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Bike deaths up across state as traffic fatalities drop

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New book from Hendrix to cast spell on Charleston

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A memorial, commonly referred to as a “ghost bike,” pays tribute to a cyclist who was killed on a Charleston roadway

Bike deaths up across state as total traffic fatalities drop

By Andy Brack

Overall highway deaths in South Carolina in 2024 dropped to the lowest level in four years, according to state data. But the number of deaths of bicyclists rose last year by almost 50%.

Preliminary reports show 985 people died last year on South Carolina roads, a 6% drop from the 1,045 people killed in 2023 on the state’s roadways, according to S.C. Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) data. Numbers were higher in 2022 (1,048 deaths) and 2021 (1,193 deaths). Meanwhile, a 2024 WalletHub report showed South Carolina had the nation’s highest rate of fatalities per 100 million miles of vehicle travel.

While traffic-related deaths dropped last year, the number of deaths involving bicyclists rose from 23 in 2023 to 34 last year, data showed. In 2021, 23 bicyclists died on state roads; 21 died in 2022.

Katie Zimmerman, executive director of the bike advocacy group Charleston Moves, said state data was following national trends.

“It points again to bad design,” she said. “We are not investing enough money and enough time in good infrastructure that is designed for the safety of our most vulnerable travelers.”

She said she realized people often talked about providing more education and enforcement to improve safety numbers. But design needed to be in the discussion, too, she said.

“The bottom line is if you don’t have a safe space to be and a street is designed to

The Rundown

Chubby Fish, Graft Wine get Beard Award nods

The James Beard Foundation on Wednesday announced its 2025 James Beard Award semifinalists which included two local nods: James London’s Chubby Fish in the category of outstanding restaurant; and Femi Oyediran and Miles White of Graft Wine Shop as outstanding professionals in beverage service.

Chubby Fish is one of Charleston’s most talked-about restaurants, known for its dock-to-table fare and long lines (this spot doesn’t take reservations, folks) ahead of opening hours.

“We try not to take ourselves too seriously,” London told the City Paper last year in a story about its popular “caviar sammich.” “We wanted a casual and approachable vehicle for an ingredient that is oftentimes served with way too much pomp and circumstance.”

“We are not investing enough money and enough time in good infrastructure that is designed for the safety of our most vulnerable travelers.”

driving, it ranked ninth worst for safety. In other annual traffic numbers, according to state data:

Pedestrian deaths: 154 in 2024; 159 (2023); 163 (2022); 194 (2021).

Motorcycle deaths: 129 in 2024; 140 (2023); 137 (2022); 160 (2021).

Total deaths: 998 in 2024; 1,045 (2023); 1,088 (2022); 1,193 (2021).

—Katie Zimmerman

encourage motorists to be distracted and to speed, more people are going to be killed. It’s just the unfortunate reality of our design standards, investment and our bike-ped infrastructure.”

Charleston is on the way to improving safety for pedestrians and cyclists with the construction of West Ashley Crossing, a $90+ million bikewalk bridge over the Ashley River to connect West Ashley with downtown. Currently, bikers and walkers have to use a pair of old bridges over the river that have unsafe, narrow shoulders.

But the state still has a long way to go to improve safety compared to other states.

A new report by WalletHub showed South Carolina was the nation’s 18th best state for

State roads need work

According to a 2021 report by the S.C. Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, South Carolina’s roads need work. While the state raised the state’s gasoline tax in 2017 by 12 cents per gallon over six years after neglecting road maintenance for three decades, billions of dollars of roadway needs are still projected by 2040.

“Based on data from 2018, 74% of the interstate pavements are in good condition, 14% are fair and 12% are in poor condition,” the report said. “Unfortunately, the same does not appear to be true for the primary and secondary roads, where the good condition pavements are less than 30%, the fair-condition pavements are about 20% and poor condition pavements are approximately 50%.”

Nevertheless, the state has completed or is about to complete major interstate

The official James Beard Award nominees will be announced April 2 and winners will be announced June 16 — CP staff

$58.8 million

The money distributed by the S.C. Opioid Recovery Fund (SCORF) as of Jan. 21 to local municipalities and organizations to support people struggling with opioid addiction. The Charleston Center has received $1.7 million. Source: SCORF

CP GROCERY TRACKER

Jan. 11–Jan. 17, 2024

Every time you visit a grocery store or a gas pump, you may notice a price change. We’re now keeping track of fluctuating costs so you don’t have to. Numbers are based on weekly average costs nationwide.

Milk (half-gallon): $2.15 ( $0.17)

Cheese (8-ounce block): $2.48 ( $0.14)

Eggs (dozen, large white): $2.24 ( $0.04)

Bananas (per pound): $0.54 ( $0.02)

Avocados (each): $0.94 ( $0.02)

Gas (per gallon, S.C. avg.): $2.868 ( $0.06)

Sources: ams.usda.gov, gasprices.aaa.com

Biden thanks South Carolina on final

full day in office

By Jessica Mischner

President Joe Biden on Sunday marked the final full day of his presidency by visiting South Carolina, the state that propelled him in 2020 to the presidency.

After a tour of the International African American Museum with his friend, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., Biden thanked South Carolinians for their support and spoke on themes of faith and community, history and memory, sacrifice and service.

“Let me close where I started — gratitude for all you’ve done for me,” Biden told an invitationonly crowd at the IAAM. Then he went on to quote a passage from Psalm 37:25, saying, “ ‘I have been young and now am old. I have not seen the righteous forsaken.’ And after all these years working alongside you [in this state], I know that’s true.”

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Church in North Charleston, where he attended a worship service and addressed the congregation.

“I prayed with you here in February of 2020 when I was running for president. On my final full day as president, of all the places I wanted to be, [it] was here with you,” Biden said.

The president also credited his former congressional colleagues and allies from the state with providing support of a more personal nature. “Jim and [the late] Emily Clyburn, and [the late U.S. Senator] Fritz and ‘Peatsy’ Hollings saw me through some of my darkest days … [the kind of] friends who bear witness and help you move from pain to purpose.”

I prayed with you here in February of 2020 when I was running for president. On my final full day as president, of all the places I wanted to be, [it] was here with you.”

White House officials said the visit — on the eve of the national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — reflected Biden’s commitment to the civil and equal rights movements. That the president chose South Carolina underscores his deep ties to the state, the place that “brought him to the dance,” as he likes to say.

—Former President Joe Biden

More broadly, Biden spoke about a range of current topics, from King’s legacy to the Israel-Hamas cease fire to the challenges facing the incoming administration of Presidentelect Donald Trump, before taking his seat in the front pew alongside First Lady Jill Biden and Clyburn. Trump was sworn in Monday inside the U.S. Capitol after an outdoor ceremony was moved due to cold weather.

A swansong tour

Biden began his swansong in South Carolina at Royal Missionary Baptist

After church, the Bidens, along with daughter Ashley and son Hunter, toured the IAAM, located in downtown Charleston on Gadsden’s Wharf. The site once served as the single largest point of entry for enslaved people in the United States.

After the tour, Biden prepared to

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, left, presented President Joe Biden with a special award Sunday

address a small crowd of invited supporters and members of the press while a combined choir called Voices of Liberation performed gospel songs, including an energized riff on “Amazing Grace.”

IAAM President and CEO Tonya Matthews welcomed attendees. The Rev. Joseph Darby delivered an invocation. Dr. Jill Biden offered her own words of gratitude for the state of South Carolina: “Thank you for always opening your arms and carrying us with kindness.”

Clyburn took the stage for one final tribute to what he called the president’s extensive contributions to the state in the form of economic investment: “From interstates to infrastructure … [Joe Biden] has benefited this state like nobody since Lyndon Johnson.” Clyburn also presented the president with a special commemorative award made of sweetgrass and native wood.

Last address in Charleston

As the wind whipped up and the sun broke through the clouds beyond a tented enclosure just outside the IAAM entrance, Biden took the stage for one last official address. This time, the message was unmistakably meant for the audience in front of him.

“This museum is so important because it [shows how] faith and hope pass through generations … and embodies the trauma and triumph of the African American experience,” he said. “From the Civil War to civil rights, there’s been a long line of Black patriots who helped make the promise of America real for all Americans.

“As my presidency comes to an end, I know how it started — with this movement. … From the bottom of my heart, South Carolina, I love you from the bottom of my heart. My family owes you, this nation owes you. … And may God bless this sacred place.”

State’s post-Covid surplus budgeting continues into 2025 session

By Jack O’Toole

As the S.C. General Assembly convened for its 2025 legislative session on Jan. 14, Gov. Henry McMaster continued the longstanding gubernatorial tradition of greeting lawmakers with an executive budget plan touting his spending priorities for the year ahead. This year sounded much the same — higher teacher pay, income tax cuts — but also included disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Helene. But the continuation of a more recent budget tradition caught the eyes of some good government advocates — namely, the existence of yet another “surplus” of almost $2 billion in last year’s “unexpected revenues” for lawmakers to dole out in one-time expenditures as they construct the spending plan for 2025-26.

Critics say the emergence of large surpluses in the postCovid era — ranging from a low of $1.6 billion in 2024

to almost $4 billion the year before — seem to be more the result of overly conservative budget projections than unexpected economic growth. As a result, they contend, the “found money” too often winds up financing shortterm political priorities, rather than disciplined, long-term investments in areas like education and health care.

“The state has so many needs and this surplus isn’t genuine,” S.C. League of Women Voters Vice President Lynn Teague told Statehouse Report. “This is money that needs to be used [for critical programs].”

S.C. Education Association President Sherry East echoed Teague’s concerns about the process.

“You’ve got state workers, teachers, public employees, and they’re really hurting,” East said. “With more accuracy in the projections, [lawmakers] could make a long-term commitment to educators and firefighters and police officers in the budget.”

Nevertheless, East noted that teachers are “grateful” for

lawmakers’ ongoing efforts to raise their pay, particularly in poor, rural counties — one of several funding commitments McMaster’s executive budget seeks to address in 2025.

Here are some highlights from the governor’s $13 billion spending plan.

Education

When McMaster became governor in 2017, he called on the legislature to raise the state’s minimum teacher salary from $30,000 to $50,000 by 2026. In his executive budget, he earmarks $200 million to reach that goal one year early, raising the floor from its current level of $47,000.

“South Carolina’s future prosperity requires that we continue the remarkable progress we have made in raising

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teacher pay,” McMaster wrote in a Jan. 13 letter to lawmakers.

In addition to raising teacher pay, other education spending priorities include:

• $30 million in public tax dollars for a still-undefined private school voucher program — far less than the current S.C. Senate proposal of $130 million.

• An additional $2.8 million for the state’s 4-year-old kindergarten program, allowing it to increase enrollment by 7%.

• $21 million to add 177 new school resource officers, which would complete the goal of placing an SRO in every public school.

• $30 million to maintain the now six-year freeze on tuition at state colleges and universities.

• $95 million in lottery funds for SC WINS, a skills and training scholarship program at S.C. technical colleges.

• $2 million for a systemic review of the state’s 33 institutions of higher education, in preparation for lower enrollments as the number of college-aged Americans declines.

