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Dwarf palmettos tolerate the high-salinity soil in the Francis Marion National Forest. The surrounding pine and hardwood trees, however, are stressed and dying because of sea level rise, said Alton “Tripp” Gaskins, a U.S. Forest Service silviculturist or tree specialist.

Francis Marion forest exhibits fatal signs of saltwater intrusion

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By Herb Frazier

Emerging threats to the Francis Marion National Forest lay at the end of a path that divides pines sprouted in the bygone-era of large-scale tree farming from ancient hardwoods planted by Mother Nature. Alton “Tripp” Gaskins, a U.S. Forest Service tree specialist, hiked to the end of the old path where dry ground turns to moist soil and small ponds near the Wando River in the Huger area. From there, he pointed to the surrounding “ghost forest” of dying or dead trees. They have succumbed to relentless seawater. In this area where timber companies still harvest trees for lumber, the once lush evergreens are now sparse with yellowing crowns. On the old-growth side, sturdy maple and black gum have shed green leaves and morphed into mammoth pencil-like sticks silhouetted against the morning sky. Gaskins first saw these changes in July when satellite images revealed a sliver of yellow on the ocean side of the 260,000acre forest. “I have seen trees that have been dead for years,” said Gaskins, who has 14 years of service with the agency. “It has been happening slowly over time, but for whatever reason, over the last year or two, it has sped up to where you can visually see the spread. “The environmental changes are happening quicker in this area due to the crumbling infrastructure of dikes and ditches

A pitch tube is created when a tree expels a pine beetle with sap. The sap dries to form white blotches on the bark. Saltwater intrusion is stressing pine trees, making them susceptible to the beetles. put in place by the industrial timber companies,” Gaskins said. The decaying infrastructure allows seawater to flow fast into that portion of the forest, he explained. The strip of yellow shows where the forest is being stressed under salt water pushed inland by more intense storms and rising ocean levels, he said as he tromped over a golden carpet of fallen leaves and brittle twigs.

Change is coming fast

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts that sea levels along the U.S. coastline will rise in the next three decades by 10 inches to a foot. For South Carolina’s coastline, the prediction warns that sea levels will increase

by slightly more than two feet by the end of the century. When saltwater intrusion stresses pine trees, they become susceptible to a fatal pine beetle infestation, Gaskins said. The combined punch of pine beetles and seawater accelerates a tree’s death. What’s happening in the forest is a harbinger of how sea level rise will ultimately affect where humans live and how animals, large and small, will be affected by the changing ecology, scientists said. Not much can be done to stop the rise immediately, but its impact can be lessened, they said. Mažeika Patricio Sulliván, a professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation and director of the Baruch Institute for Coastal Ecology and Forest Science at Clemson University, said it is imperative to protect the South Carolina coastal region, a mosaic of tidal creeks, rivers, sea islands, marshes and wetlands, that stands as a buffer between the ocean and high ground. As a nursery for aquatic life and migratory birds, it also supports the state’s tourism industry, he said. Marshes can adapt overtime, but sea level rise is happening too fast and, when combined with coastal development, marshes can’t keep up, said Sullivan, who researches aquatic ecosystems. “The great example of saltwater intrusion is the ghost forest,” he noted. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

Charleston Animal Society (CAS) on Dec. 9 declared a spirited tabby and a dashing Bernedoodle to be the 2023 winners of its fourth annual Rescue Brew contest. This year’s competition, which raised more than $82,000 for No Kill South Carolina and to end animal cruelty, showcased not only the charisma of the area’s four-legged friends but also the overwhelming support of the community’s homeless animals, said Joe Elmore, president and CEO of the society. The group announced the results at Palmetto Brewing Company, a sponsor with the Charleston City Paper and other businesses. The two victors — a Bernadoodle dog named Melvin and a tabby named Pickle — were selected through a dollar-per-vote system among a fierce pool of 540 competitors. After stealing the hearts of thousands of voters, Melvin and Pickle are now featured on cans of the latest batch of Rescue Brew, currently available in some local stores. —Lily Levin

$152M A new report by the state’s Office of the Inspector General into the S.C. Commission on Higher Education found that $152 million meant to fund S.C. lottery scholarships sat untouched in an account for years. Source: Live 5 News

GUN VIOLENCE COUNTER 6 shot, killed across S.C. Dec. 7 to Dec. 13 North Charleston police are investigating a Dec. 9 shooting on Dorchester Road that injured one. No names have been released, and no arrests have been made. Other S.C. shootings: Six others died in Lexington, Newberry, Darlington and York counties. Seven others were hurt in shootings across the state. Mass shootings: Six mass shootings in the U.S., totaling 636 for the year. Source: gunviolencearchive.org Sources: S.C. official and media reports

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Potential designs for the future of the Ashley Landing shopping center include new buildings and improved parking Avondale!’ Well here we are. … Those Ashley Landing redevelopment anopposed to residential units being built there need to take into account that there is proposal moving forward a dramatic housing shortage in their comapproved for what will happen to the large space once it’s vacant. The city of Charleston’s Design Review “The developer has floated a future phase Board (DRB) on Dec. 4 gave conceptual once the Publix relocation has been comapproval to a proposal for the redeveloppleted that would include the possibility of ment of the Ashley Landing shopping some sort of mixed-use activity on the site,” center with a new Publix grocery store Summerfield said. “Their focus right now, located between Old Towne Road and Sam however, is purely on phase one, which will Rittenberg Boulevard in West Ashley. keep the Publix in this shopping center open.” The proposal from North Carolina-based Outgoing Charleston developer Faison includes partial demoliCity Council member tion of the shopping center across from the Peter Shahid, whose existing Publix building. Demolition will district includes include a Big Lots and Dollar Tree, along with Ashley Landing, said vacant storefronts such as the now-closed Red this project and the Orchids China Bistro. A new state-of-the-art ongoing Sumar Street Publix is set to replace the demolished section, developments are at complete with curbside cafe, additional rear the heart of the West parking and a drive-through pharmacy. Ashley Revitalization “This intersection was one of the areas Commission’s purpose. Shahid identified by Plan West Ashley as a focus “I’m seeing a signifiarea for the revitalization of West Ashley,” cant realignment of priorities as a result of said Robert Summerfield, the city’s director Plan West Ashley and the work of the West of planning, preservation and sustainability. Ashley Revitalization Commission,” Shahid “Seeing this energy in this area is exactly said. “I’m just excited about the plans they what the plan calls for and what the comhave for Ashley Landing.” munity has asked for.” Shahid added that one of the proposals This DRB’s conceptual approval marks for the project is a little controversial — the the first of three steps before the redevelop- idea of any residential units going up on the ment project breaks ground. The next step site has thrown up some red flags for comwill be a preliminary review and a deep dive munity members. But, Shahid said, several into the specifics of the project. Step three is others have said they want the Northbridge a final review, which takes place when most community to more closely resemble popof the testing and design work is complete. ular communities like Avondale. The current Publix, located near Sumar “The city will have to wrestle with that Street, will remain open until the new question down the road,” he said. “But one is complete, and plans have yet to be all this fuss about Avondale, ‘We want

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munity. Housing prices have doubled in the last 10 years — that’s devastating.”

Traffic remains big concern

Adjacent to the Sumar Street development project, Ashley Landing sees significant traffic issues stemming from the “suicide merge” of Sam Rittenberg Boulevard and Old Towne Road. Summerfield said, however, that is high on the list of concerns Faison is keeping in mind moving forward. “As a part of any larger redevelopment — and this is in essence replacing an existing development — they’ll have to look at any traffic generation based on any increase of intensity or footprint,” he said. “In the future, replacing the old Publix building with a more intense development — especially one that includes a residential component — they will need to look at more large-scale traffic and transportation options.” For now, he said, developers are focused on improving the ingress and egress of traffic in the Ashley Landing shopping center. At the same time, several traffic improvement projects led by Charleston County are on the way, including changes to neighboring intersections at Charlestowne Drive and Old Towne Road, and Amberly Street and Sam Rittenberg Boulevard. And at the large intersection of Orange Grove Road and Sam Rittenberg Boulevard, plans are tentative. The corridor is heavily traveled, with most traffic turning left from Orange Grove onto Sam Rittenberg to head to the bridge and the arterial Interstate 26.

