As an estuary is a habitat for numerous species, EBB believes in supporting numerous companies who live in the same industry, to flourish and survive amongst each other. This strategy represents giving back to other beverage businesses, establishing a friendly environment, promoting beer, coffee, and artisan craft.
Located within Charleston SC, on scenic and captivating Johns Island, known for its rich historical background, old churches, and stories of Native American settlements. The outlying island is a gem for those who like to delve into history and experience the true natural beauty of Charleston. Johns Island is well-known for the role the area played during the American Civil War, and features several interesting places to visit in Charleston, including the widely popular Angel Oak. The Southern Oak Tree has gained much popularity over recent years mainly due to its over 1400-years-old age. Furthermore, the island is also home to the Caw Interpretive Center, rich in natural historical, and cultural resources, that offers the avid wildlife and outdoor lovers an abundance of adventure. Come check out our home today!
Imagery captures a moment. It is forever secured for generations to come. Photography is the historian of modern day existence and critical to ensuring we respect our surroundings and remember our past.
We took some time around the Lowcountry to capture some of my most favorite places in black and white and a little noir. Enjoy this visual tour of the Lowcountry as seen through the eyes of a black and white lens.
Your Mom’s Donuts, home to two locations in Charlotte, NC, has opened their third location on John’s Island, SC at 3157 Maybank Hwy, offering crazy and creative square treats with both sweet and savory flavors ranging from Bananas Foster and Chocolate Espresso Cheesecake to Blackberry Cornmeal (made with blackberries from the John’s Island Farmers Market) and Pimento Cheese.
When she’s not managing her rockstar team of bakers, Courtney can be found homeschooling her three kids (she’s a single mom and truly does it all), walking her six dogs, or tending to her 8 horses that she boards on her property.
Ever since moving to the Charlotte area in 2005, Courtney worked to connect local farms to restaurants that were in search of a better product. That work helped her create the relationships she needed to source her ingredients for her donuts from farmers and purveyors who mimic her philosophy of sustainability and quality.
Her donuts are all crafted with locally sourced ingredients like strawberries, blueberries and watermelon from local farms such as Fireant Farms and Wishbone Heritage Farms. If you ask Courtney one thing that matters to her more than anything- it’s community. She lives and breathes it.
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) will open the renovated John’s Island Library, located at 3531 Maybank Highway, on Monday, Aug. 23. The public is invited to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the branch.
“After being closed for over a year, we’re thrilled to show the community all of the exciting changes that have taken place at their branch,” said CCPL Executive Director Angela Craig. “John’s Island and the surrounding area finally have access to a modern, state-of-the-art library, equipped with resources, services, and technology that extend well beyond books.”
The John’s Island Library closed in August 2020 to undergo renovations as part of the ongoing $108.5 million referendum-funded project passed by Charleston County voters in 2014 to build five new libraries and renovate all existing branches. Updates include:
The Otranto Road Library, which opened on Aug. 2, was the first renovated branch to reopen its doors to the public. Three other CCPL branches –Hurd/St. Andrew’s, Mt. Pleasant, and Dorchester Road– are currently closed for renovations, with the Hurd/St. Andrew’s branch expected to reopen in the coming weeks. Designs for the renovations were created by McMillan Pazdan Smith (MPS), with MB Kahn handling construction.
The ribbon cutting ceremony will include speakers from the library and Charleston County Government, as well as elected officials. Due to COVID-19, occupancy at the ceremony will be limited. In addition to the ribbon cutting, patrons will have the opportunity to meet the branch staff, take pictures with CCPL’s mascot Owlbert, and more.
For more information about this library branch and updates on the construction of the other facilities, please visit ccpl.org/construction.
After an amazing few weeks with our doors open, we are excited for our grand opening event this Saturday, May 1! Come by to enjoy special promotions available one day only! We open at 10 am.
2817 Maybank Highway, Johns Island, SC (Near Zepplin and Maria’s)
Petition: Stop Mayor Tecklenburg from Annexing More John’s Island Land Through Taking Possession of a Local Community Park & Historic Preservation Project
When you ask the Mayor for a letter of support and instead he takes the plan for the city.
If you want to chip in to this effort, please visit https://gofund.me/80915ea2which will go to furthering our land and culture conservation efforts. thank you ****)For the past 5.5 years, a John’s Island community-led initiative has been working to secure 26+ acres in the center of Maybank Highway.
This effort is in cooperation with many local groups, but the preservation of farmland extends past just this 26 acres into John’s Island’s local farms, protecting an additional 200 acres.
Joseph Fields of Fields Farm
Sidi Limehouse of Rosebank Farms
Vernon Smith of Vernon Smith Farms
Kenneth Milton of Lowland Farms
Anthony of Fire Ant Farms
This multicultural multigenerational collaboration is to ensure the true heart and soul of John’s Island is represented by and for its citizens in the corridor which has been rapidly developing in the hands of the City of Charleston. In the last 10 years, the City has put 80% of its new housing on John’s Island. AND NOW Mayor Tecklenburg himself is unwelcomely taking over this project when the community reached out for a letter of support.
Upon receiving the request for the letter of support, Mr. Tecklenberg went to view the pond property (26 acres), and decided that it would be more advantageous to him if the city applied for the property acquisition, which to his advantage includes annexation of the property into the city.
