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Two unidentified Clemson University students who took the Mosquito Beach surfboard sign off of its posts will spend part of their summer vacation getting to know Sol Legare community history. The sign was returned to the community April 10.

A history lesson in the wake of Mosquito Beach surfboard theft

By Herb Frazier

Two unidentified Clemson University male students won’t face criminal charges for taking Mosquito Beach’s colorful surfboard, but there are some strings attached. Each has to perform 40 hours of community service work in the Sol Legare community as well as meet with Sol Legare residents and watch the movie Glory to understand the area’s Civil War history.

“We’re very sorry for what happened and we’ve felt welcomed by the community,” one of the chagrined students told a mostly Black group of about 40 people who attended a Monday meeting of the Concerned Citizens of Sol Legare. The sign, retrieved April 10 from a university dorm room, is back in its historic location today.

What would have happened ?

Some residents in the predominantly Black community believe if the roles were switched and two Black students stole something from nearby Folly Beach, they would have gone to jail.

Shirley Gaillard Carter, a director of the Concerned Citizens of Sol Legare, said she agreed with a decision to keep the students from facing criminal charges, but she believed “if it was one of our children, they would have ended up in jail. Everyone deserves a second chance.”

Still, the students are getting a taste of the historic community’s ire.

“They got a good tongue-lashing,” Carter said, referring to an appearance the duo made at a meeting last month.

The Mosquito Beach Business Association’s decision to not press criminal charges, however, placed its vice-chairman, former James Island Public Service Commission member Cubby Wilder, in the hot seat with the wider Sol Legare community.

“I have heard that a thousand times that I am too soft, but after the community meeting, I said what if it was your kid that made a mistake,” asked the 80-year-old Wilder, who recalls when Folly Beach opened in the early 1960s to Black beachgoers.

Service to the Sol Legare community

“We want those kids to learn some Black history that was left out of our history books,” said Wilder, who lives on Sol Legare Road. “One of their homework [tasks] is to go watch Glory,” as well as to attend meetings to hear about Sol. Legare community projects, pick up trash around the building and tour the community’s Sea Shore Farmers Lodge and Cultural Center, Wilder said.

Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano, who happened to attend the Monday community meeting, said because the association wasn’t pressing charges, her

The Rundown

Charleston loses key water strategist

Dale Morris, the city of Charleston’s chief resilience officer, resigned Friday, a blow to the city’s efforts to mitigate the effects of rising tides and climate change.

Morris brought world-class environmental and planning credentials to the Holy City in building ways to manage water and help the city plan and adapt land-use and water projects for the future. He also was key in the city’s Dutch Dialogues to learn from the world’s other Lowcountry, the Netherlands, about living with rising and ebbing water.

Local environmental advocates, such as Groundswell Charleston chairman Susan Lyons and Charleston Climate Coalition director Belvin Olasov, said Morris’ departure leaves an alreadystruggling city without one of its most consequential leaders in the ongoing fight against rising sea levels and worsening storm surge.

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office wasn’t involved.

“No victim, no crime,” she said, adding that people often work out issues like this without charges being filed. “Anybody who rates a second chance should be afforded one.”

As part of their community service, the students agreed to watch the 1989 movie Glory, which focused on the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The first unit of Black volunteer soldiers formed by the Union during the war, it led the unsuccessful assault on Fort Wagner on Morris Island that is depicted in the movie. Black soldiers camped at the Sol Legare area before the attack.

Although the sign was taken from Mosquito Beach in the Sol Legare community, the Concerned Citizens of Sol Legare also “wanted the kids to do some work for Sol Legare,” Wilder told the Charleston City Paper in an exclusive interview.

Charleston attorney Matt Austin, who represents the students, said the Mosquito Beach Business Association “as well as the Concerned Citizens of Sol Legare Community Foundation graciously invited my clients into their community not only to perform acts of service but also to sit with members of their community to learn from their experiences. We remain grateful for their decision to use the situation as a teachable moment.”

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The number of votes that two-term S.C. Sen. Sandy Senn of Charleston fell short of winning the GOP primary against hard-right challenger Johns Island Rep. Matt Leber. Senn is one of five “sister senators” who stood up to the GOP establishment last year over a proposed six-week abortion ban.

GUN VIOLENCE COUNTER

7 shot, killed across S.C. June 5 to June 11

Charleston police are investigating a June 10 morning shooting at South Street playground that killed David Williams, 25, of Charleston. No arrests have been made.

Six others died in Greenville, Horry, Darlington, Greenwood and Marion counties. Six more were hurt in shootings across the state. Nationally, there were 13 mass shootings for the week, totalling 211 for the year.

Sources: gunviolencearchive.org; S.C. official and media reports

Andy Brack

Craft your summer reading list for fall’s Charleston Literary Festival

By Chloe Hogan

The annual Charleston Literary Festival returns Nov. 1-10 at Dock Street Theatre with a diverse lineup of literary excellence, including two 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners and Oprah’s 2024 Book Club Pick author, Colm Tóibín.

Announced Tuesday are the first 14 writers of the lineup, which festival director Sarah Moriarty said reflects the festival’s goal to showcase diverse and international perspectives.

“In terms of being relevant to our modern audience, it’s important that we have Pulitzer Prize winners alongside the Oprah Book Club, for example,” Moriarty said. “Everyone on this lineup excels at literary craft. But it’s also important to us that we have something for everyone.”

Both of the 2024 fiction and nonfiction winners of the Pulitzer Prize will present in the 10-day festival: West Virginia native Jayne Anne Philips will discuss her novel Night Watch, a mother-daughter story set in an asylum in West Virginia around the

time of the Civil War, and Korean-American author Ilyon Woo will discuss her winning biography, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom.

Moriarty also highlighted Oprah’s Book Club pick of the year, Colm Tóibín, the laureate for Irish fiction with an international reputation for powerful emotional narratives. Tóibín will discuss his latest novel, Long Island, a sequel to his award-winning book, Brooklyn.

“Colin is a beautiful writer of literary fiction,” said Moriarty, who is an Irish native. “He’s compelling and compulsively readable.”

Something for everyone

Moriarty said Tuesday’s announcement gives a great map for planning the adventures of summer reading. Topics covered range widely, from stories of exile, to disordered eating, to culture wars and censorship.

“As book bans are on the rise in South Carolina, Charleston Literary Festival is committed to the free exchange of ideas and facilitating open conversations,” said the press release.

Moriarty advised readers to pick not only the topics and authors that are immediately intriguing, but also to read a book or two

that covers something totally new.

“Say you see a nonfiction book about a culture war in the 1930s, and you think, this doesn’t sound like it’s for me, or even Marie Arana, the inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress,” as she discusses Latinoland, a sweeping yet personal overview of Latino identity drawn from hundreds of interviews and deep research. “It’s drawn from personal stories, which makes it so compelling.

“So I would say to people, take a little bit of a risk, lean out the window, because this program was created to be compulsive, necessary, exciting and relevant right now. So even if it’s something you would never normally read, pick it up, and you might surprise yourself.”

There’s great nonfiction speakers this year, like James Shapiro, one of the most important Shakespeare scholars in the United States, who uncovers the hidden roots of today’s culture wars and offers vital insights into the transformative power of art in his history of the Federal Theatre Project, The Playbook

Or read Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a New York Times Bestselling author celebrated for his book, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, who returns to the Festival to discuss his latest, We Are The Leaders We Have

Been Looking For.

“If you’re feeling a little bit in despair before this election and you’re looking for inspiration, [Glaude] speaks to the fact that we can look inside ourselves to protect democracy.”

And in one of the most “dazzling literary debuts of the year,” Moriarty said, English writer Lottie Hazell joins the festival to talk about her sumptuous novel Piglet and how it deals with literary depictions of food and disordered eating. Hazell will converse with cultural critic Emmeline Clein, author of the acclaimed, generation-defining, Dead Weight: On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating.

“For a page turner, read Hazell’s Piglet. It’s one of the best books I’ve read this year. Her research is in literary representations of food and culture in literature. Piglet is a thriller essentially about a woman processing a terrible secret and how it relates to her relationship with food. It talks about what women are allowed to have appetites for.”

Meanwhile Klein’s Dead Weight takes the conversation into a relevant cultural critique of women’s bodies in the media with deep conversations.

Buy early-bird tickets and learn more at charlestonliteraryfestival.com. Read more about the festival’s continuing community partnerships online at charlestoncitypaper.com.

Moriarty

S.C. public schools book regulation poses threat to freedom, advocates say

By Jack O’Toole

Free speech advocates are warning state legislators that hundreds of books, including literary classics like The Handmaid’s Tale, could soon vanish from South Carolina’s public school libraries. Why? There’s a new S.C. Department of Education regulation set to take effect June 25.

The regulation would bar books and materials that contain “depictions of sexual conduct,” as defined by the state’s obscenity statute, from public school classrooms and libraries. It would also give the state Board of Education, rather than local school boards, final say on whether any book or material was in violation of that policy and should be removed from schools statewide.

In response, publishers, free speech groups and nearly 400 American authors are calling on the legislature to block the regulation that they call a “book ban” before it automatically becomes law by default because the legislature didn’t take it up earlier this year.

“We, the undersigned advocacy organizations, publishers, and authors, are writing with grave concern about proposed regulations that will lead to the removal of books and literature across South Carolina’s public schools,” the coalition wrote to lawmakers in a June 3 open letter.

“As expressed by students, parents, educators, librarians and experts on free expression, these proposed regulations pose a threat to the freedom to read, to the detriment of students across South Carolina,” reads the letter, which was organized by PEN America, a free speech organization that has advocated on behalf of writers since 1922.

Vague wording problematic

Greenville resident and children’s book author Jessica Khoury signed the letter.

“This regulation is really concerning to me, both as an author and as a parent with a daughter in the South Carolina public school system,” Khoury said in a Thursday interview. “It’s an assault on her right to a full and comprehensive education.”

Asked if she’s worried about the fate of her own books, which include titles such as The Ruby Code and the Mystwick School series, Khoury said no, but added many books could be at risk.

“The language in this regulation is so vague, it could be used against almost any book,” she said.

Mosquito Beach

When the students were asked this month whether they learned anything from the incident, one started nodding his head as the other directed a reporter to contact Austin.

No charges but …

On April 5, Wilder flagged down a Charleston County Sheriff’s Department (CCSO) deputy to report he last saw the sign the day before at Mosquito Beach and Sol Legare roads.

Five days later Charleston County detectives met Clemson police officers in Columbia to retrieve the sign and return it to Mosquito Beach. Clemson’s associate

As an example of how easily that can happen, Khoury pointed to Iowa, where The Des Moines Register reports that a vaguely worded law has led to the removal of more than 3,000 books from school libraries since 2023, including classics like George Orwell’s Animal Farm, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

S.C. Department of Education

spokesman Jason Raven said the department planned to offer more clarity on the regulation in the near future.

