Charleston City Paper 12/27/2024 - 28.22

The top statewide news of 2024

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South Carolina wrapped: The top statewide news stories of 2024

By Jack O’Toole

Referring to the ideological conflicts that occasionally roiled his administration, President Ronald Reagan once winkingly noted that “sometimes our right hand doesn’t know what our far-right hand is doing.”

In 2024, Republican leaders in the South Carolina Statehouse could have offered much the same observation, as they struggled to find party unity on major legislation involving taxes, guns, hate crimes and more.

And it’s with those legislative hits and misses — some surprising, all controversial — that we begin our wrap-up of S.C.’s biggest statewide stories of 2024.

What passed in the S.C. Statehouse — and what didn’t

After a bit of pushing and shoving between the two chambers, the General Assembly in June passed a $14.5 billion state budget. The plan cut income taxes, invested in roads and bridges, raised teacher pay, froze college tuition and fully funded a new medical school building at the University of South Carolina and a veterinary college at Clemson University.

Also becoming law in 2024 were a ban on the use of state dollars for gender transitions, broad expansion of the right to carry a handgun without a permit, new limits on bail for repeat violent offenders and minor changes to the state’s judicial selection system.

On the other side of the ledger, the state Senate allowed a House-passed hate crimes bill to die without a vote for the second session in a row. At the time, critics noted Senate leaders opted to allow a single member’s hold on the bill to stand rather than

forcing an override vote to bring it to the floor. As a result, South Carolina remains one of only two states in the nation without a hate crimes law.

Other major failures in 2024 included liquor liability reform, limited medical marijuana legalization, health agency consolidation and a utility-friendly energy bill that would have incentivized increased fossil fuel production.

With more than 800 bills already prefiled in advance of the 2025 session, members will return for new business in January.

The return of the death penalty

For the first time in more than a decade, the state of South Carolina took a human life in 2024. In fact, it took two.

On Sept. 20, Freddie Owens was executed by lethal injection for the 1997 murder of Greenville convenience store clerk Irene Graves. And on Nov. 1, Richard Moore was put to death in the same manner for the murder of Spartanburg gas station employee James Mahoney in 2001.

The long suspension of Palmetto State executions began in 2011, after drug companies refused to continue providing the drugs required for lethal injection. Ultimately, the state overcame this barrier by passing laws to add firing squads and electric chairs as legal means of execution and guaranteeing the confidentiality of companies providing the needed drugs.

There are currently 30 men on S.C.’s death row, with four already scheduled to die in 2025.

Another major accounting scandal

State taxpayers could be forgiven for thinking S.C.’s accounting problems were

The Rundown

Roof still on death row as sentences commuted

South Carolina mass murderer Dylann Roof, 30, remains on federal death row, one of only three federal prisoners still sentenced to die after President Joe Biden this week commuted 37 of 40 other death row sentences. Those who received commutations will serve life without the possibility of parole. Three South Carolinians received commutations:

• Brandon Leon Basham and Chadrick Evan Fulks, co-defendants in a 2004 kidnapping and killing; and

• Brandon Michael Council, sentenced in 2019 in the killing of two bank employees.

over in 2023 after former Comptroller Richard Eckstrom resigned for falsely inflating the state’s cash reserves by $3.5 billion for more than a decade.

But as it turned out, Palmetto State number crunchers had more bad news to reveal in 2024 — namely, the discovery of a state bank account that appeared to contain $1.8 billion in unidentified and unallocated funds. What’s worse, no one could even say for sure whether the mystery money really existed.

Fireworks ensued at an April Senate Finance Committee hearing, as a visibly angry state Treasurer Curtis Loftis snapped at panel members and tried to pin blame on the alreadydisgraced Eckstrom. A later committee report found no criminal wrongdoing, but held Loftis personally responsible for the mess.

A forensic accounting firm is currently working with state officials to confirm the funds and determine where they belong. Loftis has said he won’t seek reelection in 2026.

Vouchers, book bans and charges of indoctrination

Under the avowedly conservative leadership of state Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver, the S.C. Department of Education spent most of 2024 in the headlines.

A strong supporter of what advocates call “school choice,” Weaver lobbied hard

In December 2016, a federal jury in Charleston convicted Roof of 33 counts of federal hate crimes and other charges for killing and attempting to kill African American worshipers at Emanuel AME Church on Calhoun Street. The 2015 murder of nine shocked the nation. In January 2017, the same jury sentenced Roof to death. City Paper Staff

The number of 2024 gun-related deaths in South Carolina tallied weekly in the CP ’s gun violence tracker. Actual numbers may be higher than reported. Source: gunviolencearchive.org

GUN VIOLENCE COUNTER

6 shot, killed Dec. 18 to Dec. 23 North Charleston police arrested Charles Gordon Perry, 54, for the murder of his brother David Perry, 51, who died from an apparent gunshot wound. North Charleston police are also investigating a shooting on South Allen Drive that killed one. Four died in shootings in Horry, Greenwood, Cherokee and Clarendon counties; three more were hurt across S.C. Nationally, there were five mass shootings for the week, totalling 493 for the year. Sources: S.C. official and media reports.

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Archivist Greene has an enduring legacy

By Jessica Mischner

Acclaimed librarian Harlan Greene retired Feb. 29 from his post as head of the LGBTQ+ archives at the College of Charleston (CofC). It was Leap Day, fitting timing for someone whose career has been equal parts extraordinary and predictably consistent. Few Lowcountry scholars have demonstrated the same ability to break the mold time and again the way Greene has.

Greene’s influence is both timeless and enduringly relevant, as the college’s dean of libraries, John White, recognizes: “No one person can replace Harlan Greene. He’s an institution. Everyone likes to talk about Harlan’s extraordinary career building collections, but the most overlooked piece of his career is his work building consciousness.

“Try to find a book written about Charleston in the last 30 or 40 years that does not acknowledge him or his work in its opening pages. It’s almost impossible. I can’t think of any other archivist who could say that. It’s an extraordinary legacy.”

A consummate scholar, author, archivist and lifelong learner, Greene has spent decades developing special collections within library systems, first at the Charleston County Pubic Library in the late 1990s, then at the Avery Institute for African American Studies in 2005 and finally as an archivist at the CofC. In 1985, he published his first book, Why We Never Danced the Charleston, an account of closeted gay life in the 1920s. His most recent release, The Real Rainbow Row, out in 2023, pulls back the curtain entirely, functioning as a geographic and narrative tour through Charleston’s LGBTQ+ communities. The connective tissue running through these, and all of his books, is the idea that minor people can do major things, and that seemingly narrow topics can reflect much larger societal shifts.

Greene will tell you he fell in love with history and the nuanced lives of Charlestonians from marginalized communities as a student at the college in the 1970s. Back then, he began collecting papers, ephemera and general remnants of Charleston’s artistic and LGBTQ+ community. It was a preservation activity purely driven by his own pursuits. Fast forward to 2013 when a chance discussion with a student initiated a fateful merger between this personal passion project and a nascent public repository the school was beginning to build. “This archive was just coming into being,” Greene said this month in an interview. “But it quickly transformed from a set of stories or documents from a disenfranchised group of people, a group of those left out, to a collection relevant not just to the new reality of the college’s student population but also to the history of the city at large.”

Greene’s legacy at the school lives on and

continues to inform a fundamental focus of the school’s collecting efforts. Still, given how integral Greene was in the archive’s creation, donors and supporters wonder what shifts, if any, might occur under new direction. White is quick to offer reassurance. As the archives expanded under Greene’s purview, he said, so too will the scope of the work he initiated begin to delve into previously unmined territory, covering new topics and incorporating fresh materials and voices from the movement. And that’s important for student support and enrollment efforts, considering about 20% of CofC’s student/campus population reportedly self-identifies as LGBTQ+, according to the school’s latest demographic data. (For reference, the school has less than 10% each of Jewish and African American students.)

Both Greene and the school believe this effort of preserving the past — and its expansion down the road — benefits the greater community, which makes the mission feel not just inevitable but also essential.

“These stories, our efforts, the [Rainbow Row] book I wrote from many of these anecdotes — these have increased awareness, and now that awareness is evident in tangible things,” he said. “Today, tourists who walk down the street can see plaques representing moments and places significant in LGBTQ+ history here.

“That’s significant. It changes the map of Charleston, and also attracts that kind of new visitor who has a specific interest in the history we’re just beginning to uncover and share.”

And just as Greene’s work predates his involvement with the school, so, too, does his impact extend beyond campus borders. He is a scholar of Charleston itself. City dynamics, interpersonal relationships, civic achievements, grassroots organization and individual engagement — all color the behind-thescenes stories that bring his subjects to life.

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Author/archivist Harlan Greene documents Charleston’s LGBTQ history

ATTORNEY

GARY A. LING

Many Asheville neighborhoods and businesses saw utter destruction in the wake of Hurricane Helene, but are striving to rebuild and recover

Statewide

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to get private school vouchers passed in the Statehouse and fought to protect them in the S.C. Supreme Court. But in the end, the justices struck down the law anyway, sending voucher proponents back to the legislative drawing board.