Disaster relief

Last September, Hurricane Helene cut a path of destruction through the Palmetto State that left 49 dead, damaged 6,300 homes, destroyed 10 bridges and left more than a million residents without power for days. To help recoup some of the economic losses, McMaster’s budget allocates more than $200 million for disaster relief, including:

• $150 million to create a state disaster recovery grant program for local governments, public utilities and nonprofits whose relief applications were either denied by the federal government or did not meet federal FEMA requirements.

• $50 million to the S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) for unreimbursed costs associated with the storm, including debris cleanup and repairs to roads and bridges.

• $40 million to replenish the coffers of the state’s two principal disaster reserve funds, which were drawn down in the immediate aftermath of the storm.

A new budget provision requiring the Office of Regulatory Staff to study the economic and technical feasibility of undergrounding power lines, which many believe would reduce the incidence of widespread power outages during extreme weather events.

Law enforcement

In his letter to lawmakers, McMaster calls on the legislature to authorize major new spending on law enforcement, arguing that “to keep our citizens safe, we must

maintain a robust law enforcement presence — and properly ‘fund the police.’ ”

That spending includes:

• $43 million in new appropriations for the state Department of Corrections to hire new officers, increase medical and mental health services, provide pay raises and cover the costs of deferred maintenance at all 21 state prisons.

• $43 million to provide a $2,000 nonrefundable tax credit to all active-duty police officers, firefighters, first responders and emergency medical technicians.

• $14.5 million to increase pay and hire additional law enforcement officers.

• $500,000 for the S.C. Law Enforcement Division to step up enforcement of state laws against animal fighting.

Income tax cuts and more

Beyond these major areas, McMaster’s budget wish list includes a number of significant line-item expenditures, including a reduction in the state’s top income tax rate from 6.2% to 6% at a cost of $194 million. But GOP leaders in the legislature have said their goal is to get the rate down “below that of our neighbors,” which would appear to mean cutting it beneath North Carolina’s current rate of 4.5%. That’s an idea McMaster says he supports in principle, though neither he nor lawmakers have yet presented a plan to pay for it. Other noteworthy line-items in McMaster’s budget include:

• $112 million to cover increased costs in the state employee health care plan, along with a request for a study of ways to reduce program expenses in the future.

• $100 million for the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services to help build a new neurological hospital operated by the University of South Carolina.

• $100 million for SCDOT to repair and replace an undefined number of the state’s 9,000 bridges — more than 10% of which have been classified as structurally deficient.

• $15.5 million for the Conservation Land Bank, the Department of Natural Resources, the Office of Resilience, and the Forestry Commission to identify and secure undeveloped land for permanent preservation.

• $13.7 million to hire the additional personnel required to cut the state’s environmental review process down to 90 days or less.

McMaster concluded his budget message on an optimistic note.

“By thinking big, by being bold, and by making these transformative investments, I believe we will set our state on a course that will provide the opportunity for prosperity, success, and happiness for generations of South Carolinians,” he wrote.

projects in Greenville and Columbia and is working on lane-widening on Interstate 26.

Tips for driving safely in South Carolina

Here are some suggestions to stay safe on South Carolina’s roadways, according to SCDPS and other sources:

Be careful in wet conditions. Make sure your headlights are on. If you skid, steer in the direction of the skid. Watch out for standing water.

Use caution in work zones. Slow down to allow for any unforeseen circumstances, such as workers entering roadways.

Drive defensively. Anticipate dangers and be prepared to react safely.

Aggressive drivers. Let reckless or aggressive drivers get around you. Keep a safe distance away. Never try to “compete” with this kind of driver. Just stay away.

Slow down. Don’t speed. Maintain a safe distance from vehicles in front of you — don’t tailgate.

Don’t look at your phone while driving. Distracted drivers have accidents.

Stay alert. Not only check for cyclists and pedestrians, but don’t drive when fatigued.

Tips for cycling safely on S.C.’s roadways

Be consistent. “Do your best to be consistent in how you’re riding, so that motorists can at least attempt to try to anticipate [what you’re doing],” Zimmerman said in a 2023 story.

Get lights for your bike. Bike lights are required by state law and help cars see cyclists at night. Nice lights can be expensive, but local organizers can help. Second Chance offers bike lights for around $15, and Charleston Moves distributes free bike lights several times per year.

Check your ABCs. That’s Check your air in tires, brakes and chain.

Plan your route in advance and familiarize yourself with it.

Be comfortable with safety equipment, including helmets, mirrors, lights and bells.

Be deferential. “Pedestrians are who everybody should defer to, whether you’re in a car or on a bike because pedestrians are the most vulnerable of all,” Zimmerman said.

Blotter of the Week

Charleston police on Jan. 13 discovered a listing on Facebook Marketplace for what they confirmed to be property stolen from the seller’s grandparents. Items listed for sale included a space heater, a wine rack and a lemon tree (yes, an actual tree), but the big-ticket item that tipped everybody off? An antique knight’s armor statue valued at $500. The guy sold it for $50. The investigation is ongoing.

Breath of fresh air

A North Charleston woman on Jan. 10 told city police she left her vehicle in a Meeting Street Road parking lot, and when she returned, she found her rear windshield shattered. Nothing inside appeared tampered with, police noted, and no potential suspects could be identified. Well look on the bright side: At least she won’t need to turn on the A/C for a while.

Getting prepped

A Mount Pleasant woman on Jan. 9 reportedly tried to steal two bottles of antifreeze and a pair of socks from a Proprietors Place store. She told police she had no intention of shoplifting, and that the items were misplaced in her cart. Her story, however — much like her — didn’t check out, and police cited her for shoplifting. Talk about prepping early for the snow storm — she must be a psychic.

By Skyler Baldwin

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Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Jan. 10 and Jan. 17.

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Sad to see you go, Joe Views

Joe Biden didn’t need to come to Charleston Sunday. There were no votes to be gained, no campaign cash to be collected.

He wanted to do something meaningful in Charleston and North Charleston on his last full day as president — to simply say thank you to the people of South Carolina for backing him when he needed it in the 2020 presidential primary. And to give a nod to the importance of civil rights by speaking at the 19-month-old International African American Museum.

One supporter said on social media that the visit highlighted who Biden really is as he “reminded us to keep our hope alive, even when the world feels heavy.”

Biden’s visit to red South Carolina stems from long friendships with the late U.S. Sens. Fritz Hollings, a Democrat, and Strom Thurmond, a Republican, and current U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, also a Democrat. It shines a beacon on the now-former president’s brand of character and honor — distinguished traits that are polar opposites of the newly-inaugurated president, who is known far and wide for vitriol and not telling the truth. The differences between the two men and their Americas couldn’t be starker.

While Biden’s popularity took a hit in recent months, he will go down as a good-to-great president, contrasted by the narcissistic new incumbent, who will stay in the doghouse he created in his earlier term.

Just look at some of Biden’s myriad accomplishments since 2021, when he inherited a lackluster economy reeling from a pandemic:

Health care. More than 21 million Americans have health care now through Obamacare, an increase of 9 million people under Biden. That makes America healthier and stronger. He also worked to promote cancer research and

tackle the nation’s mental health crisis.

Jobs. Job growth was up substantially for three years in a row, compared to a 9.2% drop in 2020, much of which is due to the pandemic that no president could control. But in Biden’s first three years, the economy added almost 15 million jobs and unemployment remained under 4% for the longest time since the 1960s. So give Biden credit for America’s robust economy today.

Green policies. Biden promoted green policies like no president before, with Bloomberg News saying “he has sparked a revolution.” He made huge investments in electric vehicles and renewable energy.

Strong markets. The stock market almost doubled under Biden, leading to great wins for investors. Passage of Biden’s trillion-dollar push in infrastructure catalyzed a new era of public and private investments in electronics, electric vehicles, batteries, clean power, industry, public roads, bridges and more.

Violent crime is down. Federal reports suggest the nation’s violent crime rate will be the lowest since 1969 when 2023 data is compiled. Biden’s 2021 stimulus bill included $350 billion for state and local governments, which Biden urged them to spend on law enforcement.

More of Biden’s long list of accomplishments: fervently supporting freedom here and abroad in Ukraine, working to out-compete China, reducing gun violence, conserving millions of acres of land, promoting equality and standing up for justice for everyone.

We’re sad to see you go, Mr. President. But we’re happy you spent your last day with us.

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.

New leadership book offers tried, true, inspiring lessons

By Andy Brack

Having a great mentor early in your career is a huge blessing. It sets you on the right course. It gives you skills and reinforces values that you will use for the rest of your life.

Good fortune smiled upon me in the early 1990s when I started to work for the late U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, a consequential lawmaker with a thick Lowcountry brogue. He taught staffers to stick to their guns, keep people informed about what was really happening in Washington and be tough when you need to be, but have a sense of humor, too.

About the same time, Charleston aviation lawyer Mark Fava got a similar practical education while working as the gatekeeping aide to a U.S. Navy admiral who had high expectations for the young Navy lieutenant and pilot.

“You are going to do a lot of things and see a lot of things as my aide,” the “salty” admiral told Fava when he started the position after duty as a naval aviator. “Many are going to be great, and some are going to be … well … not so great.

“Many tasks will be well above your pay grade, and others will be well below your pay grade. I need you to perform exceptionally well whether you’re completing a great task or a not-so-great task. You understand that, Lieutenant?”

Of course, the answer was, “Yes sir, I understand.” And for the next 17 months, Fava got a different kind of education regarding excellence, much like great mentors give to their charges all of the time.

Fava, a Boeing South Carolina vice president who has practiced aviation law for 30 years, chronicled what he learned in a new book, Lessons from the Admiral: Naval Wisdom and Sea Stories for Leaders ($24.95, Amplify Publishing).

The lessons are practical, from “be on time” and “confidentiality matters” to “know what is important to your boss” and “respect the role they want you to perform.”

One example — something you might not think is a big deal — was the story of a toothpick. Fava had been advised to have a packaged wooden toothpick on hand in the rare event that the admiral wanted one. One morning after breakfast during a cold trip to Greenland, the admiral commented how it would be nice to have a toothpick. Fava — attentive to the advice of an earlier aide — slid one to the admiral, who grinned and gave him an attaboy. Bottom line: Details matter.

Other lessons:

• Send thank-you notes and give credit when you should.

• Be prepared; know details so you — and the boss — don’t get surprised.

• Develop simple habits to help keep you organized.

• Ask for help when you need it.

• Don’t panic.

• Be creative when things don’t go as planned.

• Be dependable, a team player and perform with integrity.

• Take care of your people and help them when you can.

Fava’s 148-page book is an easy, instructive read. It’s filled with the kind of advice that can help anybody succeed in a professional environment.

One note: Fava intentionally didn’t mention the name of the admiral in the book, as he shared later: “I wanted the admiral to be a mysterious figure that the reader envisioned in his or her mind based on my descriptions of him and our relationship. That was also the inspiration for the cover.”

In November, however, Fava traveled to Virginia to meet with the admiral, now in his 80s, to give him a copy of a book in what was described as an emotional meeting.

Later when told the book is a fantastic tribute to the career of the admiral, who once commanded the Mine Warfare Command in Charleston, Fava shared his name.

So let’s recognize the 36 years of service and inspiration for Fava’s book. Thank you, Rear Admiral Byron “Jake” Tobin. The lessons you taught Fava are exceptional.

