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Burke grad takes the helm at Johnson C. Smith University

Dr. Valerie Kinloch, a 1992 graduate of Burke High School, is the 15th president of Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) in Charlotte.

Kinloch was previously the dean of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1996, Kinloch earned a bachelor’s degree in English and literature from JCSU, and she served on the university’s board of trustees, She returned to JCSU on Aug. 1.

“It’s a dream come true to be invited to lead one of the finest Historically Black Colleges and Universities in America — and at the same time come home,” Kinloch said in a statement. Kinloch also earned a master’s degree in English/African American literature and a doctorate in English, both from Wayne State University in Detroit. Her research on the literacies of Black people in urban and rural contexts examines equitable forms of teaching, learning and leading.

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Lanxess chemical plant studying new warning system

By Herb Frazier

The Lanxess chemical plant in Charleston’s Neck area, which has come under increased attention following recent chemical leaks, is considering a new way to send emergency information to residents near the site.

Text messages, emails and landline calls could be used to warn residents in the Rosemont community and other nearby neighborhoods, Lanxess spokesman Michael Mackin said in an email to the Charleston City Paper

“In order for any system like this to be effective, it will be critical for us to develop a comprehensive distribution list for those in adjacent communities,” he said.

“While we are still exploring options … we are reviewing the system and its capabilities” with the S.C. Department of Health

and Environmental Control (DHEC) and the company’s Community Advisory Panel (CAP) made up of representatives of area communities.”

The new system will not replace the existing siren that alerts Rosemont residents of a chemical release, Mackin said.

The company was to test the new system internally this week, he said. The new system will also be an addition to the current warning system to alert plant employees of an emergency that does not affect nearby residents.

“There has been confusion around when that siren is activated to alert onsite personnel due to the fact that some nearby residents are able to hear the onsite siren and are sometimes unsure” of whether the alert is meant for an on-site only event or an accident that could harm

the community, Mackin said in an email.

The community is nervous

Lanxess and state health officials met recently with Rosemont residents to discuss a June 21 leak of 10 pounds of phosphorus. During that meeting, residents complained they were not immediately notified of the leak.

The company notified DHEC of one leak in 2018, three in 2019 and another in 2022, according to the summary of the agency’s reports sent to the Charleston City Paper An alarm system, however, did not alert Rosemont residents of some of those mishaps, residents said. The leaks involved derivatives of chlorine, phosphorus and sodium.

Other leaks that prompted the company

Hard evidence

“I am going to have to see the evidence. When I say evidence, I’m going to actually have to touch a thing and see it, and see if it’s actually real because it’s so far out of this world. But I’m not saying it’s out of the realm of possibility.”

—U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. said July 27 on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show about a July 26 congressional hearing on UFOs.

GUN VIOLENCE COUNTER

9 killed, 9 others shot July 25 to Aug. 2 S.C. shooting deaths: Nine people died in Charleston, Allendale, York, Chester, Anderson, Sumter and Hampton counties.

S.C. shooting injuries: Nine others were hurt in Greenville, Aiken, Lexington, Horry, Jasper, Hampton and Spartanburg counties.

Mass shootings: 13 mass shootings in the U.S., totaling 422 for the year.

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The Lanxess chemical plant near Charleston’s Rosemont community has had a troubled past, keeping neighbors on edge

Lowcountry communities get involved in local preservation project

By Skyler Baldwin

The city of Charleston is hosting a series of public information sessions through August to give people around the area a chance to get hands-on with Gullah Geechee heritage preservation. Five sessions, which are held across the area, remain and are in partnership with Charleston County, the town of Mount Pleasant and the Preservation Society of Charleston.

The information sessions are an outgrowth of the Gullah Geechee Heritage Preservation Project, a two-year initiative supporting the documentation and preservation of historic Gullah Geechee communities and stories. The new multijurisdictional partnership is funded in part by a $75,000 grant from the National Park Service’s (NPS) Underrepresented Communities Grant program, with matching funds from the city of Charleston and the Preservation Society of Charleston.

“When it comes to recognizing and preserving the history of the Gullah Geechee community and other Black and brown communities … formerly enslaved people contributed to the city of Charleston, some to their deaths, and there was no significant recognition of that,” said Adrian Swinton, Charleston’s human affairs and racial conciliation manager. “These information sessions are just to state the importance of preserving all of that history.”

Chloe Stuber, Charleston’s planning and sustainability senior planner, explained the current way that preservation is approached begins with documentation — “Why is this structure, for instance, important?” After documentation is gathered, the significance is proven to an agency or local jurisdiction so it can be added to a list of historically significant places.

“Maybe there’s a monument, maybe more information is provided,” she said. “But what we’ve heard has been pushing us to go further than that and to really think about how land ownership plays such a big role in the history of Black communities in the Lowcountry. The preservation of the land and how people stay on that land — not just to stay but to thrive and be prosperous — that needs to happen at the same time. Otherwise all that’s left is a museum to the past.”

Just the beginning

Eight sessions targeting different communities across the Charleston area were planned from late July through August, three of which have already concluded in

Wando, James Island and Mount Pleasant. The remaining sessions are set for:

• Aug. 7 at J.E. Clyburn Wiltown Community Center, Adams Run

• Aug. 10 at Cynthia G. Hurd Library, West Ashley

• Aug. 14 at Chicora Cherokee Elementary School, North Charleston

• Aug. 17 at Johns Island County Library, Johns Island

• Aug. 21, virtual Zoom session (register online)

Swinton said the conversation is something many communities have become “disinvested” in — essentially giving up the fight to preserve their own history.

“We need to make that right, and the only way to do that is to invest back in these communities,” she said. “We have to put forth that effort.”

And that effort is beginning with these information sessions, Stuber said, as public comment continues to pour in. “This is just the starting line,” she said. “And it’s already evolving just from the sessions we’ve had.”

The original project outlined more than 100 goals, objectives and recommendations for what the city of Charleston could do to be intentional about lifting up Black and brown communities, she added. These informational sessions are meant to tackle a handful of those, such as connecting a cohort of historic Gullah Geechee communities with resources and assistance and facilitating partnerships with a network of organizations to increase sustainability for ongoing preservation efforts.

“That was something that came up in both sessions — emphasizing the sustainability part of it,” Stuber said. “How do we sustain this work long term beyond the grant period? People were really adamant that that needs to be a central focus on this. The grant is just a drop in the bucket. It’s only going to allow us to do so much, and there is so much history right now in danger of being lost.”

Formerly enslaved people contributed to the city of Charleston, some to their deaths, and there was no significant recognition of that.”

—Adrian Swinton

to sound an alarm occurred in May 2022 and November 2019. The DHEC report shows the May 2022 leak and one in March 2023 were low-level leaks of phosphorus that did not require reporting to DHEC.

The plant manufactures phosphorus trichloride and numerous derivative products, such as flame-retardant additives and intermediate products for the agrochemicals industry.

Residents fear the series of leaks could lead to a repeat of a June 17, 1991, explosion at that plant that killed nine workers and injured dozens. At that time, Albright & Wilson owned the plant. Following that mishap, the company installed a warning system to alert residents of a leak. But in recent years, the warning system has not always worked as planned, residents said.

The idea for a new warning system was raised during a recent meeting at Lanxess with three plant managers and Nancy Button, president of the Rosemont Neighborhood Association, and S.C. Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston, whose district includes the plant.

It is unknown how soon a new warning system will be ready.

Gilliard said when he asked why Lanxess no longer uses an AM radio frequency created after the 1991 explosion to send infor-

mation to the community, plant officials said they’re considering sending alerts to cell phones. “That was a surprise they had for us to show” the company is listening to the community, he said.

“The first thing we talked about in the meeting was safety,” Gilliard said. “We wanted to see what measures they are taking to make sure that [1991] incident, among other incidents, don’t happen again,” he said. “We questioned them about their training and to see if they are fully staffed.”

The company employs about 90 workers, and five positions are currently open, Gilliard said. The company said it has improved employee training, he added.

When plant managers said they’re considering a warning system using cell phones, Button asked what about seniors who are not adept with cell phones and computers. She suggested conventional telephones to notify residents.

To make the system work, Button said,

residents will have to voluntarily provide their phone numbers. About 500 people live in Rosemont. Lanxess has to come up with a better system than that current siren system, she stressed.

Safety is not the only concern

Kwadjo Campbell, CEO of JC & Associates, a Greenville consulting group, also attended the meeting and presented the company with a three-year, $10 million Environmental Justice Mitigation Plan (EJMP) to support business assistance, job training and economic development initiatives to benefit residents near the plant. Campbell is a former member of the Charleston City Council and is manager of Gilliard’s current state Senate campaign. The plan is in response to the reported and unreported chemical leaks at the plant.

“The leaks released a hazardous chemical into the air and water, which can have a significant impact on the health and well-

being of the community,” according to the plan. “The EJMP is designed to address the environmental and economic impacts of the leaks, with a focus on ensuring that the community is not disproportionately harmed.”

When asked about the EJMP proposal, Mackin said Lanxess “will continue to work with the regulatory agencies, elected officials and the community on a path forward.”

No media allowed at Lanxess meeting

Before the meeting began in a Lanxess conference room, a City Paper reporter was asked to leave.

Larry Kowal, Lanxess safety officer, turned to site manager Michael Jansen and asked: “Are we going to allow the press here? We don’t have to.”

Plant managers said it was against company policy to have reporters in meetings at the plant. They apologized as the reporter was escorted off the property.

Turn Up the Heat!

Gilliard

Button

The leaks released a hazardous chemical into the air and water, which can have a significant impact on the health and well-being of the community.”

—Environmental Justice Mitigation Plan

By Chelsea Grinstead

The piercing orange of butterflies fluttering along the winter sea breeze on Folly Beach caught the eye of a Charleston biologist a few years back. That chance encounter led him to help discover an entire population of monarch butterflies that spend winter along the South Carolina coast. Most normally migrate annually to Mexico.

“We found wintering monarchs along 96% of the South Carolina Atlantic coastline,” said John “Billy” McCord of James Island, a longtime biologist who participated in a study from 2018 to 2022 under the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). Since 1996, he has tagged more than 53,000 monarchs in his field studies of the endangered butterfly species.

The new SCDNR study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports in June. The findings are important because it could mean there is an Atlantic coastal population of monarchs with unique migration and breeding patterns that differ from what biologists attribute to North American monarch butterflies, McCord said.

McCord carried out year-round field work with a group of volunteers for the recently published study, which included capturing monarchs with nets along the South Carolina coastline and applying an

adhesive synthetic resin-based tag with identification codes.

Locally, McCord tagged monarchs throughout barrier island and sea island habitats located near open water on Folly Beach, James Island and in Mount Pleasant.

Monarchs were also tagged in bottomland hardwood forests and cypress-tupelo swamps in parts of Charleston and Berkeley counties to help gather information about the insect’s breeding and migrating habits.

Wintering habits uncovered

Monarchs were found in December, January, February and early March from northern Myrtle Beach through the Charleston area and all the way down to Daufuskie Island, McCord said.

“Until we started studying this, nobody had scientifically recorded the presence of monarchs in coastal South Carolina during the winter,” he said.

As part of the five-year SCDNR study, he tagged 18,375 monarchs in the coastal South Carolina region and worked to recapture tagged butterflies to see how long the butterflies stayed in the area in order to help determine seasonal migration patterns.

“The monarchs that come here are most likely from east of the Appalachian mountains,” McCord said. “The ones that winter here may come from the New England area and even southern Canada. There were monarchs at Folly Beach that were tagged in Canada. I’ve also recaptured one that was tagged on the shore of Lake Erie in upstate Pennsylvania. I recovered several that were tagged in Cape May, New Jersey.”

