Oyster Candle Company & Coastal Gifts, the premier spot to shop locally, has been an inviting small business for Mount Pleasant since February of 2021. Before then, Oyster Candle Company had been operating in town since August 2018. As demonstrated in its name, Oyster Candle Company is known for its unique use of oyster shells. […]

Mount Pleasant resident and ESPN analyst Debbie Antonelli loves the sport of basketball and has found a way to link it with another of her passions. “In the next two years, I want to raise $1 million for the Special Olympics, even if I have to shoot until my arms fall off! I wake up […]

Had you asked Cyndi Mays in the late 1980s where she saw herself toward the end of her career, she probably wouldn’t have answered that she would be a high-ranking senior executive service member of the U.S. State Department and living in Charleston. Rather, the Virginia native and Old Dominion grad had big plans for […]

Katy Knowlin has been chasing her ideal American dream for over three decades, and this past spring, she finally saw it come true. She’d passed through other major pillars to support it — an education, a family, a house, a good job — and completed the last leg by becoming a self-employed business owner. With […]

Coralberry Cottage, Mount Pleasant’s premier source for coastal casual furnishings, is getting ready to celebrate their 10-year anniversary. But instead of planning a big bash, partners Melissa Hempstead, Liz Baker and Rutledge Carter are working on something even more exciting: a construction project. Though they’ve enjoyed operating out of their current space since 2011, they […]

National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually from September 15 to October 15 to recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans to American history and culture. Hispanic Americans are proud of their Latin roots and the lives they have built for themselves and their families in the United States. Embracing the new and celebrating the old […]

One of the best parts about living in a town like Charleston is the strong sense of community, especially when that community bands together to help those in need. One example of this is The Formation Project, the first center for adult human trafficking survivors in the state, which was fully funded with donations from […]

“I always thought I’d just be a therapist, ‘’ confessed Sara Tick, executive director of Jewish Family Services (JFS) of Greater Charleston. “And I never planned to launch a nonprofit during a pandemic.” Yet on January 1, 2021, as Covid-19 raged across the world, JFS opened its doors as a standalone nonprofit, poised to help […]

Christina Oh, newly appointed President and CEO of Trident Health System, didn’t grow up expecting to pursue a career in health care administration. With family roots in West Virginia, she initially wanted to become a nurse like her grandmother. The two were extremely close, and Oh described her grandmother as her best friend. A trail […]

Dr. Dalila Lewis finds the brain and all that it controls — from what we do to the decisions we make and the many things that can ultimately go wrong — fascinating. Her first introduction to the body and medicine was with her mother, a clinical psychologist. As a child, she once accompanied her mother […]