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Weekend offers 2 chances to flip open binoculars for birds News

By Alyssa McDowell

The early bird may catch the worm, but the early human counts the bird.

As thousands of camo-attired visitors flock to Charleston for the annual Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, state officials are encouraging area residents to get outside to count birds.

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) is conducting two bird surveys Feb. 13 through Feb. 16. First, there’s the department’s 11th annual Baltimore oriole winter survey. At the same time, birders can tally flying friends as part of the global Great Backyard Bird Count.

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their appearance is always met with some degree of heart flutter, for me at least,” said Keith McCullough, natural history interpretation coordinator at Caw Caw Interpretive Center near Ravenel. He said he finds the birds to be particularly striking and great birds to point out to new birders who may only know them from the professional baseball team.

Even if you don’t have orioles that visit your yard, recording other species that show up can contribute to the Great Backyard Bird Count.” —Keith McCullough

More than just a baseball team mascot, the Baltimore oriole is a beautiful orange and black songbird with a whistling melody that catches the ears before the eyes.

The bird once spent winters in southern Florida, the Caribbean and Central and South America. But now like many other northern Americans, South Carolina seems to have caught the orioles’ eyes in the last decade. SCDNR says it continues to report the increasing number of sightings as the years continue with the help of surveys like the ones this weekend. And it’s not a onesided admiration.

“Whether male or female, adult or young,

“The various oranges in their plumages are colors not seen often in the birds of this region.”

McCullough said.

Lowcountry birdwatchers typically find their feeders to be visited more often by Carolina wrens, which are a light brown color, or northern cardinals, who are most often red, according to SCDNR. But during the winter, survey participants record and report the Baltimore oriole as the most common sightings on any given day.

Bird watching is a growing hobby that combines the quiet beauty of nature and the precision of science. Winter brings even more excitement within the community. Many birds migrate south for warmer weather, including the Baltimore oriole.

McCullough encouraged bird watchers to take part in any way they can.

“Observations can be made and recorded in the comfort of your own home with only 30 minutes or more of observational effort,”

The Rundown

Charleston County Council refining 2026 referendum

Charleston County Council is continuing to take steps to refine a likely 2026 Transportation sales tax referendum as a followup to the overwhelming denial of a 2024 half-penny tax proposal.

A council committee has recommended 15% of the proposed tax revenues to Greenbelt projects and 20% to public transit projects. Additionally, the committee recommended slotting funding for a project to improve the Sam Rittenberg Highway bridge between Charleston and North Charleston, as well as reallocating $75 million from the city’s Battery extension project toward other Charleston projects.

Council Vice-chair Larry Kobrovsky wants more Greenbelt projects.

he said. “Even if you don’t have orioles that visit your yard, recording other species that show up can contribute to the Great Backyard Bird Count.”

While birdwatching and reporting can be fun, McCullough said it’s important to maintain integrity and treat the survey like the scientific research that it is.

“The most important recommendations I have are for people to report only what they are able to identify with 100% confidence and to report only the highest number seen at one time,” he said. “Subsequent visits of a species could be the same bird that has come back, and adding a number each time this happens can provide misleading information.”

To participate, go to the survey online at survey123.arcgis.com or use the Survey123 app.

“Our job is to look at the needs of the county and put something out there that will make a difference ... and preserve something that they see everyday that’s disappearing,” he said.

The recommendations have not yet been approved by council members and are expected to be brought up at the Feb. 24 meeting. —Skyler Baldwin

“Preservation laws protect everything from the ground up, but the hallowed ground on which we stand often has no protection for what lies beneath.”

—Local historian Harlan Greene in an address to Charleston City Council on Feb. 10 regarding the proposed College of Charleston dormitory at 106 Coming St., thought to be the site of a historic cemetery. Greene pushed council to consider creating an official city archaeologist position to act as a steward for such sites.

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The percentage of South Carolina earthquakes that have occurred in the coastal plain, with most clustered around the areas north and west of Charleston. About 10 to 15 earthquakes are recorded annually in the state, but only three to five of them are felt or noticed by residents, officials said. Source: S.C. Emergency Management Department

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West tells students to focus on love

By Skyler Baldwin

About 100 students at Chicora Elementary School last week had the rare chance to speak with a really famous guy — American philosopher, theologian and Black rights activist Cornel West — and ask him the questions they thought were important.

“This is crucial,” he told the Charleston City Paper before taking the stage on a chilly and wet morning on Feb. 5. “I had so much love, courage and integrity poured into me as a child. And I want to pour whatever depths of love, courage and integrity I have now into them because these kids are our future.”

Students asked about books and stories that changed his life, times he was fearful to speak up but did so anyway, and moments in his career that were especially challenging or impactful.

North Charleston Mayor Reggie Burgess, who attended the event, said he has been listening to West speak for years — since he was in college.

“Dr. Cornel West coming here was powerful because normally, we don’t get to see our national leaders in the school, in the community,” Burgess said. “We have to go to the coliseum, a convention center or other program.

“But he came here, and he shared this information with our children. And most importantly, for me, he allowed them to ask him what he did when he faced a crisis, how he worked through hard times. And he said, ‘Love.’ ”

‘Gangster proclivity’

He told students the story that turned his life “upside down” was the story of Jesus. His faith, he said, kept him out of official membership of the Black Panther Party (but didn’t stop him from allying with them on local efforts), introduced him to the late Tupac (who allegedly had very pretty eyes) and guided him from violence when he was younger.

“I used to teach in a church called House of the Lord Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, and we would give free lectures Wednesday morning,” West said. “Every lecture, Tupac was sitting in the front row. He was kind of my student in that sense. … Tupac talked about thuggish life and the life of love at the same time.

“In my younger years, I was kind of a gangster. I used to fight all the time, and I

be knocking folk out!” he continued. “For the kids who didn’t have any money, I would take it from the kids who had extra, and I would give it to them, especially the girls. But I was wrong in knocking folk out. I was a gangster before I met Jesus, and now I’m a redeemed sinner — with gangster proclivity.”

And he took all the energy from “knocking folk out,” West said, and used it to fuel his activism.

“I’m still full of rage,” he told the students. “I’m mad when I see poor people. I’m mad when I see the homeless. I’m mad when I see folk incarcerated. … I don’t like people being mistreated.”

Harsh truths and the power of love

Throughout the event, organized in part by local advocacy group Reading Partners, as he answered questions from students ranging from 1st to 5th graders, West didn’t shy away from the often scary realities he has faced as a Black rights activist. When one student asked if there had ever been a time he was afraid to use his voice, he answered honestly.

“I am 72 years old, and I’ve had a whole lot of death threats in my life,” he said.

“I’ve had people show up and put a gun to my wife’s head. That’s not nice, is it? I get upset. ... Does that make me afraid? Yeah, it makes me afraid. But do I stop raising my voice? No, it makes my voice stronger.

“When you love Black folk, when you gotta tell the truth, you get in trouble, and they even try to kill you. But you gotta love them anyway, and that breaks the fear inside you.

... Love can break the back of fear.”

Reading Partners Executive Director

Dyrell Clark, said that level of honesty is important for the students to get from West.

“They have this view of the world, and that view will be their small four corners,” he said. “Bringing someone in that’s not from this community, they get to see an array of different things through his words, and they get to see the world differently.”

Literacy and learning

Organizers and West said the speaking event was focused on improving and encouraging reading and literacy. West said in his own life, other than Jesus, music and reading were at the center. Throughout his conversation and in his answers to students’ questions, he compared Black history icons to modern music stars.

“You can’t talk about Martin Luther King Jr., you can’t talk about Malcolm X, you can’t talk about Whitney Houston, you can’t talk about Kendrick Lamar … without deep love,” he said. “And this is important because we Black people have been hated for so long, and we teach the world about love.”

And on the importance of reading, West’s advice was two-fold. When you open a book, he said, you’re exploring a different world, broadening your mind and deepening your heart. “You’re learning how to love more deeply,” he explained.

“Too often, we are selfish. We are too concerned only with ourselves, and you have to have something that takes you out of yourself,” West said. “Love is the best thing to do that. The love of reading, the love of your mama, it takes you out of yourself, so you don’t think you’re the center of the whole world. There’s other people in the world, and they are just as important as you are.”

A Mount Pleasant man on Feb. 2 reportedly stole a cake and several packages of trading cards from a U.S. Highway 17 store. Employees said the value of the stolen goods was between $25 and $2,000. Thanks for the specificity, y’all. Officers were unable to find the suspect, which means someone must have had a pretty rad birthday party? (Unless the stuff was worth only $25, which might make it kind of dull.)

Right before Valentine’s?

A downtown couple on Feb. 1 allegedly dined-and-dashed from an East Bay Street restaurant when a man placed cash in the checkbook at the end of the meal, then after his date left the table, quietly slipped the money back into his pocket. Wow, man, you are a cheap slimeball. And you can bet that she’ll figure it out someday.

Brave

man

A North Charleston man on Feb. 3 called city police to report his vehicle stolen. He described it as having no muffler (generally illegal), a police radar in the windshield (dubious, but fine) and 19-inch wheels with gold rims (legal, but kind of tacky). Honestly, props to the guy for being bold enough to report his street racer to the cops. Good luck, man.

By Skyler Baldwin

Illustration by Steve

Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Jan. 25 and Feb. 3.

Bipartisan pushback stalls THC ban in South Carolina House

By Jack O’Toole, Statehouse bureau

Republican leaders in the S.C. House took a rare loss on Feb. 4 when a bipartisan coalition of breakaway Republicans and Democrats stopped two bills banning THC products in the state.

“That was pretty unique,” Charleston Democratic Sen. Deon Tedder, a ban opponent, told the Charleston City Paper “It came as a real shock to most of us in the Senate.”

The first bill, which supporters and opponents referred to as a “partial ban,” would outlaw all THC-infused edibles and allow 12 oz. containers of drinks with 5 milligrams or less of THC. Purchasers would have to be 21 or older and sales would only be allowed in liquor stores. After hours of debate, the bill was sent back to the House Judiciary Committee.

The second proposal, an outright ban on all THC-infused products, ended the week in limbo, never having reached the floor.

Both bills were sponsored by powerful House Judiciary Chairman Weston Newton,

R-Beaufort, who made it clear he preferred the full ban, but would support the partial ban as a compromise if necessary.

Proponents argued the partial ban would protect children from an unregulated market without age or potency limits. Additionally, they noted, State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel has long supported banning all or most THC products for what he has called public safety reasons.

“I’ve heard it called the Wild West,” S.C. Rep. Jay Jordan, R-Florence, told his colleagues.

“This is an effort to rein that in.”

But opponents were quick to note that THC products are a $1.5 billion business in South Carolina, employing 3,500 people in 1,800 small businesses — most of which would be shuttered by the bill.

What’s more, they argued, it’s not necessary to ban a whole category of popular consumer products that many say give them opioid-free relief from conditions like chronic pain and PTSD in order to set reasonable age restrictions.

That debate came to a head when Dorchester Republican Rep. Greg Ford, who became a grower, processor and retailer of hemp after doctors recom-

mended THC for his then-young son’s lifethreatening seizures, introduced a 28-page amendment to effectively legalize and regulate the industry. His son, he said, is now 24 and relies on THC for his health.

“The reason he turned 24 is because we found the hemp products,” Ford said.

After the amendment failed in a close vote, suggesting the partial ban was in trouble, House members voted to return it to committee.

Following the session, Keel reiterated his opposition to legalizing and regulating THC products, adding that he was “adamantly opposed” to Ford’s proposal.

“This amendment creates an enforcement and inspection structure that is wholly unenforceable,” he wrote to House leaders in a Feb. 6 letter obtained by the S.C. Daily Gazette.

An industry under threat

The legal THC products industry in S.C. was born eight years ago, when the U.S. Congress included language approving foods and beverages containing up to 0.3% of Delta-9 THC derived from hemp, but not marijuana, in the 2018 farm bill.

Seemingly overnight, products containing intoxicating levels of Delta-9, as well as other, less common hemp derivatives like Delta-8 and Delta-10, began appearing on shelves across the Palmetto State.

And according to industry leaders like Rebel Rabbit co-founder Pierce Wylie, some of the early operators, in particular, were “bad actors” who used lab-synthesized THC and marketed their products in ways that appealed to children.

That’s why he says he supports strong regulations to protect consumer safety and keep the products out of the hands of kids. But with a S.C.-based THC drink manufacturing operation now serving consumers in 14 states, Wylie said the partial ban’s 5 milligram limit would threaten everything he’s built over the past five years.

“There has to be a middle ground where we can protect consumer safety, but also give customers access to a level of THC that’s effective for them,” Wylie said, adding that 10 milligrams seems to be a reasonable limit based on consumer research.

Lawmakers told the City Paper they weren’t sure when or in exactly what form the partial ban bill would return to the floor from committee.

Read the full story at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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SC250: Historic sites plan Revolutionary War events

By City Paper staff

The American Revolutionary War in Charleston will come alive at the Historic Charleston Foundation (HCF) and the Charleston Museum during a coming series of lectures, tours and demonstrations for adults and students.