McCord said he believes this evidence points to a separate Atlantic coastal monarch population not affiliated with the Midwestern monarch population known to migrate to Mexico in the winter. But he said more evidence needs to be collected, such as genetic specimens, and more field work needs to be carried out in Georgia and Florida to help map out the behavior of the monarchs east of the Appalachian mountains.

“We need to figure out how many populations there are and what their relationship is to each other,” he said. “That’s why genetics are important.”

Conservation required

The SCDNR study also indicated monarch butterflies live in South Carolina yearround, McCord said. This new information is most important in terms of long-term conservation law, since monarchs are classified as an endangered species.

Charleston police on July 19 arrested a downtown man for suspected public intoxication. Upon searching him, police pulled an entirely concealed, half-filled bottle of vodka from his front pocket. Either this guy is secretly a stage magician, or he has very deep pockets. We’re hoping it’s the former — and that we can hire him for our own parties.

A rough breakup

A Mount Pleasant man on July 17 was arrested after making several threats to staff and guests at a Belk Drive restaurant. After he was placed in handcuffs, he told officers to “read his phone” to understand. Officers reportedly discovered he and his girlfriend had been on the rocks that day. Something tells us that didn’t quite justify his behavior.

We aren’t great at math, but …

A West Ashley man reported to Charleston police that he dropped his wallet on the sidewalk on July 19, and within a day, had 27 attempted transactions for DoorDash from various locations across the country, adding up to about $250 in charges. While using someone else’s money to order Doordash is wrong, we’re more interested in how 27 orders only added up to $250.

By Skyler Baldwin Illustration

by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between July 17 and July 26.

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Charleston is home to monarch butterflies that spend winter on surrounding barrier islands instead of migrating to Mexico

Monarch butterflies in coastal S.C. exhibit unique patterns, new study shows

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There’s more to be learned to fully be able to understand exactly what’s going on and to give the proper protection to monarchs.” —Billy McCord

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Scholarship program grows, has statewide plans

By Andy Brack

About 700 people lled a room July 30 at Charleston Place to celebrate 260 new winners of a multi-million dollar college scholarship program seeking to go statewide.

Meeting Street Scholarship Fund, the brainchild of Charleston philanthropists Ben and Kelly Navarro, this year awarded 260 scholarships worth $10.2 million over four years to incoming freshmen at South Carolina colleges. Each scholarship is worth up to $10,000 a year for four years.

“This is one of the most immediate lifechanging ways to make a di erence,” said the fund’s executive director, Josh Bell, on July 30. Later, he added, “A little help can go a long way.”

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The organization celebrated achievements of the students from 11 counties July 30 at the hotel, which is owned by one of Navarro’s companies. Also on the minds of attendees — the 279 high-achieving students who won $11.2 million in scholarships since the fund began in 2021.

One 2022 scholarship winner, University of South Carolina student Logan Miller of Dillon, told the crowd July 30 that “ nding out about the Meeting Street Scholarship was a huge weight taken o my shoulders. I’m so thankful for this.”

The fund helps good students who may face nancial hurdles in attending college.

“Many students and families face an annual funding gap of $10,000 or more after [other] scholarships, grants and federal loans are taken into account,” according to information from the fund. “As a result

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“There’s more to be learned to fully be able to understand exactly what’s going on and to give the proper protection to monarchs,” he said.

In addition to sea island habitats in the winter, monarchs rely on inland swamp habitats in South Carolina throughout the spring, summer and fall. These habitats are replete with the aquatic milkweed a monarch population needs for laying eggs and its caterpillars need for food.

McCord said preserving the swamps that house the main food source monarchs require is of the utmost importance.

“If you kill the milkweed, then you basically get rid of monarchs,” he said. “It’s important to try to protect [swamp] areas into the future so they will still be used by monarchs. Land conservation is what we need.”

Monarchs are designated as an endangered species primarily from what’s happening in the Midwest, he said.

many hard-working students choose to never attend college or assume tremendous personal debt in order to attend.”

The mother of two scholarship winners, Josephine Oria of Mount Pleasant, added on July 30, “Having the Meeting Street Scholarship behind them allows them to have the breathing room behind them in order to do other exceptional things. This de nitely is impactful. You just don’t understand how much it means.”

Now, the fund aspires to go statewide with its Mission 46 initiative to impact more students who may not otherwise have the nancial capacity to attend college in South Carolina.

Counties currently participating in the scholarship program are Barnwell, Charleston, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Jasper, Lee, Marion, Marlboro and Williamsburg. To expand, the fund is making a pitch to get more donors from counties currently not participating in the program.

“Mission 46 seeks to build a network of visionary donors who will bring this lifechanging scholarship to all 46 counties in South Carolina,” the fund said in a press packet. “Every dollar donated directly funds student scholarships.”

According to the organization, the scholarship program expects to award more than $85 million of scholarships every year to deserving students when all 46 counties are participating.

Learn more at: meetingstreetscholarshipfund.org.

“The Midwestern monarch population has undergone somewhat of a crash over the past couple of decades, and that’s primarily because of ethanol [farming],” he said. “There has been something like 5 million acres or more that has been transformed from meadowland and grassland into row crops to produce ethanol.

“And at the same time, there’s a version of Roundup created that can be sprayed right over corn and soybeans, and it doesn’t kill the corn or soybeans, but it kills everything else — including milkweed. So there’s a tremendous loss of habitat for monarchs in the Midwest, which is where most of the butteries that [migrate] to Mexico [originate].”

And since the e ects of global warming are yet unknown, McCord said, the newly discovered wintering habits of Atlantic coastal monarchs may change.

“[Monarchs] may expand their wintering range farther north and reduce their range to the South because it may start getting too warm for them along the southern part of the coast. We don’t know that yet.”

South Carolina may need to take new look at lottery scholarships

Hats off to the Meeting Street Scholarship Fund for awarding $10.2 million in scholarships last month to 260 high-performing incoming freshmen at South Carolina’s colleges. That was on top of $11.2 million in similar scholarships of up to $10,000 a year for four years for another 279 students in 2021 and 2022.

The brainchild of Charleston philanthropists Ben and Kelly Navarro, this large private scholarship program is a godsend to students who might be kept from realizing college dreams because they couldn’t afford it. For others who planned to go anyway, the Meeting Street scholarships help them from having to sign away their financial future to burdens from huge loans.

Bottom line: The Meeting Street Scholarship Fund is making a real difference in young lives across the 11 counties it serves. And it aspires, through its new Mission 46 initiative, to build a donor network across the state to serve students throughout South Carolina. The benefit: about $85 million in scholarships a year.

And while we praise this initiative and other scholarship programs that are vital to boosting knowledge and preparing the nation’s future workforce, we’ve got to ask something else: Aren’t the very kind of scholarships offered by the Charleston-based private fund what the state’s education lottery is supposed to be funding?

So perhaps state lawmakers should take a look at the S.C. Education Lottery and see if it’s getting the best bang for

its buck for all aspiring college students, but particularly for those with huge potential. Or maybe the lottery needs to fund a new kind of competitive scholarship to provide the college dream to more high-achieving students who need more extra help than the current structure allows.

In the current state budget, proceeds from the state education lottery will fund $589 million in education needs, including $201.2 million for the LIFE Scholarship for top students ($5,000 a year per student), $67.3 million for the Palmetto Fellows program ($7,500 a year), $80 million in need-based grants, $12.6 million for the SC HOPE program ($2,800 a year), $20 million in tuition grants, $93.7 million in workforce scholarships and grants, and $51 million in tuition assistance to technical colleges and two-year higher education programs.

All totaled according to the S.C. Education Lottery, the state’s cut of lottery spending has pumped $7.2 billion into state education programs since 2002, including $5.5 billion in college scholarships and grants and $1.1 billion in programs for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

After 21 years, it’s probably time to check to see how lottery scholarships and grant spending are faring and whether something new needs to be injected into the mix. The more high-achieving students who can get a chance at a college education without being saddled with decades of debt, the better. The Navarros figured that out. The state should too.

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.

S.C. GOP should serve as Trump’s 2024 roadblock

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By Andy Brack

South Carolina can do the nation a favor in its 2024 presidential primary by dumping triple-indicted former President Donald Trump as a candidate. Simply put, he’s a train wreck who is making America small. He doesn’t deserve to be president again.

In the Palmetto State where conservative Christian voters heavily identify with and vote for Republicans, how can anyone who follows Jesus continue to support someone who has broken most of the Old Testament’s Ten Commandments?

He’s committed adultery (Commandment 7). He’s cheated on past wives multiple times, according to a review of stories by Newsweek. And then there’s the $130,000 hush money payment in 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels which exploded into a 34-count indictment of falsifying business records related to the payment. Supporters say the New York state charges are, ahem, trumped up, but they’re still on the books. More than a dozen women also have accused him of sexual misconduct, according to New York magazine.

He’s stolen (Commandment 8). Hundreds have alleged that he doesn’t pay his bills, which essentially is stealing. His campaign left Pickens County, for example, holding a $40,000 bag for unreimbursed costs for his July 1 campaign rally. While there was no contract with the county, taxpayers should be outraged that they’re footing a campaign bill.

He’s lied. (Commandment 9). The Washington Post, for example, tracked more than 30,000 false and misleading statements by Trump in his four years as president.

He has coveted. (Commandment 10). What may have been Washington’s worst-kept secrets were Trump’s jealous rages and overwhelming yearning to possess more than anyone else. “My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy,” Trump said in 2016. “I’ve grabbed all the money I could get.”

He hasn’t ever been charged with killing anyone (Commandment 6). But his administration’s health and environmental policies — or lack of policies — contributed to the deaths of thousands, according to a 2021 study cited by Forbes. And he has put money before everything else, breaking the rst commandment. He’s worshiped the trappings of power, as highlighted in gold-plated toilets and the country clubs and hotels that ash his name in brazen letters, breaking Commandment 2. He’s taken the Lord’s name in vain (3) and not kept the Sabbath holy (4).

Now he wants to be president again to get over being a loser in 2020. And three in four Republicans in South Carolina had a favorable view of him in April. According to a Winthrop Poll:

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“When it comes to Trump, 43% of South Carolinians have a favorable view and 48% an unfavorable one. The former president remains much more favorable in his own party with almost three-quarters holding a favorable view as compared to 17% an unfavorable one. Conversely, three-quarters of Democrats express an unfavorable view of Trump while 19% view him favorably.”

Let’s hope GOP primary voters in South Carolina will open their eyes to other candidates in the months ahead.

Not only is Trump under three major criminal indictments with another expected, but he still thumbs his nose at the nation’s political heritage, continuing to fuel the ames of dissent to stroke his fragile ego.

Just last week, for example, the Associated Press reported that Trump, who eventually condemned the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol, has changed his tune. It reported, “any sign of regret or reprimand from Trump has vanished as he prepares to face federal criminal charges for his e orts to overturn the 2020 election.” Federal prosecutors indicted him on four criminal counts Aug. 1 in relation to events on Jan. 6.

As an early primary state, South Carolina’s Republican voters can serve as a roadblock to Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. Is he really the best that the Republican Party can o er to America?

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

What To Do

SUNDAY

Stephen Marley concert

Beer collective The Whale will be pouring their finest selection of beers to the tunes of awardwinning singer, songwriter and producer Stephen Marley this weekend at The Refinery, and you’re not going to want to miss out. The second eldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley, Stephen Marley’s music has earned him eight Grammy Awards from his solo works to family collaborations and production credits. Grab your tickets online.

Aug. 6. Show starts at 6 p.m. $31/ticket. The Refinery. 1640 Meeting St. Downtown. therefinerychs.com

WEDNESDAY

Chow Town Food Truck Rodeo

Head to Seabrook Island for the second annual run of this rootin’ tootin’ food truck festival before the end of the season. With two dates set for August, there’s still time to enjoy a great variety of food trucks bringing tasty treats to the streets of Seabrook Island and live performances from a variety of acclaimed and local bands.