More successful were Weaver’s efforts to impose state control over local school materials, which opponents called a book ban, and her unilateral move to push conservative videos from PragerU into public school classrooms.

In brief

ACCIDENT AND INJURY CASES

Blotter of the Week

A Charleston woman wearing pink slippers and a matching shower cap on Dec. 4 reportedly stole about $850 in merchandise from a King Street department store. Security footage showed her taking four tablets and two sweatshirts from the shelves and leaving, telling another shopper, “Don’t touch me,” on her way out.

The devastating Upstate impacts of Hurricane Helene left state officials scrambling to reopen roads, deliver emergency services and get the lights back on for more than 1.2 million residents who lost power.

Katrina Shealy, Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson — the three Republican “sister senators” who opposed their party’s efforts to impose a total abortion ban and shared a “Profile in Courage” award — lost their reelection primaries in June.

Democrats and Republicans came together to support a Robert Smalls monument — the first such tribute to a Black man on the Statehouse grounds.

Cell phones were banned in S.C. schools.

And finally, as the year drew to a close, two Democratic icons from what many call a more civilized era passed from the scene.

Civil rights pioneer Kay Patterson, who served for more than 30 years in the state legislature he once cleaned as a janitor, died at 93 on Dec. 13.

And John Spratt, an Upstate congressman for 28 years and a leader on national defense and budget issues, died on Dec. 14. He was 82.

Thoughtful, sort of Charleston police on Dec. 16 stopped a downtown woman after finding her completely nude in Marion Square about 2 a.m. The woman reportedly told police she planned on bathing in the water fountain. We appreciate her waiting until the wee hours so she could have some privacy and spare any potential onlookers. Nevertheless, police cited her for indecent exposure.

Time to find a better spot

A North Charleston woman on Dec. 18 told police her house was broken into, and $750 in cash was taken from inside. Police noted $250 was taken from “the top of her refrigerator,” and $500 from inside her closet. The closet we understand, but the top of the refrigerator definitely doesn’t seem like the most secure spot to hide cash. We guess she was never great at hide-and-seek either.

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Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Dec. 4 and Dec. 18.

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A checklist for an even better Charleston

ach week in this space, we publish the Charleston Checklist. On it, you’ll find a call to action on 10 big issues facing our region. What you don’t find are any surprises.

The water is rising, the roads are full, the schools are struggling. Welcome to Charleston, right? But that’s the point. These are the issues that disrupt our daily lives and threaten our children’s future. We can’t afford to lose sight of them every time a social media tempest blows across our screens.

That’s where the checklist comes in. It helps keep the big stuff front and center, week in and week out. And at year’s end, it gives us a chance to highlight a few issues where we’ve seen progress — or backsliding.

This year, we start with Charleston’s ongoing existential challenge: dealing with water. And here the news is mixed. On one hand, freshman Charleston Mayor William Cogswell made a serious mistake when he drove off the city’s truthtelling director of resilience, Dale Morris. On the other hand, Cogswell’s decision to quietly abandon his campaign’s simplistic answers about water and rebrand his predecessor’s flooding strategy as his own has already paid dividends. The long-term water plan that City Council approved just prior to Morris’s departure is excellent, particularly in its sciencedriven recommendations about where to prohibit future development. And the city’s partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a new peninsula sea wall appears to be back on track after a bit of Kabuki theater that allowed the new mayor to say he’d improved the deal.

With regard to improving roads and fixing traffic, Charleston County Council members should have noted

Cogswell’s canny moves and walked back their feckless plan to build I-526 across Johns Island. Instead, they insisted on asking voters to approve a half-cent sales tax to pay for the multibillion dollar boondoggle. And in November, they got exactly what they deserved when Charlestonians rejected the measure by a 2-1 margin. Now, they need to wipe the egg off their faces and get back to work. A half-cent sales tax would raise almost $6 billion for roads, public transit and land conservation. Spent wisely, it could make a real difference. Show the voters a common-sense plan next time, and they’ll support it.

Speaking of pragmatism, conducting public business in public isn’t just a matter of good government hygiene. It’s our first line of defense against ideas so bad they can’t survive public scrutiny. See the I-526 fiasco, which was largely cooked up in secret backroom “executive sessions.” Or Mount Pleasant’s now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t plan to impose a municipal sales tax to pay for tourist amenities. Secrecy always leads to better government. And often less embarrassment for the people in charge.

Finally, to close on a hopeful note, Charleston County School District leaders took positive steps this year toward being smarter about education. New Superintendent Anita Huggins appears to be working well with board members and staff. Test scores, though still disappointing, are up. And district budgeting has been significantly improved by focusing dollars on the students who need them most.

As for the rest of our checklist priorities, 2024 was mostly a year of muddling through. But 2025 is just ahead. Let’s stay focused on making the Charleston we love even better, week by week.

CHARLESTON CHECKLIST

of community objectives

We encourage community leaders to act on these audacious priorities:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How hope can grow in an age of discontent

By Andy Brack

Given all of the political discontent across the United States, is there anything to be hopeful about?

Susan Glisson, a Georgian who gained renown running the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi, believes there is. And hope’s location might come as a surprise to some — the South.

Our region, she says after three decades of working to bring people together to make their communities work better, is where the real work is being done to build hope and reduce barriers that keep people apart.

“I think the most innovative work about community development and social justice is happening around the South,” said Glisson in an interview as she was driving to Memphis, her new hub for working. “I have the blessing of seeing what amazing people are doing.”

Fresh off a year-long fellowship at Harvard University that gave her time to think about the future, she’s going to be working to build a movement for racial healing, reckoning and repair across Southern states.

“People are tired of polarization as a whole,” she said, citing a 2023 Pew Research Center report that said 86% of Americans think Republicans and Democrats were more focused with fighting each other than solving problems.

“The majority of the country wants to have more effective dialogue and solutions that make a difference,” she said. “But most people don’t know what that looks like. So we have to demonstrate what’s possible by modeling it in live, real communities and then offering to support people as they begin those journeys.”

“There’s a frustration and hunger for something deeper and more authentic that makes a difference for us and our children.”

Twenty years ago, Glisson led a community effort to confront the hard, racial history from the 1960s that cloaked Philadelphia, Miss., in fear and silence. That process, which became known as The Welcome Table, helped transform the town, just like similar efforts have done since in other Southern communities.

“Participants engage in self-reflection and build trusting relationships across lines of differences through story-telling,” Glisson told a Harvard audience earlier this month. “That trust provides the collective courage to grapple with hard histories and inequitable systems.

“Groups then identify common-sense solutions that repair those legacies by creating welcoming communities that share power and prosperity.”

She said she’s worked effectively across sectors, age groups and more in 25 states over the last three decades.

And the work continued while Glisson was at Harvard. Last month at the Carter Center in Atlanta, for example, she trained leaders from six Southern states in the Welcome Table methodology to boost community resilience.

Starting soon, she’ll be at The Big We project to help to transform South Memphis. And in February, she’ll be at Clemson University to help to facilitate a coming-to-grips process with the institution’s history of being located on an antebellum farm owned by former Vice President John C. Calhoun and operated by enslaved Africans.

“They want to widen and deepen their work” at Clemson, Glisson said. “They want to grapple with the legacy of those histories.”

That undertaking may be similar to a successful effort with the National Park Service that led to a one-of-a-kind 2023 reunion between the descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of Black families once enslaved in Arlington, Va.

“There’s a frustration and hunger for something deeper and more authentic that makes a difference for us and our children,” Glisson said this week.

And that — along with the success she’s achieved in communities across the South — gives her hope.

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

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JANUARY

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12 biggest news stories that topped headlines in 2024

By Skyler Baldwin

The last year has been jam-packed with news headlines that made waves across the Lowcountry and the Palmetto state. It seemed like each passing month brought bigger, more impactful stories, keeping us busy and you informed.

Just like Spotify, we’re bringing you 2024 wrapped with a nice bow so you can reminisce or sigh before ringing in 2025.

Cogswell takes helm as Charleston’s new mayor Former state Rep. William Cogswell became the first Republican mayor of the city of Charleston in nearly 150 years when he took the oath of office Jan. 8. While Cogswell told interviewers his campaign did not focus on partisanship, he received support from several Republican leaders and organizations during his campaign and after his election. More than 500 people bundled in scarves and coats attended Cogswell’s inauguration on a chilly Monday afternoon. The crowd might have been larger, except for one pesky event going on about the same time: President Joe Biden’s speech that day at the Emanuel AME Church.

FEBRUARY

Union Pier reset: Workshops give fresh community insights

Union Pier’s new planning team did a lot of listening over the year as it worked to take the future of the 70-acre downtown area in a new direction. The team held the first round of public workshops in late January and into February in what it called “a reset” for the site’s design. Hundreds of people flocked to the workshops, which featured several boards developed by project leaders that offered new insights into the location and gave opportunities for guests to give their earnest feedback and adjust the project’s trajectory.

