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About 500 rectangular patches of fabric make up a massive quilt that was sent to Emanuel AME Church following the June 17, 2015, shooting that claimed the lives of nine members of the church. The quilt is on display in the Mother Emanuel Historic Foundation Museum at 113 Calhoun St. Members of the Charleston Modern Quilt Guild donated the quilt.

Outpouring of grief expressed in letters, art for Emanuel

By Herb Frazier

Two separate huge collections of correspondence and artwork capture the world’s griefstricken responses to the 2015 tragedy that took the lives of nine members of Emanuel AME Church.

Dozens of gray archival boxes at the South Carolina Historical Society (SCHS) hold tens of thousands of cards, letters and drawings mailed to the church within weeks of the June 17, 2015, shooting deaths of the church members, including their pastor, the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney. Across the street from the church, several hundred pieces of artwork, which evoke religious themes and the personalities of those who died, are displayed in the Mother Emanuel Historic Foundation Museum at 113 Calhoun St.

The memorabilia and art were sent to Emanuel and made by people who wanted to share their feelings, said church historian Lee Bennett Jr. It has been a slow, daunting task for Bennett and volunteers to move items from storage sites around Charleston and display some of them in one location, he explained.

The collection at the SCHS archives at the College of Charleston is in its final stages of being processed before some of it becomes available to the public, which is expected within a year. Just down the street, the Emanuel museum exhibits in a three-story house on Calhoun Street are

expected to open later this year by appointment with Bennett.

“It is a little overwhelming when you look at the (number) of people who took the time to express their love and spread positive messages,” Bennett told the Charleston City Paper in an exclusive interview.Letters came from people who were dealing with their own grief, including the mothers of twenty children who were murdered on Dec. 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

A Birmingham letter

One of the letters in the SCHS collection came from former U.S. secretary of state and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, who experienced a similar tragedy in 1963 in her native Birmingham, Ala., when White supremacists bombed a church, killing four Black girls, including her schoolmate 11-year-old Denise McNair.

“I remember well, as a little girl, the awful events of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church,” Rice wrote to the Emanuel congregation. “The violation of a house of the Lord is so shocking and like that day in 1963, it has forced us to confront, once again, the face of evil.”

In a thematically related submission, the iconic octagon-shaped clock at Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is subtly placed in Atlanta artist Leroy Campbell’s massive painting — “The

The Rundown

North Charleston police address spike in crime

The North Charleston Police Department is calling for residents to help the agency to improve community safety amid an increase in car breakins, gun thefts and fatal car accidents involving pedestrians.

Officials said the best way that community members can do their part is simple: Lock car doors when parking, and slow down when driving.

Car break-ins are the city’s most common crime, with 265 reports landing on officers’ desks since the start of the year. Out of those breakins, 58 firearms were stolen. Police say most intrusions are preventable, as only four of this year’s reports involved forced entry. Stolen guns are typically linked to violent crimes later.

Bible Study.” The painting hangs on the wall on the second floor of the foundation’s museum next to a portrait of Pinckney. Two men support the outstretched wings of a grieving female angel whose robe is adorned with pictures of the Emanuel Nine, Bible verses and spiritual lyrics.

“This painting, ‘Bible Study,’ was not a creation of my doing,” according to the text of Campbell’s explanation of the painting. “I was seeking counsel from (the victims) as ancestors, on how to deal with the pain, how to keep going after this horrific act.”

An act of unity

The Rev. Anthony B. Thompson’s wife, Myra Thompson, was one of Emanuel’s nine victims.

“It was good to know that people from around the world tried … to comfort us through the letters and through the art,” said Thompson, retired pastor of Holy Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church. “I really did appreciate that. It really did help. It brought me through my pain, and I was happy to know it brought people together.”

Thompson is the co-author of Called to Forgive: The Charleston Church Shooting, a Victim’s Husband, and the Path to Healing and Peace. In the book, Thompson delves into grief and how and why he made the radical choice to forgive the shooter.

Meanwhile, fatal auto-pedestrian incidents are on the rise, typically happening at night. Three of nine auto-pedestrian accidents this year resulted in deaths. Police say excessive speed, distracted driving and failing to adjust to changing traffic conditions are common factors in many of the crashes. —Skyler Baldwin

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The percentage of annual golf cart-related accidents that occur May through July. Called the “100 Deadliest Days of Summer,” the stretch between Memorial Day and Labor Day marks nationwide spikes in recreational vehicle accidents. 23,000 people are injured in golf cart-related incidents each year in the U.S. Source: Diaco Law

South Carolinians stressing over costs, studies show

By Jack O’Toole

A new national report finds nearly half of all South Carolinians are struggling to pay their bills as they prepare to head to the ballot box this November. Simply put, people are stressing out over affordability, even though some candidates seem to be ignoring it.

The report, published May 27 by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution, used price and income data to track the affordability of a basic basket of goods, including housing, health care and groceries, at the state and county levels from 2014 to2024.

Here in South Carolina, the study reports 45% of households don’t earn enough to make ends meet, placing the state almost dead center in the national pack.

But the study’s authors note that, in many cases, the statewide averages conceal large disparities across geography and race — a phenomenon that’s strongly reflected in Palmetto State data.

For instance, while only 45% of Darlington County households are able to cover the costs of necessities, 68% of Jasper County are able to get by on their current after-tax income. And while only 47% of Black South Carolina households can afford the study’s basic basket of goods, about 61% of White households can.

According to the study, those racial disparities are driven primarily by income, not the inflation that affects affordability more broadly.

“As of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics median earnings data, Black and Latino or Hispanic workers made 78 cents for every dollar made by a white worker,” the authors report. “The persistence of relatively lower incomes for certain groups means the threshold for the cost of living is less forgiving for those groups.”

The study’s findings broadly dovetail with the latest statewide poll from Winthrop University, which in late May found a large majority of South Carolinians saying that basic goods were increasingly out of their reach.

Given those concerns, Winthrop political science professor and poll director Scott Huffmon noted state leaders’ recent focus on national political concerns, such as last month’s failed attempt to redraw the state’s congressional lines, might seem tone-deaf to state voters.

“When nearly seven in 10 find groceries difficult to afford and almost 60% struggle with both health care and housing costs, South Carolina residents may wonder at the herculean efforts to address national political issues while many in the state feel

When you compare purchasing power for the average South Carolinian today to where it was on the eve of the pandemic, most consumers have actually fallen behind because prices have risen faster than wages.”

—Joseph Von Nessen

pushed to the economic brink,” Huffmon said in a May 27 statement.

University of South Carolina economist Joseph Von Nessen said voters’ affordability concerns are borne out by the numbers, with broad, systemic inflation and, in some sectors, tariffs driving up the cost of living.

“When you compare purchasing power for the average South Carolinian today to where it was on the eve of the pandemic, most consumers have actually fallen behind because prices have risen faster than wages,” Von Nessen said Tuesday. “And while consumers are slowly clawing back that purchasing power, their dollar still doesn’t go as far as it did in 2020.”

Looking forward, Von Nessen said, economists are carefully watching a recent uptick in inflation, driven primarily by Iran War-related energy costs, that threatens to further erode affordability and consumer confidence heading into the second half of the year.

“Anytime the consumer buys anything — gas at the pump, groceries at the store, things on Amazon — all those goods need to be shipped, which requires energy,” he said. “So when energy prices rise, that affects prices across the economy and across all industries.”

That said, Von Nessen noted, the “potential silver lining” regarding war-related energy inflation is that it can fall as quickly as it rises.

“Oil prices were about $70 per barrel at the beginning of the year, then they peaked at around $120 per barrel, and now they’re back down to about $85 per barrel,” he said. “So we’ve seen significant fluctuation — and that’s really the wild card looking ahead.”

$135M West Ashley sewer project hits major milestone

By Skyler Baldwin

Charleston Water System (CWS) is marking a second major checkpoint after a year of digging in its ongoing $135 million project to extend the West Ashley sewer tunnel.

Officials celebrated the milestone by taking media, project partners and others on a short journey that was 130-foot underground into the tunnel that still smells like freshly dug earth. In about two years, it will start moving millions of gallons of raw sewage to treatment.

On Tuesday, crane operators lifted a cramped cage holding four people at a time and lowered them into a wide-bore hole where the tunnel boring machine broke through last week.

The massive drill, dubbed “Miss Harper,” completed its 20,000-foot journey from Albemarle Road to Culver Avenue under the West Ashley Greenway three weeks ahead of schedule and under budget, according to CWS officials.

“This machine has been boring away for almost a whole year, working 20 hours a day,” said CWS Communications Director Mike Saia. “Now, it’s finally broken through and is ready to be removed.”

Miss Harper will be hoisted out of a wide-bore shaft by crane. From there, it will be reassembled, shipped elsewhere to continue work. No specifics have been announced.

“This tunnel will easily go 100 years,” said Kathleen Wilson, vice chair of the CWS board of commissioners. “We’ll use that as a benchmark. But I would venture to say it’s 150 years or so of service.

A huge relief

The project comes at a time when West Ashley residents are complaining more and more about sewer overflows in their neighborhoods. It’s one of the most persistent infrastructure problems in the area, particularly during storms. But CWS officials say the new tunnel will eliminate many of those problems.

Construction is expected to be completed in late 2027, and the tunnel is expected to be fully operational in about two years. It is expected to take on nearly 60 million gallons of raw sewage per day, delivering it to the wastewater treatment plant on Plum Island. The extended sewer tunnel will serve West Ashley, Johns Island, Hollywood and Ravenel.

“It’s a critically important project to Plum Island because it will eliminate a lot of problems that we’ve had in the past with sanitary sewer overflows,” Wilson said. “By bringing

the flow to one point, we’re replacing a problematic pump station in West Ashley. … “It’s an environmentally friendly project that’s going to help us tremendously.”

The $135 million extension project is the second-most expensive project in CWS history, but the utility says the relief that the community will feel immediately upon completion — and the environmental benefits — makes it worth the cost.

“Right now, the community around this project and throughout West Ashley should be very happy to see this big step in the process,” Saia said. “They’re not going to see immediate change — that’s about two years out — but this is a big milestone. We hit it right on the nose, we’re ahead of schedule and under budget, so we couldn’t be happier.”

The next phase of the project includes installing more than a thousand sections of 60-inch pipe inside the tunnel before it is cemented underground.

Blotter of the Week

A West Ashley woman on May 18 reportedly took $50 worth of water, bread, fruit and paper towels from a Sam Rittenberg Boulevard grocery store. Charleston police noted the allegedly stolen goods were taken out of the store in a reusable bag, which we’re just going to come out and say is a pretty cheap — albeit eco-friendly — alternative to a picnic basket. Yogi would be disappointed.