Aug. 9. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Menu prices vary. Seabrook Island Town Hall. 2001 Seabrook Island Road. townofseabrookisland.org

FRIDAYS

Fossil Fridays

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Milky Way expedition

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The Milky Way galaxy is about to be in perfect position for late summer and early fall viewing in Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Head out to the beach on Bulls Island with Coastal Expeditions, away from light pollution, to see it as it appears in the sky. The first trip coincides with the Perseids meteor shower, making it an exciting double feature for photographers and stargazers.

Aug. 10. Ferry departs at 7:45 p.m. $75/ticket. Garris Landing. S-10-1170. Awendaw. coastalexpeditions.com

Join the Charleston Museum’s curator of natural history Matthew Gibson to learn more about local fossils. A great opportunity for families of history lovers and dinosaur addicts, this weekly event lets you get hands-on experience with different fossils found in the Lowcountry and elsewhere. Gibson will also share what projects he is currently working on and help you identify your own fossil finds.

Fridays. 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free for members; free with museum admission. Charleston Museum. 360 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonmuseum.org

SATURDAY

Chris Singleton book signing

Buxton Books in downtown Charleston is hosting Chris Singleton for a book signing celebrating his newest release, Stories Behind Stances. The author, motivational speaker and former minor league baseball player will explore various ways in which communities can learn to see beyond differences in his new book which seeks to change the culture of work environments and home lives for families that have been divided.

Aug. 5. 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Free. Buxton Books. 160 King St. Downtown. buxtonbooks.com

Johns Island conjures up visions of shady grand oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, o ering a peek into a more rural side of Charleston. Several dining options have long existed for the residents of the island, but as its population grows, so grows the burgeoning food and beverage scene.

Since 2005, Hege’s Restaurant in Fresh elds Village has served French cuisine in a bistro setting with classics like French onion soup, crab cakes and steak frites. Down on Maybank Highway, local favorite Wild Olive has led the way in sustainability and locally sourced items, boasting housemade pasta and a stunning Italian wine list.

But these popular staples are not the only game in town.

“We knew that Johns Island was growing faster than other parts of the area and also that we wouldn’t have to deal with some of the same logistic problems,” said John Williams, co-owner of Johns Island eatery The Royal Tern, echoing the sentiments of others who brought their businesses to the island for the community and space.

Bottom line: Johns Island’s developing food and beverage community is now a force to be reckoned with.

A great new wine bar

U.S. Navy veteran Jordan Hooker opened one of the island’s new additions in July, Somm Wine Bar, and he hopes it becomes a vital name on the island.

“Somm is a neighborhood-focused wine bar specializing in wine ights with special attention to detail, to incredible meat and cheese o erings,” Hooker said. “It’s kind of a Cheers bar, where everybody knows your name.”

Somm’s wine ights come with informational cards about each selection, which help guests discover something new.

“I like when people come in and are open to trying new things because the amount of ights that I have that turn into glass pours are astonishing,” Hooker said.

He said he likes to keep the menu uid because there’s such a wide variety of wine and charcuterie available across the world. Somm’s charcuterie and cheeses are all vegetarian-fed, hormone- and antibioticfree. And since Somm strictly serves wine, beer and charcuterie, it’s currently the only true wine bar on the island, a fact Hooker is proud of.

“We’re the only ones here on Johns,” he said, adding he is happy about the island’s reception of the shop and the weekly regulars that Somm has already gained.

Newcomer gives back

Another newcomer Periwinkle Kitchen aims to ll a gap on the island, o ering healthy chef-made to-go options.

Jordan Hooker opened Somm, Johns Island’s only wine bar, in July

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Periwinkle, which opened mid-July on Betsy Kerrison Parkway, has a diverse menu that changes weekly, with fun staples like the BLT tortellini pasta salad and three chicken salad options. Recently, it offered a beef stroganoff that captured flavors of home.

“I was missing my parents, so I wanted to make things that remind me of my mother,” said chef Haley Gunter of the beef stroganoff. For Gunter, Periwinkle Kitchen is a space that allows her ideas to flow. “I finally got to a spot that I was able to help create,” she said.

Periwinkle’s owner Kim Hayes wants to do more than just serve delicious food.

“[Our staff] wants to build their careers, and we want to help them build them,” Hayes said. For her, Periwinkle Kitchen is an opportunity to give back on a personal level.

“I blew my back out in active duty [in the Army] and had a massive spine injury,” she said. “I didn’t know if I would ever stand or walk again, and now that I can, it’s a big thing to come in and see people smiling when they come into the cafe.”

Periwinkle Kitchen values the community and is proud to give back to it. A portion of the proceeds from its Heartfelt Cinnamon Rolls goes to the GreenHeart Charity.

“When you think of us, I hope what people always think of is a company that gives back to the community,” Hayes said. “It starts in your own backyard.”

Periwinkle also has Johns Island’s only juice bar where cold-pressed juices are served. It soon may turn into a smoothie bar, too.

Old favorites remain

For Johns Island locals, this next one is no secret, but for everyone else, it might be.

Seanachai Whiskey & Cocktail Bar opened in 2011 and recently turned over ownership in 2019 to chef and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Jason Myers and his wife, former figure skater Marissa Myers.

“The pub has been around since 2011, and it’s just become a landmark and staple of Johns Island,” Jason Myers said. “We’ve

been running it more or less the same as the founder intended.”

But, that’s not to say the establishment hasn’t grown.

“We just offer a really strong food program. Nothing crazy inventive, but super, super solid,” Myers said. “We’re a bar with a kitchen, not a restaurant.”

With the island’s increasing growth and the bar’s popularity, Seanachai will soon open for lunch and on Sunday evening’s after brunch.

“[Brunch] has easily become our secondbusiest day of the week,” Myers said, highlighting brunch cocktails, like the Irish cocktail, which he said is “second to none.”

He has also grown the whiskey list from about 100 to 350 whiskeys, adding that several times a year, he hosts a whiskey dinner.

“I typically try to do four to six of them a year, and they’re private, ticketed events. The whole pub closes down, the vibe changes to lowlight, candles and jazz, and I do a five- or six-course tasting menu with whiskey and cocktails.”

Myers and his wife also opened Flyin’ High Frozen Yogurt next door, offering frozen yogurt, coffee, pastries, CBD, Delta-8 and Delta-9 products.

Mexican eatery Minero shuttered its doors downtown in 2020 after six years on East Bay Street, but in June 2022, it found a new home on Johns Island — with much more space.

“The downtown location and kitchen were very small. We didn’t have room to have an expansive menu,” said Kenny Lyons, vice president of operations at the Neighborhood Dining Group.

In the new space, Minero added a back deck with games, as well as a live-fire charcoal grill used to make fajitas and items featuring charcoal-grilled chicken, like chimichangas and enchiladas, paired with housemade tortillas.

Lyons said the Johns Island community has welcomed the move with overwhelming support.

Upscale dining, too

Brothers John and Ben Williams fulfilled their dream of opening a restaurant in 2019 when they moved to the Lowcountry and started The Royal Tern.

“The ability to design a space and building based on the way we wanted it as well as the ability to provide parking for patrons and employees was a huge deciding factor,” John Williams said.

“Our initial goal was to offer the local Johns Island community a new restaurant where they could feel at home. With their loyalty and praise, we have been able to continue to grow as word gets out to people in the surrounding areas of Charleston.”

The Royal Tern offers globally inspired

preparations of seafood and beef created by chef Kyle Kryske. Fan favorites include blackened swordfish, whole grilled fish and grilled shrimp, with gluten-free crème brÛleé and carrot cake as desserts.

Williams added that The Royal Tern’s manager and resident sommelier, Garth Herr, is always looking for wines to complement the menu. It also offers a phenomenal bar and cocktail program led by Jimmy Shea, making The Royal Tern a wellrounded place for a night out.

With so many possibilities, new and old, it’s pretty clear that no matter what you’re in the mood for, the Johns Island restaurant community has a fix for it, and they are excited to see you when you arrive.

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Seanachai owners Marissa and Jason Myers also opened Flyin’ High Frozen Yogurt next to the bar

Photos by Rūta Smith

Periwinkle Kitchen chef Haley Gunter (right) makes delicious to-go meals for customers. The shop is also known for its cinnamon rolls (top right) and other pastries.

Hunter makes poetic photos of the female experience

By Chloe Hogan

Marina Hunter has grown a loyal following for her photographic art, much of which centers around themes of feminine angst. Though she’s constantly pulling inspiration from iconic artists like Sofia Coppola, Sylvia Plath and Lana Del Rey, the resulting artwork always boasts Hunter’s recognizably colorful and surrealist style.

“I’ve always been into creating,” the Johns Island resident said in a recent interview.

Hunter has been careful to maintain her artistic aesthetic even when working commercially. That kind of distinctive vision has opened doors to shoot recently for publications like Playboy and Inked Mag. She said she also loves to work with musicians, a recent career highlight being a photoshoot with Corey Taylor, the lead singer of the nu metal band Slipknot.

Hunter often creates elaborate sets and styling for her photoshoots, depicting her subjects as fairies, mermaids, cowboys and more.

“I won’t do a shoot unless it’s like 90% my creative control,” she said. She said she also loves to recreate “badass female characters” through her Halloween-themed series. Examples include a photoshoot of her sister as Carrie, or her best friend as Jennifer Check from the cult classic, Jennifer’s Body — a film which has become known for its opening line, “Hell is a teenage girl.”

“I’m starting to plan Halloween already,” she said with a laugh. “My husband thinks I’m crazy.”

Hunter said she finds and leans into artistic narratives in the editing stage especially. Some is done digitally, but her favorite way to edit is to physically print and collage her photos into more complex compositions. More recently, she’s incorporating words into the works, too.

It’s not surprising then that Hunter, who grew up on Hilton Head Island, first started making art by writing poetry.

“In high school, I would do a lot of mixed media pieces, and I was really into poetry. When I took an intro to film class in college, I fell in love with expressing myself through that medium.”

“And sometimes the photos will start with a poem,” she said. “My art is definitely ruled by my emotions. … It’s my therapeutic outlet.”

Opening a James Island studio space

On June 17, Hunter celebrated the opening of her photo studio on Wappoo Drive in James Island. She held a well-attended opening reception complete with a tarot reader and a snake for photo-ops.

She’s been working towards opening her studio for the last two years. She said after graduating from College of Charleston in 2018, “I knew I wanted to keep pursuing art, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do, because a lot of photography was wedding photography and making money off of that kind of thing. And I knew I didn’t want to do that, so I wasn’t really sure where to go from there.

“I was only shooting once every few months, and I just felt so disconnected from my art. When Covid happened, I picked up

my camera again.”

It was 2020 when she also started posting regularly on TikTok, a strategic effort to get eyes on her work.

“[Posting on TikTok] is like a full-time job itself. It has its pros and cons,” she said. “But also it’s definitely how I found all my clients and got these cool opportunities.”

A turning point for Hunter, she said, was when she shot rising musician and TikTok star Nessa Barrett.

“Nessa Barrett DM’d me and was like, ‘Can you come to LA and shoot me?’ That

artists, fashion brands and other clients, plus host events where local creatives can connect

Marina Hunter opened in June a studio space on James Island to photograph musicians,

was de nitely the beginning of it.” And since, working with musicians has become one of Hunter’s favorite things — it’s a chance to use her skills as a translator between poetry and imagery.

“I like to nd that overlap between their music and my idea of imagery for it.”

These days, Hunter splits her time working between Charleston and Los Angeles. She’s passionate about connecting with other creatives, but especially in Charleston that’s another reason why she opened her James Island studio space.

