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Charleston County Council’s new Transportation Sales Tax Special Committee will explore new options for road projects

Charleston County refocusing half-penny road tax effort

By Skyler Baldwin

Charleston County leaders are taking a new approach to capturing a half-cent sales tax to fund Lowcountry transportation projects after a resounding defeat of a tax referendum in 2024.

County leaders have launched a new public input process with the Transportation Sales Tax Special Committee (TSTC) to try to initiate a transparent, community-driven effort to fund transportation projects across the county.

“We heard the people,” Charleston County Council Chairman Kylon Middleton said in an interview. “We decided to take a step back and see, based on that overwhelming ‘No,’ what we have not communicated to the people.”

The 2024 referendum was rejected by every precinct on James and Johns islands, where about half of the funds from the referendum (about $2.3 billion) would have gone to an extension of Interstate 526, including more than $600 million to pay interest costs on a tax-backed loan worth $1.8 billion.

The vote effectively killed the I-526 project entirely.

“Done and dusted,” Middleton said. “Now, projects we never would have thought of are on the table because we don’t have one single project sucking up all the funds.”

Middleton said the TSTC has not yet decided if it will push for another tax referendum but that it is still in the informationgathering phase. He said the committee, which includes all members of county council, has not outlined any priorities yet other than general improvement of traffic flow throughout the county.

The fresh start already has previous

opponents of the 2024 referendum hopeful for the future.

“What would be most important as we look ahead to 2026 is giving the public the opportunity to weigh in and express their priorities and let council know what matters to them,” said Anna Kimelblatt, the Coastal Conservation League’s communities and transportation program director. “We want the county to think more holistically, not just about road infrastructure.”

Kimelblatt pointed to more rural communities that were left out to dry in 2024 by the county’s rigid focus on I-526. The concern was echoed by Middleton.

“Awendaw, Ravenel, areas that were never really in question now have become suburbs and have these nodes that require mitigation,” he said. “There are obvious projects that prayerfully will end up on our list, and then some not-so obvious projects that may come up later.

“All of these projects will have to have some intersectionality,” he added. “We should be able to leverage these dollars and money to help us maximize opportunities.”

Some still concerned

Despite putting a new foot forward, the previous referendum proposal left a bad taste in some community members’ mouths.

Charleston County resident Fred Palm, for example, has been a vocal opponent of the county’s road projects, speaking out at council meetings and writing to council members several times in the last year.

“It is so focused on roads,” he said. “But the question is, what do people really need? Yeah, they need roads, but there’s a lot of other stuff the county should deal with.

Music Hall of Fame to induct 11 Sunday

Ten music-industry stars plus one band will be inducted at 1 p.m. Sunday into the Lowcountry Music Hall of Fame during a show at Hanahan’s amphitheater.

Inductees include Eddie Phillips, Tim Kerwick , Charlton Singleton, Gus Moody, James Holmes, Asher DiBernardo, John Etheridge , Rik Cribb, Ray Fischer and John Congdon as well as Hollywood Squares (Stewart Brown, Mary Martinez and Keith Bradshaw), which will perform. Fischer and Ethridge also are slated to play music.

“They need to respond to the people in some way, and I just don’t believe that they’re going to do it well. I believe that they can, but I don’t sense that they’re going to be doing it that way.”

Middleton said one of the greatest failures of county council last year was its inability to convince the public that it can be trusted to do good work, a problem that he said members are still working to overcome.

“We do infrastructure projects well,” he said. “But when I look at the things we have accomplished, we have not sufficiently communicated that to the public. A lot of people end up attributing our road projects to the state.”

Charleston County Council this year hired a team of consultants to push that awareness forward. That campaign, Middleton said, was met with mixed reviews.

“I think this level of community engagement, is going to help us learn more from our citizens,” he said. “We are trying to take every opportunity we can to hear from them.”

How you can have a say

County leaders launched an online survey recently for those who can’t make it to planned town halls and listening sessions. You can have input on country transportation priorities at: charlestontransportation.com. The deadline for input is Dec. 1, 2025.

“We are trying,” Middleton said. “We want to hear all voices. If you can’t reach out directly, fill out that form. All of that data will be compiled. There are people who still don’t trust what we’re able to do. But just give us the opportunity.”

The event, established to honor the people and organizations that have shaped the area’s musical heritage, has recognized hundreds of artists, bands and industry contributors through the years.

All are welcome to attend the three-hour afternoon celebration of area music. More info: lowcountrymusichalloffame.com. City Paper staff

600,000

The number of South Carolina residents whose food assistance is threatened by the ongoing federal government shutdown. The U.S. Department of Agriculture warned states that it will be unable to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after Nov. 1 if the shutdown continues. Source: WIS TV

CP GROCERY TRACKER

Numbers are based on weekly average costs nationwide.

Milk (half-gallon): $1.57 ( $0.53)

Cheese (8-ounce block): $3.06 ( $0.52)

Eggs (dozen, large white): $1.90 ( $0.75)

Bananas (per pound): $0.60 ( $0.04)

Avocados (each): $0.99 ( $0.03)

Gas (per gallon, S.C. avg.): $2.768 ( $0.016)

Sources: Most recent data at ams.usda.gov, gasprices.aaa.com

Health insurance may cost more for

600,000 S.C. residents

By Jack O’Toole

A government program that more than 600,000 South Carolinians rely on for health insurance remains at the center of the federal shutdown that began Oct. 1. As of press time, it showed no signs of being resolved soon.

Driving the fight is a battle over enhanced federal health care subsidies, first implemented during the pandemic. The aid helps 24 million middle- and lower-income Americans to afford private health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare as it’s widely known.

Congressional Democrats say they won’t go along with any plan to reopen the government that doesn’t reverse earlier GOP legislation that ended the enhanced subsidies — threatening 17 million ACA participants with triple-digit rate hikes heading into 2026.

Under the GOP plan, the average outof-pocket annual cost for an ACA policy for a family of four earning $90,000 a year would jump by $3,735 — more than $300 a month, which puts health insurance out of reach for many. Another stat: A 60-yearold couple making $85,000 a year would be facing a $22,600 annual premium hike — about 25% of their total income.

In an Oct. 14 social media post, Democratic U.S. Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina spotlighted the health insurance dispute.

“Republicans are the party of kicking Americans off health care,” he wrote. “That was true during Trump’s first term when they tried to kill the ACA, and it’s true now.”

But on the other side of the aisle, Upstate Congressman Ralph Norman, who’s seeking the 2026 GOP nomination for governor, claimed Democrats engineered the shutdown to benefit people who are in the country illegally.

“Democrats shut down the government for illegal aliens then got angry when President Trump made sure our troops got paid,” Norman said in an Oct. 15 post, referring to a Pentagon accounting maneuver that funded paychecks for active duty military members on Oct. 15. “Tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.”

Budget experts say Norman’s charge regarding Democratic priorities is inaccurate — or at best unclear — since illegal immigrants aren’t eligible for ACA subsidies or other federal health care programs such

Blotter of the Week

A downtown middle school student on Oct. 7 reportedly refused to take the bus to leave the school at the end of the day. Instead, the student grabbed a bottle of cleaner and sprayed items throughout the school while declining to speak to anyone, according to a Charleston police report. When she eventually left, she took a stapler and ran. Odd choices of gadgets for the utility belt, but we’re generally supportive of up-and-coming vigilantes.

Another one?

Mount Pleasant police on Oct. 12 met with a man who made vague “threats” about the police department, saying, “Things are going to change tomorrow,” according to a report. Seeing as nothing actually happened, we can only speculate that this was the third (fourth?) attempt to reschedule the still-pending rapture. Scheduling conflicts are a pain.

Stocking stuffers

A North Charleston man on Oct. 10 reportedly filled a shopping basket with different deodorants and bottles of body wash at a Rivers Avenue store before leaving the building without paying. The investigation is ongoing. Either this is the stinkiest suspect we’ve had in a while, or he’s gearing up for those Christmas stockings a little early this year.

By Skyler Baldwin Illustration by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Oct. 7 and Oct. 12.

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Thousands protest at Saturday NoKings rallies

Up to 4,000 people shouted for democracy and freedom Saturday in peaceful NoKings rallies in North Charleston and Summerville.

The pair of events, part of hundreds across the nation that drew an estimated 7 million people, were not “Hate America” rallies, as often channeled by national and state Republican leaders. Rather, they reflected the sentiment of one woman in North Charleston who repeatedly shouted, “This is what freedom looks like.”

In North Charleston, about 3,000 protesters lined Ashley Phosphate Road for 4/10 of a mile at Festival Centre in clear skies and persistent sunshine. The predominantly White, middle-class crowd carried political signs and posters supporting democracy and pushing back on authoritarian policies of President Trump and others in Washington.

In Summerville, horns honked — a lot — in support of upwards of 1,000 protesters along North Main Street at the Dorchester County offices. —Andy Brack

as Medicaid under federal law.

What ACA price hikes would look like

in S.C.

Aaron Polkey is the president and CEO of the Palmetto Project, which runs the state’s only nonprofit insurance agency, Insure S.C.

In a Thursday interview, Polkey, who’s currently running for a nonpartisan seat on Charleston City Council, called the planned price spike a “disaster” for South Carolina’s private insurance system.

“Everyone is facing higher premiums, regardless of how they get their insurance,” he said. “Because if substantial numbers of consumers are pushed out of the market [by the subsidy cuts], that’s going to rip through the entire system, raising rates for everybody.”

To illustrate the problem, Polkey pointed to expected price hikes ranging from 111% to 231% for South Carolinians earning the median income or less — increases that would force about 150,000 to drop their insurance, according to the S.C. Hospital Association.

And with ACA open enrollment set to begin on Nov. 1, Polkey said it’s critical to get subsidies back in place quickly.

“We’re too close to open enrollment for the entire system to be teetering on the edge with this kind of uncertainty,” he said. “This has got to stop because it’s giving the insurance companies no other choice but to publish these super-inflated price projections that [put everyone’s] backs against a wall.”

That’s a concern shared by S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce President Frank Knapp, who noted that only 21% of S.C. businesses with fewer than 50 employees can afford to provide health insurance for their employees.

“The Affordable Care Act is how these small business owners and their employees get their health insurance,” Knapp told Statehouse Report on Oct. 16. “And if those enhanced subsidies go away, we’ll have thousands of people who simply can’t afford their health insurance.”

Meanwhile, with the federal shutdown set to move into its17th day, University of South Carolina economist Joseph Von Nessen warned that the state would begin to see widespread economic impacts if a deal isn’t reached soon.

“Once we get out past the 30-day mark, we start to see the potential for significant disruptions,” Von Nessen said in an Oct. 16 interview. “That’s when more businesses are likely to be affected due to suspended government contracts and where federal employees begin to miss paychecks, which affects spending in the local economy.”

But for his part, S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster said he doesn’t believe we’re going to get to that point.

“I think the shutdown’s not going to last much longer,” McMaster told reporters on Oct. 15.

Charleston election is perfect time to question city’s leadership, direction

t’s been two years since Charleston voters narrowly picked a new path for the city. And frankly, what’s happened so far is, to put it mildly, disturbing.

First, a culture of secrecy in city government has developed among the administration of freshman Mayor William Cogswell and members of city council, who too often follow him like lemmings into non-required private sessions to do the city’s business.

Evidence of this culture came last year with a redesigned city brand that suddenly appeared with no input from council. Then the mayor and his merry band of underlings reorganized the way that government works from a strong-mayor form in which city department heads reported to the mayor to what is essentially a hands-off weak mayor style in which department heads report to an unelected chief of staff who earns more than the mayor.

But beyond these structural anomalies comes something even more concerning: the rapid departure of several key staff members with vital institutional memories that have made the city hum for decades under the Riley and Tecklenburg administrations.

One former city employee told us, “I really enjoyed working for [John] Tecklenburg and [Joe] Riley because they let their department heads serve as experts. They listened to them for guidance, instead of the mayor pretending he knew everything about every department.”

Sure, some of these administrators were getting close to retirement age, but what about the nationally-recognized planner who fled to Baltimore after reportedly getting a lot of administration interference. Or the late Dale Morris who resigned not once, but twice, after his role as the city’s water

guru was greatly minimized. Others who left for one reason or another included administrators in charge of human resources, cultural affairs, information technology, emergency management, neighborhood services and public services. Also gone is the abrasive Logan McVey, who served as Cogswell’s campaign manager before being named chief policy officer for the city despite reportedly having little municipal government experience.

All of this turbulence and interference in Charleston’s government came from a mayor’s office that seems to want to be more of a developer-in-chief than a leader for all Charlestonians.