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New book from Hendrix casts spell on Charleston

By Kevin Young

When Grady Hendrix announced the subject of his latest horror novel, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, he received a lot of feedback.

“I started getting emails from random people who said, ‘Hi, I’m adopted. My mom gave birth to me in a home for unwed mothers. Please don’t screw this up.’ ” No pressure.

Set in 1970, Witchcraft follows the character of Fern, who is dropped off at a home for unwed mothers in St. Augustine, Fla. She and a dozen other girls — each named after a particular plant — find themselves under the vigilant eye and tight control of Miss Wellwood. Things change when Fern meets a librarian who lends her a book about witchcraft. Before long, all hell breaks loose.

Despite the escapist nature of the genre Hendrix commonly works in, he doesn’t take the subject matter lightly.

Hendrix started working on Witchcraft in November 2022, turning in his first major draft in May 2023. He submitted a final edited draft in September 2024. The journey from idea to fully-formed novel was filled with revelations.

Wrapping his head around the idea

Hendrix said the inspiration for the idea struck when he discovered two of his relatives were sent away as teenagers in the 1950s.

“One of them reunited with her child, and the other never did,” he said. “I had a hard time wrapping my head around what that experience would be like ... to be pregnant and a teenager and basically told you’ve just ruined your entire life.

“And then to be sent away, where no one knows where you are, and have a baby and never talk about it again, and never see it again and not know if it was alive or dead or sick or well or anything. So I knew I wanted to write something there.”

Hendrix found additional inspiration in Anna Fessler’s book The Girls Who Went Away.

“There were two things in that book that really made me want to write this book. One was, just the general looking at this and

saying, oh, these homes were hidden, but they were in the middle of [everywhere]. They were in towns and cities, and they were full of these girls who’d been sent away, who were all in the same condition who were being given very little information about what was going to happen to them.

“Their due dates were looming over them like execution days. At one point in the book, one of the women who was sent away says, ‘People keep saying, you were so brave to give up your child, or that it must be so hard to give her your child.’ She says, ‘I want everyone to understand. I did not give up my baby. My baby was taken from me.’ That really stuck with me.”

While Hendrix said he had the inspiration and a modicum of an idea of what his characters would experience, he knew, as a writer and a man, it would be best to do ample research before diving into such an unfamiliar area. Getting personal stories directly gave him more to work with than anything else.

“I had a bunch of moms who were consultants with me on this, who were willing to share their birth stories and also answer my really intrusive follow-up questions. I [also] had some obstetricians and laborists and delivery nurses who worked with me.”

Once the writing began, Hendrix said he was able to see what worked and what didn’t.

“When I started writing it, I didn’t realise that for a few drafts. My take was totally wrong, because I had written two drafts where it was a folk horror book, where Pan was involved in all this stuff. There were eight to nine full, very different drafts of this book — the first two had zero witches!”

For Hendrix, the writing process is always eye-opening.

“I go through a lot of beta readers. I’ve had some people who are adopted who’ve read this book and say ‘you shouldn’t say this, you should say that,’ which was really helpful.

“There’s just some terms and things that I never would have thought about that are very triggering for folks who’ve been through adoption.”

Several drafts and a missed deadline later, Witchcraft For Wayward Girls is now in bookstores and the pressure has subsided. Kind of. Hendrix is now on tour promoting the book with his trademark live one-man show.

On Jan. 27, Hendrix and Buxton Books will bring the wild world of witchcraft to the Circular Congregational Church.

“ I had a hard time wrapping my head around what that experience would be like ... to be pregnant and a teenager and basically told you’ve just ruined your entire life.” —Grady Hendrix

“Building the shows is kind of like my reward to myself when the book is done because it’s like, okay, I’m going to watch all the witch movies I can and read all the witch books I can and especially look at the academic papers about witches and nonfiction books about witches.”

After listing the exhaustive details he’ll regale his audience with, he added, “And I’m gonna talk a lot about penis-stealing.”

Yes, you read correctly. Many book tours are simply the author reading passages from their book. But Hendrix’s shows are almost like a Chucktown ghost walk on the long and winding animated tour of witches in pop culture and media, particularly in books and movies.

This naturally includes the many gruesome and shocking ways witchcraft has been wielded. (Hence the penis-stealing.)

Hendrix will appear 6 p.m. Jan. 27 at Circular Congregational Church in an event hosted by Buxton Books. Tickets with a book are $37 and available online at citypapertickets.com.

There were eight to nine full, very different drafts of this book — the first two had zero witches!” —Grady Hendrix

Author Grady Hendrix will discuss his latest book at Circular Congregation Church on Jan. 27

What To Do

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THIS WEEKEND

Charleston Comedy Week

The Charleston Music Hall, Music Farm, Theatre 99, Wit’s End and Nameless Numberhead are teaming to bring Charleston a monster week of comedy. This weekend is set to highlight the work everyone has been doing to grow the Lowcountry’s comedy scene, which is thriving like never before. Find national touring comics like Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Todd Barry and more, as well as shows filled with local improv, stand-up and sketch comics. Find full lineups online.

Jan. 23 through Jan. 26. Show times, ticket prices and locations vary. charlestonmusichall.com

2

THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY Museum Mile Month

Don’t miss out on the last week of Museum Mile Month. It’s not too late to visit a series of historic sites and cultural organizations along a one-mile stretch of the city’s famed Meeting Street for one low ticket price. With the Museum Mile Month Pass, visitors can dive deeply and explore at their own pace, allowing for a more immersive and flexible way to engage with and experience Charleston past and present.

Jan. 1 through Jan. 31. Museum times vary. $35/adults; $10/children under 12. Museum locations vary. Downtown. charlestonsmuseummile.org

SATURDAY

3

4th Wall

Annex Dance Company debuts its new work of performance art Jan. 25 at the Sottile Theatre. A collaboration with former Charleston poet laureate Marcus Amaker and local filmmaker and College of Charleston alumnus Maggie Bailey, 4th Wall combines live dance, film projection, musically poetic soundscapes and audience participation to blur the lines between audience and performer, process and participation.

Jan. 25. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets start at $30. Sottile Theatre. 44 George St. Downtown. annexdancecompany.org

TUESDAY

4

Lunar New Year party

Ring in the Year of the Snake at The Whale with its inaugural Lunar New Year party. Enjoy exclusive Chinese beer, music by Tyrie, food by Sarah’s Dumps and lots of good fortune. Try three types of dumplings, as well as K-pop chicken, Mayak egg and chilled noodles. Every drink purchase comes with a red envelope containing a fortune to carry into the Lunar New Year. Select envelopes will have an extra offering inside.

Jan. 28. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Free to enter. The Whale. 1640 Meeting St. Downtown. thewhalecollective.com

ALL MONTH

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Solo exhibitions — Kokinda and Kalman

Spaces: In Spaces depicts three of North Charleston–based Ella Kokinda’s most important spaces as showcased through tufted rugs. Meanwhile, local artist Elizabeth Kalman’s Liminal Places: Stories in Glass reflects of life on the edge of Noisette Creek.

Through Feb. 1. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free. Park Circle Gallery. 4820 Jenkins Ave. North Charleston. northcharleston.org

Snow day!

People across the Lowcountry got 2-4 inches of snow Tuesday night, making for hazardous roads and closed bridges. But it gave folks the perfect excuse to stay in, bundle up and sip some hot cocoa. Meanwhile, Lowcountry children — many of whom had never seen a meaningful amount of the white stuff — delighted in getting outside, sliding around and numbing their fingers.

This week’s frozen precipitation fell short of the last time the Holy City got hit by a wintry mix when 5 inches fell in the area on Jan. 3, 2018. That was the third largest snowfall on record for the Holy City.

Charleston officials urged residents to “avoid traveling if possible” in an email message subtitled “no yahoos.” State officials since Monday had been warning drivers to keep off roadways.

Andy Brack

Early Wednesday along Albemarle Road in West Ashley as a dusting of snow began to fall again

Scott Suchy

Wednesday morning, West Ashley Greenway

Will Kiser

Cool, green Ford parked downtown

Candice Patterson

Frozen Meeting Street, early Wednesday

Ashley Smith

These kids are enjoying the experience of snow for the first time in their lives on James Island

Cuisine

Lillian’s now open on Congress Street

By Gabriela Capestany

The name “Harold’s” has long occupied the building at 247 Congress Street. With a history dating back to 1929, the original Harold’s Cabin served Westside residents through the 1950s as a neighborhood deli. John Schumacher, Mike Veeck, Bill Murray and Drew Childers bought the vacant building in 2014, with the latter three opening a new iteration of Harold’s Cabin in 2015. It closed in early 2024. Now the building has taken on new life as Lillian’s Petite Market and Eatery.

Owner Heather Greene aims to continue the legacy of the building by highlighting an oftenoverlooked piece of Harold’s story.

“I listened to an oral history of Harold and Lillian,” Greene said. “They were a Jewish family and there’s a big oral history project that was done on the Jewish families in Charleston.

“They were talking to Harold most of the time, but he would forget a few key facts

or little details, and [Lillian] would just so gently and kindly pipe in and answer or remind him.”

As she listened to the interview while walking through Hampton Park, Greene was inspired by the story.

“It felt like they just had this really cool relationship. I’m sure she was a driving force and worked really hard behind the scenes … so I thought it would be cool to just give her a shout out being that I’m also a woman in the business, and give her [a] proper due.”

Respecting the legacy

Greene, who moved into a house across the street from Harold’s, felt drawn to the historic site and its legacy.

“I grew up in Atlanta and New Orleans,” she said. “I just like to respect the place that I’m in, and I think that goes back to the whole idea of what we’re doing at Lillian’s on a bigger scale. We’re trying to really respect the Lowcountry.”

The cozy, multi-story building will house several day-to-night offerings, including a cafe (featuring coffee from Second State Coffee Roasters), a local market with produce

What’s new

Rudy Royale recently appointed a new head chef, Landice Simmons, who is a Charleston local with experience at other Lowcountry restaurants, including Magnolias. Simmons will blend elevated flavors with Rudy Royale’s contemporary Southern cuisine in new dishes such as swordfish asada and maple-glazed salmon. Learn more at rudyroyale.com.

Marbled & Fin recently launched weekend brunch, available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. Be sure to book your reservation at the buzzy spot on resy.com. Diners can look forward to a weekend roast, brunch caviar service, French toast soaked in creme brulee and other new dishes. Learn more at marbledandfin.com.

The Archer and Berkeley’s, both owned by Liz and Marc Hudacsko, recently announced that the businesses will be open seven days a week. The Archer will be open for dinner at 5 p.m. on weekdays and at 4 p.m. on weekends. Berkeley’s, meanwhile, will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Learn more at thearchercharleston. com and eatatberkeleys.com.

Hoodoo Espresso, a bottled, ready-to-serve espresso martini from Mississippi-based Cathead Distillery, is now available in Charleston. Made with Cathead Vodka, coffee and demerara sugar, Hoodoo Espresso can be served over ice or as a base for other coffee cocktails. Sip on a Hoodoo Espresso martini at local restaurants such as Lost Isle, Poe’s Tavern, Royal American and Rarebit, or grab a bottle for yourself at Bottles. Learn more at catheaddistillery.com.