“At the opening, it was really cool to actually meet people that I talk to on Instagram. When I go to bigger cities, there’s hair and makeup artists, stylists and models. And here, I just don’t feel like the community is as big. But then when you get everyone together, you can get so inspired by that sense of community.”

She plans to host female artist nights and other events at the studio in the future.

Balancing art and life

Hunter started looking at potential studio spaces two years ago, but it wasn’t until a

The Lowdown

Marina Hunter

Age: 28.

Birthplace: Blue Hill, Maine.

Education: College of Charleston.

Family: Husband, Mike and 9-month-old baby.

Pets: 5-year-old Siberian Husky, Mikah.

Something people would be surprised to learn about you: I’m terrified of butterflies.

Favorite thing to do outside of work: Spend time with my baby.

Books on bedside table: My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh.

Favorite novel: The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides.

Favorite cocktail or beverage: Espresso martini.

Favorite food to eat: Anything sweet.

Five foods you always need in your refrigerator: Tempeh, almond milk, cheese, cold brew coffee, carrots.

Three people (alive or dead) you’d like to dine with: Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, Lana Del Rey.

What meal would you want served to you for your last supper: A grilled cheese with a side of fries and a chocolate milkshake.

Hobbies: Hot yoga, reading, exploring new places.

Secret vice: Binge-watching Gossip Girl.

Guilty pleasure: Overanalyzing astrology charts.

Favorite musicians: Nirvana, Hole, Lana Del Rey, Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, Halsey.

Childhood hero: My mom.

Pet peeve: Slow walkers.

Anything about the pandemic a ected you in particular: It allowed me to focus on my passion and become really good at Mario Kart.

Photos by Steve Aycock

Marina Hunter’s new studio space is decorated with her work printed in large format and even on skateboards

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“I was literally driving home from the hospital after giving birth. My husband and I looked over and there was a big ‘Rent Me’ sign. I was like, ugh, I don’t want to do this right now, but I love that location. … Literally two days later, I was meeting with the landlord.

“She was like, ‘How old is your baby?’ I’m like, ‘Two days.’ She’s like, ‘Are you sure you can do this?’ I’m like, ‘Yep, it’ll be ne.’”

Hunter said this year has been a massive transition — becoming a mother and a business owner in the same year is not for the faint of heart.

“It’s been a struggle,” she admitted. “I had really bad postpartum depression. And it was three months of feeling like a piece of me was missing. I felt like I was never going to create again.”

Over the past few months, though, she’s

nding the balance of her new life as a working mom.

“It’s been great to leave the house, come here and carve out time to be as creative as possible before I go home and be a mom. But the beginning was really hard. I felt very disconnected from that side of myself. And that’s something I’ve been channeling into the work recently.”

Self-portraiture has always been a staple in Hunter’s practice, but her current project will be her most personal yet: a series of self portraits documenting her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. She even uses words from her diaries — from high school to present day — to imbue the works with personal narratives.

“There was a point where I could feel myself starting to do shoots speci cally for TikTok trends and things like that, and I started to feel disconnected again. I pulled away from it, and I was like, ‘I’m just going to create art that I want to create. And then if people don’t like it, that’s ne.’ I always want the vision to come rst.”

Marina Hunter

Hunter’s photos often feature rising musicians like Xowie Jones (above) and are filled with references to femme fatales, fairytales and cybercore aesthetics

The motion of the ocean really does matter

By Toni Reale, special to City Paper

It turns out that volume does matter, particularly when it comes to the amount of cold dense water that forms off of the coast of Greenland and makes its way to the bottom of the sea floor. Surface water in the North Atlantic is cooled by arctic air and when ice sheets and icebergs form, the water left behind gets saltier and denser and sinks.

Density differences between the ocean’s surface and deep waters are what put into motion thermohaline circulation where the water that sinks pulls warmer less salty (less dense) water up from the equatorial regions to take its place. This global conveyor belt allows the ocean to take heat away from equatorial regions and distribute it throughout the planet.

Scientists know that deep water moves south in the Atlantic to Antarctica before it splits. One section of deepwater upwells in the Indian Ocean and the other in the North Pacific. This cold deep water that rises up to the surface brings with it vital nutrients to the base of the global food chain and to fisheries that feed millions of people in that region.

Ocean circulation not only transports heat, nutrients, marine life (think Finding Dory for a simple example) and carbon dioxide, but also influences climate patterns around the world. The Gulf Stream, which is a surface ocean current, is largely responsible for our climate here in the Southeast. Any changes to the global conveyor belt and the Earth’s ability to dissipate heat from the equator, geologically-speaking, has had a significant impact on global climate.

During the Last Glacial Maximum, which peaked around 21,000 years ago, ice sheets in North America went as far south as southern Illinois, pushing cool dry air south and changing both ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns to create a climate where mammoths, mastodons and other large Pleistocene mammals could call the Lowcountry home. At the end of the last ice age (around 10,000 years ago), ice sheets

began to melt, initiating significant changes in climate which ultimately led to the extinction of those large mammals. They were replaced with the types of flora and fauna with which we are now familiar.

Changes over time

These types of large changes and feedback loops within our climate system have happened throughout geological time. But the reason we all need to pay attention now (and should have been since scientists have been shouting from the rooftops to wake up decades ago) is because humanity is at risk.

A recent study published in the journal Nature warns of a slow down and possible collapse of the oceanic conveyor belt soon — perhaps in just a few years. This study is supported by data from solid sources, including the Hadley Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (my alma mater for graduate school). While the study’s timing of the collapse will be debated, what is not debated is that there have been warning signs of a slowdown for decades that have largely been ignored. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s last report stated a longer time period for a shutdown — by the end of the century. Regardless of the exact timing, changes have been happening and will continue to.

This year has been the hottest year on record globally and annual mean temperatures have been rising since 1880, having significant impacts on weather patterns and changing the climate. This has triggered a chain of impacts on rainfall, fisheries, farming and every possible sector of our human life. It is not debated by reputable scientists that warming is primarily caused by human activity, including the use of fossil fuels, changes in land use and our wasteful lifestyles. If you’ve been out of the loop, there’s no more excuse not to pay attention, educate yourself and get involved.

Toni Reale is the owner of Roadside Blooms, a unique flower, plant, crystal, rock and fossil shop in Park Circle in North Charleston. Formerly a geology instructor at the College of Charleston for over a decade, she remains passionate about environmental issues and interesting topics in science. roadsidebloomsshop.com

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Exhibition explores teens’ spatial mobility

By Chloe Hogan

Do you have a place where you can relax and hang out that isn’t your home or your work? Now imagine you’re a teenager, particularly one in a low-income or quickly gentrifying area. With these stipulations, that “third place” (a term coined by U.S. sociologist Ray Oldenburg) becomes harder and harder to find.

A person’s “first place” is their home, a private domestic space. A “second place” is a structured social experience where you likely spend most of your time, such as work for adults, or school for kids and teens. Your third place is somewhere you can connect with others, share your thoughts and dreams and have fun. For teenagers, this is a vitally important space to develop social skills and discover who you are outside of home and school.

But where can teens go when there is no place to play?

Lyndsey Deaton, licensed architect, professor and researcher at Clemson University, set out to answer that question by conducting five years of research with more than 50 teens from seven communities in India and the Philippines.

She collaborated with a group of students in various majors at Clemson to present those findings in an art exhibition, No Place to Play, which is on view until Sept. 9 at Redux Contemporary Art Center.

Walking through the exhibition, viewers see photographs taken by the teens on disposable cameras over those five years, plus maps, transcripts of recorded conversations and other visual aids which present Deaton’s findings.

“We hope to bring awareness to the importance of safe, comfortable and convenient public space for teenagers, especially those who live in lower-income communities at risk of gentrification,” she said. The exhibition was created as the final

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Party, shop at Starlight Hotel

Join Charleston-based lifestyle brand, Almighty Lifestyles (host of LO-Fi Brewing’s monthly trade-and-trend events) from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Aug. 19 for the first-ever Retro Splash, a pool party at the newly renovated Starlight Motor Inn on Rivers Avenue. Expect vintage vendors, artists, food, music and good vibes. There is a $5 entry fee. Learn more on Instagram at @almighty. lifestyles.

Rip City takes over the Terrace Theatre

The exhibit invites visitors to consider how places of play are not equally available for all teenagers and ponder ways to create more accessible hang out spaces

project for a class which Deaton led, through a program at Clemson called creative inquiry, which invited students from a variety of majors including architecture, psychology, women’s leadership and sociology to create this exhibition.

“We focused in the class on understanding what research can do within architecture and design but also how you can curate an exhibition to present those findings to the public,” she said. “The students broke into teams and each developed different ideas of how we would show the material.”

The exhibition also asks the audience to consider the similarities between the teens’ experiences in this study and the urban public spaces around South Carolina.

“The Charlotte-Atlanta corridor is one of the fastest growing areas in the United States,” Deaton said. “So it’s very ripe for economic development impacts. And the students were really interested in figuring out how to apply the lessons we learned from my research in India and the Philippines to South Carolina — so many of them have grown up in these areas. I have two students that are from Charleston, and so they were like, ‘I know exactly where we used to hang out. Let me show you.’ And the same for Greenville.”

The class broke into teams of students, each taking on a city in South Carolina: Clemson, Greenville, where the exhibition premiered in April, Charleston and Columbia.

The students took a general survey of which spaces were hangout places and tied

that information together with data from local research institutions studying gentrification and displacement.

The artworks displayed at Redux incorporate the city of Charleston’s geographic information systems (GIS) mapping and racial disparities data to depict how displacement affects the city, one of the fastestgentrifying areas in the U.S.

Deaton found through her research that the space kids had access to was greatly impacted by not only income disparities but also gender.

“In working and talking with these teens, it became super clear that the girls across all seven communities in two countries had a very limited spatial range. Their spatial mobility was about a third of the boys, which was significant.”

This is visible in the exhibition — through maps, photographs and conversations, it becomes clear that the “third place” is much harder for girls to access, especially when cultural programming like gender roles come into play.

When Deaton gave the teens disposable cameras, she said, across the board, none of the girls could finish taking pictures.

“At first I thought, maybe they’re timid. And basically they told me, ‘No, we just don’t have anything to photograph. We’re just in the house.’

“There’s really a clear lack of space that they can go to, which is going to impact later on in their lives, in what opportunities they see available to them, kind of what their perspective of life is.”

Experimental comedy show Rip City CHS takes over the Terrace Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 25 for a special night of short films, sketches, music videos, animations and more. Dress in your red carpet best to witness “all the weirdness of Rip City in movie form,” produced by Nameless Numberhead comedy duo Maari Suorsa and Henry Riggs. Tickets start at $15. Visit @ripcitychs on Instagram for details.

Check out new work by Mary Edna Fraser

Hagan Fine Art Gallery unveils on Aug. 4 a show of new works by multimedia fine artist Mary Edna Fraser. Expect large-scale batik pieces on silk and original oil paintings by Fraser, whose work deals with conservation and stewardship of the natural world. A free opening reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 4 coincides with the monthly First Friday Art Walk organized by the Charleston Gallery Association. Nature’s Tapestry displays until Aug. 31.

Catch The Prom at Dock Street Theatre

Don’t miss your chance to see The Prom, a musical comedy which tells the story of four Broadway has-beens in search of a way to restore their failing careers. The four characters fly to Indiana to help a gay teen, Emma, who’s been banned from bringing her girlfriend to senior prom. Performances run Aug. 23 through Sept. 17 at the historic Dock Street Theatre. Tickets start at $49.50 and are available at charlestonstage.com. — Chloe Hogan

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Broadway political comedy lands at Queen Street Playhouse

By Chloe Hogan

A fast, furious and funny political play comes to Queen Street Playhouse — POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. The play follows seven women, the inner circle of an unnamed U.S. president, after a presidential PR blunder spins into an international crisis.