MARCH

Change-makers and ceilingbreakers: Charleston women who made history

In celebration of women’s history month, the Charleston City Paper highlighted a few of the many women in Charleston’s history who made the Holy City better. From civil rights pioneers to suffragists to artists, these women paved the way for others in Charleston and are recognized for their legacies locally, nationally and across the globe. Those featured included Septima P. Clark, the “mother of the Civil Rights Movement;” Carrie Pollitzer, who established the city’s first free kindergarten program; and Mary Moultrie, who was among the first MUSC employees to speak out against the unfair treatment of Black workers at the hospital in 1969.

Cogswell took office Union Pier plans reset

Trees got crop tops

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The battle continued against fatal drug overdoses

APRIL

Dominion’s tree-cutting draws ire

Charleston’s grand oak trees, native palmettos and magnolias lining streets along several area neighborhoods all have one major threat in common — “chainsaw-wielding tree thugs,” as one resident put it in our April 26 report. While Dominion’s arborists follow state guidelines for pruning tree limbs to keep them away from power lines, residents often repeated that the cutters refused to differentiate cutting practices depending on the species of tree, ultimately butchering slow-growing native magnolias in the same way as fast-growing hardy oaks that recover quickly. In later months, Dominion proposed funding for burying power lines in different neighborhoods, which could protect local trees from future pruning seasons.

MAY

Battle to save lives and prevent fatal drug overdoses continues

In a May 16 follow-up to a 2023 cover story, the City Paper told the story of Thomas Young, a support counselor with the Charleston Center, the county’s drug rehabilitation center, who overdosed on fentanyl in the spring of 2020 and whose life was saved by emergency responders. Young now uses his near-death experience as a peer-support specialist helping people who struggle with addiction after a two-year certification process. Between 2021 and 2023, 462 people died after ingesting fentanyl, an average of 154 people annually.

Too many officerinvolved shootings

JUNE

State book regulation poses threat to freedom, advocates say

Free speech advocates warned state legislators that hundreds of books, including literary classics like The Handmaid’s Tale, could vanish from public school libraries in our June 8 report. A new S.C. Department of Education regulation that opponents criticized for its vague language took effect June 25, setting up a long battle between state education authorities and advocacy groups over what constituted “age-appropriate” classroom material. The regulation is part of a nationwide trend, according to the ACLU of South Carolina, which denounced the measure as a threat to parents, students and teachers alike. The new regulation eventually led to the banning of several books locally in the fall.

JULY

S.C. logs 26 officer-involved shootings halfway through 2024

About once a week, somebody in South Carolina is shot in a confrontation with police, the City Paper reported July 19. Since the beginning of the year through July 17, there were 26 so-called “officerinvolved shootings” in South Carolina. That’s four more than the 22 logged at the same time last year, according to records from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED). More than half of all reported officer-involved shootings occurred in Upstate counties. More than a quarter occurred in Lowcountry counties. The summer report broke down every situation that resulted in a fatal interaction with police, from physical altercations to exchanges of gunfire.

AUGUST

City quietly rolls out new branding based on historic seal

During a week plagued by stormy weather in early August, the City of Charleston quietly changed the branding used in its weekly newsletters and daily hurricane messages, setting up a monthslong kerfuffle between the mayor’s office and Charleston City Council members who said they were blindsided by the change. The new brand used a lot of similar iconography as the historic city seal which previously emblazoned the city’s documents, but the minimalist, modernized design dropped a lot of original details and embellishments that made local landmarks recognizable. The mayor’s office, after being called out by council members in public meetings, later walked back comments to the City Paper that the new “logo” was a placeholder and would be part of a larger plan to rebrand the city under Cogswell’s new administration.

SEPTEMBER

Charleston prepares to ‘live with water’

The challenge of living with water on the Charleston peninsula began in the 1680s when European settlers moved Charles Towne from West Ashley to high ground between the Ashley and Cooper rivers that wasn’t “washed by the tides,” the City Paper wrote in a Sept. 15 report. When Cogswell and other officials recently unveiled the city’s new water plan at City Hall, he said the concepts were aspirational, and that he was confident they would help the community better understand what it means to “live with water.” Cogswell’s water plan built on a 2019 Dutch Dialogues Charleston report, the 2021 Charleston City Plan and the proposed peninsula protection system, among others penned during former Charleston mayor John Tecklenburg’s time at the helm.

Charleston’s logo had a refresh

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OCTOBER

Cogswell nearly throws wrench in Ashley River pedestrian bridge plan

Late October and early November were marked by rapid changes to a years-long effort to move forward with a pedestrian bridge spanning the Ashley River to connect downtown Charleston to West Ashley in a safe and reliable way. Cogswell proposed new additions to the plan, which surprised opponents criticized for being more “style over substance.” The proposals were made more contentious as the project had already been designed, vetted, approved and funded after years of painstaking community work, and the changes could delay construction. Cogswell later conceded several of the changes, and construction began in November as planned in West Ashley.

NOVEMBER

Charleston voters resoundingly reject sales tax referendum

Charleston County residents sent a solid “no” message to county leaders during the Nov. 5 election when they rejected a halfcent sales tax extension that would have raised billions for road and other projects, including the decades-long boondoggle that is the Interstate 526 extension. The referendum was rejected by every precinct on James and Johns islands, where about half of the funds from the referendum (about $2.3 billion) would have gone to the extension of I-526, including more than $600 million to pay interest costs on a tax-backed loan worth $1.8 billion. Opponents of the referendum pointed to its vague wording and the county’s poor track record on wise spending of public dollars as the reasons for its failure.

Voters rejected half-cent sales tax

DECEMBER

Squeezed: Rosemont under pressure by old pollution, new development

Years of coverage and historical looks at the troubled chemical plant that shadows the Rosemont community in Charleston’s neck area culminated with a Nov. 29 deep dive into the neighborhood’s past, present and future. The community is caught between a rock and a hard place, squeezed by challenges like flooding, an accidentprone chemical plant and gentrification. In the midst of this is a January election in which most of the community’s neighborhood association will be replaced. The planned Magnolia Project on the horizon is seen as a threat to the mostly Black community, as it could further gentrify the upper peninsula and finally push out families who have been there for generations.

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What To Do

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TUESDAY

Charleston Wonderland

New Year’s Eve

This extraordinary event put together by a team of more than 100 professionals has transformed the New Year’s Eve experience for attendees for the past 11 years. Featuring an open bar serving an array of liquor, wine and beer, this celebration toasts the year ahead with a thrilling lineup of performers and live music enhanced by cutting edge audio-visual technology.

Dec. 31. 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. $205/all-inclusive ticket. Festival Hall. 56 Beaufain St. Downtown. charlestonwonderland.com

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SATURDAY

Charleston Farmers Market

Browse through a bounty of seasonal fruits and vegetables, handcrafted goods and prepared foods as you explore the charming stalls inside Marion Square. From farm-fresh produce to food truck favorites, there’s something for everyone at the Charleston Farmers Market. Bring the whole family and enjoy live music, special events and activities for all ages in the heart of downtown.

Dec. 28. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free to attend. Marion Square. 329 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonfarmersmarket.com

SUNDAY

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Chanukah in the Square

Chabad of Charleston is heading back to Marion Square for the 17th annual Chanukah in the Square celebration. Bring an appetite and your Chanukah spirit, and enjoy hot food, live music and a festive atmosphere with friends, family and neighbors. The event culminates with the traditional lighting of menorah candles as a community.

Dec. 29. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Free. Marion Square. 329 Meeting St. Downtown. jewishchs.org

TUESDAY

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Folly Beach Fireworks and Flip-Flop Drop

Ring in the new year the Folly Beach way with a fireworks show and flip-flop drop. Here’s how it works: First, bury your toes in the cool sand while you take in a family-friendly beachside fireworks display. Then, gather around the giant pair of sparkly flip-flops on Center Street (Folly’s answer to the Times Square disco ball) and watch them descend as the clock ticks down to midnight.

Dec. 31. Events start at 7 p.m. Free to attend. Center Street. Folly Beach. visitfolly.com/flip-flop-drop

TUESDAY

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Neon Nights NYE Party

Shut the door on the past and light up the night to welcome 2025 in electrifying style. Head to Sunsets Waterfront Dining on Shem Creek for Neon Nights, the ultimate New Year’s Eve celebration where bold colors, glowing vibes and endless fun come together for an evening you won’t forget. Pro tip: Wear your best glow-in-the-dark getup to shine under the blacklights as you dance to electronic beats and ’80s dance tunes.