What’s happening

Chef Jason Stanhope will host a special five-course dinner at Lowland Tavern Jan. 27 with wine pairings from three of California’s top vintners Pax Mahle, Patrick Cappiello and Tegan Passalacqua. Tickets are $150/per person and can be purchased on resy.com.

Chef Jeremiah Bacon will return to Oak Steakhouse for a special night Jan. 29, where the former Oak chef will serve exclusive dishes. The evening is part of Oak Steakhouse’s celebration of 20 years on Broad Street. Book your reservation on OpenTable. — Connelly Hardaway

Greene

Warm up with winter dishes — including the Carolina Rice Bowl served with shrimp, field peas, Charleston Gold grits, saffron broth and chow chow — at Lillian’s

Photos by Ashley Stanol

Ruth Wentenhall mixes up inventive cocktails — and mocktails! — at Lillian’s

Lillian’s Hot Toddy blends whiskey, fresh lemon, sugar and warm house-brewed ashwagandha tea (which is purported to contain chemicals that calm the brain)

Area bars serving up hot drinks to warm you up

By Connelly Hardaway

While we dream of a summer sipping frozies on patios around town and in area bars and restaurants, we’re now seriously contemplating warm beverages to help us deal with this cold, cold weather.

(And in case you’re wondering, Dry January can absolutely be ignored in the face of a possible wintery mix. We don’t make the rules.)

Here are some drinks to warm your tummy:

The Establishment’s Hot Todd-E January is full of cold temps, sure, but it’s also the month of many sicknesses. Head to

The Establishment for a warming, soothing bev in the form of the Hot Todd-E, made with ginger turmeric tea steeped with cinnamon sticks, cardamom, whole cloves, allspice, fresh orange peel, orange slices and local honey. The Establishment recommends spiking the tea with Sagamore Straight Rye, but you can add any booze from its collection of 175 bourbons and rums.

Lillian’s Petite Market & Eatery’s

Lillian’s Hot Toddy

Lillian’s Hot Toddy blends whiskey, fresh lemon, sugar and warm house-brewed ashwagandha tea. Ashwagandha tea is purported to contain chemicals that calm the brain. Mix that with some whiskey and we imagine your winter cold worries will disappear quickly.

Oliver Pluff & Co.’s Toddies

Staying at home but still want a stiff toddy?

Look no further than Charleston-based tea company Oliver Pluff & Co.’s Toddies. Choose from orange clove or lemon ginger (there are ‘summer flavors’ like spiced hibiscus, too, if that’s more your speed), and add your own brandy, rum or whiskey.

Citrus Club’s Apple of My Rye

Make your way to the rooftop of The Dewberry for a cozy winter cocktail. The Apple of My Rye is made with, you guessed it, rye whiskey (specifically Michter’s), fresh mulled cider and spiced orange.

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and wine, a rooftop lounge area and a restaurant and bar dubbed the Petite Eatery.

But the vision for Lillian’s multiple offerings took time to assemble.

“I broke my ankle the day I got the lease on the building,” said Greene. “I had to sit downstairs, and I sat there for basically 2 months on crutches, having to really soak it in. So it was sort of part torture, and part exactly what I needed, because it did allow me to sit in the space and really get a vision of what I thought should be there. … I think it really helped shape the future of the building.”

In collaboration with chef Todd Garrigan, pastry chef Allison Brown and mixologist Ruth Wentenhall, the Petite Eatery at Lillian’s showcases locallysourced dishes and craft cocktails designed around a seasonal menu. Current offerings will rotate depending on the season.

“Every season will have two different menus. So, we’re on chapter two [of winter], but a few things came over from chapter one, and I would say one of them is my absolute favorite: a fried oyster stew dish,”

Hot drinks

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Lost Isle’s Hey Hot Stuff

Explore several dining areas throughout Lillian’s, including an upstairs dining room and rooftop patio

Greene said. “[It] incorporates something from everyone: brioche that Allison makes in the pastry shop, the culinary side of it with the oysters and the stew that Todd created, and then Ruth is just amazing at pairing cocktails with every dish.”

Lillian’s is now open at 247 Congress St. and is open from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, seven days a week. Reservations recommended.

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You’re going to want to sip on something as comforting as this beverage while spending time at outdoor restaurant Lost Isle (fear not, the spot has heaters and blankets to help you double-down on cozy). Hey Hot Stuff is made with coconut washed spiced rum, mezcal, apple cider, ginger and lemon.

Commonhouse Aleworks’ Hot Apple Cider

Another option: Sip on Commonhouse’s hot apple cider — with or without rum.

Irish coffees around town

If we’re gonna talk about hot drinks, we have to mention some Irish coffees. You can get this spiked, caffeinated favorite at a number of bars around town — even if it’s not explicitly listed on the menu. We offer a few iterations here but note that this list is not comprehensive.

Bodega’s S’mores Irish Coffee

Pump up the classic boozy coffee drink with this Smore’s-inspired bev, made with graham cracker–infused Tullamore Dew, chocolate syrup, coffee, whipped cream and a toasted marshmallow.

Marbled & Fin’s Fly Me to the Moon

Inspired specifically by Irish coffees from the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Marbled & Fin’s version is made with coffee, almond, cherry and cacao. Sip on it during one of the restaurant’s

Bodega’s S’mores Irish Coffee is made with graham cracker–infused Tullamore Dew and topped with a toasted marshmallow

newly launched brunch services. Little Jack’s Tavern’s Irish Coffee (and Hot Toddy) Perhaps it’s the “gently whipped cream” on top, but Little Jack’s Irish coffee is a CP favorite. Made with coffee, Tullamore Dew and cane sugar, it’s a classic. The spot has a Hot Toddy on deck too, made with bourbon, lemon and honey.

Courtesy Bodega

Ashley Stanol

Culture

Lunar New Year Market celebrates Asian-owned

By Chloe Hogan

The Charleston AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Collective will host its inaugural event, a Lunar New Year market, on Jan. 26, bringing together artists, food and a panel discussion to celebrate Asian culture in the Lowcountry. The event takes inspiration from the vibrant night markets found all over Asia, said local artist Anna Chen, one of the event’s organizers.

“The idea is to bring the Asian community together, and also share this culture with the larger community in Charleston,” Chen shared in an interview with the Charleston City Paper. “The Lunar New Year is different in every culture, but for me, it means family time, communing with the people you love over great food.”

Chen is one of the artists who will participate in the market. She’s known around town for her dynamic watercolor collages. In fact, some of her newest artworks speak to what she called an “Asian trope” where parents and family members “show love through preparing food.” Those works depict persimmons and figs and other fruits on homemade paper.

For the Lunar New Year market, Chen will show a series highlighting her favorite AAPI dishes from restaurants in town. And

biz

there is no shortage of great local food to be had at the Jan. 26 event.

Organizing the Lunar New Year Market with Chen are local food and bev titans, such as Shuai Wang (Jackrabbit Filly, King BBQ) and Sarah Williams-Scalise, who will offer her locally made Korean mandu (dumplings). Other food vendors include Butter Half Bakery, Pink Bellies, Boy Choy Boy, Seol Ah’s, A-roi Thai and Wandering Taps.

“If you ask me, we’ve got all the best restaurants in town participating,” Chen said.

“We hope to bring the community together to celebrate the Lunar New Year and to bring Asian folks in Charleston together for our first official event.”

On the art side of things, Sonny Sisan of Studio Sontosis will bring ceramic works, including red-colored candles in honor of the holiday. Market-goers can also find art by Hirona Matsuda, Alicia Modoor, tattoos from @ink.ho and more, as well as jewelry from the Asian-owned local brand Margerite & Motte.

Thanks to support from Storehouse 9 and Lowcountry Local First, the Jan. 26 Lunar New Year Market is free. As a part of the APPI Collective’s mission to give back to the Asian community, a portion of proceeds from vendors will go towards the Charleston Chinese Academy, a North Charleston based nonprofit that promotes Chinese language education and cultural diversity.

“Our goal is to also give back to the Asian community here,” Chen said, explaining how the recently-founded AAPI Collective is planning a bigger event to celebrate AAPI

A variety of art, crafts and food will be offered at the inaugural Lunar New Year market

heritage month in May 2025. There’s a ticketed panel discussion to check out, too, for just $5, before the market kicks off at 1 p.m. Starting at noon Storehouse 9, the panel, titled “Where Are You Really From?,” will feature Wang, Selynne Anchetta (Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art), Chynna Chan (creative entrepreneur) and Thai Phi (Pink Bellies, Pho King) for a talk about different facets of Asian identity in Charleston.

The Lunar New Year Market is 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 26 at North Charleston’s Storehouse 9 courtyardThe event will be family-friendly with a kids activity table. Learn more on Instagram at @aapi_chs.

Arts, etc.

Revisit drama of JAWS

The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed … again. The lead actors — theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider — are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic … if it doesn’t sink them all. Inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing Quint on the notorious shoot, the making of the blockbuster movie comes to life in The Shark is Broken, on stage through Feb. 8 at PURE Theatre . Ticket prices vary. Visit puretheatre.org for details.

Middleton Place lights up

Experience the country’s oldest gardens in a whole new light Feb. 6 through Feb. 22. Each Wednesday through Sunday evening, thousands of lights bring the site’s pathways and garden “rooms” to vibrant life. The walking tour is selfguided, with each illuminated space designed to honor the site’s history and preservation — from the brilliance of the camelia allee after dark to the tranquil glow of the Sundial Garden. Allow 45 minutes to explore. Or come early for a special three-course prix fix meal at the Middleton Place restaurant (reservations from 5:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. through resy.com, admission to Garden Lights included). Tickets are pre-sale only. Prices vary. Visit middletonplace. org for more information.

Get schooled on NFTs at the Gibbes

Check out a new book and get a combined lesson in art and tech on Feb. 1 at the next meet-up of Literary Gibbes, the museum’s book club. Inspired by the Beeple exhibition currently on view, the discussion centers around The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology and Democracy, written by Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett . The event is Feb. 1, 10:30 a.m. until noon. Attendance is free, but advanced registration at gibbesmuseum.org is encouraged. Free. Advanced registration encouraged. —Jessica Mischner

Photos provided; Meredith Wiksell

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McMurtry finds music, muse on the road

By Vincent Harris

Singer-songwriter James McMurtry takes the stage at the Pour House Jan. 30 — but his reputation as an artist precedes him.

On the dozen or so albums he’s released since his stunning 1989 debut, Too Long

In The Wasteland, the Lockhart, Texas–based musician has shown an incisive eye for detail and a mastery of lyrical character studies. And he’s just as comfortable chronicling the down and out and the heartbroken as he is describing the mature comfort of longtime love in an increasingly cold world.

On his latest album, The Horses and The Hounds, McMurtry tells a slew of new stories — portraying a mentally unbalanced man who shoots his best friend for no good reason, a homeless truck driver living in a series of motels, a husband with a flat tire and an angry wife — all in 10 songs of spare, barbed-wire rock topped off with McMurtry’s sour-patch vocals.

In conversation as in songwriting, McMurtry is economical, which can often be mistaken for gruffness. And while it’s true McMurtry, son of famed novelist Larry McMurtry, can be taciturn, he has no objection to the machinery of promoting his music. He really just doesn’t give a damn.