“The department is confident in the work of the State Board of Education and looks forward to providing clear, collaborative guidance to districts on implementation procedures whenever the regulation becomes final.”

Limited options after legislative mix-up

Under South Carolina law, the General Assembly has 120 days to review and vote on proposed regulations before they become law. If the legislature fails to act in that time period, the regulation goes into effect automatically.

Typically with a controversial regulation, the legislature would take one of two steps to avoid automatic approval: either vote on the regulation prior to the mid-May end-of-session date, or vote to freeze the approval clock until the legislature returns for its next regular session the following January.

For reasons that are still unclear, neither has happened. As a result, the regulation is set to become law without legislative approval on June 25.

In the days since the legislative mix-up became apparent, several lawmakers have made their displeasure clear. But at this point, only a two-thirds vote of the legislature or a voluntary withdrawal of the regulation by state Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver could prevent its taking effect.

And that’s precisely what some senators and House members say must now happen.

“Regulations proposed by agencies should go into effect only after being vetted by the legislature,” Beaufort Republican Sen. Tom Davis said.

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vice president of communications, Joe Galbraith, didn’t respond to the paper’s request for a comment.

After the sign was located at Clemson and the students were questioned about it, Wilder prepared a work plan for each of them to do 40 hours of community service to avoid criminal charges, he said.

“The sheriff’s department sent me the paperwork and when they complete their time, I’ll sign off on it,” Wilder told the City Paper. “If they don’t show up to do that 40 hours,” they could face charges, he said. Wilder said he has not yet set a deadline as to when the work should be completed.

In a text message to the City Paper, sheriff’s department spokesperson Alexis Douglas said, Mosquito Beach community leaders asked the department “if the

Blotter of the Week

A downtown woman on May 22 told Charleston police that she believed she was about to be kidnapped by a man described as wearing “80s-style clothing” and another wearing a tutu. You’d think if you’re going to kidnap someone, you’d wear something a bit less conspicuous, but looks can be deceiving.

More like “whine” coolers

A Mount Pleasant woman on June 3 screamed at and threatened Mount Pleasant police as she was being arrested for public intoxication after she admitted to drinking “a couple of wine coolers.” Police offered several times to drive her home, but she refused, instead opting to do jumping jacks, calling officers “garbage” and yelling obscenities.

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agency could provide a log to help them keep track of community service hours served, as was worked out in the civil agreement between the two parties. We provided that log, however, this is not anything that the community is required to turn into our agency, nor is CCSO responsible for monitoring the community service in any way.

“With this being a civil agreement … the individuals in this case were not ordered to do anything,” Douglas said. “That would have required charges and a judgment. If the community leadership decides they want to sign a declination of prosecution down the road, they are free to change their mind and do that.”

Andy Brack contributed to this story.

A North Charleston woman on June 6 reportedly stole two bags of laundry detergent pods from a Spruill Avenue department store. Store employees told North Charleston police the suspect comes to the store “every other day” and always steals the same items. We know prices have gone up across the board, but the street value of Tide pods can’t be that high.

By Skyler Baldwin

Illustration by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between May 26 and June 6.

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Give death to Education Dept.’s book ban

The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) insists its proposed regulation banning books with “depictions of sexual conduct” from public school classrooms and libraries isn’t a book ban.

George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth would be proud.

Of course, to understand that “Ministry of Truth” reference, you have to have read Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984, as many of us did in high school.

Too bad South Carolina’s next generation may not be able to say the same. Because once SCDE’s Dirty Books Unit finds out what Winston and Julia were up to when Big Brother wasn’t watching, they’ll pull the classic in a skinny minute.

And no, this is not anti-censorship hysteria. Iowa schools banned 1984, — along with Beloved, As I Lay Dying and about 3,500 other books — under a similar law in 2023. Expect the same here if SCDE’s “sexual conduct” prohibition is allowed to go into effect as scheduled on June 25.

As Greenville children’s book author and public-school mom Jessica Khoury recently told the City Paper: “Honestly, the language in this regulation is so vague, it could be used against almost any book.”

Khoury’s right. By borrowing the definition of “sexual conduct” from the state’s obscenity law, the rule effectively outlaws the tamest of sexual depictions. Even a chaste description of, say, an old-fashioned “petting session” between two fully-clothed consenting adults would be enough to get a book thrown out.

“I was looking at a sample AP Literature exam and over half the books covered would be banned under this standard,” Charleston Democratic Rep. Spencer Wetmore said in an interview. “That’s a problem.”

Unfortunately, thanks to a legislative foul-up, that problem isn’t easy to fix.

Normally, the S.C. legislature reviews and votes on new rules within 120 days. If members don’t, the rule becomes law automatically. In this case — in what many lawmakers say was an oversight — legislators failed to act before going out of regular session on May 9.

So now, there are only two options to stop it: A two-thirds vote of the legislature or a voluntary withdrawal by state Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver.

Clearly, the second option would be simplest, which is why we’re calling on Weaver to pull the rule immediately. As in right this minute — today. She can then bring it back next January when the legislature has time to properly vet and vote on it. But Weaver is a political animal and she might be afraid of bucking her conservative base.

Otherwise, legislators must vote to block the rule when they return in special session on June 18. That, too, isn’t the easiest of things to do. But some things, including our kids’ freedom to read great books, are worth it.

To be clear, none of this is to suggest that parents, teachers, librarians and local school boards shouldn’t exercise good judgment in deciding which books to make available to students at various grade levels. They should. It’s the unelected censors using vague, one-size-fits-all statewide standards who need to stay out of it.

No practical South Carolinian — regardless of race, creed or politics — wants to live in a state where “sexual depictions” are instantly accessible on every teenager’s phone, but the works of George Orwell or Toni Morrison or Kurt Vonnegut or Mark Twain are too lewd for school.

CHARLESTON CHECKLIST of community objectives

We encourage community leaders to act on these audacious priorities:

1. Deal with the water. Build a strong resiliency plan to harden infrastructure and make smart climate change decisions about development, roads and quality of life.

2. Fix roads, traffic. Repair and improve roads and reduce traffic. Speed up alternatives, including more public transportation.

3. Be smarter about education. Inject new energy into the broken Charleston County school board by focusing on kids, not national mantras.

4. Conduct public business in public. Be transparent in public business. Stop the secrecy.

5. Invest in quality of life. Build more parks. Have more festivals. Invest in infrastructure that promotes a broad sense of community.

6. Engage in real racial conciliation. If we embark on more conversations and actions on racial reconciliation, our community will strengthen and grow.

7. Develop fewer hotels, more affordable housing. Make Charleston a more affordable place to live for everyone.

8. Develop Union Pier at scale. Let’s not put ship-sized buildings on the coveted Union Pier property downtown. Instead, make what comes appropriate.

9. Build and follow a 50-year plan. Plan for the county’s long-term future and follow the plan.

10. Pay people more. Pay a living wage. Push South Carolina lawmakers to set a real minimum wage.

South Carolina punches above its weight

For a state of its size, South Carolina has a continuing history of leading on the national stage. From founding fathers and early leaders who shaped the direction of the nation in good and not-so-good ways to modern politicians guiding debate, they’ve shared thoughts that illuminate today. Here are a few, in chronological order:

Charles Pinckney (1757-1824 ), a founding father whose draft of a federal constitution called for a single chief executive and elimination of religious testing as a qualification for public office, once reportedly said, “We have already taught some of the oldest and wisest nations to explore their rights as men.”

John Rutledge Jr. (1766-1819), a Charleston congressman from 1797 to 1803 and son of Founding Father John Rutledge: “So long as we may have an independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.”

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), the nation’s seventh vice president and thinker behind the theory of nullification that framed Southern nationalism, noted in an 1848 speech about war with Mexico: “It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. After years of prosperity, the tenure by which it is held, is but too often forgotten; and I fear, Senators, that such is the case with us. There is no solicitude now about liberty.”

Pride!

By Andy Brack

James L. Pettigru (1789-1863), a South Carolina lawyer who opposed nullification, surprised many in December 1860 by saying: “South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum.”

J. Waites Waring (1880-1968), a federal judge from Charleston who was the first to write in a school desegregation case that separate was not equal: “Segregation is per se inequality,” he wrote in an eloquent 1952 dissent to Briggs v. Elliott, a test case that formed the legal foundation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision banning segregation.

Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), the long-serving U.S. senator who ran for president in 1948 as a Dixiecrat, opposed integration in 1956: “The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.” As years passed, he softened his stance.

Esau Jenkins (1910-1972), a Johns Island civil rights leader, painted this saying on the back of a Volkswagen van: “Love is progress; hate is expensive.” It is now part of the Smithsonian Museum collection in Washington, D.C.

Fritz Hollings (1922-2019), the dynamic U.S. senator had a colorful way with language, noting in budget debates that “the ox is in the ditch” or observing that something that

didn’t make sense was like “the fireplug wetting the dog.” But he believed in making government work for people, as outlined in a 2008 book: “The country is in serious trouble, and we don’t have the luxury of anti-government politicking. It is our duty to make the government work.”

Carroll A. Campbell Jr. (1940-2005), the Republican governor who pushed restructuring in his 1990 reelection campaign: “State government today is run by a bunch of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, most of whom the taxpayers have never heard of. The only way to make them accountable to you is to put the governor, who is elected by the people, in charge of agencies that spend billions in tax dollars.”

Nikki Haley (1972-), former S.C. governor and presidential candidate on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump earlier this year, “The truth is, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. We have too much division in this country, and too many threats around the world to be sitting in chaos once again.”

Finally, one more that’s not political:

James Brown (1933-2006), soul singer: “I feel good.”

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

What To Do

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SATURDAY

Juneteenth Family Fest

This day-long celebration of Black history and culture returns for its fourth installment this weekend. Powerpacked with activities ranging from live performances, Black art displays, games for children and delicious cultural food, this community- and family-based event will be topped off with a grand fireworks finale show. Nonprofits, local community service vendors and historical Black colleges and universities will also be onsite.

June 15. Festivities begin at 3 p.m. $15/general admission. Riverfront Park. 1061 Everglades Ave. North Charleston. jffcharleston.com

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SATURDAY

Market Matriarchs Tea

Enjoy Lowcountry bites and learn more about the legacy of the historic “Market Ladies of Charleston” from renowned artist Jonathan Green and historian Kim Cliett Long at The Charleston Place this weekend. As some of Charleston’s original entrepreneurs, the Market Ladies left an indelible mark on the city’s history, impacting the commerce, culture and flavors of Charleston for generations to come.

June 15. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. $100/person. Thoroughbred Club. 205 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonplace.com/experiences

SATURDAY

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Charleston Farmers Market

Browse through a bounty of seasonal fruits and vegetables, handcrafted goods and culinary delights as you explore the market’s charming stalls. From farm-fresh produce to handcrafted artisanal creations, there’s something for everyone at the Charleston Farmers Market. Bring the whole family and enjoy live music, special events and activities for all ages in the heart of downtown Charleston.