Dec. 31. 8 p.m. $40/ticket. Sunsets Waterfront Dining. 97 Ronnie Boals Blvd. Mount Pleasant. sunsetswaterfrontdining.com

Cuisine

Charleston tastemakers, top stories from 2024

By Connelly Hardaway

Charleston dining saw a year of expansion and contraction in 2024, with some longstanding restaurants shuttering and some up-and-comers opening their doors. More notably, perhaps, were restaurants that pivoted — changing or adding to their existing concepts to better fit the fabric of the city. While no year can be entirely summed up by bullet points, buzzwords and pithy highlights, we’re certainly going to try. Here are our top dining stories of 2024:

Stalwarts close around town

Some big name restaurants closed this year, including Cru Cafe, Rutledge Cab Co., Harold’s Cabin and, most recently, Barsa Tapas and Lounge.

Cru Cafe owner and executive chef John

Yelp named Costa one of the South’s best new restaurants this year

Zucker cited the lack of good staff as the 23-year-old restaurant’s reason for closing. Every other space noted that new owners would be taking over the restaurants.

New (and not so new) to the scene

Restaurateur/chef Michael Toscano had a banner year. Best known for Italian spot

Le Farfalle, Toscano opened three new concepts in 2024, including the sandwichcentric da Toscano Porchetta Shop; da Toscano Fugazzi, an “un-authentic” Italian concept operating out of Revelry Brewing and Blanca Estrada, a pop-up concept dedicated to Mexican cuisine.

Writer Abby Tierney looked “Inside the Uptown Hospitality empire” this year when she talked to the group’s senior partner, Keith Benjamin. UHG opened a second Bodega location on Coleman Boulevard earlier this year, and just this December opened Spring Street spot, By The Way. Other new and notable bars, restaurants and bakeries include (but are not limited to):

• Tiny Line Street wine bar Roseline

• Durant Avenue bakery Cakette Bakeshop

• Downtown Italian restaurant Legami (which takes over the long vacant space at 492 King Street)

• Felix Cocktails et Cuisine’s sister restaurant, La Cave

• Johns Island bar and restaurant Bar Copa

• Avondale bar All My Exes

• LGBTQ+ friendly North Charleston bar

Bar Polari

• Family-friendly Park Circle dining joint

Barnyard Chicken

• Brasserie-inspired Meeting Street spot

The Select

• Buzzy upper Meeting Street bar and restaurant The Archer

• East Bay’s upscale, modern steak house Marbled & Fin

• Line Street coffee shop City Lights Eastside

• So-Cal inspired Park Circle spot Sissy Bar

• NoMo’s modern Chinese restaurant Xo Brasserie

• Downtown sports bar Cleats

Checking the pulse of restaurants

Tierney also checked in with six area chefs/ restaurateurs to attempt to answer the question: In 2024, what does a successful restaurant look like?

While the answer varied for each restaurant, the general consensus was that the relentless food and beverage industry requires full commitment from its participants. As Chubby Fish chef James London said:

“One thing they don’t teach you in culinary school is that you have to live and breathe this business. You have to be so invested that you push everything else aside to make it work — even here, in this tiny, 1,000-square-foot space. There aren’t many people who can make that sacrifice.”

Bars and restaurants pivot

Passion and hard work can only get you so far; sometimes, local bars and restaurants have to change their concepts to meet the changing needs of Charleston diners.

Writer Helen Mitternight chatted with five chefs/restaurateurs about how they had to change to remain relevant.

Cocktail bar Proof decided to add dollar shots to its menu to meet the demands of King Street revelers. Wine bar Bar Rollins

Ashley Stanol

So-Cal inspired Park Circle spot, Sissy Bar, opened in 2024

Cameron Wilder

The Food & Wine Classic in Charleston brought celeb chefs to town

Jonathan Boncek

chose to close its small location to find a bigger space for its cult followers, and chef Anthony Marini added a nighttime tasting menu to his popular sandwich shop, The Pass, to fuel traffic during dinner hours in an increasingly popular corner of town.

Food festivals see challenges, success

You can’t talk about 2024 without mentioning the record rainfall and high tides that essentially obliterated Charleston Wine + Food’s Culinary Village, in addition to several other highprofile fest events. Wine + Food executive director Alyssa Maute Smith managed to make “wine out of floods” with lastminute changes, but the damage left a lasting impact on the way the festival planned its 2025 schedule. In the coming year, attendees can expect more weatherresistant venues.

The Food & Wine Charleston Classic debuted in town in 2024, bringing with it a number of celebrity chefs and specialty panels. Held during peak hurricane season, the festival narrowly avoided the impacts of Helene, which devastated other parts of the Southeast. The focus on chef demos and discussions — deemed “seminars” by Food & Wine — set this fest apart from the city’s homegrown Wine + Food.

Charleston restaurants in the news

Charleston restaurants continue to top national publications’ and organizations’

A la carte

What’s happening:

New Year’s Eve dinners

Islander 71 will host a four-course chef dinner ($115/per person) with seatings at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Ring in the new year at The Restaurant at Zero George with a multi-course tasting menu ($395/ per person) with menu items such as Regiis Ova Ossetra caviar, truffles and Japanese Wagyu beef, and optional wine pairings.

82 Queen’s three-course NYE menu ($89/per person) includes dishes winter greens salad, Lowcountry Oysters Rockefeller and lobster and shrimp pasta.

Head to Bar167 for a chef-curated six-course menu ($150/per person) featuring dishes such as Italian heritage filet mignon, New England sea scallops and oysters.

King Street sister restaurants La Cave and Félix will host a joint NYE party ($175/per person) with an open bar featuring select house liquors and specialty cocktails, a selection of passed hors d’oeuvres from both menus and a champagne toast at midnight.

lists of best restaurants.

Johns Island’s Lost Isle made The New York Times’s list of favorite new (and old) restaurants this September.

Both Bintu Atelier and King BBQ made Bon Appetit ’s rundown of the country’s best new restaurants this fall.

Former Charleston City Paper contributor Robert Moss deemed Palmira Barbecue one of the South’s Best New Barbecue Joints in Southern Living in August. Yelp selected both Xo Brasserie and Costa as two of the best new restaurants in the South this July.

Wild Common is offering a fivecourse dinner ($125/per person) that includes a welcome glass of champagne and a supplemental Regiis Ova Osetra caviar course.

Pink Cactus’s four-course NYE dinner ($125/per person) features a bonus beverage selection of high-end tequilas and mezcals. Dinner kicks off at 7 p.m.

What we’ll miss

Popular, longstanding King Street favorite Barsa Tapas and Lounge last week announced its closing, effective immediately post-service Dec. 21.

The post noted that the restaurant, which had served up paella, patatas bravas and sangria for 14 years from its post on the corner of Line and King streets will change ownership in 2025.

Barsa stated: “Thank you to our owner, Drazen (Romic). We are so happy that this holiday season you get the best gift ever, retirement!”

Connelly Hardaway

Ruta Smith

Bintu Atelier (pictured here) and King BBQ were named some of Bon Appetit’s best new restaurants this fall

Ashley Stanol

Tiny Line Street bar Roseline opened in the buzzy Elliotborough neighborhood this November

Culture

Hot Mustard dishes out fresh, funky new single

By Graham Crolley

Charleston-based instrumental funk and soul duo Hot Mustard’s new single “Birdwatcher” is everything you’d want from a Hot Mustard track. It’s funky, it grooves, and, paired with its retro collagestyle music video, it’s totally out there.

“I think there’s some intrigue to what we do because it’s unconventional,” said Hot Mustard’s guitarist, keyboardist and producer Jack Powell in an interview with Charleston City Paper.

“We’re not from the world with rules, you know?” added bassist Nick Carusos.

“Birdwatcher” takes you under its wing into a world of introspective grooves and blurred genre lines — one serving of Hot Mustard boasts flavors of The Meters, Thievery Corporation and ‘90s boom-bap hip-hop.

Carusos’ infectious sliding bassline on the track dances with Powell’s descending minor-key guitar licks, leading the listener deep into a sonic forest replete with mysterious synth swells and exclamation points of horns. The zig-zagging bass clarinet solo by guest sessionist Matt Bauder — whose playing credits include Arcade Fire and Father John Misty — is an integral part of the track’s jazz-tinged, spooky swagger.

“‘Birdwatcher’ showcases the jazz side of things, which is something we really wanted to highlight,” Carusos said. “A lot of our stuff is city-style beats, but this track has those bass clarinet and trumpet solos which brought it into the jazz realm.”

The music video, like all Hot Mustard’s music videos, was animated by Powell in his signature surrealist style. Under the creative moniker Opus Thimble, Powell makes found-image videos, pulling from public domain databases and photo-captured textures of everyday life. The results are whimsical, moving collages set to a soundtrack of Hot Mustard.

The video premiered at this year’s Rip City at the Movies event to a sold-out Terrace Theater. It’s a psych-funk odyssey of a birdwatcher who stumbles upon some shady business dealings between birds and cats deep in the woods. Powell and Carusos

Hot Mustard’s new song and accompanying video “Birdwatcher” offers a sneak peek into inspirations behind its next album, slated for release in spring 2025

storyboarded the video together.