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Yet again, S.C. has some of the country’s worst drivers

By Lily Levin The Palmetto State has previously been home to some of the country’s worst drivers — and a new 2023 report said this year was no exception. South Carolina ranked eighth among states with the most incidents per driver, according to a LendingTree study of the 50

states and the District of Columbia. The assessment looked at wrecks, DUI charges, speeding citations and other traffic violations using a year’s worth of data from insurance quotes ending in October. “It’s genuinely an intense experience every time you leave your house” to drive somewhere, said South Carolina native Avery Detitta, who is currently studying at

the College of Charleston. According to the data, the Palmetto State had a little more than 29 incidents such as wrecks and violations per 1,000 drivers. But it wasn’t as bad as Rhode Island, topping the list with more than 51 incidents per 1,000. Maine took the second spot with CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

A North Charleston police officer on Dec. 5 wrestled with a suspect, eventually coming to blows, before discharging his taser three separate times to force the suspect to stop fighting. Now, we aren’t advocating for entering fisticuffs with your local patrol officer, but if you’re going to, you’d obviously better make sure you can take a few hits from a taser. Stern talking-to Mount Pleasant police on Dec. 6 reported a man threatened to destroy his own vehicle when his family told him he couldn’t drive it that day. It almost goes without saying that the man was intoxicated. Police advised him “to not destroy any cars.” Christmas shopping Two North Charleston women on Dec. 4 reportedly stole nearly $1,000 in perfume sets from a Dorchester Road beauty store before driving away. The investigation is ongoing. Advice: Get your Christmas shopping done early so you don’t have to steal. Stretchy pants Security footage caught a downtown man on Nov. 30 stuffing a purse, several pairs of sunglasses, a wallet and other merchandise from a King Street store shelf into his sweatpants before leaving without paying. He was later caught and arrested. By Skyler Baldwin Illustration by Steve Stegelin The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Nov. 30 and Dec. 6. Go online for more even more Blotter charlestoncitypaper.com SPONSORED BY

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just over 50 and California came in third at about 40 per 1,000 drivers. The safest place to drive was Michigan, which boasted a slim rate of 11.28 incidents per 1,000 drivers, the study reported. Lowcountry residents told the Charleston City Paper they weren’t surprised by South Carolina’s showing. Detitta said classmates often ask to borrow her car, but both she and a friend have agreed to always decline requests from their out-of-state peers. That’s because of the level of traffic, Detitta explained, and the problematic “way the roads are set up” are things unique to South Carolina. She added that these issues span the entire state. “It’s the same in Charleston and Columbia. There are just a lot of intersections that were very poorly made.” When it came to the rate of car crashes, South Carolina ranked even higher. The state, with nearly 20 accidents per 1,000, came in sixth place — just behind the neighboring North Carolina. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and California took first, second and third, respectively; Michigan again came in last.

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As scientists and policymakers consider the impacts of saltwater intrusion “we should start to think of the scope of those impacts. It ranges from trees to habitat for birds to aquatic organisms,” he said. “The more natural wetlands we can protect, the more the systems will be buffered against that rise. There is going to be change, but can we minimize that change and help to slow it down?”

A plan to save the forest

A management plan for the Francis Marion National Forest, developed in 2017, calls for the restoration of the natural native ecosystems with an emphasis on longleaf pine, Gaskins said. The service has the potential to plant about 40,000 acres of longleaf pine that was once the predominant tree in the forest, he said. “We could start logging this area before the spring. The restoration could start in the next year or two.” Longleaf pine lives longer and allows more sunlight to the forest floor, and it is resistant to fire. The fast-growing loblolly was once the tree of choice for timber companies, he added. If left alone, pine beetles will spread “to private property and destroy private timber,” he said. “We have the potential to use this opportunity to restore the native swamp and marshland.” The untouched hardwoods throughout the forest, he said, is pristine and looks like the time centuries ago when Lowcountry forests were cleared for rice cultivation. The Baruch Institute uses its extension

Not a shock

But the state’s large number of wrecks wasn’t much of a shock to residents, either. Devynn Sweat told the City Paper that she witnesses traffic accidents constantly in downtown Charleston, where she’s been living her entire life. People “are losing their lives daily,” she added. Fellow downtown resident Tammy Malloy concurred. “Charleston’s full of dangerous driving, and I’ve traveled all over the country.” In Atlanta, where Malloy lived for eight years, she said she “never had a problem.” Charleston, however, “was an adjustment.” Though Malloy doesn’t drive anymore, she remarked that the conditions have only been getting worse — and they’re especially lacking for pedestrians. “You really have to watch [as a pedestrian]. [Drivers] don’t pay attention to pedestrians. I see it all the time.” When asked why South Carolina seems full of bad drivers, Sweat spoke of a false sense of urgency that people tend to have when they’re trying to get somewhere. Detitta said the roads were to blame. But both agreed with Malloy, who said, “Drivers need to do better.”

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service to educate people about ecological practices to heal the environment, Sullivan said. The choices range from rain gardens to beach erosion protection. “As scientists, we can help provide data and solutions, but people have to be our advocates to implement that. It is all about how we think about protecting critical places,” he said.

New approaches

As part of its efforts to help nonprofit groups carry out habitat enhancement that benefit marine life, NOAA has a new grant program that focuses on climate impacts, said Howard Schnabolk, a habitat restoration specialist with the agency’s fisheries restoration center in Charleston. The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is one of several groups around the country that has received NOAA grants for underserved communities to help develop environmental protection projects and hire the staff to do the work, he said. The corridor has received a $536,000 three-year grant to support two new staff positions — a resilience associate and a climate advocate, he said. The corridor will also share a $499,000 grant with two North Carolina coastal counties. In South Carolina, the corridor will study environmental impacts of sea level rise in the Awendaw and McClellanville, Schnabolk said. He added the new positions will help build relationships between restoration organizations and Gullah Geechee communities to identify the resilience priorities of community members, and form local advisory committees to support future restoration efforts.

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is the season to be jolly. And, more likely than not, you’re going to hear lots of people saying Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanzaa or Joyeaux Noel. Every now and then, you might get a Season’s Greetings or Happy Holidays. A wag or two might even wish you Happy Festivus. We encourage you to embrace any of these felicitations for what they are — good tidings for a season of joy for whatever holidays they recognize. We hope you won’t go down any rabbit holes from people who shout there’s a war on Christmas or any other religious holiday. Despite some religious conspiracy theorists who fly this soiled banner every year, there’s just not a war on celebrating the holidays and the advent of a new year. In fact, wishing “Season’s Greetings” or “Happy Holidays” to someone might just be plain old Southern courtesy if you don’t know how someone worships. Why? Because there are more than 20 different religious holidays between now and the 12th day of Christmas on Jan. 5. In case you didn’t realize, here is a list of some of the coming 2023 and early 2024 holidays celebrated by different people and religions at this time of the year, according to an interfaith calendar:

Dec. 7-15: Season of Hanukkah, Judaism Dec. 16-24: Posadas Navidenas, a nine-day Latin American religious observance honoring the quest by Mary and Joseph for shelter. Dec. 21: St. Thomas the Apostle, Christian Dec. 22: Yule/Winter Solstice, Wicca/Neo-pagan Dec. 24: Christmas Eve, Christian Dec. 25: First day of Christmas, Christian; Feast of the Nativity, Orthodox Christian Dec. 26: Zarathosht Diso, Zoroastrian; St. Stephen’s Day, Christian Dec. 31: Watch Night, Christian Jan. 1: Feast Day of St. Basil, Orthodox Christian; Shogatsu/Gantan-sai, Shinto; Jan. 5: Twelfth Night, Christian; Guru Gobindh Singh birthday, Sikh. Jan. 6: Epiphany, Christian and Orthodox Christian. Jan. 7: Christmas Day, Rastafarian

As we rush to stores to buy gifts for family and friends to celebrate our seasons, let’s remember to slow down soon, respect the varying religious traditions and count our blessings for the year to come. Happy holidays (all of them!)

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 infra structure and make smart climate change decisions about develop ment, 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.

Trump is exactly who he says he is By Andy Brack

If there’s one thing I’ve learned through the years, it’s that people often will expose their souls and tell you exactly who they are. When they do, you need to take them at their word. They are exactly who they say they are. So when Donald Trump says he’ll be a dictator for a day if he is elected to a second term as president, he’s not pussyfooting around. He’s telling America — the land of democracy, not autocracy — that he will be a dictator. That Hitlerian world view is real, not something that he will be able to turn off like a water spigot. And as Washington Post Editor at Large Robert Kagan suggests, what happens if he doesn’t get everything done on Day One of being a dictator? Would there be a Day 2, 3, 4? Or maybe that would turn into freedom’s greatest nightmare — a dictator in the White House for four years who won’t follow the Constitution. “The problem has never been knowing what to do,” Kagan wrote Dec. 7. “In the past, stopRepublicans not ping Trump has required people taking risks and smitten by Trump, making sacrifices that they did not want to make, whether out of selfishness, fear or ambition. independents and “Today, the challenges are even greater but there Democrats need is little evidence that the people we need to rise to the occasion are any more likely to do so than they to coalesce now to have been for the past eight years.” do everything they To thwart Trump, who has the backing of more than 50% of GOP voters in South Carolina can to make Trump according to a recent Winthrop Poll, the Republican Party needs to coalesce behind a single and his red hats as alternative candidate, Kagan says. And that needs unacceptable as Hitler to be former Gov. Nikki Haley, he said, “because she is clearly the most capable politician among the and his brown shirts. remaining candidates and the performer with the best chance, however slim, of challenging Trump. All the money and the endorsements should shift to her as quickly as possible.” And the next big thing that must happen, he said, is that leaders from U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney to President Joe Biden must communicate over and over how Trump is unelectable because he is fundamentally unacceptable. “Trump’s dictatorial tendencies and open disdain for the Constitution can become his greatest vulnerabilities — they might be his only vulnerabilities — if sufficiently highlighted for the American voter.” But Haley and her foes aren’t exploiting Trump’s vulnerabilities. Rather, they seem to continually affirm his acceptability as president, Kagan writes. And the big problem is that unchallenged, he Andy Brack will get worse, issuing more threats and persecutions. is editor and Trump’s increasingly authoritarian messaging, such as calling publisher of Democrats “vermin” — the same label Hitler gave to communists — has Charleston one seasoned South Carolina political observer seriously worried. City Paper. “These are truly dangerous times,” this politico shares. “Citizens Have a must cast aside their political allegiances and not only take not, but comment? say no to this rhetoric, to this movement and those promoting it. Send to: For those who suggest it can’t happen here, you are wrong. It can feedback@ happen here, and it already is.” charleston Republicans not smitten by Trump, independents and Democrats citypaper.com. need to coalesce now to do everything they can to make Trump and his red hats as unacceptable as Hitler and his brown shirts. Furthermore, the millions of registered American voters who didn’t bother to go to the polls in 2016 or 2020 have to wake up and participate to impede this smooth-talking Orange Menace from power. To fail to do so will risk everything that America stands for.