This regional premiere of the play by Selina Fillinger has a special tie to Charleston. West Ashley native David Lynch, a 25-year-old who recently won a Tony Award for his work on Parade, was part of the original producing team, which debuted the play on Broadway in April 2022 with a star-studded cast.

The comedy features seven Charleston actors including Ari Snowden, who plays the first lady, and Sam Smith, who plays the chief of staff. Sarah Callahan Black portrays the role of the president’s mistress with Imani Lloyd as the press secretary.

In the play’s first scene, the president utters a four-letter word that sets an avalanche of events into motion. It’s up to those seven exasperated women to undertake damage control.

“That first moment in the show, just sit and take it in,” Snowden said. “And then, get ready for a wild ride that’s coming. These seven women are trying to handle a crisis that just kind of keeps building upon itself. Something goes wrong, and something else goes wrong, and it just gets bigger and bigger and to a point where we almost can’t contain it.”

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Sam Smith, a longtime performer with the Footlight Players, said the show’s dialogue is fast-paced and heated.

“It goes back and forth, with all of us talking over each other,” she said. “And more than a political play, this show is a

farce about the absurdity of how one word uttered by the president can change the whole world.”

Her character Maragret, the chief of staff, is so competent that the president’s sister asks his press secretary at one point why she isn’t president instead of him (in a line that routinely garnered standing ovations on Broadway). The press secretary bluntly replies, “That’s the eternal question, isn’t it?”

Smith said, “I think Maragret feels that everything is just one step away from exploding, constantly. She’s always one step away from a breakdown. And I think, if she keeps it together, she thinks she can kind of ascend beyond this role.”

Despite the fact that the play revolves around the president, he never actually appears on stage, a choice by the playwright

Fillinger to show the invisible work women do — at home, in boardrooms and, yes, in the White House.

“I think it’s really important that we never see him,” Snowden said, “because honestly, he is irrelevant to this whole story. Yes, he’s the face of the nation, but really, he’s like a puppet. We, the women of his cabinet, are creating all of the scenarios in which he’s walking in.”

Though it tackles serious issues, both Smith and Snowden agreed the play is meant to make you laugh — no matter which side of the political spectrum you lean towards.

“There’s even an element of almost slapstick to what’s going on on stage,” Smith said. “It’s fun, it’s wacky and out of control.”

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is on stage at the Queen Street Playhouse Aug. 18 through Sept. 3. Tickets start at $40 at footlightplayers.net.

The play POTUS follows seven women in a president’s cabinet who must handle a PR nightmare. The play runs Aug. 18 through Sept. 3 at Queen Street Playhouse.

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That first moment in the show, just sit and take it in. And then, get ready for a wild ride that’s coming.” —Ari Snowden

Bintü Atelier:

A culinary studio highlighting African cuisine

By Amethyst Ganaway

“Atelier” is a French word, meaning workshop or studio, and isn’t normally associated with a restaurant. But it works fittingly to describe one of Charleston’s newest downtown restaurants located at 8D Line Street and helmed by chef Bintou N’Daw Young. The name of the restaurant, Bintü Atelier, speaks to the influence of the French colonization of Senegal, where N’Daw Young was raised, but also to much more.

Born in Dakar, Senegal, but raised on the island of St. Louis, N’Daw Young said Charleston reminds her of the island — a complicated but beautiful place with unique architecture, brightly colored buildings and cobblestone streets.

N’Daw Young’s mother is biracial, being of both French and Senegalese descent, and she and her family lived in and often visited France, where she got her first experiences learning French cuisine directly from the source.

Her grandmother in France was a caterer and lover of Auguste Escoffier, the French chef best known for modernizing French cuisine and technique, with his influence reaching around the world. Her grandmother would teach her how to make bread from scratch and other rustic French cooking methods while she was there.

N’Daw Young’s other grandmother in Dakar also operated a catering company, so while in Senegal, she was learning traditional West African dishes and those influenced by French, Vietnamese, Moroccan and other cultures that had been prevalent in the country. Eventually, her mother decided to move them to France permanently, where N’Daw Young would go to pastry school.

Growing influence

She discovered quickly that she didn’t enjoy pastry, but she still had a love for cooking

savory foods, so she staged, or interned, around the world. She cooked in fine dining kitchens in France and Spain and all across Africa in countries like Tanzania and Cameroon, eventually settling and working as a traveling chef for a family that soon moved to New York City.

Not long after moving to New York, N’Daw Young’s mother followed her, and soon they started Nafis, a packaged sauce brand focused on making traditional Senegalese sauces, such as peanut-based mafe, accessible to the average diner. Soon, Nafis sauces were picked up by Whole Foods in the Northeast, greatly ramping up the line’s production and N’Daw Young’s profile as a chef.

At the same time, N’Daw Young was balancing working in restaurants and working as a private chef for celebrities like DJ Khaled. Not long before the Covid-19 shutdown began, she would open her first restaurant in the Bronx, iNINE Bistro, which thrived even throughout the pandemic.

However in their free time, she and her husband would often travel to and explore the Southeast. When a close friend of theirs moved to Charleston, N’Daw Young would come to visit and fell deeply in love. “I felt the influence of the French and an even

deeper connection here when I learned of the Gullah Geechee culture,” she told the Charleston City Paper.

She decided to pack up and move to Charleston, where she worked at local French restaurant Chez Nous for a year.

Cultural connections

Things weren’t going exactly as planned, but an opportunity fell into her lap as she was considering moving back to New York City.

Someone told her about a small available space on Line Street, and they wanted her to open a restaurant. The caveat? She’d have to open in just two months.

“I saw Africa here,” N’Daw Young said. “From the language, food, architecture, the water, it felt like home here. It’s just as important for African people from the continent to link all of the knowledge out there and revive the discussion and see how African culture and people are here. Through food, we can cross the boundaries of any human disagreements.”

So she and her husband decided to stay. She and her mother have begun to move the production of Nafis to Walterboro, where they have the capabilities to grow their business in a way they weren’t able to

before.They’re even creating a new pineapple hot sauce called “Charleston Heat,” and hope to get distribution in Whole Foods here in Charleston while Bintü Atelier continues to grow.

The restaurant is small, only holding about a dozen or so people on its outdoor patio until inside renovations are complete. The indoor seating will accommodate an additional 20-plus people at a family-style dinner table.

While the restaurant is an homage to N’Daw Young’s Senegalese and French roots, it’s also a home to tell her culinary story — a place to show off old-school French country cuisine she loves and the history and diversity of Senegalese cuisine.

But Bintü Atelier is a workshop first and a restaurant second.

While it is rooted in West African cuisine, N’Daw Young aims to show more than one country or one region. She won’t just present the many dishes in West Africa — the whole continent and its multitude of cuisines and cultures will be highlighted. She intends to invite other African chefs to the workshop to tell their story and share their country.

Her dream and goal is to incorporate and showcase African cultures, foods

Photos by Rūta Smith

Downtown West African restaurant Bintü Atelier is an homage to chef Bintou N’Daw Young’s Senegalese and French roots

and techniques. For example, she’s planning on highlighting Ethiopian food and cooking dishes through traditional cooking methods like using ceramic or clay cookware called tagines. And she wants chefs from across the African diaspora, including Caribbean, Brazilian and, of course, Gullah Geechee cuisines to come and show their foodways too.

“I have already seen the limitations that are placed on African food in mainstream culture,” she said. “But one thing that we all have is the connection of eating good food together. From the Viet living in Dakar to the Indians in South Africa, I want to bring that to Charleston’s table.”

N’Daw Young, who is always working on something and stays busy, wants Bintü Atelier to be an example of an ongoing endeavor. It features an ever-evolving menu, with some staples, so she can introduce people to new cuisines and cultures, and hopes to see other African and diasporic cuisines continue to come to Charleston.

The word and name “Bintü” holds a special place in Senegalese culture and in N’Daw Young’s own family. It is her aunt’s name, another woman in her family who she holds in high revere.

“Bint-,” used as a prefix in Arabic, signifies the first, and “Binta” or “Bintu” stands for the first daughter who is born in a family, which N’Daw Young is in her own family. But to her, she sees it as a shining

A la carte

What’s new

Handcraft Kitchen & Cocktails’ Aperol patio opened last week in Mount Pleasant. The patio offers a unique aperitif experience and signature cocktails. It is open during regular Handcraft Kitchen & Cocktails business hours at 735 Coleman Boulevard.

Coconut Joe’s Beach Grill opened its Folly Beach location. The grill will serve the same menu as the Isle of Palms location and will operate 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays.

What’s happening

Learn how to make Indaco’s signature black pepper tagliatelle and enjoy brunch at Indaco’s Pasta 101 class. Chef Elton Morris will lead the class in a hands-on pasta tutorial, followed by brunch with your classmates. The class takes place at 10 a.m. Aug 12. Tickets are $100 per participant and are available for purchase on OpenTable.

symbol of being the first but most definitely not the last African restaurant to come to downtown Charleston.

August marks the Mills House’s 170th anniversary. The iconic pink downtown

hotel on Meeting Street is celebrating all month long with programming, throwback menus and more. The hotel’s restaurant Iron Rose will serve historically inspired dishes and cocktails as an ode to the restaurant’s original menu from 1860.

Charleston Grill is bringing back its Vegstock tradition for the month of August. This six-course tasting menu features Lowcountry produce and is available every Monday night this month. The full menu will also be available as well as wine pairings (for an additional fee).

The Palace Hotel announced that half-off hot dogs on Sundays are back. The establishment is open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesdays through Sundays and 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Mondays. Food is served daily until 1 a.m.

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Say farewell to The Exchange at Edmund’s Oast from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Aug 12 at its Grand Finale Party. The family-friendly party is free to attend and will feature food from Foxes Fried Food Truck and live jazz music. —Hillary Reaves

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

C/A No.: 2023-CP-10-03032

Nationstar Mortgage, LLC d/b/a

Mr. Cooper, Plaintiff, vs. The Estate of Carl E. Dickey, and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees of Carl E. Dickey, deceased, and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also, all other persons, corporations or entities unknown claiming any right, title interest in or lien upon the subject real estate described herein, any unknown adults, whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants, persons under disability, or person in the Military Service of the United States of America whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE

measuring and containing One and Six-Tenths (1.6) Acres, more or less, and being shown on a plat prepared by Sigma Engineers, dated February 26, 1969 and duly recorded in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Plat Book Y at Page 56; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear. Subject to any and all Restrictions, Covenants, Conditions, Easements, Rights of Way and all other matters affecting subject property of record in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina. This being the same property as conveyed to Carl E. Dickey by Deed of Lewis D. Wright and Frances M. Wright, dated January 02, 2003 and duly recorded January 8, 2003 herewith in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina in book 432 at Page 855.

Parcel No. 253-00-00-090

Property Address: 6081 Chisolm Road Johns Island, SC 29455

ORDER FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR UNKNOWN DEFENDANTS IN MILITARY SERVICE

Foreclosure Intervention in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on June 22, 2023. D. Max Sims, Esq. (SC Bar: 103945) Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC 339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor Columbia, SC 29201 Phone (803) 509-5078 BCP No.: 23-53623

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NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor, Columbia, SC 29201, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee, 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) 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 Attorney for the Plaintiff.