Unfortunately, Cogswell’s brand of leadership is having a bigger, darker impact, too. Today after less than two years of Cogswell being in office, the morale of Charleston’s municipal employees is so low that even more workers are said to be thinking about flying the coop.

Another former employee told us, “Cogswell and company remind me of that [The Great] Gatsby line about careless people: ‘They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.’”

What’s happening too often now in Charleston government is not good for taxpayers who are used to a city that has worked pretty smoothly in the past.

So as you go to the polls in the days ahead to participate in city elections, you might want to look at council candidates based on whether they wear the mayor’s “bro hat” and go along with just about anything and everything. Or whether they will be likely to stand up when they see people and departments being wrongly treated.

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.

SCREAM, & GROAN MOAN, This Halloween

LINGERIE

Trumpism is taking terrible toll on U.S.

By Andy Brack

Perhaps the question of a generation is, “Who would have ever thought that young leaders of any major political party in America would secretly message each other that they loved Adolf Hitler?”

Since World War II, it’s been a given that supporters of freedom despised the former German fascist leader after he plunged the world into a global killing field. An estimated 75 million people died — 25 million in the military and 50 million civilians, including 6 million Jews who Hitler exterminated.

For decades, it didn’t matter what your political party was when it came to Hitler and the Third Reich. If there was one thing — just one thing — that everybody could agree on, it was that Hitler was despicable and what he did only needs to be in the history books to remind people how horrible we can be to each other. So it won’t happen again.

Fast forward to today. Just about everybody still will agree Hitler was a monster authoritarian, and that World War II was an Axis slaughter brought on by Germany, Japan and Italy.

So imagine the surprise of a nation this week when Politico published a story about how young wannabe Republican leaders glorified Hitler in a secret group chatroom filled with hate, antisemitism, bigotry and homophobia. And it wasn’t just a handful of people with scattered comments. The months-long session stretching from Kansas to New York included 2,900 pages of Telegram chat and thousands of exchanges of vitriol that would make your skin peel.

“I love Hitler,” one Young Republican organizational leader chirped. “I’m ready to watch people burn now,” another said. And yet another: “They love the watermelon people.”

We need to get back to what the Founding Fathers wanted — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not despotism.

America is becoming coarser, thanks to a grab-em-by-thep***y attitude coming from the top. Allies who once glorified American freedom now are stepping back, cutting skeptical and angry side glances because of what’s happening here. The constant barrages of Washington lies, threats, theatrics, bullying, layoffs, firings and now a shutdown are taking an emotional toll on everyday Americans.

And that’s what the new fascists, like this subset of Young Republicans, want. It is unbelievable their behavior got little more than a slap on the wrist from a far from apologetic Vice President J.D. Vance: “That’s what

No, it’s not. It’s abnormal. But President Trump — as candidate, past president and current president — has been normalizing this kind of vitriol for years. It’s wrong. It’s un-American. We shouldn’t allow it to fester.

Some GOP leaders have been quick to vilify the kind of social-mediafueled bigotry that led to where we are. If this kind of castigation of improper behavior doesn’t continue, realize how this kind of mess could spread. Remember, this is the same kind of junk that spurred racist murderer Dylann Roof to kill nine people in a Charleston church in 2015.

For years, the American people have been absorbing this emotional turmoil being spewed in Washington and legislatures across the country. It’s wrong and people shouldn’t accept any normalization of hate and fear. All Americans need to stand up and let their leaders know that it’s time for real change. It’s time for civility and policy, not fear and division.

Last week’s commentary highlighted how so-called antifa is nothing more than a made-up movement by Trumpies to generate distrust. Fueling fear isn’t what America needs. We need to get back to what the Founding Fathers wanted — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not despotism.

Frank Serpico, a New York detective lionized in a movie with his last name, once said, “The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on ourselves, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.”

Don’t let the neo-fascists win. Speak out. If our ancestors believed democracy was easy, we’d be speaking German and Japanese.

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

Better with bite.

By Skyler Baldwin

Local escape game pivots into interactive Halloween haunt

ith Halloween right around the corner, it’s not too late to get a few more scares in before the big night.

Trey Smith’s XscapeWorks attraction is a collection of four escape games connected via time machine. But once daylight runs out, it undergoes a ghastly transformation. About 6 p.m. daily during the Halloween season, the puzzlefilled escape game turns into an interactive haunted house that challenges — and terrifies — all who enter.

“A lot of people have been through haunted houses,” Smith said. “A lot of people have played escape games. But here, you get a haunted escape game.”

Guests at 2430 Air Park Road in North Charleston enter through an automated time machine that sends one group at a time through a series of themed haunts, starting with a traditional haunted house, followed by a medieval castle, a mummy’s tomb and finally a zombie apocalypse. At every turn, guests are met with spooky surprises, animatronic scares and challenging puzzles. They also encounter some of the attraction’s 16 scare actors that breathe life into the experience.

“We space our groups out here about every 20 minutes,” Smith said. “We’re not cranking people through like a conga line. So each time you’re in an area with an actor, they are working only with your group. It’s much more specialized and much more individualized that way.”

Smith said while he’s not a Halloween enthusiast, he loves the freedom that the holiday gives him to come up with new ways to scare the pants off of — ahem, entertain — people.

“If you knew me outside of this, you would never really know that I do a haunt,” he said. “I don’t live and breathe Halloween, but I love the entertainment aspect. And I love the creative challenges of Halloween, because there are no boundaries. It’s whatever your imagination can come up with.”

Unlikely start

Smith, 60, of Park Circle, said 30 years ago, he never would have imagined he’d be doing what he is now. In 1990, he was in the audio music business in Nashville. He owned his own recording studio, but a move into a house on a commercial street left him without

enough money to fix it up the way he needed.

Desperate, he went to his friend, a professional makeup artist, for help.

“That Halloween, we turned the house into a haunt, put signs up front and we killed it,” Smith said. “With the money we made, we finished the studio, but the next year, I opened up the haunt again, this time in a high school.’

Horror High was another commercial success, raising money to benefit a local police department where his father worked. A few years later, he had the largest recurring haunt in Tennessee.

In 2004, Smith and his wife moved to Charleston where they started Boone Hall Fright Nights, still one of the most popular Halloween events in the Lowcountry. But over the years, he said the limitations of an outdoor, holiday-only event wore on him.

“The Boone Hall thing was great, and we were doing large numbers, but every year, we ran into problems,” he said. “Hurricane potential, tropical storms — everything was outdoors. And all that is right on Halloween. So we kept running into all these challenges with Mother Nature.

“We had to build it and tear it down every year,” he added. “You’re out there in May, June, July, building a haunt in the middle of a field. After a while, I thought, ‘I need to move into something that we can keep yearround and indoors.’”

Plus, he wanted to start building more things, he said.

A busy workshop

In 2015, Smith broke away from Fright Nights to start Smithworks Creative Arts, a company that constructs interactive museum attractions and escape game pieces that get sent all over the country.

“We build pretty much everything that you see when you visit, and then some,” Smith said. “We just got a project out of here, we built a big thing for the South Carolina State Fair in Columbia for the 250th celebration. Our whole shop here was totally full, and now we’re getting reorganized and ready to start building some other stuff.”

He’s built King Kong, a Titanic replica and more for escape rooms across the nation. His structures are installed as far away as Honolulu, Anchorage, Canada, Bermuda. Recently, the company was contacted by a guy from England.

Despite the wide range of work, he says one of his favorite builds stayed pretty close to home: a runaway subway train escape game in Mount Pleasant (though there is another one in New York City).

But the workshop is also crammed with new additions to Smithworks’ own escape game.

“We have a bunch of new things we’re

Sudden scares lurk around every corner at XscapeWorks Halloween

adding to the Medieval and Egyptian rooms,” Smith said. “We try to do things that are more physical. You’ll see quickly, ‘All right, I know what I got to do,’ but actually doing it is a whole other thing. We like adding those. We get a really good response from those.

Year-round entertainment

While the Halloween attraction gets a lot of attention, Smith said he always felt limited by the holiday theme.

“Halloween is great, but you only really get a month and a half,” he said. “I wanted to do something that creates an entertainment experience year-round.”

During the daytime, and when it’s not spooky season, the escape games remain fully open, and get a little more complicated.

“There’s other puzzles that are involved when we run the actual escape game, but we try to simplify it for the Halloween people, because there’s also actors here scaring you,” Smith said.

Other

That’s also where the more physical, skillbased puzzles come into play.

“We’ve built a lot of escape games all over the country,” Smith said, “and the one thing I’ve noticed that’s pretty much universal — you’ll have one person that’s real into the puzzles. You’ll have one or two people trying to help them, and the rest are just there to hang out and pull stuff off the walls.”

places to get your scares this Halloween

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Groups can book their XscapeWorks experience online in one-hour blocks between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Completing all four escape rooms requires groups to book two blocks back-to-back. Groups can book the one-hour interactive XscapeWorks Halloween experience between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. XscapeWorks is located at 2430 Air Park Road in North Charleston.

Looking to get the most out of this last week of October? Charleston has no shortage of spooky events and destinations ready to open their creaky doors to visitors this Halloween.

From haunted houses, scary hay rides, ghost tours and more, there are plenty of opportunities left to fill your calendar with. This list is not exhaustive, but can serve as a quick jumping off point to fill in the last few gaps in your Halloween itinerary.

• Boone Hall Fright Nights. 2434 N. Highway 17. Mount Pleasant. boonehallfrightnights.com

• Southern Screams Haunted House. 1021 Aragon Ave. North Charleston. southernscreams.com

• Charleston Terrors. 28 Broad St. Downtown. charlestonterrors.com

• Charleston Ghost Walk Tour.

160 Church St., Suite B. Downtown. ghostwalk.net

• Ghost City Tours. Locations vary. ghostcitytours.com

What To Do

MONDAY

1

Stitch & Bitch

Hang out with fellow hookers — err, crochet artists — to make awesome things and find new friends. If you love to make things from yarn, thread or string, this is the meetup for you. Drop in Monday evenings at Wyrd Sisters Brewing, grab a drink and cozy up on the couch. This is your time to relax, enjoy good company, and stitch the stress of the day away. All skill levels are welcome.

Oct. 27. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Free to attend. Wyrd Sisters Brewing. 4840 Chateau Ave. North Charleston. wyrdsisters.beer

2

SATURDAY

Trick, Treat and Trail

Get ready for a spooktacular fun run and festival chock full of trick or treating, candy and entertainment including face-painting, jump castles, local vendors and refreshments. The fun run is open to runners and walkers of all levels. Accessible parking and restrooms will be available. The route includes grass meadow and paved trails with water stations and shortcut options. Register online.

Oct. 25. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $20/in-advance; $25/day-of. Wannamaker County Park. 8888 University Blvd. North Charleston. charlestoncountyparks.com

SATURDAYS

3

Charleston Farmers Market

Browse through a bounty of seasonal fruits and vegetables, handcrafted goods and prepared foods as you explore the charming stalls inside Marion Square. From farm-fresh produce to food truck favorites, there’s something for everyone at the Charleston Farmers Market. Bring the whole family and enjoy live music, special events and activities for all ages in the heart of downtown.

Saturdays. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free to attend. Marion Square. 329 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonfarmersmark

SUNDAY

4

The George’s fall pumpkin patch

Enjoy waterfront views, pumpkin decorating, autumnal cocktails and plenty of fall fun this weekend at The George. This family-friendly event features plenty of kid-focused activities like painting and coloring stations, fall decor for photo ops and more. No tickets are required. Pumpkins and refreshments will be available for purchase on-site.

Oct. 26. Noon. Free to attend. The George Hotel. 615 Front St. Georgetown. thegeorgehotelsc.com

THROUGH OCTOBER

5

Slay the Night

This Halloween season, head to King Street for a limited-time Halloween pop-up event, Prohibition Presents: Slay the Night. The space will be drenched in serial killer-themed decor that sets the stage for specialty cocktails inspired by Halloween’s most infamous slashers, a spooky selection of chef-driven dishes and themed Sunday brunches. Through Nov. 2 . Menu prices vary. Prohibition. 547 King St. Downtown. prohibitioncharleston.com

Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White—Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam. The exhibition is generously supported by Betsy Shack Barbanell and Monique Schoen Warshaw. Additional support has been provided by Dutch Culture USA, part of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

IMAGE: Self-Portrait, Wearing a Flat Cap (detail), c. 1642, by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Etching, 3 11/16 x 2 7/16 inches. Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam.