“It’s kind of a cautionary tale,” Powell said. “It’s about starting with something that you love to do and getting caught up and losing sight of it.”

Making the music has also been a collaborative, collage-like process from the start. While Powell and Carusos have played together since 2001, Hot Mustard arose as a Covid project in the spring of 2020. During lockdown, Powell began crafting compositions out of sessions he had recorded of Carusos on bass and drums, assembling tracks with a hip-hop production mindset.

When it came time to incorporate horns into the project, Powell sent the tracks to Brooklyn-based trumpeter and composer Jordan Mclean alongside trombonist Dave “Smoota” Smith. The tracks were then sent back to Charleston to be further produced by Powell in his Johns Island creative space, Opus Thimble Studios. And that’s been the workflow ever since, bringing together sounds across space and time.

“It’s assemblage,” Powell said of this creative process. “The way that I look at things has always been to look at existing things and find a purpose for them, a use for them, and fit things together like a puzzle. It’s creating a problem — and then solving it.”

Monster Season and beyond

The duo’s forthcoming third album Monster Season (slated to drop next spring) stays true to Hot Mustard’s assemblage-style production while amping up familiar tasting notes in new ways.

Powell and Carusos collaborated with

Arts, etc.

Don’t miss The Sunday Sessions at Pour House

A slew of talented Charlestonians take the Pour House deck stage at 6 p.m. Dec. 31, including The Sunday Sessions band, Jim Rubush , Campbell Brown , Noah Jones, Corey Stephens, Andrew Thomas and special guests. It’s $15 to attend, or, $10 if you’ve already got a ticket for the Doom Flamingo show happening on the mainstage at 9 p.m. (Tickets start at $36 for Doom Flamingo.) Learn more and find tickets at charlestonpourhouse.com.

See Kalman and Kokinda at Park Circle Gallery

musicians new to the Hot Mustard multiverse: in addition to Brooklyn-based bass clarinet soloist Bauder on “Birdwatcher,” they also worked with Charleston drummer Wes Powers of Sol Driven Train and The Reckoning, and Tampa-based drummer and beat-maker A.J. Hall, whose break beats can be heard most notably in the work of DJ/producer The Alchemist. Using live drums as opposed to sampled drums like their past two records was an essential part of crafting the Monster Season sound.

“I wanted this record to be real raw in its mix. It’s real punchy. I wanted to mix it like a hip-hop album,” Powell said. “There was a conscious effort to really smash the drums.”

The album’s origin story is also raw — and beautiful — in a different way. Powell shared he had quit drinking three months prior to recording Monster Season and needed to take some time away from the studio. When he came back, magic happened.

“Right when I went back into the studio, I had this clarity… It all came out super fast. That whole puzzle-solving process was way less arduous. It just flowed. In two weeks, everything was arranged. It was magical for me. For me, I can hear it. This is what healthy production sounds like. Monster Season particularly signifies a big change in my life.”

The release of “Birdwatcher” is only a taste of what Hot Mustard’s cooking up behind the scenes. Before the full album drops next year, we can expect a plateful of more singles and Opus Thimble music videos along the way, some Hot Mustard to tide us over during the wait for the main course.

Learn more on Instagram @hotmustardsound. Provided

North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department shows two concurrent exhibitions at Park Circle Gallery Jan 2 through Feb 1. Check out fiber works by Ella Kokinda as well as glass and mosaic works by Elizabeth Kalman . The artists will host a free public reception at the gallery from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Jan. 3. Learn more at https://culturalarts.northcharleston.org.

Bar Rollins hosts New Year’s Eve party

The folks behind Bar Rollins (which will soon re-open at a new location) are hosting a New Year’s Eve party at Sullivan’s Seafood and Bar Dec 31. Expect wine from Bar Rollins, cocktails from @goddamnitlane and tunes from DJ Slowcountry — plus a special guest DJ, all kicking off at 10 p.m. Tickets cost $50. Learn more at @sullivansseafoodandbar.

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North Charleston comedy lounge Wit’s End offers a chance to try your hand at stand-up with its open mic nights, which are held every Monday and hosted by Tim Hoeckel . Sign-up starts at 7:30 p.m., and the mic heats up at 8 p.m. Each performer — from seasoned comedians to first-timers — gets five minutes. Or snag a seat in the audience and just enjoy the show! Learn more at witsendcharleston.com. Chloe Hogan

2024’s artistic highlights

By Chloe Hogan

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on some of our favorite Charleston City Paper arts coverage from the past year. There were arts-focused feature stories on everything from self-expression in the skateboarding scene in Charleston to Spoleto offerings, Lowcountry film locations and independent fashion designers. And as usual, the City Paper kept up our reputation for in depth artist interviews, with some of our favorite 2024 profiles on visual artists including:

• Riivo Kruuk, who honors his Estonian heritage through large-scale paintings

• Annie Rhodes Lee, who tells human stories through figurative sculpture

• Jirah Perkins, the winner of this year’s North Charleston Arts Fest poster design contest and a Charleston native, who had her first ever solo show at Park Circle Gallery

• Demond Melancon, whose solo show at the The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art brought a New Orleans tradition, Black Masking, into the contemporary art world

• Shepard Fairey on why he made a pro–Kamala Harris poster ahead of the 2024 presidential election

• The most recent winner of the Gibbes Museum’s annual $10,000 prize, Sherrill Roland, who combines installation, sculpture and performance to depict his experience serving 10 months in prison for a crime for which he was later exonerated

Sculptor Annie Rhodes Lee (above) and painter/muralist Riivo Kruuk (right) are two of the artists we profiled this year

• Taylor Faulkner and Creighton Barrett on their Hed Hi Studio show, “Beach Creeps,” which transformed the space into a whimsical surf bar over the summer

• David Boatwright and his site-specific exhibition, That’s All Folks!, contending with history at the Aiken-Rhett House in the fall.

We also talked to comedians and singers stopping in town — including famous funny gal Sarah Silverman and Broadway legend Idina Menzel — and previewed the homecoming comedy show from former Charlestonian Dusty Slay. We covered local comedian Tim Hoeckel’s first recorded special, Touch of Class, which was released in August.

We shared stories on filmmakers, such as Summerville-based Mark Stewart Iverson, whose faith-focused comedy, For Prophet, debuted this summer; and Jeff Tyner, who shot his debut hockey film, The Late Game, here in Charleston. We got the scoop when Danny McBride released his new tequila, Don Gato, and talked to Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert about their new cookbook.

There were lots of cool interviews with writers, including North Charleston-based author Todd Ziegert on his debut novel, I AM ROMAN DAWCIO, and Charleston author Signe Pike, whose book series The Lost Queen will soon become a TV show. In August, we outlined how former S.C. Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth’s new book deals with critical times in South Carolina’s history.

We reviewed the poetry debut of College of Charleston MFA grad Joshua Garcia, and gave our take on multiple local theater

productions, like PURE Theatre’s Fat Ham and The Last Five Years; Queen Street Playhouse’s awesome staging of Urinetown; the Flowertown Players’ Take Me Out and The Void Theater Company’s first show as a part of Piccolo Spoleto, Goodnight Embryos

There was definitely no shortage of cool, genre-defying events to cover this year, including:

• The return of Kulture Klash, which took over North Charleston’s Navy Yard Nov. 16 with an immersive art showcase and all-day music performances

• The June opening of Wit’s End Comedy Lounge in North Charleston

• The second annual Charleston Anime Fest in April

• Singers & Stanzas, a May event presented by Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera

Nancy Sterrett file photo

Gayle Brooker

Local author Signe Pike’s The Lost Queen book series will become a TV show

We talked with The Void Theatre Company and its actors about its Piccolo Spoleto debut, Goodnight Embryos

Artisitic

(HALO) that brought together the words of Lowcountry poets with the musical talents of nationally-known composers and performers

• The first show from local music collective Sugarcube held at the Music Farm in August

• The sixth year of Charleston Zine Fest held at the Halsey Institute this summer

• The tenth year of Creative Mornings Charleston

• The Gibbes Museum’s October lecture featuring renowned filmmaker Spike Lee.

We were glad to see the creation of new arts organizations this year, too — from Charleston-based dance company Collective SC, led by founder Lacey Bates, which staged its debut in June, to the artist-run pop-up gallery, Paperweight, which hosted its first show in November. The creative class saw new groups and experiences emerge, as well. Back in the spring, Brelyn LeCheminant created a happy hour event aimed at bringing together Charleston visionaries to network, discuss ideas and have fun, called Alt Muse Collective. At the end of summer, we shared the news of Jacob Reiss and Bunny Stardust ’s new tattoo studio in Summerville. We celebrated the opening of Park Circle’s new community arts center, and, not long after that, we took a sneak peek at the new renovations to the College of Charleston’s Simmons Center for the Arts.