Orange is the new black A North Charleston woman on May 22 told police that she ran over a paint can she believed may have been placed deliberately. She said she believed it was a paint can because “the bottom of her vehicle was previously black, and now it is orange,” police reported. The investigation is ongoing.

An 8-foot by 8-foot quilt is an example of how the tragedy brought people together for a purpose. The quilt is made from small rectangular patches of fabric from more than 500 quilt artists from around the country. The faint stitching in it forms the lyrics of “Amazing Grace.” The Charleston Modern Quilt Guild donated the quilt. It is on a custom-made table in a second-level gallery with nine abstract portraits of the Emanuel Nine. Symbols in each portrait signify the church member’s personality or profession.

Crosses of varying sizes crowd the walls in a small room on the second level.

Stuffed animals, posters, banners, and paper hearts are stored on the museum’s third level. Some of those items, Bennett said, may go on display. Many of the stored items were left outside the church in the days after the tragedy.

Emanuel’s imposing edifice is the theme in the first-floor gallery where a model of the church sits on a stand in the middle of the room with walls bearing photos, drawings and paintings of the church.

A place for inquiry

Virginia Ellison, the SCHS’s director of collections and chief operating officer, said graduate students and scholars might pull interesting research topics from the thousands of pages of Emanuel correspondence.

They might want to investigate how many different countries responded to the tragedy and how its citizens expressed their grief.

“God, have mercy on humanity,” Esteban wrote from Cuba. “Please accept my heartfelt condolences. I am a great friend to Black people in the United States, and I believe that there is room for all of us in this stormy world, filled with thorns and pain.”

The collection may answer how many different religions are represented in it and

which Bible verses were most often cited. But Gabriel in National City, Calif., may represent people who do not follow any religion, writing: “I pray that God gives you strength in this time of need,” he wrote. “I’m admittedly not very religious nor am I even Christian — but I still have great reverence and respect for a house of worship.”

Legendary screenwriter Norman Lear used a television sitcom to send pithy social commentary into American homes in the 1970s. Lear’s fictional character, Archie Bunker, a bigoted protagonist in All in the Family, served as a foil for his liberal son-inlaw, Michael. Archie claimed a belief in God when it served his purposes.

Lear, who died in late 2023, was a member of the board of the progressive advocacy group, People For the American Way (PFAW). In a letter to church leaders, Lear wrote: “Please know that even as Rev. Pinckney was a member of the PFAW family, I will think of myself in his name as a member” of Emanuel.

Pretty cool, kid

Mount Pleasant police on May 25 tried to stop a kid riding a blue moped on Park West Boulevard after watching him pop a wheelie in the road. When officers flipped on their sirens, the kid drove onto the sidewalk and rode into the trees. Police were unable to locate him again or find any witnesses to the event to confirm the boy’s identity.

By Skyler Baldwin

Illustration by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between May 18 and May 25.

A racket? Maybe — if you let them keep it Views

hat do you call it when the party in power tries to throw out thousands of legally-cast ballots and cancel an election because it is going to lose?

Cheating? Obviously. Authoritarian? Yeah, probably, if you’re being blunt. But more than anything, it calls to mind a word our Republican friends dined out on during the Cold War. Un-American.

Of course, now with the death of the S.C. GOP’s push to draw Democratic U.S. Rep. James Clyburn out of his 6th District seat after the primary election was already underway, the temptation to soften the edges of what just happened will be strong.

Yes, many will tell themselves, partisan politics is a tough business. Always has been, always will be. Besides, it was really just gerrymandering — and everybody does that, right? Wrong.

Everybody doesn’t try to nullify absentee ballots, many from American soldiers serving overseas. And everybody certainly doesn’t vote for a bill that actually contains the words, “No votes cast in the June 9, 2026, statewide primaries for candidates for U.S. House may be counted.”

Yes, this may be hard to hear, particularly if you’re a longtime Republican voter who signed up for free markets and free people and is now being asked to defend cancelled elections and tossed-out votes. And yet that’s precisely what a majority of Republicans in our Republican-controlled House and Senate just voted to do.

No wonder Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey — one of five genuinely courageous Republican senators who originally joined with Democrats to help kill the bill — felt the need to invoke Benjamin Franklin’s famous “a republic, if you can keep it” warning as he denounced the effort on the floor.

But it was Massey’s own warning of a possible “corrupt bargain” that may come to define the whole episode.

To briefly recap: After S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster reversed his previous position and called a special redistricting session on May 14, rumors flew around the Statehouse that he’d made a secret deal with President Donald Trump to have the redistricting session, which Trump really wanted, in exchange for the president’s gubernatorial primary endorsement of McMaster’s hand-picked successor, Lt. Gov Pamela Evette.

And just when those rumors reached a fever pitch after Massey told reporters that he certainly “hope[d] there’s no corrupt bargain,” McMaster was forced to publicly deny a quid pro quo at a May 15 press conference.

All of which brings us, of course, to Trump’s “complete and total endorsement” of Evette on May 29 — an endorsement accompanied by the news that he expects her to pick political neophyte Henry McMaster Jr. as her running mate this fall.

Huh?

Even assuming that’s all a series of eye-catching coincidences involving public reversals, schemes to cancel elections and hints of primogeniture, it’s hard not to think of the words of famed Southern political scientist Lynyrd Skynyrd — “ooh, that smell.”

Or perhaps a little more seriously, consider the words of social critic Eric Hoffer: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

Because you don’t have to believe in explicit quid pro quos to recognize decadent behavior from a party grown too accustomed to unchallenged power when you see it.

Or as Ben Franklin might put it, with this November’s elections right around the corner: Maybe it’s a racket — if they can keep it.

CHARLESTON CHECKLIST of community objectives

We encourage community leaders to act on these audacious priorities:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gather stories to get through emotional times

By Andy Brack

As the Tahoe pulled around the cloverleaf from Interstate 26 to Interstate 20 last month, a dazzling dawn broke with feathers of pink and orange sifting through a dark sky turning blue.

It made me sad. I realized then that my father, longtime Georgia newspaperman Elliott Brack, would never see the beauty of another dawn. He died suddenly and peacefully at home the evening before. At 90, he lived a good, full life, packing in enough joy, success and engagement with people to fill two regular lives.

Still, he was gone, a larger-than-life presence whose energy comforted and inspired many. The dawn made me feel the absence. No more stories. No more infectious laughter, discussions about business, politics, people and the everyday neat stuff that a father tells a son or vice versa. Within moments, a text arrived from a friend checking on me and encouraging me to stay strong for family as I sped toward Atlanta to be with my mother and sister. I lamented about the sunrise, only to be told, “He will be the sunrise.” That really helped. And from now on, the soft light of the breaking day will remind me of my father and a life lived large and well.

Elliott Earl Brack was born on Halloween in 1935 on a small tenant farm outside of Allentown, Ga., about 30 miles south of Macon. His father grew cotton and later milled corn, before moving to Macon around 1940 to take a job driving a bus, which he did for more than 30 years. His mother split her time between keeping house and working at a Macon department store. Dad got into newspapers early, delivering early morning routes for the Macon Telegraph to have pocket money and the creamfilled pastries that he loved. He attended Macon schools and college at the city’s hometown university, Mercer. After marrying his college sweetheart, he worked as a reporter briefly before serving three years in Germany in the U.S. Army as a Quartermaster Corps officer. One day in Germany, a soldier named Elvis Presley showed up in his commissary. After earning a graduate degree in journalism from the University of Iowa, dad bought half of a weekly newspaper in Jesup, Ga., thanks to help from his widowed mother-in-law. After 12 years and lots of state and national awards, he taught at the University of Georgia, only to be lured to run a suburban daily in Gwinnett County in the mid-1970s. Later he ran the Gwinnett operation for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, retiring in 2000 as associate publisher. Then in a tip of the hat to the Internet age, we worked to start an online publication, GwinnettForum. com, that kept him busy until a couple of weeks ago.

Reach out today to someone special in your life and find out stories that will continue to keep you going when they’re gone.

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Through the years, he told stories, writing thousands of columns and editorials. Over 62 years, he published at least 4.5 million words of stories, history, political observations, community insights and more. Dad, in fact, once told me everyone had a story — until he pulled up beside a guy on a road in the 1980s and started talking with him, only to find the guy was pretty dull. I remember him complaining a bit — I think at a family supper — until he realized with some prompting that the guy’s story was that he didn’t really have much of a story.

Stories connect us in ways that provide comfort and meaning. We learn from them. We understand people better through them. When a younger sister died two years ago, stories from dozens of friends about her vivacious life provided an unexpected catharsis.

The same is happening now that my father has passed. Tributes are pouring in from friends and colleagues who recount how he served as a mentor, an inspiration, a leader at the right time, an advisor. We’ll miss Dad’s energy. He’s leaving a void in our family and his beloved Gwinnett County. But we’ve got lots of stories for which we’re thankful. Some unsolicited advice: Reach out today to someone special in your life and find out stories that will continue to keep you going when they’re gone. You’ll be happy that you did.

Elliott E. Brack, 1935-2026. Rest in peace.

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

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he recent release of previously classified military records of “close encounters” with Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and potential extraterrestrial beings has tongues wagging. In the Lowcountry, more people than ever are questioning whether we are truly alone — or whether this is yet another distraction from the Epstein files.

Though none of the released federal documents show UFO sightings in South Carolina, that’s not the case with another national database that has been compiling reports since 1974. The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), founded by UFO investigator Robert J. Gribble, contains hundreds of documents detailing UFO sightings in South Carolina, dating as far back as the 1960s. The center has processed more than 150,000 reports nationwide since it was established.

Though NUFORC’s UFO capital of the state may very well be Myrtle Beach (is anyone surprised?), the Lowcountry has no shortage of sightings. Reports detail flying saucers buzzing Kiawah Island as well as hovering oval shapes looming over the sea islands and mysterious lights spotted between North Charleston and the downtown peninsula. A few reports even contain screenshots of recordings captured by witnesses.

We’ve picked out a handful of some of the more interesting reports, but remember: This is only a fraction of what’s listed online. Visit nuforc.org for more information, records and photos.

Recent Lowcountry sightings

UFO Sighting 194165

West Ashley, Nov. 16, 2025

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Site records decades of UFO sightings across Lowcountry, state

By Skyler Baldwin

A witness reported seeing a low-flying circular object smaller than a standard plane during a drive near the intersection of Savannah Highway and Main Road toward Johns Island. According to the report, the object appeared to be flying at roughly the altitude of a low aircraft and moved from south to north faster than a plane on approach for landing.

“As it crossed the road, it gave off a faint glow and looked, from our perspective, larger than a drone but smaller than a small plane or helicopter,” according to the reported sighting. “Once it reached the north side of the road, it vanished completely from sight.”