In the weeks ahead as area celebrations and remembrances peak around July 4, the Charleston City Paper will publish stories of more events that recognize South Carolina’s significant part in the nation’s war for independence.

Colonial close-ups

The HCF and the museum have filled their calendars with programs that include upclose looks into colonial-era art and fashion, a battlefield fortification, the life of women and enslaved people and the science of warfare.

“The history and preservation of the city is deeply woven into this country’s story, and we’re proud to be able to share that with the community,” said Roualeyn de Haas, HCF’s chief operating officer.

Beginning Feb. 17, a special docentled tour at the HCF’s Aiken-Rhett House will focus on the archaeology of the Revolutionary War trench discovered in

2018 at the house. The 2:30 p.m. tour is every Tuesday through Nov. 24. New permanent signage will be installed at the house to explain the trench.

HCF will participate in a family-focused events from June 27-28 during the area’s Carolina Day celebration at Fort Moultrie.

Two new temporary interpretation signs will be installed at the end of February at the Nathaniel Russell House to explain a painting in the dining room that depicts the battle at Fort Sullivan. New information also will be installed that describes Nathaniel Russell’s life during the war era.

During the HCF’s Charleston Festival from March 16 to April 11, a Food for Thought lecture by upstate historian Durant Ashmore will be offered on April 6. He will discuss the Revolutionary War in the South Carolina backcountry.

Charleston Museum

“Excitement is growing as we begin 2026 as this year will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of our nation,” said Carl Borick, the museum’s director.

America 250, a bipartisan initiative, is attempting to engage every American in the anniversary. “America 250 has designated

Charleston, along with Philadelphia, New York and Boston, as cities for enhanced celebrations of this auspicious occasion,” Borick said.

At the museum, two guided tours — on Feb. 19 for home-school children and the other on Feb. 24 for adults — will feature the museum’s newest special exhibit, Ringleaders of Rebellion: Charleston in Revolt, 1775-1783

Last Drop of Blood: African Americans in the American Revolution is the topic of a Feb. 26 lecture by Zachary Lemhouse, director of the Southern Revolutionary War Institute.

On March 8, families can tour the town home of Thomas Heyward Jr., one of South Carolina’s signers of the declaration.

Virginia Theerman, the museum’s curator of historic textiles, will describe on March 12 the museum’s collection of textiles and collection pieces from the war era.

On March 25, Borick will discuss and sign his new book, Resistance: South Carolina’s Militia and the Fight for Independence. This is Borick’s third book on the revolution.

Curator of archaeology and battlefield archaeologist John Fisher on April 23 will discuss his archaeological findings of arrows, spears and musket balls at battle-

fields around South Carolina.

On May 8, a STEM-infused program for teenagers will explore the chemistry behind musket and cannon fire during the Siege of Charleston.

The museum’s curator of historic textiles, Virginia Theerman, will lead a May 20 lecture on the fashions and material culture of the mid-to-late 18th century.

Thomas Heyward Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina, and life in British-occupied Charleston for women and enslaved people will be the topic of a May 21 tour designed for students.

The museum will display on May 22 an original copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s robe will be displayed from May 23 to July 26. Historians credit Pinckney with perfecting the growth of indigo, which became a major cash crop in South Carolina.

From June 15 to Sept. 20, the logbook from the HMS Bristol, the flagship of the Royal Navy during the Battle of Sullivan’s Island, will go on display.

For additional details on times, pricing and entrance requirements, go to the HCF and the Charleston Museum websites.

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Protect Charleston by hiring archaeologist

There’s been a century-long clash in Charleston between the past and present that has become grittier in recent years. The zeal to make a buck competes with Charleston‘s legacy to preserve its buildings, character and history.

All of these new hotels, the incessant pounding of piledrivers and the continuing rise of prices of properties where longtime owners have been squeezed away are symptoms of this disease to mold Charleston into a historical Disney that the city’s original preservationists might not recognize.

Just look at recent headlines to see the conflict in which the forces of business are clashing with residents who don’t want so much change, so many cranes, so much traffic, so much noise.

Preservationists got a big win when they led the S.C. Ports Authority to back off of a redevelopment proposal at Union Pier that would have made it into a warren of chunky megabuildings that didn’t look like they fit in the Holy City. Now the city, along with philanthropist Ben Navarro and his team, seems to be on a more inclusive path to reshape the area by taking history, scale and modern times into consideration.

More recent is a construction project at Courier Square, where 74 sets of human remains seemed to be unearthed in the middle of the night and quietly reinterred elsewhere. The secrecy of that project may have flipped a community switch to make people want more input about another grave proposal nearby — the construction of a large dorm for the College of Charleston on an empty site where thousands of people may have been buried before the Civil War.

And now comes the next big historical thing: the U.S. Custom

House on East Bay Street. Seems the federal government wants to get the grand historical building off of its books because nobody is really using it. A recent check showed no more than a dozen vehicles in a parking lot where lots of people used to work. The U.S. Public Buildings Reform Board, which recently had a public hearing with the city to discuss turning over the building, says it costs $414,000 a year to operate the building for the few people inside of a beautiful public building that’s closed to the public.

So the question ahead with this grand structure is what’s next? Another hotel? City offices? A different, grand public use? Fortunately, stakeholders like the Preservation Society of Charleston and the Historic Charleston Foundation have been involved with community thinking about what’s next. But what’s clear is that city council, not only a mayor with a developer-in-chief mindset, needs to help drive the train for the building’s future use.

Which is why a resolution by the city’s Commission on History to hire a full-time city archaeologist to protect buildings and involve more people in decisions is such a good idea.

Let’s listen to the words of Charleston historian Harlan Greene, the commission chair who told council members this week: “Preservation laws protect everything from the ground up,” he said. “But the hallowed ground on which we stand often has no protection for what lies beneath. It’s likely that this resolution just presented and the anxiety, concern and distrust that many of our citizens feel would not have arisen in the first place if this part of our history and our past was protected.”

Hear, hear.

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.

Reseat the Marion Square Commission to restore public trust

By Andrew Waring Geer

Charleston is a city built in layers. Nearly every downtown block offers a reminder of how we got here — with a plaque on a brick wall, a marker in a churchyard, a monument at a corner where history turned.

That habit of remembrance is not something to be embarrassed about. It is part of our identity. It is also why, when we choose to add something to a shared civic space, we owe one another a public process that is visible, predictable, and fair.

That is what went missing when the Robert E. Lee Memorial Highway marker appeared in Marion Square with little to no public notice. I am not here to litigate the merits of Lee, and I understand that Charlestonians hold conflicting views about Confederate symbols. In my view, there’s no question that Lee was a traitor who aligned himself with and advanced a cause responsible for profound moral crimes.

My point is simpler. When the normal process is bypassed, people assume the fix was in, and the result is anger and distrust that could have been avoided. In a city this historically literate, process is substance.

Marion Square sits at the center of this debate because it functions as Charleston’s Central Park. The city pays to maintain it, repair it and operate it day to day. Yet the square is owned by the Board of Field Officers of the Fourth Brigade and managed under a memorandum of understanding that most residents have never seen. That mismatch, public responsibility without transparent oversight, is how we end up with surprises.

The good news is that Charleston already has a solution on the books. In 1882, after complaints about a neglected and dismal public space, the city created the Marion Square Commission to govern the park. The ordinance establishes a seven-member commission, three appointed by City Council, three appointed by the Board of Field Officers, with the president of The Citadel serving as chair. It is a balanced structure, designed for shared stewardship and public accountability, rather than private discretion. This commission was active for 116 years with the last recorded meeting taking place in 1998. Since 1998, new members have not been seated, even though it remains in the city’s code of ordinances. Reseating it would not settle every argument, but it would restore a forum where decisions about permanent installations are handled in the open with notice, standards and a record the public can inspect. If the 1882 framework needs to be updated for modern realities, then update it. Bring in downtown preservation organizations as advisors. Clarify when permits and Board of Architectural Review oversight apply. Put the rules in writing and follow them consistently. I come from a long line of Charlestonians, and I often think of my great-great-great grandfather, the Rev. Anthony Toomer Porter, who chose, after the war, to help improve this city rather than glorify it. He focused on building schools, orphanages and places of worship. Charleston does not need more monument fights. We need sunlight, a process worthy of our shared spaces and the humility to follow the rules we already have. Reseating the Marion Square Commission is the most practical step the City can take right now.

Andrew Waring Geer is a native Charlestonian and investment consultant who is concerned about honest history being told in his hometown.

What To Do

SUNDAY

1

Kintsugi and Tea Valentine’s Workshop

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, transforming fractures into a beautiful part of its story. Head to Oliver Pluff’s Tea Shop for a guided kintsugi workshop designed for couples this Valentine’s weekend. Share one kintsugi kit, enjoy a pot of tea and light dessert and learn the basics of this centuries-old Japanese art that celebrates care and patience. Feb. 15. 7 Noon to 1:30 p.m. $75/person. Oliver Pluff’s Tea Shop. 49 John St. Downtown. oliverpluff.com

2

SATURDAY

Cupid’s Undie Run

Hundreds of locals will brave the weather in just their undies this Valentine’s Day in the nation’s largest pantless party and mile(ish) charity run in more than 30 cities. The Cupid’s Undie Run raises awareness for neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder, and raises money for research through the Children’s Tumor Foundation. This is the 10th year the event has taken place in the city.

Feb. 14. Noon to 4 p.m. $45/person. Loggerhead’s Beach Grill. 123 West Ashley Ave. Folly Beach. loggerheadsbg.com

SATURDAY

3

Valentine’s couples candlemaking

Sit down with your significant other this holiday for a custom soy-coconut wax candlemaking experience. While you pour your custom-scented wax, enjoy a complimentary glass of liquid refreshment and decadent gourmet chocolates. Seating times are available throughout the day. Book online or call the studio to book your seats.

Feb. 14. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. $64/couple. Palmetto Scent Studio. 157 Church St. Downtown. palmettoscentstudio.com

THURSDAYS

4

Black History Month tours

Tour the historic Nathaniel Russell House on Saturdays in February for Black History Month. Two special tours will also be offered on Feb. 14 for Valentine’s Day, led by archaeologists Andrew Agha and Nicole Isenbarger. Tours focus on African American history informed by the archaeological work done at the historic house. Purchase tickets at the door.

Thursdays in February. Tour times vary. $25/ticket. Nathaniel Russell House. 51 Meeting St. Downtown. historiccharleston.org

NEXT FRIDAY

5

Singles mingle and craft night

Mix, mingle and make something fun at this relaxed evening of wine and beer tasting followed by a quick, hands-on coaster-making craft night. It’s a perfect way to meet new people, enjoy great sips, spark conversation and leave with something you made. No awkward pressure, just good vibes, creativity and connection.

Feb. 20. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. $45/person. OhMy! Creative Party Shop & Craft Studio. 420 Nexton Square Drive. Summerville. ohmycreativeparty.com

Turtle Survival Center restores endangered populations

By Skyler Baldwin

ucked away at the end of a barely marked gravel road in rural Berkeley County — and behind an electrified, barbed-wire fence and an automatic gate with several security cameras — is a haven for endangered freshwater turtles.

This may be the Lowcountry’s best-kept conservation secret. The Turtle Survival Center (TSC) near Cross, S.C., is home to more than 800 turtles from more than two dozen species. The facility is a physical outpost for the conservation group Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA), the largest nonmarine turtle organization in the world. And you can learn all about it this weekend at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition.

“We want to tell people about what we do around the world and in South Carolina,” said TSA Communication Manager Elena Duran. “It’s a really exciting time of year for us and a great event to be a part of. We’ve been going for about 12 years now, and we still meet new people every year.”

The TSA, headquartered in North Charleston, started at SEWE in 2014 with a little table and just a few turtles. Now, it’s grown to two booths and multiple tables and a featured time slot in Marion Square.

“The demonstrations are new this year, and that’s kind of weather-dependent,” Duran said. “We usually bring a large alligator snapping turtle with us. Depending on how they’re doing, we can bring them out, and they’re a really cool species. Kids love them.

“We just hope to educate the general public on what they can do for turtles in their everyday life,” she added. “A common thing people experience a lot down here is, ‘I see a turtle in my backyard or crossing the road. What do I do?’ So we have something planned to talk about how to help turtles if you encounter them.”

Global impacts

The alliance has one of the highest impacts of any conservation organization, according to Clinton Doak, director of the TSC, working in more than 30 countries to preserve and protect wild populations of freshwater turtles. And it does its work with just 25 people, as far as full-time staff members in the United States go. Only 10 of those work at the center in Cross where they tend to hundreds of turtles every day.

But Doak said they act as more of the backup plan.

From top: The Roti Island snake-necked turtle (Chelodina mccordi ), Asian giant tortoise ( Manouria emys phayrei ) and Indochinese box turtle (Cuora galbinifrons) are some of the species under the care of the Turtle Survival Center

“We are an ark, or a bank,” he said. “We take these species and manage their breeding, and then, hopefully, they can go back into the wild. Our primary focus is working incountry with tortoises and freshwater turtles around the world.”