Cuisine

Charleston Wine + Food looks ahead to 20th year

By Becky Lacey

When Charleston Wine + Food (CHSWF) kicks off again on March 4, it will celebrate its 20th year of delicious food, great conversation and educational impact.

While reflecting on the people and programming that made CHSWF one of the premier festivals in the country, it will also be a time to look ahead at what’s next. And as of this week, tickets are officially on sale.

“In alignment with our mission to build a sustainable, vibrant and connected community, we’ll expand programs that foster collaboration and opportunity within the local hospitality industry,” said Alyssa Maute Smith, the festival’s executive director. “This includes prioritizing partnerships with local producers and talent, amplifying underrepresented voices and creating intentional spaces for connection between visiting and local chefs, makers and beverage professionals.”

The CHSWF chef experience

Marc Collins, executive chef and co-owner at Circa 1886, is a festival fixture who has been involved since year one. He has seen firsthand the evolution of CHSWF.

“The size and scope of the festival have changed quite a bit,” he said. “But the goal of bringing awareness to the amazing hospitality community and heart of what it stood for all those years ago has remained the same.”

Shuai Wang, chef and owner of Jackrabbit Filly and King BBQ, has participated in CHSWF since 2015 when he was “just a wee baby food truck.”

He said his main event in 2026 will celebrate the ladies.

“CHSWF agreed to fly in most of the women that I cooked with on Top Chef for a Ladies Who Lunch-themed lunch,” Wang said. “We can’t wait to catch up and be wowed by all these great chefs yet again. In general, that’s our favorite part of the festival – that it draws in all these chefs we love while drawing our local favorite chefs out of their restaurant black holes. It’s a great opportunity to catch up and cut loose.”

Both chefs noted that a sense of community is truly at the heart of everything

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the festival does.

“What drew us to the area and its food scene in particular was that it was so welcoming and everyone really knew and supported each other,” Wang said. “As it grows and diversifies and new spots open and others close, we hope that the tight-knit-ness, welcoming vibe and local-vore passion remains.”

Educational impact

Formal initiatives took shape when CHSWF launched college scholarship programs at the College of Charleston (CoC) and Trident Technical College’s Culinary Institute. In 2016, the CoC Communications Capstone Partnership started integrating students directly into festival marketing and strategy. In 2024, the Culinary High School Scholars Enrichment Program launched and it now serves students from both Charleston County and Dorchester District 2 interested in culinary and hospitality careers. More than 1,000 students from nine schools engaged in handson learning experiences through the festival. And the impact is undeniable: An astounding 47% of students reported that they planned to pursue a career in the food and beverage industry after participating in the program.

During the off-season

Festival programming is no longer just during March, highlighted by the new Summer Sizzle series.

“In 2025, the series ran from May through July, offering a slate of events that blended hands-on learning, thought-pro-

What’s new

Prophet Coffee is now open at 194 Jackson St., the former Bar Rollins space. Open daily, Prophet Eastside joins the North Charleston location at 4427 Spruill Ave., which opened in June. More: prophet-coffee.com

Pho & Pad Thai, serving Vietnamese and Thai cuisine, opened at 1662 Savannah Highway. The restaurant offers extensive bubble tea, sake and specialty cocktail menus along with classic dishes like Thai papaya salad, mango sticky rice, curries, pho and noodles. Happy hour is from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. More: phopadthai9.com

voking conversations and community gatherings,” said Smith. “Our goals in producing these experiences are to strengthen the hospitality industry, highlight the diversity of Charleston’s food culture, and preserve the city’s rich culinary history.”

Summer Sizzle event highlights included the “Finding Edna Lewis Screening + Conversation” where Deb Freeman, a culinary historian, writer and executive producer of the Emmy Award–winning PBS documentary, joined Charleston chef and City Paper contributor Amethyst Ganaway for a talk about Lewis’s contributions to Lowcountry cooking. “We The Pizza” was a conversation with Muhammad AbdulHadi, the 2024 James Beard Leadership Award recipient and founder of Down North Pizza, a restaurant that exclusively hires formerly incarcerated individuals.

The next 20 years

And where does CHSWF go from here?

“I see Charleston Wine + Food continuing to dig deep and finding new, meaningful ways to support our community,” said Smith. “I want our powerful platform to be used for good. I want to see this organization continuing to highlight stories that haven’t yet been told, to recognize the people making a real impact in our city and to use this special festival to remind everyone that food is more than just sustenance. Food is a connector, a bridge-builder, a way to gather, learn and grow together.”

More: chswf.org.

Platia Greek Goodness has opened a Mount Pleasant location at 920 Houston Northcutt Blvd. The new spot joins existing ones in West Ashley and North Charleston. The menu includes Greek classics like falafel, Souvlaki, mezes and gyros. More: platiagreekfood.com

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Bowens Island is hosting Ghost on the Coast starting at 9 p.m. Oct. 31. The dock will transform into a haunted shipwreck and the event features a live DJ, a tattoo pop-up with local artists and a variety of food trucks and vendors. More: Eventbrite Seafood favorite 167 Raw is hosting a Halloween party at 9 p.m. Oct. 31. DJ Shane Barrett of Pixelate is spinning tunes and there will be an open bar and a raw bar loaded with caviar, lobster rolls and all the 167 favorites. More: Resy

Prohibition is hosting Slay the Night, a Halloween-themed special event, through Nov. 2. Festive food and drink specials are offered in addition to Prohibition’s regular menus, and guests are encouraged to come in costume. The experience also offers terrifying props, menus of specialty cocktails and dishes, live music, photo opps with Freddy Krueger and a themed photo booth. The special menus are available nightly for dinner and late night dining and for brunch on Thursday through Sunday. More: ProhibitionCharleston.com. Becky Lacey

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Exhibition reveals power of 1 flower

By Maura Hogan

If Christmas stylesetters were asked to name the most celebrated seasonal flower, most would readily pinpoint the poinsettia. The hardy, pointy-leafed blooming plant often festoons Charleston mantels and entryways in its signature eye-popping holiday red.

Still, many may not be able to track the origins of the poinsettia’s enduring popularity in this country to the Holy City — and what that journey can tell us about how America’s early leaders and how they leveraged their accelerating purchase on the world stage.

‘The poinsettia reimagined’

When it comes to the poinsettia, the clue is in the name, or namesake as the case may be. That is Joel Roberts Poinsett, the Charleston native who was an antebellum confidant of Andrew Jackson and former member of the South Carolina Legislature. He introduced poinsettias to America with the aim of making major hay from the fetching flower.

On Nov. 5, The Poinsettia Reimagined: Art, Migration, and the Legacy of Joel Roberts Poinsett is a new exhibition making its world premiere at Charleston County Public Library’s Main Branch Auditorium, before it subsequently travels to other locales. It serves as the opening chapter of a multiyear international commemoration leading to the 2028 bicentennial of the poinsettia’s introduction to the United States.

Together with related programming, the exhibition considers the aesthetic allure of flowers — while also exploring what the trajectory of one fetching flower can tell us about the American way.

“Our exhibition brings together a body of work that reinterprets the poinsettia as both a botanical subject and a vessel of historical meaning,” said curator Kim Cliett Long, project administrator of Jonathan Green’s Maritime Cultural Center at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.

The exhibition’s anchor can be seen in two original paintings by Green that envision the poinsettia as a symbol of cultural continuity. Those are joined by works of contemporary artists with connections to the Lowcountry and beyond who extend this through their own visual languages.

Paintings featuring figures like Septima Poinsette Clark (left) will be displayed at a new exhibition that explores the allure and history of the poinsettia

Each artist approaches the poinsettia differently — some through realism, others through abstraction — but all explore how its history, nature and human creativity intertwine. The exhibition will also feature an interpretive installation by Lisa Hays Holmes of Tiger Lily.

The idea for the show sprang from a recent trip that Long and Green took to Mexico, where Poinsett first came upon the plant. It prompted them to research the intertwined histories of art, diplomacy and the maritime world. Long, a scholar and author of The First Marketplace: Africa’s Role in Shaping World Trade, has spent recent years traveling port cities around the globe to paint a more comprehensive picture on the agency of maritime centers and the role of the African diaspora.

“Our intent is to connect indigenous Mexican traditions, African diasporic narratives and Charleston’s maritime heritage,” she said, adding that viewers will encounter the poinsettia not as decoration but as a living emblem of movement, identity and resilience.

Shedding new light on Charleston’s global botanical legacy (which was arguably first established by Poinsett’s predecessor, the celebrated 18th-century French botanist Andre Michaux), the exhibition’s featured paintings merge maritime history with botanical imagery, as well as depictions of Gullah and coastal life that are infused with color and rhythm and works that elevate the poinsettia from a plant of commerce to a carrier of ancestral memory.

Archival narratives also connect Poinsett’s diplomatic and scientific work with the lives of the African-descended families linked to his legacy. Among them was Peter Poinsette, the father of Septima Poinsette Clark, the civil rights movement

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activist crowned by the Rev. Martin Luther King as the “Mother of the Movement,” representing a vast single-generation leap from enslavement to empowerment.

Flowers, guns and money

The exhibition is also concurrent with the 2025 Charleston Reads, the annual citywide event focusing on a single book. This year’s selection is Flowers, Guns and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele. It reveals an America defined by opportunity and violence, freedom and slavery, nationalism and self-interest.

In it, the author delves deep into the life and times of the South Carolina Congressman and U.S. Secretary of War, who also helped found the Smithsonian. While serving as U.S. ambassador to Mexico, the enterprising statesman became enthralled with the botanical specimen, hatching a plan to bring it to America.

Flowers, Guns and Money also will be a featured title in this year’s Charleston Literary Festival program, with Regele in conversation with Long on Nov. 15 at Dock Street Theatre.

“The poinsettia story ultimately positions Charleston as a crossroads in American culture—a city where the Atlantic world’s exchanges of plants, people and ideas converged,” said Long. It shows that Charleston’s influence has always extended beyond its shores, shaping how art, science, and humanity connect across the globe.”

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Exhibition opens Nov. 1, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and runs through Nov. 30. Charleston County Library Main Library Auditorium, 68 Calhoun St.

• Oct. 24 to Jan. 11 : Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White — Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum, the touring exhibition co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Rembrandt House Museum, represents the first time these etchings have traveled out of the Netherlands to the United States as a collection. Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting St. More: gibbesmuseum.org

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Acclaimed soul and jazz vocalist Gregory Porter will headline the Charleston Gaillard Center’s 10th anniversary Nov. 1

Porter, Symphony celebrate 10th anniversary of the Charleston Gaillard Center on Nov. 1

By Vincent Harris

Grammy Award-winning soul and jazz singer, songwriter and vocalist Gregory Porter is performing Nov. 1 at the Charleston Gaillard Center, a show that marks an auspicious occasion.

That’s when the revamped Gaillard will celebrate its 10th anniversary, and there will be a black-tie gala to mark that milestone at 5 p.m., before Porter takes the stage at 8:30 p.m.

“I’m proud to be there both for the performance and for the 10th anniversary,” the Sacramento-born Porter said in a recent interview with the Charleston City Paper. “I think performing in a venue with great history is interesting and, in a way, you’re defining the space by your performance.”

And thanks to Gregory Porter, that elegance will flow right from the gala to the stage, making him a perfect choice for this special night. For the show, Porter will perform songs from his 15-year career backed by the Charleston Symphony.

Since releasing his debut album, Water, back in 2010, Porter has been a leading light of what’s known as “sophisticated soul,” a style that blends gospel, jazz and blues into an R&B framework.

His voice is a technical marvel, but he’s a remarkably disciplined singer who can simmer and shout as the song requires.

For example, on his hit single “Liquid Spirit,” he mixes a fiery gospel allegory with a sparse, jazzy arrangement fueled by upright bass. “Hey Laura” is a molasses-

slow ballad that allows Porter to pour emotion into a heartbreaking plea for one last chance.

And there’s even an example of how Porter’s rich voice sounds splashed against an epic orchestral backing, thanks to his gorgeous version of Nat King Cole’s “Smile” from 2017.

A musician’s dream

Porter said he typically plays with a small and agile backing band, but since 2018, he’s periodically worked in small runs of shows with full orchestras.

“I like the ability to have a larger musical expression in support of the voices,” said Porter, 53. “That’s something special for any vocalist. I remember hearing that it was a dream of Billie Holliday’s to perform with an orchestra, and I think it’s a dream really for most singers. So, it was an easy thing for me to do.”

As for what Porter will perform with the Charleston Symphony, he said it’s a surprisingly collaborative process. Rather than bringing a standard set list, Porter prefers working with the individual orchestra to create the program.