CIRCA 1111’s plan has been to create a park, community facilities, historic preservation, tributes to local heroes, education, as well as a farm co-op market so that locally grown food is available in a highly visible central location. The park is the heart of ensuring that people stay connected to the land and children grow up experiencing the outdoors through affiliate nature programs on site. The service of community facilities is to give the public access to water back to the community, allowing space to fish, cook, and commune together in a multicultural atmosphere. The embodiment of the project is to the monument and educate about our native local civil rights heroes, Gullah and migrant farming heroes, and Indigenous heroes, so that true John’s Island history is not forgotten and becomes part of the narrative of those who live here. The soul of the project is the co-op market. Meeting the essential service of food production is the grit and glory that our local farmers have earned and that John’s Island is famous for. Making this food central to citizens preserves land, a way of life and nourishes the bodies of its citizens.
CIRCA 1111, Local Pulse, Preserve the Gullah, and other community affiliates as a community effort have spent over $30,000 in financial spending, $50,000 in local sponsorship donations, 90,000 service hours, as well as an SBA approved Business Plan on this project. The goal is to ensure the center of our historic island is represented by and for the people, John’s Island citizens, who have shaped life on our island long before the City of Charleston began to annex properties and create their widening tax base vision
This effort has gone through the county Greenbelt funding application twice. The first time, we were 1 vote from getting approval even though their funding wasn’t technically available. Because of this, the second time, we included all interested parcels, but asked that the particular 26 acre pond parcel be the priority of the application due to the lack of funding issue. However, this intention was not given true consideration – as Greenbelt staff advised a different approach of including all possible land parcels. Greenbelt staff did not represent the intention of our prioritization for the 26-acre parcel, but rather included all parcels, therefore again placing our funding out of reach. Since then, CIRCA 1111 has applied a 3rd time for the 26-acre parcel only. We have learned our lesson of how the Greenbelt staff and Advisory Board operates and knew this was now a good shot at success.
This is where Mayor Tecklenburg, after receiving our request for a letter of support, decided the City of Charleston would fare better if they applied, annexed, and acquired the property, and put their own city park in place of our community effort. Our board reviewed the mayor’s intentions and sent a formal response. This response restated the original ask that he write a letter of support for our multicultural nonprofit community project as requested. If he was determined to acquire the property for the City, then we requested that he include us and our intended programs for historic preservation, childhood education, etc on site. He then stopped replying to our communications.
We are now in the process of filing a report with the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and circulating this petition. Our only available route for success with this hard-earned effort is for the mayor to act in good moral conscience, withdraw the application, and give us a letter of support, rather than a takeover.
We recognize that this solution is not likely because the mayor takes more seriously the annexation and taxation of his citizens, rather than the sincere hard work of organizing, caring, and resourceful community coming together to creating a representation of themselves on their island home. Supporting the community who has donated so much time and resources to save the heart and soul of their homeland from the devastating effects of city development, would be the most respectful action the mayor could take when he knows good and well what John’s Island roots mean to its people. We love our home, and we are fighting to keep it meaning something in the heart of all of this development.
This project has always been a community effort to truly preserve, diversify and sustain. To honestly answer the most pressing needs of John’s Islanders in a way that respects heritage, farmland, diverse cultures, and bring them all together as the central point of focus on this centralized track of land. For the Mayor to step in and claim it as city park territory is a desecration of our multicultural community benefit effort.
Ways to help this cause:
1) Sign this petition and share it with your friends, co-workers, family, and online
2) Donate to the Indigenous Nature Conservancy Fundraiser on Go Fund Me by Willie Heyward: Indigenous Nature Conservancy https://gofund.me/80915ea2
3) Sign up yourself individually or your business to become a part of the Gullah CVB as an alternative to the Charleston CVB which is not truly serving all demographics of Charleston.
There are awesome local perks & using our hospitality tax dollars to serve the whole community is the goal at www.gullahcvb.com
Thank you & bless you with the true beauty & nature of all our hearts, which is love over greed.
How would you like to sip wine on a Friday night and hang out with a sloth?
How about the most unique Bachelorette or Bachelor party?
Think about the perfect family outing; walking an anteater and taking selfies with an adorable sloth.
Just outside of Charleston on beautiful Johns Island, Sidney Jameson Copperpot (Sloth), Samantha (Anteater), Piggy the Kinkjou (Honey Bear), Fred and Wilma the Tortoise’s, Pork Chop (Flemish Giant Rabbit), and Huckleberry and Princess Consuela (Possums) are waiting to be your new friends.
They are all residents of Charleston Sloths and Exotics located at 3129 River Rd, Johns Island, SC 29455.
Samantha searching for antsJust hanging aroundPrincess ConsuelaSamantha the AnteaterSidney the SlothFred and Pork ChopPiggy the Kinkjou Sidney Jameson Copperpot
At Tolli’s Apizza, classic and modern Italian a pizza and pasta. Over 80 years and four generations of our family’s dedication to serving you the best.
Fine Italian cuisine is really about two things, getting the freshest ingredients, and using a masterful technique to bring out the best flavors.
At Tolli’s Apizza, we’ve had decades of experience serving the best of Italian cuisine. From pizzas to pasta to our famous Escarole and Bean Pie, we owe it to our customers to have the highest standards of quality.
In our kitchen, pasta and sauces are made from scratch. We source ingredients from fresh supplies and then use traditional recipes handed down through generations to bring out the best. For dine-in or delivery, no one does Italian cuisine like Tolli’s Apizza
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