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The 62,000-acre Pee Dee River Basin houses an diverse population of wildlife

Grant to protect 62,000 acres in state’s ‘wood basket’

By Skyler Baldwin

The Forest Legacy Program on Tuesday announced approval of a $50 million grant to permanently protect more than 62,000 acres of forested land in the “Pee Dee Basin” properties in Marion, Williamsburg and Georgetown counties.

“We’re talking about 62,000 acres east of the Mississippi river in a single project — that’s an unbelievable scale,” State Forester Scott Phillips told the Charleston City Paper “You don’t hear about projects of that size east of the Mississippi. You hear about them up in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado. But in the Southeast, you just don’t.”

to be managed for timberland production on behalf of four landowners with long-term forestry and conservation goals. Forest land is lost daily in the area to sand mining and development, creating critical conservation gaps this project hopes to close.

Of the $235 million granted to projects around the nation by The Forest Legacy Program, the Pee Dee Basin project is the largest. It was the only project given the maximum grant value of $50 million, Phillips said.

Valuable ecology

The conservation project is planned to ensure climate resilience, recreation and sustainable forest management for the land along the Santee, Black and Pee Dee rivers, coined the nation’s “wood basket” for its productive timberlands.

“Not only do forested landscapes provide clean water, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat and outdoor recreation, they also represent a renewable resource with a major economic impact,”Phillips said in a press release. “The funding announced for this initiative is a win on every level — for our state’s economy, workforce, residents and wildlife.”

The 62,000 acres of land — which is about 10% larger than Johns Island — will continue

Beyond the scale of the project, the lands that comprise the basin create a diverse ecological landscape with tremendous value, Phillips said. Conservation will safeguard habitats for at least 115 priority plant and animal species. The Pee Dee block alone boasts 16 miles of shoreline on the Pee Dee River, home to diverse fish including the Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon, and rare mussels and crayfish. The 30,000 bottomland acres are home to hardwoods like cypress and tupelo which draw water from the floodplain. And the tracts of the three rivers provide a high level of resilience to coastal flooding and severe weather events.

“Each one of those landscapes is very unique in terms of ecological values and economic values,” the forester said. “Some are forested wetlands, and we need to protect them for natural resilience. Some are the most productive timberlands in the Southeast — we’re talking really productive pine. There’s a lot of river frontage, and that’s something that’s always attractive for

The Rundown

Literary festival returns for 10 days

From Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s The Iliad and Nikki Giovanni’s iconic love poetry to Geoff Dyer’s meditations on endings and more — this year’s Charleston Literary Festival is a wealth of human experience. With 37 events over 10 days, the festival is a hotbed of literary ideas and conversation that readers and thinkers won’t want to miss.

Join discussions hosted by awardwinning authors, journalists, poets and other creators through Nov. 10. Don’t miss the world premiere theater performance of All the Beauty in the World, starring Patrick Bringley and directed by Dominic Dromgoole.

tourism. There’s also a lot of species at risk and species of concern in these properties that are being safeguarded.”

Another major point of pride for the project, Phillips added, is that it represents the continuation of several past conservation projects and a bridge to more in the future.

“When you start looking at the values of the landscape, not just the size of it, but those four pieces that are out there — the Pee Dee River, the east and west banks of the Black River and the Santee River — all of those tie into other conservation work that’s already been done along those areas,” he said. “It’s creating a network of conserved acres and tying them together with other initiatives.”

A ‘strategic move’

South Carolina’s economy relies heavily on the $23.2 billion impact of forestry. Forest products such as timber are the state’s top harvested crop. The wood harvested from the Pee Dee region currently contributes more than $116 million to the timber value delivered to nearby hardwood and softwood mills, supporting the jobs of more than 900 workers.

The project will also give new public access to more than 7,500 acres of land, supporting the state’s growing ecotourism and recreation economy. In addition to passive recreation, hunting and fishing will be allowed on the Wee Tee addition and Wildlife Management Areas.

“In South Carolina, we understand the importance of preserving our natural

Cap off the week-and-a-half event with a Nov. 10 conversation with 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner Ilyon Woo, whose novel Master Slave Husband Wife tells the true story of Ellen and William Craft, who went through Charleston as they pulled off one of the most dramatic antebellum escapes in U.S. history.

Read our Literary Festival guide at charlestoncitypaper.com. —Skyler Baldwin

“If this is any indicator, election day should be pretty quiet.”

—Isaac Cramer, executive director of the Charleston County Board of Voter Registration and Elections, on the popularity of early voting. The state could set an early voting record if 60% of voters cast ballots before Nov. 5.

GUN VIOLENCE COUNTER

7 shot, killed across South Carolina Oct. 23 to Oct. 30

Dorchester County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a Tuesday night shooting that killed one and injured another on the Sawmill Branch Trail near Summerville. The investigation is ongoing.

Six others died in Beaufort, Greenville, Richland, Horry, Georgetown counties. Twelve more were hurt in shootings across the state. Nationally, there were eight mass shootings for the week, totalling 436 for the year.

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

Mac Stone/courtesy Open Space Institute

Climate change spurs renewed interest in nuclear power

By Jack O’Toole

To South Carolinians of a certain age, the only thing more surprising than the recent resurgence of interest in nuclear power is that some longtime environmentalists are now among its biggest boosters.

That would have been unthinkable back in 1979 after the partial nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island and the nuclear accident portrayed in the award-winning movie The China Syndrome

But given the rapid pace of climate change, a growing number of environmental activists argue that nuclear energy, which has carbon emissions even lower than wind and solar power, will have to be part of the solution. That’s why some now even support Microsoft’s plan to restart the Three Mile Island plant as a way to feed its power-hungry Pennsylvania data centers.

“In my view, we have got to acknowledge that we haven’t done what needs to be done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” S.C. Coastal Conservation League founder Dana Beach told the Charleston City Paper on Oct. 29. “And nuclear is the one big change we can make to accelerate our progress toward a low-carbon future.”

That said, Beach makes it clear that in an ideal world, nuclear power wouldn’t be necessary, because we would never have allowed climate change to reach a level where the mountains of North Carolina now are a part of Hurricane Alley.

But after decades of what Beach sees as insufficient action and ongoing resistance from political and utility leaders, he says the state needs to move forward with the secondbest solution of new nuclear power facilities.

“The science and math say that we need to make these changes right away, and that means before we get the good-ole-boys extricated from Columbia and the top management ranks in our utilities,” Beach said. With the nation’s fastest growing population and new industrial users moving into the state seemingly everyday, South

‘Down Home’ festival pitched for Charleston, Barbados

By Herb Frazier

Barbados-born Kevin Farmer ended his first visit to Charleston recently with the vision of an annual festival to celebrate the historic ties between his Caribbean homeland and South Carolina.

resources and take an approach that acknowledges the interconnected relationship between economic prosperity and environmental stewardship,” S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster said in a press release. “I am proud to have worked with this partnership to protect some of our state’s most valuable lands, an achievement that

Carolina is facing an energy crunch that utility executives say could lead to rolling blackouts within the next decade.

Two state government panels that will play a critical role in addressing that issue met in October to begin charting a path forward that includes new nuclear energy production. Currently, nuclear power provides 52% of the power on S.C.’s grid — the third-highest rate in the country.

On Oct. 15, the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council presented a report on its recent site visit to the V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station, where two partiallybuilt reactors were abandoned in 2017 when the cost of completing the project was deemed prohibitive by the sponsoring utilities, SCANA Corporation and state-owned Santee Cooper. In the scandal that followed, SCANA was sold to Virginia-based Dominion Energy, several of its executives went to prison and ratepayers were saddled with $9 billion in losses.

But according to committee members, there may be reason to believe the project could be restarted.

“We went down there with the assumption that it was going to be a scene of neglect,” Co-chair Jim Little of Fort Mill told the committee. “But we didn’t see anything during our visit that would say [completing the project] would be precluded.”

In fact, the committee’s report found the site to be in “excellent condition,” and recommended a formal study of restarting the project, particularly in light of the

will benefit our economy, bolster resilience against flooding and expand recreational and tourism opportunities for our people.”

Phillips said the project represents the closing of a major hole in South Carolina’s conservation efforts. Before talks began, there was no state agency that was focused on large conservation easements and holding them to leverage federal funds.

“It was a really strategic move for the forestry commission to move into holding con-

successful recent completion of a similar facility in Georgia.

That idea was then taken up Oct. 16 by an S.C. Senate panel charged with producing energy legislation before the legislature reconvenes in January, where it met with mixed support.

“It is just hard for me to believe that a study of sorts hasn’t already been done by Dominion Energy and/or Santee Cooper when they decided to abandon this plant,” said Democratic Sen. Margie Bright Matthews of Walterboro.

But Beaufort Republican Sen. Tom Davis argued the proposal merited further consideration.

“The idea that we wouldn’t look at V.C. Summer [reactor] 2, which is 48% complete with $9 billion in the ground … is unfathomable to me,” Davis said. “I don’t understand the sense of reluctance.”

Key to any future discussions, most senators agreed, would be the extent to which large-scale industrial customers were willing to foot some or all of the bill, as Microsoft is doing at Three Mile Island.

“It seems to me, at the very least, that if [industrial use] is a significant reason for the need for more generation, there ought to be more of a financial burden on those facilities than on the residential customers,” Sen. Majority Leader Shane Massey, R-Edgefield, said.

In the end, committee members agreed to include the idea in draft legislative form for further consideration at a future meeting.

servation easements, given that our mission is to protect and promote forests,” he said.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Funding came from the Open Space Institute, the South Carolina Forestry Commission, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, the S.C. Office of Resilience, the USDA Forest Service Forest Legacy Program and Atlantic Packaging, according to a news release. This transaction is due to be completed by end of 2025.

“That is my dream, nothing is written or agreed upon,” Farmer, deputy director of the 91-year-old Barbados Museum and Historical Society in Bridgetown, said as he sat in a sunny room in the main house at McLeod Plantation Historic Site on James Island.

More than 350 years ago, Barbadian planters and their enslaved workforce were among the first settlers in the Carolina colony. But the seed for an annual celebration of the CarolinaBarbados connection, he said, was planted more than three decades ago by the Barbados and the Carolinas Legacy Foundation in Charleston.

“For a very long time, [the connection] has been geared toward tourism,” and recently business, he said. “But I think there is great hope between heritage institutions in both of our spaces toward the development of traveling exhibitions” and an annual observance, beginning in 2026.

The International African American Museum (IAAM), Farmer proposes, could be the festival’s base in Charleston with activities at former plantations in the area.

An opportunity to pitch his idea for simultaneous festival events in both countries could come next year when the IAAM hosts the Museum Association of the Caribbean annual meeting. “Any museum in this region that is doing Caribbean work will be there,” he said.

The quaint community of Speightstown on Barbados’ western shore could be the Caribbean site for the festival that he would call “Down Home.”

When a Bajan who lives outside of their country “talks about an ancestral home and family, they say they are going ‘down home,’ ” Farmer explained. “Going down home is returning to that house where everything began.”

Reaction to the idea

Ashlei Elise, the IAAM’s newly hired chief marketing officer, said, “We are very interested in beginning that conversation on how we create this annual festival with IAAM and the Barbados Museum. We look forward to creating

Courtesy SC High Flyer

Ratepayers lost $9 billion in two failed reactors being built at the V.C. Summer plant in Fairfield County

Ista Clarke (center), a cultural history interpretation specialist at McLeod Plantation Historic Site, shows visiting Barbadians Kevin Farmer and Elizabeth Hinds, glass shards found around the former slave dwellings on James Island.

Barbados

this unique relationship.”

Charleston and Barbados “share a legacy shaped by migration, trade and the enduring cultural influences of the African Diaspora, making this relationship both meaningful and necessary,” said Brandon Reid, the IAAM’s public historian.

Charleston resident Rhoda Green, president of the Barbados and the Carolina Legacy Foundation, called the festival idea “a seed of an idea [that] has to be formulated and a good way to do that is to work with the people who have been preparing the ground.”

While some Charlestonians are familiar with the long history between Barbados and South Carolina, many others are not, said Sandy Slater, director of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program at the College of Charleston.

“This would be a marvelous way to share food traditions and architectural history, but always underscoring the very painful human cost of the origins of the Carolina colony,” she said.

Farmer proposes to launch the festival in 2026. Next year is the 400th anniversary of when England claimed Barbados for King James I. In 2028, Bridgetown, the capital city, turns 400 years old.

“For me, 2026 seems like an opportune time in between those two pivotal dates to begin to tell the story because this story is about the development of sugar and rum that was pioneered in Barbados,” Farmer said. “Sugar, rum and enslavement are a global story that connects Speightstown, Bridgetown and Charleston.”

Farmer traveled to Charleston with Elizabeth Hinds, the chief guide at the Barbados Museum. As they toured the city, they were struck by the Barbados influences on local place names, architecture and foodways. Hinds said she was impressed with the city’s interpretative markers that tell African American history.

“We also need to explore what happened to the 200 to 300 enslaved people who were brought directly from Barbados to Charleston,” Farmer added. “It would be nice to find out what happened to them.”

Blotter of the Week

Security cameras in a North Charleston liquor store on Oct. 26 recorded a North Charleston man and woman stealing three bottles of liquor worth $704. That’s an expensive Halloween party on its own, but the warrant issued for the suspects might be a bigger party pooper than any bill would have been.

Locked out and up

A Downtown man on Oct. 8 called police when his phone locked up after he failed to enter his password. Fun fact: Emergency numbers still work. Police found him drunkenly stumbling around Meeting Street. After another failed attempt, he was arrested for public intoxication. Next time try our password for pretty much everything: 1234 …

Tidy up next time

Mount Pleasant police on Oct. 28 investigated a reported shoplifting at a Bowman Road sporting goods store after two women were identified through security footage as repeat offenders at other locations of the same store across the Lowcountry. What gave them away? A pile of security tags left haphazardly behind a clothing rack near where they were standing. Lesson learned: Pick up after yourselves.

By Skyler Baldwin

Illustration by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Oct. 8 and Oct. 28.

Go online for more even more Blotter charlestoncitypaper.com

LOYALTY CASH

Herb Frazier

Harris for President Views

In a normal presidential election, the candidates wouldn’t be talking about fascism, the size of golfer Arnold Palmer’s, umm, “club” or dozens of other topics designed to distract voters.

In fact, in a normal presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris probably would be winning easily due to her common-sense stances on important issues to everyday Americans. But her opponent can’t — or just won’t — focus on issues. Instead, former President Donald Trump uses distractions to breathe life into the cult of MAGA supporters he’s infused with religious fervor.

For instance, in an election based on issues and debate, Trump would have to answer for his reckless plan to hammer the average American family with $2,600 a year in new taxes on the imported goods they buy every day — many of which South Carolina helps build. And he’d finally be forced to take responsibility for the cruel state-level abortion bans that his Supreme Court justices made possible.

Conversely, Harris is fighting for popular, common-sense solutions on one issue after another — protecting reproductive freedom, cutting middle-class taxes, prosecuting felons (like Trump), protecting health care and implementing a responsible system of legal immigration over fear-mongering. And hundreds of former Trump advisers and associates know it, too, since they’ve backed her over a man they now see as a threat to American democracy.

Put simply, normal Americans who want normal things — a good job, decent schools for their kids, health care when they need it and sane politics in difficult times — should vote Nov. 5 for Kamala Harris for president. She is the right choice. Otherwise, we’ll chase chaos and shiny flashing nothings for four years.

Vote NO on Charleston County half-penny sales tax questions

We urge Charleston County voters to cast two NO votes on half-penny tax referenda for one big reason: Charleston County does not have a credible track record of delivering on its promises to responsibly use the $5.4 billion in sales tax revenue it would receive over 25 years.