“The shows are just a cross-section of my musical journey, and it’s quite frankly a collaboration with myself and the director of the orchestra,” he said. “What messages do we want to get across? I sing the songs that I think the audience might need for that particular night.”

If you look back at some of Porter’s past

shows with symphonies, it’s clear he adjusts his program constantly.

The shows reliably feature Porter’s best known songs like “Liquid Spirit,” “No Love Dying” and “Take Me To The Alley,” but he’s also paid tribute to Leonard Cohen with covers of “Hallelujah” and “Suzanne,” taken on The Temptations’ “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” and thrown in a Sting cover (“It’s Probably Me”) for good measure.

As much as Porter seems to enjoy sym phony shows, he doesn’t do a lot of them.

After the Gaillard performance on Nov. 1, his next shows aren’t until 2026. Porter told us that’s intentional on his part.

“My main goal is to work with my band,” he said. “Working with orchestras is something special, both in terms of the extraordinary musical sound and the scheduling. And the fact is that of the many ideas expressed in the orchestral setting, some of those developed within the small group.”

To hear Porter talk about the effect that his symphonic performances have on his audience, one doubts that he’ll ever be able to stop doing them completely.

“When the audience is comfortable with you, they’ll scream out just like it’s Thursday night church service,” he said. “I love that. I love the communication and the back and forth that happens with the audience at these shows.”

IF YOU WANT TO GO: Doors open at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 1, Gaillard Center, 95 Calhoun St., Charleston. Tickets range from $69-$175: gaillardcenter.org

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2025 Real and Personal Property tax bills are now due and payable to the Charleston County Treasurer’s Office through January 15, 2026 without a penalty. Tax bills that are unpaid on March 18, 2026 will be forwarded to the Delinquent Tax Collector for additional penalties and sale of property.

YOU MAY PAY YOUR TAXES AT ANY OF THESE LOCATIONS:

Charleston County Office Building 101 Meeting Street Suite 120

Charleston Phone: 958-4360

East Cooper Service Center 1189 Sweetgrass Basket Pkwy Suite 400

Mt. Pleasant Phone: 958-4360

St. Pauls Service Center 5962 Highway 165 Suite 300 Ravenel Phone: 958-4360

North Charleston Service Center 4045 Bridge View Drive Suite 101B N. Charleston Phone: 958-4360

Pay Online: www.charlestoncounty.gov

Pay over the Phone: 866-594-4213

Should you have any questions concerning your tax bill, please refer to the numbers below:

AUDITOR’S OFFICE Property Taxes . . . . . . . 958-4200

ASSESSOR’S OFFICE Assessment of Real Property . . . . . . . 958-4100

Please Note: Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve you of the responsibility of paying taxes.

If you have not received a tax bill and own taxable property, contact the Auditor’s office at 958-4200.

MARY E. TINKLER

Charleston County Treasurer

CHARLESTON COUNTY

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

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO: 2025-CP-10-05337

Kathy M. D. Hamilton and Keith Bernard Delesline Plaintiffs, VS. The Estate Prince Smalls, Abraham Smalls, (D), Frederick Smalls, (D), Stalin Smalls, (D), Leroy Willis Smalls, Louis Alpheney (D), James Smalls, Louis Smalls, Herman Smalls, Florine Smalls Gladden (D), Andrew Smalls Moore, Terrance Smalls, Charlotte Smalls, Naomi S. Jones, Edythe F. Bennett, George L. Prioleau Charlotte Smalls, Alonzo K. Hampton, Ernestine Richardson, Zenus Seabrook (D), George Prioleau, Edythe F. Bennett, Susie Richardson Smalls (D), Willis Smalls (D) Charlotte Smalls (D), Lewis Alfonzo Smalls (D,) Florine Smalls (D), Aundrea S. Smalls, Terrence Smalls, William Smalls (D), Herman Smalls, Leroy McNeil (D), Mary J. Hampton (D), James Hampton (D), Bertha S. Richardson (D), Clay S Hampton, Saundra S. H. Tisdale, Angelia S. Hampton Jenkins, Alonzo Hampton (D), Florence Smalls (a/ka) Tootsie Saunders), Abraham Saunders, Sr., Ruth S. Saunders, Naomi S. Jones., Abraham S. Sanders, Fred Sanders (D), Rachel Sanders, John S. Sanders (D), Katherine S. Sanders, Martha S. Eaddy, Prince Smalls, Jr. (D), Herbert Smalls (D), Thomas Smalls (D),Marie Green (D), Morris Smalls, Sr. (D), Essie

Hassock (D) Betsy Smalls, (D), Lymus Smalls, Edith Middleton (D), Willie Middleton (D), Mary Ann Richardson, (A/K/A) Margaret Ann S. Richardson (D). Cornelius Richardson (D), Cornelius Richardson, Jr. (D) Benjamin Richardson, Sr. (D) Martha Richardson (D), Mable G. Richardson (D), Alfred Gourdine, Darren Gourdine, Frederick Gourdine, Tamera Gourdine, Deboria Gourdine, Martha R. Green, Gwendolyn Richard Goss Morehead, Benjamin Richardson, Jr.(D), Hester Richardson (D) John Richardson (D), Darrell Richardson, William Richardson (D), Emily Richardson, Margaret G. Richardson (D), Marion Richardson, Yvette Sellers, Arlean G. Richardson, Percillia Hughes, Marion Richardson, Randy Randall Richardson, Lymus Richardson (D), Viola Richardson (D), Marleen R. Pyatt, Ephelia R. Robinson, (D), Dennis Richardson(D), William Richardson, Sr. (D), Ann L. Richardson (D), William H. Richardson, Jr., Leon Richardson, Jada R. Bright, Ethel D. R. Holmes (D), Elbert Holmes (D), Gerald Holmes, Earl W. Richardson (D), Marie Richardson (D), Alice C. Richardson (D), Ophelia R. Harrison (D), John Harrison (D), Eric Harrison, Tyria Harrison, Vincent C. Harrison, Carlton, Austin, Sarah Smalls, Richardson (D), Samuel B. Richardson (D), Isaac Richardson (D), Eliza Richardson, Henrietta John Gilliard (D). John Gilliard, George Gilliard, Julius Gilliard (D), Hope Margie Gilliard (D), Debbie Macphaul, Betsy Gilliard (D), Barbara Brown, Joseph Wright, Jr., Clary, Sandra Wright, Gerald Gilliard, Sally Smalls Wilder (D), William Wilder (D), Rosa Murray McNeil (D), Earnestine Richardson(D), Jim Richardson (D), Connie R. Richardson, Ricky

Richardson, Maxine Richardson, Cathy Richardson, Melvena Richardson, Cynthia Richardson, William Murray, Sr. (D), Sarah Murray (D), William Murray, Jr., Paulette Murray, Wilmont Murray, Raymond Murray (D), Raymond Murray, Jr., Caamal Murray, Savannah Murray, James Murray (D), Patsy Murray (D), William Murray, Bernard Murray, Roland Murray, Isabelle Murray, Elizabeth Pickens (D), Elizabeth Pickens (D), Isabelle Simmons (D), John Simmons, A. Elizabeth, (a/k/a), Belle Smalls Seabrook, (A/K/A) Isabelle Seabrook(D), William Seabrook (D), Elizabeth Seabrook, Delesline (D), Franklin Delesline (D), Zenus Seabrook (D), Dan Brown (D), June Brown, Dorothy Brown (D), Victoria Merritt, William Seabrook, Jr. (D), Marie Delesline, Geneva Douglas, John Gladden (D), Martha Smalls Wilder (D), Wesley Peter Wilder (D), Rufus Wilder (D), Ralph E. Wilder (D), Mary Smalls Prioleau (D), Thomas Prioleau, John Prioleau, Sr. (D). Mary M. Gilliard Prioleau. (D), James Prioleau. (D), Eutelia S. Prioleau, (a/k/a), Eautilia Robinson, Viola Prioleau Tompkins, (a/k/a), Vista Thompkins. William Tompkins, James Prioleau. (D), Eutelia S. Prioleau. (A/K/A) Eautilia Robinson, Yvonne Venice Prioleau, Joan Vanessa Prioleau, Cynthia Marie Prioleau Viola Prioleau Tompkins. (a/k/a) Vista Thompkins. (D), William Tompkins. (D), Sharon M. Tompkins, Russell Tompkins, Ethel Mae Prioleau Gourdine, Laura P. Craig. (D) Arthur Craig. (D), Althea Craig, Cameron Craig, Annabell Prioleau. (D) Catherine P. Malone, a/k/a, Catherine Young, John Prioleau, Jr. (D), Mary Ann Prioleau. (D), Harold Prioleau, Patricia Prioleau, Gloria Prioleau, Mary Elise Prioleau Laurencin, (A/K/A), Mamie P. Laurencini (a/k/a) May Laurencine. (D), Paul Laurencine, Edith P. Bennet (D), Nathan Bennett, William Prioleau (D), Laura Boykin-Prioleau (D), Kyle Oliver Prioleau (D), Algernon Prioleau, Osric Malone-Prioleau, Jacob Prioleau (D) Rebecca Prioleau (D), George Prioleau, Joseph Prioleau. (D Prioleau (D. Thomas Prioleau. (D.), Albertha Jackson Prioleau, Florence Prioleau Gaillard. (D), Charles B. Gaillard. (D), Elias Gaillard (D) Henrietta Lemon Gaillard. (D) Elias T. Gaillard, Charles Gaillard, Jr. (D), Mary Gaillard (D), Joseph P. Gaillard (D), Ruthie Mae Gailliard. (D), Laverne Gailliard, Edna Gilliard, Lorence Gailliard, Barney Gailliard, Josephine Gailliard (D), Thomas Prioleau (D), Mary Prioleau, Celestine P. Whaley Richardson. (D.) Joseph Whaley. (D) Thomas Whaley, Mary Lee Whaley. (D), Daniel Whaley. (D) Lovey Ann G. Whaley. (D.), Lucretia Whaley Wilson, Cynthia W. Cromwell, Regenia Whaley, David Whaley, Daniel Whaley, Jr., Joseph Whaley, Jr. (D), Fictitious Names Used To Designate Persons In The Military Service Within The Meaning Of Title 50 US Code Commonly Referred To As The Service Members Civil Relief Act Of 2003, as Amended, If Any, and the Unknowns Heirs At Law, Devisees, Widows, Widowers, Executors, Administrators, Personal Representatives, Successors And Assigns, Firms or Corporations and all other Persons Claiming Any Right, Title, Estate, Interest In Or Lien Upon The Real Estate Described In the Complaint or Any Part Thereof And The Following Deceased People; Defendants.

AMENDED SUMMONS (SUIT TO QUIET TITLE AND PARTITION) TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the subscriber, at his office

situated at 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, within thirty (30) days after service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

AMENDED LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Commons Pleas for Charleston County, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 53, Title 15, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, commonly known as the “Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act”, Chapter 67, and of Articles 1 and 3, Chapter 67, Title 15, and Chapter 61, Title 15, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, for the purpose of obtaining a determination of this Court that the plaintiff is an owner of the below described parcel of real estate; to determine adverse claims thereto, if any; and to quiet title thereto in the name of the Plaintiff and others, as tenants in common, and with fee simple title thereto pursuant to the provisions of Rule 71, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

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

(PARCEL ONE)

ALL that lot, piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being on James Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot Number Six (6), containing .6897 acres as shown on a Plat entitled “A Boundary Survey and Subdivision of the lands of the Estate of Prince Smalls, Located in the Town of James Island, Charleston, South Carolina” made by Robert L. Frank, Surveyor, dated July 3, 2002 and revised October 31, 2002 to be recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County and said lot having such metes and bounds as are delineated on said plat.

This being a portion of the same property conveyed to Prince Smalls by deed from Sarah E. and Henry B. Grimball, recorded in Book H21, page 34, on February 18, 1893, in the Charleston County RMC Office. This also being the property conveyed to Kathy M.D. Hamilton and Keith Bernard Delestine, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, by Charlotte Smalls, Alonzo K Hampton, Naomi S Jones, as heirs of Stalin Smalls; Ernestine Richardson, as heir of Sally Smalls Wilder; Zenus Seabrook, as heir of Bell Smalls Seabrook; and George L Prioleau and Edith F. Bennett as heirs of Mary Smalls Prioleau.