Still, the work done at the TSC is vital. The on-site greenhouse houses 90 animals belonging to two species from the island

Dos and don’ts when you find a turtle

While most people understand now that painting the backs of turtle shells with nail polish or acrylics is a bad idea, there are other tips to keep in mind to make the lives of turtles a little easier when you find them.

DO: Prioritize your own safety. If you want to help a turtle cross the road, wait for the street to clear, pull over and help them on their way. Lift gently, holding the turtle like a sandwich, and set them down on the other side.

DON’T: Put them in water. Turtles seek water when they are thirsty or in need of a swim. Some terrestrial turtles struggle to swim when tossed or set gently in even shallow water, leading to accidental drownings. Stick to soft grass, when available.

DO: Leave them alone. If you find a turtle in your backyard or elsewhere, and there’s no immediate danger, simply leave them alone. Turtles are survival experts, and surprisingly good climbers. They tend to know what they want in the wild and how to get it.

DON’T: Bring them inside. Intentions are often pure, but ultimately, turtles know where they want to go and what they want to eat. Leaving them outside, helping them on their way when possible, is usually the best way to go.

of Sulawesi, one of the largest islands in Indonesia. The island is home to some of the highest levels of endism in the world — several species of reptiles, mammals and insects can only be found in the wild on that island, including the greenhouse’s residents.

Almost all of the turtles in the TSC greenhouse were wild-caught founders with an estimated age of at least 40 years old. Many of them have been in the U.S. for roughly 30 years already.

“They’re part of our breeding plan,” Doak said. “Their genetics are valuable to helping save the entire species. A lot of the time, when they come here as founders, they stay for the rest of their lives.”

They are also part of the first-ever international reintroduction program. For the first time, the TSC plans to take hatchlings from the U.S. and reintroduce them back to their native habitat on the other side of the globe. It’s been done before with sea turtles, but never before with tortoises and freshwater turtles, Doak said.

Round-the-clock care

Out of the 27 species of turtles kept on the 63-acre property, 21 are targeted

for breeding programs. The team uses an on-site X-ray machine to find female turtles carrying eggs, waits for them to nest and then harvests the eggs to hatch in an incubator.

From there, the baby turtles go to the hatchling room, where more than 50 turtles live the first year of their lives in precisely controlled, 82-degree individual environments.

“It’s our cleanest room,” Doak said. “Nothing from the outside world comes in here unless it’s sterilized. They spend the first year there, then they’ll go to a juvenile rearing building for another year or two. Then, they go outside.”

In the greenhouse, the environment is kept to a stable 75-degree temperature to mimic the island of Sulawesi. The turtle team has also planted several Southeast Asian plants that serve as shade, food and more for the turtles, including jackfruit, bananas, star fruit, dragonfruit and hibiscus.

Most of the actual work is contained to the fenced-in 10-acre facility. The rest of the property is conserved as ephemeral wetlands and forest.

“We’re not going to develop on it or do anything with it,” Doak said. “We’re using it instead for studies on local turtle populations.”

Most of the 800 turtles they have live in outdoor enclosures. During the winter months, however, the turtles burrow underground for brumation — a sort of hibernation.

It’s a very different environment than what the turtles will experience at SEWE, which is why only a specific few “ambassador” turtles will attend the event.

“We’re very aware of the turtles’ care and want to make sure they’re all as comfortable as they can be,” Duran said. “The ambassador animals are very different from the other people — I mean, turtles — at the center. They’re more used to the noise and the people and being handled.”

Join the Turtle Survival Alliance at the 44th annual Southeastern Wildlife Exposition. The group will be exhibiting all three days, Feb. 13, through Feb. 15, in Marion Square. Tickets are on sale online at sewe.com.

SEWE names Florida’s Genk as 2026 featured artist

The Southeastern Wildlife Exposition picked Florida-based painter Henry Von Genk III as this year’s featured artist. His original painting, “Charleston Splendor,” is the exposition’s official featured painting and is the subject of the 2026 poster, available now at sewe.com.

“Wildlife conservation is something everyone should support,” Genk III said in a press release. “I feel a responsibility to capture the world we live in for the future, much like the Hudson River painters did before cameras.”

The 2026 featured painting offers a peaceful Lowcountry scene: a white heron perched in marsh grasses beneath a pastel evening sky alive with luminous cumulus clouds.

“This painting lived in my mind for two years, and SEWE was the perfect way to bring it to life,” Genk III said. “As a private pilot, I have a deep love for clouds. The golden hour light on my favorite cumulus shapes with the Lowcountry as a backdrop is my idea of heaven. It sums up everything I love about Charleston in one image.”

Genk III, born and raised in Jacksonville, is a self-taught oil painter known for richly detailed coastal landscapes. He employs glazing and shadowing techniques inspired by the Old masters and the Hudson River School to create depth in his paintings, according to a press release. After a successful career executing large-scale murals for museums and private collectors, he now focuses on fine art that celebrates the waterways and salt marshes of the East Coast.

Cris Hagen, director of animal management and collections, (below) tends to the Turtle Survival Center’s hatchling room

“Charleston Splendor” is on view at Gallery by SEWE inside the Charleston Place, 205 Meeting St., Charleston. The work was to be auctioned off Feb. 12 during the SEWE VIP Gala and Sale.

SEWE’s conservation partners

This year’s Southeastern Wildlife Exposition is supported by more than 20 conservation partners, including (in alphabetical order):

• Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy

• Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

• BIPOC Outdoor Collective

• Boykin Spaniel Rescue, Inc.

• Carolina Coonhound Rescue

• Charleston County Public Works

• Charleston Soil and Water Conservation District

• Coastal Conservation League

• Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network

• Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society

• Quail Forever

• South Carolina Bobwhite Initiative

• S.C. Department of Natural Resources – Environmental Services; and Marine Division

• South Carolina Aquarium

• South Carolina Nature-Based Tourism Association

• The Center for Birds of Prey

• The Longleaf Alliance

• The Palmetto Trail

• Turtle Survival Alliance

• U.S. Forest Service

• Youth Learning Institute — Clemson University

Cuisine

Lowcountry Street Grocery (above) started as a mobile farmers’ market in a retrofitted school bus named Nell, and Community Supported Grocery (below) is a grassroots local food delivery service

Healthy eating beyond new year’s resolutions

By Becky Lacey

The beginning of the year is filled with efforts to eat healthy, hit the gym and bounce back from holiday indulgences.

Lowcountry dining can be decadent, but it’s also easy to eat clean, delicious food throughout the year at home and when dining out.

Anything but basic

Basic Kitchen in downtown Charleston has focused on plant-forward dishes since opening in 2017. Executive Chef Charlie Layton serves seasonal dishes highlighting local produce, whole grains and globally inspired flavors.

After going plantbased himself, Layton created a menu of veggie-forward dishes like corn ribs, pistachio beet dip and cauliflower tikka masala.

“I find balance to be the key to a healthy lifestyle and often use [author] Michael Pollan’s advice to ‘eat whole foods, not too much, and mainly plants,’ ” said Layton. “Seeking real, unpro-

cessed foods and getting that balance on your plate becomes easy once you start thinking that way.”

Layton featured his protein green goddess dressing (see recipe on page 18) during Basic Kitchen’s January reset that included it in a bowl for a collaboration with The Works fitness studio. The bowl featured ingredients like purple sweet potato, avo-

A la carte

What’s new

More marketing: The Little Market is opening a second location later this year on Sullivan’s Island at 2019 Middle St., joining the existing downtown location at 43 Broad St. It will offer provisions like jumbo lump crabmeat, caviar, wagyu beef, pizza, pasta and ice cream as well as items for entertaining like linens, candles and flowers. Local vendors represented will include Rio Bertolini, Bakers Bar, Storey Farm and Lowcountry Creamery. More: thelittlemarket.co Adults-only: Decoy, an adult-only bar from the team behind Dog and Duck Family Pubs, is set to open mid-February east of the Cooper at 5550 S.C. Highway 41 at U.S. Highway 17. It will offer cold beers, well-priced cocktails, a small bar food menu and a large outdoor, pet-friendly dining and patio area. Open daily. More: Facebook New licks: The Lick has opened in the South Windermere Center at 10 Windermere Blvd., offering a swanky, intimate setting and a menu that includes a signature burger with crispy beef tallow fries and a 40-ounce tomahawk steak. Open daily at 4 p.m. More: lickwind.com.

What’s happening

cado, artichoke and caperberry salad and the dressing.

The beauty of a dressing like this is its versatility. From a dipping sauce to a chicken marinade, it can be a constant workhorse in your fridge.

Food demos: This year’s “Fresh on the Menu” cooking stage at SEWE features a lineup including the sister-duo behind Carolima’s Lowcountry Cuisine, ‘Emma Cromedy and Sameka Jenkins, who will be demonstrating barbecue pigs’ feet from Peculiar Pig Farm at 3 p.m. on Feb. 13. The stage will also host all three newly-crowned S.C. Chef Ambassadors: Jordan Heyd of Myrtle Beach’s Lekker Eats at 1 p.m. on Feb. 13, Charleston’s James London of Chubby Fish at 1 p.m. on Feb. 14 and Guichard Ulysse of House 509 Bistro in Greer at 2 p.m. on Feb. 15. More: sewe.com Rock the block: Home Team BBQ’s 8th annual Rock the Block returns from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 21. The fundraiser will feature live music along with guest-chef bites and a full bar, all benefiting Hogs for the Cause and Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston. Participating chefs include: Jonathan Fox and Justin Fox (Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q), Jason Stanhope (Sullivan’s Island Fish Camp) and Patty Floersheimer and Trudi Wagner (goat. sheep.cow). More: hometeambbq.com

Becky Lacey

H a v e i t

A more equitable, local food system

Lowcountry Street Grocery (LSG), GroceryRx (GRx) and Community Supported Grocery (CSG) are three Charleston-based, interdependent entities that create a social enterprise providing a more equitable, local food system for consumers and producers.

“We can radically address systemic barriers to healthy food access, food insecurity and local food proliferation,” said LSG founder and CEO Lindsey Barrow Jr. “Simply put, we envision a community that naturally supports both small, local producers and neighbors in need through innovative and sustainable systems.”

LSG started as a mobile farmers’ market in a retrofitted school bus named Nell. The organization believes there is a simple solution to a systemic problem: food equity.

CSG is a grassroots local food delivery service that has combined the local farmers’ market with subscription-based online ordering since 2018. The weekly delivery

also offers menus, recipes, producer information and dietary restriction information. This gives growers and producers a more streamlined way to distribute food and introduces them to new customers.

GRx is a way to directly combat dietrelated illness.

“The intensive, in-house nutrition program targets individuals who fall through the gap of our broken healthcare system as well as low-medium income neighbors that don’t qualify for federal or state aid,” Barrow said.

Following a structured nutrition class, GRx patients receive weekly fruit and vegetable prescriptions redeemed through the mobile market or CSG deliveries. GRx also includes cooking demos, recipes and clinical guidance.

Olivia Myers, GRx director and founder, shared tips for healthy eating. First, stock your fridge and pantry with healthy options, which she said is easiest if it’s automated through a service like CSG, or through a static order at a local grocery store.

Next, be realistic about your time and ability. Meal planning, batch cooking and buying half or fully prepped food like soup bases and pasta sauces can help.

Basic Kitchen’s protein green goddess dressing

Makes 2 quarts. Lasts five days refrigerated.

• 40 gram dill • 40 gram chives

• 40 gram parsley

• 20 gram arugula

• 40 gram cilantro

• 30 gram confit garlic

• 30 gram green onions

• 50 gram Dijon mustard

• 453 gram cottage cheese

• 125 gram water

• 10 gram black pepper (ground)

• 10 gram salt (Kosher, course flake)

• 50 gram apple cider vinegar

“Just keep an eye on the amount of salt, added sugar and ingredient lists,” she said. Looking to help neighbors access healthier food? CSG offers a pay-it-forward option where people can donate their weekly delivery to someone experiencing food insecurity. CSG donates and subsidizes about 75 to 100 “Neighbor 2 Neighbor” grocery deliveries each week, which has become even more important amid recent federallyfunded food assistance budget cuts.

Healthy eating at Huriyali

Tom McFall and Ruchi Mistry opened Huriyali on Huger Street in 2016, and a second location in Riverland Terrace in 2022. Offering healthy, world cuisine, Huriyali is known for its clean food, bowls and juices in community focused spaces.

“We put so much thought and intention behind creating healthful dishes,” Mistry said. “Just good food that’s good for you.”

Mistry was born in Ahmedabad, India, and much of the food at Huriyali is inspired by her mom’s cooking. After meeting at College of Charleston, McFall and Mistry lived in India with her family. This was the inspiration for Huriyali.