UFO Sighting 193237

Folly Beach, Oct. 13, 2025

A witness reported seeing a large orb of light with changing brightness and shape before disappearing completely. The witness said he could tell the light was connected to a larger object, and the illuminated orb was only the front of it. As he was watching, a strip of light moved through the object, revealing that the shape was blimp-like and hovering over the ocean as the light grew dimmer.

“I was able to keep watching it for 30 seconds, and with the orb no longer lit, I could see the entire blimp-like shape of the object as

it floated in the air,” the witness said in the report. “It did not fall from what I could see, and after 30 seconds-a minute I could no longer see it.

“I [remained] in the same place for five or so minutes while I called my friend to recount my experience, but I did not see the light or object again.”

UFO Sighting 184371

Mount Pleasant, Nov. 20, 2024

A witness said he saw a hazy object appearing in the sky while traveling from Mount Pleasant to downtown Charleston across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. The witness’ wife, who was in the passenger seat of the vehicle, took a photo of the bridge. It wasn’t until they later looked at the photo that they saw the out-of-focus football-shaped object that appeared to be following a U.S. destroyer ship that had just gone under the bridge heading east out of Charleston Harbor.

UFO Sighting 171781

Kiawah Island, Sept. 15, 2022

Two witnesses reported seeing a redcolored circular object in the sky that appeared to be moving and hovering over the water as they sat on the beach. Both took videos and photos and returned to their rental home on the island to search the internet for similar sightings. They reportedly found footage that appeared similar to theirs that had been shared in 2018. One of the pair also reported feeling a “need” to observe the object.

“We felt transfixed by the object, it was difficult to stop staring at the object,” the report said. “We also noticed what appeared to be three planes and a helicopter forming

front of the full moon near a Mepkin Abbey retreat center. The object appeared to move extremely slowly, the report says, and it took time for the witness to realize it was moving at all. The sighting was allegedly verified by another guest at the retreat.

Blasts from the past

UFO Sighting 78195

James Island, June 1, 1978

In 2010, a James Island resident reportedly spotted three oval shapes outlined in soft green light through trees while driving the length of Bohicket Road from Kiawah Island. The lights reportedly hovered and followed alongside the car at a distance.

“At first I could not believe what I was seeing, and being alone in this area, I found this disturbing,” the report said. “The lights were more closely located to the far side of the marsh, along the Ashley River. By the time I hit the bridge to James Island at the Marina Inlet, they disappeared.”

a triangular shape and flying toward the object. I have heard two helicopters flying over our vacation rental since returning from the beach.”

UFO Sighting 171812

Moncks Corner, Sept. 11, 2022

A member of the Trappist Monastery of the Cistercian Order, a strict branch of Catholic monks, reported seeing an oval, double disk with green and red lights appearing in

UFO Sighting 56853

Summerville, July 31, 1969

A Summerville resident reported in 2007 that he witnessed a glowing light that filled the entire sky over Summerville in the summer of 1969. The witness said he didn’t recall exactly when it was or many of the details. He said he remembered his neighbors outside on the street all looking up, and a light that started small slowly grew large enough to fill the sky, lasting for what seemed about an hour.

“I remember being scared to death and going inside my house with some of the neighbors,” the report said. “When it was gone, there were lots of phone calls and lots of discussions. To this day, I don’t know how it was ever explained. I have told very few people of this incident for obvious reasons, most insist you are exaggerating or just not remembering the events accurately.”

UFO Sighting 106480

North Charleston, Aug. 20, 1965

A North Charleston resident in 2014 reported seeing a “sphere of fire” making multiple course changes with no delay during a 30-second period in 1965. The witness said he was about 9 years old at the time and was riding his bike near the Air Force base. The object was about 1,000 feet to 5,000 feet above ground, according to the report. It moved from east to west toward the base and changed course abruptly multiple times with no curvature or deceleration.

“I thought to myself, ‘Nobody will believe what I just saw,’ ” the report said. “I went home, didn’t tell my mom or either of my brothers what I saw. I developed an interest in UFOs after this.”

Honorable mention

UFO Welcome Center Bowman, S.C.

Plenty of people can recall spotting a UFO on the ground in Bowman, S.C. Built in the backyard of Jody Pendarvis in 1994 as the UFO Welcome Center, you could enter the saucer-shaped structure through a powered ramp. The “spaceship,” was mounted on four columns and contained a labyrinth of mechanical and electronic salvage parts. It was furnished with a bed, satellite TV, air-conditioning, a toilet and shower. Pendarvis reportedly said he saw himself as an ambassador to aliens and wanted to provide a facility where they could rest after journeying to Earth.

It quickly became a tourist curiosity, becoming the center of a 2001 segment in The Daily Show, in which Stephen Colbert presented a comedic tour of the attraction. In 2003, Pendarvis added a small saucer to the top and began living in the welcome center. The Welcome Center burned to the ground May 9, 2024 in a fire of unknown origin. Media reports quoted Pendarvis as saying, “Maybe another UFO came by and set the fire.”

What To Do

MONDAY

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Jurassic Seas at S.C. Aquarium to open

An exhibit 70 million years in the making opens Monday at the South Carolina Aquarium. Jurassic Seas, which is included with the aquarium admission price, sends guests into the late Cretaceous Period to encounter life-size skeletal replicas, examine stunning fossils and learn through interactive displays. This new experience will have everyone in the family from fossil fanatics to biology buffs playing paleontologist.

June 6. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ticket prices vary. S.C. Aquarium. 100 Aquarium Wharf. Downtown. scaquarium.org

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SATURDAY

Bourbon Bash

Head to the Striped Pig Distillery for a day of celebration and fun for the distillery’s fourth birthday. Enjoy bourbon cocktails, tasty food and great company — not to mention free basketball fun courtesy of Hoop Charleston’s basketball trailer. Admission is free, with VIP tickets available with limited-edition swag and goodies.

June 6. 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free; $100/VIP. Striped Pig Distillery. 2225 Old School Drive. North Charleston. stripedpigdistillery.com

SUNDAY

Hope in Motion 5K

Put on your best running shoes and get to steppin’ in the 3rd annual Hop in Motion 5K, which is organized by local high school students to support Lowcountry Orphan Relief and help children in need. Whether you walk, run or cheer from the sidelines, every step helps provide resources for vulnerable children across the Lowcountry.

June 7. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Registration price varies. Hampton Park. 30 Murray Drive. Downtown. islagmcclain.wixsite.com/mysite

TUESDAY

Mount Pleasant Farmers Market

Founded in 1998, the Mount Pleasant Farmers Market celebrates the hard work of local farmers and makers. Head out every Tuesday through September for a local market featuring farm goods, food vendors and live music. Pick up fresh local produce, prepared meals and plenty of other goodies to stock your kitsch, including locally made olive oil, ranch dressing, boiled peanuts, Greek sweets, fresh pasta and more.

Tuesdays. 3:30 p.m to 7 p.m. Free to attend. The Moultrie Middle School. 645 Coleman Drive. Mount Pleasant. experiencemountpleasant.com

FRIDAYS

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Food Truck Friday

The town of Kiawah Island is hosting its weekly Food Truck Friday series through June 26, bringing flavorful foods and diverse selections. Each Friday features one rotating savory food truck, offering everything from pizza to global flavors. On select Fridays, guests can also find an additional dessert or beverage truck, adding a sweet or refreshing complement to the lineup.

Fridays. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Menu prices vary. Kiawah Island Town Hall. 4475 Betsy Kerrison Parkway. Kiawah Island. kiawahisland.gov

Cuisine

Annie Mae’s Bakeshop makes its mark

By Becky Lacey

There’s everything from the chicken salad sandwich that’s gone viral to a divine carrot cake at Annie Mae’s Bakeshop at 185 St. Phillip Street. Since husband-and-wife duo Jason and Annie Vieira opened the bakery in March, its biscuits, pies, cake by the slice, extensive coffee menu and hand-blended tea continue to attract legions of fans.

The Vieiras have indisputable cooking chops. Jason, the son of Portuguese immigrants, grew up in Massachusetts where his parents ran a small café that served breakfast and lunch. He eventually made his way to the Culinary Institute of America before moving to New York City. Annie, a Louisiana native, grew up baking. Both worked in top restaurants in the Big Apple.

Following a quick stint in New England, the couple moved to Charleston in 2020 and dove right into the culinary scene. Jason worked with Basic Projects at the group’s restaurants Basic Kitchen, Sullivan’s Fish Camp and Post House. According to a 2023 Eater Carolinas piece, the “company wanted to hire him as a corporate pastry chef for all its properties but didn’t have a proper commercial kitchen to service all the establishments — Jason suggested that he set one up, and they could contract with him to make desserts, custom lobster rolls and other baked goods for the menus. It was such a successful partnership that other restaurants started asking for Jason’s items. Spots like Husk and Tippling House use his buns for their burgers.”

Meanwhile, Annie was working as the general manager at The Obstinate Daughter while also doing the administrative side of the burgeoning baking business.

“One reason we’re in business is because we deeply value serving our Charleston community,” Annie said. “Over the past few years, we’ve worked to build successful business relationships and even friendships with Charleston chefs. Opening a brickand-mortar bakeshop allows us to serve the broader Charleston community and provide a physical space for our community to enjoy and congregate.”

The bakeshop’s offerings

The rotating menu serves the classics with an Annie Mae’s twist. Some of the biscuits

Now dark

Ms. Rose’s closed after its final brunch service on May 30. The restaurant has served the West Ashley community for more than a decade.

What’s new

Awards winner: Chubby Fish remains on North America’s list of 50 Best Restaurants. The annual award from World’s 50 Best Restaurants has celebrated the global culinary landscape since 2002. A panel of 1,120 culinary experts vote each year. Chubby Fish is in the 21st spot this year — and was 19th in 2025. More: theworlds50best.com

Cafe all day: Michael Toscana, owner of Le Farfalle, Da Toscana Porchetta Shop, Fugazzi at Revelry Brewing Co. and Blanca Estrada, is opening an allday cafe at 157 Market St. The Larrikin will serve coffee, lunch items in the afternoons and evening cocktails. More: Instagram @thelarrikinchs. Poolside dining: Bloo Pool and Provisions, a poolside restaurant, has opened in the Live Oak hotel at 425 Meeting St. The menu has coastal dishes, tropical cocktails and a focus on local seafood. The food program is led by Executive Chef Eucepe Puntriano, formerly of Marbled & Fin. More: Instagram @bloocharleston

What’s happening

offerings are country ham with fig-Dijon butter, a maple sausage, egg and cheese and a blueberry sausage. You can get key lime, banana caramel and sweet potato praline pie by the slice. Cakes by the slice might include coconut cream, cherry matcha red velvet, strawberry lemon almond and coconut passion fruit cake. Caramel shows up in the carrot cake in two ways: as a spiced caramel cream cheese mousse inside of the cake and as a caramel glaze on top.

