Several years ago, pharmacist Cynthia Feldman wanted to create a unique and all-encompassing pharmacy experience for patients, and Mount Pleasant was the perfect location to complete that vision. Her formula for providing excellent service and treating customers as an extension of her family has resulted in being voted Mount Pleasant’s Best Pharmacist by the readers of Mount … [Read more...]
Brightway, The McKenzie Agency: Customized Insurance Needs for All
Brightway insurance agency owner Jenny McKenzie is an experienced businesswoman who transitioned her consultant, accounting and management skills and focused on small businesses within the insurance industry to provide reliable and cost-effective insurance coverage for all clients – and in particular members of her community, as well as their four-footed friends. McKenzie … [Read more...]
Mount Pleasant’s Best Lender: Mortgage Network Gets Another Gold
Buying a house is cause for celebration. But long before you can pop open a bottle of champagne in your new home’s kitchen, you’ll need to find a mortgage lender. The first step in the home-purchasing process isn’t what most would consider to be fun. To be blunt, it can be painfully grueling. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. The key to a smooth, painless lending … [Read more...]
In Full Bloom: A Spring Garden Guide
It’s a mild day in late February, and you’re meandering around your neighborhood, enjoying the beginnings of an early spring. Perhaps some daffodils will pop their white and yellow heads dramatically through the green grass along a bordering fence; maybe you’ll see the varying shades of white or pink blooms of the camellia in a friend’s yard and wish, longingly, that you had … [Read more...]
Love of the Game: Collector’s Obsession With Baseball About to Pay Off
Gene Prince has been a baseball nut his whole life, but something sets him apart from others of his generation who spent balmy summer days and frigid winter nights dreaming of one day playing the game at its highest level. Horror stories abound of young men who left home for college or the Army and later returned to find that Mom had decided that baseball cards were a useless … [Read more...]
We Are Mount Pleasant
The next time you sit for a moment at a red light or in line at the grocery store or at your coffee shop’s community table, take a moment to look not at your cellphone screen but at the people around you. Each person has a story – they are not just the stranger next to you; they are the person next to you. Each one is a wealth of experiences, hopes and dreams – if only you … [Read more...]
Keeping Promises: Growth Management Is Mayor’s Top Issue
Since taking over as mayor of Mount Pleasant, Will Haynie has dealt with issues ranging from school safety to traffic congestion, drainage, short-term rentals and protecting the environment. The most important subject in his ever-expanding in-basket, however, is growth management, the issue that has helped remake the composition of the Town Council during the past two election … [Read more...]
Pollution Solutions: Mount Pleasant Is Saying Goodbye to Plastics
Mount Pleasant is a community where waterways – filled with marine life – glisten, palms grow tall and sea oats sway in the balmy breeze. It’s also a place where plastic straws, lids and cutlery are the most common items recovered during beach-side cleanups. Come April, those trash culprits will hopefully not appear as often as they do, scattered upon the coasts and roadsides. … [Read more...]
USGA Women’s Open: Country Club of Charleston Expected to Draw Big Crowds
Outside a window of the second floor of the Country Club of Charleston, a soft winter sun shone down upon the venerable and historic golf course, as a few members worked their way to the 18th green. In a few months, this laid-back, quiet atmosphere will be replaced with cheers from tens of thousands of spectators applauding female golfers taking part in the 2019 USGA Women’s … [Read more...]
Crossing the Bridge: Jogging the Minds of Local Runners
Moving to Charleston four years ago and driving over the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge for the first time, I was awestruck. It was simply beautiful, arched above the blue water, as it seemed to touch the sky at its highest point. It’s amazing to think that an architectural structure as simple as a bridge built over the Cooper River blesses the Lowcountry daily as people drive to … [Read more...]