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Winter Wonderland Movie Night Grab the whole family, including the kids, and settle in for a cozy, magical and unforgettable night under the stars. Start the evening with delicious hot cocoa and popcorn and get ready for a Christmas movie doublefeature of Polar Express and Candy Cane Lane. Stay warm by the heat towers, make plenty of s’mores and take in the cozy and joyful atmosphere. Dec. 16. Movies start at 5:30 p.m. Medical District Greenway. 105 Doughty St. Downtown. charleston-sc.gov

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Holiday Market Don’t miss your last chance to drop by Charleston’s annual holiday market in Marion Square this weekend with local goodies, all from local farmers, growers, artisans and crafters. Browse a wide assortment of art, crafts and holiday gift items. Don’t worry — it’s never too late to get your Christmas shopping done. Dec. 15 and Dec. 16. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Market prices vary. Marion Square. 329 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonarts.org THROUGH DECEMBER

The Sound of Charleston Charleston’s history is perhaps best told through its music. Guests will hear and learn during a 75-minute live music concert including everything from the strains of “Summertime, and the living is easy,” from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, to gospel spirituals, jazz, light classics and music of the Civil War at historic Circular Congregational Church in downtown Charleston. See a full schedule for concert dates and buy tickets online. Concert dates vary. Ticket prices vary. Circular Congregational Church. 150 Meeting St. Downtown. soundofcharleston.com MONDAY

Firefly Distillery oyster roast Partnering with Lowcountry Oyster Co. for the third year in a row, Firefly’s annual all-youcan-eat oyster roasts kicked off in November and run monthly through March. In addition to oysters by chef Graham Calabria, also returning for the third year in a row, attendees can purchase different cuisines from various food trucks, enjoy music from Charleston’s most popular DJs, sip on specialty Firefly cocktails and more. Dec. 17. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $35. Firefly Distillery. 4201 Spruill Ave. North Charleston. fireflydistillery.com SUNDAY

7th Annual James Island Holiday Parade Celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and all other winter holidays with a half-hour parade around the Oakcrest loop on James Island. Line the streets with your neighbors to watch the parade, or join in yourself with no registration needed. Bring your bikes, golf carts, floats, skates, etc., and dress up in holiday garb to have a good time of holiday fun. Find the event on Facebook for more information. Dec. 17. Parade starts at 4:30 p.m. Free. Oakcrest Drive. James Island. facebook.com/events

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By Connelly Hardaway

e don’t know about you, but this holiday season, we are exclusively bellying up to holiday bars. We want it all — the lights, the trees, the ornaments the size of our heads — and based on the packed crowds we’ve seen around town this month, you want it too. The folks at Hotel Emeline, which is currently home to a festive winter courtyard, and at The Ryder, home of Little Pine (the holiday version of its bar and restaurant, Little Palm), have extended the decked-out dates, with both holiday iterations running through mid-January. What is it about festive holiday bars that inspires such cheer? In 2019, Eater Atlanta editor Beth McKibben theorized people just want to escape, if only for a spiked eggnog or two. “I do think these bars spark nostalgia in people and give them a little bit of comfort,” she wrote. So, whether you’re seeking comfort, cheer or just a really good Irish coffee, we’ve got a few holiday bar suggestions for you.

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Hotel Emeline’s Courtyard

Hotel Emeline’s courtyard features a tree-lined yurt village this season. General manager of food and beverage at Emeline, Adam Jimenez, said: “From our festive decorations to The Den’s cheeky holiday cocktails to the winter courtyard’s tree-lined yurts — these activations were designed to evoke the holiday spirit and encourage conviviality. Our Winter Courtyard was inspired by our desire to transform the space into an entirely new holiday destination for our guests to discover.” You and your pals can rent a yurt through Resy. The “festive fondue experience” is $50 per guest and comes with guaranteed cozy vibes. If you’d rather skip the yurt experience, feel free to sit by the outdoor fire and order shareable plates and festive drinks from the Frannie & The Fox menu. Don’t sleep on “today’s mozzarella,” which is, in fact, made in-house daily.

Blind Tiger

Surround yourself with more ornaments than Santa has at the North Pole at the festively outfitted Blind Tiger bar. Sip on a seasonal cocktail — here’s lookin’ at you gingerbread espresso martini — and stay a while. Snap a few pics. Your Instagram feed will thank you.

5 downtown bars with holiday bites By Connelly Hardaway If you find yourself holiday shopping downtown and in desperate need of a bite and drink, we’ve got you covered. While most bars and restaurants around town will be getting into the holiday spirit, there are a few standouts that we’ll be frequenting, from chic oyster bars to cozy pubs. The best part? These spots do not require reservations. (Make the day even better by using the city’s free 2-hour parking voucher.) Visit charlestoncitypaper.com for a list of several other designated pop-up holiday bars.

The Quinte

36 George St. • Open Thursday through Monday Earlier this month, former FIG chef Jason Stanhope joined hospitality company Method Co. to re-open the oyster bar, the Quinte, located in the Pinch Matthew Williams hotel. Described as a “casual, inventive” oyster bar, the Quinte is open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Monday. Belly up to the (very chic) bar, order some fresh-shucked oysters and take a load off.

Bumpa’s

5 Cumberland St. • Open Wednesday through Monday If there’s something cozier than a pub during December — Charleston’s balmy weather conditions, be damned — we have yet to find it. Tucked off of East Bay Street, Bumpa’s doesn’t take itself too seriously, offering guests everything they want and need from a pub, from hot wings to a robust cocktail menu to plenty of TVs for watching sports games.

Bin 152

152 King St. • Open daily It’s a classic for a reason. Step into Bin 152 and take a deep breath; the quaint space is just the spot to refuel with a glass (or two) of wine and a cheese board shared with friends or enjoyed all by yourself.

The Den

Prohibition’s Sippin’ Santa

Prohibition recreates itself as Christmas bar Sippin’ Santa this season, decked out in self-proclaimed “over-the-top Christmas” decor. The “tropical companion” to Handcraft Kitchen & Bar’s Miracle Bar, Sippin’ Santa is also an international pop-up franchise. Find the full drink menu online. All the festive cocktails are served in special mugs and glassware — here’s lookin’ at you surfin’ Santa — and drinks include tiki classics as well as new cocktails crafted just for this year.

If you prefer sipping your holiday drinks exclusively indoors, just pop over to The Den, located in Hotel Emeline’s restaurant, Frannie & The Fox. The martini bar has a special holiday menu, of course, but if you want to stick to its traditional offerings, we don’t blame you. Nothing says celebration like full martini service and a side of caviar, no? If you do choose a drink from bar manager Amanda Phelps’ ’90s-inspired holiday list, might we suggest the Sex on the Slopes, made with Absolut, cardamom and ginger-infused giffard peach, chambord, cranberry, orange juice and lime.

76 Queen St. • Open daily We recently visited Husk Bar and were impressed by the spot’s renovated outdoor patio (hello, louvered pergola). Whether you sit outside, you don’t need a reservation to snack on snapper ceviche and country ham and cheese beignets. Wash the snacks down with one of Husk’s inventive cocktails, and you’ll be ready to conquer the rest of King Street.

The Living Room at The Dewberry

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334 Meeting St. • Open daily We’re suckers for classy holiday lights, and the front of The Dewberry really draws you in with its display. Walk through the doors to the lobby bar, The Living Room, and relax in the reading library. Sure, you could make your way up to the rooftop bar, the Citrus Club (which is divine!), but we personally prefer the classic Mid Century Modern vibes of The Living Room. From experience, we can promise that the pommes frites pair perfectly with The Living Room Martini.

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North Charleston’s Park Circle has something for everyone By Diane Knich North Charleston, once eclipsed by the city of Charleston, has come into its own in recent decades. It is now the third-largest city in South Carolina and the area’s economic engine. The city, first incorporated in 1972, is home to more than 114,000 people, and that number continues to grow. Despite its industrial past, North Charleston has begun to attract advanced tech companies. The city also is a retail hub, from malls and Big Box stores to neighborhood boutiques. And at the center of it all sits the Park Circle neighborhood, a vibrant, walkable community bounded by Interstate 526 on the north side, Waterfront Park and the Cooper River on the east, Noisette Creek on the south and Mixson Avenue on the west.

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Living in the community

Jamee Haley, a Park Circle resident, consultant and interior designer, said she and her husband have owned a home in the neighborhood for the past 20 years. They rented it out for years, but when they became empty-nesters five years ago, they moved in and loved the convenience of the location and “the immense sense of community,” she said. “It’s a fun place to be, with numerous restaurants, breweries and wine bars to patronize.” She said she also appreciates that she can walk or ride her bike anywhere in the neighborhood and can develop relationships with area business owners. Haley, once director of Lowcountry Local First, said she would like to see the city take active measures to keep the business disIt’s a fun place trict local, and to avoid it becoming “homogenized.” She also said that to be with a big change she has seen in the numerous neighborhood is that along with an increased popularity, Park Circle is restaurants, getting more expensive. Ryan Johnson, a spokesman for the breweries and city, said Park Circle is a great place wine bars to to live and a wonderful place for area residents and tourists to visit. patronize.” He said Park Circle was set up for —Jamee Haley success because it was designed as a “garden city,” based on Ebenezer Howard’s vision from the late 1800s of a community where residential, commercial and greenspace coexist in a walkable area. But by the mid-1990s, the business district had declined. Outgoing Mayor Keith Summey, who has served as mayor since 1994, thought the area was consuming more revenue than it was bringing in. So he set about bringing the business district back to

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life. Those plans and funding mechanisms were effective, Johnson said. Summey, once involved with a Park Circle restaurant, didn’t run in the last election and will step down in January to make way for new mayor Reggie Burgess, the city’s former police chief, first Black mayor and a North Charleston native.