Cookies like spiced pear chocolate chai and almond lemon-lime thumbprint are found alongside pastries like almond coffee cake, a cinnamon raisin sticky bun and a cornbread bacon muffin.

Tea is also an integral part of the menu. Rotating sweet tea flavors are blueberry Earl Grey, strawberry matcha, coconut chai and Earl Grey milk chocolate, and hot flavors are pecan breakfast, vanilla-coconutchai and peppermint-lavender-chamomile, to name a few.

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Brunch for a cause: Wild Olive is hosting a brunch fundraiser at Low Tide Brewing from 10 a.m. to noon June 7. The event will benefit the family of Markious Smith, a longtime Wild Olive employee whose wife is recovering from cancer surgery. There will be a buffet style brunch, drinks and beer as well as a specialty made drink menu. Black Tree Music Group will provide entertainment for the event. Tickets cost $100. More: Eventbrite Laugh with the ladies: Les Dames d’Escoffier International is hosting “Amused Bouche” at 6:30 p.m. June 8 at Parcel 32. The evening of food, drinks and improv comedy will be centered around the real experiences of working in food, beverage and hospitality. Les Dames d’Escoffier International is a global nonprofit. The event benefits culinary scholarships along with Les Dames community liaisons. More: Givebutter Becky Lacey

SHANA SWAIN

“Tea is such a Southern staple,” Jason said. “We wanted to provide our guests with thoughtful loose-leaf blends that we source and hand-blend right here in Charleston.”

The team uses the hand-blended teas in sweet tea cakes like chocolate Earl Grey, coconut vanilla chai and strawberry matcha. As of now, the sweet tea cakes are only available whole as a special order. There are also plans to offer tea tins for sale in the shop.

But tea isn’t the only beverage found at Annie Mae’s Bakeshop. The extensive coffee program offers drinks like cherry almond mocha, pistachio cream latte and iced espresso with coconut cold foam.

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“Our best-selling lattes are the vanilla date and the banana toffee,” Jason said. “All of our caramels, syrups and cold foams are made in-house by our pastry team. When we developed our latte program, we wanted to create well-balanced, pastry-driven flavors that mirrored our baked goods.”

rolls — to Lewis BBQ, 167 Raw, Husk and about 30 other restaurants around town.

Looking ahead

In the coming months, Annie Mae’s Bakeshop will open at night as an espresso martini dessert bar featuring wine, beer and low-ABV dessert-inspired cocktails. Currently in recipe testing, the couple noted the tiramisu espresso martini is a favorite thanks to a balanced level of sweetness paired with dark cocoa and

Tea is such a Southern staple. We wanted to provide our guests with thoughtful loose-leaf blends that we source and hand-blend right here in Charleston.”

—Jason Vieira

creamy mascarpone.

The wholesale business has grown since the retail location opened and the bakery now sells milk bread — in the form of buns, lobster rolls, Pullman loaves and dinner

Also, look for more sandwiches in the future as there are plans to serve egg salad, egg salad with smoked salmon, shrimp salad and country ham on the milk bread they bake daily.

“We always said there is nothing more Southern than a tea sandwich, slice of pie and iced tea for lunch,” Annie shared.

Culture

The USA in Spoleto’s name more prominent this season

By Maura Hogan

Every 250 years or so, a world power might benefit from a thorough moral inventory, the kind that artists are hard-wired to provide.

Are we living up to our chosen name, the United States of America? When those declarative signatures inked our independence, did we truly abandon notions of an aristocracy? Do we remain a paragon of innovation and derring-do, set to take risks to realize ideas?

As Spoleto Festival USA 2026 played on these past few days, the emphasis of the international festival looked inward at the American proposition, though not at the exclusion of standout works from afar.

Curated to draw from the country’s vast and varied cultural coffers and highlighting its signature embrace of the freedom of expression, recent festival days offered far-ranging fodder for thought, just ahead of commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago. Whether paying tribute to iconic homegrown composers like George Gershwin and Aaron Copland, mining regional sounds from Appalachian bluegrass to Gullah spirituals, or breathing new context into the revolution that started it all, America was in the house.

The first days of the festival had set the stage.

An ingenious, layered first shot across the bow, this year’s poster featured “Three Flags,” the 1958 work by Jasper Johns, the South Carolina artist gone global. Then, in The Fiddle and the Drum, soprano Renée Fleming and American banjo player Béla Fleck focused their outsize talents on Appalachian traditions, following its soaring sounds through love and loss and war. Martha Graham Dance Company: Graham at 100 danced through a staggering span of American history via the singular, seminal vision of the boundarybreaking choreographer.

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• June 5, 9 p.m.: Babe Club / Local Nomad (album release), Royal American

• June 6, 6 p.m.: Drivin N’ Cryin and Cracker, The Windjammer

• June 6, 6 p.m.: Jupiter Coyote , with Gritty Flyright and The Music Family, Music Farm

• June 6, 9 p.m.: Solstice , Royal American

The second week of the festival continued the exploration.

You know you’re on home turf when the program spotlights Ken Burns, the country’s acclaimed chronicler of American history. On May 27, in an absorbing evening of conversation with political commentator John Avlon, Burns paced the sold-out crowd through clips from his docuseries The American Revolution, which were interspersed with works performed by musicians and members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra evoking the era. All illuminated Burns’s approach eschewing the “fife and drum treacle” of our creation story.

A staged reading of George + George, a world-premiere work by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, dramatized a lesser-known sliver of revolutionary history: In 1777 at Valley Forge, George Washington elected

to put on a play to buoy spirits among his men. Since the country’s founding days, the impulse to process and uplift with art has been baked into the nation, from the Declaration to the battleground. From distant shores, that notion was further explored by a stunner of a show, Scottish Ballet’s narrative work, Mary, Queen of Scots, which opened on May 28. Choreography by Sophie Laplane drove the always excellent, at times jarring, dancers, who were accompanied to perfection by Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra. The company’s uncanny ability to reanimate history with visceral contemporary flair is astounding in its own right. At the festival, the earlier, bloodthirsty doings of the British crown via

• June 7, 7:30 p.m.: Motorcycle Jackson, Tin Roof

• June 8 , 7 p.m.: Lee Wiler, Tin Roof

• June 8 , 5 p.m.: Acoustic Muffin, Pour House

• June 9, 6 p.m.: Weird Al Yankovic , North Charleston PAC

• June 10, 5:30 p.m.: Barn Jam, Awendaw Green

• June 10, 7 p.m.: Modest Mouse , Charleston Music Hall

• June 11-12 , 9 p.m.: Cosmic Charlie , Pour House

• June 11 , 6 p.m.: Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Firefly Distillery

• June 12 , 7 p.m.: Spacey Jane , Charleston Music Hall

• June 13, 6 p.m.: Mt. Joy, Credit One Stadium

Cowboy Junkies celebrate 40 years at Music Hall

By Vincent Harris

On stage or off, the Canadian quartet Cowboy Junkies is not about volume, swagger or riffs. Instead, it relies on creating an almost church-like feel in performances. Most Junkies shows, like the one coming up at the Charleston Music Hall on June 18, are about the powerful, solemn atmosphere the band creates.

The crowd reaction is more reverent silence than raucous noise, and you could probably hear a pin drop in rows as singer Margo Timmins, her brother, guitarist and songwriter Michael Timmins, her other brother, drummer Peter Timmins, and bassist Alan Anton make a song come to life.

Most Junkies songs are eerily quiet (“Misguided Angel”), haunting (“Murder, Tonight In The Trailer Park”) colored with muted gray tones (“Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning”) or simply hypnotic and ethereal (“Blue Guitar”). And its live show feels less like a concert than a shared reverie, with each song unfolding at its own unhurried pace and drawing listeners deeper into the band’s richly textured world. It’s often like being in church in the best possible way, which probably explains why The Trinity Session, the 1989 album that put the band on the map, was recorded in one day at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto, Canada.

The Junkies’ show at the Music Hall is intriguing. It’s part of a tour that’s part celebration and part exploration called “Celebrating 40 Years.” The band’s first album, the self-released Whites Off Earth Now!! came out back in 1985.

“ Our friendship was born from record collections and shared experience with music. And I think that translated when we started to play music together.” —Michael Timmins

On this tour, the first set of the twoset show draws heavily from the band’s most recent work, including 2023’s Such Ferocious Beauty. The second set is a deep dive into the past.

“The second set is fully from our catalog,” said Michael Timmins in a recent interview with the Charleston City Paper “It pulls from our very first record from 1985 up to the most recent albums. So it’s quite a wide range.”

On stage, the band, along with longtime touring mate and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bird — who the band called the “5th Cowboy Junkie” — create a respectful but not overly serious vibe, with Margo’s rich, trembling voice leading the way over a band more interested than fundamentals than flash.

“It’s all about what you express live,” Michael Timmins said. “It’s all about connecting and what I call a transferring of energy from stage to audience and back again. It all goes in a big circle and that’s

Elizabeth I also lent further insight to the crown that American revolutionaries were keen to quit.

At St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church on May 31, Spoleto Festival USA Music Director Timothy Myers led members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra in Appalachian Spring and American Music, a program of three works. In the 2014 Banner, contemporary composer Jessie Montgomery reconsiders “The StarSpangled Banner” to reflect a multicultural country.

Soprano Rachel Blaustein then transported the audience with her lofty, lyric delivery of Knoxville, Summer of 1915, the work by English composer Samuel Barber created from a James Agee poem. Finally, Myers led the orchestra back to the terrain explored by Fleck and Fleming, by way of a rousing rendition of Aaron Copland’s folk-infused Appalachian Spring.

what makes a really good show and that’s what we feed on.”

“On tour, the rest of the day’s pretty crappy,” he added, “but those two hours onstage is what you’re there for, that transfer of energy.”

When a band has had the same lineup for 40 years, and when three of the members are siblings, one would expect that the musical chemistry between the five musicians onstage is still a thrill for Cowboy Junkies.

“Margo, Peter and I are brothers and sisters, and I’ve known Alan for 60 years now,” Michael Timmins said. “We all grew up in the Montreal music radio culture. And we still all listen to music now. Our friendship was born from record collections and shared experience with music. And I think that translated when we started to play music together. We connect, and that was available to us from the very beginning, And that’s never really changed.”

As for the audience connection to Cowboy Junkies, Timmins says it remains strong after 40 years.

“I think we’ve always been very honest with our audience through the music,” Timmins said. “It’s about connecting and transferring that energy from stage to audience and back again. It goes in a big circle, and that’s what makes a good show. That’s what we feed on; that’s how we keep on going. And that’s how you keep on growing: one show at a time, from night to night.”