A quick look at the past two half-penny sales tax referenda shows new libraries took twice as long as expected to be built. And many road projects called for in a past referendum aren’t close to being finished. In fact, money from the new referendum is needed to move forward on some of the old unfinished projects. Furthermore, dedicating more than $2.4 billion — including more than $600 million in interest costs — to extend Interstate 526 across Johns Island is a folly waiting to explode. It won’t cut down on traffic congestion and will, instead, put more cars on the road from new houses that will sprout like winter wheat. Vote NO on both questions and send county council back to the drawing board.

Endorsement rundown

Here is a list of Charleston County endorsements over the last three weeks by the City Paper to consider:

• President of the United States: Kamala Harris.

• U.S. Congress: Michael B. Moore, SC-1; Jim Clyburn, SC-6.

• S.C. Senate: Ed Sutton, Senate 20; Rita Adkins, Senate 41; Julie Cofer Hussey, Senate 43.

• S.C. House: J.A. Moore, House 15; Donna Brown Newton, House 80; John Moffett, House 110; Joe Bustos, House 112; Wendell Gilliard, House 115; Adrienne Lett, House 114; Spencer Wetmore, House 115; Charlie Murray, House 116; Leon Stavrinakis, House 119.

• Charleston County Council: Rob Wehrman (District 3); Sydney van Bulck (District 7).

• Charleston County School District Board of Trustees: Caroline Jewett (District 2); Kevin Hollinshead (District 4); Daron Lee Calhoun II (District 6); Darlene Dunmeyer-Roberson (District 8 ).

• 9th Circuit Solicitor: Scarlett Wilson

• Charleston County Coroner: Bobbi Jo O’Neal.

• Charleston County Sheriff: Kristin Graziano.

• Charleston County Treasurer: Mary Tinkler

Head to the polls this year — early or on Nov. 5. Make your voice heard.

Simple Pleasures!

ACCESSORIES

Standing up to pressure to keep elections honest

By Andy Brack

It’s the second day of a new year just after a presidential election and you pick up the phone. At one point, the guy on the other end of the line says, “All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the state.”

The guy on that Jan. 2, 2021, call was the president of the United States, Donald Trump. He was putting pressure on Georgia’s top election official, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to prevail in the Peach State over Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Trump even threatened a criminal prosecution.

The whole mess put Raffensperger in a very uncomfortable spot because he wanted to do his job — reporting votes accurately and reporting the numbers for what they were, without deceit, subterfuge or obfuscation.

“I’m an engineer. I’m real good with math,” Raffensperger said last week in an interview outside of Atlanta. “So with elections, there’s no integrals, no double integrals, no Laplace transform of a Fourier wave series. It’s just adding up numbers. We don’t even have to subtract, divide or multiply — so that’s grade school (math). But we have a process in place and we know that our elections are safe, they’re secure and they’re accurate.”

Still, the pressure from the White House — attempted coercion that ended up getting Trump in trouble with Georgia prosecutors and was part of an article of impeachment in the U.S. House — was intense.

By election day, about ²⁄³ of the S.C. electorate is expected to have voted, which will take a lot of last-minute pressure off voting precincts.

“It was an interesting moment, somewhat surreal,” Raffensperger reflected. “We never expected this to happen. But I think sometimes you know things happen for a reason, but you are called to do your job — no matter what. And that’s what I wanted to do. And I also wanted to make sure that I was respectful to the office of the President of the United States of America.

“Because I think really what we see right now … throughout the world is people should be respectful of people who hold positions of authority.”

And he said he believes that’s what is at stake these days in America. Americans may be risking the ability to compromise and talk respectfully about issues on which they don’t agree.

“People should talk to each other respectfully,” he said. “I think when we lose that, I think we’re losing something within ourselves.

“We can have strong conversations and just say, by George, I disagree with you on that, but we don’t have to pull out our swords. We don’t have to pull out our muskets. We don’t have to have duels. We can settle that. We are in America. We are in a representative republic.”

Since the 2020 election, Georgia election officials have worked to improve the voting process and smooth a few past snafus.

Raffensperger said he expects results comparatively quickly this year because Georgians seem to like early voting. While about 5% of ballots are expected to be mailed absentee ballots, millions of Georgians have already cast early ballots. By election day, some 70% of the electorate is expected to have voted, which will take a lot of last-minute pressure off voting precincts. The fate of the state’s electoral votes — unless the election is within 1,000 votes or so — may be known by midnight, he said.

In South Carolina, the story on early voting is similar. It’s expected to speed reporting of results. Election officials in the Palmetto State say up to two-thirds of voters could head to the polls early.

As you listen to returns on election night, think about all of the Brad Raffenspergers out there who operate with integrity and know that voting in America is solid because it is done with a proven process, not with reckless abandon.

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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THROUGH NEXT WEEK

Charleston Literary Festival

Enjoy several curated events designed to facilitate perspective-altering conversations with worldrenowned authors and thinkers at this year’s Charleston Literary Festival. The 2024 speaker lineup includes Nikki Giovanni (pictured above), Colm Tóibín, Rachel Kushner, Claire Messud, Adam Gopnik, Attica Locke, Chris Whitaker, Geoff Dyer, Sharon Malone and many more. Go online for the full festival itinerary. Nov. 1 to Nov. 10. Event times vary. Ticket prices vary. Dock Street Theatre. 135 Church St. Downtown. charlestonliteraryfestival.com

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SATURDAY

Charleston Scottish Games

Don your kilts, grab your bagpipes and celebrate the Scottish community’s historical contributions to the Lowcountry this weekend. The Charleston Scottish Games and Highland Gathering is the second-oldest event of its kind in the Southeast, bringing in more than 10,000 guests and immersing visitors in Scottish heritage and history.

Nov. 2. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ticket prices vary. Riverfront Park. 1061 Everglades Ave. North Charleston. charlestonscottishgames.com

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Art Opening at City Lights

City Lights Eastside through November will feature the art of local artist (and City Paper production manager extraordinaire) Christina Bailey. Artwork for sale includes intricately crafted wooden feathers, and hand-painted jackets will be auctioned off with proceeds benefitting World Central Kitchen and Beloved Asheville. An art opening will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 2. Find more of Bailey’s work on Instagram @cfbailey.

Through November. Restaurant hours vary. Free to attend. City Lights Eastside. 12 Line St. Downtown. citylightseastside0542.s4shops.com

SUNDAY

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Sunday Brunch Farmers Market

Head to The Pour House for a 100% local market brimming with more than 40 local farmers and artisans, a full deck bar, live music, good eats and all kinds of amazing area-made goods. Cap off your weekend by kicking back, enjoying the local tunes and stocking up on unique goodies. This farmers market is open every Sunday year-roundo as the weather cools down, just throw on a coat, and keep the fun going.

Nov. 3. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free to attend. The Pour House. 1977 Maybank Hwy. James Island. sundaybrunchfarmersmarket.com

WEDNESDAY

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Central Creek Farmers Market

There are only two weeks left in the first season of the Central Creek Farmers Market in Moncks Corner, which runs every other Wednesday through Nov. 20. Enjoy fresh food, local artwork, live music and makers from the Goose Creek community — all under the Casey Pavilion at Central Creek Park.

Nov. 5. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free to attend. Central Creek Park Casey Pavilion. 147 Old Moncks Corner Road. Moncks Corner. cityofgoosecreek.com

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Half-penny sales tax ballot questions split Charleston voters

By Skyler Baldwin

Two ballot questions up for vote in next week’s election have Charleston County residents split, with notable advocacy groups and community leaders loudly proclaiming their opposition.

Charleston County is seeking to extend a half-penny sales tax previously passed in 2016 to generate $5.4 billion to pay for large-scale infrastructure projects — including the extension of Interstate 526 across Johns Island. Almost half of all funds raised through the half-cent tax (about $2.3 billion) would go toward the interstate project, including more than $600 million to pay interest costs on a taxbacked loan worth $1.8 billion.

At an Oct. 15 Charleston County Council meeting, dozens of residents and local advocates spoke for roughly an hour during a special public comment period. Those who spoke against the sales tax pointed to its unclear language, the unfinished projects from the 2016 tax and grievances with the Mark Clark extension project as reasons to vote against the measure.

“The county has already failed to pursue all but one of the projects from the previous sales tax,” one speaker said.

The new tax would also pay for millions of dollars of work that was supposed to be covered by the 2016 referendum. About 5% of the new tax’s revenue, or $282,223,000, would go toward “carryover projects” from the 2016 sales tax.

“Once more, we’re back where we started again,” another said. “It’s time to start from scratch.”

Meanwhile, groups like Citizens for Safe

Roads, a grassroots movement, support the referendum.

In its “Vote Yes” campaign, the group said: “The transportation sales tax potential distributions include billions for road improvements across Charleston County necessary to improve the safety of dangerous intersections; reduce response times for EMS, fire, police; improve hurricane evacuation routes; and reduce traffic injuries and fatalities.”

Altogether, the funds raised by the sales tax would be allocated to:

• Mark Clark extension: about $1.7 billion

• Potential projects: about $810 million

• Debt service and interest: about $756 million

• Annual allocation program: about $648 million

• CARTA/Bus Rapid Transit operations: about $648 million

• Greenbelt program: about $432 million

• Carryover projects from the 2016 sales tax: about $270 million

Held ‘hostage’ by I-526

Opponents say lumping the massive Mark Clark extension project with other, crucial improvements is unfair to voters.

“Charleston County voters deserve to make informed choices when they head to the polls. They should not be forced into an all-or-nothing decision,” Coastal Conservation League Executive Director Faith Rivers James said in a statement. “Voters deserve the right to vote for

The proposed eight-mile extension of Interstate 526 represents about a third of all funding projected to be raised by the county’s proposed tax referendum

preferred needed improvements — like Greenbelt and CARTA funds — without being forced to support the destructive and unnecessary Mark Clark extension as the priority project.”

Republican County Council member Larry Kobrovsky of Sullivan’s Island added that there’s no guarantee all of the projects funded by the new sales tax would be built, either, adding to the uncertainty of the measure.

“My fear is that we will jeopardize ongoing projects from the [2016] sales tax,” he told the Charleston City Paper in a previous report. “By lumping it all, we’re holding hostage all these other projects to 526.

“When people vote on this, they think the projects will be built,” he said. “This is

“When people

vote on this, they think the projects will be built. This is just a fantasy. … There’s no guarantee we will have the money to finish these projects.”

—Larry

Kobrovsky

just a fantasy. … There’s no guarantee we will have the money to finish these projects. How can we in good faith put out something that we don’t have the money for? To me, that wouldn’t be ethical or fair.”

A second question on the ballot would approve the issuance of up to $1 billion in bonds to the county payable from the new sales tax. If passed, the new sales tax would be active starting in 2027 and remain in place for no more than 25 years, or until a matching total of $5.4 billion in returning revenue has been collected.

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James Kobrovsky

Know your candidates before you head to the polls

Election Day may look a little different this year. Up to 140,000 Charleston County voters are expected to have voted before Nov. 5, according to county election officials, which will make it much smoother at the polls for same-day voters, projected to be about 80,000 people.

Here is a list of all candidates in contested races who will be on Charleston County ballots to help readers prepare to check the box when they arrive at their polling locations.

CONGRESS

District 1 — Nancy Mace (Republican, incumbent); Michael B. Moore (Democrat)

District 6 — Duke Buckner (Republican); James Clyburn (Democrat, incumbent); Gregg Marcel Dixon (United Citizens); Joseph Oddo (Alliance); Michael Simpson (Libertarian)

S.C. SENATE

District 20 — Kendal Ludden (Libertarian); Ed Sutton (Democrat, incumbent)

District 41 — Rita Adkins (Democrat); Matt Leber (Republican)

District 43 — Chip Campsen (Republican); Julie Cofer Hussey (Democrat)

District 44 — Brian Adams (Republican, incumbent); Vicky Wynn (Democrat)

S.C. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

District 15 — J.A. Moore (Democrat, incumbent); Carlton Walker (Republican)

District 80 — Kathy Landing (Republican, incumbent); Donna Brown Newton (Democrat)

District 110 — Tom Hartnett (Republican, incumbent); John Moffett (Democrat)

District 111 — Wendell G. Gilliard (Democrat, incumbent); Joe Jernigan (Libertarian)

District 112 — Peter Brennan (Democrat); Joe Bustos (Republican, incumbent)

District 114 — Gary Brewer (Republican, incumbent); Adrienne Lett (Democrat)

District 115 — J. Warren Sloane (Republican); Spencer Wetmore (Democrat, incumbent)

District 116 — Charlie Murray (Democrat); James Teeple (Republican)

District 119 — Brendan R. Magee (Republican); Leon Stavrinakis (Democrat, incumbent)

CHARLESTON COUNTY COUNCIL

District 3 — Hayden W. Seignious (Republican); Rob Wehrman (Democrat, incumbent)

District 7 — Brantley Moody (Republican, incumbent); Sydney Van Bulck (Democrat)

CHARLESTON COUNTY OFFICIALS

9th Circuit Solicitor — David Osborne (Democrat); Scarlett A. Wilson (Republican, incumbent)

Sheriff — Kristin R. Graziano (Democrat, incumbent); Carl Ritchie (Republican)

Coroner — Frank Broccolo (Democrat); Bobbi Jo O’Neal (Republican, incumbent)

Treasurer — Mary Tinkler (Democrat, incumbent); Mike Van Horn Sr. (Republican)

CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

District 2 — Carolina D. Jewett; Ed Kelley (incumbent)

District 4 — Kevin D. Hollinshead; Craig Logan

District 6 — Daron Lee Calhoun II (incumbent); Michele Leber; Samuel Whatley II

District 8 — Darlene DunmeyerRoberson (incumbent); Michelle Faust; Charles Glover Sr.

CHARLESTON COUNTY CONSTITUENT SCHOOL BOARDS

District 1, St. James Santee — Thomas Legrant Colleton Jr.; Chayann Lashay Simpson; Marie Snyder-Facine

District 3, James Island — Sue McManus; George Tempel

District 4, Cooper River Area 3 — Lala B. Fyall; Jametta L. King

District 4, Cooper River at Large — Michael Garnett; Jametta L. King

District 9, St. Johns — Bill Antonucci; Pat Cline; Gertie S. Ford; Cedric I. Solomon

District 10, St. Andrews — Francis Marion Beylotte III; Joy Brown; Piare A. Powell

District 20, Peninsula — Downing Child; F.X. Clasby

District 23, St. Pauls — Blanche Bowens; Marvin Lamar Bowens; Tiffany DeasSmalls; Elijah Hammer Dent; Damian M. Jones; Richmond Truesdale

Polling Locations

The Charleston County Board of Voter Registration and Elections is reminding voters to double-check their polling locations ahead of the 2024 general election next week, as some locations in the county have moved.

Of the locations that have moved, one is in McClellanville, six are in Mount Pleasant, three are in North Charleston, one is in West Ashley and one is in Hollywood.

Charleston County residents can check their polling location and make sure their voter registration is up to date online at chsvotes.gov

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 5.

Early voting still open

It's not too late to vote early, but time is running out.

Voters can cast an early ballot at seven locations through Saturday. Early voting is open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Polling locations:

• Baxter-Patrick James Island Library – 1858 S. Grimball Road, Charleston

• Election Headquarters

– 4340 Corporate Road, North Charleston

• Essex Village Church of Christ

– 736 Savage Road, Charleston

• Main Library, Downtown Charleston – 68 Calhoun St., Charleston

• Seacoast Church – 750 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant

• St. John's Episcopal Church

– 3673 Maybank Hwy., Johns Island

• St. Paul's Hollywood Library

– 5130 S.C. Hwy. 165, Hollywood

Hops

Hungry for more than beer?