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James Hartzog is the general manager at Madra Rua, an Irish pub on East Montague Avenue that has an array of cozy restaurants and bars. He said the area was much quieter when the pub opened in 2003. But people involved with Madra Rua knew it would grow — investment by the city of North Charleston helped that happen — and current growth has exceeded expectations. For example, about 300 people attended the

city’s 2003 St. Patrick’s Day parade on East Montague, he said. Now, the parade and block party draw about 12,000 visitors. Corrie Wang, co-owner of Jackrabbit Filly on Spruill Avenue, opened in 2019 serving New Chinese-American cuisine. She said she and her husband found the space for their restaurant in Park Circle close to their home. The area is “lovely and quiet but not pretentious, and it attracts a good mix of everybody,” she said. Shopping in Park Circle can also be a lot of fun. The Station Park Circle, a vintage marketplace on Spruill Avenue, opened in 2018. Owner Sharon Payer said the business has grown, and in July, it expanded to adjacent space. Payer said she values sustainability, and 95% of the merchandise in her store is vintage or handmade. That’s consistent with Park Circle, she said. “I feel CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

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like it fits with the style of this community and its diversity.” She also said more retail businesses continue to open in Park Circle, along with restaurants, breweries and other businesses. She loves to see the growth as long as the businesses are community oriented, she said. “It’s great to be part of it.”

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Johnson said Park Circle is a great place for regional visitors and tourists, too. He recommends people from out of town find lodging in North Charleston, where it is less expensive. After spending a day wandering around Park Circle, they are in a central location from which they can explore

Charleston and the rest of the region. Another advantage of the area: Park Circle has a lot to offer people who want to spend time outdoors. The center of the large traffic circle — a roundabout where Montague, Buist, Rhett and Durant avenues meet — contains a community center, ball field and the new and wildly popular inclusive playground where people of all ages and abilities can have fun. City leaders say it is the largest of its kind in the world. Disc golf enthusiasts also enjoy the sport on a free course on the outer edge of the circle. People can also participate in events, walk the greenspace and take in the views at nearby Waterfront Park or visit the ducks in the pond at Quarterman Park. Whether you come to play during the day or to enjoy the food, drink and nightlife, Park Circle has something for everyone.

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Lost Isle brings live-fire cooking to Johns Island

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Woodhaven Pizza is set to open in Mount Pleasant later this month. The New York-style pizza restaurant is the third concept from BENE Hospitality founders Ty and Karen Mennuti-Raju, who have also opened Mount Pleasant spots SAVI Cucina + Wine Bar and Sommba Gastrobar. Woodhaven is located at 1701 Shoremeade Road and will be open daily. Follow @woodhavenpizza on Instagram to stay up to date with opening dates and hours. The Matador offers two festive fundraising cocktails this holiday season. Now through Jan. 2, $1 of sales on the Cocoa Carajillo and Hot Buttered Rum supports the Lowcountry Food Bank.

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Why so serious?

“It’s super casual. There are enough people around to answer your questions,” said Lynch of Lost Isle’s bar service model. Lynch, who, along with Richard Knapp, opened New York City’s Mother’s Ruin, a “dive-meets-cocktail bar,” as described by Punch magazine, in 2011, is a fan of orderat-the-bar establishments. Lynch told the Charleston City Paper that after years of working in fine dining, he appreciated the laidback nature of a bar service model. And while drinks are integral to all of

What’s hot Lost Isle’s menu will change seasonally, but you can always expect a solid selection of proteins to be grilled with a variety of fresh adornments Lynch’s spots, high quality doesn’t have to mean picky. As he told Punch in 2017, “Everything’s up for interpretation… You might not even get the same drink in the same kind of glass twice.” After walking into Lost Isle and checking out the menu, guests can order food and drinks and seat themselves. If it’s cold out, Lynch said fire pits and blankets will keep guests toasty. Think of it like attending a best friend’s bonfire, with the added benefit of housemade cocktails, a curated wine list and fresh, made-to-order dishes. Chef Josh Taylor is joined in the kitchen by sous chef Matt Priede and lead cook Sam Tucker. Formerly of Root Note Food, Taylor has crafted a seasonally focused menu with frequently changing specials and dishes, like whipped ricotta with smoked tomato, wood-fired oysters with chili butter and delmonico steak with chimichurri. Sticking to that laidback, casual vibe, Lynch said Lost Isle isn’t in the business of serving up $60 steaks; he and his team want visitors to have a “quality supper” without breaking the bank. “Chef Josh and I had so many ideas,” Lynch said. “It was hard to narrow it down into a produce-able menu.” They managed, though, and although the rotating options help keep things interesting — “so we don’t get bored,” joked Lynch — there will be a core selection of grilled options, including a whole fish, tomahawk pork chop and cauliflower steak. While Lynch hammers home the idea of a

Eater announced its 2023 awards this month, and North Charleston’s King BBQ made the list as Best New South Carolina Barbecue. Eater Carolinas editor Erin Perkins wrote: “Restaurateurs Shuai and Corrie Wang have a way of taking a well-worn idea and introducing a fresh touch that, for some reason, no one else is doing, and creating a spark.” Kultura, which was named one of Eater’s 12 Best New Restaurants earlier this year, was also deemed South Carolina Restaurant of the Year.

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Chef Josh Taylor serves up small plates like wood-fired oysters with chili butter and much more casual spot, he is sure to note that Lost Isle will stick to its posted hours. Currently the restaurant is open 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily, but it’s never a bad idea to check out the spot’s Instagram beforehand if the weather is particularly bad. “We’ve been doing this way too long,” laughed Lynch. “A lot of people are just excited for something different. When options become very similar, it gets boring very fast.”

Head to Firefly Distillery from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 16 for the distillery’s fourth annual holiday market. In addition to a wide array of vendors and food trucks, Firefly hosts three craft cocktail classes, featuring seasonal recipes. The classes will be held at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., and tickets can be purchased ahead of time at fireflydistillery.com. Vicious Biscuit celebrates five years at its flagship Mount Pleasant location on Dec. 22. Guests can enjoy $5 anniversary menu items at all six locations, including one in Summerville. Choose from Vicious Biscuit classics like The Fat Boy, Hen Solo and The Animal Farm. Visitors can also sip on $5 cranberry mimosas. Learn more at viciousbiscuit.com. —Connelly Hardaway

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Walking into Lost Isle, an open-air concept located at 3338 Maybank Highway, feels a little like walking onto, well, a lost island. The name is fitting for a spot that’s quirky without trying too hard, featuring chandeliers floating among the Spanish moss of live oak trees. The outdoor space, which is covered by swaths of sail cloth, fits a niche that owner TJ Lynch said he and partners Thomas Wilson and Josh Taylor have been looking to fill for a while. “We’ve been trying to do this for a long time,” said Lynch, who noted that it can be difficult to find the right zoning for this kind of establishment. “It’s odd how many people don’t want you to cook in a way that we used to cook.” And while modern zoning requirements may force live-fire establishments through more hoops than usual, the method of livefire cooking appears to be as popular as ever. Last year, finedininglovers.com declared that “open flames and heat” were “dominating the narrative” of dining out; earlier this year, Club Oenologique, an online publication for fine dining and wine lovers, stated, “The primal art of live-fire cooking is at the cutting edge of the restaurant world.” Sure, Bon Appetit magazine deemed livefire all the rage back in 2015 — which may just go to show that the trend is more than a trend and that the technique is now firmly situated in our modern dining landscape.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-03743

Lillian Smith, Lillian Doctor and Michael Smith Plaintiffs, vs. Wendell Smith, Reginald Smith, Rodney Smith, Gregory Smith, Derrick Smith, Tijuana Smith, Marisella Smith-Weston, Leron Leary, Donelle Williams, Natasha Williams, Cornelius Murray, Marion B. Smith, Thomas Howard, Patricia Howard, Brenda Howard, Colleen Howard, Bobby Howard, Eunice Evans, Connie Doctor Jones, Jacqueline Clark, Yvonne Doctor Albertha Doctor Watson a/k/a Bertha Doctor-Barron, Herman Smith, Leroy Smith Kwan Smith, Corey Smith, Ronald Smith, Sandra Smith, Vivian Smith, Linda Smith, and JOHN DOE, adults, RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distribute, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of William Smith, Robert Smith, Lawrence Smith, James Smith, Sr., Isaac Smith, Sr., Isaac Smith, Jr., Carrie Leary, Mamie Murray, Jewell Howard, Mary Ann Murray, Cheryl Murray, Darron Howard, Jean Louise Howard, Elouise S. Doctor a/k/a Louise S. Doctor, Alex Doctor, Jr., William Doctor, Louise Myles Doctor, Sylvia Smith, Thomas Smalls, James Smith, Jr., Kenneth Smith, Harry Smith, James K. Smith, all of whom are deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed, Defendants, SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the Action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiffs, through their Attorney,