June 15. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free to attend. Marion Square. 329 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonfarmersmarket.com

THIS WEEKEND

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Charleston Carifest

Celebrate Caribbean American Heritage Month this weekend with several events across the Lowcountry. Learn more about carnival and its impact on the world from Cleve Scott with the Carifest Symposium on June 13, celebrate Caribbean culture with food, drinks and entertainment at Carifest Fete en Blanc on June 14 and end the weekend-long event with a colorful street parade on June 15. Find a full schedule of events online.

June 13 to June 15. Event times vary. Ticket prices vary. Event locations vary. charlestoncarifest.com

NEXT WEEKEND

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The Velvet Underground Show

Experience the magic and allure of Las Vegas as Russel Francis brings his renowned Velvet Underground Show, an immersive cabaret spectacle, to Charleston. The show offers a mix of incredible dancers, live musicians, singers and specialty acts like world-renowned aerialists from Spain. Purchase tickets online at citypapertickets.com.

June 20 to June 22. Show times vary. Ticket prices vary. Union Station. 652-A King St. Downtown. thevelvetundergroundshow.com

“I feel it’s my turn to take up the torch of reminding people what it used to be like. If we get a lot of kids at the shows, I want them to know where they came from.”

MEET

Dietrich weaves small and tall tales about our disappearing region

By Andy Brack

will take you about 143.2 nanoseconds of talking with Sean Dietrich to figure out he’d be a great guy to get a beer with. Funny thing about that sentence is it is just the kind of thing he would write in one of his frequent online and newspaper columns if he were writing a profile of someone else.

Or you’d learn about his passion for Waffle Houses, a blind dog, a blind goddaughter and veterans. You’d also feel the pain of his father’s suicide, how he was a pudgy kid and how his soul drips with empathy for people who are having a little trouble, here or there.

And just about every time you read one of his occasionally self-deprecating commentaries, you are assured to be left with a deep emotion — sometimes a belly laugh, other times a tear or a sniffle.

Dietrich, a good-ol’ [wit of a 41-year] -old boy who grew up poor on the Florida panhandle, will be at the Charleston Music Hall June 20 to perform for the first time locally, despite periodic visits here through the years. (Including his honeymoon with wife Jamie.)

that’s disappearing.

And it will be 90 minutes of pure, unadulterated fun.

Performing across the U.S.

Dietrich and his wife travel the country about 200 nights a year performing in venues that can range from about 950 people, like the Charleston Music Hall, or the small social club stuck in the backwoods of rural Georgia. (He also once took the stage at the Grand Ole Opry.)

“We’ve performed in South Carolina a handful of times, and every time we go, people say, ‘Why don’t you ever come to Charleston?’ ” Dietrich said in a recent telephone interview. “We’re like 99% of Americans in that Charleston is special to us. We took our honeymoon in Charleston in 2003.”

Here’s what he wrote about the chilly December honeymoon, which featured a meal at Slightly North of Broad which he recalls he really couldn’t afford at the time:

“To small-town folks, the city can almost seem intimidating. This is especially true if you are like me and the most cultured city you’re familiar with is, for instance, Dothan.

guitar, piano and maybe a couple of more instruments as he weaves stories of growing up in an American South

“People kept telling us that Charleston is the second most historic city in the world (Rome, Italy, is the first). They said this

He’s a humorist and storyteller in the vein of Will Rogers, Mark Twain and Jeff Foxworthy. When here, he’ll play the

banjo,

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Sean Dietrich, a native of the Florida panhandle, plays guitar, banjo, fiddle, accordion and piano

wherever we went. Even at the Waffle House where our waitress was a tired woman with the personality of a boiled ham.”

There in just two paragraphs, he sneaked in class, culture, history, Waffle Houses and ham, the staple of a Southern plate. Pretty good for a Florida guy who now lives in Birmingham.

“Charleston has a unique vibe to it,” he said during the interview. “It’s Southern — and yet it’s Southern in a way that is unique to itself. You have people in Alabama wearing Roper boots and Wrangler jeans, and that’s Southern, and then you go to Birmingham, and they’re dressed very Metropolitan Atlanta.

“But in Charleston, it’s the bow ties and the pink checkered shirts for the guys. It has its own look, its own feel, its own dialect. I love it.”

On his last post-pandemic visit, he said the city seemed laden with a few too many visitors. (Of course, he was one of them!)

“I come from northwest Florida. That’s my home. So when it comes to the grief of development, I’m with you. I can’t even go back home now without experiencing this mournful feeling of loss because my home town is technically still there. And yet it’s buried beneath a cruise ship of crap.”

About feeling a little better

Dietrich says the main point of his shows — like in the columns and books — is to help people feel a little bit better for the hour or two that he’s on stage telling stories and playing music.

“If they walk away feeling any better than they did before they walked in, then I’m glad I’ve accomplished my job. I can’t do much, but perhaps for those 90 minutes, I can make somebody feel good.”

He says many of the stories he tells are about a South that’s disappearing — where today’s Southern kids don’t know about Sunday church dinners on the grounds where tables are laden with the best fried chicken, mac’ and cheese, potato salad, green beans, fresh tomatoes, peas and some kind of intergalactic congealed salad. And, of course, there are des serts that run the gamut from blueberry, chocolate and pecan pies to the high-andmighty nine-layer caramel cake or coconut cake or a simple pound cake that melts in your mouth.

“These stories are mostly about growing up in this interesting and diverse hotbed we call the South and there are so many shared experiences that we have from growing up in this part of the world,” he said. “And I fear that that way of life that we expe rienced when we came in — at least my generation — came in on the tail end of that way of life, and it’s falling apart.

Digs

Buxton fills her mind and shelves with books

By Greta Stuckey

As Polly Buxton sat across from her now-husband Julian Buxton on a date back in 2011, the conversation drifted toward their careers and ambitions. Polly shared a dream nurtured since childhood: to own a bookstore in the heart of downtown Charleston.

Although the dream didn’t seem feasible at the time, Julian loved the way her eyes lit up when she talked about it. They married one year after that night. At the time, Polly was working at an art gallery and had put her dreams of owning a bookstore on hold.

“I kept playing with the idea of opening the bookstore,” she recalled in a recent interview in her comfortable Mount Pleasant home. “And I actually looked at partnering with some people but it would have been a bad time to open up a store.”

At the same time, Julian was putting energy into his walking tour company, Tour Charleston LLC, through which he offers historical ghost tours. One day after seeing off a school group tour, Julian found himself standing in a downtown building with light pouring in.

It was a gift store in downtown Charleston, but the girl working inside told him it would be moving locations and focusing on apparel. That moment changed everything for the Buxtons. Julian called Polly to tell her he was standing in her bookstore.

Polly was nervous about starting a new business, but Julian was supportive and entrepreneurial-minded, she said. So, they decided to take a chance and founded Buxton Books. The store opened on April Fool’s Day in 2016 and has been a work in progress ever since.

“I was very hesitant but we did it,” Polly said. “It’s more work than I thought it would be. But it’s also a lot more rewarding than I thought it would be.”

Meaning behind it all

Today, Buxton Books is a few blocks away in a historic white building at 160 King St.

Inside, people will find built-in black bookshelves filled with classics, new releases, Charleston specials, children’s books and Polly’s recommendations. (It’s also one of the few places you can still get Charleston City Paper ’s 350 Facts About Charleston book).

The bookstore has historic charm with clean aesthetics, bright colors and lots of natural light. Similar to her home in Mount Pleasant, Polly decorates and changes the bookstore as she goes.

“I feel like everything in the bookstore and our house just evolves,” Polly said. “I’m always collecting and gathering things that

have meaning and a story behind them.” While the Buxtons’ home exterior doesn’t share the rich history of the shop, the inside of the home is filled with cherished mementos, classic reads and an original typewriter. She even has built-in wooden bookshelves throughout the first floor of her home to store books and knick-knacks. For example, sitting on the bookshelf behind Polly’s couch in the living room is a ceramic tiger. One day, she was called over to the house of editor Harriet Popham McDougal Rigney and best-selling author Robert Jordan. There, Rigney gifted Polly with a ceramic tiger for the bookstore. The significance is that the logo for Buxton Books is a tiger. (The tiger is temporarily at her home but will be back on the shelves of the bookstore soon.)

Similar to Polly’s ongoing and evolving interior style, the idea to have a tiger for the logo wasn’t specifically planned out. The idea stemmed from Julian’s childhood nickname, Tiger. Everyone Julian grew up with or went to college with still calls him Tiger today. Before opening the bookstore, they had started a small publishing company. For that business, they had local artist Tate Nation draw the Tiger. Then, Julian’s brother designed the logo. When the bookstore opened, Polly decided to keep the logo

and design the same.

“If I had known I was going to be doing this for 25 to 30 years, I might have put some more thought into it,” Polly said. “I just did it in the moment but now I love the tiger.”

Looking ahead

The Buxton Books store partners with Charleston Library Society. Polly said thanks to a 15-year lease, the bookstore plans to be in that location for a long time.

Polly Buxton (above) surrounds herself with books at home and work

Buxton’s home office (left) boasts a vintage typewriter

The Lowdown

Polly Buxton

Age: 55.

Birthplace: New Orleans.

Education: Ashley Hall for high school; College of Charleston and American University of Paris.

Books on bedside table: I am reading ahead for the 2024 Charleston Literary Festival: Long Island by Colim Toibin and Nikki Giovani’s poetry.

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Since the society is an established nonprofit, it provides extra security for the bookstore.

“They’re one of the oldest cultural institutions in the South and our relationship with them gives us a sense of stability that a lot of independent bookstores and small businesses don’t have,” Polly said.

More events with authors

Moving forward, Polly said she wants to keep putting a lot of her energy into author events. She loves the relationships, community and authenticity created by their visits to the bookstore. She likes to hold a mix of free events with local authors and paid events with big-name authors to help the publishing industry.

“The real focus of what we do is the ecosystem of publishing and also building community,” Polly said. “People get to experience meeting the author, and just being in the same room with an author as they talk about their book is a completely unique thing.”

Similar to what happens at her house, Polly expects to make changes to the bookstore over the next few months. Her design choices are made in the moment which is why the paintings in her house are propped up instead of hanging on the walls, she said. Nothing feels permanent to her and that’s part of the fun.

“I feel like the bookstore is the same as my house in a lot of ways,” Polly said. “I always think that the bookstore could be decorated better and I want it to be more functional.”

Right now, Polly has plans to add more lighting and review their current merchandise in the bookstore. She said she’s excited to see how things develop and change with time.

“What I like about the bookstore is that it just evolves,” she said. “It wasn’t really planned, which is also how I live. I just kind of collect, move and change things as I go.”