These breweries have full kitchens

By Connelly Hardaway

We all remember the days of showing up to a brewery hungry and ready to crush some new-to-us craft brews. We were just happy to be in the retrofitted warehouse or the hastily arranged parking lot patio, equally content to snack on whatever chips, nuts or food truck offerings the place had on hand. Today, brewery-goers are often looking for a little bit more certainty when it comes to food. And a number of local breweries are delivering just that.

Here’s where you can find full kitchens in Charleston-area breweries and brew pubs:

Charles Towne Fermentory

West Ashley

Open 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday and Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday

Pair your CTF brews with food from permanent “food resident” Bok Choy Boy. Nosh on dishes like dumplings, crab-fat fried rice and “drunk noodles” made with Fermentory beer sauce.

Pairing suggestion: Yacht Party, an American light lager, with Dan Daniel noodles.

Coast Brewing

North Charleston

Open 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, noon to 9 p.m. Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday

Coast Brewing’s carefully curated menu offers everything from blistered shishito peppers to a grass-fed burger, fried crispy potatoes and Kolsch-brined chicken wings. Everything that’s fried is fried in tallow. Co-owner Jaime Tenny is passionate about not using seed oils, and said sourcing a pricier fat is worth it.

Pairing suggestion: HopArt, an IPA, with grass-fed hot dogs. Don’t miss out on the cocktail list if you can help it. The ODB? made with arbol mezcal, suze, St. Germain,

Coast’s tallow-fried wings pair well with just about any beer on tap

lime, simple syrup and celery bitters goes great with the green chorizo tacos.

Commonhouse Aleworks

North Charleston

Open for lunch, dinner daily

Commonhouse Aleworks welcomed kitchen partners Swig & Swine earlier this year and the team hasn’t looked back, opening the brewery for additional hours to accommodate the hungry hordes looking for good barbecue. Dig into sandwiches like the brisket smashburger, or stick to finger foods like smoked wings and totchos.

Pairing suggestion: Park Circle Pale Ale with a dozen smoked wings.

Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co.

& Taproom

Downtown

Open for lunch, dinner daily

Whether you’re in the mood for a big burger or a corn dog basket — or perhaps some lighter and brighter fare like grilled salmon or a Caesar salad — EOBC has got you covered with its extensive menu. EOBC’s salads made our list of the best “big-ass” salads around town, so don’t worry about the leafy green stuff not making for a filling meal. There’s a kids’ menu, too, and family- and dog-friendly outdoor seating.

Pairing suggestion: Something Cold, a blonde ale, with smoked chicken wings.

Grab a brisket smashburger from Swig & Swine at Commonhouse Aleworks

Fam’s Brewing Co.

James Island

Open for lunch, dinner daily

Pair your Fam’s Brewing brews with Famulari’s Pizza at this Folly Road spot. Build your own pizza, or order from a variety of specialty pies (including several Chicago–style options). You can also check out dishes like mozzarella-stuffed meatballs, jumbo wings, wraps, salads and several sweet options.

Pairing suggestion: Fam’s Holiday Porter, a self-described “winter warmer,” with tiramisu.

Frothy Beard Brewing

West Ashley, Summerville West Ashley is open for lunch, dinner Tuesday through Sunday. Summerville is open for dinner Tuesday through Thursday and for lunch, dinner Friday through Sunday

The original Frothy Beard location and

Breweries and brewpubs

DOWNTOWN

Bevi Bene Brewing

Cooper River Brewing Co.

Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co.

LO-Fi Brewing

Munkle Brewing

Over The Horizon Brewing

Palmetto Brewing Co. SC

Revelry Brewing

Rusty Bull at Chucktown Brewery

DANIEL ISLAND

Indigo Reef Brewing Co.

New Realm Brewing Co., CHS

FOLLY BEACH

Revelry Brewing Folly Beach Outpost

JAMES ISLAND

Charles Towne Fermentory James Island

Fam’s Brewing Co.

JOHNS ISLAND

Edisto River Brewing Co.

Estuary Beans & Barley

Low Tide Brewing

MOUNT PLEASANT

Free Reign Brewing Co.

Hobcaw Brewing Co.

Two Blokes Brewing

Westbrook Brewing Co.

NORTH CHARLESTON

Coast Brewing Co.

Commonhouse Aleworks

Freehouse Brewery

High Score Brewing

Holy City Brewing

Rusty Bull Brewing

SNAFU Brewing Co.

Stones Throw Brewing

Tideland Brewing

SUMMERVILLE

Frothy Beard Off World

WEST ASHLEY

Charles Towne Fermentory

Frothy Beard Brewing Co.

The Garden by Charles Towne Fermentory

New brewery opening?

Email food@charlestoncitypaper.com and let us know about it.

Courtesy Swig & Swine

Ruta Smith file photo

its Summerville outpost (Frothy Beard Off World) serve up full food menus. In West Ashley, order from dishes like loaded fries, pizza and sandwiches. In Summerville, choose from nachos, fried Brussels sprouts and beer cheese and macaroni.

Pairing suggestion: Critical Hit, a Kolsch, with the barbecue bacon cheeseburger pizza.

Holy City Brewing

North Charleston

Open for lunch, dinner daily

Holy City Brewing has a full kitchen and an in-house raw bar (The Walrus), so you may never have to leave the creekside brewery — at least when it comes to good eats. Nosh on traditional bar food like wings, soft pretzels, boiled peanuts and burgers. Order inventive dishes like the Off The Dock, made with marinated, swiftseared yellowfin tuna, American cheese and an English muffin with wasabi aioli, from The Walrus.

Pairing suggestion: Discosaurus, an imperial IPA, with the tomato bacon jam burger.

New Realm Brewing Co.

Daniel Island

Open for lunch, dinner daily

Head to New Realm for classic bar food, as well as some more inventive offerings. Choose from standards like wings and nachos, or mix it up with an ahi tuna poke bowl or shrimp and grits.

Pairing suggestion: Daniel Island Light Lager with barbecue shrimp open-face tacos.

Over The Horizon Brewing

Downtown

Open for dinner Monday through Wednesday, open for lunch and dinner Thursday through Sunday

The owners of Over The Horizon made a point of offering a menu full of familyfriendly fare when they opened earlier this year. Diners can indulge in dishes like Detroit–style pizza and beer cheese and bacon fries. There are a couple salads, too — and there’s always the option to pop next door to Gustard’s Custard for a sweet treat.

Pairing suggestion: Slightly North of Brown, a brown ale, with the OTHO (Over the Hot Oil), a sausage, cheese and banana pepper pizza finished with chili oil drizzle.

Revelry Brewing Downtown

Open for lunch, dinner daily

Earlier this year, Chef Michael Toscano joined forces with Revelry to open the brewery’s in-house kitchen, da Toscano Fugazzi. The “unauthentic” Italian food is what Toscano called a “fun” venture. Order from a decadent menu of items like fried baby back ribs, a meatball smash hamburger and a fried shrimp basket.

Dig into decadent fare at Revelry Brewing’s kitchen partner, da Toscano Fugazzi

Pairing suggestion: Lazy Lover, a Belgian Blonde, with the porchetta cubano.

Rusty Bull Brewing

North Charleston, Downtown

Open for lunch, dinner daily

Rusty Bull’s original North Charleston location and its Downtown outpost serve solid menus. Order from dishes like mini corn dogs, burgers, wings and salads. The Downtown spot has a great outdoor patio and the North Charleston location is right next to an ax-throwing facility, so choose your own adventure.

Pairing suggestion: Juice Juice, a hazy IPA, with the hot honey chicken sandwich.

Stones Throw Brewing

Goose Creek

Open for lunch, dinner daily

With a brewery in Goose Creek and two tavern locations (in North Charleston and West Ashley), Stones Throw Brewing offers its solid pub fare all over town. From fried mushrooms to wings to street tacos, Stones Throw has you covered for weekday lunches and dinners. Be sure to stop by on the weekends, too, for a special brunch menu.

Pairing suggestion: Pinango, a fruited sour, with tacos de pescado.

Tideland Brewing

North Charleston

Open for lunch, dinner Tuesday through Sunday

Get your bar food fix at Tideland Brewing with options like a warm jumbo pretzel, fried pickles and loaded tots. There’s also lighter fare like salads and a veggie wrap, and fried Oreos for folks with a sweet tooth.

Pairing suggestion: Drop It Like It’s Hops, a hazy IPA, with fried cheese curds (and spicy ranch!).

It’s worth noting that we love food trucks and food pop-ups and both are having a moment of culinary excellence in the city. Be sure to check out kitchen-free breweries for more deets on their food schedules.

Courtesy da Toscano Fugazzi

Cuisine

Bespoke wine bar opens on Line Street

By Connelly Hardaway

Meggie and Quinn Burns love their Elliotborough neighborhood. The couple often frequents local hotspots like Vern’s, Chubby Fish and Guilded Horn. On evenings out, they realized their corner of the city was missing something: a curated wine bar. So they created one. Roseline is slated to open on Nov. 8.

“Our neighborhood is slowly becoming a restaurant and bar mecca in Charleston,” Meggie said. “We are hoping Roseline adds to that while keeping the neighborhood’s unique integrity.”

Located at 1251/2 Line St. (the former location of Sightsee Coffee Shop), Roseline clocks in at a mighty 429 square feet.

The tiny wine bar is a passion project for the couple, who met in Charleston after moving from Chicago (Meggie) and Atlanta (Quinn) during the pandemic. Because of their love of dining out in cool spots, they’d planned on opening their own

bar or restaurant in the future — but when they heard the Line Street building was available for lease, they couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

“It just seemed like the time to just say,

A la carte

What’s new

Brooklyn-Italian restaurant Pelato is slated to open in the spring on Morrison Drive in the space formerly occupied by Butcher & Bee. The 180-seat restaurant will offer nightly dinner service, with an eventual weekend brunch. Learn more online at pelatorestaurant.com.

Forthcoming Pitt Street restaurant Merci recently opened a temporary fine foods and provisions shop, Petit Merci, at 17 Montagu St. Until Merci opens in December, Petit Merci will offer fresh-baked breads, local produce and prepared foods, as well as a special Thanksgiving menu available for pre-order. Thanksgiving dishes include take-and-bake cinnamon rolls, caramelized onion dip and oyster pie. Learn more online at merchichs.com.

What’s hot

Carmella’s Cafe & Dessert Bar hosted America’s Best Restaurants (ABR) in late-October. ABR is a national media and marketing company that focuses on highlighting local, independently owned restaurants. The ABR Roadshow features popular Carmella’s dishes, as well as an interview with owner Brian Solari about the restaurant’s place in the community, and will premiere later this year. Head to americasbestrestaurants.com to learn more.

What’s happening

Firefly Distillery brings back its oyster roast series this fall and winter, starting on Nov. 3. Held monthly until March from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on select Sundays, the popular gatherings feature all-you-can-eat oysters, food trucks, DJs and football on TV. Tickets are $35 per person and can be purchased online at fireflydistillery.com.

you know what? This is perfect. It’s in our backyard, literally,” Meggie said.

And while the Burnses initially looked

Get your tickets now for Savor Charlotte , a special foodie event featuring Charlotte chefs like Leah & Louise’s Greg Collier, Puerta’s Micah Yarborough and Ramble Drinkery’s Larry Suggs. Held at five Charleston restaurants on Nov. 14, the collaborative event features a curated dinner menu with cocktail pairings. Learn more online at savorcharlotte.com.

Connelly Hardaway

Photos by Ashley Stanol

Quinn and Meggie Burns transformed the former Sightsee Coffee Shop space into a cozy, moody wine bar

Cakette Bakeshop opening soon on Durant Avenue

By Connelly Hardaway

Courtney Colangelo has always wanted to open her own bakery.

After years of working in and leading other bakeries, such as Atlanta’s Little Tart Bakeshop, and working alongside famed bakers like the New York Times–bestselling cookbook author Cheryl Day, she knew she had the experience to back up her dream. She just needed the right location.

It wasn’t until a serendipitous stroller walk by a coffee van that the pieces started to come together. On a daily walk with her now two-and-a-halfyear-old son, Colangelo encountered her North Charleston neighbors Bryson and Savanna Purcell building out a coffee van.

Colangelo

“I was like, ‘What is this going to be? Is this going to be a coffee truck?’ ” she said. “And they told me [yes],and I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s crazy because I’m a baker, and I’ve been trying to start something, but I’m not ready to go [straight to] a brick-and-mortar.’ ”

That coffee van ended up becoming the uber-popular Park Circle–based Prophet Coffee, which opened its Spruill Avenue stand-alone earlier this year. Colangelo started popping up with her pastries at the van and has continued supplying the

shop with her goods as they’ve expanded. Now, it’s her turn.

Coming together

Colangelo hopes to have Cakette Bakeshop up and running at 4546 Durant Ave. by early December. She takes over the lease of the space formerly occupied by the Park Circle Co-op.

The bakery will be a quick-service, to-go business with most of the inside dedicated to the baking kitchen. Guests will be able to order from an indoor to-go counter. There will be some outdoor seating and a simple menu of daily pastries. Eventually, Colangelo wants to offer egg sandwiches and a simple drip coffee and cold brew menu.

A Park Circle resident herself, Colangelo noticed that there were not a lot of takeaway restaurants in the area offering quality food.

“I want this to be a neighborhood bakery where everyone can walk there, grab your coffee and your pastry and then walk down to the park,” Colangelo said. “Our plan right now is to just start kind of small and build on it and see what people want.”

Colangelo is used to catering to locals’ needs; she amended her pop-up offerings after hearing from people that they wanted to see more vegan and gluten-free options. She said her following “took off” after she expanded what she was baking, and that the Park Circle community has been contin-

Ashley Stanol

Courtney Colangelo has been baking and working in bakeries for most of her life. Soon, she’ll open Cakette Bakeshop.

ually warm and welcoming.

“That’s what has given me the momentum to keep going,” she said of the local support. Seeing her pastries selling out at Prophet didn’t hurt either. Despite her successes, however, Colangelo was still hesitant to jump into opening her own spot — especially after seeing how incredibly difficult it can be to succeed.

“I always have wanted to own my own bakery one day, but it’s just so costly to do any type of restaurant or food concept. And so to be honest, it’s always just been out of reach for me,” she said. Taking over the lease at 4546 Durant, though, offers Colangelo the opportunity to grow in a manageable and sustainable way.

“I was like, ‘OK, it’s not going to cost me a lot to get some equipment in here and

Ashley Stanol

Park Circle residents will soon be ordering pastries at Cakette Bake shop’s new location

bake and make something out of this,’ ” she said. “And so that’s kind of what I’ve been working on — and letting it take shape.”

Colangelo is currently asking that folks looking to support her new venture continue to show up at her weekly pop-ups. Learn more about Cakette on Instagram @cakettebakeshop.

into opening their own coffee shop — Sightsee had been so successful, it would be hard not to consider following a similar business plan — they eventually landed on their true love.

“What we love and what we’re passionate about is wine,” Meggie said.

Funky, cozy vibes

Roseline will have 12 by-the-glass wine options and more than 40 bottles from which to choose. While Roseline isn’t sharing its full menu yet, Meggie promised a “very healthy balance” of old world and new world wines from local distributors like Advintage, Lee Distributors and Mission Grapes.

The bar will also offer sake, curated by Meggie’s sake sommelier brother, and beer on tap, with two rotating draft options and permanent fixtures Guinness and Charles Towne Fermentory’s Sungazer IPA. Guests can choose from more than 20 grab-and-go brews and non-alcoholic beverages, as well.