LIS PENDENS

Notice is hereby given that an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Carl E. Dickey (hereinafter, “Mortgagor(s)”) to Bank of America, N.A., its successors and assigns, a certain mortgage dated January 2, 2003 and recorded on January 8, 2003 in Book 432 at Page 790, in the Charleston County Office of the Register of Deeds (hereinafter, “Subject Mortgage”). Thereafter, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment. The premises covered and affected by the said Mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, more particularly described in the said Mortgage and are more commonly described as: All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, or to be built thereon, situate, lying and being on the North Side of Chisolm Road, on Johns Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina,

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of J. Marshall Swails, Esq. as Guardian ad Litem for known and unknown minors, and for all persons who may be under a disability, and it appearing that J. Marshall Swails, Esq. has consented to said appointment, it is FURTHER upon reading the Petition filed by Plaintiff for the appointment of an attorney to represent any unknown Defendants who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, and may be, as such, entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act, and any amendments thereto, and it appearing that J. Marshall Swails, Esq. has consented to act for and represent said Defendants, it is ORDERED that J. Marshall Swails, Esq., 8 Williams Street, Greenville, SC 29601, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all known and unknown minors and all unknown persons who may be under a disability, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest or claim to the real property commonly known as 6081 Chisolm Road, Johns Island, SC 29455; that he is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for said Defendants. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that J. Marshall Swails, Esq., 8 Williams Street, Greenville, SC 29601, be and hereby is appointed Attorney for any unknown Defendants who are, or may be, in the Military Service of the United States of America and as such are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act aka Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, and any amendments thereto, to represent and protect the interest of said Defendants, AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be forth with served upon said Defendants by publication in The City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons and Notice of Filing of Complaint in the above entitled action.

NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Lis Pendens, Certificate of Exemption from ADR and Notice of Right to

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-03127

Stefan L. Gresham, Plaintiff, -versusRichard Stewart, Dustin Pendergrast, Hazel E. Whitney a/k/a Hazel Gaillard, William Shecut a/k/a William Linneaus Shecut, Helen Pendergrass a/k/ Helen Pendergrast, all Deceased; and all persons claiming under or through the heirs of Hazel E. Whitney a/k/a Hazel Gaillard, William Shecut a/k/a William Linneaus Shecut, Helen Pendergrass a/k/a Helen Pendergrast, collectively Designated as JOHN DOE, and any such persons who are Minors or other disability, or members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, as contemplated by the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Relief Act, 1940, as Amended collectively designated as RICHARD ROE, and all persons entitled to claim under or through Hazel E. Whitney a/k/a Hazel Gaillard, William Shecut a/k/a William Linneaus Shecut, Helen Pendergrass a/k/a Helen Pendergrast, and also, all persons claiming any right, title or interest in the real estate described in the Complaint herein, Defendants,

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

TMS #460-07-04-030

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this Action dated June 27, 2023, which was filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the June 28, 2023. 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.

Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on the 14th day of July 2023.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A.

s/Thomas H. Brush Thomas H. Brush Attorney for the Plaintiff SC Bar # 000974

tbrush@brushlawfirm.com

12A Carriage Lane Charleston SC 29407

The original Summons and Complaint in the above captioned action were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 28th day of June 2023.

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 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 and the Defendants are the owner of the said property and establishing their respective undivided interest in the properties described in paragraph four (4) of the Plaintiff’s Complaint.

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 or parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situate on the north side of Kennedy Street extended, which extension originally formed a part of lots number seven (7) eight (8) and nine (9) on a plat of property at the Southwestern corner of Rutledge Avenue and Line Street made by J. H. Dingle, dated September 26, 1896 and recorded in Book “D”, at Page 62, in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County in the City of Charleston, State aforesaid, being the central portion of lot number nine (9) on said plat conveyed with the other two lots to Security Real Estate and Investment Company by S.M Anderson, March, 1907.

SAID lot butting and bounding on the northern portion of lot number nine (9) on said plat and measuring on that be thirty two feet, east on part of lots number eleven (11) and twelve (12) on said plat and measuring on that line fifty-eight (58’) feet and south on the extension of Kennedy Street and measuring on that line thirty-two (32) feet and west on part of lot eight (8) on said plat measuring on that line fifty-eight (58’) feet, be the said dimensions more or less.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A.

/s/ Thomas H. Brush Thomas H. Brush SC Bar # 974 tbrush@brushlawfirm.com

J. Chris Lanning Attorney for the Plaintiff SC Bar #73957 clanning@brushlawfirm.com

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

Dated: June 27, 2023

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, 6 Carriage Lane, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, be and 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

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!

del Departamento de Servicios Sociales del Condado de Charleston, ubicado en 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 en un plazo de treinta (30) días luego de esta publicación, excluyendo la fecha de entrega. Si no contesta en el plazo establecido anteriormente, el Demandante procederá a solicitar remedios al Tribunal. Si no contesta en el plazo establecido anteriormente, el Demandante procederá a solicitar remedios al Tribunal.

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 else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

************ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DORCHESTER IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-18-750

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

Homeowners Association, Inc.; Bank of America, N.A., DEFENDANT(S)

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

ORDERED, that such appointments shall become absolute unless within thirty (30) days after the last publication of the Notice of the

s/Julie

J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court

RECYCLE THIS PAPER

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-1028

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

ERICK MORALES GARCIA IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2007.

TO DEFENDANT: ERICK MORALES GARCIA YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for termination of your parental rights in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 4, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for termination of your parental rights will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Adam Ruffin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Adam Ruffin, SC Bar #101350, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, 843-953-9625.

ESTADO DE CAROLINA DEL SUR

CONDADO DE CHARLESTON EN EL TRIBUNAL DE FAMILIA

DEL NOVENO CIRCUITO JUDICIAL EXPEDIENTE NO. 2023-DR-10-1028

DEPARTAMENTO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES DE CAROLINA DEL SUR

CONTRA

ERICK MORALES GARCIA EN INTERÉS DE: MENOR DE EDAD NACIDO EN 2007.

A LA PARTE DEMANDADA:

ERICK MORALES GARCIA

POR LA PRESENTE SE LE CITA y exige responder a la Demanda para la terminación de sus derechos parentales en esta acción, presentada ante el Secretario del Tribunal del Condado de Charleston el 4 de abril de 2023 a las 11:00 a.m. Previa prueba de interés, se le entregará una copia de la Demanda para la terminación de su patria potestad si así lo solicita, y deberá entregar una copia de su Respuesta a la Demanda al Demandante, al Departamento de Servicios Sociales del Condado de Charleston, Carolina del Sur, en la oficina de su abogado, Adam Ruffin, Departamento Legal

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-1192

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

DYLAN BELL, SAMANTHA BELL, FRANCIS CALES, AND DONNA CALES, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN ON 2012, 2013, 2017, AND 2021.

TO DEFENDANTS: SAMANTHA

BELL AND DYLAN BELL

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 19, 2023 at 10:13 AM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Steven Corley, Legal Department of the Charleston CountyDepartment of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Steven Corley, SC Bar #103431, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, (843) 953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-1311

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

MAGGIE EMMONS AND BRANDON MIKELL

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2022.

TO DEFENDANT: MAGGIE

EMMONS

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for termination of your parental rights in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on May 3, 2023, at 10:13 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for termination of your parental rights will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County 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 Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Sally R. Young SC Bar #4686, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, 843-953-9521.

Estate of: PATRICIA BROWNING CORBIN

2023-ES-10-0241

DOD: 01/27/23

Pers. Rep:

RUSSELL B. CORBIN PO BOX 129

YONGES ISLAND, SC 29449

Pers. Rep:

ANGELA ANN CORBIN PO BOX 129

YONGES ISLAND, SC 29449

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

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Estate of:

WAYNE THOMAS MCGONIGAL

2023-ES-10-1179

DOD: 04/17/23

Pers. Rep:

CAROLYN E. MCGONIGAL 5000 CORAL REEF DR., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: JOHN F. PERRY, ESQ. 3021 RUSHLAND MEWS JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

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Estate of:

ELIZABETH DENISON DIXON

2023-ES-10-1194

DOD: 06/12/23

Pers. Rep:

ANDREW W. CHANDLER, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of:

ELIJAH GRANT, SR.

2023-ES-10-1197

DOD: 03/23/23

Pers. Rep:

CYNTHIA GRANT WILLIAMS

3716 GAINES MILL DR. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420

Atty:

HAROLD A. OBERMAN, ESQ. 60 MARKFIELD DR., #2 CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of:

FULU PAAGA

2023-ES-10-1225

DOD: 11/21/22

Pers. Rep:

ULUMOE IFALE

7555 PEPPERCORN LN. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420

************

Estate of:

BENJAMIN KARL JANTZEN 2023-ES-10-1243

DOD: 06/07/23

Pers. Rep: STEVEN K. JANTZEN 35 LYTTLETON AVE. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of:

LILLIE A. FREEMAN 2023-ES-10-1249

DOD: 06/02/23

Pers. Rep:

ELIZABETH FREEMAN

7511 RIVERS AVE., #104 NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406

************

Estate of:

ANNA M. ALSTER

2023-ES-10-1265

DOD: 06/17/23

Pers. Rep:

LAWRENCE E. ALSTER

966 PORTABELLA LN., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

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

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Estate of:

MARY ELEANOR WHITE LEARD

2023-ES-10-1268

DOD: 06/14/23

Pers. Rep:

ALLISON S. LEARD

880 BAY BLOSSOM AVE. SUMTER, SC 29150

Atty: ALLISON S. LEARD, ESQ.

ASHLEY ROBINSON, DEFENDANT.

IN THE INTEREST OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2023

NOTICE TO: Ashley Robinson

You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County on June 1, 2023, at 1:48 p.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Dorchester County, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Dorchester County Department of Social Services, at the office of their Attorney, Sally C. Dey, at the Legal Department of the Dorchester County Department of Social Services, 216 Orangeburg Rd., Summerville, South Carolina 29483, within thirty days of this publication. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Sally C. Dey, SC Bar #67778, 216 Orangeburg Rd., Summerville, SC 29483, 843-953-9286.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW

This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name MARKELL GORDON or GORDON MARKELL and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, muhammad abu khalil 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 C/A NO: 2022-CP-10-02193

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2005OPT2, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-OPT2, PLAINTIFF, vs. Robin G Dixon and if Robin G Dixon be deceased then any children and heirs at law to the Estate of Robin G Dixon, distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of Robin G Dixon, 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; Danielle Rehman a/k/a Danielle Dixon; U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2005-S5; Northwoods Pointe

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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 that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed with the Clerk of Court on May 11, 2022 and the Amended Summons and Complaint were filed on November 23, 2022.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention.

To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202 or call (803) 726-2700. Hutchens Law Firm LLP represents the Plaintiff in this action and does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice.

You must submit any requests

for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date of this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY/ AGENT MAY PROCEED WITH A FORECLOSURE ACTION. If you have already pursued loss mitigation with the Plaintiff, this Notice does not guarantee the availability of loss mitigation options or further review of your qualifications.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF 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.

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.

Hutchens Law Firm LLP

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-03418

Basem Al-Khtaebeh, Plaintiff,

v. John C. Smith, Jody C. Smith and Ruth Allen, all being deceased persons and 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: 1910 Alton Street North Charleston Charleston County, South Carolina TMS # 472-16-00-029 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, and C.S., a minor under the age of ten years and Tanya Hazel, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND 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 Rd., 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 Summons and Notice, Complaint and Lis Pendens were filed on July 14th, 2023, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on July 20th, 2023 and the Order of Publication was filed on July 20th, 2023 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, South Carolina 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 July 20th, 2023 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 lot, piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in Ferndale, a sub-division in the County of Charleston in the State of South Carolina, known as Lots 13 & 14, Block 8, as shown on a map of Ferndale made by James O’Hear, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book E, Page 20, and having such dimensions and boundaries as are shown on said plat.