On the music front, we covered everything from the debut album of new riot grrrl band Lefty Lucy, to the debut rock track from Congress the Band, to

Monster Music celebrated 20 years in business

the premiere of a film centered around Charleston’s touring funk sensation, The Psycodelics. Then there was the 20th anniversary of Monster Music, not to mention world-renowned performances during Spoleto, including an epic show by Yo Yo Ma, and the premiere of the firstever in-house-produced opera from Spoleto Festival USA, Ruinous Gods. The City Paper Music Awards rocked the stage at the Commodore for the first time this year, with 15 winners taking home titles.

What were your favorite cultural events of the year? What kind of arts, music and culture do you want to see more of in 2025? Let us know by emailing arts@charlestoncitypaper.com.

Jonesin’

Across

1. Bitter brews

5. Actress Gadot

8. 77%, often

13. “I got it!”

14. Actress Delevingne

15. Alpaca’s relative

16. Leaf-and-stem angle

17. Meta nickname?

18. Nibble away

19. Reminiscent of a photographer’s storage closet?

22. Marbles, in a series run by YouTuber Jelle

23. Medical pet handler

27. Hex- halved

28. Cardio exercise

29. Auto designer Ferrari

30. Fruit drink ending

33. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” spinoff

35. Good ___ (fully repaired)

36. Getting enough sleep, practicing mindfulness, etc.?

39. Bit of inspiration

40. Longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji

41. “Well, look at that!”

42. Haul

43. Slop site

44. They get blocked by blockers

46. Metallic playing marble

48. Winter activity

51. Understands a “Beverly Hills Cop” instrumental theme?

54. Fast food offering with dressing packets

57. Actor Ke Huy ___ of 2025’s “Love Hurts”

58. “SNL” featured cast member Wakim

59. Old Texas mission

60. Huge coffee containers

61. Nevada city near Tahoe

62. Like candles or crayons

63. ___ out a win

64. Appease, as hunger Down 1. Computer debut of 1998

“Inside Out 2” studio

Persona’s counterpart, to Jung

Pick

Magnetic induction unit named for a German mathematician

St. Louis landmark 7. World’s largest artificial reservoir by surface area (located within Ghana)

8. Chin dimple

9. Try out, as a driving simulator

10. Rower’s muscle, for short

11. “Kill Bill” star Thurman

12. Pre-college exam

14. Catherine the Great, e.g.

20. Set up a new billiards match

21. Table support

24. Film score composer Morricone

25. From Prague, perhaps

26. “Could you elaborate?”

28. Rapper who pioneered trap music

30. Aides to execs

31. Railroad station

32. Make happy

34. Like monstrosities

35. Easternmost U.S. national park

37. Pinball prize (if you match digits)

38. Rises

43. Grab a chair

45. Philly team, for short

47. Deceived

48. Pogues lead singer MacGowan

49. Ancient Greek site where Hercules slew the lion

50. Quick flash of light

52. Ankara native

53. Arctic Ocean drifter

54. Lumberjack’s tool

55. Carte starter

56. Permissive

“JINGLE ALL THE WAY” —look for helpers.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-08-1515

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS NICOLE MARIELLE ERDMAN, CHRISTOPHER PAUL CARTAGENA, AND RICHARD LEFEVER, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN IN 2016, 2019, AND 2020.

TO DEFENDANT: NICOLE MARIELLE ERDMAN

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on August 16, 2024 at 4:06 p.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Stacey Kaufman, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service.

If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-08-1926

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS KATHLEEN DODDS, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN IN 2009, 2011, 2013, AND 2017.

TO DEFENDANT: KATHLEEN DODDS

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on October 16, 2024 at 2:26 p.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, John McCormick, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department

of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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

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

DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-08-2056

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS CIARA FULTS AND MACK GOGGIN, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN IN 2024.

TO DEFENDANTS: CIARA FULTS AND MACK GOGGIN

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on November 4, 2024 at 12:09 p.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, John McCormick, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service.

If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT C.A. No. 2024-CP-10-02289

Thomas Brent Horner and Jeanne Lumpkin, Plaintiffs,

v. Brock Built Homes of South Carolina, LLC; Brock Built City Neighborhoods, LLC; CEBSCustom Homes, LLC f/k/a CEBS-Construction, LLC a/k/a CEBS Construction, LLC; Della Putti Construction, LLC; Valdecir Putton; Cohens Drywall Company, Inc. a/k/a Cohen’s Drywall, Inc.; Fogel Services, Inc.; South Carolina Exteriors, LLC a/k/a SC Exteriors, LLC; Daniel Leon Ramos; Blackwater Construction Services, LLC a/k/a Blackwater Construction Group, LLC; Tidal Creek Builders, Inc.; Carolina Siding Services LLC; Jose Dias Rodrigues d/b/a Carolina Siding Services LLC; Alfonso Rodriguez Vazquez, Jr. d/b/a A R Services Co., Alfonso Rodriguez Vazquez, Sr.; and John Does 5–20; Defendants.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

TO: Daniel Leon Ramos

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Second Amended Complaint in this action, which was filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, SC at 100 Broad Street, Charleston, SC on September 18, 2024, notice of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer

thereto upon the undersigned at his office, 102 Wappoo Creek Dr., Unit 8, Charleston, SC 29412, within thirty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to appear and defend the action as required by law, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Second Amended Complaint.

Capell Thomson, LLC s/ Charles W. Thomson 102 Wappoo Creek Dr., Unit 8 Charleston, SC 29412 Attorney for Plaintiffs

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that Charleston County Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 6:30 p.m., in the Beverly T. Craven Council Chambers, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC regarding an ordinance amending Chapter 7.5, Article IV, of the Charleston County Code of Ordinances, the Charleston County Greenbelt Bank Ordinance, Number 1424, as amended.

Public comments, written and oral, are invited. Submission of written public comments is encouraged and those wishing to provide written public comments for the public hearing should email comments to public-comments@ charlestoncounty.org by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, January 14, 2025.

Kristen L. Salisbury Clerk of Council

will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time stated, the Plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against the defendant(s) for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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

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: SHIRLEY JOHNSON GRANGER

2024-ES-10-2137

DOD: 10/12/24

Pers. Rep: LORI G. BARWICK-WRIGHT 3871 KAREN DR., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405

Estate of:

PHILIP JAMES BERGAN

2024-ES-10-2152

DOD: 11/14/24

Pers. Rep: DAVID A. BERGAN

5 WEST 86TH ST., #10B, NEW YORK, NY 10024

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

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

SUMMERVILLE, SC 29486

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Estate of: RONALD EDWARD TYMULA 2024-ES-10-2169

DOD: 11/8/24

Pers. Rep: ABIGAIL MIRANDA 214 MUIRFIELD PKWY., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

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Estate of: BARBARA SUE JOHNSON 2024-ES-10-2176

DOD: 11/21/24

Pers. Rep: MARC H. JOHNSON 707 SPRING LAKE RD., COLUMBIA, SC 29206

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

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Estate of: JOSEPH BENJAMIN SANDERS, III 2024-ES-10-2181

DOD: 12/15/23

Pers. Rep: CAROLYN B. SANDERS 1110 CANE CREEK WAY, SUMMERVILLE, SC 29485 ***********

Estate of: DOUGLAS RICHARD HAWLEY 2024-ES-10-2186

DOD: 11/18/24

Pers. Rep: ROBERT HAWLEY 171 QUEEN ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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

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ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

Estate of: MARY BURGESS NEWTON 2024-ES-10-1887

DOD: 8/29/24

Sp. Admin.

HARRIET Y. SANDERS 820 DOC LAVEY LN., PINOPOLIS, SC 29469

4300 SHARON RD., #436, CHARLOTTE, NC 28211

Atty: STEPHEN M. SLOTCHIVER, ESQ. 751 JOHNNIE DODDS BLVD., #100, MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464

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Estate of: JON WAITE WAYNICK

2024-ES-10-2212

DOD: 11/14/24

Pers. Rep: THOMAS FRANK WAYNICK 108 BOYD DR., ANNAPOLIS, MD 21403

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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR- 08-1470

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS MELONY NICOLE LIFERIDGE, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTEREST OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2022.

TO DEFENDANT (S): MELONY NICOLE LIFERIDGE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for termination of your parental rights in and to the minor child in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County Address 300-B California Avenue, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, on the 8th day of August, 2024, at 2:16 p.m., a copy of which

Estate of: CAROL MARTIN TISDALE

2024-ES-10-1897

DOD: 7/24/24

Pers. Rep:

KATHLEEN MARTIN WISE 4 CHARLYN DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of:

VIRGINIA CLAIRE SHELTRA

2024-ES-10-2148

DOD: 11/18/24

Pers. Rep:

JEREMY CARL SHELTRA

121 VANGO DR., GOOSE CREEK, SC 29445

Atty: COLIN HAMILTON, ESQ.