And while most options veer toward the craft side of things, Meggie couldn’t help but include Schlitz on the menu, an homage to a bar in her college town of New Orleans.

“Our ultimate goal with our menu is to have something that caters to everyone, ranging from cheap beer to high-end wine,” she said.

The Burnses transformed the bright and airy former coffee shop into something moodier and more intimate for Roseline.

Working with interior design company Public Regard and carpenters Golde Workshop, the couple designed the kind of bar they’d visited on their worldwide travels.

“Quinn and I have traveled all throughout the world. … It’s those tiny

little bars that have such a big personality [that we love],” Meggie said. “Whenever we decided to open something [we knew] that it was going to be funky and different.”

Meggie said that she and Quinn see a lot of opportunity in the pre-dinner sphere in Elliotborough, where folks often have to wait for a table at Vern’s and Chubby Fish. While Roseline can certainly be your final destination, the Burnses don’t mind if it’s just a stop along the way during your evening.

Roseline will have a small food menu on weekends, with curated meat and cheese boards from local John Street spot Tinto Cafe and Provisions. The bar will be open from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Meggie said that neighborhood residents are getting excited for Roseline. “All the neighbors will pop their heads in and be like, ‘Hey, what’s this going to be?’ And we say ‘It’s a mini wine bar.’ And they’re just ecstatic,” she said.

Quinn said that he wants customers to leave Roseline feeling as comfortable and as welcome as they would at a friend’s home — a feeling he and Meggie are always seeking on nights out. “We’ll go out to dinner and then we’re always looking for a place that feels cozy when we want to be on our couch — but we want to still feel like we’re social,” he said.

The Burnses also want Roseline to feel like the missing piece to the culinary jigsaw puzzle of Elliotborough. “I want people to feel like this is kind of something that completes the Elliotborough neighborhood,” Quinn said.

Meggie added that Roseline is meant to build upon the foundation of the neighborhood’s existing bars and restaurants. “Our mission is to ‘keep Charleston small.’ Not from a standpoint of exclusivity but as a way of maintaining the charm of not just our neighborhood but also our beloved city.”

Roseline

Culture

Beeple’s Election Night party pokes fun at politics

By Chloe Hogan

World-renowned artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, will host a wild Election Night party at his Daniel Island studio space on Nov. 5.

It’s going to be an experience, for sure.

The massive screens at Beeple Studios will stream multiple news platforms as the results of the presidential election roll in, serving as a backdrop of a party filled with wacky performance art. Expect “living sculptures” of American icons, a hot dog eating contest, a marching band and much more — all to add a bit of laughter to the absurdity of present-day politics.

“The event is an experiment,” Winkelmann said in an exclusive interview with the Charleston City Paper. “We’re trying to mix an election watch party, an art installation and an art performance all in one event. … It is a weird one,” he said. “It’s also a weird moment, overall. I feel like we’re trying to meet the moment.”

Beeple’s experiential gallery space is open to everyone on Nov. 5. In fact, the party is free (RSVP online ) — regardless of your place on the political spectrum. This inclusivity also reveals Winklemann’s motivation to hold the event.

“The aim here is to have fun and sort of take the temperature down a notch in terms of politics,” he said. “Both sides are very much welcome. It’s a place where we can disagree on things, but still be in the same room like adults. This is not the end of the world. It’s [a chance] to poke fun at the ridiculousness of America in general.”

Living sculptures

Beeple has been teasing bits of the party to his 2.1 million Instagram followers. An example: an actor wears a hyper-realistic Elon Musk mask and walks robotic dogs with Donald Trump’s face on them. These masked performance artworks are what Beeple calls “living sculptures,” and they’ve become a staple at Beeple Studios events.

Beeple (Mike Winklemann) hosts a Nov. 5 Election Night party at his studio on Daniel Island that will use performance art to satirize American politics

“Using these masks, we can derive new meaning by what the people wearing them are doing. If you have Elon walking two Trump dogs, well, that says something. We’ve got Kim Jong Un, Trump, Kamala, Elon, Warhol, Picasso … me … It’s just really wanting this space to feel alive and dynamic with these larger-than-life characters around, which also are referenced a lot in my artwork.”

Winklemann is known for his daily digital artwork practice, which he calls “everydays.” (The artwork that made him famous, “Everydays — The First 5,000 Days,” sold as a Non-fungible token (NFT) for $69.3 million in March 2021.)

The “everydays” he’s made lately often feature dystopian and post-apocalyptic worlds, with imagery that comments on the dangerous practices of tech companies, politicians and pop culture icons. “To me, the best art is something that asks more questions than it answers,” he said. “I’m always trying to walk the line of not saying ‘you should do this’ or ‘you shouldn’t do that’ with my art,” he explained, saying he prefers to leave interpretation to the viewer. But if there’s one thing he’s been taking inspiration from recently, it’s what he called the “theatrics” of politics.

“This entire election is so much about crafting a performance around these candidates,” Winkelmann said, citing Trump’s recent stunt working in McDonald’s for a day, or Harris inviting Beyonce to speak at a rally. “These things are designed to sway you.”

Live reactions

During the Nov. 5 event, he’ll make one of his “everydays” live, taking inspiration from what’s going on around him.

“I think it will be fun taking audience feedback in real time,” he said. “That’s what’s exciting about the tools that I use — I can immediately incorporate [new things] and then project that into this giant space.”

There will also be a community art showcase, with works from local artists, plus contributions from around the world. That piece of the party speaks to his larger vision for Beeple Studios, which Winkelmann explained is to “imagine how museums will be in the future,” using the latest technology. (Learn more in the 2023 CP story, “Beeple’s new studio space is a museum of digital art.”)

A better America

Winkelmann’s hope is that party-goers will come together over our shared desire for a better America.

“I think it’s very easy to [make assumptions] about people based on how they behave online. But in real life, people who would flame each other online can sit and have a conversation. Suddenly, they’re not this faceless enemy. They’re just a person who cares about their kids and their futures.

The 21+ event kicks off at 7 p.m. and goes until midnight Nov. 5. Learn more and RSVP for free at beeple-studios.xyz.

Arts, etc.

Mixed media shows open at Park Circle Gallery

The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department opens two new mixed media exhibitions Nov. 1 at Park Circle Gallery: Texture and Light, by Meg Homeier, and To All the Lives We’ve Lived, by the artistic duo Visceral Home. Join the free public opening reception at the gallery from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 1, or check out the shows before Nov. 30. Learn more online by visiting the arts and culture section of northcharleston.org.

Carolina

Surf Film Festival returns

to Mex 1

Mex 1’s West Ashley location hosts a two-day event Nov. 8 and Nov. 9 to celebrate the vibrant surf community of the Carolinas. Doors at 5 p.m., films start at 7 p.m. See Twin Fin Rodeo, produced by Charleston-based filmmakers the Thomas Brothers; Will Surf for Margaritas, a collaborative film by Mex 1 and the Warrior Surf Foundation; and Windbound, a film by Sydney Meyer spotlighting Charleston’s dynamic female kiteboarding community. Tickets are $10 at carolinasurfbrand.com, or purchase at the door.

Calling all needlepoint enthusiasts

A Maker’s Post on Sullivan’s Island offers a fun event for needlepoint enthusiasts on Nov. 7. From 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Penny Linn Designs hosts an in-store pop-up with exclusive needlepoint kits, holiday gift shopping and two festive drinks (drinks included with ticket). RSVP for $25 at pennylinn.com.

PURE Theatre stages The Last Five Years

PURE Theatre opens The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown on Nov. 7 with performances until Nov. 30. This freshly reimagined staging showcases his-and-hers vocal powerhouses Manny Houston and Heather Rice accompanying each other in a passionate and intimate take on one of contemporary theater’s most beloved musicals. Adult tickets $47, or find multiple chances to pay-what-you-will (including opening night). Learn more at puretheatre.org. —Chloe Hogan

Photos Courtesy Beeple Studios

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Asheville-based artist Flynn chronicles perseverance

By Kyle Petersen

There’s almost always been a heady emotionalism to the swelling synth-pop tunes that Michael Flynn has penned over the years, first with long-time collaborator Josh Kaler in Slow Runner and then as a solo artist. But Yesterday Don’t Fail Me Now, his new solo project under the Slow Runner moniker that was written in the last five months of Flynn’s dad’s life, couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Or maybe, a worse time, based on its Oct. 11 release.

Flynn, a longtime Charleston scene member now based in Asheville, N.C., found himself releasing this grief-stricken effort to a community still reeling from the ravages of Hurricane Helene. It’s somehow fitting that the album, perhaps the most haunting, affecting — and hopeful — of his career, happened to align with a time in which his community is going through such similar emotions.

Contemplation through composition

“I spent a lot of time at my dad’s house, helping my mom take care of him and soaking in his company,” Flynn writes in the liner notes. “There was a lot of time for thinking about weighty things, death and time and love that pushes up against the limits of reality. There was a lot of time for writing, going over lyrics in my head or picking out melodies on the old upright piano I learned to play on as a boy.”

The sound of Flynn’s contemplations of mortality and memory, love and loss and the bonds of family are echoed in the lives of his fellow western North Carolinians as these songs are finally released. But they almost weren’t.

Showcase, which covered the recording and mixing costs at Asheville’s Citizen Studios. Hence, he was spurred to write and finish this batch of songs, which he called “intensely therapeutic.”

Compositions like the opening “Weep My Little Lullaby” are quite literal depictions of how he processed his grief. The tune, more mantra than pop song, served as a musical and narrative mission statement for the record, with searching lyrics accompanied by a cerebral mixture of acoustic and electronic instrumentation that lopes and swoons like a boat adrift at sea. It is as beautiful and hopeful as it is weighty and melancholic.

the sharp humor and pop smarts that have long been Flynn’s calling card, and round out the contours of the album’s emotional center a bit.

It’s not a stretch to say this record could be the crowning achievement of the songwriter’s career, either under the Slow Runner moniker or as a solo act. In some ways, it’s also fitting that he comfortably resurrects the band name/alias for the new collection. The album release show, scheduled to take place at Citizen Studios in Asheville, where the album was pressed and recorded, was obviously postponed. Flynn said he hoped to announce a new date for that show, as well as a Charleston show, soon.

“I was kind of planning on taking a little break from music,” he said in an interview with the Charleston City Paper “I’ve had a career where I’ve had enough good things happen to make it not crazy to pursue it, but not enough good things happen to sort of reach escape velocity where it’s reflected in my bank account.

“I mean, I’ve had a great life and I’ve made a middle class existence making dorky pop songs. So in so many ways, I feel like I’ve been in a dream all of my life, and yet, I’m in my late 40s, and I’m still playing in the same rooms [that I was 20 years ago].”

But in the middle of his father’s cancer diagnosis, Flynn won the NewSong Music

“This record, more than any I’ve ever been involved with, was a process of just gleefully combining real things and fake things with nothing but the end emotional goal in mind,” he said. “There’s sampled strings mixed with real strings, and you end up with a thing that sounds mostly like real strings, but sometimes not quite. And that would have felt duplicitous to me 20 years ago. Now, it just feels like, oh, we made it beautiful, and I couldn’t afford to hire an orchestra anyway. This is kind of perfect.”

While almost every track connects to this period in the songwriter’s life, he’s quick to point out that many songs do not deal directly with his father dying. Lead single “The Skull of Mary Magdalene,” for instance, is a playful Peter Gabriel–esque banger about love and staying in the moment, while the cheeky “My Variant” plays Covid-19 tropes against the experience of fatherhood.

Both of these tunes also bring some of

Slow Runner, still

Flynn sighs a bit when asked about the switch back to the band name. After all, Slow Runner was mostly just him and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaler, now an engineer in Nashville, and they continued to collaborate on the songwriter’s solo records. His legal name became an awkward liability when a general of the same name couldn’t stay out of the headlines. And Slow Runner, thanks to the major label push and some key soundtrack placements, continues to garner better streaming numbers than his “by name only” solo material. “It doesn’t really matter,” Flynn said. “Twenty years from now, this is all disco. This is all in the final bargain bin at Goodwill for a dollar. We shouldn’t take ourselves that seriously.”

Learn more and listen at slowrunner.net.

Former Charleston singer Michael Flynn, now based in Asheville, resurrects his “Slow Runner” moniker for a new album chronicling grief, love and perseverance

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COURT FILE NO. 2024-CP-10-04914

SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, INC., Plaintiff, vs. ESTATE OF QUINTELLA DARLENE HUNTER STREETER JOHNSON a/k/a QUINTELLA HUNTER STREETER, deceased; and all other unknown children, issue, and spouses, as heirs of QUINTELLA

DARLENE HUNTER STREETER

JOHNSON a/k/a QUINTELLA

HUNTER STREETER, deceased, and any other unknown heirs, heirs-at-law, distributees, devisees, creditors, if any, of QUINTELLA

DARLENE HUNTER STREETER

JOHNSON a/k/a QUINTELLA

HUNTER STREETER, deceased, and, if any of the same be deceased, then their heirs, personal representatives, administrators, successors and assigns, and all others entitled to claim or claiming through them, also all other persons unknown, claiming any right, title, estate, interest, in or lien upon the real estate described in the Complaint herein, commonly described as 3409 Island Estates Drive, Johns Island, SC 29455; also any unknown 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, imprisoned persons, incompetent persons, and/or persons under a legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe; SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSING TRUST FUND; SHAUTELL STREETER; RONALD JOHNSON, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (FORECLOSURE/NON-JURY)

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the subscribers at their offices, Moore & Van Allen PLLC, 78 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC 29413-1428, or to otherwise appear and defend, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint, or otherwise to appear and defend, within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will obtain a judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule

53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this action.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above-entitled action, together with the Lis Pendens/Notice of Pendency of Action. Summons and Notices, Civil Action Coversheet, Certification of Exemption from ADR, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on October 1, 2024, at 12:27 p.m., the object and prayer of which is to obtain foreclosure without deficiency, of a mortgage of subject property in a non-jury action, and for such other and further relief as set forth in the Complaint.

LIS PENDENS/NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been initiated and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas for the County and State aforesaid, by the above-named Plaintiff, against the Defendants above named, and that the object of such action is the foreclosure of that certain Mortgages to the Plaintiff, described as follow:

Mortgage #1

By: QUINTELLA HUNTER STREETER

Dated: July 15, 2003

Recorded On: July 21, 2003 at 8:54 AM

Recorded In: Book J-458 at Page 274

Office of: RMC for Charleston County, SC

Mortgage #3

By: QUINTELLA HUNTER STREETER

Dated: July 15, 2003

Recorded On: July 21, 2003 at 8:57 AM

Recorded In: Book J-458 at Page 268

Office of: RMC for Charleston County, SC

and to sell the property described below for the purpose of paying the lien thereon.

That the real estate affected by such action is now and was at the time of commencement of such action situate in the County and State aforesaid, and the following is a description thereof, as contained in the above-referenced Mortgage: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Johns Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and known and designated as Lot No. 12 on a Plat entitled, “A FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF LOTS 1 THRU 27 PHASE I SEA ISLAND PLACE CONTAINING 10.345 ACRES OWNED BY SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, LOCATED IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, JOHNS ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, which Plat is dated October 7, 2002, and was recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Plat Book EF, at Page 977; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as are shown and delineated on said Plat.

THIS CONVEYANCE is subject to any and all Restrictions, Covenants, Easements and Conditions of record affecting said property.

THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following:

During such time as the property described herein is used for a purpose for which assistance under the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, P.L. 104-120, was provided or for another purpose involving the provisions of similar services or benefits, then no person having an interest in

this property shall refuse service for or accommodation or other benefits to any person with respect to the property on account of the person’s race, color or national origin or otherwise engage in discrimination conduct of any kind on account of a person’s race, color or national origin. This covenant is appurtenant to and shall run with the land described herein.

THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following: The grantee(s)’, their heirs, successors and/or assigns, herein agree to pay Berkeley Electric Cooperative Inc. or any successor electric utility company regulated by the South Carolina Public Service Commission, a monthly charge, plus applicable State of South Carolina Sales Tax, for operation and maintenance of street lighting system. BEING the same property conveyed to Quintella Streeter Hunter by Limited Warranty Indenture Deed from Sea Island Habitat For Humanity, Inc. dated July 15, 2003 and recorded on July 21, 2003 in Book F-458 at Page 496, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS # 279-10-00-131

ADDRESS: 3409 ISLAND ESTATES DRIVE, JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

MOTION AND CONSENT FOR APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR JOHN DOE AND GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOR RICHARD ROE

1. That an action has been commenced to foreclose a mortgage affecting real property located in Charleston County, South Carolina, against unknown persons who may be in the military service, or unknown persons who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent, or under a legal disability, cited and represented in the above caption as John Doe and Richard Roe; further that the residence of the unknown persons are not known and cannot be ascertained with reasonable diligence.

2. That an attorney should be appointed for unknown persons who may be in the military service, being a class designated as John Doe (50 U.S.C. App Section 521), and a Guardian Ad Litem should be appointed to protect the interests of unknown persons who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent, or under a legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe (SCRCP 17(d)).

3. That the Plaintiff is informed and believes that Kelley Y. Woody, Esquire, whose address is PO Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260, is a discreet, competent and suitable person to be appointed and to serve as attorney for the unknown persons who may be in the military service, being a class designated as John Doe, and as Guardian Ad Litem for the unknown persons who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent, or under a legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe.

4. That unless said unknown persons who may be in the military service or who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent, or under a legal disability, represented by classes designated as John Doe and Richard Roe, or someone acting in their behalf, shall within 30 days of the last publication of the Order Appointing Attorney and Guardian Ad Litem, procure another suitable person to be appointed as attorney or Guardian Ad Litem in the place and stead of Kelley Y. Woody, the Plaintiff requests that this appointment be final.

I SO MOVE: s/David B. Wheeler ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

I SO CONSENT: s/Kelley Y. Woody

ORDER FOR APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR JOHN DOE AND GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOR RICHARD ROE

After consideration of the Motion and Consent For Appointment of Attorney for John Doe and Guardian Ad Litem for Richard Roe, it is ORDERED, that Kelley Y. Woody, a competent and discreet person, be and hereby is appointed Attorney for the unknown persons who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and Guardian Ad Litem for any unknown persons who may be minors, imprisoned, incompetent and/or under a legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 3409 Island Estates Drive, Johns Island, SC 29455. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, unless those unknown persons who may be in the Military Service or who are minors, imprisoned, incompetent, and/or under a legal disability, shall, in person, or through someone on their behalf within 30 days after final publication of this Order, procure to be appointed some other suitable person as Attorney or Guardian Ad Litem in the place and stead of Kelley Y. Woody, this appointment shall be final. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a notice of filing of this Order shall forthwith be served upon said unknown persons who may be in the Military Service or who are minors, imprisoned, incompetent, and/or under a legal disability, by publication in the City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation published in Charleston County, for a period of not less than once a week for three consecutive weeks. Such publication may be accomplished jointly with the service by publication as hereinafter authorized. SO ORDERED s/Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court, by BLC

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY of Charleston in the Court of Common Pleas

C/A No.: 2024-CP-10-04854

Judy C. Sigler aka Judy Sigler v. Wynell C. Barrineau, et al, John Doe and Sarah Roe, fictitious names representing unknown minor, incompetents, person in the military, persons imprisoned, and persons under any other legal disability, and Richard Roe and Jane Roe, fictitious names representing unknown heirs, devisees, distributes, or personal representatives of the following deceased persons, H.S. Carter, Larry Martin Carter, Jerolene Carter, and Judy Enfinger Carter. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the appointment of Kimberly Shelton, Esquire, as the Guardian ad Litem for all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (which are constituted as a class designated as John Doe) and any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability (which are constituted as a class designated as Richard Roe, it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Kimberly Shelton is appointed as Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown persons and person who may be in the military service of the United States of America (constituted as a class and designated as John Doe), all unknown minors or persons under a disability (constituted as a class and designated as Richard Roe), all of which have or may have a claim to some interest in the real property that is the subject of this action, being identified as 19 Sycamore Road, County of Charleston, South Carolina (TMS# 418-00-00-030), that Kimberly Shelton is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, constituted as a class and designated as John Doe), all unknown minors and persons under a disability, constituted as a class and designated as Richard Roe, unless the Defendants, or someone acting on their behalf, shall, within thirty (30) days after service of a copy of this Order as directed below, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for the Defendants constituted as a class designated as John Doe or Richard Roe. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be served upon the unknown Defendants by publication in the Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

JUDY C. SIGLER a/k/a JUDY SIGLER, Plaintiff, -versusWYNELL C. BARRINEAU, STEPHANIE CARTER, BONNIE HULSEY, and JOHN DOE, SARAH ROE, fictitious names representing unknown minor, incompetents, persons in the military, persons imprisoned, and persons under any other legal disability, and RICHARD ROE and JANE ROE, fictitious names representing unknown heirs, devisees, distributes, and the following deceased persons, H.S. CARTER, LARRY MARTIN CARTER, JEROLENE CARTER, and JUDY ENFINGER CARTER, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS ALL UNKNOWN PERSON WITH ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED HEREIN; ALSO ANY PERSON WHO MAY BE IN THE MILTARY 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; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office, 21 Gamecock Ave., Ste. A, Charleston, SC 29407, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will

be entered against you for relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the Office of the clerk of court for Charleston County on September 26, 2024.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF

ACTION IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending or is about to be commenced in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the abovenamed Defendants for the purpose of suit to quiet title and partition for the aforesaid real property.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the expiration of thirty (30) days follow the service of a copy of the Notice of Intent to Refer upon you, the Plaintiff intends to seek an Order to refer the above-captioned action to the Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina, for the purpose of holding a hearing into the merits of said case, together with the authority to enter final judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment of the Master-in-Equity, as aforesaid, that such appeal shall be made directly to the Supreme Court of South Carolina or, alternatively, to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

NOTICE OF RIGHT OF FIRST

REFUSAL The Court shall provide for the non-petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common who are interested in purchasing the property to notify the Court of that interest no later than (10) days prior to the date set for the trial of the case. The non-petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common shall be allowed to purchase the interests in the properties as provided in SC. Code Ann. Section 15-61-25(A) whether default has been entered against them or not.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas, Charleston County, South Carolina, upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants to clear title to the subject real property hereinafter described and to establish ownership of the subject real property in the names of the lawful heirs of the late H.S. Carter. That said property affected by said Complaint in this action hereby commenced was at the time of the commencement of this action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice, are described subject property is identified at 19 Sycamore Road, Charleston, County of Charleston, South Carolina (TMS#: 418-10-00-030)

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 19, in Block K, on a plat of an extension of Carolina Terrace, made by W.L. Gaillard, Surveyor, December 1939, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book F, at Page 51; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, more or less, as will by reference to the said plat more fully appear and being bounded as shown on the said plat.

s/ C. Mac Gibson, Jr. C. Mac Gibson, Jr. 21 Gamecock Ave., Sta. A Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 852-4646

Pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. §§ 27-32-300, et. seq., NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the intent of the undersigned Trustee, King Cunningham, LLC, P.O. Box 4896, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29597, to sell the below described Property at Public Auction to the highest bidder for cash on 11/8/2024, beginning at 9:30 A.M. The Public Auction shall occur at the front entrance of 700 Faison Road Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 29466.

Property Description: A Vacation Ownership Interest in LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES (the “Project”) consisting of the following: A fee simple undivided interest in (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number: (SEE EXHIBIT “A”). The names and notice address of the obligor(s), record owner(s) of the timeshare estate (if different from the obligor(s), and junior interest or lienholder(s) (if applicable) (hereinafter referred to as “Obligors”) are identified in Exhibit “A”. The sale of the Properties is to satisfy the default in payment by the Obligors of the obligations secured by those certain Mortgages to 1776 Development, LLC as recorded in the records of Horry County, South Carolina and detailed in Exhibit “A”. The amounts secured by the MORTGAGES, including accrued interest and late charges now owing along with a per diem amount to account for further accrual of interest and late charges are detailed in Exhibit “A”, together with any and all additional principal, interest, costs coming due and payable hereafter. The successful bidders shall be required to pay, in cash or certified funds, at the time of the bid, unless the successful bidder is the Creditor, which shall reserve a credit against its bid for the Total Owing as set forth in Exhibit “A”. The successful bidders shall also be required to pay for Deed Preparation, Documentary Stamps, or transfer fee, and Recording Costs. This sale is subject to all taxes, liens, easements, encumbrances, assessments, and/or senior mortgage liens of record and the undersigned Trustee gives no opinion thereto. An Obligor has the right to cure the default, and a Junior Lienholder has the right to redeem its interest up to the date of that the Trustee issues the Certificate of Sale pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-345. KING CUNNINGHAM, LLC, Trustee and Attorney for Ocean 22 Development, LLC, by Jeffrey W. King, SC Bar # 15840; or W. Joseph Cunningham, SC Bar # 72655, P.O. Box 4896, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29597, (843)249-0777. EXHIBIT “A” – NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Obligor(s), Address, TS Interest, TS Interval Control No., MTG BK/PG, Default Amount, Costs, Trustee’s Fee, Total Amount Due, Per Diem;

KAREN LEE PERELLIE & HEATH

N. FULLER, 137 LOOMIS HILL RD WATERBURY CENTER, VT 05677, 0.01682244733133270%, 980304-43B, 1173/971, $57,432.92, $524.17, $450.00, $58,407.09, $22.53.;

KAREN SCHAID WAGNER 809 LAKE SHORE DR. WAUCONDA, IL 60084-1529

0.01682244733133270%, 980406-6B, 1112/863, $26,465.60, $524.17, $450.00, $27,439.77, $11.13.;

RICHARD THOMAS MCNAMARA & DEBORAH LOUISE BRUEGGER 5639 TIER VIEW TRL GREENSBORO, NC 27405-8303

0.00399374221908844%, 980322-17E, 1131/572, $58,389.94, $524.33, $450.00, $59,364.27, $22.06.;

LYNN IONE KILE 205 KEATON DR FAYETTEVILLE, GA 30215

0.01682244733133270%, 980305-50B, 1185/300, $44,634.10, $524.33, $450.00, $45,608.43, $20.82.;

DIANA L. RUHTENBERG 7612 OLYMPIA DR HOUSTON, TX 77063-1921

0.01243674632681650%, 980520-25B, 1163/397, $58,977.55, $524.33, $450.00, $59,951.88, $27.57.;

SEMBUA SAMUEL DANIELI & LILIAN KIMWERI DANIELI 331 ADAMS POINT DR GARNER, NC 27529-6505

0.01682244733133270%, 980417-44B, 936/352, $42,111.88, $524.33, $450.00, $43,086.21, $11.89.;

RICHARD W. MEYER & ERLINDA HERNAND MEYER 909 VANDALIA DR. CARY, NC 27519-1888

0.00621837316340825%, 980206-36O, 1163/402, $21,917.90, $524.33, $450.00, $22,892.23, $7.80.;

JESSICA A. TAWIAH & SYLVIA A. TAWIAH 10 NEWBURY DR STAFFORD, VA 22556-4620

0.01682244733133270%, 980405-2B, 1201/666, $54,721.59, $524.33, $450.00, $55,695.92, $22.90.;

STEPHANIE RENAE SMITH & ARTHUR BENJAMIN BROWN 124 THOMAS TRAYLOR LN CLARKSVILLE, TN 37043

0.01682244733133270%, 980305-49B, 1179/395, $42,478.35, $419.17, $450.00, $43,347.52, $16.68.;

ELISE A. BOYLE 46 HOUTMAN DR WALDEN NY 12586-2222

0.00399374221908844%, 98-0316-15O, 839/625, $15,997.48, $419.33, $450.00, $16,866.81, $6.87.;

VERONICA HOPE JACQUESGLOVER 2222 GREYWING STREET WOODBRIDGE, VA 22191

0.01682244733133270%, 980402-49B, 1174/316, $48,162.91, $419.33, $450.00, $49,032.24, $19.34.;

DARIUS C. RUSSELLE 1068 S NORMANDY RD WAUKEGAN, IL 60085-8654

0.00399374221908844%, 98-0325-11E, 1076/433, $17,453.41, $419.33, $450.00, $18,322.74, $8.25.;

LAURA ANNE MARGARET

MURPHY 11625 GEHR RD WAYNESBORO, PA 17268-9108

0.00399374221908844%, 980416-33O, 1167/688, $27,139.49, $419.33, $450.00, $28,008.82, $10.17.;

TRAVIS LEWIS & GERALDINE

LEWIS

1232 GLENCREST DR LAKE MARY, FL 32746

0.02601758856785460%, 980409-52B, 1167/849, $76,733.74, $419.33, $450.00, $77,603.07, $22.47.;

CALVIN PERKINS & SHARMANA

PERKINS

32 DIGGS DR HAMPTON, VA 23666

0.00621837316340825%, 980406-34O, 1134/182, $24,662.75,

$979.33, $450.00, $26,092.08, $12.51.;

DONNA E. WATTS 11 S MANOR CT WALL, NJ 07719

0.01682244733133270%, 980512-23B, 1141/257, $174,919.89, $420.28, $450.00, $175,790.17, $63.83.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-04979

R. WAYNE WIGGINS, Plaintiff, v. TONY SINGLETON and FLOSSIE COAXUM, both being deceased persons, their heirsat-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 4209 Highway 174 Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 061-00-00-034 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 FREDERICK L. COAXUM, Defendants.

SUMMONS & NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named:

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

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

is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice, Complaint and Lis Pendens were filed on October 4th, 2024, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on October 4th, 2024 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 23rd, 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 R. David Chard, Esquire of 2050 Spaulding Drive, North Charleston, SC 29406 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated October 4th, 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 tract of land in St. Pauls School District No. 19, and more particularly described as follows: Bounded on the north by the lands of the grantor now conveyed to Flossie Coaxum, on the east by the S.C. Highway No. 174, on the south by the lands of Ella Simmons, and on the west by the lands of the grantor now conveyed to James Seabrook and Charlotte Singleton, and containing three acres, more or less.

LESS AND ACCEPTING: All that tract of land in St Pauls School District and more particularly described as follows: Bounded on the north by the lands of Tony Singleton, on the east by S.C. Highway No. 174, on the south by the lands of Ella Simmons, and on the west by the lands of James Seabrook, and containing one (1) acre, more or less. Being property conveyed to Robert Holmes by deed from Tony Singleton, dated 2/4/1943, and recorded 2/26/1943, at V43-491.

LESS AND ACCEPTING: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land measuring and containing one (1) acre, more or less, situate, lying and being in St. Paul’s School District, No. 19, Charleston County, South Carolina and being more fully described as follows: Beginning at an iron stake on paved S.S. Highway No. 174 which said iron stake is the Southeast corner of the lands hereby conveyed and is located Two Hundred Ten (210) feet North of a County maintained dirt road and running thence in a Westerly Direction along lands of the Estate of Tony Singleton for a distance of Four Hundred Eight (408) feet to an iron stake and thence running in a Northerly direction along lands of James Seabrook for a distance of One Hundred Five (105) feet to an iron stake and thence running in an Easterly direction along the lands of Flossie Coaxum for a distance of Four Hundred Six (406) feet to an iron stake on S.C. Highway No. 174 and thence running in a Southerly direction. along S.C. Highway 174 for a distance of One Hundred Five (105) feet to an iron stake being the point of beginning. Being property inherited by Fred Singleton, Mattie Singleton, Bessie Washington, Isabelle Holmes and Flossie Coaxum as heirs of Tony Singleton, as evidenced by deed to Christopher Singleton, dated 3/10/1966, and recorded 3/21/1966, at E85-187.