Favorite novel: I don’t think I can choose just one! Some novels I love to reread: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the book that made me first fall in love with reading: Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time

Favorite food to eat: A summertime tomato sandwich.

Favorite food to cook: Breakfast.

Favorite cocktail or beverage: In the summertime, a cold rose.

Five foods you always need in your refrigerator: Leeks, eggs, cheese, butter, sparkling water.

Three people (alive or dead) you’d like to dine with: Maya Angelou and my two grandmothers, Katharine DuPre and Polly Walton.

Describe your best day in 50 words or less: As much as I love being out and about, I really need and love a quiet day at home with nowhere to go and nothing to do but read and daydream.

Hobbies: I don’t have much time for hobbies these days, but I hope to travel more; there are so many places I hope to visit!

Pet peeve: Vocal uninformed opinions.

Philosophy: From my grandmother: “You are right where you’re supposed to be.” Be present.

Your advice for better living: Slow down and live with intention. Enjoy and trust the process.

Photos by Joey Izzo

Buxton’s home is filled with books, artwork, photos and knick-knacks

Moss balls are perfect beginner ‘plant’

Picture a vibrant green, nearly perfect sphere of something moss-like bopping around a clear water-filled corked container with pebbles at the base. Give it a cute name like Mossly Cyrus, Ryan Mossling or Mosstradamus and it will surely be your favorite new addition to your plant collection.

Meet Aegagropila linnaei, commonly known as Marimo moss ball. The term roughly translates to a bouncy ball that grows in water, aptly named in 1898 by a Japanese botanist. Interestingly, these “moss balls” aren’t moss at all. Technically, they aren’t even plants. Rather, they are a type of green algae belonging to Kingdom Protista (not Kingdom Plantae). Even though they are autotrophs and produce their own food through photosynthesis like plants,

they lack a vascular system which is one of the reasons they are bumped into a different kingdom.

Marimo moss balls are native to cool water lakes in Japan, Iceland, Scotland and parts of northern Europe. They thrive in the low- to medium-light conditions of the lakes with gentle wave action, ensuring they move around so all parts of the ball get sunlight and photosynthesize. They grow slowly with rates about 0.2 inches per year. One of the largest ones was said to be found in Lake Akan Japan and was 37 inches in diameter, making it nearly 200 years old.

In Scotland, their name translates to lake goblins, not only because of their shape but also because they cluster together in large mounds of individual balls often clogging fishermen nets. These unique creatures have folklore stories from Iceland, Japan and Scotland that roughly tell the same tale as two star-crossed lovers from different social castes forbidden to wed. So instead of living a life apart, they dove into the lake and died together, their hearts transforming into moss balls forever floating together.

Moss balls have certainly stolen the hearts of the masses in Japan — so much so that

By Toni Reale, special to CIty Paper

tribe near Lake Akan in Japan holds a festival just for these moss balls as they are revered for the luck and prosperity they bring to their people.

Marimo moss balls purchased today are not taken from sacred lakes but rather grown by cultivators. They are easy to care for, needing only fresh water every week or two (tap water is fine) and a swirl every few days that mimics the gentle rocking of lake waves.

It is fun for all ages to create a moss ball habitat. All you need is a clear glass container, add any rocks, crystals and fun trinkets, fill with water and then add your moss ball. Place it somewhere where it’s not in direct sunlight and with minimal care this lucky algal ball can be passed down for generations upgrading its container as it grows.

they are now a Japanese national treasure, which prevents people from stealing them directly from lakes. Each year, a Native

Toni Reale is the owner of Roadside Blooms, a unique flower, crystal, plant (and apparently now algae) shop in Park Circle in North Charleston. It specializes in weddings, events and everyday deliveries using Americanand locally grown blooms. Online at roadsideblooms.com. 4491 Durant Ave. in the Park Circle area of North Charleston.

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Marimo moss balls actually are a form of algae

Cuisine

Chef-driven steakhouse

Marbled & Fin opens

ByConnelly Hardaway

If you’ve been in the market for a modern steakhouse — one that serves delicate, flavorful hamachi crudo alongside a big, bold bone-in tomahawk, look no further. Local hospitality group, Neighborhood Dining Group (NDG), opened Marbled & Fin this week at 480 East Bay St. Like all of NDG’s restaurants (which include Husk, Delaney Oyster House, Minero and The James), Marbled & Fin is the product of a carefully constructed concept come to life. As general manager Geno Dew said: “It’s a competitive market. You’ve got to do it right — you don’t get second chances.”

said. “We know from our experiences that you can — without being all things to all people and scattering yourselves too thin — be a chef-driven steakhouse.”

The kitchen is led by executive chef Eucepe “Cepe” Puntriano, who most recently worked as head chef at Meat Market’s Tampa location.

Marbled & Fin’s menu is broken into categories including luxury bites (hello, Kaluga Caviar Tart), a raw bar selection with the option to order cold or hot seafood towers, fine and specialty cuts of beef, entrees and six iterations of potatoes.

The menu features some traditional steakhouse fare, including a salmon dish.

But Dew noted that the Ora King salmon with crispy skin, served with beurre blanc and smoked roe, is far from your traditional steakhouse fish dish. “It’s salmon — but it’s so high quality, and it’s so original,” he said.

“We want to do something new.”

The attention to detail begins the moment you step into Marbled & Fin; the vaulted ceilings and chic interior bely the building’s history as a dry cleaners. Reservations are recommended for the dining room at this buzzy new spot, but guests are always welcome to belly up to the 25-seat bar, first-come, first-served.

“We are hoping for the biggest bulk of our business to be locals,” said Dew, who noted that a reservation-free bar area makes it easy for people to pop into the restaurant for a post-work (or golf game) drink and bite. Dew said that he thinks Charleston diners are ready for a place like Marbled & Fin. “It makes sense within the city,” he

New spot, same hospitality

A recent visit to Marbled & Fin ahead of opening day saw a room full of employees undergoing training. “We’re fortunate that the years of effort of NDG have paid off,” Dew said. “Because, I mean, these are rock stars.”

You don’t have to look far to find headlines that bemoan a lack of ready and willing food and beverage employees. An OpenTable story, “The restaurant labor shortage: how we got here and a 2023 update,” from last year put it simply: “The restaurant labor shortage is still one of the

industry’s biggest challenges even three years after the start of the pandemic.”

The shortage, though, stops short of Marbled & Fin. “Our interview process and our method of recruitment is unlike anybody else,” said NDG’s president David Howard. “We spent a lot of time trying to put people together to fit our culture ... who genuinely cared about the guests.”

Howard, who founded NDG in 2001, knows a thing or two about Charleston hospitality.

And while the dining group is excited to reveal their latest concept to Charleston, Howard still managed to pay homage to one of NDG’s first restaurants, McCrady’s. Marbled & Fin’s private dining area features a large oil painting of downtown Charleston at night, as well as Ralph Lauren light fixtures, all of which featured prominently in McCrady’s years ago.

Light fixtures in Marbled & Fin’s main dining room complement those classic McCrady’s ones, bridging the gap between the past and future.

Diners may feel as if they’ve traveled a bit into the future with one of Marbled & Fin’s cocktail creations, including the Metadetector, a take on a white negroni that evolves as the ice in the drink melts. The cocktails were crafted by NDG’s head of project development, Kevin King, who got his start with the company as a bartender at Husk’s Nashville location.

Each speciality cocktail is listed with its “inspiration” — the Metadetector’s includes “self awareness.” The playful and inventive drink list speaks to what Dew and Howard said Marbled & Fin is trying to offer: quite simply, something new.

“I think Charleston is in for a bit of a surprise,” Howard said. “We like to push a little bit. Come on everybody, don’t get sleepy. We’ve got to keep it fresh.”

What’s new

Downtown Pakistani restaurant, Ma’am Saab, recently brought on new bar manager, Noah Kulisek , who has created several new cocktails for the restaurant. New menu items include both alcoholic and NA cocktails, with the option to add THC to the mocktails. Learn more about the restaurant online at maamsaabchs.com.

What’s hot

Charleston foodie and former City Paper columnist K.J. Kearney, the founder of the Instagram account Black Food Fridays, won a James Beard Award over the weekend for his social media account. According to the James Beard Foundation, the award “recognizes excellence in a food-related social media account or platform.” Two Charleston chefs, Nikko Cagalanan and James London , were finalists in their respective categories, but did not take home the title this year.

Conde Nast Traveler recently named Jason Stanhope’s latest venture, Lowland Tavern , one of the best new hotel restaurants in the world. Writer Todd Plummer asked: “How many ways can Charleston’s food scene continue to reinvent Southern cuisine, you might ask?” Located in The Pinch, Lowland Tavern serves up what Plummer describes as “nouveau Southern” food made with “decadent touches” on a menu that has “elegant and international turns.” Check out the full list of hotel restaurants online at cntraveler.com.

What’s happening

Hamby Catering Events & Mobile Market Pop-ups have returned this summer, popping up at a variety of locations in Mount Pleasant and downtown. Customers can snag grab’n’-go food including frozen family meals, as well as lunch options. Learn more online at hambycatering.com.

During Pride Month, Beautiful South serves up a special cocktail, Midnight on the Water, with a portion of proceeds donated to the Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA). The cocktail is made with Ramazzotti, Borghetti espresso liqueur, Goslings rum and coffee. — Connelly Hardaway

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Find traditional steakhouse fare at Marbled & Fin alongside inventive entrees and extensive raw bar preparations

Culture

Bing makes abstract art from heart

By Chloe Hogan

A fresh voice appears in the Charleston art scene — abstract expressionist painter Demetrius Bing. He works out of a home studio with walls covered in paintings, all of which he’s made over the last four years, when the self-taught artist decided to revisit his childhood interest in art.

“I was 29 when I started painting again,” he said. “I picked up a canvas to see if I still liked it, and since then, I’ve been painting every day, just putting my thoughts on to the canvas. Now, I want to be taken more seriously as an artist because I’m starting to sell. I started realizing recently this could be a career for me … I didn’t go into it thinking that.”

During these last four years of dedicated learning, Bing has honed in on a distinctive style using acrylic paints, spray paint and the incorporation of textured materials like burlap.

Each of Bing’s paintings enjoys a mix of emotionally-driven, expressionist paint application and a clever use of symbols, which is why his work draws comparison to (one of his favorite artists) Jean Michel Basquiat.

In the painting “Cold Game,” for example, Bing shows Uncle Sam as a greedy tax collector.

“I made that thinking about all the bullshit things we have to pay for; meanwhile, no one is making enough. We’re all struggling.”

Symbolism is heavy too in the largescale painting titled “Rebirth,” where Bing writes his name in backwards childish lettering to point to the traumas that inform his work — and the healing of that trauma through creation.