J. Chris Lanning, at his office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such Service; and, if you fail to answer the Compliant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in the Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiffs will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for the aforesaid County which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee shall be made directly to the Supreme Court. YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 2, 2023. Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on August 2, 2023. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiffs against the above named Defendants, that said Action is brought under the provisions of the South Carolina Declaratory Judgment Act, Sections 15-53-10, et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, and under Section 15-67-10, et. seq. for the purpose of obtaining a decree establishing that the Plaintiffs and Defendants are the owners of the said property described in paragraph One (1) of the Plaintiffs’ 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 is described as follows: All that tract, piece, or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Edisto Island, in the County and State aforesaid, measuring and containing Twenty-five and nine-tenths (25 9/10) acres, be the said dimensions, a little more or les, being a portion of the Plantation above described (Note 1) and known and designated as Lot Number Fifteen (No. 15) on a plat of the division of said Plantation, made by John R. Gourdin, Surveyor dated the _XXX__ and recorded in Register of Mesne Conveyance aforesaid, in Plat Book B, Page 58, Bounding and Butting to the North on Lot Number Fourteen (No. 14) in said Plat, to the East on Lot Number Thirteen (No. 13) in said Plat and lands of the above to the South on lands of Seabrook and to the West on Lot Number Eighteen (No. 18) in said plat. TMS #s 076-00-00-074, 076-00-00-090 and 076-00-00-092 SAVING AND EXCEPTING Tract B All that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, containing thirteen (13) acres, more or less, and being more particularly shown on a map or plat made by A. L. Glen, Registered P. E. and L. S., dated July 29th, 1960, which plat is made a part and parcel of these presents. Said property butting and bounding to the Northeast and Southwest on other lands of the Estate of William Smith according to said plat, and to the Northwest on Oyster Factory Road, and to the Southeast on lands on now or late McConkeys, South Carolina Highway No. 174 passes through the Northeastern section of the aforesaid property and has a right of way of seventyfive (75’) feet.

TMS # 076-00-00-091 SAVING AND EXCEPTING Tract C ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on Edisto Island, State of South Carolina, containing 0.98 acres, more or less, and being more fully shown and designated on a plat thereof, copy of which is hereto attached and made a part and parcel hereof entitled “Plat of northern part of Lot 15 of Seaside & Shergood Plantations owned by Elouise Doctor Situate: N.W. of Hwy. No. 174, Edisto Island, Charleston County, S.C., October 16, 1970, scale 1” = 100’, by A. L. Glen, Reg. P. E. & L. S. 264” the said plat being made a part and parcel of this description. TMS # 076-00-00-075 SAVING AND EXCEPTING Tract D All that piece, parcel or lot of land, lying, being and situate on Edisto Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, consisting of forty-eight one hundredths acre (0.48) being triangular in form. Butting and Bouding on the east by S.C. Highway 174, on the west by Oyster Factory Road and on the South the lands of William Smith. Measuring and Containing two hundred and thirty-eight and 10/100 (238.1) feet on the east boundary, two hundred and forty-four (244) feet on the west boundary and one hundred eighty-nine and 20/100 (189.20) feet on the south boundary, be the dimensions more or less. This parcel is more fully shown on a plat of same done by George D. Sample, P.E., & R.L.S., S.C. Reg. #3357, on February 4, 1982, which was recorded in Plat Book AU at Page 141 in the RMC Office for Charleston County, S.C. on February 16, 1982. TMS # 076-00-00-073 GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esquire, 6 Carriage Lane,, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, by Order of this Court Common Pleas dated October 25, 2023 and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the Defendants herein as may be unknown infants, persons insane, or otherwise incompetent or under legal disability, claiming any right, title, estate claim, interest in, or lien upon the property described in the Complaint herein, such appointment to become absolute unless they or someone on their behalf shall procure an Order appointing a Guardian ad Litem for such persons within (30) days after past publications of the Summons herein. BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ J. Chris Lanning J. Chris Lanning 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone – 843-766-5576

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03764 County of Charleston, Condemnor, vs. The Estate of William Ford, Landowner, and The Estate of Clarence Ford, Larry Ford as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Clarence Ford, Gail Ford, Larry Ford, Nicole Ford Jennings, Jacqueline Middleton, Barbara Ford Morrison, Terri Porter, and Antionette Snipes, Other Condemnees, and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, fictitious names used to designate all other condemnees whose names are unknown, and persons in the military service within

the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, if any, and the unknown heirs at law, devisees, widows, widowers, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns, firms or corporations of any of the Landowner(s), Other Condemnee(s) or Unknown Claimant(s) who may be deceased, and any and all other persons claiming any right, title, interest in or lien upon the real estate or other property described in the Condemnation Notice or any part thereof; Unknown Claimant(s). SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING TO: LANDOWNERS, OTHER CONDEMNEES, AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS NAMED ABOVE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, advised and notified, that pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., the within Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, has been filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina. The purpose of this action is to enable the Condemnor County of Charleston to acquire certain real property for its public purposes, as is more fully stated in the attached Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment. Responsive pleadings to the Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment are not necessary. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Condemnor County of Charleston, pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., has brought an action against Landowners, named above, to acquire a thirty-five (35ʹ) foot wide permanent and exclusive drainage easement (the “Easement”), consisting of 18,173.63 square feet (0.42 acre), more or less, over, on, through, and burdening the real property described as follows: 751 Hughes Road Johns Island, South Carolina 29455 TMS #287-00-00-136 The size, shape, location, and butting and bounding of the Easement are depicted more particularly on the plat attached hereto at Exhibit A, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description. The County’s acquisition of the Easement is necessary for public purposes, more particularly for, or in connection with, the construction, operations, maintenance, and/ or reconstruction of a stormwater drainage system in the Red Top community of Charleston County. NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANT(S) NAMED ABOVE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Order appointing George E. Counts, Esquire, Counts & Huger, LLC, P.O. Box 80399, Charleston, South Carolina 29416, (Telephone: 843-573-0143), as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe and Mary Roe, Condemnees herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone on their behalf or on behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for

the purposes of this action, the Condemnor will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi absolute. CHARLESTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Kevin M. DeAntonio, Esquire Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building 4045 Bridge View Drive North Charleston, South Carolina 29405 (843) 958-4010 kdeantonio@charlestoncounty.org Attorney for Condemnor North Charleston, South Carolina August 3, 2023

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03763 County of Charleston, Condemnor, vs. The Estate of Clarence Ford, and Larry Ford as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Clarence Ford, Landowners, and Gail Ford, Larry Ford, Nicole Ford Jennings, Jacqueline Middleton, Barbara Ford Morrison, Terri Porter, and Antionette Snipes, Other Condemnees, and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, fictitious names used to designate all other condemnees whose names are unknown, and persons in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, if any, and the unknown heirs at law, devisees, widows, widowers, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns, firms or corporations of any of the Landowner(s), Other Condemnee(s) or Unknown Claimant(s) who may be deceased, and any and all other persons claiming any right, title, interest in or lien upon the real estate or other property described in the Condemnation Notice or any part thereof; Unknown Claimant(s). SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING TO: LANDOWNERS, OTHER CONDEMNEES, AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS NAMED ABOVE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, advised and notified, that pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., the within Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, has been filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina. The purpose of this action is to enable the Condemnor County of Charleston to acquire certain real property for its public purposes, as is more fully stated in the attached Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment. Responsive pleadings to the Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment are not necessary. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Condemnor County of Charleston, pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., has brought an action against Landowners, named above, to acquire a thirty-five (35ʹ) foot wide permanent and exclusive drainage easement (the “Easement”), consisting of 5,271.23 square feet (0.12 acre), more or less, over, on, through, and burdening the real property described as follows: ALL that piece, part and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County School District No. 10, County of Charleston, State aforesaid, measuring and containing five (5) acres, more

or less, as shown on a plat of A.L. Glenn, Registered Land Surveyor, surveyed April ____,1954, titled “Plat or tract of land situated in the County of Charleston, South Carolina, near Red Top, Owned by Mary Williams and about to be conveyed to Clarence Ford”, and being identified as Plaintiff’s Exhibit #12, in Charleston County Court of Common Pleas Civil Action No. 94-CP-10-3944. The contents of which are being incorporated herein and made a part hereof by reference. MEASURING AND CONTAINING the measurements, courses, buttings, boundaries, and distances as delineated and shown on the aforementioned plat, as will more fully and at large appear when reference is made thereto. Being bounded on the Northern side by lands formerly said to be of Mary Ford Williams, and now of Ford, W.M. Estate, and assigned Charleston County TMS #287-0000-136; on the Eastern side by a local road known as “Hughes Road or Red Top Road” and formerly known and referred to as “Bulow Mines Road”; on the Southern side by lands formerly said to be of Johnnie Brown, now of James Green, and assigned Charleston County TMS #278-00-00-137; and on the Western side by the abandoned Right of Way of Bulow Mines Railroad, as shown on the aforementioned plat, and now the marshes of Rantowles Creek, TMS #287-00-00-180, said to be owned by the City of Charleston. BEING the same property conveyed to The Estate of Clarence Ford by Master’s Deed dated March 1, 1999, and recorded March 5, 1999, in Book T321, Page 665, in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County, South Carolina TMS #287-00-00-215 The size, shape, location, and butting and bounding of the Easement are depicted more particularly on the plat attached hereto at Exhibit A, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description. The County’s acquisition of the Easement is necessary for public purposes, more particularly for, or in connection with, the construction, operations, maintenance, and/ or reconstruction of a stormwater drainage system in the Red Top community of Charleston County. NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANT(S) NAMED ABOVE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Order appointing George E. Counts, Esquire, Counts & Huger, LLC, P.O. Box 80399, Charleston, South Carolina 29416, (Telephone: 843-573-0143), as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe and Mary Roe, Condemnees herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone on their behalf or on behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the Condemnor will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi absolute. CHARLESTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Kevin M. DeAntonio, Esquire Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building 4045 Bridge View Drive North Charleston, South Carolina 29405

(843) 958-4010 kdeantonio@charlestoncounty.org Attorney for Condemnor North Charleston, South Carolina August 3, 2023

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-2313 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS SHAMARA ANCRUM AND EILI WALKER, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2009. TO DEFENDANT: EILI WALKER YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 3, 2023, at 11:54 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 County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, 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-10-2080 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS TAKYMAH RICHARDSON, DEMAR BACON, AND ROBERT COAXUM IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2016 AND 2022.                 TO DEFENDANT: DEMAR BACON YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Intervention in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on July 13, 2023, at 9:11 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Intervention 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, Regina Parvin, 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. Regina Parvin, SC Bar #65393 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 843-953-3713.