TMS # 061-00-00-034

October 23rd, 2024

Date 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

and Complaint, were filed on September 17th, 2024, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on September 23rd, 2024 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 18th, 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 R. David Chard, Esquire of 2050 Spaulding Drive, North Charleston, SC 29406 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 September 23rd, 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.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-08-02559

GLENN LITTLE and PEGGY LITTLE, Plaintiffs, v. FRANK S. DUBIS, and if he be deceased, his heirs-at-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 6035 Tampa Street Berkeley County, South Carolina TMS Number: 265-11-01-025 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the military service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo 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 Lis Pendens, Summons and Notice,

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land situate, lying and being in the Avalon-in-the-Pines Subdivision, Hanahan Tax District, in Berkeley County, S.C., as will be more fully shown as Lot 22, Block “C” on a subdivision plat prepared by Gaillard & Gaillard, Surveyors, dated June, 1944, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Berkeley County, S.C., in Plat Book F at Page 8; and having such size, shape, dimensions, metes and bounds as are shown on said plat.

TMS # 265-11-01-025

October 18th, 2024

Date

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

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

Attorney for Plaintiff

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 29th day of July, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 5th day of November, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. Being all of that piece, parcel or lot of land lying in Johns Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, as shown on that plat entitled “Boundary Survey of TMS 281-00-00-010 owned by Jimmy H. Brown”, prepared by Woodland Land Surveying, LLC, dated 11/23/2020, recorded on 01/20/2021 in Plat Book S-21, Page 10 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

ALSO included is a public right-of-way as shown on abovereferenced plat for ingress, egress and regress to Jimmy Mitchell Lane. Also includes a mobile/ manufactured home, a 2021 CMH VIN: CLH045102TNAB Being the same property conveyed to Noami Mercheson and Herman Robinson by deed of Jimmy Brown dated February 8, 2021 and recorded May 26, 2021 in Deed Book 0995 at Page 562; Thereafter, upon information and belief, Noami R. Mercheson passed on September 8, 2021 leaving the Property to Herman Robinson and any other unknown heirs/devisees; thereafter, Herman Robinson died testate on March 28, 2023, leaving the Property to his devisees, namely, Harold Robinson and Quandette Magwood.

TMS No. 281-00-00-010 Property Address: 1172 Jimmy Mitchell Lane, Johns Island, SC 29455

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 9.0600%.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of

Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc., PLAINTIFF versus Quandette Magwood, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Herman Robinson; Harold Robinson; The Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Noami R. Mercheson; and any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Noami R. Mercheson, Deceased their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, DEFENDANT(S).

title

ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING.

Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

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

FOR INSERTION October 18, 2024, October 25, 2024, November 1, 2024

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and Any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe, I, Mikell Scarborough, Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on November 05, 2024, at 11:00 AM, at the Front Entrance of County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, to the highest bidder.

SITUATED IN THE TOWNSHIP OF RAVENEL, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON AND STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA:

ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, WITH IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWNSHIP OF RAVENEL, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO 27 IN BLOCK “C” OF THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS RAVENEL ACRES SUBDIVISION, RECORDED IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK K AT PAGE 155. SAID LOT HAVING SUCH SIZE, SHAPE, DIMENSIONS, BUTTINGS AND BOUNDINGS AS REFERENCE TO THE AFORESAID PLAT WILL MORE FULLY AND AT LARGE APPEAR.

Derivation: THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED BY DEED OF MARY R. ELROD TO GERRALD CAMPBELL DATED JANUARY 30, 2002 AND RECORDED FEBRUARY 4, 2002 IN BOOK W395 AT PAGE 167.

TMS #: 187-15-00-037

6144 Smith Road, Ravenel, SC 29470

SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-05593

NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Plaintiff, -vsGerrald Campbell (Deceased); and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Gerrald Campbell, Deceased, Dannielle D. Clement; their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all Unknown Heirs of Deceased Defendants, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through them being a class designated as Mary Roe; All Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein, being a class designated as Jane Doe; also any Unknown 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, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing vs. Gerrald Campbell (Deceased); and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Gerrald Campbell, Deceased, Dannielle D. Clement; their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all Unknown Heirs of Deceased Defendants, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through them being a class designated as Mary Roe; All Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein, being a class designated as Jane Doe; also any Unknown persons who

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

Theodore von Keller (SC Bar# 5718)

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

Charley F. MacInnis (SC Bar# 104326)

Jason Hunter (SC Bar# 101501)

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

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

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

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

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 3.75000% per annum.

Eric H. Nelson (SC Bar# 104712)

Crawford & von Keller, LLC P.O. Box 4216

1640 St. Julian Place (29204)

Columbia, SC 29240

Phone: 803-790-2626

Email: court@crawfordvk.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

58020.F51537

Master’s Sale CASE NO. 2023CP1002935

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

Nationstar Mortgage LLC, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Maurice Williams; Acquenetta Williams; any other heirs or devisees of Emily L. Williams, deceased; including any personal representatives, successors, assigns, spouses, creditors, and all others claiming any right, title or interest in the property known as 1820 Mepkin Road, B-10, Charleston, SC 29407; any adults or persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any minors or persons under legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and Mepkin Condominium Association, Inc., DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated March 14, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC. November 5, 2024, at 11:00 A.M. or shortly thereafter.

All that certain condominium unit known and designated as UNIT 1020, (formally known as Unit B- 10), Mepkin Condominiums Horizontal Property Regime, a horizontal property regime established pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Regime Act, Section 27-31-10, et. Seq., South Carolina Code of Law, as amended, and submitted by Master Deed dated August 18, 2006, recorded August 25, 2006, in Book A596, page 470, in the RMC Office for Charleston County. Said unit is shown on the Exhibit attached to the Master Deed. SAID Unit is conveyed together

Mikell Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County CRAWFORD & VON KELLER, LLC

with:

1. An undivided percentage in the common area and facilities of the property as described in said Master Deed (“Common Elements”) attributable to the Units, together with any limited common element.

2. An easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Apartment Unit on any adjoining units or common elements now existing or which, may come into existence hereafter.

3. An easement in common with the owners of other apartment units for ingress, egress, installation, replacing, repairing, and maintaining all utilities, including, but not limited to water, gas, sewers, telephones and electricity and for ongoing development and operation of the project.

4. The following rights and easements in common with the other apartment unit owners, all as described in the Master Deed and any amendments thereto: common driveway easement; all utility, service, maintenance, and recreational easements; parking easement, drainage easement, and use of the common elements.

SUBJECT to all restrictions, easements, and rights-of-way of record.

TMS #: 353-13-00-073

Current Property Address: 1820 Mepkin Rd., B-10, Charleston, SC 29407

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

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

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

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Finkel Law Firm LLC (843) 577-5460 FOR INSERTION 10/18/2024, 10/25/2024 11/1/2024

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2024-CP-10-02065

HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Fremont Home Loan Trust 2006-E, Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-E, Plaintiff, v. La Shaun Smalls a/k/a Lashaun Smalls; Dale Holland; Renney Tayao; Service Now SC, LLC; City Electric Supply Company; CKS Prime Investments, LLC, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES

(Non-Jury)

FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-inEquity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 19, 2024. A Notice of Foreclosure Intervention was also filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office.

Brock & Scott, PLLC

3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210

Phone (803) 454-3540

Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintif

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority against Robert D. Pettaway, I, the Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Council Chambers, Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder:

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in Charleston County, South Carolina, known and designated as New Lot 2, Block P-Z, Section 5, all of which will more fully appear by reference to a Plat made by Atlantic Surveying, Inc., Covert B. Nelson, RLS, entitled “Subdivision Plat of Block P-Z, Section 5 (1.29 AC), TMS 469-10-00-060 into Lot 1 (0.14 AC), Lot 2 (0.15 AC), and Lot 3 (0.19 AC) & Residual (0.81 AC) located on the North Side of Azalea Drive in the City of North Charleston, Charleston County, SC, Property of DW OPP Fund, LLC”; said plat being recorded in the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office in Plat Book L19 at Page 0481. Reference is hereby made to said plat for a more complete metes and bounds description.

This being the same property conveyed to Robert D. Pettaway by deed of T M Rooke Company LLC dated July 8, 2021 and recorded July 16, 2021 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book 1014 at Page 608.

TMS # 469-10-00-255

Property Address: 2280 Bailey Drive N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity for Charleston County at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff’s debt in the case of non-compliance. If the Plaintiff’s representative is not in attendance at the scheduled time of the sale, the sale shall be canceled and the property sold on some subsequent sales day after due advertisement. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, the deposit shall be forfeited and the Master in Equity for Charleston County may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). As a deficiency judgment is being Waived, the bidding will not remain open thirty days after the date of sale. Purchaser shall pay for preparation of deed, documentary stamps on the deed, and recording of the deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 2.8750% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Charleston County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

s/Ryan J. Patane S.C. Bar No. 103116

Benjamin E. Grimsley S.C. Bar No. 70335 D’Alberto, Graham & Grimsley, LLC

Attorneys for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 11682 Columbia, S.C. 29211 (803) 233-4999 rpatane@dgglegal.com bgrimsley@dgglegal.com

KRISTIN 843-885 4086

Master’s Sale 2017-CP-10-01625

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

Nationstar Mortgage LLC, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Mildred Jenkins; Eric K. Jenkins; et.al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated July 12, 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 5th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2024 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon situate, lying and being in Charleston County, South Carolina, known and designated as Lot No. 475 on a plat of the subdivision known as “Waylyn,” which plat is duly recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book F, Page 117, said lot in general having such size, shape and dimensions as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Prince A. Jenkins, Jr. by deed of The United States of America, dated December 11, 1996 and recorded December 18, 1996 in Book W277 at Page 380 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Thereafter, Prince A. Jenkins, Jr. conveyed the subject property to Prince A. Jenkins, Jr., Mildred Jenkins and Eric K. Jenkins, as joint tenants with the right of survivorship, and not as tenants in common, by deed dated May 19, 1997 and recorded May 28, 1997 in Book P284 at Page 218; thereafter, Prince A. Jenkins, Jr. died November 24, 2003, thus vesting his interest in the subject property in the surviving joint tenants, namely, Mildred Jenkins and Eric K. Jenkins. (See Declaration filed August 19, 2014 in Book 0423 at Page 936.)

TMS No. 4111200234

Property address: 34 Lawrence Street, a/k/a 2651 Lawrence Street, North Charleston, SC 29405

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will

be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

RDC File No.: 24-13663 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 24-CP-10-4426

PRG Land, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. E. Lowell Rinkenberger and Dorothy E. Rinkenberger, Defendants.

Lis Pendens

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced pursuant to the provisions of 1976 South Carolina Code of Laws §12-61-10, et. seq., and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, upon a complaint of the Plaintiff abovenamed, against the Defendants above-named, for the purpose of obtaining a Decree establishing that the Plaintiff is the sole owner in fee simple of the title to the property described in the Plaintiff’s Complaint, and that the Defendants do not have any right, title, interest, claim, estate in or lien upon the said property; that the premises affected by the said Complaint in the action hereby commenced were at the time of filing of this Lis Pendens described as follows, to-wit:

All that piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot No. Ninety-Two (92) as more particularly shown on Plat of Palmetto Terrace, surveyed by C.P. Collette, R.L.S, No. 1709, dated January 26, 1961 and recorded in the ROD Office for Charleston County, South Carolina in Plat Book N at Page 30.

TMS No.: 229-13-00-055

Address:

5718 Glifton Avenue, Ravenel, SC 29470

Summons and Notice

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, 2050 Spaulding Drive, Suite 2, North Charleston, South Carolina 29406, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, 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 Rules 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

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons and Complaint, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on September 3, 2024.

s/R. David Chard

S.C. Bar No.: 1190

Attorney for the Plaintiff 2050 Spaulding Drive, Suite 2 N. Charleston, SC 29406 (843) 554-6984 david@chardlawfirm.com

Katrina Massey Boxes/ Clothes

Jeffrey Richards Household items

Donna Taylor Furniture / Seasonal Decorations

Melissa Washington Household Items

Facility 5: 45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414

11/19/2024

11:15 AM

Robert Meyer Furniture

Stephen Veronee Household Goods/Furniture

Buddy Bell House hold goods/ tools

Ana Marie Campos Household Goods/Furniture

John Joubin Household Goods/Furniture, TV/Stereo Equipment, Tools/ Appliances

The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

PUBLIC AUCTION

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

Facility 3: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 11/19/2024

12:45 PM

Cora Ashlock Self stuff

Patrice Smith Boxes and some bags

Henry Martin Tool boxes tvs and furniture

Combs Harold Home goods

Sue Murner Household Goods

Shondreka Brown Boxes of Arts/Craft supplies

Janelle Smith

2 queen beds totes, TV’s

Daron Everett Furniture/clothes/glasses

Facility 4: 1540 Meeting Street Rd Charleston, SC 29405 11/19/2024

1:00 PM

Kyeon Hicks Beds,TV’s,dressers,sofa washer and dryer

Lakisha James Bedroom Furniture, Washer/Dryer, Couch, Household items

Charleston Krewe Household Goods/Furniture

Steven Sanders Household Goods/Furniture

Facility 5:

1861 Ashley River Rd. Charleston, SC 29407 11/19/2024

1:15 PM

Willis McReynolds

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

MICHAEL JOHN REINECK

2024-ES-10-1878

DOD: 8/10/24

Pers. Rep: ROSS REINECK

450 S CR 198, FREMONT, OH 43420

Atty:

CAMPBELL D. COXE, JR., ESQ.

1700 ASHLEY RIVER RD., #A, CHARLESTON, SC 29407

Estate of: ELIZABETH LUCAS HANAHAN

SCARBOROUGH CLARK

2024-ES-10-1882

DOD: 9/22/24

Pers. Rep:

MIKELL R. SCARBOROUGH

339 MARTELLO 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.

Estate of: ROBERT PATRICK CONNOR

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: KAY ELAINE BOGGS

2024-ES-10-1837

DOD: 9/30/24

Pers. Rep: ERIC LARSON 291 CABRILL DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty:

THOMAS H. BRUSH, ESQ. 12 A CARRIAGE LN., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of: LEROY HUGHLAN HOWARD

2024-ES-10-1858

DOD: 3/18/24

Pers. Rep: MICHI HOWARD-TAYLOR 26 ARLINGTON GARDENS, MARGATE KENT, UNITED KINGDOM CT93TB

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Estate of: THELMA BROWN LEE

2024-ES-10-1862

DOD: 7/25/24

Pers. Rep: WILBUR R. LEE

3251 OLD POND RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

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

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Estate of: LYNDA LOUISE NOLTA

2024-ES-10-1867

DOD: 9/17/24

Pers. Rep: CYNTHIA LEIGH FOOTE 3763 EAST COSTILLA AVE., CENTENNIAL, CO 80122

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

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

OF CHARLESTON

THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

C/A NO. 2024-CP-10-04925

Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc., Plaintiff

vs. The Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Donald L. Green; Sadie Green; Deron Green; and Unknown Occupant(s), Defendants .

TO THE DEFENDANT(S):

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

NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on October 2, 2024.