Getting to the heart of it

Bing experienced childhood sexual assault at 6 years old, which he said changed the way he interacted with the world. At age 29, when he started painting, is when he started dealing with the effects of that trauma. One of his paintings puts it poetically, “Manchild.”

“After what happened to me, I lost my innocence. I crossed out the year of my birth, 1991, and put the year 1997 as the

Self-taught painter Demetrius Bing draws inspiration from his emotions, his experiences teaching art at Oakbrook elementary school, and Basquiat

birth of myself as a man.”

The ‘boy’ side of the mostly-blue painting depicts a toy chest, overflowing with Ninja Turtles toys, while the sad, small figure holds a set of keys, which Bing said represents responsibility or innocence lost.

Bing said that being vulnerable and real with the emotions that drive his work is the reason he’s experienced an immediate response from the community.

“I’m not really good all the time with my words,” he said. “And it’s important to get those raw emotions and feelings out. So I put it on the canvas. That connectivity comes from taking ownership of these things, and being open about it, and not letting it run my life … instead I’m taking that and making art … I have no choice but to face myself.”

And Bing recently got the opportunity to pay forward what he’s learned.

Paying it forward

“This guy I used to go play basketball with on Wednesday nights was like, ‘Hey, man, ever been in front of a school or taught anything? We’re doing a subject on Basquiat. I would love for you to come talk to the kids.”

A great Pablo Picasso quote puts it into perspective: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Bing knows this to be true first-

Arts, etc.

Follow the North Star at the IAAM

The International African American Museum recently unveiled its latest multimedia special exhibition. Follow the North Star: Freedom in the Age of Mobility highlights the African American search for freedom and self-determination. It is the first exhibition curated by the museum that will travel around the country. Learn more at iaamuseum.org

Park Circle Gallery shows Thomas and McAbee

Find concurrent solo shows until June 29 by Kim Thomas and Doug McAbee In her exhibition Plastic Beach, Thomas sparks conversations about climate change, nature and our insatiable consumer culture. In his exhibit It Don’t Cost Nothin’ To Be Nice, McAbee presents vibrant drawings and sculptures. Learn more at northcharleston.org.

2Slices takes Pourhouse stage

hand. And so his goal in his teaching, he said, is to show kids that they don’t have to give up their art as they grow up.

“It might be cliche to say, but my aesthetic helps, because a lot of these kids don’t hear this message from someone they can relate to.”

He expressed gratitude for the opportunity to be the art teacher he wished he could’ve had. “I’m thinking, damn, how advanced would I be now if somebody was telling me it’s okay to do this — to express yourself artistically instead of holding in your rage and discomfort.”

Beyond teaching about Basquiat and how to mix colors to express emotions, Bing leaves his students with a message to “be fearless.”

“I’ve heard so many doubts from people — like, nobody’s going to buy that crazy-looking art you’re making. And now, bam, sales, connection, and it’s only up from here.”

Now that he’s fearlessly creating and sharing himself, there’s no ceiling on Bing’s dreams for his work. Goals include getting his art on Asics sneakers, he said, and potentially opening a new art gallery in Charleston.

“I want to give something to Charleston,” he said. “Part of that is working with these kids and telling them it’s cool to be creative. It’s cool to believe in yourself. Even if you don’t understand it at first, dig into it. And keep digging.”

Charleston based synth rock band 2slices will perform on the Pourhouse deck stage, 6 p.m. June 20, with special guests Alan Charmer and Leopard and the Diamond Sky. Tickets are on eventbrite for $10.

The Gibbes kicks off Summer Jazz series

The Gibbes Museum of Art kicks off a new season of its “Art of Jazz” series with a performance from Stachia (Sta. La.V.) Simmons, 6-7 p.m. June 26. Audiences can expect a concert that ranges from soul to jazz, gospel, funk and reggae. Tickets are $35 for Gibbes members, $45 for non-members, $15 for students. Learn more at gibbesmuseum.org.

Wit’s End comedy club opens its doors

This month, City Paper ’s 2024 Best Comedian Josh Bates unveiled his brand new comedy club Wit’s End on Rivers Avenue in North Charleston. Check out witsendcharleston.com to learn of the club’s offerings. Chloe Hogan

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High Fidelity: Your Top 5

Lauren Candies Tarpley is a breast cancer survivor, a published author with seven books and counting and an education innovator, Ohm Radio writes. Lauren is passionate about transforming learning and in 2025 will launch a Berkeley county K-12 school dedicated to experiential, hands-on education in STEM and sustainability. Music has always been a source of solace for Lauren. “Everyone has to choose the soundtrack for their life, my soundtrack these days is aspirational. I am creating the life I have always wanted, so this music sets the tone and pace for my days.” Lauren’s favorites are:

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Just As I Am by Bill Withers

Durand Jones & The Indications by Durand Jones

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Wilderado brings indie folk music to Windjammer

By Ryan Biddix

Wilderado, an indie folk band hailing from Tulsa, Okla., is set to light up The Windjammer on The Isle of Palms June 21 with a headline show that promises an unforgettable concert going experience.

Known for its lively performances, Wilderado uses lasers and pyrotechnics on stage to engage and energize its crowd.

Reflecting on the band’s commitment to creating a memorable night for their fans, frontman Max Rainer told the Charleston City Paper, “Our shows are crazy. And no one ever leaves single.”

Rainer formed Wilderado with Tyler Wimpee, a friend from college at Baylor University. They were both taking a fifth year to complete school and began writing songs together as a hobby. Not long after, Rainer (lead vocals, guitar), Wimpee (guitars, vocals) and Justin Kila (drums) spent a summer in Malibu, writing and teaming up with frequent Sufjan Stevens collaborator, James McAlister.

These early songs formed their first EP in 2016, which amassed 50 million streams, allowing them to tour for a year with prominent musical artists such as Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Judah & The Lion, Band of Horses and Lindsey Buckingham.

Since then, they’ve signed with Bright Antenna Records, who have represented other bands such as Catholic Comb, In the Valley Below and Middle-Class Rut. And in the past ten years of performing and creating, they’ve continuously evolved the Wilderado sound.

“We’ve been doing this for ten years — our lives have changed tremendously since

Wilderado brings a lively performance of songs from its new album Talker to the Isle of Palms this month

we started,” Rainer said. “So the sound and the perspective are always evolving. We’re paying more attention than ever before. We’re being more intentional. None of us care if the songs blow up, we simply want to make something we’re proud of and can look back and understand it took huge amounts of effort to make what we made.”

Bringing new songs to the stage

The buzz surrounding the show at The Windjammer is fueled by the upcoming release of Wilderado’s next album, Talker. Rainer described this album as the band’s “favorite recordings to date.”

“It’s hard to explain a record, but I’ll say it’s a sound we’ve been trying to capture for years and finally have,” he said. “It’s uniform and honest. It sounds like home.”

Talker, Rainer said, touches on themes of embracing mistakes, being confessional and speaking one’s mind without fear.

“This idea that it’s OK to be wrong. Be confessional and comfortable speaking your mind. Allow yourself the space to not be sure.”

Though Wilderado is known to the fans of indie rock, they have garnered newfound attention from mainstream audiences for their recent cover of R.E.M.’s “Wall Of Death” for the new Twisters movie soundtrack.

“[We] got the track and slammed a vocal on it. Took about an hour! I feel like I tricked someone into letting me into the film and they forgot to check,” Rainer recalled, expressing pride and disbelief in being featured alongside stars like Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert. This collaboration showcases the band’s versatility and positions them among some of the biggest names in the industry, upping its status from indie rock stars to mainstream ones.

As they set out on the national tour that stops in Charleston next week, Rainer said the band has no plans to stop anytime soon.

“We’ve got big ideas — trying to figure out how to actually make some money, stay excited and grateful,” Rainer said.

Don’t miss the opportunity to watch this dynamic band perform on June 21 at the Windjammer, an evening promising explosive energy and heartfelt tunes.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No. 2023-CP-10-05602

M&O HOLDINGS, LLC Judgment Creditor, V. DAVID E. CUNNINGHAM, Judgment Debtor.

NOTICE OF FILING OF FOREIGN JUDGMENT

TO: DAVID E. CUNNINGHAM: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Foreign Judgment and Affidavit were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, whose address is set forth below, on the 15th of November, 2023; that you, as the Judgment Debtor, have thirty (30) days from the date of receipt of this Notice to seek relief from the enforcement of this Judgment; and that if the Judgment is not satisfied and no relief is sought within thirty (30) days, the Judgment will be enforced in this State in the same manner as a judgment of this State. You are further advised that the name and address of the Judgment Creditor is as follows:

M&O Holdings, LLC

c/o Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC 1501 Main Street, Suite 310 Columbia, South Carolina 29201

Attn: Jane H. Downey, Esq.

You are further advised that the name and address of the attorney for the Judgment Creditor is as follows:

Jane H. Downey, Esquire Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC 1501 Main Street, Suite 310 Columbia, South Carolina 29201

You are further advised that the name and address of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina is as follows: The Honorable Julie J. Armstrong Charleston County Clerk of Court 100 Broad St Charleston, SC 29401

This Notice is being filed and served in accordance with the provisions of the South Carolina Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, Section 15-35-900, et seq. of the Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), as amended.

BY: s/Jane H. Downey Jane H. Downey, 15045 BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, PC 1501 Main Street, Suite 310 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Tel. 803.251.8814

E-Mail: jdowney@bakerdonelson.com Attorneys for Judgment Creditor

November 15, 2023

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR- 10-2730

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

Lacole Butler, Henry Butler and Terry Malone, DEFENDANTS.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2006, 2013, and 2015.

on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, William Evan Reynolds, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, 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.

William Evan Reynolds, SC Bar # 102352 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 Charleston, S.C. 29405 (843) 953-9625.

Estate of: EBEN ROGER RUMPH

2024-ES-10-0941

DOD: 4/18/24

Pers. Rep: PATRICIA E. RUMPH 1081 RIVER RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: BARRY C. HOLDEN, ESQ. 916 PALM BLVD., #7, ISLE OF PALMS, SC 29451

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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:

MICHELLE GARTMAN GOFF 2024-ES-10-0591

DOD: 11/23/23

Pers. Rep: LISA HALL 4457 HWY 174, HOLLYWOOD, SC 29449

Atty: JONATHAN E. SPITZ, ESQ. PO BOX 11262, COLUMBIA, SC 29211 ***********

Estate of: BRUCE SAMUEL BROWN, SR. 2024-ES-10-0798

DOD: 12/21/23

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:

BARBARA ANN BRUSS

2024-ES-10-0912

DOD: 4/5/24

Pers. Rep:

MICHAEL KENNETH BRUSS 1598 SEABAGO DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

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Estate of:

MAXINE ROSE GLADDEN

2024-ES-10-0925

DOD: 6/12/23

Pers. Rep:

DANA OCHENDU MARTIN

11280 NORTH VENTURA AVE., OJAI, CA 93023

Atty: JEFFREY T. SPELL, ESQ. 925 WAPPOO RD., #B, CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***********

Estate of:

CARROLL ROSS HAMILTON, JR.