“The whole thing behind the menu is healthy food that is craveable and actually tastes delicious,” said McFall. “Indian food has so many delicious spices. All of those things are really good for our microbiome and our guts. It’s a win-win from a

“The whole thing behind the menu is healthy food that is craveable and actually tastes delicious.”

—Huriyali

co-owner Tom McFall

health standpoint.”

The Huriyali team sources mindfully made ingredients and when speaking with them, words like nutrient dense, cooked to aid digestion and whole-food based continue to come up.

“I think part of what has gotten us to ten years has been continuously improving the offerings we have,” McFall said. “Not necessarily new offerings, but just looking at the existing recipes and thinking, ‘How can we make this more delicious?’ or, ‘How can we add more value for the customer?’ ”

There are also plans to add night service — probably starting with one night weekly – at the downtown location.

“I think that healthy food is a lifestyle, more than a diet,” McFall said. “The whole thing with Huriyali is we’re trying to incorporate it into the community’s lifestyle by making craveable, healthy foods.”

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Culture

Two Charleston exhibitions illuminate Black excellence

By Maura Hogan

How is it that the flowing, watertight weaves of a seagrass basket endure across centuries and continents?

What stories emerge in patches of a quilt or the hues boiled into a batik?

And why does the Confederate flag flap on still?

As Black History Month continues, two Charleston art exhibitions show in sharp, shining relief the continuum of Black artistic excellence in this country, whether spanning standout works from its earlier days or drilling down into one artist’s singular abiding vision.

Neither show is curated chronologically. But both open meaningful entrees to longstanding practices and motifs–some informing, some warning.

At the International African American Museum (IAAM), we land in the exhibition called middle of somewhere: the art and the legacy of Black Southern makers to celebrate the creativity, resilience and cultural contributions of Black artists from and inspired by the American South.

For the exhibition, which runs through Feb. 14, 2027, Martina M. Morale, IAAM’s

director of curatorial and special exhibitions, transforms the impressively flexible gallery with works mainly from the museum’s collection.

Sleek, wood displays lend to standout craftsmanship of the Black makers of intricately woven basketry, deftly stitched quilts, masterful mega-vessels of clay. With the faint scents of this freshly cut lumber, sweet seagrass and time-worn textiles, it’s a fullon sensory experience, one wrought from iron and pine, realized in cotton and clay.

To wit: The lustrous brown stoneware of David Drake (Dave the Potter) is poised near an elegant chair by free Black cabinetmaker Thomas Day. An iron gate boasts the signature ornate scrolls of renowned Charleston blacksmith Philip Simmons. Zig-zagging along a wall, textiles veer from a mid-twentieth century Malian mudcloth to the 2020 work Equal Justice by Essie Bendolph Pettway of Gee’s Bend, the Alabama contemporary quilter collective.

On a jutting platform, the intergenerational Gullah Geechee sweetgrass artistry of Dionne and Delores Jones finds a contemporary counterpart in Bantu Knot, a sculptural vase of Danielle Williams. Nearby, an 1800s enslaved cabin chair

Displays at the IAAM include works by scultpor David Drake and Charleston blacksmith Philip Simmons

is perched near a recent sleek work by Chicago-based, contemporary social practice artist Norman Teague. The exhibition also features a digital “Design Your Own Quilt Block” experience; prompts inviting visitors to consider everyday objects. There is no missing the continuum of artistic excellence in this stellar exhibition, one nimble to needs of the times, and steadfast in its time-tested traditions, too.

Insistent icons

Then there is Dr. Leo Twiggs. The 91-yearold St. Stephen-reared artist and educator has long trained his fine eye on the African

Arts+Music

3 dance companies Converge with Fragments

Fragments brings together a trio of Charleston area contemporary dance companies — Collective SC , NousPointe and Impermanent Gallery — in a 6 p.m. Feb. 15 performance at Cannon Street Arts Center, 134 Cannon St. More: collectivescdance.com/shows

VISUAL ARTS

• Through Feb. 28: The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department presents two concurrent exhibitions — Aura of the Ancestors: Praises of the Land, photographs by Nathalie Watson, and Outside the (Amazon) Box!, mixed media works by Colleen Cannon-Karlos. Park Circle Gallery, 4820 Jenkins Ave., North Charleston. More: Call (843) 637-3565 or email culturalarts@northcharleston.org.

VALENTINE’S SERENADE

• Feb. 13 , 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.: R&B vocalist Tonya Nicole returns to New Realm Brewing Co. with a six-piece band to perform Love Deluxe: A Night of Sade . New Realm Brewing Co., 880 Island Park Dr. More: bit.ly/ nicolesade

MUSIC

• Feb. 14 , 7 p.m.: Edwin McCain, Charleston Music Hall

• Feb. 14 , 8 p.m.: David Murphy, Pour House

• Feb. 14 , 8 p.m.: Lights Of Fire , Tin Roof

• Feb. 14 , 9 p.m.: Wilmot , Royal American

• Feb. 16, 7:30pm: ShinN , featuring members of LIVE, Blind Melon, Shiner, Unified Theory and Afghan Whigs, Pour House

• Feb. 20-21 , 7:30 p.m.: Shovels and Rope , Pour House

• Feb. 20, 7 p.m.: Ace Hood, Music Farm

• Feb. 20, 5 p.m.: Shelby Means and Maya De Vitr y, Pour House

• Feb. 21 , 7:30 p.m.: Danish Radio Big Band, Gaillard Center

• Feb. 21 , 8 p.m.: The Yacht Club, The Windjammer

• Feb. 21 , 9 p.m.: C. Shreve The Professor (album releases), Royal American

Bluegrass star Shelby Means returns to Pour House

By Vincent Harris

Charleston musician Shelby Means had a big album release show planned last summer at the Pour House.

A big part of the show for the Grammywinning singer, songwriter and upright bassist was to present a really special guest — Nashville’s Maya di Vitry, a talented singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. Not only is di Vitry known for blending folk, indie rock, and Americana with literate, introspective songwriting, but she also produced Means’ 2025 selftitled debut solo album.

Unfortunately, a scheduling snafu prevented di Vitry from appearing at the Pour House, so that pairing didn’t happen.

But it’s always been in the back of Means’ mind. So she decided a makeup date was in order. She and her band perform at the Pour House on Feb. 20, and di Vitry will be onstage, too.

This time out, though, Means wanted to showcase her partner a bit more than the album-release show would have allowed.

Driven Train is on guitar, and her brother Jacob plays mandolin. The group will back both Means and di Vitry at the show, with Means handling bass duties, as well.

“It helps a lot with my confidence,” Means says of having her husband and brother along for the ride. “It’s like a safety net. We may not have played 100 shows as this exact band, but I grew up playing with my brother, and our rhythm is just so intertwined that I just feel safe. It’s almost as easy as breathing.”

And Means isn’t just revisiting the Pour House. She’s planned a fourdate regional tour with di Vitry that will also hit Jacksonville, Fla., Marietta, Ga, and Asheville, N.C.

“We’re fronting one band, but it’s two different shows now,” Means said.

“It’s interesting. We’re also adding some new songs and playing some jams where we don’t know where they’re going to end up. But we trust each other so much that we figure that we’ll be able to get out of it.”

Charleston bluegrass musician Shelby Means said she’s proud of the reception to her new album, which has now been featured on a curated Spotify playlist

“At first it felt a little bit slow,” she said of the response to her album. “But I can be a little impatient. So I think just having patience and continuing to put one foot in front of the other has been rewarding.”

Of course, it helps that the response has picked up considerably.

“This show is a co-bill,” Means said in a recent interview with the Charleston City Paper. “We’re excited because we’re sharing the band so it will be us with the same musicians but very different music.”

The band in question is a family affair for Means. Her husband Joel Timmons of Sol

Means’ debut has been out for almost a year now, and she’s had plenty of time to reflect on the album itself and her burgeoning solo career.

The album is a lively collection of classic and modern bluegrass featuring guests like Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas, and di Vitry’s production keeps arrangements punchy and transparent rather than jammy and overstuffed.

“My single ‘Streets Of Boulder’ (featuring Grammy-winning acoustic guitarist Molly Tuttle), did really well on the Bluegrass radio charts,” she said. “So I’m really happy that I can check off a goal, because one of my intentions going into the record was to get some airplay. I also just got a notice that ‘Million Reasons’ (the album’s third track) was added to a Spotify curated playlist, so I’m really excited about that.”

Now, with most of 2026 ahead of her and a band of close collaborators behind her, Means is ready to have some fun, starting with these shows with di Vitry.

“I have a really full schedule coming up,” she said. “We’re playing MerleFest this year, which is a bucket list event for me, and I’m looking forward to taking my band out on tour and continuing to dive into the songs that I wrote. And it’s all thanks to Maya and Joel and Jacob and everybody that’s believed in me up until this point.”

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Doors open at 5 p.m., Feb. 20. Charleston Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway, James Island. Tickets range from $15$18; charlestonpourhouse.com.

“Conversation,” (detail) by Leo Twiggs, 2018, batik on cotton/courtesy Gibbes Museum of Art

91-year-old artist and educator Dr. Leo Twiggs explores Black artistry and history in his works using saturated colors and batik on cotton

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American experience through the lens of his own life.

Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs,now up at the Gibbes Museum of Art through May 3, is the first full retrospective of his work on his home turf — a statement in itself about ongoing hurdles with Black artistry. It marks the 50th anniversary of the artist’s landmark 1976 solo show at the Gibbes. It is guest-curated by Dr. Frank Martin, working in tandem with Sara Arnold, the Gibbes Museum’s director of curatorial affairs, and features more than 40 works between 1961 and 2020.

Throughout five sections — Marooned, Awakenings, Transitions, Transformation and Revelations — Twiggs time and again asserts the visual motifs of flags and targets, calling to mind fellow South Carolinian Jasper Johns, with his encaustic-and-newspaper American flags and targets.

is able to hold not only the dyes and wax, but the complexities of the human condition — deep indigo skies, achingly lonely, wary black silhouettes, alarming vibrant targets on backs and hearts, and the scraps of Dixie that just won’t quit us.

In Dreamers, his 2018 batik-on-cotton work, these unfold on his rustic Southern childhood home, with its outside shutter evoking the red-and-blue, crossed flag, riddled with targets. From a warmly lit window, a child peers out. On the front porch, his watchful grandmother sits in the dark beneath a crescent moon.

What’s striking about this retrospective is how Twiggs’ insistent symbols endure.

From cautionary faded flags to their mournful inclusion in his 2016 Requiem for Mother Emanuel series, then again on his 2020 The Death of George Floyd. As decades march on, the remonstration of those flags and targets does, too. Even so, the aching humanity of this extraordinary work abides, too.

10. Green-blooded “Star Trek” antagonist

11. Say with confidence

12. Zorro’s accessory

Across

1. San ___ (Costa Rica’s capital)

5. Motel swimming spots

10. Accelerate, with “up”

14. Element with the symbol Fe 15. City where Van Gogh painted

16. Mirror shape

17. Stranded, in a baseball game

19. Flat-topped landform

20. Pacific Northwest tribal symbol

21. Part of TBS, for short

22. Like dirty water

23. “Get Out” actor Lil ___ Howery

25. Fiery gemstone

27. 18-wheeler

30. Site of the 1998 Winter Olympics

36. Gloomy music genre

37. Gloomy guy?

38. Laptop brand partially from Latin for “new”

39. Has the knack

40. Bar soap alternative, maybe

42. Pickleball divider

43. Makes invalid

45. Billion years

46. Forgotten rapper?

Instead, Twiggs represents the tattered remnants of the Confederate flag, dyed deep, or fading white, or bleeding its trademark borders into cotton. In saturated hues of yellows, blues and reds, his targets are seared on the bodies of Black men, whose features are obscured in silhouettes akin to cameos, which also appear in works like the 1997 Sarah Remembered, depicting his greatgrandmother born into slavery.

The artist works mainly in batik, which

Also newly on display at the Gibbes is Hispaniola III — Mia & Kenya, a 2024 work by Kandy G. Lopez, the 2025 winner of the museum’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art. Like Twiggs, the Floridabased artist finds rich, layered terrain in textiles. In yarn and spray paint she portrays two women draped in historic red, white and blue dress reflective of their Dominican Republic and Haitian ancestry. Seated regally, faces half shaded and feet bare, they clasp their hands in silent solidarity.

IF YOU WANT TO GO: IAAM’s middle of somewhere is on view through Feb. 14, 2027, 14 Wharfside St. More: iaamuseum.org. Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs is on view through May 3 at Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting St. More: gibbesmuseum.org.

47. One of 32 works by Beethoven

50. Ave. crossers

51. Cupcake decorator

52. Belt-hole maker

54. Baffled

57. Do something

60. De-squeaked

64. Cruise ship deck

65. Sign seen near crossing guards

67. Love, in Latin class

68. Adjust, as wheels

69. “La Cage aux Folles” character

70. He does way more talking than Teller

71. Amtrak terminal

Stank

Dump abruptly

Nabisco mainstay

Like some pretzels

Go in

Move while filming

Space balls?