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Doors open at 8 p.m., June 18, Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St. Tickets: $120 to $136, charlestonmusichall.com

Then on June 1 at Charleston Gaillard Center, Spoleto patrons peered behind the figurative curtain of the storied, complex journey of America’s first opera, Porgy and Bess. In the buzzing Martha and John M. Rivers Performance Hall, The Untold Story of Porgy and Bess gathered community members, with some in attendance returning to the very stage that in 1970 made local history and national news.

The program centered on footage from the documentary-in-progress of filmmaker Lauren Waring Douglas, When Porgy Came Home, which recounts the origins of the DuBose Heyward novel, the opera Porgy and Bess by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

The evening included footage from the film that fans of the opera and of Charleston past will relish. Musical selections from the opera performed by the S.C. State Concert Choir and prominent Charleston musicians. Host Carolyn Murray led a conversation with Douglas and artist Jonathan Green, who created the set and costumes for Spoleto’s 2016 production of the opera, reflecting on its Gullah roots and their African origins. The evening culminated in a stirring sit down with members of the original cast, among them the effervescent Annette McKenzie Anderson.

In aggregate, a ticket holder in 2026 would be hard-pressed not to marvel at the arc of American culture on stage during Spoleto, and be moved to ensure that such freedom of artistic expression marches on.

“DOUBLE DEALING” —I’ll throw in two extra.

Across

1. Scottish map word

5. First-aid box

8. Superfood seed (no, it’s not acai-related)

12. Buffalo’s lake

13. Alias letters

14. Garden mixes

15. Star

17. Arya Stark’s father

18. Abandoned ships

19. What remote controls are good for, power-wise?

22. Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen

23. Prefix with thermal

24. Hackneyed

25. Widely accepted game of hoops?

31. Forbidden 34. Here, to HergÈ

35. TV chef Garten

36. Workbench tool that only works in dangerous winds?

41. Suffix with glob

42. Govt. agency once headed by Patricia Harris

43. Upwords pieces

44. Thought similar to “External computer storage can be so crude”?

49. Fresh

50. Neither counterpart

51. Screen abbr.

54. Back when a mopey cartoon character was popular?

59. Girder material

60. Trollish response to a celebrity game show contestant list 61. Ready to go

62. Parcel units 63. Feel like crap

Zippo

Physique 67. “It is too hard a ___ for me tí untie”: “Twelfth Night”

9. Palatine or Esquiline, e.g.

10. Varieties

11. It may follow dumb or smart

14. Cabinet position?

16. Half of OutKast

20. Org. that sponsors “Read Across America”

21. Shaped like a martini glass (minus the stem)

25. Queens, e.g., for short

26. “Bob’s Burgers” spouse

27. Tumbler contents, maybe

28. Medicine bottle

29. “Next one’s ___!”

30. They have distinctive flows

31. Impact sound

32. “___ Lang Syne”

33. Title of a trickster rabbit

37. Like mochi

38. National Black Business mo.

39. Vertebra that supports the weight of the head

40. “Would I ___ to You?”

45. Completely committed

46. Meat case options

47. Play out (or splay out)

48. British miler Sebastian

51. Closest airport to MIT

52. Doctrine

53. Emulate the Pied Piper

54. Desire

55. “I, Claudius” role

56. Cotton bud

57. State called the “Mother of Presidents”

58. Pull hard

59. Small pouch

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BERKELEY COUNTY

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

DOCKET NO. 2026-DR- 08-226

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS ASHLEY BASTIAN AND CHRISTOPHER JENKINS, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN MAY 12, 2016.

TO DEFENDANT: ASHLEY BASTIAN

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on February 4, 2026 at 10:31AM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Stacey Kaufman, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Dr, 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.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Stacey Kaufman SC Bar # 12105, 2 Belt Dr, Moncks Corner, SC 29461 (803) 608-7414 TMS

COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DOCKET NO. 2026-DR- 08-635

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS CAYDENCE YOUNG; DENNIS OLIVA DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2024.

TO DEFENDANT: Dennis Oliva

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on April 9, 2026, 12:35 PM. 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 Dr. Moncks Corner, S.C. 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 Dr. Moncks Corner, SC 29461, 843-719-1007.

CHARLESTON COUNTY

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2026-CP-10-00643

Spencer Hopkins, Jr., Ida Simmons Pinckney, Pecola Hopkins Mitchell and Edna Simmons Brown, Plaintiffs, v. Albertha Shirley Myers, Joy Evans, and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees of George Simmons, Ida Simmons, Corine Simmons Hopkins, Louise Washington, Carl Simmons, Henry Simmons, Albertha Simmons Bates a/k/a Emma Simmons Bates, Lewis Bates and Larnell Stephen Bates, 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. 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 August 12, 2026 at 11:30 a.m., at the Charleston County Courthouse, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, Courtroom 2A. The purpose of this hearing is to determine the heirs of the property known as:

Address: 1808 Central Park Road, Charleston, SC 29412

s/ J. Chris Lanning

J. Chris Lanning

Brush Law Firm, P.A. 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407

SC Bar Number: 73957 (843) 766-5576 – Phone chris@brushlawfirm.com

Attorney for Plaintiffs

May 26, 2026 Charleston, South Carolina

Attorney, J. Chris Lanning, 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 Compliant 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-inEquity/Special Referee 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/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Masterin-Equity/Special Referee shall be made directly to the Supreme Court.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on March 9, 2026.

Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on March 9, 2026.

LIS PENDENS

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

CASE NO.: 2026-CP-10-01246

Kendel Goff and Marva Goff Plaintiffs, v. Darryl Goff, Dawn Gallardo, Heather Rumler, Kai Anderson, Harold Whack, Tiffani Campbell, Christopher Neal, Jason Neal Sandra Thomas, Willie Seward, Jackie Seward, Maria Pinckney, Estate of Maria Pinckney, Philip Drayton, and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees of Caroline Edwards a/k/a Carrie Edwards, Joe Edwards, Florence Edwards, Hampton Edwards, Gloria Goff, Elijah Goff, Cynthia Neal, Leroy Goff, Jr., Pearl Edwards, Emily Edwards, Isaac Edwards, Beatrice Green, Andrew Green, Jr., Earl Green, Lillie Mae Seward, Deloris Ann Seward, Maria Pinckney and Lydia Murray, 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. Defendants.

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

dated February 3, 2025.

TMS #s 120-00-00-135 and 120-00-00-136

GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esquire, P.O. Box 30266, Charleston, South Carolina, 29417, by Order of this Court Common Pleas dated May 22, 2026 and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the Defendants herein as may be unknown infants, persons insane, or otherwise incompetent or under legal disability, claiming any right, title, estate claim, interest in, or lien upon the property described in the Complaint herein, such appointment to become absolute unless they or someone on their behalf shall procure an Order appointing a Guardian ad Litem for such persons within (30) days after past publications of the Summons herein.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ J. Chris Lanning J. Chris Lanning 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone – 843-766-5576

judgment entered by the Masterin-Equity/Special Referee shall be made directly to the Supreme Court.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on May 6, 2026.

Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on May 6, 2026.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an 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 Sections 12-16-10 and 15-67-10, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, for the Quieting of a Title after Tax Sale, for the purpose of obtaining a decree establishing that the Plaintiff is the owner of the said property described in paragraph 22 of the Plaintiff’s Complaint, and that the Defendants have no right, title, interest, claim or estate in or lien upon the said property.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiffs against the above-named Defendants, that said Action is brought under the provisions of the South Carolina’s Clementa C. Pinckney Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act, Sections 15-61-10, et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina, for partition of the said property.

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 is described as follows:

Beginning at the Southeast point of the property located off Smoak Retreat Road at iron pipe, then going North 28 degrees, 36 minutes, 56 seconds, West 211.97 feet to an iron pipe; then West 28 degrees, 07 minutes, 11 seconds West 147.10 feet to an Old Post; then North 28 degrees, 23 minutes, 20 seconds West 1,529.60 feet to an iron pipe, then North 49 degrees, 35 minutes, 47 seconds East 355 feet to a flat iron; then South 46 degrees, 22 minutes, 47 seconds East 439.06 feet to an iron pipe; then South 33 degrees, 52 minutes, 22 seconds East 1,339.87 feet to an iron pipe; then South 66 degrees, 14 minutes, 00 seconds West 134.89 feet to an iron pipe; then South 65 degrees, 43, minutes, 00 seconds West 205.65 feet to an iron pipe; then South 62 degrees, 21 minutes, 01 seconds West 121.42 feet to an iron pipe; then South 38 degrees, 54 minutes, 45 seconds West 163.41 feet to an iron pipe; then North 78 degrees, 23 minutes, 24 seconds West 47.67 feet to an iron pipe; then North 43 degrees, 59 minutes, 06 seconds West 84.99 feet back to the point of Beginning.

The said property contains 20.27 acres and is more particularly described by reference to the survey entitled “Boundary Survey Showing 120-00-00-135 & 12000-00-136 Located in the Osborne Area of St. Paul’s Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina” prepared by Kevin M. Schwacke, Sr. PLS

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2026-CP-10-02403

T and CC Enterprises, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Salters C. Byron, Jr., Elaine Wilson, The Estate of James Gall and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees of Catherine Sheldonia B. Gall, James Gall, Salters C. Byron, Sr. and Mary Elaine Bradshaw Byron, 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. Defendants.

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 Plaintiff, through its Attorney, J. Chris Lanning, 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 Compliant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff 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 Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-inEquity/Special Referee 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/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final

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 is described as follows:

All that certain parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in North Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, designated as Lot 6 Block 49 on a Map of Resubdivision of Block 49 of North Charleston made March 16, 1942 by W.L. Gaillard, Surveyor, and recorded in R.M.C. Office for Charleston County in Plat Book F, Page 116; and having such location, shape, metes and bounds as shown on said map to which reference is hereby made for fuller description thereof.

This property is now shown as New Lot 8A-1 and a portion of New Lot 8A-2 on a Subdivision Plat dated August 12, 2025 by Aaron O. Latham, Surveyor, and recorded in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County in Plat Book L25 at Page 0345; and having such location, shape, metes and bounds as shown on said map to which reference is hereby made for fuller description thereof.

New TMS: 470-14-00-315 and a Portion of New TMS 470-1400-316 Old TMS: 470-14-00-226

GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esquire, P.O. Box 30266, Charleston, South Carolina, 29417, by Order of this Court Common Pleas dated May 28, 2026 and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the Defendants herein as may be unknown infants, persons insane, or otherwise incompetent or under legal disability, claiming any right, title, estate claim, interest in, or lien upon the property described in the Complaint herein, such appointment to become absolute unless they or someone on their behalf shall procure an Order appointing a Guardian ad Litem for such persons within (30) days after past publications of the Summons herein.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ J. Chris Lanning J. Chris Planning 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone – 843-766-5576

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that Charleston County Council will hold a public hearing on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 6:30 PM, in the Beverly T. Craven Council Chambers, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, regarding an ordinance authorizing the conveyance of a portion of Betsy Kerrison Parkway Right-of-Way into the corporate limits of the Town of Kiawah Island.