TMS NUMBER: 334-15-00-002 (Parent)

TMS NUMBER: 334-15-00-015

(PARCEL TWO)

All that lot, piece, parcel and tract of land, situated, lying and being on Grimball Road, James Island, State and County aforesaid. Measuring and containing .37 acres, more or less, prepared by W. L. Stevens, Jr., dated February 19, 1972, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AA, page 56. Being the same property conveyed to Zenus Seabrook, Julie Brown, and Dorothy Mae Brown by Venus Seabrook as Personal Representative of the estate of Elizabeth Seabrook, the less than by deed dated May 17, 1989, and recorded May 17, 1989, in the RMC office for Charleston County in book K1 84, page 139. This is also a portion of the same premises conveyed to Zenus

Seabrook by Jewel Lee Brown and Dorothy Mae Brown, dated June 10, 1992, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County at BK W 214, PG 585 on June 11, 1992.

TMS NUMBER: 334-15-00-025

TMS NUMBER: 334-15-00-026

NOTICE NISI

TO: SUCH OF THE DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ACTION WHOM MAY BE INFANTS, INSANE PERSONS, INCOMPETENTS and INCARCERATED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that there has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court, Court of Charleston County, State of South Carolina, an Order appointing for you as Guardian ad Litem, Nisi, Kelvin M. Huger, Esquire, who maintains an office at 27 Gamecock Ave., Suite 200, Charleston, SC 29407. THE appointment shall become absolute upon the expiration of thirty (30) days following the last publication of the Summons herein, unless you or someone on your behalf, on or before the last mentioned date, shall procure someone to be appointed as Guardian ad Litem to represent you in the above action.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the expiration of thirty days (30) following the service of a copy of the within Notice of Intent to Refer upon you, the Plaintiff intends to and will appear before the Honorable Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, at the usual place of judicature, and will move His or Her Honor for an Order referring the above entitled action to the Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, for the purpose of holding a hearing into the merits of said cause, together with the authority to enter final judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment of the Master-in-Equity, as aforesaid, that such appeal shall be made directly to the Supreme Court of South Carolina or alternatively to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

NOTICE OF THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE ALL KNOWN AND UNKNOWN NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR STATUTORY RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL.

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

s/Willie B. Heyward Attorney for the Plaintiffs 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200 CHARLESTON, S.C. 29407 (843) 225-8754 wheyward80@gmail.com

October 8, 2025 Charleston, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-02651

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National

Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee of CIM Trust 2023-R2, PLAINTIFF,

VS. Bryan A. Seward a/k/a Bryan Seaward, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Evelyn Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Seward a/k/a Evelyn N. Seward, Deceased; Twanda E. Ferrell a/k/a Twanda Errika Ferrell a/k/a Twanda Ferrell, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Evelyn Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Seward a/k/a Evelyn N. Seward, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Evelyn Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Seward a/k/a Evelyn N. Seward, Deceased; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; et. al. DEFENDANT(S).

(251106.00019)

SUMMONS AND NOTICES

TO ALL THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED:

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

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

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Kelley Yarborough Woody, made absolute.

NOTICE

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on May 6, 2025.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the order appointing Kelley

Yarborough Woody, whose address is PO Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260, as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as Richard Roe, defendants herein whose names and addresses are unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, incapacitated, or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina; for all named Defendants, addresses unknown, who may be infants, incapacitated, or under a legal disability; for any unknown heirs-at-law of Evelyn Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Seward a/k/a Evelyn N. Seward, including their heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; and for all other unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in and to the real estate that is the subject of this foreclosure action, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 6th day of October, 2025.

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

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff above named against the Defendant(s) above named for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by Theron Seward and Evelyn N. Seward to CitiFinancial, Inc., dated July 21, 2005, recorded July 25, 2005, in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County, in Book L-546 at Page 365; thereafter, said Mortgage was assigned to CitiFinancial Servicing LLC by assignment instrument dated March 3, 2017 and recorded March 13, 2017 in Book 622 at Page 980; thereafter, assigned to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC by assignment instrument dated March 3, 2017 and recorded March 13, 2017 in Book 622 at Page 990; thereafter, assigned to CitiBank, N.A., as Trustee for CMLTI Asset Trust by assignment instrument dated December 6, 2022 and recorded January 3, 2023 in Book 1156 at Page 199; thereafter, assigned to Greenwich Revolving Trust by assignment instrument dated November 27, 2023 and recorded December 28, 2023 in Book 1220 at Page 593; thereafter, assigned to U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee of CIM Trust 2023-R2 by assignment instrument dated April 30, 2025, attached hereto as Exhibit “A.” Upon information and belief, said mortgage may have been modified by one or more loan modification and/or payment deferral agreement(s).

The description of the premises is as follows:

All that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in St. Phillips and St. Michaels Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 9, Block O, as shown on a plat of Waylyn Subdivision, Section 4, which plat was made by W.H. Matheny, Surveyor, dated May 22, 1956, and recorded in Plat Book R, Page 117 in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, butting and boundings as will be reference to said plat more fully appear.

Plaintiff has contemporaneously

filed a Complaint herein, which includes a cause of action to reform the legal description of the mortgage to be as follows:

All that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in St. Phillips and St. Michaels Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 9, Block O, as shown on a plat of Waylyn Subdivision, Section 4, which plat was made by W.H. Matheny, Surveyor, dated May 22, 1956, and recorded in Plat Book K, Page 117 in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, butting and boundings as will be reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Theron Seward and Evelyn N. Seward by deed of Irene Kimrey Alexander and Linda Kimrey Garrett (by her Attorney-in-Fact, Irene Kimrey Alexander) dated November 24, 1980 and recorded December 2, 1980 in Book C-124 at Page 258 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

Subsequently, Thereon Seward died intestate on September 22, 2010, leaving the subject property to his heirs, namely Evelyn N. Seward a/k/a Evelyn Seward f/k/a Evelyn Nelson; Bryan A. Seward; and Twanda E. Ferrell a/k/a Twanda Ferrell, as is more fully preserved in the probate records for Charleston County in Probate Case No. 2010-ES-10-01750; also by that Deed of Distribution dated August 15, 2011 and recorded August 19, 2011, in Book 203 at Page 221 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

Subsequently, Evelyn Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Seward a/k/a Evelyn N. Seward f/k/a Evelyn Nelson died on or about February 7, 2023 and no probate case has been opened with the probate court for Charleston County. If any party has any information as to the existence and/or opening of a probate court file for the Estate of Evelyn Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Seward a/k/a Evelyn N. Seward f/k/a Evelyn Nelson, it is requested that you contact counsel for Plaintiff immediately with that information. Upon information and belief, Evelyn Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seaward a/k/a Evelyn Seward a/k/a Evelyn N. Seward a/k/a Evelyn Nelson Seward f/ka Evelyn Nelson was survived by her heir(s), Bryan A. Seward a/k/a Bryan Seaward; and Twanda E. Ferrell a/k/a Twanda Ferrell a/k/a Twanda Errika Ferrell (based on her published obituary).

TMS No. 411-07-00-195

Property address: 2711 Kershaw Street North Charleston, SC 29405

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A.

By: _/s/Angelia J. Grant

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

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

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

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

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

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 1800 St. Julian Place, Suite 407 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO: 2025-CP-10-05696

Kenneth L. Edwards, Plaintiff, -vShakeria Sawyer, Samiyah Sawyer, Marvetta Edwards If they be alive, and John Doe, adults and Richard Roe, Infants and insane persons and incompetents, being, fictitious names, designating as a class any person who may be an heir, devisee, widow, widower, assignee, administrator, executor, personal representative creditor, successor, issue, alienee of Ben Edwards, Mary Mazyck Edwards, Sallie Edwards, Idell Edwards Mitchell, Harriet Cutsy Edwards Brown, Lydia Edwards Newman, Minnie Edwards, Patsy Edwards and Carrie Edwards Brown, Oliver Edwards, Sr. Martha Miller Edwards) Oliver Edwards, Jr. and Blondell Edwards, deceased and all ) other persons and legal entities, in the military or under legal disability, known and unknown, owning, having and claiming any right, title, claim, interest, equity, estate, lien upon the parcel of land, described in the Complaint herein or any part thereof. Defendants SUMMONS Non Jury Refer to Master

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the subscriber and undersigned, Kenneth Edwards, P.O. Box 1563, Hollywood, S.C. 29449, within thirty {30) days, after the service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Charleston County, SC Date: 10/6/25

NOTICE NISI

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

10/6/2025

Charleston, South Carolina

NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the expiration of thirty (30) days following the service of a copy of the within NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER upon you, the Plaintiff intends to and will appear before the Honorable Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, at the usual place of adjudication and will move His or Her Honor for the entry of an Order referring to the above entitled action to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, with finality of authority to

enter fi al judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment of the Master in Equity as aforesaid, that such appeal be directly to the Supreme Court of South Carolina or alternatively to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

Dated: 10/6/2025

Charleston, South Carolina LIS PENDENS

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

THE BELOW DESCRIBED parcel of real estate was at the time of filing of this Lis Pendens, and at the time of the commencement of this action, situated, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more particularly described as follows: All that lot, piece, part, parcel and tract of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hollywood, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and now measuring and containing two (2) acres, more or less. Butting and Bounding on the north by S.C. Hwy 162, on the south by lands now or formerly of Ben Edwards Estate, on the west by lands now or formerly of Ben Edwards Estate, on the east by Storage Rd.

Being a portion of the parcel of land that was conveyed to the late Ben Edwards, in a deed of J.O. Mccants, dated August 23, 1904, and recorded on December 28, 1971 in Book F 98 at page 93 in the Charleston County RMC Office; and also being the same two (2) acre tract of land, conveyed to Kenneth L. Edwards from Oliver Edwards, Sr. that was subdivided into the below described parcels and tracts and recorded in Book Y 290 at pages 735 to page 739, dated: October 6, 1997. In the Charleston County RMC Office. TMS# 126-00-00-013, 228 and 229.

Dated this 6 day of October, 2025, Hollywood, South Carolina.

NOTICE OF RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED ALL KNOWN AND UNKNOWN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR FIRST STATUTORY RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL:

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

10/6/2025 Charleston, South Carolina

NOTICE OF FILING

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to SCRCP 4 e, the original copy of the Summons, Complaint, Notice Nisi, Notice of Filing, Notice of Intent to Refer, Notice of Right of First Refusal and Lis Pendens were filed in the Office of the Clerk, of the Commons Pleas Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, in and for the County of Charleston, located and situated at 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina. IF YOU DESIRE TO CONTEST, intervene or otherwise respond to these proceedings, you must fUe a written response thereto within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this Notice, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to contest, intervene or otherwise respond to these proceedings within the time aforesaid, your failure to respond will constitute your consent to the relief requested by the Plaintiff, and you shall forfeit all of your rights and obligations with respect to the subject property.

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

s/Kenneth Edwards, Esquire P.O. Box 1563 Hollywood, South Carolina 29449 (843) 437-5798 Phone Pro Se Plaintiff

Dated: 10/6/2025 Charleston, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-02475

Capital M Financial Services, Inc. dba SWC Financial Services, as to an Undivided 25% Interest, Second Chance Lending, Inc. as to an Undivided 75% Interest Plaintiff, -vsNicole A. Gethers; Maurice Gethers aka Maurice G. Gethers (Deceased) and any other Heirsat-Law or Devisees of Maurice Gethers aka Maurice G. Gethers, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all Unknown Heirs of Deceased Defendants, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through them being a class designated as Mary Roe; All Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein, being a class designated as Jane Doe; also any Unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and Any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of Capital M Financial Services, Inc. dba SWC Financial Services, as to an Undivided 25% Interest, Second Chance Lending, Inc. as to an Undivided 75% Interest vs. Nicole A. Gethers; Maurice Gethers aka Maurice G. Gethers (Deceased) and any other Heirsat-Law or Devisees of Maurice Gethers aka Maurice G. Gethers, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all Unknown Heirs of Deceased Defendants, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through them being a class designated as Mary Roe; All Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in

the real estate described herein, being a class designated as Jane Doe; also any Unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and Any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe, I, Mikell Scarborough, Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on November 04, 2025, at 11:00 AM, at the Front Entrance of County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, to the highest bidder.

All that piece, parcel or lot of land with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 25, Block CC, Forest Hills Subdivision, as shown on a plat made by Sigma Engineers, Inc., dated September 28, 1973, and recorded In the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AC, Page 105, said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

Derivation: Being the same property conveyed to Joseph Gethers and Mostella M. Davis by Deed of Marlin R. Poole, Jr. dated December 2, 1987 and recorded December 3, 1987 in Book Wl70 at Page 363 in the RMC Office for Charleston County., and also by Deed of Mostella M. Davis to Joseph Gethers dated and recorded December 3, 1987 in Book W170 at Page 363.