Regenerist brand

Something to learn

13. Remote button

18. Future sign

22. “Star Trek” actress Barrett married to Gene Roddenberry

24. Chef Emeril

26. Italian cornmeal dish

27. “Previously on ...” segment

28. “Legend of a Cowgirl” singer Coppola

29. It comes between haters and hate

31. Microbiome site

32. Pale with fright

33. Ducks’ habitats

34. Prevent, as danger

35. Post-its, e.g.

40. Jenga piece

41. “Can you ___ little slower?”

44. Mythical horned beast

48. Fortune teller

49. Off the grid

53. “Truth Hurts” performer

54. Bass player’s technique

55. Gauge with a stopwatch

56. Noodle in Japanese dishes

58. Fry, in Felixstowe

59. Benin neighbor

61. Burden

62. Auto designer Ferrari

63. “Happy Birthday” word

65. Lacking mirth

66. CN Tower’s prov.

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SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS FRANCES BURLESON, LONNIE HEYWARD, JR., AND LASONIA MOULTRIE, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN IN 2024.

TO DEFENDANT: FRANCES BURLESON

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on December 11, 2025 at 4:22 p.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, John McCormick, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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

THE

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

Docket No.: 2025-DR-08-1809

BRETT CORNELL and SUSAL CORNEL, Plaintiff, V. ANGELA CORNEL, STEVEN

CORNELL AKA STEVEN PRINCE

And SCDHHS. Defendants.

NOTICE AND MOTION TO DISMISS FOR LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER

JURISDICTION AS TO DEFENDANT

SCDHHS

COMES NOW Defendant, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, by and through its counsel of record, Andrew L. Brener and respectfully moves this Honorable Court for an Order dismissing Plaintiffs cause of action requesting an order of lifetime Medicaid coverage for the minor child, and removing SCDHHS as a defendant from this matter. This motion is made pursuant to Rules 801-806 of the South Carolina Rules of Evidence, and Rule

8(a) and 12(0b(6) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

On the 11th day of March, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.

Defendant shall so move at the Berkeley County family Court.

The basis for this motion is as follows:

Defendant SCHHS is the sole body given the authority to determine Medicaid eligibility within the state of South Carolina. Medicaid is a cooperative federal-state program whereby States who choose to participate must comply with Federal regulations. South Carolina regulations define a Medicaid beneficiary as an individual who has been determined to be eligible for health services as described in the State Plan under Title XIX and Title XXI of the Social Security Act (S.C. Code of Regulations R. 126-425)[J]. The South Carolina Family Court lacks authority and jurisdiction to determine the minor child’s eligibility for the Medicaid program.

Based on the foregoing Defendant is informed and believes that the SCDHHS is entitled to an order dismissing the cause of action brought by Plaintiff which requests an order of this court that the minor child be granted lifetime Medicaid coverage.

Defendant further requests the removal of SCDHHS as a party to this action. Defendant, SCDHHS so moves.

Brener Hurteau Family Law

S/Andrew L. Brener

Andrew L. Brener

Brener Hurteau Family Law

Attorneys for Defendant 854 Lowcountry Blvd. STE 101D Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 29464

Andrew@CHSfamilylaw.com

(843)628-6323

December 22, 2025

Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-04791

Celia Garcia Santana, Plaintiff, v. Alonzo Heyward and Zozobra, LLC 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 April 16, 2026 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 quiet the title to the subject property after a tax sale.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A.

s/ J. Chris Lanning

J. Chris Lanning Bar #: 73957

12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 chris@brushlawfirm.com

843-766-5576

Attorney for the Plaintiff

February 2, 2026 Charleston, SC

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

CASE NO. 2026-CP-10-00610

Claudia E. Lawton, Plaintiff versus Prince Colleton Bright, Rachael Brown, John David Edwards, Jr., Angelo G. Edwards, Ernestine Edwards Brown, Latoya Denise Edwards Nelson, Kimberly Green, Heirs of Emerson Murray, Dennis Bright, all deceased, collectively designated as JOHN DOE, and any such persons who are Minors or other disability, or members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, as contemplated by the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Relief Act, 1940, as Amended collectively designated as RICHARD ROE, and all persons entitled to claim under or through, 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.

TMS# 350-03-00-167

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this Action dated February 3, 2026, which has been filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 4th day of February 2026. A copy of said Complaint is herewith served upon you, and you are to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff or his Attorney, Thomas H. Brush, at his office located at 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, 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 in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

The original Summons and Complaint in the above captioned action were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 4th day of March 2025.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants, that said Action is brought pursuant to the provisions of the “Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act” contained in Title 15, Chapter 53, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended, for the purposes of obtaining a determination from this Honorable Court as to who are the rightful owners of the subject property, and further, pursuant to the provisions contained in Title 15, Chapter 67, Articles 1 and 2, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended to determine adverse claims, if

any, to the subject property and to quiet title thereto in the names of the Plaintiff, Defendants and any lawful heirs of Defendants: further, pursuant to the provisions contained in Section 15-61-10 et. seq., South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended.

That said property affected by said Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice, described as follows:

All that a lot, piece or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying, and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot Number 12 in Section B as shown on a Plat of Section B of Sherwood Forest made by W. L. Gaillard, Surveyor, dated March 1954 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Book J, at Page 101. Said lot having such size, shape and dimensions, more or less, as will, by reference to the said plat more fully appear, and being bounded as shown on said plat.

Saving and accepting, however, that certain portion of said lot, which was conveyed to James Hardee and Agnes H. Hardee by deed of Osgood Madison Howe Jr., dated October 2, 1980 and recorded October 30, 1980 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Book 123, at Page 346.

TMS# 350-03-00-167

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDEN AD LITEM

Upon reading and filing the within Petition for the Appointment of a Guardian ad Litem, and after mature consideration of same, and it being made to appear to my satisfaction that it is necessary that a Guardian ad Litem be appointed to appear in this action and represent the interest of such of the Defendants as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under any disability, it is ORDERED, that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esq., Post Office Box 30266, Charleston, South Carolina 29417, be and he is hereby appointed Guardian ad Litem for such of the Defendants herein as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under disability, to appear herein and represent their interest; it is further ORDERED, that such appointments shall become absolute unless within thirty (30) days after the last publication of the Notice of the Appointment of Guardian ad Litem herein, exclusive of such last day of publication, such Defendants, as may be infants, incompetents; or otherwise under any disability appear herein or someone appears in their behalf to procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem; it is further ORDERED, that a Notice of Appointment and of the name and address of the person so appointed shall be sufficient publication of this Order.

AND IT IS SO ORDERED!

s/ Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court, by BLC

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL

CIRCUIT

CASE NO. 2026-CP-10-00339

Alfreda C. Soriano

Plaintiff versus Denise H. Swails, Gina E. Swails, Carl StentCarol Stent Westbrook, Michelle E. Stent-Hilton, Stephen Young as Trustee of the Dorothy

B. Stone Trust, Brenda Golson, Judy Nail, Yusuff Hajara f/k/a Kevin V. Stone, Keith Stone, Dennis Stone, Jr., Titus Stone, Sumayah Chappelle, Naseem Chappelle, Ameenah Chappelle, Darryl Otis, Jr., Preston Stone, Bryson Stone, Heirs of Dennis Stone, Sr., Darryl Otis Stone, Sr., Warren Isiah Smith-Stone and Biancca Stone, all deceased, collectively designated as JOHN DOE, and any such persons who are Minors or other disability, or members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, as contemplated by the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Relief Act, 1940, as Amended collectively designated as RICHARD ROE, and all persons entitled to claim under or through, 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.

TMS# 460-04-01-042

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the Action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiffs, through their Attorney, Thomas H. Brush, at his office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, 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 Plaintiffs in the Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiffs will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity for the aforesaid County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Master-in-Equity shall be made directly to the Supreme Court.

DATED at Charleston, South Carolina on the 6th day of February 2026. BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A.

s/ Thomas H. Brush

Thomas H. Brush

SC Bar # 974

tommy@brushlawfirm.com

J. Chris Lanning

SC Bar #73957

chris@brushlawfirm.com

12 Carriage Lane, Suite A Charleston, SC 29407

Attorneys for the Plaintiff

The original Summons and Complaint in the above captioned action were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 22nd day of January 2026.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants, that said Action is brought under the provisions of Section 15-53-10, et seq., (known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act), 12-51-40 et seq. and 12-61-10 et seq. and Section 15-67-10, et seq. of the Code of Laws of the State of South Carolina, for the Quieting of a Title for the purpose of obtaining a decree establishing that the Plaintiff and the Defendants are the owners of said property, and establishing their respective undivided interests in the properties described below, and for a partition by sale of the Property subject to the provisions of Section

15-61-10 et. seq., South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended.

That said property affected by said Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice, described as follows:

ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying, and being on the South side of Race Street, between Coming Street and Rutledge Avenue, in the City and County of Charleston, State of South Carolina; and being known in the present numbering of streets as No. 75 Race St.

MEASURING AND CONTAINING in front on Race Street Sixty (60’) feet and the same on the back line, by One Hundred Sixty-six (166’) feet in depth, be the same dimensions more or less.

BUTTING AND BOUNDING to the North on Race Street, East on lands now or formerly of Henry N. Doscher, South on lands belonging to Christ Church (now St. Peter‘s Episcopal Church), and West on lands now or formerly of Helen C. Fierano.

TMS# 460-04-01-042

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM

Upon reading and filing the within Petition for the Appointment of a Guardian ad Litem, and after mature consideration of same, and it being made to appear to my satisfaction that it is necessary that a Guardian ad Litem be appointed to appear in this action and represent the interest of such of the Defendants as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under any disability, it is ORDERED, that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esq., Post Office Box 30266, Charleston, South Carolina 29417, be and he is hereby appointed Guardian ad Litem for such of the Defendants herein as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under disability, to appear herein and represent their interest; it is further ORDERED, that such appointments shall become absolute unless within thirty (30) days after the last publication of the Notice of the Appointment of Guardian ad Litem herein, exclusive of such last day of publication, such Defendants, as may be infants, incompetents; or otherwise under any disability appear herein or someone appears in their behalf to procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem; it is further ORDERED, that a Notice of Appointment and of the name and address of the person so appointed shall be sufficient publication of this Order. AND IT IS SO ORDERED!

s/ Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court Dated February 6, 2026 Charleston, South Carolina

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: ELIZABETH

ARTHUR THOMAS SANDY, III

906 EBBTIDE WAY, MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 ***********

Estate of: DOROTHY ELIZABETH BURNSED 2026-ES-10-0028

DOD: 12/7/25

Pers. Rep: DAVID LEWIS BURNSED 852 MIKELL DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

***********

Estate of: LANTHIA TOLLERSON 2026-ES-10-0043

DOD: 9/15/25

Pers. Rep: THOMAS A. TOLLERSON 1855 KITTRIDGE DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: TOYA HAMPTON, ESQ. 1847 ASHLEY RIVER RD., #200, 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 and are forever barred.

Estate of: CHARLES NATHANIEL DOCTOR, SR. 2026-ES-10-0116

DOD: 9/10/25

Pers. Rep: ANNETTE M. GLOVER-DOCTOR 5596 GALLATIN LN., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420 Atty: THOMAS H. BRUSH, ESQ. 12-A CARRIAGE LN., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-06282

ARGENTINA SMALLS and GARY SMALLS, Plaintiffs, -vsANTHONY GREER and QFS TRANSPORTATION, LLC AKA NESBIT TRUCKING, LLC, Defendants.

SUMMONS (Jury Trial Demanded) (Automobile Tort)

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

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: MARGHERITA MCKNIGHT GRANT

2026-ES-10-0009

DOD: 12/12/25

Pers. Rep: APRIL MCKNIGHT 236 JACKSON ST., GOOSE CREEK, SC 29445

***********

Estate of: MARY KRCELIC 2026-ES-10-0039

DOD: 12/23/25

Pers. Rep: RYAN KRCELIC 312 CULVER AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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

***********

Estate of: HERBERT RODRICK ALLEN 2026-ES-10-0048

DOD: 12/12/25

Pers. Rep: MIRIAM LAWRIMORE ALLEN 4 BLACKBURN CIR., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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

Estate of: ROBERT W. LELAND

2026-ES-10-0073

DOD: 12/2/25

Pers Rep: KENNETH W. LELAND, III 4712 MAYBANK HWY., WADMALAW ISLAND, SC 29487

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to answer the Complaint herein served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber hereunder within thirty (30) days from the date of service, exclusive of the date of service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to this Court for the relief prayed for in the attached Complaint, including the rendering of a default judgment against you.

SIGNED at Charleston, South Carolina, this 10th day of November, 2025.

CLEKIS LAW FIRM, PA BY:Jacqueline J. Drescher Jacqueline J. Drescher SC Bar #11758 2850 Ashley Phosphate Road, Suite B N. Charleston, SC 29418 jackie@clekis.com 843-225-5253 843-459-2951 fax

Notice of Self Storage Sale

Please take notice Prime Storage - Summerville located at 2248 N. Main Street Summerville SC 29483 intends to hold an Auction of storage units in default of payment. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures. com on 3/4/2026 at 12:00 PM. This sale is pursuant to the assertion of lien for rental at the self-storage facility. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods, furnishings and garage essentials.