Public comments, written and oral, are invited. Submission of written public comments is encouraged and those wishing to provide written public comments for the public hearing should email comments to public-comments@ charlestoncounty.org by 12:00 PM on Thursday, June 25, 2026.

Kristen L. Salisbury Clerk of

Council

2026-ES-10-0745

DOD: 3/26/26

Pers. Rep:

JACK W. SIMMONS 15 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401

Atty:

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

Estate of:

WILLIAM RAKIN SINGLETON 2026-ES-10-0748

DOD: 3/21/26

Pers. Rep:

MARILYN SINGLETON 2117 SOL LEGARE RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ***********

Estate of:

RICHARD A. OWEN, SR. 2026-ES-10-0751

DOD: 2/10/26

Pers. Rep:

GINA LITCHFIELD 1347 MAXWELL ST., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405

Atty: KERRY W. KOON, ESQ. 147 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #203, CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ***********

Estate of:

KENDALL ANN HILBURN

2026-ES-10-0752

DOD: 4/10/26

Pers. Rep:

TAYLOR ELAINE PATE PSC 2, BOX 7006, APO, AE, 09012

Atty:

JEFFREY C. MOORE, ESQ.

1 CARRIAGE LN., BLDG H, 2ND FLR., CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***********

Estate of:

VERNETTA DENICE HAMILTON

2026-ES-10-0780

DOD: 4/9/26

Pers. Rep:

DEVON J. HAMILTON 13071 PENNSYLVANIA ST., #2-B, CARMEL, IN 46032 ***********

Estate of:

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:

IRMA LOUISE BROWN

2026-ES-10-0602

DOD: 9/14/25

Pers. Rep: LIONEL STACEY BROWN

1107 JEFFERY RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: CHRISTOPHER D. LIZZI, ESQ.

2170 ASHLEY PHOSPHATE RD., #402, NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406 ***********

Estate of:

CECIL BROWN, JR.

2026-ES-10-0607

DOD: 2/15/26

Pers. Rep:

LIONEL STACEY BROWN

1107 JEFFERY RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty:

CHRISTOPHER D. LIZZI, ESQ.

2170 ASHLEY PHOSPHATE RD., #402, NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406

***********

Estate of: ANNELISE WARE SIMMONS

Estate of: JOSEPH FRANK LOPEZ

2026-ES-10-0807

DOD: 12/11/25

Pers. Rep: KELLI A. PHIPPS

213 MARSH OAKS DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***********

Estate of: ZENNIE J. QUINN

2026-ES-10-0828

DOD: 3/30/26

Pers. Rep: LISA QUINN

3483 FIELD PLANTERS RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: KERRY W. KOON, ESQ. 147 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #203, CHARLESTON, SC 29412

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:

EDNA LOUISE PICQUET FELDER

2026-ES-10-0623

DOD: 2/20/26

Pers. Rep:

CHARLES L. FELDER

4940 CHISOLM RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: JOHN F. PERRY, ESQ. 3021 RUSHLAND MEWS, JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455 ***********

Estate of:

ABRAHAM FRANCISCO

ALBERTHA HAMILTON GRANT

2026-ES-10-0795

DOD: 7/20/25

Pers. Rep:

JOSEPH GRANT, JR. 2324 ETIWAN AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty:

CAPERS G. BARR, III, ESQ. PO BOX 1037, CHARLESTON, SC 29402

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:

ELEANOR M. HALL

2026-ES-10-0779

DOD: 4/10/26

Pers. Rep: BRIAN M. HALL

9 LAMPTON RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***********

Estate of:

WALLACE G. HOLLAND

2026-ES-10-0800

DOD: 3/27/26

Pers. Rep:

CATHERINE H. CHASE

3116 GRAND BAY LN., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: ROBERT S. DODDS, ESQ. 25 CALHOUN ST., #400, CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ***********

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: FRANCIS MCGUIRE BROWN

2026-ES-10-0837

DOD: 5/6/26

Pers. Rep: LINDA B. KACALA 1315 JOSHUA DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: ASHLEY G. ANDREWS, ESQ. 544 SAVANNAH HWY., CHARLESTON, SC 29407

***********

Estate of: TERRI MIMS HUTTO

2026-ES-10-0869

DOD: 4/7/26

Pers. Rep: ALLISON MIMS HUTTO 1431 HEADQUARTERS PLANTATION DR., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: LISA WOLFF HERBERT, ESQ. 864 LOWCOUNTRY BLVD., #C, MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464

***********

Estate of: JAYNE TAYLOR TARASKI

2026-ES-10-0872

DOD: 4/11/26

Pers. Rep: THEODORE TARASKI 8455 MIDDLETON POINT LN., EDISTO ISLAND, SC 29438

***********

Estate of: BARBARA ANN ELLER

2026-ES-10-0883

DOD: 4/28/26

Pers. Rep: DAVID W. ELLER 3510 ROCKVILLE CT., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

***********

Estate of: MARK ROY WALKER

2026-ES-10-0887

2026-ES-10-0650

DOD: 10/18/25

Pers. Rep: MICHAEL TOSHI FRANCISCO 1748 BATTEN DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29414 ***********

Estate of:

ESTHER BASKIN FERGUSON

2026-ES-10-0653

DOD: 2/18/26

Pers. Rep: BANK OF AMERICA

C/O GAIL M. SOLOMON 355 S. MAIN ST., #700, GREENVILLE, SC 29601

Atty:

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

***********

Estate of:

CHERYL MARIE PARKER

2026-ES-10-0682

DOD: 12/8/25

Pers. Rep: RODNEY PARKER 6786 MOSS CT., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29418 ***********

Estate of:

LUNNETTE C. KINARD

2026-ES-10-0691

DOD: 1/21/26

Pers. Rep: ALICIA L. KINARD PO BOX 305

FOLLY BEACH, SC 29439

Atty:

MICHAEL B. MCCALL, ESQ. PO BOX 22528, CHARLESTON, SC 29413

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

deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid. Interest on the balance of the bid at the rate of 10.75% per annum shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of noncompliance within thirty (30) days, after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to Plaintiff’s judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps.

Deficiency judgment being specifically waived, the bidding shall be final on the date of the sale.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff’s attorney, or Plaintiff’s agent fail to appear on the day of sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff’s attorney, or Plaintiff’s agent, is present.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record, and any senior lien(s) identified in the Complaint and the Order and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale. Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity, County of Charleston _____________________, 2026 Charleston, South Carolina

Clarkson McAlonis & O’Connor, P.C.

Sean A. O’Connor, Esq. 753 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Suite 100 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (843) 885-8005

DOD: 12/6/25

Pers. Rep: ASHLEY STEELE 7525 STARGAZER DR., HANAHAN, SC 29410

NOTICE OF SALE

CIVIL ACTION NO. 2025CP1002827

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of Mepkin Condominium Association, Inc., v.

DAVID M. JACKSON, the Masterin-Equity will sell on July 07, 2026, at 11:00AM, at the Charleston County Courthouse, 100 Broad Street, Courtroom 2A, Charleston, South Carolina 29401, to the highest bidder:

ALL that certain condominium unit known and designated as UNIT 1024, (formerly known as Unit C-4), Mepkin Condominiums Horizontal Property Regime, a horizontal property regime established pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Regime Act, Section 27-31-10, et. Seq., South Carolina Code of Law, as amended, and submitted by Master Deed dated August 18, 2006, recorded August 25, 2006, in Book A596, page 470, in the RMC Office for Charleston County. Said unit is shown on the Exhibit attached to the Master Deed.

TMS No.: 353-13-00-077

Property address: 1826 Mepkin Road Apt C4, Charleston, SC 29407-3034

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master-in-Equity will require a

Household items and tools

Lauren Jenkins Furniture

Kristi Mayer Furniture and household goods

David Parker Household goods

Facility 3: 8850 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 6/23/2026 10:45 AM

Tatyana Prioleau

Boxes of household items, and Mini Fridge

Derrick Coakley Chest ent center 2 tv

Gary Riffle

Washer/Dryer, beds, couch, chair, hutch, dishes, dresser

Facility 4: 208 St. James Ave, Ste C Goose Creek, SC 29445 6/23/2026 11:00 AM

Victoria Smith Home goods, baby items, baby clothes

Brielle Lane

Washer, dryer, 2 beds, 4 dressers, ent center, tv’s, table

Facility 5: 3781 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston, SC 29418 6/23/2026 11:00 AM

Penny Lamb 2 mattress and bookshelf’s, 5 TVs, Household

Chauetta Brown Clothes and household appliances

Attorney for Mepkin Condominium Association, Inc.

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 6/17/2026 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.

Breanna Geathers; Derrick Mack; Keisha Moultrie; Emory Rose.

This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply.

PUBLIC AUCTION

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 2: 609 Old Trolley Road Summerville, SC 29485 6/23/2026

Household goods, clothing

Facility 14: 6941 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 6/23/2026

12:30 PM

Ollie Ross Furniture

Justice Sylve Boxes, 2 tvs

Michael Meyers Appliances, electronics, clothes, furniture, washer, dryer, TV

Jadaruise Anthony Boxes and bags

Jimmy Wayne Slagle Household items

Chelsea Lyssand Clothes, furniture

Clinton Vealey Tools, bed, bins, home goods, boxes

Facility 15: 5146 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston, SC 29418 6/23/2026 12:00 PM

Barbara Heyward Household goods

Dwayne Simmons Furniture

Sharon Grant Livingroom, 3 bedrooms, washer/ dryer, household items

Facility 6: 434 Orangeburg Road Summerville, SC 29483 6/23/2026 11:15 AM

Chelsi Anderson Bedding, Table, Sofa

Patricia Grant Household Goods

Anyae Stroman Household Goods

Facility 7: 2130 N. Main St Summerville, SC 29486 6/23/2026 10:00 AM

Ebonee Brown Housing

Joshua Greene House stuff

Karen Dickerson 20 boxes of personal items, clothing, dolls, etc.

Facility10: 1205 Central Ave. Summerville, SC 29483 6/23/2026 11:15 AM

Mildred Crews Household Goods

Lamaya Nealy

Household Goods

Facility 13: 9670 Dorchester Rd Summerville, SC 29485 6/23/2026 10:15 AM

Cassie Harbin Boxes, furniture

LeShawn Hiers Furniture

Kendra Grace

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.

