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As this city continues to grow and prosper, we want to help spread the message to all about how wonderful this community is.
Charleston is about the people, community, water, land, history, heritage and the true southern warmth it brings with each and every day.
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Watch RANKY TANKY’s acceptance speech for Best Regional Roots Music Album for ‘LIVE AT THE 2022 NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL’ at the 2023 GRAMMYs.
“Highest praise to God, the giver of gifts and all things good”
Navy Yard Charleston is reactivating itself as an essential social and economic hub while connecting Downtown Charleston to a growing North Charleston community. We wear our historic patina proudly, crafting new housing from old structures and putting character-rich buildings to new use as maker spaces, restaurants, artisan retail and creative offices.
FlexCold announced plans to open its second cold-storage facility in the United States and expand its first facility in Jacksonville, Fla.
The new facility will be built in Charleston, S.C., where the company’s headquarters are located. It is expected to be operational by late summer 2024. The $50 million investment will be located within 30 minutes of the Port of Charleston and will support import and export business, specifically seafood. The planned facility will offer more than 30,000 pallet positions of cold-storage space.
Meanwhile, the expanded facility in Jacksonville will span more than 350,000 ft2 and offer 55,000 pallet positions of chilled and frozen storage. Construction is scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 2023, with completion estimated to be in the summer of 2024. The expansion will further enhance the company’s capabilities to service the growing import and export demand as well as its distribution services offerings to major population centers in the southeast United States.
As part of the Charleston Police Department’s King Street safety plan – which includes stepped-up police patrols, better lighting, and changes in the street’s traffic pattern – the city of Charleston will soon begin towing enforcement of the existing weekend parking rules along King Street. These rules prohibit street parking on King Street between Spring and John streets from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
After piloting the new parking rules for more than a year, the changes were made permanent in October, and signs were installed on parking meters to indicate no parking zones. However, due to ongoing compliance issues, the Charleston Police Department has requested increased enforcement measures to include towing, a request that was received by the Traffic & Transportation Committee of City Council and reported out to full City Council last week.
Motorists can expect to see towing enforcement start February 9. These operations will also include warning flyers, meter bags, flashing message boards, blocking off empty spaces and distribution of information to surrounding businesses that those businesses can share with patrons and employees.
“Our goal is not to have to tow a single car,” said Charleston Police Department Captain Jason Bruder. “We hope that using a myriad of efforts to inform motorists of the rules will be successful, but we are prepared to tow cars if necessary to protect public safety.”
These changes will also improve cleanliness by increasing the efficiency of early morning streetsweeping by the city’s Public Service Department.
Alternative, discounted parking for this area is available at the Visitor Center Garage, located at 63 Mary Street. This garage offers a $7 flat rate fee after 3 p.m. and a $5 flat rate fee after 5 p.m. The discounted evening rate ends at 3 a.m. and reverts to the regular garage rate ($1 per half hour). Additional parking at the $1 per half hour rate is available at the Midtown Garage (558 King Street) and Marion Square Garage (399 King Street).
Want to buy a home in South Carolina? Today, I am going to tell you about some great rural towns in South Carolina. If you haven’t watched videos in this series before, let me explain. More and more people are leaving the cities and suburbs for retirement or because they are remote workers. These people are looking for rural small towns.
They want low crime, internet, affordable housing, and access to health care. So, we have researched states looking for that sweet spot that fits those requirements. Not all states have many rural towns that are in that sweet spot. South Carolina is one of them. Crime is what kicked a lot of rural communities to the curb in the Palmetto State.
I don’t know what the deal is in this state. The crime rates are through the roof in most rural towns. They have the same problems most states have like drugs and poverty. They just seem to have a bunch of idiots doing stupid stuff in these small rural towns. 90% of the people in these towns are wonderful people just trying to live their lives.
Then you have that 10% that are really getting after it, real go-getters when it comes to stupidity.
And that is why we only found 5 rural towns in SC. One of them probably shouldn’t be included because it’s a little too big. Let us know in the comment section if you think we missed one or which was your favorite. Get it? Got it? Good. Let’s take a look.
If you have to live the same day over and over again, who else could pull it off with wit, style and a little sneakiness than the incomparable Bill Murray. He won the heart of Andie McDowell and a small Pennsylvania town as he repeated Groundhog Day over and over and over and over again. He made us laugh, cry and even took a fun ride with the famous groundhog himself.
Let us celebrate this festive holiday with some of the best quotes from ‘Groundhog Day’
“What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.”
“This is pitiful – 1,000 people freezing their butts off to worship rat.”
“I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.”
“I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank pina coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?