Leona Trappier; Andrea Johnson; Jade Turner; Danielle Hardt; Oschiah Hall; Christopher Price.

Mosaic Inc.; SoFi Lending Corp. as Attorney-inFact for Santander Bank NA Defendants

OF SALE BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company vs. Michael A. Santelli; CMG Mortgage Inc.; Solar Mosaic Inc.; SoFi Lending Corp. as Attorney-in-Fact for Santander Bank NA, I, Mikell Scarborough, Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on March 3, 2026, at 11:00 AM, at the Front Entrance of County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, to the highest bidder.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot or land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Mt. Pleasant, County of Charleston, State or South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot 1, Block B, Cooper`s Landing Subdivision, Phase I, on a plat entitled: “PLAT OF COOPER`S LANDING SUBDIVISION, PHASE l” prepared by Trico Surveying, Inc., dated September 24, 1985 and recorded October 25, 1985 in Book BF at Page 171 in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.

SUBJECT to any and all Restrictions. Covenants, Conditions, Easements, Rights of Way, and all other matters affecting subject property, of record in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina.

Derivation: BEING the same property conveyed to Michael A. Santelli by deed of James Robert Jenkins and Karen Saylors Jenkins on October 12, 2017, and recorded November 6, 2017, in Deed Book 0677, Page 716 in the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office. TMS #: 559-07-00-001

519 Stratton Ferry Court, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON

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

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

A personal or deficiency judgment having been demanded by the Plaintiff, the sale of the subject property will remain open for thirty (30) days pursuant to Section 15-39-720, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976; provided, however, that the Court recognizes the option reserved by the Plaintiff to waive such deficiency judgment prior to the sale, and notice is given that the Plaintiff may waive in writing the deficiency judgment prior to the sale; and that should the Plaintiff elect to waive a deficiency judgment, without notice other than the announcement at the sale and notice in writing to the debtor defendant(s) that a deficiency judgment has been waived and that the sale will be final, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

SOLD SUBJECT TO a mortgage given by Michael A. Santelli to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for CMG Mortgage Inc. dba CMG Financial in the original amount of $334,617.00, dated 04/17/2020, and recorded on 04/23/2020, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County in Book 876 at Page 480.

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

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.99000% per annum.

Mikell Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County

CRAWFORD & VON KELLER, LLC

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

Theodore von Keller (SC Bar# 5718)

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

Jason M. Hunter (SC Bar# 101501)

Eric H. Nelson (SC Bar# 104712)

Roman A. Dodd (SC Bar# 105612)

Ian C. Roberts (SC Bar# 105386)

Crawford & von Keller, LLC

1640 St. Julian Place (29204)

PO Box 4216 (29240)

Columbia, SC

Phone: 803-790-2626

Email: court@crawfordvk.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-04196

Jessica Johnson, Petitioner, vs.

Estate of Pearl Johnson, Maxine L. Stokes, Estate of Mildred Sinkler Joy, Estate of Richard L. Johnson, Leonard Judge, Alphonzo Judge, George Sinclair, Leonard Sinclair, Derrick Sinclair, Fayzone Sinclair, Lynn Renae Alston, Kim Douglas, Antonio Murray, Stephanie Mitchum, Shawntyl Gibbs, Raechel Sawyers, Estate of Erica Johnson, Briana Williams, John Doe, Mary Roe, and any Defendants who may be deceased and all other persons claiming any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the lands of Lee Johnson, or any portion thereof, including any such as may be infants, incompetents, or otherwise under any disability, Respondents.

SUMMONS FOR QUIET-TITLE (NON-JURY)

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 Plaintiff or her attorney, Cindy R. Graham, Esquire, at P.O. Box 42270, North Charleston, South Carolina 29423, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint with the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Dated this 30th day of May, 2025, at North Charleston, South Carolina.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been initiated and is pending in the Court of Commons Pleas for Charleston County and State aforesaid, by the above-named Plaintiff, against the Respondent above named, and that the object of such action is to quiet the title of the below described property and to partition the property. The Real Estate affected by this action is described as follows:

All that lot, piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in Ferndale, a subdivision of Charleston County, known and designated as Lot 13, Block 1 on a Plat made by James O’Hear and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book E, at Page 20; said lot having a frontage on Nesbit Avenue of thirty feet (30’), with a depth running eat and west of one hundred feet (100’), and a width on its back or west line of thirty feet (30’). Be the said dimensions a little more or less.

BEING the same property conveyed to Lee Johnson by Deed of Luis E. Storen dated April 1, 1943, and recorded April 6, 1943 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Deed Book O-43, at Page 639.

TMS#: 470-03-00-055

ALSO

All that lot, piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in Ferndale, a subdivision of Charleston County, known and designated as Lot 12, Block 1 on a Plat made by James O’Hear and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book E, at Page 20; said lot having a frontage on Nesbit Avenue of thirty

feet (30’), with a depth running eat and west of one hundred feet (100’), and a width on its back or west line of thirty feet (30’). Be the said dimensions a little more or less.

BEING the same property conveyed to Lee Johnson by Deed of Louis E. Storen dated April 6, 1943, and recorded April 6, 1943 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Deed Book O-43, at Page 637.

TMS#: 470-03-00-056

ALSO

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Goose Creek Parish, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina; Said lot of land having such shape, size, dimensions and boundaries as are fully shown on a Plat thereof made by W.L. Galliard, Surveyor, dated April 5, 1940 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book O-41, at Page 617; Butting and bounding to the East on lands of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; to the South by lands of R. Black; to the West on lands of Matilda Blocker; and to the North on lands formerly of Hasell now of Parson.

BEING the same property conveyed to Lee Johnson, Julia J. Bligh Dupont, Suzie Johnson, Carolyn Johnson, Jesse Johnson, Anna T. Smalls, and Bernice Johnson by partition order in Case No. 1981-CP-10-1497 filed in the Court of Common Pleas in Charleston County dated April 7, 1983.

TMS#: 470-10-00-065

Dated May 30, 2025 NOTICE NISI

TO THE INFANT RESPONDENTS ABOVE NAMED, IF THEY BE OVER THE AGE OF FOURTEEN YEARS AND TO THEM AND THOSE WITH WHOM THEY RESIDE IF THEY BE UNDER THE AGE OF FOURTEEN YEARS:

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem to represent you in this action within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you, and if you fail, application for such appointment will be made by Plaintiff herein.

Dated May 30, 2025

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Complaint in this action, together with the Summons and Lis Pendens, of which the above are copies, were duly filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on the 25th day of July, 2025.

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that George E. Counts, Esquire of, 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200, Charleston, SC 29407 has been designated as Guardian Ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County dated, and said appointment shall become absolute thirty (30) days after the final publication of this Notice unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf, shall petition the Court to have a Guardian ad Litem appointed for them within thirty (30) days after the final publication of this notice.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED!

CINDY R. GRAHAM, ESQUIRE The Curry Law Firm, LLC

6518-D Dorchester Road

P.O. Box 42270

North Charleston, SC 29423

843-767-5284

cgraham@thecurrylawfirmllc.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

Dated: January 27, 2026.

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

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO: 2026-CP -10-00072

LINDA SMALLS TUPE

Plaintiff

-v-

JANIE AIKEN, PATRICIA ANN MAGRUDER, and KERRY MAGRUDER, if they be alive and JOHN DOE adults and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents, being fictitious names, designating as a class, any person or entity who may be an heir distribute, devisee, legatee, widow, widower, assignee, administrator, executor, personal representative, creditor, successor, issue, and alienee of JANIE AIKEN, PATRICIA ANN MAGRUDER and KERRY MAGRUDER, deceased and all other persons or legal entities in the military or under legal disability, known and unknown, owning, having and claiming any right, title, claim, interest equity or estate in the parcel of land described in the Complaint herein or any part thereof.

Defendants,

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, pursuant to the provisions of Title 15, Chapter 53 and 67, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, commonly known as the “Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act” for the purposes of determining adverse claims, if any against the parcel of land hereinafter described; to adjudge and declare that the Plaintiff is the fee simple owner, free and clear of any adverse claims of each and every one of the Defendants joined in the above-entitled action and that each and everyone of the other Defendants joined herein be forever barred from claiming and asserting any right, title, claim, interest, equity or estate in the hereinafter described parcel of land and pursuant to Rule 71 SCRCP for the purposes of declaring that there be a free and clear title of the Plaintiff in name by and through the ORDER of th is court.

THE BELOW-DESCRIBED parcel of real estate was at the time of the filing of this Lis Pendens, at the time of the commencement of this action, situate, lying, and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more particularly described as follows:

PARCEL ONE:

ALL THAT certain lot, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being on Riley Road, James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina.

MEASURING and CONTAINING: Lot E .92 acres,(or .86 acres) more or less, being more fully described by W.L. Stephens, Jr., PE & LS, dated July 24, 1971, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AA page 75.

BEING a portion of the property which was conveyed to the late JANIE AIKEN by Deed of Distribution, dated May 15, 2007 and recorded May 18, 2007 in Book A 626 at page 767, in the RMC Office for Charleston County, state aforesaid.

TMS# 340-07-00-022-1

Dated

SUMMONS (Non-Jury)

QUIET TITLE and PARTITION Refer to Master

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, upon the subscriber, at his office address: P.O. Box 1563, Hollywood, S.C 29449, within thirty (30) days after 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.

Date

NOTICE OF FILING

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to SCRCP 4 e, the original copy of the Summons, Complaint, Notice Nisi, Notice of Filing, Notice of Intent to Refer, Notice of Right of First Refusal and Lis Pendens were filed in the Office of the Clerk, of the Commons Pleas Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, in and for the County of Charleston, located and situated at 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina.

If YOU DESIRE TO CONTEST, intervene or otherwise respond to these proceedings, you must file a written response thereto within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this Notice, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to contest, intervene or otherwise respond to these proceedings within the time aforesaid, your failure to respond will constitute your consent to the relief requested by the Plaintiff, and you shall forfeit all of your rights and obligations with respect to the subject property.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that you must file with the clerk of this court your current address and you must advise the clerk of any changes in your address during the pendency of the mentioned proceedings.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the expiration of thirty (30) days following the service of a copy of the within NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER upon you, the Plaintiff intends to and will appear before the Honorable Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, at the usual place of adjudication and will move His or Her Honor for the entry of an Order referring to the above entitled action to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, with finality of authority to enter final judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment of the Master in Equity as aforesaid, that such appeal be directly to the Supreme Court of South Carolina or alternatively to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

NOTICE OF RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED ALL KNOWN AND UNKNOWN:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR FIRST STATUTORY RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL:

“The court shall provide for the non-petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common who are

interested in purchasing the property to notify the court of that interest no later than ten (10) days prior to the date set for trial of the case. The non-petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common shall be allowed to purchase the interest in the property as provided in this section whether default has been entered against them or not.” 1976 SC Code of Laws, as amended, section 15-61-25 (A).

NOTICE NISI TO: SUCH OF THE DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ACTION WHO MAY BE INFANTS, INSANE PERSONS AND INCOMPETENTS: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that there has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Charleston County, State of South Carolina, an Order appointing you as Guardian Ad litem, Nisi, George E. Counts, Esquire, whose business address is 27 Gamecock Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina 29407. THE APPOINTMENT shall become absolute upon the expiration of thirty (30) days following the last date of publication of the Summons herein, unless you or someone in your behalf, on or before the last-mentioned date, shall procure someone to be appointed as the Guardian Ad Litem to represent you in the above action.

s/Kenneth Edwards, Esquire P.O. Box 1563 Hollywood, South Carolina 29449 (843) 437-5798 phone Attorney for the Plaintiff

February 13, 2026 Charleston, S.C.

1117 Bowman Rd. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

3/5/2026 10:25 AM

The Select Extra furniture and decorations

Liam Chavez Kitchen Table, Coffee table, desk, mattress and kitchen goods

Facility 4: 1471 Center St Ext. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 3/5/2026 10:30 AM

Trey Harrison Household Goods/Furniture

Facility 5: 1426 N Hwy 17 Mt.

Lori

Facility

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

Facility 1: 1108 Stockade Ln. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466

3/5/2026 10:00 AM

Luke Echols Boxes

Robert Legare Furniture, Home decor

Isaiah Drayton

Rhonda Ophelia Jones

Facility 12: 1540 Meeting Street Road Charleston, SC 29405 3/5/2026 1:00 PM

Facility

45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414 3/5/2026 11:15 AM

Jamal Evans Household goods, furniture

Paris Shivers Personal and household items

Propman Systems, LLC Job materials

Facility 8: 1951 Maybank Hwy Charleston, SC 29412 3/5/2026 11:30 AM

Andres Sanchez Small apartment

Giovanni Richardson Household Item furniture

Ashley Vander Ploeg Clothes

Olivia Richardson Linen. Shoes

Heather Boan Two dressers studio apt ( no bed)

Facility 9: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 3/5/2026 12:45 PM

Stacey Murray Household items and furniture

Andrea Traxler Furniture

Travez Myers Bags of clothes and docs

Candace Howell Boxes, Household items

Facility 10: 1861 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 3/5/2026 1:15 PM

Denise Platts Household furniture

Diannia Grant Household goods, furniture Wilson Grayson Boxes of personal belongings

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.

