALSO: 1998 Bell Mobile Home, Model Lowcou, VIN: GBHML30584AB

This being the same property conveyed to Clifton D. Jones by deed of Equity Enterprise, Inc. dba Equity Homes dated September 18, 2003 and recorded October 3, 2003 in Book 3830 at Page 76 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Dorchester County.

particularly described as follows:

1998 Bellcrest LOWCOU Manufactured Home, Serial No. GBHML30584AB, with any fixtures.

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, in certified funds or equivalent, 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 non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 30 days, then the Master in Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder).

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.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity’s Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.250% per annum.

The Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

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

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that Charleston County Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at 6:30 pm in the Beverly T. Craven Council Chambers, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, regarding an ordinance approving and authorizing the grant of a pedestrian and temporary construction easement to Movement Resources, on a portion of county property identified as Tax Map Parcel Number 412- 00-00027 located at 4355 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina.

Shankevia Neal 2 beds, dresser, 2 stands, tvs, one sofa, 3 fans, boxes.

Kimberly Galll Furniture, Boxes, and Totes

Facility 3: 8850 Rivers Ave

North Charleston, SC 29406

12/02/2025 10:45 AM

Sakinah Brown Household Items

Solomon Lucas Dresser, Bed, Clothes

Facility 6: 434 Orangeburg Road

Summerville, SC 29483 12/02/2025

Victoria Toscano Household furniture, and tools

Tiara Perry Pictures, boxes, small desk, couple chairs

Ronekia Lee Clothes, cookware, cleaning supplies, artwork, gifts

Aubrey Smalls Couch, bed, end tables, boxes

John Greene Household goods

Marian Campbell Appliances, clothes

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.

Subsequently, Clifton Jones a/k/a Clifton D. Jones a/k/a Cliffton D. Jones a/k/a Clifton Donald Jones died testate on February 5, 2025, leaving the subject property to his devisee, namely Caroleen Stephanie Mello a/k/a Caroleen S. Mello a/k/a Carol Stephanie Mello, as shown in Probate Case No. 2025-ES-18-00350. Thereafter, Caroleen Stephanie Mello a/k/a Caroleen S. Mello a/k/a Carol Stephanie Mello was appointed as Personal Representative of the Estate of Clifton Jones a/k/a Clifton D. Jones a/k/a Cliffton D. Jones a/k/a Clifton Donald Jones (Probate Case No. 2025-ES-1800350).

TMS No. 129-05-05-003

Property address: 115 George Keen Drive, Summerville, SC 29483

The Court in its Decree has further made its finding that this mortgage was intended to and specifically secures and collateralizes that certain Mobile Home permanently affixed to the above-described real estate in the mortgage being foreclosed and is further provided under the laws of the State of South Carolina, the same being more

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff’s attorney or Plaintiff’s bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff’s attorney or Plaintiff’s bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff’s counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff’s Counsel or Counsel’s bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

James E. Chellis Master in Equity for Dorchester County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I invite you to commune intimately with your holy anger. Not petulant tantrums, not the ego’s defensive rage, but the fierce love that refuses to tolerate injustice. You will be wise to draw on the righteous “No!” that draws boundaries and defends the vulnerable. I hope you will call on protective fury on behalf of those who need help. Here’s a reminder of what I’m sure you know: Calmness in the face of cruelty isn’t enlightenment but complicity. Your anger, when it safeguards and serves love rather than destroys, is a spiritual practice.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Korean concept of jeong is the emotional bond that forms between people, places, or things through shared experiences over time. It’s deeper than love and more complex than attachment: the accumulated weight of history together. You can have jeong for a person you don’t even like anymore, for a city that broke your heart, for a coffee mug you’ve used every morning for years. As the scar tissue of togetherness, it can be beautiful and poignant. Now is an especially good time for you to appreciate and honor your jeong. Celebrate and learn from the soulful mysteries your history has bequeathed you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Over 100 trillion bacteria live in your intestines. They have a powerful impact. They produce neurotransmitters, influence your mood, train your immune system, and communicate with your brain via the vagus nerve. Other life forms are part of the team within you, too, including fungi, viruses, and archaea. So in a real sense, you are not merely a human who contains small organisms. You are an ecosystem of species making collective decisions. Your “gut feelings” are collaborations. I bring this all to your attention because the coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to enhance the health of your gut biome. For more info: https://tinyurl. com/EnhanceGutBiome