TMS #: 404-07-00-215

7708 Peggy Drive, Charleston, SC 29418

SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES

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

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

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

NOTICE: The foreclosure

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

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.00000% per annum.

Mikell Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County

CRAWFORD & VON KELLER, LLC

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

Theodore von Keller (SC Bar# 5718)

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

Jason M. Hunter (SC Bar# 101501)

Eric H. Nelson (SC Bar# 104712)

Katharyn L. Sophia (SC Bar# 105541)

Roman A. Dodd (SC Bar# 105612)

Crawford & von Keller, LLC 1640 St. Julian Place (29204) PO Box 4216 (29240) Columbia, SC Phone: 803-790-2626

Email: court@crawfordvk.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-08-01139

NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Plaintiff, -vsPhilip J. Lien aka Phil Lien; 254 Seven Farms Drive Condominium Association Inc.; American Express National Bank Defendants

NOTICE

OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing vs. Philip J. Lien aka Phil Lien; 254 Seven Farms Drive Condominium Association Inc.; American Express National Bank, I, J. Camden West, Master in Equity for Berkeley County, will sell on November 05, 2025, at 11:00 AM, at the Berkeley County Courthouse, 300 California Avenue, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, to the highest bidder.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, lying and being in the City of Charleston, Berkeley County, State of South Carolina, known as Unit 103, Building 2, Block E, Parcel R, Daniel Island, as set forth in the Master`s Deeds for 254 Seven Farms Drive Horizontal Property Regime recorded at book 4447, page 1 on January 7, 2005, Berkeley County ROD. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

SUBJECT to all restrictions, covenants, easements and conditions listed in that certain Deed recorded at Book 4447 at page 1 on January 7, 2005, Berkeley County ROD.

Derivation: This being the same property conveyed to the mortgagor(s) by deed of Jane F. Byrne dated 05/07/10 and recorded 05/11/10 in Charleston County RMC Office in Book 8437 at Page 032.

TMS #: 275-12-01-011

100 Bucksley Lane, Unit 103, Charleston, SC 29492

SUBJECT TO BERKELEY COUNTY TAXES

TERMS OF SALE: The successful

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

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

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

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

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.12500% per annum.

J. Camden West Master in Equity for Berkeley County

CRAWFORD & VON KELLER, LLC

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

Theodore von Keller (SC Bar# 5718)

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

Jason M. Hunter (SC Bar# 101501)

Eric H. Nelson (SC Bar# 104712)

Katharyn L. Sophia (SC Bar# 105541)

Roman A. Dodd (SC Bar# 105612)

Crawford & von Keller, LLC

1640 St. Julian Place (29204) PO Box 4216 (29240) Columbia, SC Phone: 803-790-2626

Email: court@crawfordvk.com Attorneys for Plaintiff

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

CIRCUIT

CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-05159

ORANGE TIGER, LLC, Plaintiff, V. EXCELLA E. JENKINS and BARRY JENKINS, both being

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:

4471 Donwood Circle Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 388-02-00-052

and CHARLES JENKINS, ISAAC JENKINS, PHILIP JENKINS, MARSHELE KELLY and LEAH MEALING, and if they be deceased, their heirs-at-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they have 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, BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CO. OF SOUTH CAROLINA, its successors and/or assigns, and MELVIN BICKHAM, III, 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 September 11th, 2025, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on September 16th, 2025 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 2nd, 2025 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 September 16th, 2025 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 certain lot, piece or parcel of land, together with the buildings and all improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Subdivision known as Woodview Manor, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being known and designated as Lot 8, of Block “A1”, of the Subdivision known as Woodview Manor, as shown on a plat of Woodview Manor, made and prepared by E.M. Seabrook, Jr., Inc. dated September 9, 1970 and recorded in the Office for Charleston County, South Carolina in Plat Book N, at Page 135.

Said lot having such size, shape, metes, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to the aforesaid plat more fully and at large appear, and to which said plat reference is hereby craved.

TMS # 388-02-00-05

October 2nd, 2025 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 Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-05474

BARBARA LINDA WASHINGTON, Plaintiff, V. SHERMAN SHAW, a deceased person, his heirs, personal representatives, successors, 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:

2720 Junction Lane, in the city of North Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 466-03-00-071

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, and BRODERICK SHAW, BERNARD SHAW, JENNIFER FELDER, SALLY HAMILTON and SHERMA SHAW, 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, SC 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 Amended Summons and Notice, Amended Complaint and Amended Lis Pendens were filed on September 30th, 2025, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on October 3rd, 2025 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 14th, 2025 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 October 3rd, 2025 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, lying and being on Nassau Street, now known as Junction Lane, near the Navy Yard, in the County of Charleston, State aforesaid, known and designated as Lots Number Two (#2) and Number Three (#3) on a plat by W.C. Bolt, made March 26, 1942, and recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County in Plat Book F, at Page 42.

MEASURING and Containing Two hundred (200’) feet in depth by forty (40’) feet each on Nassau Street, now known as Junction Lane, as will more fully appear by reference unto the said plat, be the said dimensions slightly more or less.

Butting and bounding to the southwest on Nassau Street, now known as Junction Lane; to the northwest on Lot Number One (#1) on said plat; to the northeast on lands now or formerly of Hamilton; and to the southeast on Lot Number Three (#4) on the aforesaid plat.

TMS # 466-03-00-071

October 15th, 2025 Date

s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell Attorney at Law 925 Wappoo Road Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3443 jeff@jeffspell.com

Attorney for the Plaintiff

Master’s Sale Case No. 2023-CP-10-03723

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

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successorin-interest to all permitted successors and assigns of JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Trustee for registered holders of Salomon Brothers Mortgage Securities VII, Inc., Mortgage Pass Through Certificates, Series 2001-2, PLAINTIFF,

vs. Miriam Nicks; Ethel Green and if Ethel Green be deceased then any child and heir at law to the Estate of Ethel Green distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of Ethel Green 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; City of North Charleston, DEFENDANT(S)

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 27th day of August, 2025 I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 4th day of November, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in St. Phillips and St. Michaels Parish, County of Charleston, South Carolina, known and designated as lot 598, Block None, on a plat of the subdivision known as Waylyn, which plat is recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book F, page 117; said lot having such size, shape, and dimensions and being bounded as shown on said plat.

THIS being the same property conveyed to Ralph Wetherell and Carol Wetherell by Deed of Nancy A. Lastik dated June 29, 1981 and recorded July 2, 1981, in Book W125 at Page 347, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

Thereafter, Ralph Wetherell and Carol Wetherell conveyed the subject property to Ethel Green by Deed dated December 28, 1988 and recorded December 30, 1988 in Book T180 at Page 565, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

Thereafter, George Green, heir and distributee at law of Ethel Green, conveyed his interest in the subject property to Miriam Nicks by Deed dated November 3, 1989 and recorded January 3, 1990 in Book U189 at Page 722, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

Thereafter, Robert Lee Green, Nathaniel Green, Dingle Green, Thomas M. Green, heirs and distributees at law of Ethel Green, conveyed their interest in the subject property to Miriam Nicks by Deed dated October 20, 1989 and recorded January 3, 1990 in Book U189 at Page 726, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina

2629 Oregon Avenue North Charleston, SC 29405

TMS# 4111200117

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

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

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the

defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

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

FOR INSERTION

October 17th, 2025, October 24th, 2025, October 31st, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-05577

V2K PROPERTIES, LLC, Plaintiffs, V. LUCILLE BROWN, and if she be deceased, her 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:

2069 Comstock Ave. Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 466-12-00-003 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, SC 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 October 2nd, 2025, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on October 7th, 2025 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 10th, 2025 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 October 7th, 2025 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 CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, with the buildings and improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and comprising Lot Number Five (5), Chestnut Avenue, on a map of the Westerly part of Union Heights, prepared for the Kopp-Isenhour Realty Company, By J. E. Thomas, CE, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book C at Page 137, and having such size, shape, metes, butts and bounds, as may be seen by reference to said plat; said plat being incorporated herein by reference thereto.

TMS #: 466-12-00-003

October 14th, 2025 Date

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell

Attorney at Law 925 Wappoo Road Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3443 jeff@jeffspell.com

Attorney for the Plaintiff

Thank you, Kristin Byars Account Executive Charleston City Paper 843-885-4086 mobile 480 East Bay Street, Suite E, Charleston, SC 29403 (physical) PO Box 21942, Charleston, SC 29413 (mailing) www.charlestoncitypaper.com

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-04250

NORMAN FITZGERALD, Plaintiffs, v. CHESTER A. WESTBERG, MIKE CONMEE FITZGERALD, FAYE

L. FITZGERALD and KATHLEEN FITZGERALD POPLAWSKI, all being deceased persons, their heirs-at-law, 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: 3855 Hottinger Avenue North Charleston, South Carolina

TMS Number: 469-02-00-067 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, and MAUREEN POPLAWSKI ROSSI also known as MAUREEN L. ROSSI, 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 Street, Charleston, SC 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 were filed on July 30th, 2025, the Lis Pendens was filed on September 30th, 2025, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on April 4th, 2025 and the Order of Publication was filed on September 29th, 2025 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 April 4th, 2025 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 of land known and designated as Lot No. 141 in the Subdivision known as Whipper Barony, in the County Charleston, South Carolina, as shown on a plat thereof made by Joseph Needle, C. E., dated April 10th, 1948, and recorded in the Charleston County R.M.C. Office in Plat Book G, page 48, and having such shape and size and dimensions and boundaries as shown upon said plat.

TMS # 469-02-00-067

September 30th, 2025

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 Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-05312 PITCO, LLC

Plaintiff, V. THOMAS MITCHELL, and if he be deceased, his 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:

6367 Young Road

Charleston County, South Carolina

TMS Number: 661-00-00-255

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 and TERRENCE G. STEED, 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 September 18th, 2025, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on September 24th, 2025 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 2nd, 2025 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 September 24th, 2025 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 piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being in the Town of Awendaw, Charleston County, South Carolina, shown as Tract B, containing 1.2 acres, on a plat entitled “21 Mile Community, Town of Awendaw, Charleston County, S.C.”, prepared by E. M. Seabrook, Jr., Inc., dated December 6, 2010, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County Plat Book L.10, Page 0337, the parcel has such size, shape, dimensions, metes and

bounds as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

TMS # 661-00-00-255

October 2nd, 2025

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 Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE

Docket No. 2024-CP-10-05533

By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Woodhill Place Association, Inc. a/k/a Woodhill Place HOA and Woodhill Place Horizontal Property Regime, Plaintiffs, against Charles E. Copeland, Defendant;

I, the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, will sell on December 2, 2025 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit:

ALL that certain Unit situate, lying and being in Charleston County, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Unit Number 105, in Woodhill Place Horizontal Property Regime, as shown on the plans and specifications attached to the Master Deed of Woodhill Place Horizontal Property Regime, dated August 28, 1984, and recorded in Book G-140 at Page 282, on September 25, 1984 in the Office of Mesne Conveyances for Charleston County, South Carolina. Together with the undivided percentage interest in the General Common Elements of the property described in Section 1 of Article 4 of said Master Deed appurtenant thereto.

This being the same property conveyed to Charles E. Copeland by deed of Security Pacific National Bank not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee or its successors and assigns on behalf of American Housing Trust VI, Security Pacific Plaza, 555 Anton Blvd., SC-071, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 dated August 9, 1991, and recorded August 27, 1991, with the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book 205 at Page 623.

TMS No.: 475-16-00-091 Property Address: 6297E Rolling Fork Road, North Charleston, SC 29418

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH:

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

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

The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by South Carolina Federal Credit Union in the original amount of $55,200.00, dated December 17, 2014, and

recorded December 30, 2014, in Book 0448 at Page 858 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds and to that certain judgment in favor of South Carolina Federal Credit Union against Charles E. Copeland filed September 8, 2023, in the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas in case number 2023-CP-10-04414.

Any sale pursuant to this order is without warranty of any kind. Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser. All third-party purchasers are made parties to this action and are deemed to have notice of all matters disclosed by the public record, including the status of title. See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008)

Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed.

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

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

Attorney for the Plaintiff

Derek F. Dean, Esquire S.C. Bar No. 65279

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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-04990

V2K PROPERTIES, LLC, Plaintiff, V. THOMAS GRANT and EMILY GRANT, and if they be deceased, 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:

9 Maranda Holmes Street Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 460-07-01-077

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 September 4th, 2025, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on September 12th, 2025 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 2nd, 2025 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 September 12th, 2025 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.