Master’s Sale Case No. 2025-CP-10-03764

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

Citibank, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee for New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 2018-5, PLAINTIFF, vs. Gregory Mark Dupree; Ocean Neighbors Home Owners Association, Inc.; Pinnacle Bank SBM Carolina Federal Savings Bank, DEFENDANT(S)

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 21st day of November 2025, 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 3rd day of March 2026, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on City and County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 233, Phase 2, Ocean Neighbors Subdivision, as shown on a plat entitled, “FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF OCEAN NEIGHBORS, PHASE TWO, CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” prepared by Forsberg Engineering and Surveying, Inc., dated August 3, 2000, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book EE, pages 259-260; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

BEING the same property

conveyed to Gregory Mark Dupree by Deed of Scoot Hagan, Doing Business as Scott Hagan Builders dated December 11, 2002 and recorded December 27, 2002 in Deed Book P430 at Page 464, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

1138 Clear Springs Drive aka 1138 Clearspring Drive Charleston, SC 29412

TMS# 4310000200

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

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

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

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

FOR INSERTION

February 13, 2026; February 20, 2026; February 27, 2026

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 2025-CP-10-00181

Gary Saulters, Plaintiff, vs. Señor Tequila, Inc. d/b/a Señor Tequila Mexican Restaurant and Cantina, Defendant.

YOU ARE NOW SUMMONED and required to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the Plaintiff or his attorney, Jerod Frazier, at his office at 2185 Ashley Phosphate Road Suite B, North Charleston, SC 29406, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. 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.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED

s/Jerod Frazier (SC Bar#:103021) 2185 Ashley Phosphate Rd, Suite B North Charleston, SC 29420 Phone: (843) 900-4529 jerod@frazierlawoffices.com

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER: 2025-DR-10-1897

VICTORIA LYNN MADDY, Plaintiff,

v. DEANIA SMITH MADDY, Defendant.

SUMMONS

TO: DEANIA SMITH MADDY, DEFENDANT 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 January 30, 2025

THE EAST SIDE OF MEETING STREET TWO AND FORTYFIVE HUNDREDTHS (2.45’) FEET, THENCE RUNNING EASTWARDLY ALONG THE LINE MARKED “FENCE” ON THE SAID PLAT

SEVENTY-FIVE (75’) FEET, TO THE INTERSECTION OF THAT LINE WITH ANOTHER LINE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, THENCE RUNNING SOUTHWARDLY ONE-HALF (1/2’) FOOT TO THE POINT MARKED C ON SAID PLAT, AND THENCE RUNNING WESTWARDLY ON THE LINE FROM C TO B AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT A DISTANCE OF SEVENTY-SEVEN (77’) FEET,

THE PLAT HEREIN ABOVE REFERRED TO IS A PLAT ENTITLED “PLAT OF NO. 756 MEETING STREET SITUATED ON THE EAST SIDE OF ROMNEY STREET AND ISABELLE STREETS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ETC.” MADE JUNE 9, 1944, BY JOSEPH NEEDLE, C.E.WHICH IS RECORDED IN THE R.M.C. OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY.

BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO RICHARD PARSON AND RACHEL E. PARSON BY DEED OF ARLEAN R.WILSON DATED APRIL 17, 1975 AND RECORDED IN CHARLESTON COUNTY REGISTER OF DEEDS ON APRIL 22, 1975 IN DEED BOOK 0106 AT PAGE 281.

AND

ALL THAT LOT OF LAND WITH THE BUILDINGS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON THE EAST SIDE OF MEETING STREET, BETWEEN ROMNEY AND ISABELLA STREETS, IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, STATE AFORESAID; BEING KNOWN AS LOT #1 AS SHOWN IN BLACK LINES ON PLAT MADE BY A.A. EVERETT, SURVEYOR, NOVEMBER 14, 1912, AND RECORDED IN R.M.C. OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK C, PAGE 55.

NOTICE OF SALE 2024-CP-10-04333

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

VERNELL HOLLINS PLAINTIFF vs TIERA LASHAE MILLER ET AL DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree

Partitioning the within-described property for sale dated the March 03, 2026, Charleston County Master in Equity, the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough, will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the Public Services Building, County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, Charleston, South Carolina, on the 3 rd of March, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL THAT LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON THE EAST SIDE OF MEETING STREET IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA AND KNOWN IN THE PRESENT NUMBERING SYSTEM FOR THE CITY OF CHARLESTON AS 698 MEETING STREET AND MEASURING AND CONTAINING AND BUTTING AND BOUNDING AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING AT THE POINT B SHOWN ON THE PLAT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND RUNNING THENCE NORTHWARDLY ALONG

EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES.

NOTICE: This 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 partition sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Jennifer S Smith Es

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL CASE NO.: 2025-CP-1007004

MARCELL GADSON, Plaintiff, vs. ANTOINETTE ANCRUM, ALISA ANCRUM, ADRIENNE ANCRUM, TROY ANCRUM, GENO ANCRUM, HARRY WALLACE, KIMBERLY SMITH, KEVIN STREAKS, JOHN DOE, and MARY ROE, being fictitious names used to designate the unknown heirs at law distributes, devisees, legatees, widow, widowers, successors and assigns, if any, of MARY WALLACE, KENNETH WALLACE, WILLIAM WALLACE, JR., WILHELMINA M. ANCRUM, ANNETTE WALLACE and all other persons unknown claiming by, through or under them or having or claiming any interest in the real estate described in the Complaint, whether infants, incompetents, insane persons under any other disability, Defendants.

SUMMONS (Quiet Title/Partition By Sale) TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

MEASURING AND CONTAINING, IN FRONT ON MEETING STREET TWENTY (20) FEET; ON THE NORTH LINE, SEVENTY-SIX (76) FEET; ON THE EAST LINE, EIGHTEEN (18) FEET; AND ON THE SOUTH LINE, SEVENTYSEVEN (77) FEET, TO BE THE SAID DIMENSIONS MORE OR LESS.

BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO RICHARD PARSON AND RACHEL E. PARSON BY DEED OF ARLEAN R. WILSON DATED AUGUST 03, 1976 AND RECORDED ON AUGUST 03, 1976, IN THE R.M.C. OFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN BOOK B110, PAGE 61.

TMS No.: 461-13-01-002

Property Address: 698 Meeting Street, Charleston, S.C. 29403

The bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

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

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out.

THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES,

NOTICE NISI

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Plaintiff has applied to the Court for appointment of a suitable person as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown and known Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability, and said appointment shall become final unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf, within thirty (30) days of the service of this Notice, shall procure to be appointed a Guardian ad Litem for them.

NOTICE OF FILNG

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Complaint, Lis Pendens and Notice Nisi were filed on December 19, 2025 in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, South Carolina.

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Toya Hampton, Esquire of 1847 Ashley River Road, Suite 200, P.O. Box 32181, Charleston, S.C. 29417, has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated the 22nd day of December, 2025 and the said appointment shall become absolute thirty (30) days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf, shall procure a proper person to be appointed as Guardian ad Litem for them within (30) days after the final publication of this Notice.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, located at 1847 Ashley River Road, 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 in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Complaint.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Charleston, which action was brought by the above-named Plaintiffs against the above-named Defendants to determine the rightful owners and partition by sale of the below described real estate.

That the premises affected by this action is located within the County and State aforesaid and is more particularly described as follows:

All that lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, in St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County, State of South Carolina and fully described and designated as Lot Forty-one (41) Section B on a plat of a subdivision known as Ardmore, which said plat was made by Gaillard & Gaillard Surveyors, from Survey made May 20, 1948 and is fully recorded in the office of the ROD for Charleston County, S.C. in Plat Book G at page 55 a reference to which is craved for a full description of the metes and bounds of said lot.

TMS No.: 351-02-00-020

3419 Walter Drive, Johns Island, SC 29455

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, TAXES, EASEMENTS, RESTRICTIONS AND OTHER ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY.

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff’s debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent sales day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). Deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will remain open for 30 days, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on deed. Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its rights to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

Shawn R. Willis 151 Meeting Street, Suite 600 Charleston, SC 29401 (843) 534-4230 Attorney for Plaintiff

DEFENDANTS.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 21st day of November, 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, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 3rd day of March, 2026 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that piece or lot of land situate, lying and being on Johns Island, County and State aforesaid, containing one (1) acre, more or less, and butting and bounding as follows: North and west by lands of Estate of James Freeman; East by lands of William Harrison and South by lands of James Cason; and being more particularly described on that plat prepared by James G. Penington, Professional Land Surveyor entitled “Plat Lots 49, 1.48 Acres, California, Located Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina,” dated March 21, 2001 and recorded in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County in Plat Book EE at page 751.

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

LLC, PLAINTIFF,

/s/ Arthur C. McFarland Attorney for Plaintiff 1847 Ashley River Road, Suite 200 Charleston, SC 29407 E-mail: Cecilesq@aol.com 843.763-3900

Charleston, S.C. December 19, 2025

MASTER IN EQUITY’S NOTICE OF SALE

By virtue of a decree in the case of James M. Hutto, III, v. Edward J. Guidry, III, C/A # 2025-CP-1004301, the Master in Equity will sell on March 3, 2026, at 11:00 A.M., at the Charleston County Public Services Building, County Council Chambers, at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder the below-described real property which is currently owned by Edward J. Guidry, III:

All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, Shown and designated as Lot 50, Block B, Cedar Springs Subdivision, as shown on that certain plat entitled, “PLAT SHOWING PROPERTY LINE ADJUSTMENT BETWEEN LOTS 50 & 51, BLOCK B, CEDAR SPRINGS JOHNS ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTHY CAROLINA” made by A.H. Schwacke & Associates, dated December 9, 2015, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book S16, at Page 0111. Said lot having such size, shape, metes, locations, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said Plat more fully and at large appear.

Tax Map No: 277-07-00-131 Street Address:

Master’s Sale Case No.: 2023CP1001476

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

The Bank of New York Mellon as Trustee for CWABS, Inc. AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2007-7, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS Vivien Mack Linton; Zarina Jones; Charrise Brewer; Lovell T. Martin; Edward Mack; Lavell Froster; Donnell Moss; Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Lovell S. Linton, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe;

This being the same property conveyed to Lovell S. Linton and Vivien Mack Linton by deed of Julie Mack, Vivien Mack Linton and Theresa Mack Hunt dated January 24, 2001 and recorded January 26, 2001 in Book R362 at Page 729. Subsequently, Lovell Spencer Linton died on April 10, 2013, leaving the subject property to his heirs or devisees namely, Vivien Linton, Zarina Jones, Charrise Brewer, Lovell Martin, Edward Mack, Lavell Froster and Donnell Moss.

TMS # 283-00-00-082

Case#: 2023CP1001476

Current Property Address: 662 Main Road Johns Island, SC 29455

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 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 the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Brian P. Yoho (803) 744-4444

011847-04858

2023CP1001476

FOR INSERTION

02/13/2026, 02/20/2026, 02/27/2026

Deceased,

or devisees, successors and assigns, and any

or Devisees of the

of

R.

a/k/a Donnie Rufus Woods a/k/a Donnie R. Woods, Sr., Deceased; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; et. al. DEFENDANT(S).

(261136.00005)

SUMMONS AND NOTICES TO ALL THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1800 St. Julian Place, Suite 407, Columbia, SC 29204 or P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

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

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Kelley Yarborough Woody, made absolute.

NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:

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 January 15, 2026.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the order appointing Kelley Yarborough Woody, whose address is PO Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260, as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as Richard Roe, defendants herein whose names and addresses are unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, incapacitated, or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina; for all named Defendants, addresses unknown, who may be infants, incapacitated, or under a legal disability; for any unknown heirs-at-law of Donnie R. Woods a/k/a Donnie Rufus Woods a/k/a Donnie R. Woods, Sr., including their heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; and for all other unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in and to the real estate that is the subject of this foreclosure action, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 29th day of January, 2026.

YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said Defendants, or someone in their behalf or in behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian Ad Litem to represent them or any of them for the purposes of this action, the Plaintiff will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian Ad Litem Nisi absolute.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff above named against the Defendant(s) above named for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by Donnie R. Woods and Teresa D. Woods to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Caliber Home Loans, Inc., dated August 25, 2022, recorded September 20, 2022, in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County, in Book 1138 at Page 651.