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of

8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of: JANE EVE MARINO 2023-ES-10-2181 DOD: 10/26/23 Pers. Rep: MARK MARINO 338 HIGHLAND AVE. RIDGEWOOD, NJ 07450 Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ Estate of: NATHAN HEIFETZ 2023-ES-10-2164 DOD: 11/10/23 Pers. Rep: RENEE GIBSON 916 PAUL REVERE CT. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Atty: LESTER S. SCHWARTZ, ESQ. PO BOX 30356 CHARLESTON, SC 29417 ************ Estate of: PATRICIA FRYFOGLE HARTLEY 2023-ES-10-2174 DOD: 11/5/23 Pers. Rep: DANIEL PEYTON HARTLEY 1943 HEIDELBERG DR. MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 Atty: ANDREW W. CHANDLER, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ Estate of: SVEND ERIK FUNCH 2023-ES-10-2189 DOD: 6/13/23 Pers. Rep: JENNIFER FUNCH 1812 SOMERSET CIR. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

ABANDONED BOAT To all persons claiming an interest in: 1975-12’-Monark-1232-10518, James Clevenger will apply to SCDNR for title on watercraft/ outboard motor. If you have any claim to the watercraft/outboard motor, contact SCDNR at (803) 734-3699. Upon thirty days after the date of the last advertisement if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft/outboard motor has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title. Case No:20230526950410

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case Number: 2023-CP-10-04978 Cedric Hodgeman, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of J.H., a minor, vs. Matthew Spear SUMMONS TO DEFENDANT MATTHEW SPEAR: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is available from the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint upon the Plaintiff or their attorney, Ryan Andrews, at his office, 222 W. Coleman Boulevard, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 29464, within (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, Plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. /s/ Ryan C. Andrews, Esquire 222 W. Coleman Blvd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (843) 936-6680 (p) ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina Dated: December 5, 2023 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT MATTHEW SPEAR: TAKE NOTICE, that the Summons in the above-mentioned action of which the foregoing is a copy, together with the Complaint therein was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, Charleston Court

Isl Ryan C. Andrews, Esq. 222 W. Coleman Blvd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (843) 936-6680 (p) ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina Dated: December 5, 2023

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF CHARLESTON Flagstar Bank, National Association, PLAINTIFF, vs. Susan Liebegott Zeleniak; Kelly MacPherson; Oyster Point Homeowners Association, Inc., DEFENDANT(S) SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) C/A NO: 2023-CP-10-05624 DEFICIENCY WAIVED TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court 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-inEquity/Special Referee in/for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you. NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on November 15, 2023. 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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Movement Mortgage, LLC, PLAINTIFF, vs. Santonio S Miller; William L Hall and if William L Hall be deceased then any child and heir at law to the Estate of William L Hall distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of William L Hall 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, DEFENDANT(S) SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) C/A NO: 2023-CP-10-05381 DEFICIENCY WAIVED TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for

such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you. NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court on November 1, 2023. 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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-04914 CONNERY PROPERTIES, INC., Plaintiff, v. S GERLEAN YLETHEA HEMINGWAY, and if she may be deceased, her heirs-at-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 40 Athens Court Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 463-12-03-086 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the military service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants. SUMMONS & NOTICE To the Defendants above-named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, 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 October 5th, 2023, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on October 5th, 2023 and the Order of Publication was filed on November 17th, 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 October 5th, 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 CERTAIN PIECE, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements, thereon, if any, situate, lying and being on Athens Court, in the City of Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being more particularly designated as Lot Twenty Eight (28), on a plat entitled “Plat of Property situate in the City of Charleston, S.C., owned by Southgate Construction Company, Inc. and P. Duke Warren, surveyed February 26, 1971 by W. L. Gaillard, L.S. #453,” said plat is recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book Q at Page 29, and being shown as Athens Court; reference being made to said plat for a more complete description thereof. TMS # 463-12-03-086 s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 Attorney for Plaintiff November 21st, 2023 Date

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-04782 Sidney Murray and Ernestine Murray, Plaintiffs, v. Sam Murray, Samuel Murray, Jr, Ernest J. Murray, Sally Murray, Juanita Murray, William Lee Murray and Vanessa Elaine Youngblood, 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: 6.14 acres 7709 White Point Road In the Town of Hollywood Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 244-00-00-129 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 Ruth Murray, Vaughn Maurice Murray, Trinka Sinae Murray, Ernest John Murray, Jr., Tamara Tynese Wright, Craig Michael Murray, Louis D. Murray, Jacqueline Yvette Watson, Betty Gene Murray, Ka’Denna Middleton, Khurrann Middleton, T.S. (a minor under the age of 15 years), Samantha Murray, Travis Murray, William L. Moultrie and Telca Corbett, Defendants. SUMMONS & NOTICE To the Defendants above-named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, 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 September 28th, 2023, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on September 29th, 2023 and the Order of Publication was filed on November 17th, 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 November 17th, 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 tract of land in St. Paul’s school district No. 19, and more particularly described as follows, bounded on the north by the White Point Road on the east by the land of the grantor, and the south by the Dahoo River and on the west by the lands of the grantor, and containing six (6) acres, more or less. This is a part of a 13.6 acre tract conveyed to Sarah Legare

Stevens (Sarah L. Steven) by M. C. Johnston, bt deed dated July 28th, 1915 and recorded in Book T-27 at Page 194, R. M. C Office, Charleston, S.C. TMS # 092-00-00-005 s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 Attorney for Plaintiffs November 21st, 2023 Date

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF BACCHUS & BOOKS REAL ESTATE HLDGS LLC The above company (of 10 Gillon Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401) will be dissolved at the will of its members. All creditor claims must be in writing to include the claim amount, basis and date. Any claim shall be barred unless timely received by the agent below and a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within 5 years after this publication date. Mail claims to 1985 Riviera Dr., Ste. 103-112, Mt.P., SC 29464. Attn: Alex Juncu. (843) 474-0717, alex@junculegal.com

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION of Bacchus & Books Enterprises, LLC The above company (of 10 Gillon St, Charleston, SC 29401) will be dissolved at the will of its members. All creditor claims must be in writing to include the claim amount, basis and date. Any claim shall be barred unless timely received by the agent below and a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within 5 years after this publication date. Mail claims to 1985 Riviera Dr., Ste. 103-112, Mt.P., SC 29464. Attn: Alex Juncu, Esq.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-04378 MILDRED L. BROWN, Plaintiff, vs. LaNARD BRADLEY, JOHN DOE, and MARY ROE, being fictitious names used to designate the unknown heirs at law distributes, devisees, legatees, widow, widowers, successors and assigns, if any, of WILLIAM BRADLEY AND SHIRLENE BRADLEY and all other persons unknown claiming by, through or under them or having or claiming any interest in the real estate described in Complaint, whether infants, incompetents, insane persons under any other disability, Defendants. SUMMONS (Quiet Title/Partition) TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, located at 1847 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Complaint. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Charleston, which action was brought by the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named

Defendants to determine the rightful owners and partition in kind and or by allotment the below described real estate. That the premises affected by this action is located within the County and State aforesaid and is more particularly described as follows: All that piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being on Wadmalaw Island in Charleston County, State aforesaid containing 0.7200 acre and designated as Lot 3 on a Plat of the Subdivision of Lands of Edmund Rivers made by James E. Pennington, R.L.S., dated April 27, 1987 and recorded in the ROD Office for Charleston County in Plat Book BN page 57, reference to said plat is hereby craved for a more complete description. TMS No.: 151-00-00-191 NOTICE NISI TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Plaintiff has applied to the Court for appointment of a suitable person as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown and known Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability, and said appointment shall become final unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf, within thirty (30) days of the service of this Notice, shall procure to be appointed a Guardian ad Litem for them. NOTICE OF FILING TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Complaint, Notice Nisi and Lis Pendens were filed on September 6, 2023 in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, South Carolina. FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Kelvin M. Huger, Esquire of 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200, Charleston, S.C. 29407, has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated the 7th day of September, 2023 and the said appointment shall become absolute thirty (30) days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf, shall procure a proper person to be appointed as Guardian ad Litem for them within (30) days after the final publication of this Notice. /s/ Arthur C. McFarland Attorney for Plaintiff 1847 Ashley River Road, Suite 200 Charleston, SC 29407 843.763-3900 843.763-5347 (fax) Email: Cecilesq@aol.com Charleston, South Carolina September 6, 2023