“I just found out that I don’t need to worry so much about that stuff, and it’s better if I don’t,” McMurtry said. “If I pander to the crowd, they’re going to smell

“

If I pander to the crowd, they’re going to smell it. They can smell bullsh*t, and they’re not going to believe it coming from me.” —James McMurty

it. They can smell bullsh*t, and they’re not going to believe it coming from me.

“I just do my thing,” he continued. “I don’t have the energy for the other stuff. And it’s not that I’m particularly hostile. It’s just that I can’t let anybody’s idea of who I’m supposed to be govern who I actually am.”

Good advice for us all, perhaps. McMurtry does believe in touring hard, however, and he and his bare-bones backing band have been playing The Horses and The Hounds live for awhile now, which McMurtry said has helped the songs grow.

“They always evolve when you play them live. Parts emerge, we jam a little bit and then you find something that works and you stick with it and work on that.”

And the good news for McMurtry fans is that he and the band are also playing new songs for the first time in awhile, all of which will be on McMurtry’s soon-to-

come new album The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy

“The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy are two of my father’s hallucinations,” McMurtry said, a sentence that begs for elaboration, but he added only, “I didn’t really write it about him; I just made another character.”

Most of McMurtry’s songs start on the road, where he can hone them until they’re ready to be crowd-tested.

“I start with a couple of lines and a melody and just see where I can take it, or where it can lead me,” he said. “I don’t start out trying to make a point, because if you do that, you’re going to write a sermon. And I don’t take a new song out there unless I can sing it without cringing. That’s usually a pretty good indication.”

McMurtry is also refreshingly clear-eyed about his audience, which shouldn’t be surprising. They’ve latched onto songs like the rollicking “Choctaw Bingo,” confident strolls like “Walk Between The Raindrops” and the dark prognostication “We Can’t Make It Here Anymore,” and he’s happy to play them live — but he’s not bothered much if they don’t respond to his other songs.

“There are songs that work for me that don’t touch an audience,” he said. “And there are others that they really connect with. The thing about a song is that the listener wants to hear him or herself in it. It’s more about the listener than it is the writer.”

James McMurtry will continue his tradition of live-testing new tunes during his Jan. 30 show at the Pour House

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Lavenia Palmer Jamison, Plaintiff, vs. Robert Broom, Jhanara Ullah and JOHN DOE, adults, RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distribute, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Martha Lee Palmer Ullah who is deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed, Defendants,

NOTICE OF HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing in this matter has been scheduled before the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough and will be held on February 25, 2025 at 2:00 p.m., at the Charleston County Courthouse, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, Courtroom 2A. The purpose of this hearing is to determine the value of the below referenced property and for a partition of sale of the property:

TMS # 583-00-00-080

Property Address: Lot 19 Parkers Island Road, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ J. Chris Lanning J. Chris Lanning clanning@brushlawfirm.com 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 766-5576 - Phone (843) 766-9152 - Fax

Charleston, South Carolina January 8, 2025

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Case No.: 2024CP1004656

Tory Benjamin & Amber Cheerice Jamerson, Plaintiff, V. Kamilla Faith Jones, Defendant.

SUMMONS

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber, Law Office of Cezar E. McKnight, at its office 126 West Mill Street Kingstree, South Carolina 29556, P.O. Box 949, Kingstree, South Carolina 29556, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for a judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

SIGNED at Kingstree, South Carolina, this 17th day of September, 2024. /s/ Cezar E. McKnight

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF 126 West Mill Street Post Office Box 949

Kingstree, South Carolina 29556

Telephone: (843)374-4529

Facsimile: (843)401-0197

Email: cezar@cezarmcknight.com

CITY OF CHARLESTON PUBLIC NOTICE - Abandoned Boats

The City of Charleston is preparing to remove and dispose of the following abandoned boats in and around the waters of the City of Charleston; descriptions and locations are shown below:

Vessel Name- Kwa Heri

Vessel Description- 35’ Dufour Sailing vessel with a white hull Vessel Location- 32°46’50.6”N / 79°57’37.0”W

Fed Doc #- 1078591

Vessel Name- Scorpius

Vessel Description- 33’ Tartan sailing vessel with white hull, stranded in marsh

Vessel Location- 32°55’41.1”N / 79°49’52.9”W

Fed Doc #- 620856

Vessel Name- unknown

Vessel Description- 27’ Hunter sailing vessel with white hull, sinking in river

Vessel Location- 32°46’00.9”N /

80°00’30.5”W

SC Reg #- SC5832CB

Vessel Name- Mudd Dauber

Vessel Description- 28’ Lear Siegler sailing vessel, sunk with mast visible

Vessel Location- 32°46’35.6”N

79°57’22.1”W

SC Reg#- SC2099BZ

Vessel Name- unknown

Vessel Description- white Sea Ray cabin cruiser, stranded in marsh

Vessel Location- 32°45’27.5”N

80°00’41.8”W

Fed Doc #- 958630

Vessel Name- unknown

Vessel Description-37’ Pearson cabin cruiser, stranded in marsh Vessel Location- 32°45’27.5”N

80°00’41.8”W

NC Reg#- NC8145DA

Vessel Name- Imagine Vessel Description-24’ Bristol sailing vessel, stranded in marsh Vessel Location- 32°48’20.3”N

79°58’26.7”W

SC Reg#- SC7663BL

If you are the owner of any of the above boats or if you have abandoned a boat in or around the waters surrounding the City of Charleston, please contact the police department at (843) 577-4727. Any of the above boats not claimed will be removed and disposed of by the City of Charleston.

(843) 577-4727 merrillm@charleston-sc.gov

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-10-2521

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS Christine N. Wilson, Sean Wilson and Justin Meyers, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2010 and 2013.

TO DEFENDANT: Christine N. Wilson

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 4, 2024, at 3:07 pm and the Amended Complaint in this action was filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 5, 2024, at 3:48 pm. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint

will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Angelica Gonzalez, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Angelica Gonzalez, SC Bar # 106325, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, Charleston, S.C. 29405, (843) 953-9637.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-10-1042

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Jasmine Del Castillo and Christopher Bailey Gale DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2024

TO DEFENDANT: Christopher Bailey Gale

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 15, 2024 at 7:46 am. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 294055714 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-10-2944

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS MARTY KING AKA MARTY LOUIS KING, JR. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2011.

TO DEFENDANT: MARTY KING AKA MARTY LOUIS KING, JR.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on October 16, 2024, at 9:07 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Angelica Gonzalez, Legal Department of the Charleston

County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Angelica Gonzalez, SC Bar #106325, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, 843-953-9637.

Charleston County Greenbelt Advisory Board (GAB) Meeting

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 10:00 a.m.

Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Service Bldg. 4045 Bridge View Drive, N. Chas.

Meetings are open to the public and will include a time for public comment.

For more information go to greenbelt.charlestoncounty.org under Upcoming Meetings

The GAB is a 14-member board appointed by Charleston County Council to evaluate the Greenbelt Programs to ensure the purposes and goals of the Comprehensive Greenbelt Plan are being met.

Pers. Rep: BRIAN COURTNEY SAMUEL-FOKES 104 N. ROMNEY ST., #A, CHARLESTON, SC 29403

Atty: ROBERT A. WALTERS, ESQ. 1534 BLANDING ST., COLUMBIA, SC 29201

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Estate of: ABRAHAM BROWN, JR. 2024-ES-10-2239

DOD: 11/13/24

Pers. Rep: KIMBERLY S. MATHENIA 8666 GRASSY OAK TRAIL, NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420

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Estate of: DAVID MYERS GRAHAM, JR. 2024-ES-10-2242

DOD: 11/29/24

Pers. Rep: BURKE L. GRAHAM 853 FOOTPATH LANE, EARLYSVILLE, VA 22936

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

Estate of:

THEONIE S. MASTORIDIS 2024-ES-10-2244

DOD: 10/11/24

Pers. Rep: MEROFIA MASTORIDIS 1727 ORANGE GROVE SHORES DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty: JOHN E. ROMANOSKY, JR., ESQ. 1 COOL BLOW ST., #201, CHARLESTON, SC 29403

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Estate of: KATHERINE MARIE SHIVER STRICKLAND 2024-ES-10-2257

DOD: 11/10/24

Pers. Rep: WILLIAM A. STRICKLAND 2186 BOATWRIGHT RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455 ***********

Estate of: ALICE SWOPE THOMPSON 2024-ES-10-2271

DOD: 12/26/23

Pers. Rep: WILLIAM K. SWOPE 1811 WILSHIRE DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

Atty: MADELIENE LEIGH KING, ESQ. 1525 SAM RITTENBERG BLVD., #208, CHARLESTON, SC 29407 2186 BOATWRIGHT RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455 ***********

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: GRACE MUCKENFUSS SPELL 2024-ES-10-2197

DOD: 9/27/24

Pers. Rep: BRUCE M. SPELL 115 BRADD ST., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483

Pers. Rep: RICKY D. SPELL 94 KINGS MILL CT., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty: P. BRANDT SHELBOURNE, ESQ. 131 E. RICHARDSON AVE., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483

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Estate of: BRIAN COURTNEY FOKES 2024-ES-10-2231

DOD: 7/5/24

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: MABLE PRIOLEAU BROWN 2024-ES-10-2277 DOD: 10/16/24

Pers. Rep: MARK BROWN 483 FT. JOHNSON RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty:

JEFFREY C. MOORE, ESQ. 1 CARRIAGE LN., BLDG H, 2ND FL., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of: DAVID REIS PERRY

2024-ES-10-2282

DOD: 12/18/24

Sp. Admin: GREGORY

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SC 29456

Estate of: GENE ARTHUR CADDELL 2024-ES-10-2192 DOD: 10/8/24

Pers. Rep: JANET L. KELLETT 1888 LANDSDOWNE RD., BOWMAN, SC 29018 ***********

Estate of: SUSAN E. MILLER 2024-ES-10-2303

DOD: 11/15/24

Pers. Rep: EILEEN A. RUSH 251 AUSTIN CREEK CT., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483

Atty:

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

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Estate of: MARY COTTON WILGUS 2024-ES-10-2304

DOD: 12/16/24

Pers. Rep: JOHN J. WILGUS, JR. 1731 SHARON AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***********

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

be

DOD:

Estate

DOD:

Pers.

02/04/2025 10:40 AM

Douglas Crow Household Goods/Furniture

Douglas Crow Household Goods/Furniture

Facility 7: 2118 Heriot Street Charleston, SC 29403

02/04/2025 12:15 PM

Martene Pendigrast Boxes/bins

Queenester White

2 dressers 1 chest 1 heater bed frames, mattresses, dryer

Pakesta Long Ten boxes/ 8 Bags

Facility 8: 1540 Meeting Street Road Charleston, SC 29405

02/04/2025

1:00 PM

David McGahee Boxes

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

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-00862

RIVERLAND PLACE HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME, Plaintiffs, vs. DEREK BYZINSKI AND MARILYN McNeil, Defendants.