2024-ES-10-1255

DOD: 6/21/24

Pers. Rep:

ANN M. CONNOR

26 GREEN MEADOW LN., KIAWAH ISLAND, SC 29455

Pers. Rep:

ELIZABETH A. CONNOR

1931 CAROLINA TOWNE CT., MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464

Atty:

ANDREW W. CHANDLER, ESQ.

115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of:

JACQUELINE M. CROSBY

2024-ES-10-1826

DOD: 9/22/24

Pers. Rep:

JOCELYN M. CUNNINGHAM

2014 EGRET LN., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty:

DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ.

115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 *************

Estate of:

TONY C. GARVIN

2024-ES-10-1838

DOD: 9/27/24

Pers. Rep:

CHERYL GARVIN

6330 SPRING GROVE RD., ADAMS RUN, SC 29426

Atty:

JEFFREY C. MOORE, ESQ.

1 CARRIAGE LN., BLDG H, 2ND FLR., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of:

EUGENE D. RUTLAND, JR.

2024-ES-10-1839

DOD: 9/18/24

Pers. Rep:

MARTHA ALICE DAVIS RUTLAND 1990 LEADENWAH DR., WADMALAW ISLAND, SC 29487

Atty:

PHILLIP MEAD, ESQ.

115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 *************

day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint in the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office for Charleston County on August 5, 2024.

s/Benjamin E. Grimsley S.C. Bar No. 70335

Ryan J. Patane S.C. Bar No. 103116 D’Alberto, Graham & Grimsley, LLC

Attorneys for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 11682 Columbia, S.C. 29211 (803) 233-4999 bgrimsley@dgglegal.com rpatane@dgglegal.com

S.C. Bar No. 70335

Ryan J. Patane

S.C. Bar No. 103116 D’Alberto, Graham & Grimsley, LLC

Attorneys for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 11682 Columbia, S.C. 29211 (803) 233-4999 bgrimsley@dgglegal.com rpatane@dgglegal.com

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

DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-10-1488

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Raven S. Frazier, Darren D. Perry, and Sharon Frazier DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2019, 2020, 2021, & 2023

TO DEFENDANT: Raven S. Frazier

Notice of Self Storage Sale

Please take notice Extra Room Self Storage - North Charleston located at 8911 University Blvd. North Charleston SC 29406 intends to hold an Auction of storage units in default of payment. The sale will occur as an Online Auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 11/19/2024 at 10:00AM. This sale is pursuant to the assertion of lien for rental at the self-storage facility. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods, furnishings and garage essentials.

Pearl Simmons unit #2102; Courtney Green unit #2217; Deangelo Scott unit #3090.

This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply.

Please update to the below...

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above Defendant(s) for the purpose of claiming and repossessing collateral, which secures the repayment of a certain Contract bearing date of December 18, 1997 and given and delivered by Defendant(s) Donald L. Green to Oasis Housing in the original principal sum of Forty Nine Thousand Thirty One and 77/100 Dollars ($49,031.77). Said collateral is described as a 1998 CYPR VIN: GMHGA4409717731A\B mobile home and is located in the County of Charleston, South Carolina.

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

Attorneys for Plaintiff 6438

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT C/A #: 2024-CP-10-03948

STATE FARM FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs. HOWARD L. JOHNSON, III, Defendant.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (Non-Jury)

TO THE DEFENDANT HOWARD L. JOHNSON, III ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint upon the subscribers, at their office, 508 Meeting Street, West Columbia, South Carolina 29169, or at Post Office Box 11682, Columbia, South Carolina 29211, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT C/A #: 2024-CP-10-03947

STATE FARM FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs. HOWARD L. JOHNSON, III, Defendant.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (Non-Jury)

TO THE DEFENDANT HOWARD L. JOHNSON, III ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint upon the subscribers, at their office, 508 Meeting Street, West Columbia, South Carolina 29169, or at Post Office Box 11682, Columbia, South Carolina 29211, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint in the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office for Charleston County on August 5, 2024.

s/Benjamin E. Grimsley

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on May 28, 2024 at 7:18 am. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405-5714 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT C.A. NO.: 2023-DR-10-3338

MICHAEL R. JUTRAS, Plaintiff, V. ZHANNA TAGI-ZADE, Defendant.

SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: 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 which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of Court) and to serve a copy of your answer upon the subscriber, at his office located at 925-D Wappoo Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the date of such service, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

THE MCMILLIAN LAW FIRM BY: _/s/ William J. McMillian, III_

William J. McMillian, III (SC Bar #: 68314)

925-D Wappoo Road

Charleston, South Carolina 29407

Phone: (843) 900-1306

Fax: (800)861-3096

Email: jay@mcmillianlawsc.com

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

October 18, 2024

Charleston, South Carolina

To all persons claiming an interest in: 1985 - 21’ - FIBERGLASS - Sea Ray - SERM3926G585 - WAA0893722. WILSON RODRIGUEZ will apply to SCDNR for title on watercraft/outboard motor. If you have any claim to the watercraft/ outboard motor, contact SCDNR at (803) 7343699. Upon thirty days after the date of the last advertisement if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft/outboard motor has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW

This copyright notice informs any potential user of the name LISA MARIE JONES/MARTIN and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, lisa marie bey, an American National, In Propria Persona, Sui Juris, Proprio Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express prior, written permission signifies the users consent for becoming the debtor on a self-executing UCC financial statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with intent of obligating me, plus costs, plus triple damages.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW

This copyright notice informs any potential user of the name EMMANUEL TYRELL DANIEL MILLER and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, emmanuel miller bey, an American National, In Propria Persona, Sui Juris, Proprio Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express prior, written permission signifies the users consent for becoming the debtor on a self-executing UCC financial statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use

of the name used with intent of obligating me, plus costs, plus triple damages.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF ANN STREET BRAND, LLC

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ann Street Brand, LLC, a South Carolina limited liability company (the “Company”), was dissolved on 07/08/2024. All creditors of and claimants against the Company are required to present their respective claims and demands immediately to the Company so that it can proceed to collect its assets, convey and dispose of its properties, pay, satisfy, and discharge its liabilities and obligations, and do all other acts required to liquidate its business and affairs. With respect to all claims, please take notice of the following:

1. Claims must be in writing and include the name of the claimant, the amount of the claim, and a short summary of the basis for the claim.

2. Claims should be mailed to the Company at Ann Street Brand, LLC, c/o Gavigan Law, PLLC, 10700 Sikes Pl., Ste 375, Charlotte, NC 28277, Attn: Timothy B. Gavigan.

3. A claim against the Company will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within five years after the publication date of this notice.

Ann Street Brand, LLC

By: /s/ Thomas E. Wicker

Name: Thomas E. Wicker

Title: Manager

Date: 10/29/24 (704) 814-4460

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR STRAW NAME

This copyright Notice informs any potential user of the name DENAIRO DUPRECE PRICE, DENAIRO PRICE, DENAIRO PRICE JR. or DENAIRO DUPRECE PRICE JR. that is intended as pertaining to me denairo khan bey, in Propria Persona Sui Juris, Propria Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use there-of without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self-executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with intent of obligating me, plus cost, plus triple damage.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR STRAW NAME

This copyright Notice informs any potential user of the name ZANIYAH PASCHAL or ZANIYAH PORTIA PASCHAL that is intended as pertaining to me zaniyah khan el, in Propria Persona Sui Juris, Propria Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use there-of without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a selfexecuting UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with intent of obligating me, plus cost, plus triple damage.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR STRAW NAME

This copyright Notice informs any potential user of the name JEREMIAH DYSHONE EVANS, JEREMIAH EVANS that is intended as pertaining to me jeremiah khan el, in Propria Persona Sui Juris, Propria Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use there-of without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self-executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with intent of obligating me, plus cost, plus triple damage.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR STRAW NAME

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Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many people believe in the existence of ghosts. If you’re not yet one of them, you may be soon. The spirit world is more open than usual to your curiosity and explorations. Keep in mind, though, that the contacts you make might not be with ghosts in the usual sense of that term. They might be deceased ancestors coming to deliver clues and blessings. They could be angels, guardian spirits, or shapeshifting messengers. Don’t be afraid. Some may be weird, but they’re not dangerous. Learn what you can from them, but don’t assume they’re omniscient and infallible. Halloween costume suggestion: one of your ancestors.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When you attended kindergarten, did you ever share your delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich with friends who didn't like the broccoli and carrots in their lunch boxes? If so, you may be well-primed to capitalize on the opportunities now in your vicinity. Your generous actions will be potent catalysts for good luck. Your eagerness to bestow blessings and share your resources will bring you rewards. Your skill at enhancing other people's fortunes may attract unexpected favors. Halloween costume suggestion: philanthropist, charity worker, or an angel who gives away peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): For you, dear Gemini, the coming weeks could be the least superstitious time ever. There will be no such thing as bad luck, good luck, or weird luck. Fears rooted in old misunderstandings will be irrelevant. Irrational worries about unlikely outcomes will be disproven. You will discover reasons to shed paranoid thoughts and nervous fantasies. Speaking on behalf of your higher self, I authorize you to put your supple trust in logical thinking, objective research, and rational analysis. Halloween costume suggestion: a famous scientist you respect.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Which sign of the zodiac is sexiest? Smoldering Scorpios, who are so inherently seductive they don't even have to try to be? Radiant Leos, whose charisma and commanding presence may feel irresistible? Electrifying Aries, who grab our attention with their power to excite and inspire us? In accordance with current astrological omens, I name you Cancerians as the sexiest sign for the next three weeks. Your emotional potency and nurturing intelligence will tempt us to dive into the depths with you and explore the lyrical mysteries of intimate linkage. Halloween costume suggestion: sex god, sex goddess, or the nonbinary Hindu deity Ardhanarishvara.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In ancient Egypt, onions were precious because they symbolized the manylayered nature of life. Just as some modern people swear oaths while placing a hand on a Bible, an Egyptian might have pledged a crucial vow while holding an onion. Would you consider adopting your own personal version of their practice in the coming weeks, Leo? It is the oath-taking season for you—a time when you will be wise to consider deep commitments and sacred resolutions. Halloween costume suggestion: a spiritual initiate or devotee.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Two of the world's most famous paintings are the *Mona Lisa* and *The Last Supper*. Both were made by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), one of the world's most famous painters. Yet the brilliant artist left us with only 24 paintings in total, many of which were unfinished. Why? Here are two of several reasons: He worked slowly and procrastinated constantly. In the coming months, Virgo, I feel you will have resemblances to the version of da Vinci who created *The Last Supper* and the *Mona Lisa*. Some of your best, most enduring work will bloom. You will be at the peak of your unique powers. Halloween costume suggestion: Leonardo da Vinci or some great maestro.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When you are faced with a choice between two paths, it’s always better to take the most difficult one.” What!? No! That’s not true! A shamanic psychotherapist gave me that bad advice when I was young, and I am glad I did not heed it. My life has been so much better because I

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learn from joy and pleasure as much as from hardship. Yes, sometimes it’s right to choose the most challenging option, but on many occasions, we are wise to opt for what brings fun adventures and freeflowing opportunities for creative expression. That’s what I wish for you right now. Halloween costume suggestion: a hedonist, a liberator, a bliss specialist.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio painter Pablo Picasso has been described as a "masterfully erratic pioneer." He influenced every art movement of the 20th century. His painting *Guernica* is a renowned anti-war statement. Though he was a Communist, he amassed great wealth and owned five homes. Today, his collected work is valued at over $800 million. By the way, he was the most prolific artist who ever lived, producing almost 150,000 pieces. I nominate him to be your role model in the coming weeks. You are due for a Season of Successful Excess. Halloween costume suggestion: an eccentric, charismatic genius.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian Keith Richards, guitar player for the Rolling Stones since 1962, is a gritty, rugged man notorious for his rowdy carousing. Lots of observers predicted he would die at a young age because of his boisterous lifestyle, yet today he is 81 years old and still partying. But here's his confession: "I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it. It's important to me, though." I bring this up, Sagittarius, because I feel that no matter how wild and free you are, you will be wise to ensure that you feel extra secure and supported for a while. Halloween costume suggestion: a stuffed animal or a lover of stuffed animals.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Halloween offers us a valuable psychological opportunity. We can pretend to perform our shadowy, wounded, and unripe qualities without suffering the consequences of literally acting them out. We can acknowledge them as part of our make-up, helping to ensure they won’t develop the explosive, unpredictable power that repressed qualities can acquire. We may even gently mock our immature qualities with sly humor, diminishing the possibility they will sabotage us. All that’s a preamble for my Halloween costume suggestion for you: a dictator or tyrant. If you have fun playing with your control-freak fantasies, you will be less likely to over-express them in real life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Paganism and astrology have key affinities. For instance, they both understand that our personal rhythms are connected with the Earth's cycles. I bring this to your attention because we are in the season that pagans call Samhain, halfway between the equinox and solstice. For Aquarians, this festival marks a time when you are wise to honor and nurture your highest ambitions. You can generate fun and good fortune by focusing on lofty goals that express your finest talents and offer your most unique gifts. How might you boost your passion and capacity to make your mark on the world? Halloween costume suggestion: your dream career.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I like how you are opening, widening, and heightening! Keep up the good work, Pisces! I am cheering you on as you amplify, stretch, augment, and burgeon. Here’s a small alert, though: You may be expanding so fast and so far that it’s a challenge for less expansive people to keep up—even your allies. To allay their worries, be generous in sharing the fruits of your thriving spaciousness. Let them know you don’t require them to match your rate of growth. You could also show them this horoscope. Halloween costume suggestion: a broader, brighter, bolder version of yourself.

Across 1. “Ivanhoe” author Sir Walter ___

6. Scary Spice’s other nickname

10. Mar.-to-Nov. period

13. Prefix with pod

15. “Bob Wehadababyits___” (fake collect call name in a 1990s Geico ad)

16. Shout of realization

17. Nonsense, to a religion that advocates world unity?

19. Comedian Mayall of “The Young Ones”

20. Direct, as a relationship

21. Martini garnish

23. Garr of “Young Frankenstein”

24. Assertion upon recognizing the peninsula linking Africa with the Middle East?

27. Picnic bug

29. What may make NATO neato?

30. Cuban dance

34. Sea-___ Airport

35. “Pericles, Prince of ___”

39. Series of interlinked Hawaiian verandas?

42. Greek vowels

43. Makeshift dwelling

44. Slight difference

45. Roswell sightings

47. Giants Hall-of-Famer Mel

48. Instruction on how to get to the Burj Khalifa?

52. Arena cheers

56. Completely

57. Forms a line, to Lineker

60. Send a question

61. Humble response from an Alaskan peninsula?

64. Jeans brand

65. March Madness org.

66. Respectable

67. Waze lines, for short

“___, Interrupted” (1999 film)

14. “What have we here?”

18. Cohesive group

22. “Goodfellas” actor Ray

25. “Game of Thrones” actor Bean

26. Impersonator’s challenge, sometimes

27. Poke bowl fish

28. Ballpark trayful

30. Cavs, on a scoreboard

31. Porkpie, e.g.

32. Actress de Armas

33. Fast ___ (restaurant category for Chipotle and Wingstop)

34. Sticks for blasts

36. Chinese principle with a counterpart

37. Mythical flyer

38. Suffix with ethyl

40. Drive out

41. “Freedom, ___ me loose” (line from the Beyoncé song used for Kamala Harris’ campaign)

46. Type of workplace cabinet

47. Work for an orchestra

48. Older TV features

49. Not yet solidified

50. Makes a Battenberg

51. Matching

52. Shearsmith who co-created and co-stars in “Inside No. 9”

53. “Up” voice actor Ed

54. Celebrity chef Eddie who wrote “Fresh Off the Boat”

55. Ill will

58. Abbr. at O’Hare

59. Ualapue strings

62. 13, converted to binary, then converted to Roman numerals

63. Pickle holder

“THAT’S UNREAL” —I still made this, so not to worry.