Master’s Sale 2023-CP-10-03425 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Specialized Loan Servicing LLC, PLAINTIFF VERSUS James E. McKelvey and Jo Ann McKelvey, DEFENDANTS Upon authority of a Decree dated November 21, 2023 I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Emergency Operations Center, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 9th DAY OF JANUARY, 2024 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter. All that certain piece, parcel, lot or tract of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of

Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being known and designated as Lot 35, Block F, Evanston Subdivision, Section 5, as shown on a plat made by E.M. Seabrook, Jr., Inc., dated March, 1968, and duly recorded in the Charleston County RMC Office in Plat Book X at Page 35. Said parcel having such size, shape, metes, bounds, location and dimensions as shown on the aforesaid plat to which reference is made. This being the same property conveyed to James E. McKelvey by deed of US Bank, N.A. as Trustee under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement with Pooling ID# 40256 and Distribution Series 2005-KS12, dated December 28, 2005 dated January 29, 2008 and recorded January 31, 2008 in Book A650 at Page 769 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Thereafter, said property was conveyed to James E. McKelvey and Jo Ann McKelvey by deed of James E. McKelvey dated December 3, 2013 and recorded December 12, 2013 in Book 0378 at Page 480 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. TMS No. 408-09-00-067 Property address: 4325 Evanston Boulevard North Charleston, SC 29418 No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date. PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340 Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale 2023-CP-10-02817 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS AJX Mortgage Trust I, a Delaware Trust, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, Trustee, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Joyce Hamilton a/k/a Joyce Eyvonne Hamilton, Denise Hamilton a/k/a Denise Hamilton Watkins a/k/a Denise Watkins a/k/a Denise Hamilton-Watkins, Janice Hamilton n/k/a Janice Washington a/k/a Janice A. Washington a/k/a Janice Hamilton-Washington; Ervin Hamilton; Justin Hamilton, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Ivan Hamilton a/k/a Iven Hamilton, Deceased, et.al., DEFENDANTS Upon authority of a Decree dated November 21, 2023, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Emergency

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Commencing at a point on the boundary line between Tract K and Tract J on the South side of a community dirt road located Eastwardly of South Carolina Highway No. S-10-53, and being about 540 feet Eastwardly thereof, and running from the said point on the said boundary line on bearing south 22 degrees, 30 minutes East Southwardly a distance of 200 feet to a point, thence running Eastwardly a distance of 85 feet to a point on the boundary line between Tract K and Tract I, said point being 200 feet South of the said community dirt road, thence running Northwardly a distance of 200 feet on bearing South 21 degrees East a distance of 200 feet to said community dirt road, and thence running Westwardly on the south side of said community dirt road a distance of 85 feet to the point of beginning, said Tract K being more particularly shown on plat of part of McIntyre Tract as shown on survey by Gaillard and Gaillard, dated November 5, 1945, and recorded in Plat Book F, Page 231, RMC Office for Charleston County. Butting and bounding and measuring and containing Northwardly 85 feet on said dirt road Eastwardly 200 feet on Tract L, as shown on said plat now or formerly of William Hamilton and Westwardly 200 feet on Tract I. This being the same property conveyed to Iven Hamilton (1/3 interest) and Ervin Hamilton (1/3 interest) by deed of Janie Jenkins dated December 22, 1981, and recorded December 23, 1981, in Book J-127 at Page 324 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Thereafter, Janie Jenkins conveyed all of her right, title and interest in said property to Ivan Hamilton and Ervin Hamilton by deed dated May 26, 1988, and recorded December 16, 1988, in Book K-180 at Page 753 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Ivan Hamilton and Ervin Hamilton then conveyed a three-fifths (3/5) interest in said property to Joyce Hamilton, Denise Hamilton and Janice Hamilton by deed dated November 3, 1998, and recorded December 16, 1988, in Book K-180 at Page 746 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Thereafter, Joyce Hamilton, Denise Hamilton-Watkins, and Janice Hamilton-Washington conveyed a life estate to Janie Hamilton, with the remainder interest to Joyce Hamilton, Denise HamiltonWatkins, Janice HamiltonWashington, Ivan Hamilton a/k/a Iven Hamilton, and Ervin Hamilton by deed dated April 5, 2006, and recorded April 24, 2006, in Book P-580 at Page 285 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Subsequently, Janie Hamilton a/k/a Janie L. Hamilton died on March 19, 2013 (See Probate Estate Case No. 2013-ES-10-00591). Subsequently, Ivan Hamilton a/k/a Iven Hamilton died on or about April 30, 2023, leaving the subject property to his heir, namely Justin Hamilton. TMS No. 337-00-00-059 Property address: 1957 Ferguson Road Charleston, SC 29412 No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance

with the bid may be made immediately. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date. PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340 Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT IN RE: THE ESTATE OF MARY FORREST CASE NO.: 2023-ES10-01886 DESCRIPTION/SUBJECT MATTER: PETITIONER’S PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRS ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: JOY D. STONEY-REID 6650 RIVERS AVE. NORTH CHARLESTON,S C 29406 843-763-1300 DATE OF VIRTUAL HEARING: JANUARY 9, 2023 TIME: 10:30 AM PLACE: VIRTUAL HEARING CHARLESTON COUNTY PROBATE COURT 84 BROAD STREET CHARLESTON, SC 29401 NOTICE OF HEARING IS HEREBY GIVEN TO: ANY INTERESTED PERSONS FOR THE ESTATE OF MARY FORREST NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR VIRTUAL HEARING SHALL BE PROVIDED BY PETITIONERS COUNSEL ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT’ OF THE HEARING. ANY AND ALL PARTIES MAY REQUEST ATTENDANCE OF THE HEARING BY PHONE OR EMAIL TO ROBIN SLIKKER, ESQ LAW CLERK OF CHARLESTON COUNTY PROBATE COURT 843-958-5194 OR RSLIKKER@ CHARLESTONCOUNTY.ORG

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT IN RE: THE ESTATE OF WILLIE FORREST JR CASE NO.: 1996-ES10-00171 DESCRIPTION/SUBJECT MATTER: PETITIONER’S PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRS ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: JOY D. STONEY-REID 6650 RIVERS AVE. NORTH CHARLESTON, S C 29406 843-763-1300 DATE OF VIRTUAL HEARING: JANUARY 9, 2023 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: VIRTUAL HEARING CHARLESTON COUNTY PROBATE COURT 84 BROAD STREET CHARLESTON, SC 29401 NOTICE OF HEARING IS HEREBY

GIVEN TO: ANY INTERESTED PERSONS FOR THE ESTATE OF WILLIE FORREST JR NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR VIRTUAL HEARING SHALL BE PROVIDED BY PETITIONERS COUNSEL ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT’ OF THE HEARING. ANY AND ALL PARTIES MAY REQUEST ATTENDANCE OF THE HEARING BY PHONE OR EMAIL TO ROBIN SLIKKER, ESQ LAW CLERK OF CHARLESTON COUNTY PROBATE COURT 843-958-5194 OR RSLIKKER@ CHARLESTONCOUNTY.ORG

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT IN RE: THE ESTATE OF JAMES DAVIS CASE NO.: 2023-ES10-02021 IN THE MATTER OF REBECCA DAVIS CASE NO.:2023-ES10-02023 DESCRIPTION/SUBJECT MATTER: PETITIONER’S PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRS ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: JOY D. STONEY-REID 6650 RIVERS AVE. NORTH CHARLESTON,S C 29406 843-763-1300 DATE OF VIRTUAL HEARING: JANUARY 16, 2023 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: VIRTUAL HEARING CHARLESTON COUNTY PROBATE COURT 84 BROAD STREET CHARLESTON, SC 29401 NOTICE OF HEARING IS HEREBY GIVEN TO: ANY INTERESTED PERSONS FOR THE ESTATE OF JAMES OR REBECCA DAVIS NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR VIRTUAL HEARING SHALL BE PROVIDED BY PETITIONERS COUNSEL ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT’ OF THE HEARING. ANY AND ALL PARTIES MAY REQUEST ATTENDANCE OF THE HEARING BY PHONE OR EMAIL TO ROBIN SLIKKER, ESQ LAW CLERK OF CHARLESTON COUNTY PROBATE COURT 843-958-5194 OR RSLIKKER@ CHARLESTONCOUNTY.ORG

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT IN RE: THE ESTATE OF VERDETTE L. DAVIS CASE NO.: 2023-ES10-02018 DESCRIPTION/SUBJECT MATTER: PETITIONER’S PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRS ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: JOY D. STONEY-REID 6650 RIVERS AVE. NORTH CHARLESTON,S C 29406 843-763-1300 DATE OF VIRTUAL HEARING: JANUARY 16, 2023 TIME: 11:00 AM PLACE: VIRTUAL HEARING CHARLESTON COUNTY PROBATE COURT 84 BROAD STREET CHARLESTON, SC 29401 NOTICE OF HEARING IS HEREBY GIVEN TO: ANY INTERESTED PERSONS FOR THE ESTATE OF VERDETTE L. DAVIS NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR VIRTUAL HEARING SHALL BE PROVIDED BY PETITIONERS COUNSEL ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT’ OF THE HEARING. ANY AND ALL PARTIES MAY REQUEST ATTENDANCE OF THE HEARING BY PHONE OR EMAIL TO ROBIN SLIKKER, ESQ

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Arts, etc. Brookgreen Gardens hosts Nights of a Thousand Candles Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet offers Nights of a Thousand Candles, voted the best Christmas light display in the state by Travel + Leisure. View the display between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. now through Dec. 31, and marvel at the thousands of hand-lit candles and millions of twinkling lights draped among Brookgreen’s botanical gardens and sculptures. Learn more at brookgreen.org. —Chloe Hogan