2024-ES-10-0930

DOD: 4/15/24

Pers. Rep:

LORI ANN BATALLER

2925 WATERLEAF RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

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Estate of:

LIZZY CATHERINE ZITO

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Estate of:

ROBERT PAUL WOLF

2024-ES-10-0969

DOD: 4/21/24

Pers. Rep: DAVID WOLF

748 D ST. ANDREWS BLVD., CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***********

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:

TIMOTHY ROBERT MERZ

2024-ES-10-0182

DOD: 12/31/23

Pers. Rep: MELANIE KATHERINE MERZ 1229 PARKWOOD ESTATES DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

Atty: THOMAS BRUSH, ESQ. 12 CARRIAGE LN., #A CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***********

Estate of: KENNETH HUGH WILSON 2024-ES-10-0744

DOD: 3/22/24

Pers. Rep: ROBIN MICHELLE BROWN-BURDEN 5065 TOWLES RD., HOLLYWOOD, SC 29449

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Estate of: LAVONNE NALLEY PHILLIPS 2024-ES-10-0860

DOD: 3/14/24

Pers. Rep: ALTON C. PHILLIPS 2 CHISOLM ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401

Pers. Rep: GEORGE MARK PHILLIPS 40 MURRAY BLVD., CHARLESTON, SC 29401

Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ***********

Estate of: DORINDA BIRD QUARTERMAN HARMON

2024-ES-10-0866

DOD: 3/25/24

Pers. Rep: TERRY WAYNE HARMON 784 CREEKSIDE DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

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.

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:

PATRICIA ELIZABETH SOLOMON 2024-ES-10-0818

DOD: 4/17/24

Pers. Rep:

AMELIA SOLOMON WARING 97 SOUTH BATTERY, CHARLESTON, SC 29401

Atty: BRADISH J. WARING, ESQ. 25 CALHOUN ST., #250, CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ***********

Estate of:

STEPHEN HENRY HOWARD

2024-ES-10-0854

DOD: 9/14/23

Pers. Rep: SUSAN A. BRIDGES PO BOX 3484, SPARTANBURG, SC 29304 ***********

Estate of:

JEANETTE HANKS SHERMAN 2024-ES-10-0870

DOD: 3/26/24

Pers. Rep:

KELLY JENNIFER JENKINS 4320 COVINGTON DR., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29418

Pers. Rep: JESSICA KELLY 146 TEDFORD DR. LONGMEADOW, MA 01106

Atty: CHRISTOPHER D. LIZZI, ESQ. 2170 ASHLEY PHOSPHATE RD., #402 NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406

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Estate of:

GEORGE ALBERT MORASKA, JR. 2024-ES-10-0773

DOD: 3/26/24

Pers. Rep: MARY HENDRICKS MORASKA 61 MANCHESTER RD. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

Atty: KATHLEEN MORASKA FERRI, ESQ. PO BOX 31776 CHARLESTON, SC 29417

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Estate of: BUIST LUCAS HANAHAN 2024-ES-10-0785

DOD: 2/17/24

Pers. Rep: MIKEL SCARBOROUGH 339 MARTELLO DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29412

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Estate of: EUBERT YANCY JOHNSON, JR. 2024-ES-10-0797

DOD: 7/18/23

Pers. Rep: JOHN KOTCHISH 223 LAKE HILTON DR. CHAPIN, SC 29036

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Estate of: VICKY ELIZABETH GARNER 2024-ES-10-0800

DOD: 10/10/23

Pers. Rep: JAMES B. ALTMAN 1236 SILVERLEAF CIR. CHARLESTON, SC 29412

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Estate of: RUTH N. WATERS 2024-ES-10-0811

DOD: 11/14/23

Pers. Rep: LEVI ANTHONY WATERS 5569 FRISCO LN. JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

2024-ES-10-0999

DOD: 5/8/24

Pers. Rep:

SUZANNE M. COUGHLIN

4263 HOPE PLANTATION DR., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: M. JEAN LEE, ESQ. 115 CHURCH

Pers. Rep:

KATRENA RENEE HANKS 721 BROAD ST., #701, CHATTANOOGA, TN 37402 ***********

Estate of: ANNA MARIA ROWAN 2024-ES-10-0898

DOD: 8/16/23

Pers. Rep:

WILLIAM ROWAN 1559 TIDAL MARSH LN., MT. PLEASANT, SC 29466

Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ***********

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

Estate of: DELORIS ETHERIDGE HUSKY 2024-ES-10-0993

DOD: 4/13/24

Pers. Rep: KAREN DENISE HUSKY WRIGHT 419 RICE HOPE DR., MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464

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

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TO DEFENDANT: Terry Malone YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 13, 2023 at 4:10PM. 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

2024-ES-10-0937

DOD: 4/28/24

Pers. Rep: FRANK ZITO

104 ALLAGASH LN., SIMPSONVILLE, SC 29680

Atty:

JONATHAN S. ALTMAN, ESQ.

575 KING ST., #B, CHARLESTON, SC 29403 ***********

Estate of: DIANE JAFFE

2024-ES-10-0788

DOD: 3/14/24

Pers. Rep: BETH STONE

3288 MILLER DR., LADSON, SC 29456

Atty: ROBERT BERNSTEIN, ESQ. 5418 B RIVERS AVE., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406

Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of: MITCHELL ALLEN COHEN

2024-ES-10-0812

DOD: 4/1/24

Pers. Rep: ROSS B. COHEN 21 THORNTON ST. LAWRENCE, MA 01841

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

Estate of: ROHAN COPRA

2024-ES-10-0995

DOD: 12/8/23

Pers. Rep: HOPE A. JOHNSTON 3090 OLIVIA MARIE LN., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

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

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Estate of: WILLIAM MICHAEL COUGHLIN

Closing Repairs

Household Goods/Furniture

Dustin Hilburn Household goods

Erik Cole Furniture household items

Kahmari Wilson Boxes and clothes, 2 containers

Sonya Hearn Household goods

Ronald English Boxes, Clothing, Pictures

Amy Taylor Household Goods/Furniture, totes/boxes

Benjamin Acosta Household Goods/Furniture, Tools/Appliances

Keisha Horlbeck 2 bedroom washer and dryer

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

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

MICHELE GRAHAM, Plaintiff, v. COOPER RIVER LOVE AND CHARITY SOCIETY (1920) COOPER RIVER LOVE AND CHARITY SOCIETY (2015), Defendants.

CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-100-2883

NOTICE OF HEARING

Please take notice that a hearing is scheduled for June 24, 2024, at 10:00 AM with the Charleston County Master in Equity. The purpose of this hearing is to address the issuance of a confirmatory deed for the property located at 64 South Street, Charleston, SC (PID# 4590903048).

The hearing will be held at: Charleston County Master in Equity 100 Broad Street Charleston, SC 29401

Master’s Sale Case No. 2019-CP-10-03707

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

Freedom Mortgage Corporation, PLAINTIFF, vs. George A Martin; Amanda Tyler-Martin; DEFENDANT(S)

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 14th day of February, 2020 and supplemental decree dated 13th of April, 2023, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive 2nd floor, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 2nd day of July, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

All that piece, parcel or lot of land together with buildings and improvements thereon situate, lying and being in the St. Andrews parish, County of Charleston, State

of South Carolina, designated as Lot 1, Block O, on a plat entitled, “Section Ill, Plat of Extension of Springfield Subdivision, Charleston County, South Carolina”, made by Sigma Engineers, Inc. by Harold J. Leamond, P.E. and L.S., dated August 23, 1966, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat V at Page 32; the lot herein conveyed having such size, shape, location, buttings, boundings and dimensions more or less as will be had by reference to said plat.

Being the same property conveyed to George A. Martin and Amanda Tyler-Martin, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common, by Deed from James Ladson and Dorothy Ladson dated February 21, 2017 and recorded March 3, 2017 in Book 0620 at Page 922, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS # 355-05-00-007

Current Property Address: 2140 Glendale Drive Charleston, SC, 29414

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

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

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

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

June 14th, 2024; June 21st, 2024; June 28th, 2024

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

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

Wilmington Trust Company as successor trustee to The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of Popular ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-2, PLAINTIFF, vs. Rose C Harris, and if Rose C Harris be deceased then any children and heirs at law to the Estate of Rose C Harris, distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of Rose C Harris, 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; Frank Harris; SC Housing Corp.,

DEFENDANT(S)

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

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED:

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

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCAR, effective June 1, 1999.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed with the Clerk of Court on May 15, 2024.

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

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

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 P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 Firm Case No: 19149 - 91123

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-01921

DARRELL SPANN, DANIEL SPANN, MAURICE SPANN and MARCUS SPANN, Plaintiffs,

v. MARGIE B. SPANN also known as MARGIE SPANN GRANT, a deceased person and her heirs, distributees, personal representatives, successors and assigns and spouses, if any she has and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 2208 Bailey Drive in North Charleston Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 469-10-00-177 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 MELVIN GRANT, 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 April 12th, 2024, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on April 12th, 2024 and the Order of Publication was filed on May 24th, 2024 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 April 12th, 2024 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, together with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being in Charleston County, South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 626, Block LZ, Dorchester Terrace Section 5, as shown on a plat recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book F, Page 148; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

TMS # 469-10-00-177

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 jeff@jeffspell.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

May 29th, 2024

Date

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-01799

JERRY B. SATTERFIELD, JR., Plaintiff, vs. JESSE S. WAKER, and if he be deceased, then JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD DOE, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Jesse S. Waker, if he be deceased, and FRED WAKER, EDMOND SIMMONS and JOSEPHINE SINGLETON,

all 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 estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, Defendants.

SUMMONS

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

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens, Notice and Complaint in the above action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 5, 2024.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff, above-named, against the Defendants, above-named, to quiet title and to confirm a tax title relative to the following described real property, together with improvements, located in Charleston County, South Carolina, to-wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, containing 0.83 acre, situate, lying and being in St. James Santee Parish, County and State aforesaid, in the Tibwin settlement, School District No. One and bounded as follows: North by lands, now or formerly, of The United States of America, East by lands, now or formerly, of James Simmons, Jr.; South by Highway 17 North; and West by lands, now or formerly, of Miriam Green and Thomas L. Colleton, Jr.. The said lot being part of the lands conveyed to Edmond Simmons by Mollie Brown and on record in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book V-37, Page 83. BEING the same property conveyed to Fred Waker by deed from Josephine Singleton, dated May 16, 1938, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”) on October 12, 1938, in Book S-40, Page 437. ALSO, being the same property conveyed to Jerry B. Satterfield, Jr. by Tax Deed, dated April 5, 2023, and recorded in the Register’s Office on April 11, 2023, in Book 1172, Page 808. T.M.S. #: 729-00-00-043

NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on June 3, 2024, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465-0459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Fred Waker, Edmond Simmons and Josephine Singleton, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real

estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein;

unless the said Defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

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

john@cisadodds.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

AMENDED SUMMONS

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

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

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Amended Summons, Amended Lis Pendens, Amended Notice and Amended Complaint in the above action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 14, 2023.