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move through the world as if beauty is your gravity. When you’re at the height of your lyrical powers, Libra, you do this naturally. You are especially receptive to the aesthetic soul of things. You can draw out the harmony beneath surface friction and improvise grace in the midst of chaos. I’m happy to tell you that you are currently at the height of these lyrical powers. I hope you’ll be bold in expressing them. Even if others aren’t consciously aware and appreciative of what you’re doing, beautify every situation you’re in.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your theme for the coming weeks is the fertile power of small things: the transformations that happen in the margins and subtle gestures. A kind word that shifts someone’s day, for instance. Or a refusal to participate in casual cruelty. Or a choice to see value in what you’re supposed to ignore. So I hope you will meditate on this healing theme: Change doesn’t always announce itself with drama and manifestos. The most heroic act might be to pay tender attention and refuse to be numbed. Find power in understated insurrections.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A day on Venus (one rotation on its axis) lasts about 243 Earth days. However, a year on Venus (one orbit around the sun) takes only about 225 Earth days. So a Venusian day is longer than its year. If you lived on Venus, the sun wouldn’t even set before your next Venusian birthday arrived. Here’s another weird fact: Contrary to what happens on every other planet in the solar system, on Venus the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Moral of the story: Even planets refuse to conform and make their own rules. If celestial bodies can be so gloriously contrary to convention, so can you. In accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you to exuberantly explore this creative freedom in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Why, yes, I myself am born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, just as you are. So as I offer you my ongoing observations and counsel, I am also giving myself blessings. In the coming weeks, we will benefit from going through a phase of consolidation and integration. The creative flourishes we have unveiled recently need to be refined and activated on deeper levels. This necessary deepening may initially feel more like work than play, and not as much fun as the rapid progress we have been enjoying. But with a slight tweak of our attitude, we can thoroughly thrive during this upcoming phase.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I suggest that in the coming weeks you care more about getting things done than pursuing impossible magnificence. The simple labor of love you actually finish is worth more than the masterpiece you never start. The healthy but makeshift meal you throw together feeds you well, whereas the theoretical but abandoned feast does not. Even more than usual, Leo, the perfect will be the enemy of the good. Here are quotes to inspire you. 1. “Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.” —Anne Wilson Schaef. 2. “Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.” —Harriet Braiker. 3. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Now is an excellent time to practice the art of forgetting. I hope you formulate an intention to release the grievances and grudges that are overdue for dissolution. They not only don’t serve you but actually diminish you. Here’s a fact about your brain: It remembers everything unless you actively practice forgetting. So here’s my plan: Meditate on the truth that forgiveness is not a feeling; it’s a decision to stop rehearsing the resentment, to quit telling yourself the story that keeps the wound fresh. The lesson you’re ready to learn: Some memories are worth evicting. Not all the past is worth preserving. Selective amnesia can be a survival skill.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A Navajo blessing says, “May you walk in beauty.” Not just see beauty or create it, but walk in it, inhabit it, and

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s revisit the ancient Greeks’ understanding that we are all born with a daimon: a guiding spirit who whispers help and counsel, especially if we stay alert for its assistance. Typically, the messages are subtle, even half-disguised. Our daimons don’t usually shout. But I predict that will change for you in the coming weeks, especially if you cultivate listening as a superpower. Your personal daimon will be extra talkative and forthcoming. So be vigilant for unexpected support, Capricorn. Expect epiphanies and breakthrough revelations. Pay attention to the book that falls open to a page that has an oracular hint just for you. Take notice of a song that repeats or a sudden urge to change direction on your walk.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Awe should be one of your featured emotions in the coming weeks. I hope you will also seek out and cultivate reverence, deep respect, excited wonder, and an attraction to sublime surprises. Why do I recommend such seemingly impractical measures? Because you’re close to breaking through into a heightened capacity for generosity of spirit and a sweet lust for life. Being alert for amazement and attuned to transcendent experiences could change your life for the better forever. I love your ego—it’s a crucial aspect of your make-up—but now is a time to exalt and uplift your soul.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What if your anxiety is actually misinterpreted excitement? What if the difference between worry and exhilaration is the story you tell yourself about the electricity streaming through you? Maybe your body is revving up for something interesting and important, but your mind mislabels the sensation. Try this experiment: Next time your heart races and your mind spins, tell yourself “I’m excited” instead of “I’m anxious.” See if your mood shape-shifts.

Across

1. School game watcher, often

4. Applies lightly

8. Cause to topple over

13. “What ___ you on?”

14. Records

15. Classic Harlem ballroom that shares its name with a cabbage variety

16. Author Deighton

17. State aquatic bird? [Med school graduate, maybe]

19. Location of a 2025 jewel heist

21. Seesaw requirement

22. “Come Back, Little Sheba” playwright William

23. Award-winning feat

25. World representations?

27. State antlered animal? [“Skedaddle!”]

32. Best-case

33. CIA mind game

34. “Thx,” but slightly more

37. Think events through

38. Puffed, in a way

39. Don’t go anywhere

40. Aleppo’s land (abbr.)

41. U.K. equivalent of an Oscar

42. Cheesemaking byproducts often turned into powder

43. State rodent? [Unit of weight for gems]

46. Follow closely

48. Declined

49. Peru’s capital

50. No. on an invoice

53. Big name in planes

57. State wild bovine? [Singer Roy]

60. Caviar, basically 61. Former Israeli prime minister Shimon

62. Antilles resort island 63. Poem of high praise

Get rid of

Spots

Pince-___ (old-style spectacles)

10. Yet more advantageous 11. Norway, in Norway 12. Forces of acceleration 14. “The Aeneid” poet 18. Rotten 20. Free of animal products 24. Warning 26. Slice off, as a branch

High rollers 28. One way to sit by

Modern car feature to assist backing up safely

Invite out for 31. Overreactive response to when someone swears or sings badly, maybe

“___ con Dios!” 36. 1993 puzzle-based video game 38. Island in the South China Sea 39. Malt shop order

Rain-___ (gumball brand) 42. “Stranger Things” actress Ryder

Some bits of wisdom

“STATE ANIMALS” —well, these at least spell something.