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Catch a circus show under the Gaillard’s big top By Chloe Hogan Circus, burlesque and cabaret collide for a mesmerizing performance created for the Charleston Gaillard Center by one of London’s most prominent West End entertainment producers. There are seven chances to see Cabaret Royale between now and the final 9:30 p.m. performance on Dec. 22. Cabaret Royale is part of the Gaillard’s second annual Spiegeltent programming this November and December. This special show is also the U.S. premiere for Underbelly, the U.K.-based entertainment company that produced the work. Katharine Arnold, one of the show’s aerial performers and creative director, told the Charleston City Paper during a phone interview from London that viewers of this multifaceted show can expect comedy, aerial and acrobatic acts, as well as performances by clowns and burlesque artists. “We’ve all created some new acts just for this show,” Arnold said. “This particular

show hasn’t been seen anywhere else before.” She said Underbelly is excited to premiere its U.S. show in the Gaillard’s Spiegeltent. “Underbelly has a huge history of being the biggest producers of the Spiegeltent in the U.K., but it will be the first foray into doing something in the United States. We’re all really excited to come and bring this show to Charleston,” Arnold said. If you haven’t caught a performance at the Spiegeltent yet — or driven by it on Calhoun Street — it’s a gorgeous historical circus tent which offers an extra special setting for a show like Cabaret Royale. “It’s a tent, but it’s all made of wood and mirrors,” Arnold said. “You have a small stage in the center, so the audience is all around the action, and it feels very intimate. There’s a lot of connection between the performers and the audience.” Renowned performer Grace Lusk will This sense of connection is a facet of serve as the ringmaster for Cabaret CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

Royale, as well as perform as a clown and a stand-up comedian

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Six local hip-hop artists will take the stage at The Royal American on Dec. 16. All performers were nominated for the 2023 City Paper Music Awards’ Hip-Hop Artist of the Year category, including Tyrie, Slim S.O.U.L., Indi Gxld, Unheard Ent., One Spliff and Three Minorities and Sxvxnt. Doors open at 9 p.m.; the show starts at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. —Samantha Connors For daily updates from Charleston’s art and music world, check out the Culture section at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Cabaret Royale will feature jaw-dropping aerial tricks, mesmerizing cyr wheel performances and tantalizing burlesque dance. The show comes to the Gaillard’s Spiegeltent from the London-based entertainment company Underbelly.

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Visit the Gibbes Museum of Art from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 16 for free admission, and enjoy the permanent collection plus special exhibitions. You can also attend a ticketed lecture at 2 p.m. that day to learn more about special exhibition Something Terrible May Happen: The Art of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward “Ned” I.R. Jennings. Caroline CorbeauParsons, curator of drawings and paintings at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, will speak with exhibition curator Chase Quinn. Learn more at gibbesmuseum.org. —CH

New holiday show features soul-infused classics singing she loves the most because it’s all about feeling. Local singer-songwriter Tonya Nicole pres“Singing sits in my body. … It feels like ents Hot Chocolate Holiday Harmony, a home,” she said. “I like to say that I never holiday show with a theatrical twist at 7 p.m. quite sing a song the exact same way. It Dec. 28. This all-ages interactive perfordepends how I’m feeling that day and where mance at Queen Street Playhouse takes the it sits in my heart.” form of a live podcast recording, featuring Nicole and Smalls, who performed songs, stories and hot chocolate. Nicole and during the MOJA on King Block Party her fellow musicians infuse classic holiday Queens of Hip-Hop and Soul event in songs with soul, R&B and jazz. October, along with Holmes will be backed “Whenever I put on a by Dave Grimm on guitar, show, I try to add an experiJonathan Lovett on piano, ence to it,” Nicole told the Ben Bennett on bass and Charleston City Paper. Javan Campbell on drums. I like to say that Infusing classic tunes “There’s got to be something else to keep the audience with soul, R&B and jazz I never quite entertained.” comes easy to Nicole, who sing a song the adds riffs and jazz runs to She will be joined on stage by Christian Smalls, songs, giving exact same way. traditional known by her artist name them new flavor. Black Diamond, and JT “[These genres] all make It depends how Holmes. The three powyou feel something,” she I’m feeling that said. “Jazz is so improvierhouse vocalists will play holiday-loving podcasters day and where sational. It’s the scats, the who are performing a live running, holding out notes, it sits in my show. Nicole, a PURE going low and going high.” Theatre ensemble member, For a taste of Nicole’s heart.” said this was a way to incorgenre-bending approach, —Tonya Nicole porate her love of theater you can listen to into the production. tracks “Cotton Candy” With the growing popularity of live and “You Got Me” on her 2022 EP recording podcasts, Nicole decided to create #1996KindaLove, she said. her own fictional podcast for the show, The show is expected to run for an hour during which the audience will be able and 45 minutes with a 10-minute interto test the musicians’ skills by calling out mission, but Nicole said it could run for favorite holiday songs for them to perform. two hours if the audience is grooving. You This approach, Nicole said, was inspired can purchase tickets for the 7 p.m. Dec. 28 by her experience as a theater kid, and later, show at Nicole’s website, tonyanicolemusic. a theater teacher. However, she said it’s com or footlightplayers.net.

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the Cabaret Royale performance and the Spiegeltent programming as a whole, which the Gaillard’s CEO Lissa Frenkel is particularly keen on. “We have created a more intimate way to engage with our audiences and to create a Charleston holiday experience that’s specifically associated with the center,” Frenkel said. The Spiegeltent is one of only 37 of these mirrored tents left in the world. They were originally built in Europe in the late 1800s. “It’s a pretty special place for these performances to happen. We’re dealing with world-class performers in a tiny tent with 200 people. And so it’s really an opportunity for Charleston to rub shoulders with these really cool and interesting artists.”

The cast of performers

The renowned cast of performers includes Grace Lusk, a stand-up and character comedian and clown hot off of five years headlining Spiegelworld’s OPM at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. She got her start in the Chicago comedy scene and learned clowning at the Los Angeles clown company The Idiot Workshop. Grace has performed on many stages with her off-the-wall comedy. She will serve as the ringmaster of the show and a participating clown and stand-up comedian. Circus artist Charlie Wheeller will perform on a cyr wheel, an acrobatic apparatus that consists of a single large ring made of aluminum or steel. He’ll present acrobatic acts alongside Arnold, who

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Underbelly are really master craftsmen when it comes to telling stories through circus and engaging audiences in that way.” —Lissa Frenkel

became a finalist on France’s Got Talent in 2015 for her aerial performances. And circus performer Josie Jones will perform the ancient and impressive art of hair suspension — which is exactly what it sounds like, an acrobatic performance while suspended by her hair. Finally, expect burlesque performances by Miss Jolie Papillon, an award-winning, internationally known dance star who’s made a name for herself through her sensual performances inside a giant martini glass. The show is for people ages 18 and older due to partial nudity, adult themes and strong language. “We know it’s going to be extraordinarily high quality,” Frenkel said. “The burlesque and aerial performance and artistry is just at another level. Underbelly are really master craftsmen when it comes to telling stories through circus and engaging audiences in that way. So we are just delighted to be able to provide this quality of performance here in Charleston.” Tickets to Underbelly start at $70 and are available for purchase at gaillardcenter.org. The last performance is at 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 22.

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9. Type of “mobile” for Oscar Mayer 10. Musical adaptation abbr. 11. Early score in a baseball or basketball game 12. 1980s tennis star Mandlikova 16. Talk excessively 18. Becomes less hot 21. Drink made from frozen grapes 25. Card pack 26. Author Bret Easton ___ 27. “I love you,” in Spanish 28. Words of astonishment 29. Promo of sorts 30. “Beetle Bailey” character 32. Spiked wheel on a boot spur 33. State one’s views 36. Some U.K. statespeople 37. Mauna ___ (Hawaiian peak) 40. Comedy scene 45. Sierra ___ (Liberia neighbor) 48. General killed at Little Bighorn 51. Northern region 53. Flashlight battery size 54. Australian Rules, informally 55. Smartphone download 56. Vantage point 58. “SportsCenter” network 59. “Hold on there!” 60. West Coast gas brand 61. Bell ringing 62. Outlook action 64. Actress Graynor

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Across 1. ___ fides (credentials) 5. Coll. deg. for artists 8. Mowed path 13. Long, long time 14. ___ Gatos, CA 15. Breathing space 17. “Are You Being Served?” and “Friday Night Dinner,” for example 19. Shakespeare title setting 20. Minced veggie for stews and casseroles 22. Preschool activity 23. Near-eternity 24. Belief statement 26. Alcohol type used as biofuel 29. “Cats” poet’s monogram 31. Backward-looking 34. Night sky feline 35. Urban growth 38. What lumberjacks do 39. They’re on the books 41. Video game protagonist with a 2023 movie 42. Aucklander, casually 43. “Nah, it’s all good ...” 44. Use your blinker 46. Former All-Star closer Robb 47. Video game character on a roll? 49. Poe’s “Annabel ___” 50. Postal Service symbol 52. Piano practice piece 54. Bob ___ apples 55. “A Wrinkle in Time” director DuVernay 57. Tops that don’t require a bottle opener 63. Download the wrong way, maybe 65. Closet-organizing device 66. “Stormy” seabird 67. Winner’s take 68. Volunteer’s statement 69. Go for a spin? 70. “All opposed” reply 71. Heartless