AMENDED LIS PENDENS

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT

WAYNE M. LEE, Plaintiff, vs. ANTWOIN RICHARDSON, SHAWN RICHARDSON, MELVIN LEE, NATHANIEL WRIGHT, GREGORY H. LEE, TAISHA LEE, NORMA LEE, JABBAR WRIGHT, DURON LEE, HOWARD BLYE, DOLL BLYE, JOSEPH BLYE JR., RENALDA BLYE, WATERLANE BLYE, HARWICH BLYE, JOSEPH BLYE (Sally Blye’s son), ELIZABETH BLYE, SIMON BLYE JR., THOMASINA INEZ RICE, MIRIAM WASHINTON, PEGGY THOMPSON, BENJAMIN ROPER, JOHN ROPER, ABRAHAM ROPER III, JERRY LEE ROPER, UNKNOWN DAUGHTERS, IF ANY, OF ULYESSE ROPER, DARRELL GADSON, SEBASTIAN LEE, and if any of these Defendants be deceased, then JOHN DOE, adults, and 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 or legal entity of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of any of the said Defendants, if any be deceased, and SIMON BLYE, GEORGE BLYE, LULA BLYE,REBECCA BLYE, ISAIAH BLYE, JOSEPH BLYE, RITCHIE BLYE, RODNEY BLYE, JOHN LEE, DIEATREA LEE, SIMON BLYE III, BRIAN BLYE, PHILLIP BLYE, PAMELA BLYE, ETHEL BLYE, ABRAHAM ROPER JR., ULYESSE ROPER, JOHN ROPER, ELLA ROPER, ETHEL VIOLA ROPER GADSON and RAYMOND LEE, all of whom are deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Amended Lis Pendens and Amended Complaint filed herein, Defendants.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Plaintiff has commenced an action in the above named Court against the Defendants above named to clear title to the parcel of real estate hereinafter described (“Subject Property”) and to establish ownership of the Subject Property in the names of the owners as lawful heirs of the late Simon Blye, free and clear of all adverse claims, liens and encumbrances whatsoever, saving and excepting outstanding real property taxes, as well as to effect a Partition by Sale of the Subject Property in accordance with the statutory and common laws of the State of South Carolina.

The parcel of real estate which is the subject of this action was at the commencement of this action and is now situate in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more fully described as follows: ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel or land, situate, lying and being on Morrison Street in the Town of Mount Pleasant, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, containing one-half (½) acre, more or less .BEING the same property conveyed to Simon Blye by deed of Osborne Johnson dated October 19, 1914, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County in Book N-028, at Page 216. TMS#: 532-01-00-212

NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on May 22, 2024, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465-0459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Simon Blye, George Blye, Lula Blye, Rebecca Blue, Isaiah Blye, Joseph Blye, Ritchie Blye, Rodney Blye, John Lee, Dieatrea Lee, Simon Blye III, Brian Blye, Phillip Blye, Pamela Blye, Ethel Blye, Ethel Blye, Abraham Roper Jr., Ulyesse Roper, John Roper, Ella Roper, Ethel Viola Roper-Gadson and Raymond Lee, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Amended Lis Pendens and Amended

Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Amended Summons herein.

John J. Dodds, III

858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101

Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530

john@cisadodds.com ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

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

CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-01428

SUMMONS (Negligence/Automobile Wreck) (Jury Trial Requested)

John Green, Plaintiff, vs. Connor Baird, Defendant

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office at 5861 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina 29406, 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, exclusive of the day of such service, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

JOYE LAW FIRM, L.L.P.

By: s/William Asche

William C. Asche SC Bar No.: 101989 5861 Rivers Ave.

North Charleston, SC 29406 Office: 843-725-4259

Fax: 843-529-9180

Email: wasche@joyelawfirm.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

North Charleston, South Carolina This 15th day of March, 2024.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-01877

SUMMONS (Negligence/Automobile Wreck) (Jury Trial Requested)

Willie White, Plaintiff, v. Elmer Morales, Defendant,

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office at 5861 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina 29406, 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, exclusive of the day of such service, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING: PLEASE

JOYE LAW FIRM, L.L.P.

Robert P. Howell

SC Bar No.: 104967 5861 Rivers Ave. North Charleston, SC 29406

Office: 843-725-2328 Fax: 843-529-9180

Email: rhowell@joyelawfirm.com Attorney for Plaintiff

to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in said Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that the undersigned attorney on behalf of the Plaintiff herein, will seek the agreement and stipulation of all parties not in default for an Order of Reference to the for Charleston stipulating that said may enter a final judgment in this case. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 18, 2024.

s/Christopher L. Boguski Paul H. Hoefer [SC Bar # 77506] Christopher L. Boguski [SC Bar #100546] ROBINSON GRAY STEPP & LAFFITTE, LLC

P.O. BOX 11449

Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 929-1400 phoefer@robinsongray.com cboguski@robinsongray.com Attorney for Plaintiff

Columbia, South Carolina May 23, 2024

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been or will be commenced by the Plaintiff above named against the Defendants above named to have title to real properties quieted in the name of Plaintiff.

NOTICE OF SALE

Docket No. 2023-CP-10-03337

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

Case No. 2024-CP-10-00285

AAA Offshore Towing, Salvage, and Environmental, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Randolph Williams, Deceased, Linda M. Williams, Antoine B. Williams, Trent B. Williams, Sadie Singleton, Deceased, the Heirs of Sadie Singleton, Delores S. Dilligard, Deceased, the Heirs of Delores S. Dilligard, Sherry D. Lumpkin, Akeisha James, Jerome Singleton, Deceased, the Heirs of Jerome Singleton, Tara R. Shine, Lula R. Goliday a/k/a Lula Mae Dixon, the Heirs of Lula R. Goliday a/k/a Lula Mae Dixon, Curtis B. Dixon, Sr., Kevin L. Dixon, Curtis B. Dixon, Jr., Kwame Kinlaw, Eva K. Reeves, George A. Kinlaw, Joseph Kinlaw, Deceased, the Heirs of Joseph Kinlaw, James Kinlaw, Kenneth Kinlaw, Ronald Horry, Deborah Horry, Joseph Ramsey, and if any of the individually named defendants are deceased, then their heirs or devisees at law, and any other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest, in or lien upon the real property described herein, and any unknown infants or persons under disability or persons in the military services hereby designated as a class as John Doe and Mary Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO: THE DEFENDANTS SHERRY

D. LUMPKIN, AKEISHA JAMES, GEORGE A. KINLAW, AND JOSEPH RAMSEY:

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 their offices, 2151 Pickens Street, Suite 500, P.O. Box 11449, Columbia, SC 29211, within thirty (30) days after service thereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail

The properties that are the subject matter of this action are situated in Charleston County and are more properly described as follows: All that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in The Town of Awendaw, Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot 2, containing 2.27 acres on a plat made by ARC Surveying Company, Inc. dated July 1, 1999, and revised on January 12, 2000 entitled “TOWN OF AWENDAW, A PLAT OF 22.68 ACRES SUBDIVIDED INTO LOTS 1 AND 2, AND RESIDUAL, CHRIST CHURCH PARISH, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book ED, Page 778. Said tract of land having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as shown on said plat, which plat is incorporated herein by reference.

BEING a portion of the property conveyed to numerous grantees by deed of Roger M. Young, Master in Equity for Charleston County dated April 13, 1998 and recorded on April 21, 1998 in Book F-301, Page 161.

BEING the same property conveyed to Joseph Ramsey by deed of William W. Snipes a/k/a Wayne Snipes, Marquis Kinlaw, Rosetta K. Young, Mary K. Brown a/k/a Hattie Kinlaw, William Kinlaw, and Adam Kinlaw dated December 26, 2001 and recorded December 27, 2001 in Book X391 at Page 812. TMS No. 644-00-00-011

ROBINSON GRAY STEPP & LAFFITTE, LLC

By: s/Paul H. Hoefer

Paul H. Hoefer (SC Bar No. 77506)

Christopher L. Boguski (SC Bar No. 100546) Post Office Box 11449 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 929-1400 phoefer@robinsongray.com cboguski@robinsongray.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

January 18, 2024

By virtue of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Robert Barnett, as Trustee of the RH 401(k) Plan against Kenneth B. Canty, et al., I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., at the Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Charleston County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, N. Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 76, Schieveling Plantation Subdivision, as shown on a plat entitled “Final Plat Showing: The Subdivision of TMS No. 358-00-00-006 Into Schieveling Plantation Phases V and VI, Lots 60-74 and 76-104; Parcels B, G, J, K, L, M, N, O and R; New Rights-of-Way; and Tract A2B Residual, Property Owned By Schieveling Plantation Development, L.L.C., Located in The City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina” prepared by Richard D. Lacey, Professional Land Surveyor, of Hoffman Lester Associated, Inc., dated January 28, 2002, and recorded March 27, 2002, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book EF at Page 480-481. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear. Being the same property conveyed to Kenneth B. Canty and Aretha Canty by Deed of James Samuel Plexico and Jan J. Plexico f/k/a Jan J. Hull dated January 13, 2012 and recorded in the Register of Deeds office for Charleston County on January 17, 2012 in Book 0228 at Page 043.

TMS No. 358-14-00-110 CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY IS: 695 Fair Spring Drive, Charleston, South Carolina

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

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

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

Purchaser to pay for preparation of the Master in Equity’s deed, documentary stamps on the deed, recording of the deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5.00% per annum.