PUBLIC AUCTION

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 6/25/2026 10:00 AM

Lyndi Bauer A few pieces of furniture and clothes

Facility 2: 1640 James Nelson Rd Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

6/25/2026 10:20 AM

Diane Howell Furniture

Facility 3: 1117 Bowman Rd. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

6/25/2026

10:25 AM

Danita Kinlow Household Items

Wesley Russo Boxes sofa chairs, coffee table

Facility 4: 1471 Center St Ext. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464

6/25/2026 10:30 AM

Brian Foster Household Goods/Furniture

6/25/2026

1:00 PM

Daniel Fetzer

Household Goods/Furniture

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.

subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, 240 Stoneridge Drive, Suite 400, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

s/ Ashley Z. Stanley April 29, 2026

John S. Kay S.C. Bar #7914

Ashley Z. Stanley (S.C. Bar No. 74854)

Alan Stewart (S.C. Bar No. 15576)

Sarah O. Leonard (S.C. Bar No. 80165)

thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.

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

MCLP Asset Company, Inc., PLAINTIFF,

vs. Alice Swope Thompson a/k/a

Alice S. Thompson f/k/a Alice H. Thompson, in her capacity as successor trustee for the Raymond L. Thompson Living Trust, Dated September 3, 2009 a/k/a Raymond L. Thompson Administrative Trust AND IF Alice Swope Thompson a/k/a Alice S. Thompson f/k/a Alice H. Thompson, in her capacity as successor trustee the Raymond L. Thompson Living Trust, Dated September 3, 2009

a/k/a Raymond L. Thompson Administrative Trust be deceased then any distributees and successor trustees for the Raymond L. Thompson Living Trust, Dated September 3, 2009 a/k/a Raymond L. Thompson Administrative Trust and if any of the same be dead any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; Any unknown adults, any unknown infants or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being a class designated as Richard Roe; Swope Thompson Family LLC; South Carolina Department of Revenue;, DEFENDANT(S)

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

(NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE)

C/A NO: 2026-CP-10-01786

DEFICIENCY WAIVED

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy/copies of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCAR, effective June 1, 1999.

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed with the Clerk of Court on April 9, 2026.

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

TO UNKNOWN OR KNOWN DEFENDANTS THAT MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED that Plaintiff’s attorney has applied for the appointment of an attorney to represent you. If you fail to apply for the appointment of an attorney to represent you within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you Plaintiff’s appointment will be made absolute with no further action from Plaintiff.

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

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT

Gregory Wooten (S.C. Bar No. 73586)

M. Celeste Bowers (S.C. Bar No. 100981)

Attorneys for Plaintiff Foundation Legal Group 240 Stoneridge Drive, Suite 400 Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 726-2700

john.kay@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com ashley.stanley@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com alan.stewart@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com sarah.leonard@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com greg.wooten@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com celeste.bowers@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com

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

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, PLAINTIFF, vs. Dynamik Property Solutions, LLC; Mary Layne; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for First National Bank of Arizona, its successor an assigns; Monika Ruppert, DEFENDANT(S)

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

C/A NO: 2026-CP-10-01799 DEFICIENCY WAIVED

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, 240 Stoneridge Drive, Suite 400, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

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

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-inEquity/Special Referee in/for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999.

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court on April 8, 2026.

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

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

s/ Ashley Z. Stanley May 11, 2026

John S. Kay (S.C. Bar No. 7914)

Ashley Z. Stanley (S.C. Bar No. 74854)

Alan Stewart (S.C. Bar No. 15576)

Sarah O. Leonard (S.C. Bar No. 80165)

Gregory Wooten (S.C. Bar No. 73586)

M. Celeste Bowers (S.C. Bar No. 100981)

Attorneys for Plaintiff Foundation Legal Group 240 Stoneridge Drive Suite 400 Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 726-2700

john.kay@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com ashley.stanley@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com alan.stewart@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com sarah.leonard@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com greg.wooten@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com celeste.bowers@ thefoundationlegalgroup.com

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

CASE NO.: 2026-CP-10-02660

EDWARD L. WEATHERS, LAVERNE WEATHERS and LUETHELMA CROMEDY, Plaintiffs,

v. PHOENIE SINGLETON a/k/a PHENIE SINGLETON and HENRY EDWARD WEATHERS, deceased persons and their heirs, distributees, personal representatives, successors and

assigns and spouses, if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as:

0 N. Highway 17

Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 720-00-00-073

and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS & NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named:

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

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

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice, Complaint and Lis Pendens were filed on May 20th, 2026, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on May 20th, 2026 and the Order of Publication was filed on May 20th, 2026 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B. Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated May 20th, 2026 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows:

ALL that lot, piece, or parcel of land, situate in St. James Santee parish No. 1, in Charleston County, Sate aforesaid, measuring and containing Two and Seventy-five One Hundredths (2.75) Acres more or less, being the remaining portion of the original Tract of Two and Eighty-Two One Hundredths (2.82) Acres, and bounded as

follows: on the Southeast by U.S, Highway No. 17; on the Northeast by lands now or formerly of JAMES SIMMONS; on the Northwest by lands of INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY; and on the Southwest by lands of ANDREW WILSON.

For a more accurate description reference is craved to a Plat entitled “A Survey of the Lands of HENRY WEATHERS, located in St. JamesSantee Parish, Charleston County, S.C.,” which is recorded in Book BG at page 41 in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS # 720-00-00-073

May 21st, 2026

Date

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell Attorney at Law 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 jeff@jeffspell.com (843) 452-3553

Attorney for the Plaintiffs

time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COURT FILE NO. 2026-CP10-02141

SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs. LEEANNE E. OWENS; COASTAL CAROLINA FINISHES, LLC, Defendants.

LIS PENDENS (FORECLOSURE/NON-JURY)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been initiated and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas for the County and State aforesaid, by the above-named Plaintiff, against the Defendants above named, and that the object of such action is the foreclosure of that certain Mortgage to the Plaintiff, described as follows (the “Mortgage”):

By: LeeAnne E. Owens and Mary Cotton Owens a/k/a Mary C. Owens

Dated: August 3, 2022

Recorded On: August 10, 2022 at 1:16:33 p.m.

Recorded In: Book 1130 at Page 236 Office of: ROD for Charleston County, SC

and to sell the property described below for the purpose of paying the lien thereon.

All that certain lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on the South side of Radcliffe Street in the City of Charleston, County and State aforesaid, and known as No. Fifty-Nine (59) Radcliffe Street. Measuring and Containing in front of Radcliffe Street Nineteen (19’) feet, Six (6”) inches, and in depth Fifty (50’) feet, be the same more or less.

Notice of Self Storage Sale

Please take notice Extra Room Self Storage - North Charleston located at 8911 University Blvd., North Charleston, SC, 29406 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 6/16/2026 at 10:00AM. 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. Dennis Todd.

This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply.

Notice of Self Storage Sale

Please take notice Extra Room Self Storage - Moncks Corner located at 1505 Cypress Gardens Road Moncks Corner SC 29461 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 6/16/2026 at 10:00AM. 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.

Derek Prescott; Earl Turner.

This sale may be withdrawn at any

SC Bar #12499

Reid E. Dyer, SC Bar #79155

78 Wentworth Street

Charleston, SC 29401

(843)579-7000

Email: davidwheeler@mvalaw.com

cynthialowery@mvalaw.com

reiddyer@mvalaw.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF CHARLESTON, SC April 13, 2026

SUMMONS (FORECLOSURE/NON-JURY)

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 herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their office, Moore & Van Allen, PLLC, 78 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC 29401, or to otherwise appear and defend, 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 that the Court may issue a general order of reference of this action to a master in equity/ special referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, and that pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. §14-11-110, as amended, Plaintiff’s attorney will submit written testimony on behalf of the Plaintiff at said reference hearing.

April 23, 2026

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO: DEFENDANT LEEANNE E. OWENS:

BUTTING AND BOUNDING to the North of Radcliffe Street; to the South on Land now or late of Helen H. Wilson; to the Estate on Land of L.D. Mahlstedt, and to the West on land of Mary J. Ryan.

Also described more specifically on that certain Plat prepared by James G. Pennington, P.L.S. titled “BOUNDARY SURVEY 59 RADCLIFFE STREET, LOCATED CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” dated June 25, 2015 and recorded July 8, 2015 in Plat Book S15 at Page 0171 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County, SC. BEING the same property conveyed to LeeAnne E. Owens and Mary Cotton Owens, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common, by deed of Atlantic Management, LLC, a limited liability company and Kelly Evans dated January 14, 2020 and recorded January 22, 2020 in Deed Book 0854 at Page 375 in the ROD Office for Charleston County; AND BEING the same property conveyed to Leeanne E. Owens as the sole owner by Declaration of Ownership upon the death of Mary Cotton Owens dated January 9, 2025 and recorded in the aforesaid office in Book 1291 at Page 401 and re-recorded in Book 1304 at Page 134.

TMS #460-16-01-059

Property Address: 59 Radcliffe Street, Charleston, SC 29403

MOORE & VAN ALLEN PLLC

s/David B. Wheeler

David B. Wheeler, SC Bar #6055

Cynthia Jordan Lowery,

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above-entitled action, together with the Certificate of Exemption from ADR, Lis Pendens and Summons, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on April 23, 2026, at 9:36 a.m., the object and prayer of which is to obtain foreclosure with deficiency, which may be subsequently waived at the election of the Plaintiff, of a mortgage of subject property in a non-jury action, and for such other and further relief as set forth in the Complaint.

CHARLESTON, SC May 29, 2026

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION

HAVING READ the Affidavit of David B. Wheeler, Attorney for the Plaintiff herein, and it appearing from the Complaint filed herein, that this is an action pending in Charleston County, South Carolina for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage covering property located in Charleston County, over which this Court has jurisdiction; and that the Defendant, LEEANNE E. OWENS, after due diligence cannot be located.

IT IS ORDERED that pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 15-9-710, et. seq., service in this action be made on Defendant, LEEANNE E. OWENS, by publishing copies of the Lis Pendens, Summons and Notice of Filing Complaint, and this Order for Publication in The City Paper, a paper of general circulation in Charleston County, South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks.

s/Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court, by BLC Charleston, South Carolina May 26, 2026

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

9TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CIVIL ACTION NO. 2025CP1004258

LM INSURANCE CORPORATION, an insurance company, Plaintiff, vs. CHARLESTON CUSTOM BUILDERS, LLC, Defendant.

TO: CHARLESTON CUSTOM BUILDERS, LLC, 1230FOLLYRD AGENT: WILL IRVIN CHARLESTON SC 29412

SUMMONS

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 said Complaint on the subscriber at P.O. Box 2189 Montgomery, Al 36102-2189 within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of service hereof. 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.