TMS# 472-16-00-029

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell

925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407

(843) 452-3553

Attorney for Plaintiff

July 20th, 2023

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-02788

Frank Cone, Plaintiff, v. Matilda Wright and Brenda Holloway, and if they may be deceased, their 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

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.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser:

GUSTAVUS O. WILSON & NITA

M. WILSON, 6620 SANDLER LAKE DR, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32222-0001.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION

SUITES: A fee simple undivided

0.00399374221908844% ownership interest in 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: 98-0325-51E , Deed Book 1080, Page 877, Mortgage Book 1080, Page 922. Total amount presently delinquent $12,247.98, Attorneys fees $350.00, Costs $568.10. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. 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

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.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS 9TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CIVIL ACTION NO. 2022CP1002269

TRANE U.S., INC., a corporation, Plaintiff, vs. LOWCOUNTRY REFRIGERATION, LLC, a limited liability company, and THOMAS E. BUSSEY, JR., Defendant.

TO: THOMAS E. BUSSEY, JR. 3710 HUMBERT RD JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

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 to said Complaint on the subscriber at P.O. BOX 13886, CHARLESTON, SC 29455 within thirty 30 days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of service hereof. 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.

Prepared and submitted by: THE PARNELL LAW GROUP, LLC

_/s/ Johnnie J. Burgess

JOHNNIE J. BURGESS

Attorney for Plaintiff

S.C. Bar Number 102662

P.O. Box 13886 Charleston, SC 9422 Phone #854-2021766

Email:jburgess@plgse.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

Correspondence Address: The Parnell Law Group, LLC

P.O. Box 2189 Montgomery, AL 36102-2189 Phone 866/519-0912

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER 2023CP1001419

KIMBERLY MACK, Plaintiff, VS. JANOCKIEL M. HARLEY, Defendant.

SUMMONS JURY TRIAL REQUESTED (NEGLIGENCE) (AUTOMOBILE WRECK)

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 upon the subscriber at their offices, Berlinsky and Ling, 2971 West Montague Avenue, Suite 201, N. Charleston, South Carolina, 29418, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer or otherwise plead within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff herein will apply to the Court for judgment by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

BERLINSKY AND LING

By s/fPhilip A. Berlinsky

A.

PHILIP

BERLINSKY Attorney for the Plaintiff

2971 West Montague Avenue Suite 201 North Charleston, SC 29418 (843) 884-0000

North Charleston, SC March 23, 2023

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

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Case No. 2023-CP-10-00259

KAREN ERVASTI, Plaintiff, vs. RAND MALTESE, Defendant.

SUMMONS

TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the subscriber at 171 Church St., Suite 330, Charleston, South Carolina, 29401, within thirty (30) days from the service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, Plaintiff will apply to the Court for a judgment by default and the relief demand in the Complaint.

BY: s/ David L. Savage

DAVID L. SAVAGE Bar No. 10450 171 Church Street, Suite 330 Charleston, SC 29401 (843) 371-1645 phone (843) 371-1646 fax dsavage@savagelawchs.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

Charleston, South Carolina January 9, 2023

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03228

Ajax Mortgage Loan Trust 2021-C, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Series 2021-C, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee, PLAINTIFF, VS.

Lorraine Manigault; Buckshire Homeowners` Association, Inc. a/k/a Buckshire Homeowners Association; and Bank of America, N.A., DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (231150.00014)

TO THE DEFENDANT LORRAINE MANIGAULT 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, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the

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

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on July 5, 2023.

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A. By: 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

Kevin T. Brown (kevinb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64236

Jordan D. Beumer (jordanb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #104074

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

C/A NO. 2023-CP-10-03094

NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, Plaintiff vs. The Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Eddie W. Sallie Jr. and Current Occupant(s), Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANT(S): The Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Eddie W. Sallie Jr.; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office, 2838 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on June 26, 2023.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above Defendant(s) for the purpose of claiming and repossessing collateral, which secures the repayment of a certain Contract bearing date of July 15, 1997 and given and delivered by Defendant(s) Eddie W. Sallie Jr. to A & G, Inc. in the original principal sum of Fifty Five Thousand Six Hundred Forty and 34/100 Dollars ($55,640.34). Said collateral is described as a 1997 SOUTH VIN# DSDAL19578A&B mobile home and is located in the County of Charleston, South Carolina. RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC 2838 Devine Street Columbia, SC 29205 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated:

Facility 1: 3510 Glenn McConnell Pkwy Charleston, SC 29414 8/22/23

10:00 AM

Thomice Lotharp

Flooring

Lewis Rawls Misc household items

Facility 2: 2343 Savannah Hwy Charleston, SC 29414

8/22/23

10:30 AM

Isis Brown

2 bdrm apt dresser bunkbed 2 futon dining

Alisha Collins Couch desk boxes dresser full bed

Dalvin Moore

Personal items

Tiffany King Household items

Jennifer Haddock Bags and boxes of clothes

Facility 3: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407

8/22/23

11:30 AM

Ericka Gray Full bed, couch 2 tv boxes

Edward Bulger Tools, Misc.

Veronica Gray Bed, nightstand, dressers, clothes

Raven Gadsden

Household items

Susan Keenan Christmas stuff/boxes

Facility 4: 1951 Maybank Hwy Charleston, SC 29412 8/22/23

12:00 PM

Frankie Pinckney Tool box, tools, furniture

Facility 5: 1861 Ashley River Rd. Charleston, SC 29407

8/22/23

3:00 PM

Nikita Smalls Contents of 4-bedroom home

Joneara Holmes Chest, freezer, bedroom set, boxes,

totes, kitchen table, washer Facility 6: 2118 Heriot St. Charleston, SC 29403 8/22/23 1:00 PM

Chris Burrows Household items

Facility 7: 810 St. Andrews Blvd Charleston, SC 29407 8/22/23 12:30 PM

Josh Cantwell Small furniture

Burnet Maybank IV Furniture sports memorabilia and houseware

Trey Billings Clothes

Alison Parrish Rubbermaid bins, Tv’s, toys, furniture and household goods

Ruyvel King TV, Christmas decorations and household goods

Facility 8: 1108 Stockade Ln Mount Pleasant, SC 29466 8/22/23

10:00 AM

Steve Baugh Furniture and household items

Jeff Criminger Household items

Mike Stewart Boxes and bags

Steve Baugh Household Goods

Facility 9: 1904 Hwy 17 N. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 8/22/23

10:15 AM

Tammy Vanderhorst Furniture and household items

Dolores Noyes Household items

Dominique Turner Boxes and bags

Trevohn McCoo Studio Apt Facility 10: 1640 James Nelson Rd Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 8/22/23

10:20 AM

Renee Williams Household items

E Brooks Johnson Furniture, small appliances, electronics, office supplies, insurance resources, files

James Whitner Household items Facility 11: 1117 Bowman Rd. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 8/22/23

10:25 AM

Reta Stevens Boxes, household items

Julia Weber Boxes, Christmas decorations

Kathrine Weber Furniture, boxes, cloths

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.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In Stephen King’s novel It, a character named Beverly is in love with a man who projects a sense of authority but also listens well. He is strong-minded but receptive; confident but willing to be changed; self-possessed but open to influence. That’s an apt description of the allies I wish for you to attract into your life in the coming months. Whether they are lovers or partners, companions or collaborators, friends or colleagues, you need and deserve the high-quality, emotionally intelligent exchanges they offer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Seventy-year-old Taurus-born Eric Bogosian is a prolific playwright and author renowned for his hard-edged satire. The title of one of his books is Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead. But one critic speculates he may be softening as he ages, noting that he “seems more amused than disgusted by the decaying world around him, as if his anger has been tempered by a touch of hope.” The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to cultivate a comparable reshaping, dear Taurus. Can you tenderize what has been tough? Is it possible to find redemption or entertainment in situations that have been challenging? Are you willing to add more levity and geniality to your perspective?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Decca is a UK-based record label that has produced the work of many major musicians, including Billie Holliday, the Rolling Stones and Tori Amos. They made a huge mistake in 1962, though. A fledgling group named the Beatles tried to get signed to Decca. An executive at the company declined, saying, “We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out.” Oops. The Beatles eventually became the best-selling and most influential band of all time. I don’t think you’re at risk of making as monumental a misstep, Gemini. But please be alert to the possibility of a key opportunity coming into view. Don’t underestimate it, even if it’s different from what you imagine you want.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m a Cancerian who used to be overly reactive to people’s carelessness. If someone was in a bad mood and flung a rash insult at me, I might take offense too easily. If a friend misunderstood me, even with no malice intended, I may have sulked. Thankfully, over time, I have learned to be more like a honey badger, whose thick skin protects it well against stings and pricks. I bring this up because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to practice my approach. First step: Understand how people sometimes direct their frustration about life toward undeserving recipients. Second step: Vow to take things less personally. Third step: Give yourself regular compliments. Actually say them aloud.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now and then, there comes a time when I acquire an uncanny knack for seeing the totality of who you really are. I tune in to everything you do that few others know about or appreciate. I behold the big picture of your best possible future. One of those magic moments has now arrived. And it’s no accident that your energy matches mine. In other words, my power to consecrate you reflects your ability to bless yourself. So give yourself the ultimate gift, please.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the 17th century, Virgo musician Johann Pachelbel composed a piece of music he called the Canon in D. It soon went out of style and disappeared into obscurity. But over 250 years later, a French chamber orchestra rediscovered it, and by the 1980s, it was everywhere. Ever since, Pachelbel’s Canon has been used in many pop songs and is a common anthem at weddings and funerals. I’m predicting a comparable revival for you, Virgo. An influence, creation or person that has been gone for a while will re-emerge as a presence in your life. Be decisive in adopting it for your benefit.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Iain S. Thomas tells us, “There is magic even in gridlock, in loneliness, in too much work, in late nights gone on too long, in shopping carts with broken wheels, in boredom, in tax returns.” He says it’s the same magic that prompted Joan of Arc to believe that God spoke to her and empowered her to lead an

army. I wouldn’t agree that it’s the same magic. But I do advise us all to be alert for enchantment and interesting mysteries even in the most mundane affairs. I am a champion of the quest for holiness, delight and marvels in seemingly unlikely locations. In the coming weeks, Libra, you will have a special talent for finding these revelatory joys.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Rainer Maria Rilke said, “Self-transformation is precisely what life is.” If that’s true, you are in luck. Of all the zodiac signs, you are the most skillful self-transformer. Moreover, you are entering a prolonged phase when your instinct and talent for self-transformation will be even more potent than usual. I plan to observe you closely in the hope of learning your tricks for changing into an ever-better version of yourself. Show us all how it’s done, dear Scorpio!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Born under the sign of Sagittarius, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was one of history’s most influential composers of classical music. His elegant, lyrical works are still widely played today. He was also a revolutionary innovator who expanded the scope of many musical genres. One composition, “Piano Sonata No. 32”, prefigures elements of ragtime, jazz and boogie-woogie — 70 years before those styles emerged. In this spirit, I invite you to plant a seed for the future. You will soon get glimpses of creative shifts that will someday be possible. And you will have an enhanced ability to instigate the inventive momentum that generates those shifts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s be honest. Most of us — maybe all of us — fail to grasp the world objectively. Our perceptions get filtered through our opinions and beliefs and habit minds. The events we think we see are shaped by our expectations about them. Our projections often overrule the possibility of unbiased impartiality. We are serial misinterpreters. But there’s no need to be ashamed! It’s a universal human tendency. Having said all that, however, I believe you will have a special knack, in the coming weeks, for observing reality with more clarity and open-mindedness than usual. You will have an unprecedented opportunity to see accurately and gather fresh, raw truths.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is this a phase of your cycle when you’ll be prone to saying things like “Why do you take me for granted?” and “I’m feeling cranky” and “It’s not what you said, it’s the way you said it”? Or are you in a time when the following expressions are more likely to emerge from your mouth: “I have come to understand you in a totally new and interesting way” and “Life has blessed me by removing one of my unnecessary obstacles” and “I would love to learn more about the arts of cooperation and collaboration”?