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

/s/Mikell R. Scarborough Mikell R. Scarborough

not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

C. Elizabeth Weston [SC Bar #103305]

Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC

P.O. Box 11449 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 929-1400 kspong@robinsongray.com lweston@robinsongray.com

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

US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Martin V. Rowell; et al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the May 16, 2023, will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, City of North Charleston, South Carolina 29401 on the 2nd DAY OF JULY, 2024 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Charleston, City of Charleston, State of South Carolina and is described as follows:

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina and being shown and designated as Lot 12, Block A on a plat by G.E. Lohr, RLS dated October 12, 1978 and entitled “Ashleytowne Landing Section I” and recorded July 19, 1979 in Plat Book AN at Page 117 in the RMC Office for Charleston County. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Martin V. Rowell by Deed of David E. Rowell Sr., James R. Rowell, Gener R. Rowell and Janet Rowell Lukow dated June 15, 2018 and recorded March 1, 2019 in Book 0780 at Page 525 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 358-16-00-012

Property address: 2345 Assembly Drive, Charleston, SC 29414

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will

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-10-05928

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

Rocket Mortgage, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans Inc., PLAINTIFF VERSUS Joseph Raymond Kucinich a/k/a Joseph R. Kucinich a/k/a Joseph Kucinich; Lisa K. Kucinich a/k/a Lisa K. Anderson; Ronald M. Szuch; et al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the May 6, 2024, 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 2nd DAY OF JULY, 2024 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land with any improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Mt. Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot 24, on that certain plat prepared by Tim Elmer RLS, LLC, entitled: “CAMBRIDGE SQUARE SUBDIVISION FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT PARK WEST LOTS 14-A, 14-B, AND 14-C, PROPERTY OF D.R. HORTON. LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF MOUNT PLEASANT, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” said plat dated November 3, 2016 and recorded April 3, 2017 in Plat Book L17, Page 0175 in the Charleston County ROD Office. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions and boundaries as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Joseph Raymond Kucinich and Lisa K. Kucinich, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common, by deed of D.R. Horton, Inc. dated September 25, 2018 and recorded October 1, 2018 in Book 0750 at Page 551 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

TMS No. 594-16-00-892

Property address: 2663 Park West Boulevard, Mount Pleasant, SC 29466

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

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

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if 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.

Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on July 2, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL, OR LOT OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, OR TO BE BUILT THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF CHISOLM ROAD, ON JOHNS ISLAND, IN THE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, MEASURING AND CONTAINING ONE AND SIX-TENTHS (1.6) ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AND BEING SHOWN ON A PLAT PREPARED BY SIGMA ENGINEERS, DATED FEBRUARY 26, 1969 AND DULY RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE RMC FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, IN PLAT BOOK Y AT PAGE 56; SAID LOT HAVING SUCH SIZE, SHAPE, DIMENSIONS, BUTTINGS AND BOUNDINGS AS WILL BY REFERENCE TO SAID PLAT MORE FULLY AND AT LARGE APPEAR. SUBJECT TO ANY AND ALL RESTRICTIONS, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, EASEMENTS, RIGHTS OF WAY AND ALL OTHER MATTERS AFFECTING SUBJECT PROPERTY OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE RMC FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY AS CONVEYED TO CARL E. DICKEY BY DEED OF LEWIS D. WRIGHT AND FRANCES M. WRIGHT, DATED JANUARY 02, 2003 AND DULY RECORDED JANUARY 8, 2003 HEREWITH IN THE OFFICE OF THE RMC FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA IN BOOK 432 AT PAGE 855.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY:

6081 Chisolm Road Johns Island, SC 29455 Parcel No. 253-00-00-090

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with bid may be made immediately. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Nationstar Mortgage, LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper v. Oxana Dickey a/k/a Oxana L. Dickey, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carl E. Dickey; Jillian Ashley Dickey,

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY J. Martin Page, Esquire Telephone: 803-509-5078 File # 23-53623 FOR INSERTION

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

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By Rob Brezsny

Heart of Pine Floors

Sauna and Gym

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The term “maze” has various meanings. Most commonly, it signifies a puzzling cluster of choices that lead nowhere and bode frustration. But there are more positive meanings of the word. In ancient myths, a maze was where heroes underwent ritual tests. There they might summon ingenuity to win access to a hidden treasure. In modern psychology labs, the maze is a structure used to stimulate learning in rats. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the maze you are now in is metaphorically akin to the second two meanings, not the first.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is an abundance of good news, Taurus. In the coming weeks, your conversations could awaken realizations that will augment your wealth — both the financial and emotional kind. So be eager to commune with vigorous souls who inspire your power to attract resources and goodies. Furthermore, you could generate enriching benefits for yourself by engaging with unfamiliar influences that are outside your web of expectations. Don’t be too sure you already know everything you need. Helpful surprises could arrive if you’re extra open-minded.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Though 2024 isn’t even half over, you have already earned the title “Least Boring Zodiac Sign of the Year.” Or maybe a more positive way to frame it would be to award you the title “Most Scintillating, Interesting, and Stimulating Zodiac Sign of the Year.” Please keep doing what you have been doing, Gemini. Entertain us with your unruly escapades and gossip-worthy breakthroughs. Encourage us to question our dull certainties and dare us to be more fun. If we seem nervous to be in your stirring presence, disarm our worries with your humor.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your subconscious mind is full of marvelous capacities and magic potencies. But it also contains old habits of feeling and thinking that influence you to respond to life in ways that are out of sync with what’s actually happening. These habits may sabotage or undermine your conscious intentions. Now here’s the good news: In the next nine months, there’s a lot you can do to dissolve the outmoded imprints. You will have more power than ever before to perform this wizardry. So get started! How? Ask your subconscious mind to send you intuitions about how to proceed.

unripe and wounded aspects. That might entail honest self-examination, objective observation of how we affect others, and a willingness to recognize and forgive our mistakes. Jung also recommended another way to heal our neuroses: through the power of numinous experiences. By “numinous,” he meant mystical, sublime or aweinspiring. Jung said that such visitations could radically diminish our painful habits of mind and feeling. They might arrive through grace, thanks to life’s surprising interventions. They may also be coaxed to appear through meditation, dreamwork, communing with myth and fairy tales and spiritual practices. I foresee a wealth of numinous events in your life during the coming months, Libra. May they bring you a steady stream of healing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In a moment, I will list events I foresee as being possible for you during the next 11 months. They are cosmic tendencies but not cosmic mandates. Whether or not they actually occur will depend on how you wield your willpower — which, by the way, could be freer and more muscular than it has been in a long time. Now here are the potential developments. 1. An offer to create one of the most symbiotic unions or robust collaborations ever. 2. Great chances for you to capitalize on the success of others. 3. Alterations in the family configuration. 4. Major shifts in loyalty and affinity. 5. A raise in rank. 6. Revelations of secrets you can use to your advantage.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Have you been metaphysically itchy and psychologically ticklish? Are you unsure whether those tingling sensations you’re feeling are worrisome symptoms or signs of healing and awakening? I believe they are signs of healing and awakening. They suggest you are doing the metaphorical equivalent of what a snake does when it sheds its skin. Expect imminent redemption, Sagittarius! Reframe the discomfort as a herald of relief and release.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk will serve as a prime metaphor for you in the coming weeks. Ruminate on its themes as being applicable to your life. I’ll refresh you with the main points of the story. Young Jack and his mother need money, so she decides to take drastic measures. She bids him to sell the family cow at the marketplace a few miles away. But on the way into town, Jack meets a man who coaxes him to sell the cow in exchange for magic beans — not money. When Jack returns home, his mother is angry at his foolishness. In disgust, she flings the beans out the window into the dirt. Later, though, the beans live up to their promise. They grow into a giant beanstalk that Jack climbs to reach the lair of a giant who lives in the clouds. There Jack retrieves three of his family’s lost treasures, which had been stolen by the giant long ago.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Before the reign of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the third century BCE, Chinese people had built many local walls designed to keep out invaders. Qin Shi Huang initiated a great public works project to connect all of these fragments into what’s now known as the Great Wall of China. He also erected a vast system of roads and a city-sized mausoleum filled with the Terracotta Army: sculptures of 8,000 soldiers with their chariots and horses. Qin Shi Huang was a big thinker who was also highly organized! In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to glide into your very own Qin Shi Huang phase. What long-lasting structures do you want to build in the next 11 months?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Psychologist Carl Jung believed we could accomplish profound selftransformation by working hard on our psyches’

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s time for Super Mom to make an appearance. Some circumstances in your life could benefit from healing tweaks best initiated by her. And when I say “Super Mom,” I’m not necessarily referring to your actual mother. I’m envisioning a wise older woman who sees you as you really are and who can assist you in living your destiny according to your own inner necessity, no one else’s. If you have no Super Mom in your world, see if you can locate one, even hire one. I also recommend creating an inner Super Mom in your imagination. You need and deserve sympathetic input from the archetype of the sage crone.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect that later in 2024, I will authorize you to commune with boisterous adventures and tricky risks. But right now, I advise you to flirt with modest adventures and sensible risks. Can you contain your burning, churning yearnings for a while? Are you willing to coax your crazy wild heart into enjoying some mild pleasures? By early autumn, I’m guessing you will have done the necessary preparations to successfully roam through the experimental frontiers. Until then, you are most likely to corral X-factors on your behalf if you pace yourself and bide your time. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Oh God, if there is a God, save my soul, if I have a soul.” That prayer was the handiwork of Piscean philosopher Joseph Ernest Renan. If his ironic minimalism is the only spiritual aspiration you can manage right now, so be it. But I hope you will strive for a more intimate, expansive, and personal connection with the Divine Intelligence. The coming weeks will be an extra favorable time for you to speak and listen to mysterious powers beyond your rational comprehension. Please take advantage! Go in quest of the sweet, deep lowdown directly from the Sublime Source!

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5. Dallas player, for short 8. Because of 13. “Relax!”

14. St. crosser

15. Ambassador’s assistant

16. Religious leader’s maxims (unrelated to late actor Robert)

17. Fight back

19. Night of amateur comedy or music, more formally

21. 100% accurate

22. Like the Woodsman of Oz

23. Hallow ender

24. Licorice-scented herb

28. TV network heardquartered in Ottawa

31. City between Cleveland and Akron which hosts an annual festival for multiple births

36. All-encompassing

38. Tire filler

39. Schedule listing 40. Shel Silverstein children’s book that has drawn controversy 43. Roll of grass

44. More weird 45. “Grease” band ___ Na Na 48. “Superstore” actor Feldman

50. Be less strict 53. Washington, for one 58. Vince Gilligan, for “Better Call Saul” 59. “Circle of Friends” novelist Binchy

Native American emblem 61. Long period of time 62. Complete confusion

12. “___ Como Va” (Santana song)

13. Almost there

18. More appropriate

20. ___ instant

25. Anti-inflammatory drug acronym

26. “___ you, Nancy, from doing harm ...” (line from “The Craft”)

27. ___ pricing

28. Green Bay Packers fan

29. Recycling container

30. Narrow bed

32. Make like a happy tail

34. Neighbor of Belg.

58. Dollar fractions, briefly “OUT

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33. “The Last King of Scotland” subject Amin

35. “A Man Called ___” (Fredrik Backman novel turned into a Tom Hanks movie)

36. “Dynamite” K-pop band

37. 17th letter of the Greek alphabet

41. Singer/songwriter Shepard who recurred on “Ally McBeal”

42. Not kosher, in Jewish dietary law

46. ___ rancheros (Mexican breakfast)

47. ___-ski (lodge lounging)

48. President Martin Van ___

49. Foe

51. Transmission repair franchise with a “beep beep” ad

52. “60 Minutes” reporter Lesley with an appearance in “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”

53. Arch location

54. Eight, for starters?

55. “Big-ticket” thing

56. “You’ve Got Mail” director Ephron

57. June honoree