All that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on the West side of Court Street between Congress and Sumter Streets in the City of Charleston, County of Charleston and State aforesaid, and known as Lot G, No. 11 Court Street (now known as Maranda Holmes Street).

Measuring and Containing in front on Court Street forty (40) feet by one hundred and twenty-two (122) in depth be the said dimensions more or less.

TMS # 460-07-01-077

October 2nd, 2025 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 Plaintiff

MASTER IN EQUITY’S SALE 2015-CP-10-00377

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

Nationstar HECM Acquisition Trust, 2015-2, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not individually, but solely as Trustee v. Grange Simons Lucas, III, Individually and as personal representative for the estate of Mary King Lucas (2014-ES-100682), Renee Jervey Lucas, Mary Catherine Lucas Jakeman, James A. McAlister Funeral Home, and the United States of America, acting by and through its agency the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Upon authority of a Decree dated August 28, 2015, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on November 4, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. ALL THAT LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND

IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IN ST. ANDREWS PARISH, IN THE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT THREE (3), BLOCK F, ON A PLAT BEARING THE LEGEND “PLAT OF SECTION 3, LENEVAR SUBDIVISION, CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C.” DATED MARCH 24, 1960 BY A.L. GLEN, REG. P.S. AND L.S. AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK M AT PAGE 113 IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY. SAID LOT HAVING SUCH SIZE, SHAPE, DIMENSIONS, BUTTINGS AND BOUNDINGS AS ARE SHOWN AND DELINEATED ON SAID MAP WHICH IS MADE A PART AND PARCEL HEREOF BY REFERENCE THERETO. SAID LOT IS CONVEYED SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO SAID PROPERTY, WHICH ARE SET FORTH IN THE DECLARATION OF THE SAME DATED APRIL 9, 1960 IN BOOK D-70 AT PAGE 634 IN THE RMC OFFICE AFORESAID. BEING THE SAME PREMISES CONVEYED TO MARY KING LUCAS, THE MORTGAGOR HEREIN, BY DEED OF GRANGE S. LUCAS, THE MORTGAGOR HEREIN, BY DEED OF GRANGE S. LUCAS, III AND MARY CATHERINE LUCAS, EXECUTED MAY 23, 1989 AND RECORDED MAY 24, 1989 IN P-184, AT PAGE 350, AND RE-RECORDED JUNE 25, 1992 IN BOOK H. 215 AT PAGE 889, AND BY DEED OF RENEE J. LUCAS, EXECUTED MAY 7, 1985 AND RECORDED JULY 29, 1985 IN BOOK W-148, AT PAGE 810.

TMS#: 352-12-00-104

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1412 Tara Road, Charleston, SC 29407 Parcel No. 352-12-00-104

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY J. Martin Page, Esquire Telephone: 803-509-5078 / File # 21-49077

FOR INSERTION October 17, 24 & 31, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 7209 Master’s

CHARLESTON: IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

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

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

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

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

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

TMS # 4631201035

Case#: 2024CP1003621

Current Property Address: 1150 King Street Charleston, SC 29403

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

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

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. IF for any reason the Plaintiff’s agent does not appear to bid at the sale, the sale will be deemed canceled. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date. PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Brian P. Yoho (803) 744-4444

011847-05333

2024CP1003621

FOR INSERTION

10/17/25, 10/24/25, 10/31/25

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale 2025-CP-10-02151

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

Ameris Bank, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Joel Valencia; et.al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated August 22, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Emergency Operations Center, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 4th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2025 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

ALL that tract of land with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being on the South side of Hara Street, in St. Andrews Parish, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and shown on a Plat bearing the legend “PLAT OF 1.58 ACRES, PROPERTY OF J.C. HOFFMAN, ABOUT TO BE CONVEYED TO THEODORE P. BOTZIS, ST. ANDREWS PARISH, CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C.,” made by H. Exo Hilton, Reg. L. S. dated November 1968 and recorded January 22, 1969 in Book Y at Page 41 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County; reference to said plat is hereby craved and said plat is hereby made part and parcel of this description.

Measuring and containing on the North line, 388.1 feet: on the South line, 281.3 feet; on the East line, 214.2 feet; and on the West line, 227.9 feet, be the dimensions more or less. Butting and bounding to the North on Hara Street (formerly Coosaw Avenue); to the South on lands now or formerly of Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company; to the East on lands formerly of J.C. Hoffman, now or formerly owned by Hilda M. Botzis; to the West on the center line of Long Branch Creek.

This being the same property conveyed to Joel Valencia by deed of Debra Lancaster dated July 12, 2021 and recorded November 12, 2021 in Book 1051 at Page 451 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

TMS No. 310-01-00-103

Property address: 2549 Hara Lane, Charleston, SC 29414

As the Plaintiff did not waive its right for a deficiency judgment in the Complaint, this sale will be re-opened for final bidding at 11 a.m. on December 4, 2025.

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

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

into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R Scarborough Master in Equity

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 11/04/2025 10:00 AM

Michael Solomon 4 boxes, 2 dressers

Alyce Rogers Home goods, furniture, art, sound equipment, electronics, accessories, clothing

Facility 2: 1904 N Hwy 17 Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 11/04/2025 10:15 AM

Ladson McCutchen Clothes and stuff

Facility 3: 1426 N Hwy 17 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 11/04/2025 10:40 AM

Danielle Mueller Clothing, memorabilia

Facility 4: 3510 Glenn McConnell Pkwy Charleston, SC 29414 11/04/2025 10:00 AM

Jeremy Ledford Household items for storage

Craig Lawrence Household good

William Davis

Desks exercise equipment, beds, William Davis

Desks exercise equipment, beds, Wendy Rivers Washer, dryer, beds, household

Nicole Frazier Household goods

Facility 5: 45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414

11/04/2025 11:15 AM

Robert Sanders Household goods, furniture, ornaments, boxes

LaShaun Smalls Materials

Facility 6: 1861 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 11/04/2025

1:15 PM

Juliette Murray 4 couches, queen bed, full bed set, dining room table and 4 chairs

Q X Bed set, 1 dresser, 2 couch

Towanna Davis House hold

Facility 7: 2118 Heriot Street Charleston, SC 29403

11/04/2025 12:15 PM

Abdullah Denmark Clothes and shoes

Tara Morgan Bed frame, mattress, 2 t.v’s clothes, kitchen wares

Facility 8: 1540 Meeting Street Road Charleston, SC 29405 11/04/2025 1:00 PM

Queenester White 3 bedroom house- 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.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2025-CP-10-04980

Newrez LLC d/b/a/ Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, PLAINTIFF, VS. Rebecca E. Powell a/k/a Rebecca Powell; Bank of America, NA; and Success Street Holdings, LLC, DEFENDANT(S).

(251136.00210)

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANT REBECCA E. POWELL A/K/A REBECCA POWELL ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 1800 St. Julian Place, Suite 407, Columbia, SC 29204 or P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and 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 for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

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

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) 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(s) herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 4, 2025.

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A.

By: _/s/Angelia J. Grant

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

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

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

Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530

H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64134

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

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF

1800 St. Julian Place, Suite 407 Columbia, SC 29204

803-252-3340

September 23, 2025

Master’s Sale Case No. 2024-CP-10-02636

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

PNC Bank, National Association, vs. Mary K Schneberger; Steven K Schneberger; Winnsboro Lakes Homeowners Association, Inc.,

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 19th day of March, 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 4th Day of November, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land. lying and being in Winnsboro Lakes Subdivision, Phase I, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 100, Phase I, Winnsboro Lakes Subdivision, as shown on a plat prepared by Hoffman Lester Associates, Inc., entitled, ‘A Revised Final Plat of Lots 1- 105, Winnsboro Lakes Subdivision. Phase I, Owned by Leon, Inc., Located on John’s Island, City of Charleston, Charleston County. South Carolina, dated June 30, 1988, and revised February 21, 1989. and recorded at the Charleston County RMC Office in Book BU at Pages 150 and 151, Said lot having such size. shape, location, buttings and boundings as will more fully be shown on the aforementioned plat. Subject to all easements and restrictions of record. BEING the same property conveyed to Mary K. Schneberger and Steven K. Schneberger, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common, by Deed of William Ashley Easterlin, dated November 16, 2017 and recorded December 6. 2017 in Book 684 at Page 644, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

3546 Hunters Oak Lane Johns Island, SC 29455

TMS# 279-11-00-028

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in

the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

John S. Kay, Esquire

Telephone: 803-726-2700

FOR INSERTION

October 17th, 2025, October 24th, 2025, October 31st, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale

Case No. 2023-CP-10-04153

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

Guild Mortgage Company LLC, vs. John Jay Abney, Jr; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Encore Credit Corp,

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 18th day of March 2025, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 4th day of November 2025, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in Charleston County, South Carolina and being shown and designated as Lot 4, Containing 0.14 acres, more or less, and being more fully delineated on a plat entitled; “Subdivision Survey of Lot 12 into Lots 2 and 4 with Residual of 7.15 AC. Property Owned by James Lee located in the Deer Park S/D in the City of North Charleston, Charleston County, SC.” prepared by Paul C. Lawson, Jr., SC Reg. No 14191, dated July 1, 2003, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book DD, at Page 730. Said Lot having such size, shape, dimensions. buttings and boundings as will more fully appear by reference to said plat. BEING the same property conveyed to John Jay Abney, Jr. from Desmond C. Shaw and Cherron M. Swinton by Deed dated December 23, 2022 and recorded January 10, 2023 in Book 1157 at Page 899, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

2740 Fernwood Drive North Charleston, SC 29406 TMS# 486-06-00-105

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

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

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

into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

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

FOR INSERTION

October 17th, 2025, October 24th, 2025, October 31st, 2025

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON N THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2025-CP-10-04863

SOLICITOR, NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, Plaintiff, vs. 3.25 grams of Cocaine; 44 grams of Marijuana; 40 DU Amphetamines; 16oz of Promethazine; Scales; One Thousand One Hundred Ninety Dollars Zero Cents ($1,190.00) in US Currency, Defendant

NOTICE

TO: ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE ABOVE CAPTIONED PROPERTY

TAKE NOTICE that the original Summons and Complaint for Forfeiture in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 28th, 2025, the subject and prayer of which is to obtain civil forfeiture of property named above.

Charleston, South Carolina August 28th, 2025

To: Taron B. German 1854 Hazelwood Dr Charleston, SC 29407

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Forfeiture in this proceeding, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint for Forfeiture on the undersigned attorney at 180 Lockwood Blvd., Charleston, South Carolina within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service, and, if you fail to Answer the Complaint for Forfeiture within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint and Forfeiture of the subject property will be ordered.

Charleston, South Carolina October 7th, 2025

/s Steven Ruemelin, Esq. Charleston Police Department 180 Lockwood Blvd. Charleston, SC 29403 (843) 720-3787 Attorney for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2025-DR-10-1227 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Krystal Buford and William Lepley DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2013 & 2017

TO DEFENDANT: William Lepley

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 3, 2025 at 2:57 pm. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered

to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405-5714 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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

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:

JEANNINE R. SMALLS

2025-ES-10-0848

DOD: 3/15/25

Pers. Rep: NEVJA SMALLS WIGFALL 232 TRESTLEWOOD DR., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29486

Atty: BERNARD MCINTYRE, ESQ. PO BOX 248, BEAUFORT, SC 29901

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Estate of: PETER JAMES ADAMCZYK 2025-ES-10-1620

DOD: 6/7/25

Pers. Rep: ELIZABETH ADAMCZYK 228 BIRCH AVE., GOOSE CREEK, SC 29445

Atty: AMANDA M. LEVINER, ESQ. 207 W. RICHARDSON AVE., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483

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Estate of: JERMAINE TYRESE BROWN 2025-ES-10-1652

DOD: 6/19/25

Pers. Rep: LATOIYA GARNER 8750 FAIRWIND DR., #17-E, NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406

Atty: D. CRAIG BROWN, ESQ. 149 CENTRE ST., ORANGEBURG, SC 29115

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

Estate of: CHARLES M. WATERS

2025-ES-10-1308

DOD: 7/8/25

Pers. Rep: CHARLENE W. BRAINERD 911 TYLER CT., ALLEN, TX 75013

Atty:

DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ.

115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of: FRANKLIN GRANT, JR.