SUMMONS

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

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

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Certificate of Exemption, Lis Pendens, Notice and Complaint in the above action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on February 15, 2024.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff against the Defendants for, among other things, the foreclosure of that certain Notice of Lien filed by Plaintiff against Defendants and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County on July 20, 2023, in Book 1192, at Page 506. The property which is the subject of this action was at the commencement of this action and is now situate in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more fully described as follows:

ALL that certain condominium unit known and designated as UNIT NO. F, BUILDING 3, Riverland Place Horizontal Property Regime, a horizontal property regime, established pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Act, Section 27-31-10, et seq. 1976, South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended and submitted by Master Deed dated June 11, 2003 and recorded on June 19, 2003 in RMC Office for Charleston County in Book M453 at Page 109. Said dwelling unit conveyed hereby being shown on the Exhibits attached to the Master Deed. SUBJECT to any and all restrictions, easements, rights of way, covenants and conditions of record. CONVEYED TOGETHER WITH an undivided percentage in the common elements, restricted common areas and facilities of the property described in said Master Deed attributable to said Unit. BEING the same property conveyed to Derek Byzinski and Marilyn McNeil by deed of Fannie Mae a/k/a Federal National Mortgage Association, dated January 22, 2015, and recorded on January 27, 2015, in Book 0453, at Page 956 in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina. TMS # 343-07-00-212.

persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcels of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, Defendants.

SUMMONS

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

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

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens, Notice and Complaint in the above action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 3, 2024.

LIS PENDENS

Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on December 27, 2024, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 294650459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Robert Rivers, Sr., Victoria Rivers, Robert Rivers, Jr. and Louretta Rivers Downes, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

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

aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-5981

MARIE RIVERS BRATHWAITE, HARRY JAMES RIVERS and JANIE R. NESBITT, Plaintiffs, vs. VANESSA WORLETT BROWN ALLEN, VERNON DOWNES JR., JACQUELINE FULLER, JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of The United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons or legal entity of any kind who may be an heir, distributee, legatee, widower, widow, assign administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of ROBERT RIVERS, SR., VICTORIA RIVERS, ROBERT RIVERS, JR., LOURETTA RIVERS DOWNES, all of whom are deceased, and any and all other

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiffs against the Defendants to clear title to the parcels of real property hereinafter described (“Subject Property”) and to establish ownership of the Subject Property in the names of the owners as lawful heirs free and clear of any adverse claims whatsoever and to Partition By Sale the Subject Property. The Subject Property was at the commencement of this action and is now situate in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more fully described as follows: ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in St. James Santee Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, measuring 3.62 acres, more or less, and more particularly shown as Lot 1 on that certain Plat by James O. McClellan III, P.E. and L.S., # 2476, entitled “General Property Survey & Plat of Robert Rivers Sr. Est. Located in St. James Santee Parish, Charleston Co., S.C.”, dated December 14, 1996, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”) on February 28, 1997, in Plat Book DB, at Page 70. BEING a portion of the same property conveyed to Robert Rivers, Sr. by deed of Jimmie Weston, dated December 26, 1962, and recorded in the ROD on February 19, 1963, in Book R-78, at Page 268. TMS#: 785-00-00-004

ALSO ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in St. James Santee Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, measuring 1.00 acres, more or less, and more particularly shown as Lot 2 on that certain Plat by James O. McClellan III, P.E. and L.S., # 2476, entitled “General Property Survey & Plat of Robert Rivers Sr. Est. Located in St. James Santee Parish, Charleston Co., S.C.”, dated December 14, 1996, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”) on February 28, 1997, in Plat Book DB, at Page 70. BEING a portion of the same property conveyed to Robert Rivers, Sr. by deed of Jimmie Weston, dated December 26, 1962, and recorded in the ROD on February 19, 1963, in Book R-78, at Page 268. TMS#: 785-00-00-015

NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

You will please take notice that by

john@cisadodds.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser: ELIZABETH PROVO, 70 EASY ST, CARBONDALE, CO 81623-9147.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided 0.0022634921241123% ownership interest in and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number: 98-0206-7E Deed Book 1125, Page 259, Mortgage Book 1125, Page 2663. Total amount presently delinquent $32,735.41, Attorneys fees $450.00, Costs $508.69. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser: EFFEREN V. HARDNETT, 250 PIEDMONT AVENUE NE UNIT 906, ATLANTA, GA 30308.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided 0.00399374221908844% ownership interest in and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and

Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number: 98-0326-13O , Deed Book 1134, Page 472, Mortgage Book 1134, Page 477. Total amount presently delinquent $14,598.96, Attorneys fees $450.00, Costs $508.69. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT.

Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO

Name and address of Purchaser: MICHEL TONDREAU & CHANTAL GAGNE, 83 RUE BROOK, GATINEAU, QC, CANADA J9H 2Y5.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided 0.00399374221908844% ownership interest in and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number: 98-0417-W7O Deed Book 0, Page 949, Mortgage Book 849, Page 987. Total amount presently delinquent $12,314.96, Attorneys fees $450.00, Costs $530.20. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT

AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

SUMMONS & NOTICES TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to answer the complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint upon the subscriber at her office at 544 Savannah Highway, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that should you fail to answer the Summons and Complaint filed herein, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference in this cause to the Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure and Section 14-11-85 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), as amended, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case, which judgment shall be appealable to the South Carolina Court of Appeals in accordance with Section 14-11-85, Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), as amended.

TO THOSE OF THE DEFENDANTS

ABOVE-NAMED WHO MAY BE MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR MINORS UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR UNKNOWN, BEING AS A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE, AND THOSE WHO MAY BE INFANTS OR PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY, INCLUDING THOSE IN MILITARY SERVICE, BEING AS A CLASS DEFINED AS RICHARD ROE, AND TO THE GUARDIAN, CONSERVATOR, OR PERSON WITH WHOM THEY RESIDE:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Order Nisi appointing Brett C. Barker, Esq., 51 Eastlake Road, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464, as Guardian ad Litem for all persons as a class designated as JOHN DOE and RICHARD ROE for purposes of this action, was filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, 100 Broad St, Ste 106, Charleston, SC 29401, on December 16, 2024. Unless any of you or someone or your behalf shall cause, within thirty (30) days after the service of this notice, exclusive of the day of service, a different person to be appointed to represent you, the Plaintiff will apply for an order making absolute the appointment of Mr. Silver.

LAFOND LAW GROUP, PA By: Ashley G. Andrews, SC Bar No. 76667

on Lot 60, to the South on Lot 57, and to the West on Lot 56, all as shown on said plat.

Being the same property conveyed to Fadol Brown and David Simmons, Jr., by deed of David Simmons, Jr. and Theresa Marie Brown, dated and recorded September 27, 2018 in the Office of the Register of Deeds in Book 0749, Page 992.

TMS # 463-12-03-135

Property address: 15 Poplar Street Charleston, S.C.

A personal or deficiency judgment having been waived, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, any 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-in-Equity, 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 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.

Where as the court has ordered that service by publication is appropriate. SC Code section #15-7-710 South Carolina law allows for alternate means of service by publication under these circumstances.

The defendant had listed addresses in Mount Pleasant SC in court filings.

The defendant originally appeared pro se in this matter and is now avoiding service

The defendant has been charged in criminal case #2022A1010205511 for similar behavior that took place in this case.

delineated on said Plat.

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

THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following: During such time as the property described herein is used for a purpose for which assistance under the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, P.L. 104-120, was provided or for another purpose involving the provisions of similar services or benefits, then no person having an interest in this property shall refuse service for or accommodation or other benefits to any person with respect to the property on account of the person’s race, color or national origin or otherwise engage in discrimination conduct of any kind on account of ‘ a person’s race, color or national origin. This covenant is appurtenant to and shall run with the land described herein.

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

David B. Wheeler Telephone 843-579-7000

FOR INSERTION January 17, 24 & 31, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale Case No.: 2024CP1003621

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

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. IF for any reason the Plaintiff’s agent does not appear to bid at the sale, the sale will be deemed canceled. 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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-06159

Sandra C. Loy, Plaintiff vs. EDWARD SIMMONS, individually and as an heir at law of LISA SIMMONS, deceased, EDWARD SIMMONS, JR., EDWONNA SIMMONS, and EDMONTY SIMMONS, as heirs at law of LISA SIMMONS, deceased, and any other Heirs-at-Law, Distributees, Personal Representatives, Successors, Assigns, Children, or Spouse, if any, and all other Persons claiming under or through them, and all unknown persons or entities with any right, title, interest in or to the real property subject to this action, those who are adults collectively designated as JOHN DOE, and any such other person who is a minor or under other disability or a member of the Armed Services of the United States of America, as contemplated by the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act, 1940, as amended, collectively designated as RICHARD ROE, Defendants.

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Lis Pendens was filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, 100 Broad St, Ste 106, Charleston, SC 29401 on December 12, 2024. The Summons & Notices and Complaint were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, 100 Broad St, Ste 106, Charleston, SC 29401 on December 12, 2024. The Amended Summons & Notices and Amended Complaint were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, 100 Broad St, Ste 106, Charleston, SC 29401 on December 13, 2024.

TO: MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR MINORS UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE, JOHN DOE and RICHARD ROE: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED that unless you or someone on your behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, make application to this Court and obtain the appointment of a suitable person as the Guardian ad Litem to appear and represent your interest in the subject and the subject matter of the foregoing action, Plaintiffs will apply to the Court for the appointment of a suitable person to be Guardian ad Litem to appear in the foregoing action, for the purpose of representing and protecting your interest, if any, in the above captioned proceeding.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced or will be commenced by the Plaintiff, above-named, against the Defendants, above-named, to quiet title to the real property described below.

The following is a description of the premises which is the subject of this action:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being on Johns Island in Charleston County, State of South Carolina, containing 1.0 acre, more or less. Beginning at an iron pin on the Eastern side of Cape Road; thence S86 50’E for a distance of 290.9’ to an iron pipe; thence running South 03 00’W for a distance of 150.00’ to an iron pipe; thence running North 86 50’W for a distance of 288.94’ to an iron pipe, on the Eastern side of said road, thence North 02 15’W for a distance of 150.00’ to the point of beginning. Tract contains 1.0 acre. This being the property conveyed to Edward Simmons and Lisa Simmons by deed of Jim Walter Homes, Inc. and Mid-State Trust II dated March 13, 1990 and recorded September 5, 1990 in the Office of the ROD for Charleston County in Deed Book J196 at Page 187. TMS No.: 316-00-00-120, Commonly known as Lot, Cape Road, Johns Island, South Carolina 29455

544 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, SC 29407 843.762.3554 andrews@lafondlaw.com Attorney for the Plaintiff

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No. 2021-CP-10-04100

THE BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Plaintiff, v. FADOL BROWN AND DAVID SIMMONS, JR., Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALE

Upon authority of a Decree, the Master-in-Equity for Charleston County will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below at the County Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of the Public Services Building located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 or shortly thereafter.

ALL that lot, piece and parcel of land with buildings and improvements thereon situate, lying and being on the South side of Poplar Street in the City of Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 58 on a plan of 92 lots laid out of for CarolinaFlorida Realty Company, which plat is recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book C, Page 128.