“I’m a god. I’m not the God I don’t think.”
“He might be OK … well, no, probably not now … “
“My years are not advancing as fast as you might think.”
“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?”
“Don’t you have some kind of a line that you keep open for emergencies or for celebrities? I’m both. I’m a celebrity in an emergency.”
“Today is tomorrow! It happened!”
“I’m not going to live by their rules anymore.”
“When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn’t imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.”
” It’s just still once a year, isn’t it?”
Phil Connors:(to the groundhog) “Don’t drive angry! Don’t drive angry!”
Phil Connors: “Who is your perfect guy?”
Rita: “Well, first of all, he’s too humble to know he’s perfect.”
Tri-County-based nonprofit We Are Family (WAF) is excited to announce its new ParentSpace program, offering local parents, guardians and caregivers of LGBTQI+ youth and young adults the chance to share interests, receive support and advice, and meet new friends. Facilitated by highly-qualified therapists and backed by support services, advocacy tools and networking opportunities, ParentSpace is designed to provide holistic assistance.
Meetings are 90 minutes and held twice a month- one virtual and one in person (TBD). Upcoming dates are February 5 at 4 p.m. (in-person) and February 21 at 7 p.m. (virtual).
Interested parents, guardians and caregivers can fill out THIS intake form to get started, and can also connect with others via the ParentSpace Facebook Group. Don’t miss WAF’s general tips for parents, found HERE. For questions or more information, please contact WAF’s ParentSpace facilitator at parentspace@waf.org.
For more information on WAF, which has been providing affirming spaces for LGBTQI+ youth in the Lowcountry since 1995, please visit www.waf.org or follow WAF on Facebook and Instagram.
Kardea Brown shares down-home, Southern recipes from her South Carolina kitchen. The cook and caterer was born and raised on the sea islands of Charleston, the heart of all Southern cooking, and learned to cook in her grandmother’s kitchen.
These days, she takes generations of family recipes and makes them her own as she cooks for family and friends at her Sea Island home. Welcome to Food Network, where learning to cook is as simple as clicking play!
Grab your apron and get ready to get cookin’ with some of the best chefs around the world. We’ll give you a behind-the-scenes look at our best shows, take you inside our favorite restaurant and be your resource in the kitchen to make sure every meal is a 10/10! Slow-Cooked Brisket with Carolina BBQ Sauce
One 2-pound beef brisket, fat cap trimmed, sinew removed
4 medium yellow onions, halved and sliced 1/2 inch thick
2 bay leaves
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
20 ounces pale ale
Sliced white bread, for serving
BBQ Sauce:
2 cups apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup spicy brown mustard
1/2 cup whole-grain mustard
1/2 cup yellow mustard
1 red onion, roughly chopped
1 garlic clove, peeled and smashed
3 tablespoons bourbon
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
Miss Brown’s House Seasoning:
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
For the brisket:
Add the olive oil to a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Sprinkle the brisket with Miss Brown’s House Seasoning. Sear the brisket fat-side down until a deep golden crust forms, 5 to 7 minutes.
Flip and sear other side until deep golden brown, another 5 minutes. Remove to a sheet tray. Add the onions and bay leaves and season with salt and pepper. Stir until coated in fat. Add the beer and bring to a boil. Put the brisket on top of the onions, cover and place in the oven for 3 hours.
For the BBQ sauce:
While the brisket cooks, add the vinegar, brown sugar, brown mustard, whole-grain mustard, yellow mustard, onion, garlic, bourbon and cayenne to a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
Bring to a boil and cook until the onion becomes slightly translucent, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat, add to a blender (or use an immersion blender) and puree until smooth, being careful of hot steam.
Pour back into the pan and simmer over medium-low until slightly thickened and reduced by 1/4, about 30 minutes. At the 3-hour mark, pour 1 cup of the BBQ sauce over the brisket, return to the oven and cook until the sauce has melted into the brisket, 30 minutes more.
Use a knife to test the tenderness of the brisket. It should pierce the brisket very smoothly, with no pushback. Remove the brisket from the pot and slice against the grain.
Discard the bay leaves. Serve with sliced white bread and all those slow-braised beer onions. Don’t forget about the extra BBQ sauce for dipping. Store any extra sauce in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
Miss Brown’s House Seasoning:
Stir together the onion powder, paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Keep in an airtight container. Makes 5 teaspoons.
DON’T MOVE TO MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina without first taking a look at the Pros AND Cons of living here. While there are many great things about our beautiful town, there are also some things that might not be a good fit for some people when looking at moving to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
So check out the video to make sure you don’t miss out on the top pros and cons of living in Mount Pleasant, SC.
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