Surge Magazine is a production of the

Belvin Olasov Co-Editor in Chief

Ester Araujo is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in the Charleston area of South Carolina.The methods she uses to execute ideas are heavily influenced by nature, textile processes, and animated films. Araujo’s work explores connections between rhythms in nature and mark making.

Find her work at esteraraujo.com or @esteraraujo on Instagram.

editor’s note

It takes a village to protect a village. I’m grateful for the many partners, like CCL, SELC, and Mary Edna Fraser, who contributed media to this issue of Surge diving into the 526 extension and its consequences.

If you’re reading this and want to make the ecofriendly, climate-conscious, or just the fiscally responsible choice, vote no on Special Questions 1 & 2. If you think you want the 526 extension, I urge you to read on. To invest in this highway would be to lose what is most precious in the Lowcountry, and for nothing.

Love, Belvin Olasov, Surge Co-Editor in Chief

526 Refresher

I-526, also known as the Mark Clark Expressway, is the highway connecting Mount Pleasant to North Charleston that ends around Citadel Mall in West Ashley. It ended there in the 80’s because of the environmental permits that would’ve been required to fill in the wetlands along the Stono River.

For the next couple of decades, an extension plan was pushed: to bridge West Ashley over the Stono River to Johns Island then on to James Island, where it would tie into the James Island connector at Folly Road.

This vision was scuttled in 2015 when the state infrastructure bank balked at the price rising to $725 million. (Which, to save you a calculator trip, is less than a third of the current estimated cost.) But even though the state lost interest in the project, Charleston County government did not, and has continued their attempts to push through the extension.

Now, the 526 extension would be the only priority project on the new $5.4 billion half-cent transportation sales tax referendum. By a 2021 estimate, it would cost $2.3 billion.

Cover Art by Ester Araujo - “Red Road to Ruin: The I-526 Extension” Gouache on paper

Vote no on the 2024 sales tax.

On your ballot, Charleston County is proposing a 25-year transportation sales tax that would primarily fund the destructive Mark Clark (I-526) Extension, a new highway that would plow through James Island County Park and historic African American communities, destroy wetlands, and exacerbate flooding and traffic, especially in the busy downtown medical district. Charleston County has only finished one project from the 2016 sales tax—they clearly cannot be trusted with our taxpayer dollars.

Vote no on local questions 1 and 2.

Explore the impacts on our interactive map.

526 on the ballot

This election, many Charleston voters are going to be voting on the 526 Mark Clark extension without having any idea they’re voting on the 526 Mark Clark extension.

At the end of the ballot, they’ll be asked to approve a half-cent sales tax for the next 25 years, $5.4 billion for transportation projects and greenbelt funding. But what isn’t made clear in those questions is that the only priority project for the tax, and therefore the only piece guaranteed to be built, is the $2.3+ billion 526 extension to Johns Island. Instead of focusing on more targeted road improvements, walk/bike infrastructure, mass transit, and greenspace funding, the priority funding will go to a hyperexpensive road project that the state wouldn’t bankroll.

“We call them zombie projects, because even when you think that you’ve killed it, it comes back,” said Emma Berry, Communities & Transportation Manager at the Coastal Conservation League, which has been a longtime opponent of the extension.

Berry sees the 526 extension project as expensive and ineffective. She points out that there are a host of smaller, more targeted road projects that the County has neglected for years that could more directly help with traffic, like the $15 million James Island intersection improvements or the $52 million Maybank Pitchforks.

“I think we’re just thinking about this in the wrong way. The traffic issues that we’re seeing on Johns Island are because of the lack of a road plan on Johns Island. There are other very significant changes that need to be made throughout the infrastructure on the actual island that would alleviate a lot of the traffic,” Berry said.

But more than wasteful, she sees the project as destructive. Environmentally, it’s projected to remove 38 acres of wetlands and 46 acres of the north side of James Island County Park, where the climbing wall currently stands. Then there’s the threat to Johns Island’s rural character – already beset by overdevelopment, the concern is that putting several new traffic lanes

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The Transportation Sales Tax up for a vote now has very different priorities than the 2016 tax we’re currently paying. CARTA funding for public transit as a share is down from 29% to 12%, and the Greenbelt Program is down as well.

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PHOTO BY MARY EDNA FRASER AND SOUTH WINGS

on and off it would send development into overdrive. And the project would seize 92 parcels of land through eminent domain, many from Black settlement communities.

“Looking at where the interstate or expressway is expected to go, and where these communities are, it’s pretty much just African-American communities that are going to be impacted,” Berry said. “There’s a couple other places, but it’s almost like they just drew the line right through these communities. They said they have like 36 to 39 alternatives, proposals, and routes, and then the one that they picked somehow seems to be affecting these communities most.”

The Coastal Conservation League and a number of other environmental partners like the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Charleston Climate Coalition (handsome producer of this magazine) and community voices like Nix 526 have been getting the word out on the issues with the project. But many folks with congested commutes in West Ashley, Johns Island, and James Island see the gridlock around them and say Something Must Be Done.

How much would the Johns Island 526 extension actually help traffic? Is the projected environmental damage really so severe? And how would 526’s buildout affect vulnerable communities in Johns and James Island?

ABOVE: RENDERINGS OF 526’S PROJECTED CHANGES TO ISLAND ROADS BY THE COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE

No, 526 won’t fix traffic

Susan Handy, Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation and professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California at Davis, is an expert on the relationships between transportation and land use and on strategies for reducing automobile dependence. Her work involves looking at smart growth, cycling and ebikes as a transportation solution, and microtransit (like on-demand shuttles) – cutting-edge alternatives to the car culture we have in the US. That has not left her impressed with the efficacy of highways.

“Expanding highways does not reduce congestion except in the very short run. So it’s a really expensive and also very temporary solution to the problem,” Handy said. “What the research shows is, on average, you’re back to where you were in about five years.”

That’s the mechanic of induced demand, where new lanes of traffic lead to more cars on the road, nullifying any potential traffic benefit. It’s been a known phenomenon since the 60’s, and yet DOTs and highway advocates continue to apply highway expansion to traffic congestion like hammers to nails.

Handy breaks down how induced demand works like this:

“So if you expand or extend the road, you are increasing capacity. And what that does in the short run is reduce travel times, which is like reducing the cost of driving, because a big part of the cost of driving is the time that it takes. So what do people do if you reduce the cost of something? They tend to consume more of it. And that’s exactly what happens – people adjust their choices about

travel in ways that end up increasing the amount of driving, and within a few years you’re back to similar congestion levels as you were at the beginning.

“You’re spending a whole lot of money for that short term benefit. Not to mention the fact that you have to live through the construction,” she said. “The construction itself is gonna make congestion worse for a while. So you want to factor in the pain of the congestion versus that short term benefit you get once the congestion’s finished.”

Handy believes what actually reduces traffic is a combination of pricing the road and offering viable alternatives, like public transit or bike infrastructure – or better yet, reducing the need for long trips in the first place.

“Reducing congestion, I think, is the wrong way to think about the problem. Congestion has been a fact of life in urban centers for 150, going on 200 years. It’s a natural part of a vibrant economy… that’s not how we should be thinking about the solution,” Handy said. “Instead, we should be thinking about giving people alternatives to being stuck in traffic. And that could be transit. It could be walking. It could be biking. But it could also be not having to drive as much and not having to drive as far.

“We do things differently with our land use so that people don’t need to drive such long distances to get what they need. That’s another way to solve the problem. If you never have to get on a freeway, you don’t care about the congestion on the freeway.”

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This graph is from the County’s official environmental impact report showing the difference in traffic congestion with and without the 526 extension.The graph summarizes 50 different trip simulations across West Ashley and James and Johns Island, with the travel times shown in orange (Build 526) and blue (No Build 526). As you can see, it’s a tiny difference – just a 1% change.

Source: Select Appendix D: Travel Demand Modeling Technical Memorandum off of scdotmarkclark.com/documents

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The ecological cost

When Dr. Phillip Dustan, a marine ecologist and biology professor at CofC, is not spreading the word on the vulnerability of coral reefs, he’s occupied with the impact of urbanization on the watershed ecology of coastal waters. He sees the 526 extension as an incredibly foolhardy move that would endanger a crucial ecosystem. The Stono River that snakes around Johns Island is classified as shellfish collecting habitat (SCH), which means that the water is sufficiently clean for shellfish to be safe to eat from it.

“We think of our salt marshes as precious, and they really are. They’re nursery grounds for virtually all the commercial and recreational fisheries that we have… birds, turtles, mammals, you name it. The plants that live there tend to purify the environment,” Dustan said.

As a Johns Islander, he’s observed the effect of the existing bridges connecting Johns Island to the mainland and the way they deaden the nature around them.

“Look under the Maybank Bridge, which goes over the Stono River. The first thing you realize when you walk alongside it is there is road trash everywhere. And there’s a well-defined edge that seems to reduce the growth of plants,” Dustan said. “When you go underneath, there’s basically an ecological dead zone.”

There are no requirements for runoff mitigation on SC bridges, and so pollutants from car travel are dumped directly into the water and marshes below. That’s gasoline, motor oil, and tire pollution, not to mention the 1000 different pollutants gas vehicles emit, from Carbon Monoxide and Nitrogen Dioxide to heavy metals like Cadmium and Zinc.

But the impact on the local ecosystem from new highways and bridges doesn’t just come from runoff. The concept of a “roadway corridor” means recognizing how impact can be much wider than a road’s width, depending on whether it’s upslope or downslope, upwind or downwind, and what wildlife is around it. A road can have an impact of up to a kilometer (over half a mile) around it in terms of its damage to ecosystems. And where 526 is supposed to extend, there would be a lot of affected wildlife.

“Grass shrimp that live around roadways within 100m will show reduced reproduction in the marsh. Birds don’t like to nest within a quarter mile because of the noise,” Dustan said. “Songbirds like to live at about the level of noise as you have in a library, and when that noise gets to 42db, that reduces their reproduction. Earthworms that live along the side of roads – when the ground vibrates, they’ll come out of the ground and there will be more animals feeding on them.”

Dustan worries that the base of our coastal foodchain, the larvae of the marsh, will be overcome by pollutants and disruption. That would ripple up to fish, shellfish, birds, mammals, and the humans who fish and hunt them. Runoff pollution from elevated highways can be higher than that of untreated municipal wastewater.

“When an activity raises threats to harming human health or the environment, we should say, it must be shown that this will not harm anybody,” Dustan said. “The precautionary principle is what we need to apply when we begin to do development projects of this sort.”

Deeper. Impact.

The human cost

The history of 20th century highway expansion is one of Black neighborhoods across America being plowed through, chopped up, and cordoned off by highways. Now, Black settlement communities on Johns and James islands, including Ferguson Village and Cross Cut, are facing displacement and pollution. One slated taking from the 526 extension, 1950 Delaney Drive, exemplifies the massive human cost of the project.

Delaney Drive has hosted Candace Ackerman’s family for six generations. Nestled within marsh and forest, she came of age playing on the dirt road, surrounded by family homes. Her grandparents farmed watermelon and corn. She’d go out in the woods to pick blackberries and grab figs and pecans from the trees. Wandering out to Riverland Drive was forbidden; Delaney Drive was her safe space.

“I grew up on Delaney, so this area has been a part of my life forever. I’m 57 years old now. I have raised my two daughters in this area. Now I have two granddaughters. So the peace and tranquility associated with this area and just the idea that it could all be disrupted by 526 is just sickening and disheartening,” Ackerman said.

The Godfrey and Richardson families have been in the crosshairs of the project for decades. Ackerman, her grandmother, her granduncle Isaac Godfrey, and the rest of the Godfrey and Richardson families were relieved when they fought 526 to a standstill in 2016. But now her grandmother and granduncle have passed, and the family property is once again under threat.

The James Island touchdown would land through the back property and around the front, placing a highway directly along Delaney Drive and its homes.

Despite this massive impact, Delaney Drive’s residents have yet to be contacted by the County.

“I hadn’t heard of any mention of any noise barriers for the residents. I feel like they’re just dismissing us and say, just deal with it, this is what we’re gonna do and that’s that,” Ackerman said. “There’s been no conversation with them in terms of getting our feedback or our thoughts and our feelings about this whole project. Never one.”

The human health consequences from proximity to highways are well documented. Living within 300 feet of a main road is associated with a higher risk of mortality from stroke and an increase in the risk of wheezing illness in children.

Ackerman’s granddaughters come out to Delaney Drive to play and visit their grandma the way she did when she was a girl. The oldest’s favorite thing to do is come out on the family dock and catch crabs. Ackerman isn’t sure what the future of the property is for them.

“It’s gonna impact a lot of people. A lot of people. And I just really don’t understand why,” she said. “That should be a deterrent within itself, just the idea of how many folks this will potentially impact. That should be the quick answer to say, hey, we can’t do this.”

Ackerman’s great-grandmother, Elizabeth Dent Delaney Godfrey, acquired the Delaney Drive property in the early 1900s.

Ackerman’s family poses at 1950 Delaney Drive by the waterway where the extension will begin.

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The human cost

The history of 20th century highway expansion is one of Black neighborhoods across America being plowed through, chopped up, and cordoned off by highways. Now, Black settlement communities on Johns and James islands, including Ferguson Village and Cross Cut, are facing displacement and pollution. One slated taking from the 526 extension, 1950 Delaney Drive, exemplifies the massive human cost of the project.

Delaney Drive has hosted Candace Ackerman’s family for six generations. Nestled within marsh and forest, she came of age playing on the dirt road, surrounded by family homes. Her grandparents farmed watermelon and corn. She’d go out in the woods to pick blackberries and grab figs and pecans from the trees. Wandering out to Riverland Drive was forbidden; Delaney Drive was her safe space.

“I grew up on Delaney, so this area has been a part of my life forever. I’m 57 years old now. I have raised my two daughters in this area. Now I have two granddaughters. So the peace and tranquility associated with this area and just the idea that it could all be disrupted by 526 is just sickening and disheartening,” Ackerman said.

Despite this massive impact, Delaney Drive’s residents have yet to be contacted by the County.

“I hadn’t heard of any mention of any noise barriers for the residents. I feel like they’re just dismissing us and say, just deal with it, this is what we’re gonna do and that’s that,” Ackerman said. “There’s been no conversation with them in terms of getting our feedback or our thoughts and our feelings about this whole project. Never one.”

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The human health consequences from proximity to highways are well documented. Living within 300 feet of a main road is associated with a higher risk of mortality from stroke and an increase in the risk of wheezing illness in children.

Ackerman’s granddaughters come out to Delaney Drive to play and visit their grandma the way she did when she was a girl. The oldest’s favorite thing to do is come out on the family dock and catch crabs. Ackerman isn’t sure what the future of the property is for them.

The Godfrey and Richardson families have been in the crosshairs of the project for decades. Ackerman, her grandmother, her granduncle Isaac Godfrey, and the rest of the Godfrey and Richardson families were relieved when they fought 526 to a standstill in 2016. But now her grandmother and granduncle have passed, and the family property is once again under threat.

The James Island touchdown would land through the back property and around the front, placing a highway directly along Delaney Drive and its homes.

“It’s gonna impact a lot of people. A lot of people. And I just really don’t understand why,” she said. “That should be a deterrent within itself, just the idea of how many folks this will potentially impact. That should be the quick answer to say, hey, we can’t do this.”

Ackerman’s great-grandmother, Elizabeth Dent Delaney Godfrey, acquired the Delaney Drive property in the early 1900s.

Ackerman’s family poses at 1950 Delaney Drive by the waterway where the extension will begin.