The said lot measuring and containing in front on Poplar Street thirty-five (35’) feet, on the back line thirty-four and ninety-three one hundredths (34.93’) feet, in depth on the West side one hundred six and twenty-eight hundredths (106.28”) feet, and on the East side one hundred four and twenty-six hundredths (104.26’) feet. BUTTING AND BOUNDING to the North on Poplar Street, to the East

Should the highest bidder fail and refuse to make the required deposit at the time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days from the date of sale, the Master-in-Equity 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.

The successful purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps on the Foreclosure Deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5.95% per annum.

If Plaintiff or its representative fail to appear and bid at the foreclosure sale, any such sale shall be null and void and of no effect.

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OR RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES.

Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County

17 Day of January 2025 Charleston, South Carolina

Submitted by:

Larry D. Cohen, Esquire P.O. Box 30547 Charleston, South Carolina 29417 Tel. (843) 225-4445 Ldcohen@Ldcohenlaw.com

Attorney for Plaintiff The Bank of South Carolina

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

DOCKET NO. 2022-CP-101000051

MARK VAHALA VERSUS TRAVIS TARDIFF, ET. AL. THE DEFENDANT: TRAVIS TARDIFF

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, And required to attend the hearing scheduled for 1/28/2025 10:30AM at 100 broad street, Charleston SC 2940.

This matter involving a complaint for breach of contract and other legal claims against the defendant.

Master’s Sale Case No. 2022-CP-10-03379

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

SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, INC., Plaintiff, vs. EFRAIN CAMPOS A/K/A J. EFRAIN CAMPOS; IMELDA CAMPOS; SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSING TRUST FUND, Defendants.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 17th day of March, 2023, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at CHARLESTON COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Public Services Building (PSB), 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 4th day of February, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Johns Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and known and designated as Lot No. 48, SEA ISLAND PLACE SUBDIVISION on a Plat entitled, “A FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF LOTS 28 THRU 48 PHASE II SEA ISLAND PLACE CONTAINING 9.580 ACRES OWNED BY SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, LOCATED IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, which Plat is dated November 5, 2003, and was recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Plat Book O 480, at Page 775; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as are shown and

THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following: The grantee(s)’, their heirs, successors and/or assigns, herein agree to pay Berkeley Electric Cooperative Inc. or any successor electric utility company regulated by the South Carolina Public Service Commission, a monthly charge, plus applicable State of South Carolina Sales Tax, for operation and maintenance of street lighting system.

THIS CONVEYANCE is further subject to the following: The lot owner, lessor, and/ or his heirs, successors and assigns, shall contact Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. or their successors, three (3) days prior to any digging or excavation work on said property, including swimming pool installations, trenching, or any type of digging. Upon notification by the lot owner, lessor and/or his heirs, successors and assigns, a field survey will be conducted by Berkeley Electric Cooperative, Inc. personnel to insure that there are no conflicts with the Cooperative’s safety requirements. Any excavation in violation of Berkeley Electric Cooperative’s safety requirements is expressly prohibited.

This being the same property conveyed to Efrain Campos and Imelda Campos by Deed of Sea Island Habitat for Humanity, Inc. dated March 9, 2005, and recorded on March 22, 2005, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book V-529 at Page 725.

TMS # 279-10-00-151

ADDRESS: 3335 ISLAND ESTATES DRIVE, JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

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

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 20 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

The Bank of New York Mellon, formerly known as The Bank of New York, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee on behalf of the holders of the CIT Mortgage Loan Trust, 2007-1 Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-1, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS James Hart, III; Shelmore Surety, LLC;, DEFENDANTS.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 12th day of December, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at CHARLESTON COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 4th day of February, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on the east side of King Street in the City of Charleston, State and County aforesaid, known and designated as Lot No. 5 on a plat of a tract of land on the east side of King Street, surveyed and platted into ninety-two (92) lots at the request of the Carolina Florida Realty Company, by G. M. Howe, which plat is recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in plat Book C at Page 128; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

SUBJECT to assessments, Charleston Ad Valorem Taxes, any and all restrictions, easements, covenants and rights-of-way of record, and any other senior encumbrances.

This being the same property conveyed to James Hart, III by deed of Ethel L. Terry a/k/a Ethel Lee Terry, dated January 24, 2002 and recorded January 30, 2003 in Book U434 at Page 705 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County.

TMS # 4631201035 Case#: 2024CP1003621

Current Property Address: 1150 King Street Charleston, SC 29403

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, and 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, certified funds in the amount of five per cent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to

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 to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you.

If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.

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

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 November 21, 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)

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

Columbia, South Carolina

Master’s Sale 2024-CP-10-03644

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

J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., PLAINTIFF VERSUS Sheila Henderson, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Herman Bryan a/k/a Herman Bryan, Jr., Deceased; et.al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated December 12, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash,

at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Emergency Operations Center, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 4th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, designated as Lot 30, Block A located in Amberwood Subdivision in Charleston County, South Carolina as shown on “Plat of Amberwood Subdivision, Phase I, a 19.69 acre tract of Land, located in the City of North Charleston, Charleston County, SC property of BerkeleyAmberwood Associates” dated November 26, 1984 and recorded in Plat Book BC at Page 96, said plat further being revised July 29, 1985 by plat recorded in Plat Book BE at Page 179, further revision to subject lot by plat recorded in Plat Book CK at Page 53, all recordings being in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina. Said lot having such size, shape, measurements, buttings and boundings as will by reference to the aforesaid plat more fully appear.

PLEASE NOTE: The above legal description has been revised so as to correct the original subdivision plat date and include reference to the revised subdivision plat.

This being the same property conveyed to Herman Bryan, Jr. by deed of Angela L. Blount n/k/a Angela L. Mason and Michael Mason dated August 24, 2007 and recorded August 29, 2007 in Book B637 at Page 306 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Subsequently, Herman Bryan a/k/a Herman Bryan, Jr. died on or about November 12, 2020, leaving the subject property to his heirs, namely Sheila Henderson, Delores Dingle, Herman Bryan, III, Keith Bryan, Donna Heyward, Maurice Johnson, Travis L. Brown, Derrick Sergeton, Wandesha Smalls, Denise Smalls, and Travis Smalls.

TMS No. 406-01-00-049

Property address: 4958 Amberwood Lane, North Charleston, SC 29418

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

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

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

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

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

Nicole K. O’Shaughnessy, Esquire

Telephone: (803) 828-0880

FOR INSERTION 1/17/2025; 1/24/2025; 1/31/2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity A-4832206

01/17/2025, 01/24/2025, 01/31/2025

The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of Five (5%) Percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder.

The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum].

in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book V-129, Page 325, and the amendments thereto. Together with the undivided percentage interest in the General Common Elements of the property described in Section 1 of Article 4 of said Master Deed appurtenant thereto.

This being the same property conveyed to Virginia Allen by deed of Debra B. Tillman, Patricia B. Googe, Glenn E. Googe, Mark A. Burnup and David M. Burnup dated March 2, 2017, and recorded March 30, 2017 with the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book 0626 at Page 859.

TMS Number: 358-16-00-116

Property Address: 2770 Jobee Drive, Apt. 1, Charleston, SC 29414

Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on James Island, in the City and County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, know and designated as Lot No. 54A, EGRET’S POINTE SUBDIVISION – PHASE II, as shown on a plat made by Lawrence J. Kennerty, Jr., R.L.S., dated June 14, 1993, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book CN, Page 32, said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

Master’s Sale Case No. 2024-CP-10-04262

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

Movement Mortgage, LLC vs. Dinah Jones Houk, South Carolina Department of Revenue

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 11th day of December, 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, SC., on the 4th day of February, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDING AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE LYING AND BEING IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 204, ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT PREPARED BY THOMAS AND HUTTON

ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING, ENTITLED “A FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF A PORTION OF TRACT B-3B TO CREATE ASHLEY PARK PHASE 6, CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” RECORDED ON APRIL 11, 2016 AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK L16 AT PAGE 164 IN THE CHARLESTON COUNTY ROD OFFICE. SAID LOTS HAVING SUCH SIZES, DIMENSIONS, BUTTING AND BOUNDINGS AS REFERENCE TO SAID PLAT WILL SHOW. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO DINAH JONES HOUK BY DEED FROM JOHN G. FOSCOLOS, JR BY DEED JULY 14, 2022 AND RECORDED JULY 15, 2022 IN THE REGISTERS OFFICE OF BOOK 1124, PAGE 475, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

TMS # 306-01-00-034

Current Property Address: 4244 Scharite St, Charleston, SC 29414 No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the

NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2023-CP-10-4595

By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Sienna at Grand Oaks Homeowners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, against Richard C. Gallier, Defendant;

I, the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, will sell on February 4, 2025 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit:

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, together with any and all improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina and more particularly shown and delineated as Lot 32, Sienna at Bee’s Landing, Phase 2, on a Final Plat of aforesaid subdivision prepared by Trico Engineering Consultants, Inc., dated July 26, 2001, recorded in Plat Cabinet EF, Slide 358, Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, and said lot having such boundaries and measurements as shown on the above described plat, which is specifically incorporated by reference herein.

Subject to any and all restrictive covenants, easements and right-ofway of record.

Being the same property conveyed to Richard C. Gallier by deed of Palmetto Traditional Homes LLC, dated October 31, 2002, and recorded November 13, 2002 in the ROD Office for Charleston County in Book N425, at Page 796.

TMS No.: 305-04-00-177

Property Address: 486 Hainsworth Drive, Charleston, SC 29414

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH:

The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Generation Mortgage Company, and/or Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the original amount of $273,000.00 dated July 21, 2011, and recorded July 29, 2011, in Book 0199 at Page 618 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office.

Any sale pursuant to this order is without warranty of any kind. Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser. All third-party purchasers are made parties to this action and are deemed to have notice of all matters disclosed by the public record, including the status of title.

See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008)

Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed.

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

Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County

Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412

NOTICE OF SALE

Docket No. 2023-CP-10-4848

By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Ashleytowne Village Horizontal Property Regime (A) a/k/a Ashleytowne Village, Inc., Plaintiff, against Virginia Allen, Defendant;

I, the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, will sell on February 4, 2025 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or unit, situate, lying and being in Charleston County, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Unit Number 801 in Ashleytowne Village Horizontal Property Regime (A), as shown on the plans and specifications attached to the Master Deed of Ashleytowne Village Horizontal Property Regime (A), dated October 28, 1982 and recorded on November 5, 1982 Derek F.

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH:

The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of Five (5%) Percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder.

The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum].

The sale shall be subject to any and all liens including taxes, tax liens, government liens etc. recorded in the Charleston County Register of Deeds or filed with the Clerk of Court and/or with/by the South Carolina Department of Revenue or the Internal Revenue Service or any other agency or department of the United States of America.

Any sale pursuant to this order is without warranty of any kind. Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser. All third-party purchasers are made parties to this action and are deemed to have notice of all matters disclosed by the public record, including the status of title.

See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008)

Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed.

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

Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County

Attorney for the Plaintiff

Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412

NOTICE OF SALE

Docket No. 2023-CP-10-0669

By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Egret’s Pointe Property Owners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, against Todd J. Peterson and Pamela C. Peterson, Defendants; I, the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, will sell on February 4, 2025 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council

SUBJECT to restrictions recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book J221, Page 534 and in Book M221, Page 344, and any and all easements of record.