Here’s what I think, Aquarius: Which way you go will depend on how clearly you set your intentions. Life will respond in kind to the moods you cultivate and the specific requests you make.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Our bodies are imperfect. They are often less than 100 percent completely healthy. They don’t always do what we wish they would. Yet even when we feel less than our best, our body continually carries out millions of biochemical marvels, mostly below the level of our conscious awareness. As the creation of an evolutionary process that has unfolded for eons, our precious organism is an amazing work of art that we have every right to regard as miraculous. According to my astrological reckoning, the coming weeks are the best time this year to honor and celebrate your body. What does it need to flourish? Ask your intuition to show you.

Homework: What story do you tell yourself about your life that’s less than 20% true? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

Alt rocker Raalte lands somewhere hopeful with new LP

By Chelsea Grinstead

Charleston musician Jay Van Raalte captures an ominous positivity on the new LP Something More and Kind of Less, reconciling loss and love with the fact that everything will be OK simply because there’s no other option.

“There’s a kind of stubborn optimism,” said Van Raalte, who uses they/their pronouns. “The album is not particularly upbeat, but there’s a thread of Tom Petty — ‘I won’t back down, this isn’t going to stop me’ — that I don’t think I intentionally embedded but re ected how I was feeling at the time we made it.”

On the new 11-song record, Something More and Kind of Less, Van Raalte’s calming, graceful vocals spill across the eclectic soft rock compositions stitched together with bright drum lls and electric guitar rhythms.

Van Raalte previously released a music video for the single “The Road Ahead” before the album dropped July 28. The contemplative song was written during the pandemic shutdown and narrates an impatient wish for an answer to reveal itself as Van Raalte sings: “I just want to know the end / to cut out the middle and skip ahead.”

The acoustic ballad “Passing Through” is the oldest track that made it onto the new record, resplendent with tender lyrics longing for a love that stays, like the line: “Well I ain’t been to heaven but I know it tastes like you / I’d walk there on the sidewalk if you wanted me to.”

The new album was recorded at Van Raalte’s home studio. It was a team e ort between Van Raalte and musicians Derk Van Raalte (their dad) and Matt Megrue tracking all vocals, guitars, bass, synths and keys, with musicians Matt Zutell of Coast Records and Bradley Palles contributing drums along with Van Raalte.

“This album started as what we jokingly called ‘the orphans project,’ ” Van Raalte said. “I had been writing all these songs for years, and some of them didn’t t in with bands I was playing with at the time or they just got passed over for whatever reason.

“So the original idea was to get all of those songs recorded. And once we got working … these new songs just started pouring out of me. So this album ended up being about 50/50 of the old tracks that we were reviving and the new tracks that were being created in the moment.”

A natural cohesion

Van Raalte said there’s a natural cohesion that came about in the project as the songs took on a distinct shine from the current collaboration, whether they were written years previously or not.

“I don’t want to oversell the cohesion because it is a pretty scattershot album genre-wise,” they said. “We have a grungy, kind of Nirvana-ish, Smashing Pumpkins track that goes straight into an acoustic folk track. So there’s plenty of diversity.”

Songwriting was not something Van Raalte started out wanting to do, they said, and the skills they developed in their career came from learning to do it all on their own.

“I just wanted to play guitar as a little kid,” they said. “I just wanted to bash out some power chords to some Green Day songs. But then you realize you can’t play

with people if you don’t know more genres, and you can’t really have a band if you don’t write songs. You can’t make your own records if you don’t know how to play more instruments or know how to record. And you can’t have a band if you don’t know how to manage yourself or book a show. So over time, I’ve developed a whole bunch of skills by necessity and songwriting is very much one of those.”

The biggest step outside of their usual creative universe was the song “Achtung,” they said, which was the second single o the new record.

“That song came together so fast. I made this demo in like 10 minutes. … It had this random drum loop that I put in to keep time and this weird fuzz with this messed up pedal, and it was just supposed to be a sketch. Everybody listened to it, and they were like, ‘That’s the song.’ It was all right there. That drum loop ended up staying. The fuzz ended up staying.”

These days, Van Raalte feels as though they sharpened their overall musicianship.

“Guitar is still by far my native language,” they said, “but I’m less of a guitarist who happens to write songs and more of an artist who is a guitar player. I still love ri ng a screaming solo — there’s a track on this record ‘Cautionary Tale’ with two di erent screaming guitar solos going over top of each other in total guitar chaos — but I think my perspective has broadened over the last few years.”

Bingo and the Band music series kicks o

New live music series Bingo and the Band lands at Share House downtown from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. every other Wednesday. It combines the love of music with socializing, said vocalist Christian Smalls of Black Diamond Band, which will be featured in the series with guest vocalist Tommy Brown Jr. of the Chucktown Players. The music will range from Motown classics and Michael Jackson to Beyoncé and hip-hop — not to mention TV show themes and even Christmas songs.

Support local hip-hop

LO-Fi Brewing on Meeting Street Extension hosts an open mic and hip-hop showcase starting at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4. Several Holy City artists from genres such as hip-hop, R&B, pop and acoustic will take the stage, including TJ Pettiglio, Indi’Gxld, Beatman Fresh, Badtalks, Ben Whitney and B.A.S.I.C. Pettiglio celebrates the release of his debut album Reinventing the Wheel streaming on all platforms.

Enjoy local live music on Folly Beach

The Washout restaurant on Folly Beach hosts live music Wednesdays through Sundays in August. Local musicians perform from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Don’t miss Thomas Champagne & Friends Aug. 4; Dan’s Tramp Stamp & The Money Bags Aug. 5; What’s Up Chuck Aug. 11; Je Caldwell Trio Aug. 12; Hollifield Aug. 18; Weigh Station Aug. 19; Groove Science Aug. 25; and DysFUNKtion Aug. 26.

Catch members of R.E.M. at Music Farm

Alternative rock act The Baseball Project , featuring guitarist Peter Buck and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mills of iconic alt-rock band R.E.M. and singers Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn and drummer Linda Pitmon , perform at 7 p.m. Aug. 11 at the Music Farm downtown. Tickets are $25 to $30 and available at musicfarm.com. Chelsea Grinstead

Ashley Rose Stanol file photo

Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jay Van Raalte, a Lowcountry native, dropped a new record Something More and Kind of Less July 28

Shannon Sanders-Bess is an independent performing artist from Los Angeles, California, who is passionate about creating beautiful music for the soul, Ohm Radio writes. Since studying music in college, Sanders-Bess has performed alongside local artists in Charleston, South Carolina, and leads worship at NewSpring Church. Independently, she is known for her renditions of the national anthem at major league games, and she’s the lead singer of her band, Night Cap. Her solo career consists of providing music for weddings, proposals and music venues. Her top ve albums are listed below:

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill by Beyoncé

Heaux Tales Mo’ Tales by Jazmine Sullivan Channel ORANGE by Frank Ocean by Usher

Indie-psych solo artist Wells releases debut LP

By Kyle Petersen

There’s a swirling, free- owing sense of generosity to the music of singer-songwriter and record producer Casey Wells. He released his debut LP Impermanence this month after years of honing his craft.

The Mount Pleasant native is a solo artist in the truest sense — Wells writes all the music, plays all the instruments and does all of the recording for his DIY bedroom pop creations. Impermanence is awash in layers of synths, strings, guitars and backing vocals and has that pristine, reverbdrenched indie-psych quality of acts such as The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala.

Wells said he initially just happened upon the solo recording process as he developed his guitar and piano skills (he also plays viola), but cites his early experience with a USB interface and recording software as being formative to his development. Then, he discovered the full range of possibilities of simply doing it all yourself.

“I remember hearing the [Tame Impala] album Currents and thinking ‘This sounds so good — how do they even do this? It must have been made in one of the nicest recording studios in the world,’ ” Wells said. “When I looked up more about the recording process and everything and realized it was just one guy in his living room

and he made the entire album that way, it kind of changed everything.”

Wells attended college at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, where he studied music production and engineering. He said his experience in the college’s high-quality studios shaped his style of drum and percussion programming revealed on Impermanence.

While it is easy to get lost in the studio trickery on an album as luxuriant and layered as this one, Wells said he likes to think about the songwriting side-by-side with the production, citing the lush, cinematic feel of the single “Over” as a prime example of this approach.

“The production ideas and songwriting

ideas all converged into a singular track,” he said. “I’m really proud of it.”

“Over” hits on themes of death and time, like many on the album, and showcases Wells’ instrumental range and are for crafting big, Pink Floyd-esque soundscapes within lively, pop-oriented structures.

Many of the songs t together thematically as well as sonically, Wells said, presenting a distinctive outlook and vibe he feels captures where he’s at now in his mid20s trying to make it as a musician.

“There is a lot of sadness and tumultuous emotions that are being processed throughout the album. … There’s some underlying sentiments of hope and perseverance as well.”

Mount Pleasant musician Casey Wells delivers space-rock laced bedroom pop songs that consider death and time on his fi rst record Impermanence

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6. Slangy pet name

9. Big girder

14. Eyelashes, scientifically

15. “Blue Rondo ___ Turk” (Dave Brubeck song)

16. Auli’i Cravalho role of 2016

17. Time away from work, for short

18. She inspired a boycott

20. “SNL” alum who starred in the recently canceled “American Auto”

22. Muscle below a delt 23. Madrid money, before the euro 24. Presley’s middle name

26. Copier powder

29. Go too far with

33. Pro at CPR

36. Board

38. Barnyard noises

39. Her Modernist sculptures include “Contrapuntal Forms” and “Rock Form (Porthcurno)”

43. Cheese with Buffalo wings

44. Comedian Silverman

45. One in favor

46. Vacillate

49. Behavioral boo-boos

51. Eagerly repetitive greeting

53. Give

57. Word after meal or sewing

60. Big name in 1990s tennis

63. Tag on some holiday presents--or where the beginnings of each theme entry derive?

65. Lucky Charms charm

66. Chick who was once keyboardist for Miles Davis 67. Thoughtful ability?

68. Online mag, outdatedly 69. Stifled laugh

70. Hearty bread

71. Heavy, like bread

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1. Old metal

2. Former “Weekend Edition” host Hansen

3. Bones in forearms 4. Sally Field TV title character 5. Upstate N.Y. battle site of 1777 6. S.F. area transit system 7. Plant for balms

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10. Fabulous neckwear

11. Sandwich rank

12. Lyricist for Sinatra’s “My Way”

13. Schooner part

19. Prefix with dynamic

21. Comparatively sound

25. Verne’s captain

27. Delayed flight stats

28. Kingdom in Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”

30. Actor Kinnear

31. Lavish attention (on)

32. Labor Dept. div.

33. Points of decline

34. “The ___ gaze” (early card in the Cards Against Humanity starter pack)

35. Sloth’s hangout

37. Late pianist Peter

40. #43

41. Tibetan mammal

42. Rushed (by)

47. Sets as a goal

48. “Hold on there!” (this is the correct spelling, and I will be taking no further questions)

50. Hay fever symptom

52. Sanctum or circle preceder

54. Four-time Formula One champ ___ Prost

55. Beach birds

56. Lauder with an empire

57. Some red-and-white fast food outlets

58. Multivitamin additive

59. Symbol in el zodiaco

61. “The ___ Bitsy Spider”

62. Superhero accessory

64. “La ___” (Debussy opus)

stephen marley with Artikal Sound System

sunday, august 6

susto with big something

saturday, september 2

yonder mountain string band & Railroad earth & keller and the keels

Thursday, September 21

holy city homegrown festival

saturday, september 23

Doom Flamingo with Maggie Rose

Saturday, October 21

show calendar & tickets at therefinerychs.com