Prepared and submitted by:

/s/ Alexandria C. Heard Alexandria C. Heard S.C. Bar Number 105707 aheard@plgse.com

THE PARNELL LAW GROUP, LLC P.O. Box 2189 Montgomery, AL 36102-2189 Phone 8661629-0912

Attorney for Plaintiff

File No.: 1582085

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and notified that an action has been filed against you in this court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you. Within thirty (30) days after the day you receive this Summons and Complaint, you must respond in writing to this Complaint by filing an Answer with this court. You must also serve a copy of your Answer to this Complaint upon the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s Attorney at the address shown below. If you fail to answer the Complaint, judgment by default could be rendered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on October 15, 2025.

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, upon the Complaint of the Plaintiff named above against the Defendant named above to partition real property described as follows:

ALL that certain piece parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of North Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina being shown as Lot 41 on a subdivision plat entitled “SUBDIVISION PLAT OF (TMS: 470- 05-00-057) ROW HOUSE LOT 2 (0.24 AC) & (TMS: 470-05-00-058) ROW HOUSE LOT 1 (.23 AC) INTO LOTS 38 THROUGH 47 (MIXSON AVENUE) CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” prepared by RLA Associates, PA, dated September 11, 2019, and recorded October 16, 2019, in the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office in Book S19, Pages 0241. Said property having such size, shape, location, buttings, boundings, courses and distances as by reference to said Plat will more fully appear.

THIS BEING the same property inherited by Michael Dior Dunlap, Carlos Dunlap II, and Bianca Dunlap upon the death of Carlos Leroy Dunlap a/k/a Carlos Leroy Dunlap, Sr., as evidenced by the Deed of Distribution dated April 13, 2023, and recorded April 17, 2023, in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County, in Book 1174 at Page 184.

TMS #: 470-05-00-269

Property Address: 4416 Avery Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405

NOTICE OF FILING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in this court upon complaint of the above-named plaintiff against the above-named defendant. This Complaint and Lis Pendens address a partition action for the property identified as TMS #470-05-00-269.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY

Please take notice SmartStop Self Storage located at 701 Wando Park Blvd., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464, intends to hold an auction of the goods stored in the following units to satisfy the lien of the owner. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.selfstorageauction. com on 06/17/26 at 1:00 pm. Contents include personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below.

1P22, William Ireland, 2E26, Selena Venable Purchases must be paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

SmartStop Self Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Please contact the property with any questions (843) 213-7903.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

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

C/A NO. 2026-CP-10-01086

Planet Home Lending, LLC, Plaintiff vs. Wesley H. Yale, Tiffany Allison Yale and Nicholas Andrew Yale, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANT(S) Nicholas Andrew Yale:

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

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on March 2, 2026.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

“Plat of a Subdivision of Property on Johns Island, Charleston County, SC, owned by William Robinson and Isaac Robinson, Jr., Lot C about to be conveyed to Willie Thompson, Jr.,” dated January 7, 1975, by W.L. Gaillard RLS, said plat being duly recorded in the Charleston County R.O.D. Office on September 2,1975, in Plat Book AF, at Page 2. By reference hereto, the aforesaid plat is made a part and parcel of this conveyance for a more and complete description.

TMS No. 2780000050

Property Address: 3204 Plow Ground Road, Johns Island, SC 29455

Riley Pope & Laney, LLC Post Office Box 11412 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 Telephone (803) 799-9993

Attorneys for Plaintiff 7923

U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS INTENT TO PREPARE THE SOUTH ATLANTIC DIVISION REGIONAL DREDGING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES AT CHARLESTON HARBOR, SOUTH CAROLINA

We Need Your Input! The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Charleston District intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate potential changes to the operations and maintenance of the deep draft Federal navigation project for Charleston Harbor, South Carolina to provide operational flexibility based on the best available science. USACE will be hosting public meetings to share information about the EIS process and to gather your input on what alternatives should be considered, which resource effects should be evaluated, and what available information should be considered when evaluating effects.

Meeting Format: There will be an in-person meeting as well as two virtual meetings. The in-person meeting will include a short presentation at 5:30 pm and again at 6:30 pm, both followed by an open house format where USACE staff will be available to discuss the EIS components. The virtual meetings will contain a short presentation followed by an opportunity for the public to make comments.

Public Meeting Information

June 10, 2026

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are often the best possible remedy for stale, unoriginal thinking that’s festering in your vicinity. And you are especially so these days. Others might have the gall to disrupt the deadening status quo, but you have the charm to do it without scorching every bridge and laying waste to the land. So I invite you to step into the role of cheerful troublemaker. Unleash your iconoclastic sparks with the intention of making life friskier and more imaginative, not more tangled and irritating.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In many farming cultures, including parts of India, growers speak or sing to their crops as they walk through the fields. It’s a gesture of personal care that mirrors growing scientific interest in how plants respond to sound and vibration. Some studies suggest that plants exposed to sustained speech and song may grow more vigorously. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Taurus, is to speak to the growing things in your life with similar devotion. Talk to your projects. Sing to your relationships. Tell jokes to your dreams. The universe is extra responsive to your sweet voice.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Neurologist Oliver Sacks said, “I am haunted by the density of experience.” He meant that every moment contains far more richness than we can fully register or remember. This observation will be especially relevant for you in the coming weeks. Your mind (and heart!) will be flooded with an abundance of stimuli, ideas, feelings, and impressions. It might initially feel overwhelming, but will ultimately be a boon—especially if you prepare yourself for the intensity and abundance. Imagine yourself standing next to a fountain and feeling cheerful about getting soaked.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You have superpowers that hardened hearts and tough guys can’t fathom. Receptivity is a key part of your genius, for example. Emotional fluency is at the root of your intelligence. Your ability to feel so much and so deeply makes you dangerous to status quos managed by people who overthink everything. Wait! There’s more. You can nurture without smothering and protect without imprisoning. You wield the powers of memory without being enslaved by nostalgia. You make home a verb, not a noun, as you build shelter for yourself and your tribe. I hope you will express these gorgeous talents to the max in the coming weeks and months.

By Rob Brezsny

sets (“I can become smarter”). When you have a fixed mindset, obstacles weigh you down. With a growth mindset, they motivate you to develop. What determines your trajectory isn’t your current skill level but how you relate to your edge. With this in mind, Libra, I invite you to monitor your self-talk as you encounter challenges. Are you prone to thinking that limitations are permanent, or do you see them as temporary states you can use as opportunities? You now have a good chance to instill the latter as a root habit.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What’s something you wish you could change about yourself? Is it a trait, pattern, fear, or story about your body? And what exactly tells you that this can never change? Is it loyalty to old expectations or a rotting prophecy someone laid on you? Consider the possibility that maybe the “can’t” is really a “won’t,” or a “don’t know how yet,” or “I’m afraid of who I’d be without this.” Then imagine that you don’t have to transform this thing instantly, but, for starters, need only shift it by 10 percent in the direction of mercy and freedom. What small, specific action would generate that 10 percent?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What’s your most vital relationship? I dare you to surprise each other in the coming weeks. Refresh your bond with playful experimentation. Here are adventures you two could explore: 1. Take a walk together with no destination in mind, letting curiosity guide you. Talk about the paths you have not yet taken in life but might like to. 2. Describe the most beautiful future you can imagine for each other. Share practical steps you could take to make these scenarios happen. 3. Choose a food treat you both love, speak a blessing over it, then eat it slowly together as you name what you are most grateful for in your connection.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Chess masters and accomplished musicians practice differently from amateurs. They focus most intensely on their weak points, less so on rehearsing what they already do well. It’s uncomfortable to confront inadequacy, but they’re better for it. In my astrological opinion, Capricorn, you should specialize in a similar courage during the coming weeks. I invite you to direct your generous attention toward your shakiest skills and most uncertain territories. Glorious growth will happen at the edge of your competence.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending or is about to be commenced in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendant for the purpose of foreclosing a certain mortgage of real estate heretofore given by Wesley H. Yale and Tiffany Allison Yale and Nicholas Andrew Yale to Planet Home Lending, LLC bearing date of July 12, 2023 and recorded July 27, 2023 in Mortgage Book 1194 at Page 029 in the Register of Mesne Conveyances/Register of Deeds/Clerk of Court for Charleston County, in the original principal sum of Five Hundred Eight Thousand Two Hundred Thirty Six and No/100 Dollars ($508,236.00). Thereafter, by assignment recorded on October 23, 2025 in Book 1345 at Page 743, the mortgage was assigned to the Plaintiff., and that the premises effected by said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof are situated in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is described as follows: The land hereinafter referred to is situated in the City of Johns Island, County of Charleston, State of SC, and is described as follows: Lot C on a Plat entitled

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): An astrologer rooted in older traditions might claim that now is an ideal time to promote your personal agenda through sly, gossipy maneuvering. But since I am devoted to building a new culture grounded in compassionate values that nourish the soul, my message is different. I’m pleased to tell you that the coming weeks will be a potent phase to engage in elevating gossip that serves the greater good, to celebrate unsung heroes, and to call attention to everything that is thriving. For practical dreamers like you and me, carelessly speaking ill of others undermines our own aspirations. One of the most effective ways to expand our own possibilities is to use the power of language to boost other people’s chances for joy and success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Library of Alexandria contained over half a million scrolls. If you devoted eight hours a day to reading, you could finish about 5,000 books over the course of your life. The librarians back then knew they would never read all the texts they managed and protected. Their job wasn’t to consume all knowledge but to be stewards of abundance. They’re good role models for you, Virgo. The wonderful fact is that you don’t have to master every single thing that attracts your attention. Your far more relaxing task is to curate with care and wisdom. Your growing edge is to know what to preserve and what to release. One of your noblest projects is to commune pleasurably with the intriguing mysteries that life brings you, not obsess on them.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libra psychologist Carol Dweck distinguishes between fixed mindsets (“I’m not smart enough”) and growth mind -

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Be more like a lightning storm over a green meadow and less like a porch light attracting moths. Be more like a spiritual riddle in an ecstatic poem and less like a slogan printed on a T-shirt. Be more like a Miles Davis improvisation and less like a tune played note -for- note from the sheet music for a formulaic pop song. Can you stretch yourself into more fertile wildness, Aquarius? Will you expand your future with adventures that thrill your imagination? I believe you can and should. For bonus magic, be more like a dream of wandering in a rowdy paradise and less like the old version of yourself. Trust the frontier signals that make your pulse quicken, and speak less about the obvious truths that make everyone nod in agreement.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you ready to assess the state of your emotional pain? Every few years, I invite you to take stock. I ask you to reflect on how well you’ve been cultivating meaningful stress while avoiding useless pain and misery. So, how’s your progress since our last check-in? Have you improved at sidestepping dull torments you’ve relived a thousand times? Are you less vulnerable to being wounded by ignorant or thoughtless people? Can you more swiftly shake off the sting of minor troubles? Most importantly, are you increasingly magnetized to the intriguing dilemmas that challenge you to grow wiser and more resourceful?