THIS BEING the same property conveyed to Todd J. Peterson and Pamela C. Peterson by deed of The H. A. Rooke Company, Incorporated, dated May 23, 1994, and recorded May 24, 1994, in Book H243 at Page 402 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office.

TMS Number: 427-10-00-015

Property Address: 1350 Fiddle Way, Charleston, SC 29412

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH:

The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of Five (5%) Percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder.

The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum].

The sale shall be subject to that certain applicable tax lien(s) and/ or possible tax lien(s) held by South Carolina Department of Revenue pursuant to a search of “Todd Peterson” in the MyDORWAY State Tax Lien Registry; and that certain lien held by Seaside Plantation Property Owners, Inc. in the original amount of $2,226.00, recorded March 26, 2022, in Book 1094 at Page 047, with the Charleston County Register of Deeds.

Any sale pursuant to this order is without warranty of any kind. Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser. All third-party purchasers are made parties to this action and are deemed to have notice of all matters disclosed by the public record, including the status of title.

See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008)

Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed.

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

Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County Attorney for the Plaintiff

147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604

Charleston, SC 29412

Master’s Sale

2024-CP-10-02840

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

NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, PLAINTIFF

versus Bret Reynolds, The United States of America, acting by and through its agency, The Farmers Home Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, The United States of America, acting by and through its agency, The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Discover Bank, and Credit Corp Solutions Inc., DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 11th day of December, 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 4th day of February, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, being known and designated as Lot 11, Block A, and more particularly shown on a plat of Strafford Heights Subdivision by W H Matheny dated June 1954, recorded in Plat Book J, Page 171 in the RMC Office for Charleston County, said lot having such metes, bounds, and dimensions as are shown on said plat. Being the same property conveyed to Bret Reynolds and Moriah Grace Reynolds aka Moriah Reynolds by deed of Michael T. Tecosky, dated May 18, 2015 and recorded May 27, 2015 in Deed Book 0478 at Page 375; thereafter, Bret Reynolds and Moriah Grace Reynolds aka Moriah Reynolds conveyed the subject property to Bret Reynolds by deed dated June 20, 2019 and recorded July 11, 2019 in Deed Book 0807 at Page 362.

TMS No. 279-16-00-016

Property Address: 3464 Hobson Drive, Johns Island, SC 29455

Since a deficiency judgment is being demanded, the bidding will remain open for thirty (30) days after the date of sale, pursuant to S.C. Code ANN. Section 15-39-720, (1976), to close on March 6, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. The deficiency judgment may be waived by the Plaintiff upon written request prior to sale. The Sale is made subject to the Right of Redemption of the United States of America, pursuant to Section 2410(c), U.S. Code, for a period of 120 days from date of sale. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.2500%. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail

to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING. Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials. PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC (803) 799-9993 FOR INSERTION

Charleston County, and having the boundaries and measurements as shown on the last described plat.

This description is made in lieu of the metes and bounds description as permitted by law, Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976) as amended. Being the same property conveyed to William Wolfe Kelly and Mary Allison Kelly, as joint tenants with the right of survivorship, and not as tenants in common, by deed of Randall L. Hedglin, Jr. and Nicole R. Hedglin, dated August 1, 2022 and recorded August 3, 2022 in Deed Book 1128 at Page 722.

TMS No. 3070100131

Property Address: 759 Cartwright Drive, Charleston, SC 29414

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5.2500%. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING. Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

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

FOR INSERTION January 17, 2025, January 24, 2025, January 31, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

C/A NO. 2024-CP-10-05704

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, as Trustee for Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2023-1, Plaintiff

vs. John C. Borkowski; Fay C. Borkowski; and John C. Brokowski, III, Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) John C. Borkowski; Fay C. Borkowski; and John C. Brokowski, III:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2838 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on November 14, 2024.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending or is about to be commenced in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendant for the purpose of foreclosing a certain mortgage of real estate heretofore given by John C. Borkowski, Fay C. Borkowski, and John C. Borkowski, III to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, as Trustee for Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2023-1 bearing date of December 8, 2005 and recorded December 14, 2005 in Mortgage Book C566 at Page 167 in the Register of Mesne Conveyances/ Register of Deeds/Clerk of Court for Charleston County, in the original principal sum of Two Hundred Sixty Five Thousand Five Hundred and 00/100 Dollars ($265,500.00). Thereafter, the mortgage was assigned to the Plaintiff by assignment and to be recorded on October 9, 2024 at Book 1272, Page 339., and that the premises effected by said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof are situated in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is described as follows: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Mt. Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina and more particularly shown as Lot 1, Block G, on a plat entitled “Wakendaw Lakes, Town of Mount Pleasant, S.C.”, prepared by E.M. Seabrook, Jr., RLS and CE dated February 3, 1969 and recorded February 19, 1969 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book Y, Page 54. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

TMS No. 559-02-00-027

Property Address: 1305 South Barksdale Road, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 Riley Pope & Laney, LLC

CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER: 2024-DR10-3028

MIRNA ALICIA SORIANO Plaintiff, V. ROSALBA ESTUDIANTE-BAUTISTA and MARCOS URDUNA, Defendants.

SUMMONS

TO: ROSALBA ESTUDIANTEBAUTISTA and MARCOS URDUNA, DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve your Answer to said Complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff, at his offices located at 2 Cavalier Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and fail to answer the Complaint as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of service, Judgment by Default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint

G. EDWARD HAWKINS, III

HAWKINS LAW FIRM, P.A. 2 Cavalier Avenue

Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 225-7565

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

Charleston, South Carolina October 22. 2024

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By Rob Brezsny

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Why are diamonds considered so valuable? I’m skeptical. High-grade diamonds are not as rare as public perception would lead us to believe. Yes, they are extraordinarily hard and scratch-resistant, but is that a reason to regard them as a sublime treasure? I acknowledge they are pretty in a bland way. But other gems are more intriguingly beautiful. Maybe the most important reason they are so prized is that diamond sellers have done effective marketing campaigns to promote them as symbols of love and luxury. All this is a prelude to my main message: Now is an excellent time to think and feel deeply about what is truly beautiful to you — and take steps to bring more of it into your life. For you Libras, beauty is an essential ingredient in your life’s purpose.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The way that ancient Romans made concrete was more ingenious than modern methods. Their manufacturing materials included “lime clasts,” which gave the concrete selfhealing qualities. When cracks arose, they fixed themselves. That’s why Roman aqueducts built 2,000 years ago can still convey water today. Metaphorically speaking, I hope you will work on building similar structures in the coming weeks. It’s time to create strong foundations that will last for a very long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Do you harbor a yearning to learn a new language, new skill, or new trick? The coming weeks will be a favorable phase to get serious about doing it. Have you fantasized about embarking on an adventure that would expand your understanding of how the world works? The time is right. Have you wished you could attract an inspirational prod to unleash more creativity and experiment freely? The astrological omens suggest that inspirational prod is imminent. Have you wondered whether you could enhance and fine-tune your receptivity — and thereby open up surprising sources of fresh teaching? Do it now!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Bristlecone pine trees grow very slowly, but they are hardy and long-lived. Their wood is so dense and strong that it’s virtually immune to disease, insects, and erosion. They grow in places that are inhospitable for many other trees, flourishing in cold, windy environments where the soil is not particularly rich in nutrients. For the bristlecone pine, apparent obstacles stimulate their resilience. I don’t want to exaggerate the ways they remind me of you Capricorns, but you and they certainly have affinities. I believe these shared qualities will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In old Hawaii, it was forbidden for ordinary people to touch objects that belonged to the chiefs or to anyone with spiritual powers. Other taboos: Never walk across the shadow of an important person and never wear red and yellow feathers. Our modern taboos are different, but often equally rigid. For example, you are probably hesitant to ask people how much money they make or what their relationship status is. What are other taboos you observe? I won’t outrightly advise you to brazenly break them, but now is a good time to re-evaluate them—and consider changing your relationship with them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As winter progresses, each day is longer and each night shorter. Most humans feel an undercurrent of joy that the amount of light in the world is growing. But as an astrologer who appreciates cycles, I like to honor the beauty and powers of darkness. That’s where everything new gets born! It’s where the future comes from! In ancient Hawaiian religion, the word kumulipo meant “beginning-in-deep-darkness.” It was also the name of a prayer describing the creation of the world. In the coming weeks, I believe you will be wise to tap into the rich offerings of darkness.

Across

1. “Le Freak” disco group

5. “No ___!” (“I’ve had enough,” in Spanish)

8. New Testament king/villain

13. Kind of exhaust

14. Japanese sashes

16. South American masa dish that’s doughy when undercooked

17. “Mad Men” award

18. Taverna liqueur that tastes like anise

19. Utensil with small holes

20. Words chosen to be ignored, maybe 23. Manufacturer of bar code scanners and ATMs

24. Large blob

25. Negative decisions

28. Reminder of a debt

30. Monarch in Spain, but not the U.S.

31. Scummy pair?

34. Latin Grammy-nominated Mexican musician ___ Paz

37. Mango ___ bowl

38. Like those who don’t get called back

42. 2006-07 NBA MVP Nowitzki

43. Cross

44. Mo. for National Moldy Cheese Day

45. Vainglorious one

48. “___ with caution”

49. Agcy. created by Bush

50. “Toxic” singer Britney

53. Acquired

55. “Thanks for being thoughtful”

60. “Love Boat” guest who once said “Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius”

61. He’ll feed you a line

62. “___ of Confusion” (Genesis hit)

64. “Charade” director Stanley

65. Tabloid nickname of the “Y’all Ain’t Ready” rapper once married to 50-Across

66. Birth state of seven presidents

67. Mudville’s “mighty” failure at the plate

68. Radio bands with more music than talk

69. Totally insane, like some choices or opinions

Down

1. Agency founded to help fight malaria, for short

2. Streaming service with “This Fool” and “Tell Me Lies”

3. Comedian and “Love Island” narrator Stirling

Bozo, e.g.

Clear choice for car enthusiasts?

Lie alongside

Word with bite or king

Barely at all

9. “Wicked” star Cynthia

10. Instructions in a box in the kitchen

11. Libya and Kuwait’s oil org.

12. Truth alternative

15. Island home of Thomas the Tank Engine

21. Allowing no returns, in tennis

22. Pumpkin ___ (fall beverage)

25. Fresh hairstyle

26. Corrupt, sycophantic courtier in “Hamlet”

27. Makeup of questionable attendance records, maybe

29. Aduba who played Shirley Chisholm in “Mrs. America”

32. Low-lying wetland

33. Building plots

35. Expensive printer fluid

36. Sometimes it’s a bust

37. “Damned dirty” creature of film

39. “Adam Ruins Everything” network ___TV

40. Argues (with)

41. “___ Destruction” (1991 film)

45. More than a misdemeanor

46. Wine barrel wood

47. Puncture from a thorn

51. Gravylike soup

52. Extinguish, with “out”

54. Windbreaker material

55. “Jailbreak” and “Highway to Hell” band

56. “Stop doing that!”

57. Judge

58. The only U.S. location that will ever have a royal palace

59. Minute, hand, or rod, e.g.

63. El jefe’s #2

“ZERO STARS!” —that’s my rating.