131 E. RICHARDSON AVE., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483

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Estate of: GAVINA ALFONSO WILLIAMS

2024-ES-10-2157

DOD: 1/14/24

Pers. Rep: MAUREE C. POWELL

219 DAYBREAK BLVD.,

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

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Estate of:

PENNY SUSAN WILLIAMS-HADEL 2024-ES-10-2159

DOD: 10/30/24

Pers. Rep: HAMPTON WILLIAMS 65 CYPRESS, CHARLESTON, SC 29403

Pers. Rep: AUSTIN WILLIAMS 2944 E. MAPLEWOOD, CENTENNIAL, CO 80121

Atty: PATRICK AULTON CHISUM, ESQ. 67 MOULTRIE ST., 2ND FLR., CHARLESTON, SC 29403

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Estate of: GEORGE WAYNE SINGLETON 2024-ES-10-2194

DOD: 11/28/24

Pers. Rep: DOUGLAS WAYNE SINGLETON

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE MAGISTRATE’S COURT CIVIL ACTION NO.: 2024-CV-1011404035

Southern Lease Management Group, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Harry Sanders, Jr., and Michelle A. Glover, Defendant.

TO: Harry Sanders, Jr., and Michelle A. Glover:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Summons and Complaint in the above-referenced civil action were filed in the Charleston Magistrate Court, South Carolina on October 9, 2024.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear in Civil Action No. 2024-CV-10-11404035, before the Magistrate Judge on January 8, 2025, at 11:30 am at the Charleston Magistrate Court located at 6185 Rivers Avenue, Suite E, North Charleston, SC 29406, to answer the Affidavit and Complaint in Claim and Delivery filed by the Plaintiff, alleging that you are in the wrongful and unlawful possession of the personal property described in the Affidavit and Complaint in Claim and Delivery. You are required to contact the court to determine the date and time for this court hearing. You are required to appear to answer this Affidavit and Complaint in Claim and Delivery, or judgment will be given against you by default for the possession of said personal property or in the event possession cannot be had for the value thereof together with other damages sought in the Affidavit and Complaint in Claim and Delivery, and the costs and disbursement of this action.

Drew B. Walker Attorney for Plaintiff Crowson Walker, LLC 1401 Calhoun Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201

Carolina, 29405, within thirty (30) days after the date of service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Petition within the time aforesaid, the Petitioner will be granted the relief requested in the Petition.

PETITION FOR REMOVAL OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE

TO THE RESPONDENT ABOVENAMED: Petitioner Ruth A. Gadsden TO THE RESPONDENT ABOVENAMED: I request an Order for the Removal of JOYCE C. TAYLOR, Personal Representative in the estate because: The Personal Representative has mismanaged the estate; and, removal is in the best interests of the estate because (see Notice of Motion):

NOTICE OF MOTION AND PETITION FOR REMOVAL OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND/OR ADDITION OF BERNARD E. GADSDEN AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE

TO THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE, JOYCE C. TAYLOR:

The Petitioner, through the undersigned attorney, formally files this Petition/Motion for the Court to remove Joyce C. Taylor as Personal Representative of the Estate above; and/or to appoint Bernard E. Gadsden as Personal Representative of the Estate; and/or appoint a Special Administrator; and for other relief as outlined herein or the attached Petition. The basis of the Motion:

1) Joyce C. Taylor, as the Personal Representative in this matter, has not administered her duties as Personal Representative in a timely and uniform manner for the Estate listed above.

2) The Petitioner is informed and believes the Personal Representative has not sold the real property in the Estate as soon as possible after the death of decedent.

3) The Petitioner is informed and believes the Personal Representative has not listed the real property for sale of the filing of this Petition.

4) Removal of the Personal Representative is in the best interest of the Estate because the Personal Representative has not shown the willingness or ability to administer the Estate and/or she has not taken the step necessary to ensure all heirs of the Estate received the assets of the Estate in a uniform or timely manner. In the alternative, Bernard E. Gadsden should be appointed as the Personal Representative. In the Court’s opinion, a Special Administrator may be appointed.

5) By signature of the undersigned attorney, Petitioner hereby rescinds her Renunciations of Right to Administration and/or Nomination and/or Waiver of Bond, if given, and by this Petition hereby informs the Court that she wants Bernard E. Gadsden to be appointed as Personal Representative to administer the Estate and to that end has engaged the services of undersigned attorney to assist in the administration of the Estate. The signed Petition for Removal of Personal Representative is attached to this Notice of Motion and Petition. WHEREFORE, the Petitioner prays for the relief as outlined herein above and the attached petition.

NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above Summons, Petition for Removal, and Notice of Motion and Petition for Removal of Personal Representative were filed in the Probate Court for Charleston County on the 24th day of June, 2024. - - NOTICE OF HEARING -Petitioner or Petitioner’s Counsel shall cause notice (pursuant to SCPC Section 62-1-401) to be given to all interested persons or their attorneys. A hearing on Petitioner’s Petition for Removal of Personal Representative is

scheduled for January 14th, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. EST at the Charleston County Probate Court, Charleston County Judicial Building, 100 Broad Street, Third Floor, Courtroom 3d, Charleston, SC 29401.

NOTICE

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED

RESPONDENT:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above Notice of Hearing was filed in the Probate Court for Charleston County on the 22nd day of November, 2024.

By:_/s/ Rachel Ferguson Bailey (rbailey@finkellaw.com), SC Bar #75224

ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER

The Finkel Law Firm, LLC, 4000 Faber Place Drive, Suite 450, North Charleston, SC 29405 843-577-5460

December 4, 2024

Current Property Address: 2020 Piper Drive, Charleston, SC 29407

As the Plaintiff did not waive its right for a deficiency judgment in the Complaint, this sale will be re-opened for final bidding at 11:00 a.m. on February 6, 2025.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record, and to the right of the United States of America to redeem the property within 120 days ** one (1) year** from the date of the foreclosure sale pursuant to Sec. 2410(c), Title 28, United States Code.

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

12/20/2024, 12/27/2024 and 1/3/2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale

Case No. 2024-CP-10-02552

64380.F51774

Master’s Sale CASE NO. 2024CP1004247

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

PIC Fund I, LLC, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Crown Me, LLC.; Jeanna R. Beasley; The United State of America acting by and through its agency, the Internal Revenue Service; and the South Carolina Department of Revenue, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated November 20, 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. January 7, 2025, at 11:00 A.M. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being known and designated as Lot 2, Block S of Air Harbor Subdivision as shown on a plat prepared by Charles S. Dawley Jr., S.C. Reg. L.S. entitled, “Plat showing the Subdivision of An Existing Tract of Land, into 14 Single Family Lots to be known as Lots l- 14, Block S, Air Harbor Subdivision,” dated May 18, 1988 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, SC in Plat Book BR, Page 167. Reference to said plat being craved for a more complete description as to distances, courses, metes and bounds.

recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AA, Page 29. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear. THIS BEING the same property conveyed unto Frank Harris and Rose C. Harris by virtue of a Deed from Woodrow W. Blizzard dated August 6, 2002 and recorded August 14, 2002 in Book B 415 at Page 70 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS #388-06-00-104

Current Property Address: 4412 Garwood Drive Ladson, SC 29456

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

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

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

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

FOR INSERTION

Friday December 20th, 2024; Friday December 27th, 2024 and Friday January 3rd, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

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

Wilmington Trust Company as successor trustee to The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of Popular ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-2, vs. Rose C Harris, and if Rose C Harris be deceased then any children and heirs at law to the Estate of Rose C Harris, distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of Rose C Harris, and if any of the same be dead any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; Any unknown adults, any unknown infants or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being a class designated as Richard Roe; Frank Harris; SC Housing Corp.,,

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 25th day of November, 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 7th day of January, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel of land, known and designated as Lot 29, Block H, Woodside Manor Subdivision as shown on a plat made by E.M. Seabrook, Jr., Inc., dated December 10, 1970, and

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE

NAMED:

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

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

Attorneys for Plaintiff Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 Firm Case No: 16389 - 76045

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-05992

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 December 10th, 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.

together with the Civil Action Coversheet, Summons, Exhibits and Verification, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on November 8, 2024, at 8:08 a.m., the object and prayer of which is the recovery of a sum certain due Plaintiff by Defendant, CASSANDRA MONIQUE CDE BACA, and for such other and further relief as set forth in the Complaint.

s/Cynthia Jordan Lowery Cynthia Jordan Lowery #12499 MOORE & VAN ALLEN, PLLC 78 Wentworth Street Post Office Box 22828 Charleston, SC 29413-2828

Telephone: (843) 579-7000 Facsimile: (843) 579-8714

Email: cynthialowery@mvalaw. com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

December 6, 2024 CHARLESTON, SC

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

U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely as trustee of Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust 2019-RP1, PLAINTIFF, vs. Lorraine Blake, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of George Blake; George Blake, and Christopher Blake, Jr. and if George Blake, and Christopher Blake, Jr. be deceased then any children and heirs at law to the Estates of George Blake, and Christopher Blake, Jr. distributees and devisees at law to the Estates of George Blake, and Christopher Blake, Jr. and if any of the same be dead any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; Any unknown adults, any unknown infants or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being a class designated as Richard Roe; Alethia Blake; Linda Rampersant; Nathaniel Blake; Vera Blake; Christopher Blake, III; Ashlee Brown; Lakeshia Blake; Tameeka Blake; Midland Credit Management, Inc., DEFENDANT(S)

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

C/A NO: 2024-CP-10-05442 DEFICIENCY WAIVED

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

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed with the Clerk of Court on October 29, 2024.

