Lowcountry Sun

This Month's Features

Emergence as Emergency
Mayor Keith Summey
by Tommy McQueeney

As only the third Mayor in the City of North Charleston’s history, Mayor Summey knew the task ahead of him WASN’T going to be easy. At the top, one man is in charge. He is outgoing, non-judgmental and excited about the day. He had just been sworn in the night before for another term of office – his sixth. It is good that most ceremonies are in the evening so that he does not have to divide his attention from his daytime passion. Meet the mayor of North Charleston, the honorable Keith Summey. Summey is a realist. He’s a burly man filled with bravado. He knows from whence he came and how the City of North Charleston, the third largest city in South Carolina, has emerged as the center to something even more magnificent than he ever considered growing up. He commanded that transformation. “I consider myself a pleaser. I try to work with everybody to get a positive solution that is better than the status quo.” Summey noted. “I like to build a consensus with others that can also benefit, whether it’s the town of Ravenel, Summ...
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Memory Declines Faster in Final Years
Mental Activity Best Protection
by courtesy of American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
New research finds that a person’s memory declines at a faster rate in the two- and-...
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Life Preserver
by Cappy Rearick
If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every da...
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Remember When - A Brief History of Pin-Up Art
by Source: fashionpeepshop.com
The pinup girl genre has an incredible 150 year&n...
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Alaska’s Denali National Park: Hours of Wildlife, Wild Scenery and Wild Stories
by Fyllis Hockman
Forty pairs of eyes scan the countryside looking for movement, any move...
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