2025-ES-10-1625

DOD: 7/2/25

Pers. Rep: KEBRA K. MIKELL

122 HYRNE DR., GOOSE CREEK, SC 29445

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Estate of: HEATHER LYNN HALL

2025-ES-10-1720

DOD: 9/3/25

Pers. Rep:

AJAY SOOD

126 ST. MARGARET ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29403

Atty:

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

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: RENEE-LISE KAHN

2025-ES-10-1747

DOD: 9/14/25

Pers. Rep: SEWELL I. KAHN

566 WATER TURKEY RETREAT, CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: ANDREW E. RHEA, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of:

STEPHEN LEROY BLACKMAN

2025-ES-10-1766

DOD: 9/13/25

Pers. Rep:

STEPHEN LEROY BLACKMAN, JR. 3806 ADRIAN WAY, MT. PLEASANT, SC 29466

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

Charleston County Greenbelt Winter Application Cycle

The FY26 Winter Greenbelt Application Cycle will open November 3, 2025 and close on January 24,2026

For more information please visit the Greenbelt Department website at greenbelt.charlestoncounty. org/apply

DORCHESTER COUNTY

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: 427 St. James Ave Goose Creek, SC 29445

11/04/2025

11:00 AM

Aaron Eldridge Shelves, Bed, clothes

Jadyn Heyward TV, stand and clothes

Richard Skiles Furniture, household goods, boxes, totes, tools

Christina Grooms

10:45 AM Herbert Wright Household Items

Facility 4: 208 St. James Ave, Ste C Goose Creek, SC 29445 11/04/2025 11:00 AM

Ja’Maicia Savage Table, Hutch, Totes, Record Player, TV Stand Facility 6: #1966 434 Orangeburg Road

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

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2025-CP-18-01380

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation as Trustee for Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2019-3 vs. Caroleen

Stephanie Mello a/k/a Caroleen

Facility

Zay

Victoria Felix Furniture

Facility 14: 6941 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 11/04/2025 12:30 PM

Tanisha Lipscomb 3br fully furnished, garage items, washer and dryer

Dalton Barber Photography props

Terry Williams Some household furniture

Heather Graber Seasonal items, christmas, momentos & personal items.

Roshenda Ahl Furniture, clothing.

Dorothy Grandison Clothing, furniture

Facility 15: 5146 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston, SC 29418

11/04/2025

12:00 PM

John Taber Household goods

Nausaya Choice Household furnishings

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.

S. Mello a/k/a Carol Stephanie Mello, as Personal Representative, and as Devisee of the Estate of Clifton Jones a/k/a Clifton D. Jones a/k/a Cliffton D. Jones a/k/a Clifton Donald Jones, Deceased, I, the undersigned James E. Chellis, Master in Equity for Dorchester County, will sell on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM, at the County Courthouse, 5200 East Jim Bilton Boulevard, St. George, SC 29477.

The property to be sold to the highest bidder:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in Pinehill Acres Subdivision, near the Town of Summerville, in the County of Dorchester, State of South Carolina and being shown and designated as Lot 3, Block N, Section U, on a certain plat of Pinehill Acres Subdivision by Thomas E. Young, Sr. RLS dated July 2, 1967, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County in Plat Book 16, at Page 119; said lot having buttings and boundings and measuring as will fully appear by reference to said plat.

ALSO: 1998 Bell Mobile Home, Model Lowcou, VIN: GBHML30584AB

This being the same property conveyed to Clifton D. Jones by deed of Equity Enterprise, Inc. dba Equity Homes dated September 18, 2003 and recorded October 3, 2003 in Book 3830 at Page 76 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Dorchester County.

Subsequently, Clifton Jones a/k/a Clifton D. Jones a/k/a Cliffton D. Jones a/k/a Clifton Donald Jones died testate on February 5, 2025, leaving the subject property to his devisee, namely Caroleen Stephanie Mello a/k/a Caroleen S. Mello a/k/a Carol Stephanie Mello, as shown in Probate Case No. 2025-ES-18-00350. Thereafter, Caroleen Stephanie Mello a/k/a Caroleen S. Mello a/k/a Carol Stephanie Mello was appointed as Personal Representative of the Estate of Clifton Jones a/k/a Clifton D. Jones a/k/a Cliffton D. Jones a/k/a Clifton Donald Jones (Probate Case No. 2025-ES-1800350).

TMS No. 129-05-05-003

Property address: 115 George Keen Drive, Summerville, SC 29483

The Court in its Decree has further made its finding that this mortgage was intended to and specifically secures and collateralizes that certain Mobile Home permanently affixed to the above-described real estate in the mortgage being foreclosed and is further provided under the laws of the State of South Carolina, the same being more particularly described as follows:

1998 Bellcrest LOWCOU Manufactured Home, Serial No. GBHML30584AB, with any fixtures.

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, in certified funds or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the case of non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 30 days, then the Master in Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder).

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

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity’s Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.250% per annum.

The Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff’s attorney or Plaintiff’s bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff’s attorney or Plaintiff’s bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff’s counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff’s Counsel or Counsel’s bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

James E. Chellis Master in Equity for Dorchester County

Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I bet your upcoming night dreams will include marriages, mating dances and sacramental unions. Even if you are not planning deeper mergers with trustworthy allies in your waking life, your subconscious mind is musing on such possibilities. I hope this horoscope inspires you to make such fantasies more conscious. What collaborations and blends would serve you well? Give your imagination permission to ponder new and exciting connections. Visualize yourself thriving amidst new connections.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In winemaking, malolactic fermentation softens a wine’s tart malic acid into gentler lactic acid. This process imparts a creamier and rounder mouthfeel, while preserving the wine’s structure. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to adopt this as your metaphor of power. See if you can refine your intensity without losing your integrity. Keep things interesting but soften the edges a bit. Introduce warmth and steadiness into provocative situations so they’re free of irritation and easier to engage with, but still enriching.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks will be an excellent time to practice the art of strategic disruption. One way to do it is to interrupt your patterns so they don’t calcify and obstruct you. Just for fun, you could eat breakfast for dinner. Take a different route to a familiar place. Talk to a person you would usually avoid. Say no when you’d normally say yes, or vice versa. Part of your brain loves efficiency, habits, and well-worn grooves. But grooves can become ruts. As a rousing spiritual experiment, you could do things differently for no reason except to prove to yourself that you can. Playful chaos can be a form of prayer. Messing with your standard approaches will unleash your creativity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In Shinto mythology, Ame-no-Uzume is the goddess of mirth and revelry. In one story, she seduces the sun out of its hiding place by performing a humorous and provocative dance. I am sending her over to your sphere right now in the hope that she will coax you out of your comfort zone of retreat, control and self-protection. While I’m glad you have taken this break to recharge your spiritual batteries, I think it’s time to come out and play. You have done important work to nurture and process your deep feelings. Now we would love you to express what you’ve learned with freewheeling panache.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Ancient cultures in Sumeria, Egypt, and China used willow bark as a pain reliever. Many centuries later, in 1828, European scientists isolated the chemical salicin from the bark and used it to create aspirin. What had been a folk remedy became a widely used medicine all over the planet. Is there a metaphorically comparable development unfolding in your life? I think so. Something you’ve known or practiced could be evolving into its next form. The world may finally be ready to receive wisdom, a technique or an insight you’ve used for a long time. Consider refining and upgrading it. Share it in ways that meet the present moment’s specific need.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In honor of your special needs right now, Virgo, I am coining a new English word: edge-ucation. It’s like “education” but with an extra edge. Though book-learning is included in its purview, it also requires you to seek out raw teaching in all possible ways: on the streets, the bedroom, the natural world, everywhere. To properly pursue your higher edge-education, you must hunt down provocative influences, thought-provoking adventures and unfamiliar stimulation. Make the whole world your laboratory and classroom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When I began writing horoscopes years ago, I had greater empathy with some of the signs than with others. But I worked hard to overcome this bias, and now I truly love and understand every tribe of the zodiac equally. I attribute this accomplishment to the fact that I have three Libra planets in my natal chart. They have propelled me to develop a warm, affectionate, fair-minded objectivity. I have a deeply honed capacity for seeing and liking people as they genuinely are, with-

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out imposing my expectations and projections onto them. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to tap into these qualities in yourself, dear Libra.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many cultures regard obsidian as having protective powers against negative energy. This makes it popular for healing talismans. Obsidian mirrors have often been used to scry for visions and prophecies. Because obsidian is so sharp, ancient peoples incorporated it into tools used to hunt for food, like knives and arrowheads. In modern times, obsidian is used for its beauty in tabletops, tiles and architectural components. Do you know how this precious substance is formed? It’s born in the shock between elements: molten lava meets water or cool air and hardens so quickly that crystals can’t form, trapping a mirror-dark clarity in volcanic glass. I propose we make it your symbolic power object in the coming months, Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Medieval alchemists engaged in literal laboratory work as they attempted to create elixirs of immortality, concoct medicines to heal diseases, and metamorphose lead into gold. But the modern practice of alchemy is primarily a psychological effort to achieve awakening and enlightenment. In the early stages of the work, the seeker experiences the metaphorical “black sun.” It’s a dark radiance, the beginning of creative decay, that fuels the coming transformation. I suspect you now have the potential to call on this potent asset, Sagittarius. It’s wild, though. You must proceed with caution and discernment. What worn-out aspects of yourself are you ready to let rot, thereby fertilizing future growth?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Japan, shakkei refers to the practice of “borrowed scenery.” The idea is to create a garden so that surrounding features become part of its expansive context: distant mountains, an expanse of sky or a nearby body of water. The artistry lies in allowing the horizon to merge gracefully with what’s close at hand. I recommend this approach to you, Capricorn. Frame your current project with a backdrop that enlarges it. Partner with places, influences, or long-view purposes that augment your meaning and enhance your beauty. Align your personal actions with a vast story so they send even more potent ripples out into the world.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Computer scientist Radia Perlman is the “Mother of the Internet.” She invented the Spanning Tree Protocol, a component that’s essential for the flow of online data. Despite her work’s splashy importance, hardly anyone knows of her. With that in mind, I remind you: Some revolutions unfold with little fanfare; positive transformations may be inconspicuous. How does that relate to you? I suspect the next beautiful or useful thing you contribute may also be veiled and underestimated, at least at first. And yet it may ultimately generate a shift more significant than you can now imagine. My advice is to trust the long game. You’re doing good work, though its recognition may be late in arriving.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The mystical Persian poet Hafez wrote, “Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I’d like to see you living in better conditions.” Picture that shabby room, Pisces: cramped, dim, damp. Now imagine you have resolved to never again live in such a place. In fact, sometime soon you will move, metaphorically speaking, into a spacious, high-ceilinged place with wide windows and skylights, fresh air flooding through. I believe life will conspire on your behalf if you initiate this bold move. You now have extra power to exorcize at least some of your angsts and embrace liberating joy.

“KEYWORDS” —one way to stop.

Across

Comic Sans lack

6. Gather

11. Taste of tisane, e.g.

14. KitchenAid competitor

15. Dark time

16. Prefix for brow or tasker

17. Social psychology topic

19. Some hosp. staffers

20. “Stath ___ Flats” (Jamie Demetriou Britcom that’s a mouthful to say)

21. Concept derived in part from the “I Ching”

22. It may be light or dark at Thanksgiving

23. Quarter, quaintly

26. The magic word?

28. “___ with the fur”

29. Kal ___ (pet food brand)

32. Secret stuff 33. AMA members

34. Picasso and Braque, for two 36. “The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science” author 41. “Hey Ya!” duo

42. Sounds in a dentist’s office

44. Walk of Fame insignias, usually

47. Joan of Arc, e.g., for short

48. Jail, slangily

50. Barry Manilow’s longtime label

52. “It’s a deal!” 54. Way serious

55. Acting coach Strasberg 58. Lackluster

Arced tennis shot 60. Remove a controversial post without warning (thereby removing the resulting discussion)

10. Initials on a Cardinals cap

11. Least tentative

12. From birth

13. Prop for Yosemite Sam

18. East, in Berlin

22. Organization with a lot of tests

23. “We don’t know yet,” on schedules

24. Vocation

25. Moves furtively

27. Cracker brand with seven holes

30. “I’m on ___” (late-2000s “SNL” song)

31. Late hip-hop phenom Hussle or comedian/game show panelist Russell

34. Op. ___ (footnote abbr.)

35. Complete collection

37. Like Yggdrasil

38. Nothing but

39. Locations where silt settles

40. Vincent van Gogh’s brother

43. Thesaurus entry, for short

44. Retired NASCAR driver Elliott

45. Early radio component

46. “Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t play basketball” movie

48. Made baby food out of

49. By mouth

51. Kicking partner

53. Like 7, but not 6

56. Largest known dwarf planet

57. Sicily’s highest peak

60. Peter DeLuise’s father

61. “That’s correct”

62. Former Notre Dame football player Manti

63. West end?

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