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

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

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

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR

THELMA DAVID, LILY EAST, SARAH LARAMORE, ADRIENNE DAVID, MARTHA SMALLS and BENJAMIN SMALLS, Plaintiffs, v. HERBERT BROWN, a deceased person, his heirs-at-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they have and DEREK BROWN and RAYMOND BROWN and if they be deceased their heirs-at-law, personal representatives, successors and assigns and spouses if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: New Lot “O” comprised of 2.08 acres on Wadmalaw Island in Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 196-00-00-137 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as JOHN DOE; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as RICHARD ROE, Defendants.

SUMMONS & NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named:

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

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

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice and Complaint were filed on December 3rd, 2024 and Lis Pendens was filed on December 4th, 2024, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on December 10th, 2024 and the Order of Publication was filed on December 10th, 2024 in the Office of the Clerk of Court

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows: ALL that piece, parcel or lot of land, known and designated as New Lot O, 2.08 Acres as shown on a plat entitled: “PLAT TO ADJUST PROPERTY LINE BETWEEN LOT O AND LOT P LOCATED ON WADMALAW ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” dated December 10, 2010, revised January 10, 2011, made by Palmetto Land Surveying, Inc., and recorded in the Charleston County ROD Office in Plat Book S-11, at Page 0026.

TMS #: 196-00-00-137

December 10th, 2024

Date

s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell Attorney at Law 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 Attorney for Plaintiffs

SUMMONS (COLLECTION – NONJURY)

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL CASE NUMBER: 2024-CP10-5627

SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs. CASSANDRA MONIQUE CDE BACA, Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the subscribers at their offices, Moore & Van Allen PLLC, 78 Wentworth Street, Post Office Box 22828, Charleston, South Carolina 294132828, 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.

November 8, 2024 CHARLESTON, SC

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO DEFENDANT CASSANDRA MONIQUE CDE BACA:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above-entitled action,

NOTICE OF SALE

Docket No. 2024-CP-10-02318

By virtue of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Robert Barnett, as Trustee of the RH 401(k) Plan against 28 Pitt, LLC, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., at the Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Charleston County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, N. Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder:

All that certain unit being known and designated as “Commercial Unit” of the 28 Hasell Street Horizontal Property Regime located in the City of Charleston, County of Charleston, a horizontal property regime established pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Act, Section 27-31-10, et. Seq., Code of Law of South Carolina 1976, as amended, and submitted by that certain Master Deed dated May 19, 2015, and recorded on May 27, 2015 in Deed Book 0478 at page 660 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended (the “Master Deed”).

Together with the percentage of undivided ownership interest in and to the Common Elements assigned to the unit by the Master Deed.

Being the same property conveyed to the 28 Pitt, LLC herein by deed of Hire Quest, L.L.C. by deed dated July 12, 2017 and being recorded on July 12, 2017 in Book 0653 at Page 321 in the Charleston County Register of Deeds’ office.

TMS#: 458-05-01-031

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY IS: 28 Hasell Street Charleston, South Carolina

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

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

some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder.)

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

Purchaser to pay for preparation of the Master in Equity’s deed, documentary stamps on the deed, recording of the deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 17.500% per annum.

/s/Mikell R. Scarborough

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County Plaintiff’s Attorneys:

J. Kershaw Spong [SC Bar #5289]

C. Elizabeth Weston [SC Bar #103305]

Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC P.O. Box 11449 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 929-1400 kspong@robinsongray.com lweston@robinsongray.com

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2024CP1002734

PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, Plaintiff,

v. Angela Yvette Byrd; Debra Sue Looney; Andre Bernard Freeman, Jr; Republic Finance, LLC Solar Mosaic, Inc.n/k/a Solar Mosaic

LLC Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Horace Freeman Jr, 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).

SUMMONS

Deficiency Judgment Waived (016487-01473)

TO THE DEFENDANT(S): Andre Bernard Freeman, Jr, and Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Horace Freeman Jr, 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.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 4328 Helene Dr, N Charleston, SC 29418, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 408-09-00040, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-3200, 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 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 upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Ian C. Gohean, Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxley, PA, 325 Rocky Slope Road, Greenville, SC 29607, made absolute.

NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on May 24, 2024.

s/ Brian P. Yoho Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com

Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com

Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400)

Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com

R. Brooks Wright SC Bar #105195) Brooks.Wright@rogerstownsend. com

1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444

Columbia, South Carolina

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the appointment of Ian C. Gohean as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability, it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Ian C. Gohean, be and hereby is appointed Guardian Ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons under a disability, all of whom may have or may claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 4328 Helene Dr, N Charleston, SC 29418; that Ian C. Gohean is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendant(s), unless the said Defendant(s), or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians Ad Litem for the said Defendant(s), and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendant(s) .by publication thereof 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.

s/Julie J. Armstrong Clerk of Court/Judge for Charleston County Charleston, South Carolina 12/10/2024

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Horace Freeman, Jr to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgagee,

as nominee for Synergy One lending, Inc. dba Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, its successors and assigns dated March 26, 2020, and recorded in the Office of the RMC/ ROD for Charleston County on April 21, 2020, in Mortgage Book 875 at Page 473. This mortgage was assigned to PennyMac Loan Services, LLC by assignment dated September 13, 2022 and recorded September 21, 2022 in Book 1138, at Page 764, in the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office. The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in Charleston County, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 7, Block F, Evanston Subdivision, Section 5, as shown on a plat of a portion of Evanston Subdivision, made by E.M. Seabrook, Jr., Inc., Dated March 1968; and recorded in the RMC office for Charleston County, in Plat Book X, at Page 35; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Horace Freeman Jr and Arnettie Freeman by deed of James S Blanton and Lisa M Blanton dated April 28, 1989 and recorded May 11, 1989 in Deed Book G184 at Page 845 in the office of the Charleston County Register of Deeds. Subsequently, Arnettie Freeman conveyed all her interest in the subject property to Horace Freeman Jr by deed dated September 27, 1991 and recorded February 28, 1992 in Book Z 210 at Page 644. Subsequently, Horace Freeman Jr conveyed a 1/2 interest in the subject property to Eunice Freeman by deed dated February 21, 1994 and recorded March 3, 1994 in Deed Book S 239 at page 865. Subsequently, Eunice Freeman conveyed her interest in the subject property to Horace Freeman, Jr by deed dated January 28, 2004 and recorded February 10, 2004 in Deed Book U 483 at Page 565. Subsequently, Horace Freeman, Jr died testate on November 22, 2023 leaving the property to his devisees, namely, Debra Sue Looney, Andre Bernard Freeman, Jr and Angela Yvette Byrd.

Property Address: 4328 Helene Dr N Charleston, SC 29418

TMS/PIN# 408-09-00-040

/s/R. Brooks Wright Rogers Townsend, LLC

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com

Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com

Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400)

Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com

R. Brooks Wright SC Bar #105195) Brooks.Wright@rogerstownsend. com

1221 Main Street, 14th Floor

Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444

Columbia, South Carolina

Master’s Sale 2024-CP-10-01028

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

South Carolina Federal Credit Union, PLAINTIFF

VERSUS Penderlee Swinton a/k/a Penderlee C. Swinton, DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated November 19, 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 7th DAY OF JANUARY, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, containing 1.5 acres, more or less, being shown and designated as LOT A-2 on a Plat by W. L. Gaillard, RLS, dated July 12, 1978, of a subdivision of Lot A in Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, owned by Louise Green Crawford, said plat being recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AL at Page 59. Said Lot A-2 butting, bounding, and having such dimensions as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

ALSO

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, containing 1.3 acres, more or less, being shown and designated as “Marsh” on a plat by W. L. Gaillard dated August 11, 1972, entitled “Plat of a Subdivision of Property in Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, S.C. Owned by the Heirs of Martha Bonneau”, which said plat is recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AB, Page 43. Said parcel of land butting, bounding and having such dimensions as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

Said parcel is contiguous to and to be added to Lot A-2 as shown on a plat recorded in the RMC Office aforesaid in Plat Book AL, Page 59.

This being the same property conveyed to Penderlee Swinton by deed of Louise Green Crawford, dated August 30, 1978 and recorded September 1, 1978 in Book W-116 at Page 198; and by deed of Louise Green Crawford, dated February 7, 1979 and recorded February 8, 1979 in Book F-118 at Page 400; both deeds recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

TMS No. 583-00-00-136

Property address:

2804 Penders Boulevard, Mount Pleasant, SC 29466

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

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

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

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): People in India

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