The description of the premises is as follows:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in The Willows at Village Green Subdivision, County of Charleston, City of Charleston, State of South Carolina, shown and designated as LOT 96, on a plat entitled: “SUBDIVISION PLAT SHOWING THE WILLOWS PHASE VI, A 10.658 ACRE TRACT OF LAND, (FORMERLY TRACT “M”) PROPERTY OF 2728 HOLDING CORPORATION f/k/a CENTEX REAL ESTATE CORPORATION, LOCATED AT VILLAGE GREEN, IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” made by Trico Engineering & Surveying, Inc., dated January 10, 1997, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina in Plat Book EB, Page 654. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Donnie R. Woods and Teresa D. Woods by deed of Centex International Inc., Successor by merger to 2728 Holding Corporation, a Nevada

Corporation, f/k/a Centex Real Estate Corporation dated July 15, 1998 and recorded July 16, 1998 in Book X-306 at Page 747 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

Subsequently, Donnie R. Woods a/k/a Donnie Rufus Woods a/k/a Donnie R. Woods, Sr. died on or about June 28, 2025 and no probate case has been opened with the probate court for Charleston County. If any party has any information as to the existence and/or opening of a probate court file for the Estate of Donnie R. Woods a/k/a Donnie Rufus Woods a/k/a Donnie R. Woods, Sr., it is requested that you contact counsel for Plaintiff immediately with that information. Upon information and belief, Donnie R. Woods a/k/a Donnie Rufus Woods a/k/a Donnie R. Woods, Sr. was survived by his heir(s), Teresa Woods a/k/a Teresa D. Woods; Deidre Monique Woods a/k/a Deidre M. Woods a/k/a Monique Woods a/k/a Deidre M. Campbell; Donnie R. Woods, Jr.; and Donna Terese Woods a/k/a Donna Woods (based on his published obituary).

TMS No. 359-15-00-341

Property address: 3452 Forest Glen Drive Charleston, SC 29414

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A.

By: Angelia J. Grant

Ronald C. Scott (rons@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996

Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #69453

Angelia J. Grant (angig@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334

Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530 H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64134

Jordan D. Beumer (jordanb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #104074

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF

1800 St. Julian Place, Suite 407 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340

Master’s Sale 2025-CP-10-04106

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

Nationstar Mortgage LLC, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Mary E. Rader a/k/a Mary Rader; Thomas A. Rader a/k/a Thomas Rader a/k/a Thomas Allen Rader; et.al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated November 21. 2025, 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 3rd DAY OF MARCH, 2026 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of North Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 22A on a plat entitled “COVINGTON POINT, Plat of Lots 22A and 24A, Block D, being a Resubdivision of Lots 22-24, Block D, Covington Hills, Section 3, Part I, City of North Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina,” made by John Martin Saboe, dated June 28, 1977, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AJ, at Page 53, which Plat is made a part hereof by reference thereto.

Said Lot having such size, shape, dimensions, measurements, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Thomas A. Rader and Mary E. Rader by deed of Louis F. Pechon, Jr. dated February 23, 2004 and recorded February 24, 2004 in Book Z484 at Page 138 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

Thereafter, the property was conveyed to Thomas A. Rader by deed of Mary E. Rader dated March 25, 2024 and recorded March 27, 2024 in Book 1235 at Page 638 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Charleston County.

TMS No. 406-14-00-134

Property address: 5754 Saint Angela Drive, 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

Reginald P. Corley (803) 252-3340

Mikell R Scarborough Master in Equity

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

CIVIL CASE NO.: 2025CP1006255

Christi’s Cleaning Service, LLC, Plaintiff, v. The Wonderer Charleston, LLC, Melanie Bowlds, and Charles May Burns, IV a/k/a Beau Burns, Defendants.

AMENDED SUMMONS

TO: THE DEFENDANTS NAMED ABOVE:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is served upon you, and to serve a copy of your written response to the said Complaint on the subscribers at the law office of Closser Law, P.A., 7455 Cross County Road, Suite 1, Post Office Box 40578, Charleston, South Carolina, 29423-0578, within thirty (30) days after the date of service hereof, exclusive of the day of service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

CLOSSER LAW, P.A.

s/ Zachary J. Closser

Zachary J. Closser, SC Bar #74005

7455 Cross County Road, Suite 1 (29418)

P.O. Box 40578, Charleston, SC 29423

Phone: 843-7602-0220

Fax: 843-552-2678 zach@closserlaw.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

Charleston, South Carolina September 5, 2025

25-264

MASTER IN EQUITY’S SALE 2024-CP-10-01962

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

CalCon Mutual Mortgage LLC dba One Trust Home Loans v. Athena Alston McFadden

Upon authority of a Decree dated April 3, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on March 3, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. ALL THAT LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON JAMES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 10, “KING’S ACRES’, AS SHOWN ON A PLAY ENTITLED, “KING’S ACRE’S” DATED SEPTEMBER 1955, BY J. O’HEAR SANDERS, JR., WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK K, AT PAGE 45, R.M.C. OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. THE PREMISES HAVING SUCH BUTTING AND BOUNDINGS, MEASUREMENTS AND DIMENSIONS DATED NOVEMBER 21, 1955, AND RECORDED NOVEMBER 21, 1955, IN BOOK H-65, AT PAGE 43, R.M.C. OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. BEING ALSO THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO DOROTHEA B. ALSTON FROM US DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, BY DEED DATED MAY 26, 1989, AND RECORDED ON JUNE 7, 1989, IN BOOK 184, PAGE 901. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO ATHENA ALSTON MCFADDEN BY DEED OF DISTRIBUTION FROM ATHENA A. MCFADDEN AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF DOROTHEA BERRY ALSTON, DECEASED, DATED DECEMBER 4, 2021, AND RECORDED ON DECEMBER 21, 2021, IN BOOK 1062, PAGE 386.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1339 Ronald Lane, Charleston, SC 29412 Parcel No. 427-03-00-011

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with bid may be made immediately. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

J. Martin Page, Esquire

Telephone: 803-509-5078 / File # 24-41563

FOR INSERTION February 13, 2026; February 20, 2026 and February 27, 2026

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

7574

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

C/A No.: 2025-CP-10-06789

Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC, Plaintiff, vs The Estate of Vanessa Ladson, and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees of Vanessa Ladson, deceased, and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also, all other persons, corporations or entities unknown claiming any right, title interest in or lien upon the subject real estate described herein, any unknown adults, whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants, persons under disability, or person in the Military Service of the United States of America whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as Richard Roe; The United States of America, acting by and through its agent, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Capital One NA; The Park Recreational Development, Inc., Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (NonJury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor, Columbia, SC 29201, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

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

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

NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint,

Lis Pendens, and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 10, 2025.

J. Martin Page, Esq. (SC Bar: 100200)

Morgan Ames, Esq. (SC Bar: 106058)

Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC 339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor Columbia, SC 29201 Phone (803) 509-5078

BCP No.: 25-45815 7596

Sylvania Acceptance Corp will offer for public sale on Friday February 20, 2026 at 9am at America’s Auto Auction Charleston, 651 Precast Lane, Moncks Corner, SC 29461 a 2016 Lincoln MKZ, Vin 3LN6L2J97GR632347.s

NOTICE OF SALE

Case No. 2025-CP-10-01002

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

SouthState Bank, National Association, v. Any Children and Heirs at Law, Distributees and Devisees of Emma Jane Biggins, and if any be deceased, then any persons entitled to claim under or through them; also all other persons unknown, claiming any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; any unknown adults, minors or persons under legal disability, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown adults or persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe

Upon authority of a Decree heretofore granted, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the Charleston County Judicial Center, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, on the 3rd day of March, 2026, at 11:00 A.M. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, and known and designated as Lot 12, Block B, Section II, Landsdowne Subdivision as shown on a plat of Block B, owned by Spectra Development, Inc., prepared by Clarence S. Matthews, RLS dated June 9, 1987 and thereafter being recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston county in Plat Book BO at Page 76; said lot having such actual size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as shown on said plat, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description.

SUBJECT to easements and restrictions of record.

BEING the same property conveyed to Tom Biggins and Emma Jane Biggins, for and during their joint lives and upon the death of either of them, then to the survivor of them-by deed of Trinity Construction, Inc., recorded January 28, 1991 in Book Y199, at Page 885 in the RMC Office for Charleston County.

TMS Number: 425-15-00-082

Property Address: 1179 Landsdowne Dr., Charleston, SC 29412

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES,

Deficiency Judgment is not 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 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.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty 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.

Purchaser to pay for preparation of the Master in Equity’s deed, documentary stamps on the deed, recording of the deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.50% per annum.

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.

J. Ronald Jones, Jr., Esquire Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers, LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 171 Church Street, Suite 120C Charleston, SC 29401 190651-001084

The Honorable Mikell Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County November 2025

TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE 98-39

Pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. §§ 27-32-300, et. seq., NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the intent of the undersigned Trustee, King Cunningham, LLC, P.O. Box 4896, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29597, to sell the below described Property at Public Auction to the highest bidder for cash on 2/27/2026, beginning at 10:00 A.M. The Public Auction shall occur at the front entrance of 700 Faison Road Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 29466.

Property Description: A Vacation Ownership Interest in LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES (the “Project”) consisting of the following: A fee simple undivided interest in (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number: (SEE EXHIBIT “A”). The names and notice address of the obligor(s), record owner(s) of the timeshare estate (if different from the obligor(s), and junior interest or lienholder(s) (if applicable) (hereinafter referred to as “Obligors”) are identified in Exhibit “A”. The sale of the Properties is to satisfy the default in payment by the Obligors of the obligations secured by those certain Mortgages to 1776 Development, LLC as recorded in the records of Horry County, South Carolina and detailed in Exhibit “A”. The amounts

secured by the MORTGAGES, including accrued interest and late charges now owing along with a per diem amount to account for further accrual of interest and late charges are detailed in Exhibit “A”, together with any and all additional principal, interest, costs coming due and payable hereafter. The successful bidders shall be required to pay, in cash or certified funds, at the time of the bid, unless the successful bidder is the Creditor, which shall reserve a credit against its bid for the Total Owing as set forth in Exhibit “A”. The successful bidders shall also be required to pay for Deed Preparation, Documentary Stamps, or transfer fee, and Recording Costs. This sale is subject to all taxes, liens, easements, encumbrances, assessments, and/or senior mortgage liens of record and the undersigned Trustee gives no opinion thereto. An Obligor has the right to cure the default, and a Junior Lienholder has the right to redeem its interest up to the date of that the Trustee issues the Certificate of Sale pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 27-32-345. KING CUNNINGHAM, LLC, Trustee and Attorney for 1776 Development, LLC, by Jeffrey W. King, SC Bar # 15840; or W. Joseph Cunningham, SC Bar # 72655, P.O. Box 4896, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29597, (843)-249-0777. EXHIBIT “A”

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Obligor(s), Address, TS Interest, TS Interval Control No., MTG BK/PG, Default Amount, Costs, Trustee’s Fee, Total Amount Due, Per Diem; CARL

DAVID RACKLEY & LAURA L RACKLEY

8773 TILBURY DR WILMINGTON, NC 28411, 0.00798748443817687%, 980525-1B, 1089/743, $28,728.88, $921.05, $450.00, $30,099.93, $10.36.;

MIKAEL DELORIAN WALKER & TEARRA DANIELLE BLACK WALKER 5004 BRISCOE DR CHARLOTTE, NC 28214, 0.00798748443817687%, 980325-40B, 1218/101, $33,001.72, $921.05, $450.00, $34,372.77, $14.97.;

CINDY RICHARDSON & RODNEY RICHARDSON 1247 SW 152ND ST BURIEN, WA 98166-1758, 0.00399374221908844%, 980423-45E, 1167/533, $9,440.49, $471.05, $450.00, $10,361.54, $2.60.;

BARBARA HOWARD BRANNEN 3402 MOUNT LAUREL RD LAGO VISTA, TX 78645-6520, 0.00399374221908844%, 980416-48E, 1160/777, $22,263.73, $471.05, $450.00, $23,184.78, $11.30.;

DIKRAN YAPOUJIAN & JANE S DEVAUX, 17051 BOXER PALM CT LAND O LAKES, FL 34638-5731, 0.01300879428392730%, 98-03129E, 1187/711, $43,717.79, $471.05, $450.00, $44,638.84, $18.32.;

WILLIAM TURNER RICHARDSON KIMBERLY LINDSAY RICHARDSON 1233 BRUTON LN VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23451-3708, 0.00399374221908844%, 980325-38O, 1109/798, $14,503.02, $471.05, $450.00, $15,424.07, $5.71.;

DEBRA JONES MCNEESE 445 GREENFIELD RD PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC 29585, 0.01682244733133270%, 980514-42B, 1251/250, $42,981.50, $471.05, $450.00, $43,902.55, $14.97.;

STEPHEN BLATUS

35 OLD RD APT 1 DRACUT, MA 01826, 0.00841122366566636%, 980405-44E, 1300/489, $54,832.95, $471.05, $450.00, $55,754.00, $22.14.

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