Rumors & Notes: 3/17/15

TOP STORIES

• Report: Driver charged in Moncks Corner fatal accident (Live 5 News).
• First of 2 new Folly Beach bridges opens (Live 5 News).
• Firefighter hit by car while collecting for charity (ABC News 4).
• British Tabloid Calls Charleston “America’s Hippest City” (HCS).
• Summerville-set Restaurant Impossible airs next week (Post & Courier).

ST. PATRICK’S DAY

• Charleston’s Irish helped shape city (Post & Courier).
• The Best Irish Pubs in America for St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations (Yahoo).
• Photo Gallery: St. Patrick’s Day parade (Post & Courier).
• Parades have luck of the Irish when it comes to weather (ABC News 4).
• When and why Irish eyes are smiling (Post & Courier).
• Hibernian Society St. Patrick’s Day Parade Photo Gallery (Post & Courier).

FOOD/BEV

• Upcoming Restaurant 492 Built a Mighty Fence Facing Their Courtyard (Eater Charleston).
• And Robert Stehling’s fried chicken restaurant will be called…. (Charleston City Paper).
  • Chick’s Fry House Serving Two-Piece Chicken Dinners This Spring (Eater Charleston).
• goat.sheep.cow. to open a NoMo location next year (Charleston City Paper).
• Wine Director Vonda Freeman of The Indigo Road Restaurant Group has been invited to attend the annual Sommelier Selection Blending Series at Raymond Vineyards in Napa Valley, California.
• Is King Street the fried chicken freeway? (Charleston City Paper).
• Coastal Living chose Edmunds Oast’s “The Red Wedding” as one of their 59 Favorite Cocktail (Coastal Living).
• Coast Beer Dinner This Thursday at Bohemian Bull (HCS).
• Asheville chefs lead off new season of Commune (Post & Courier).
• Limehouse Produce has started their 2nd Annual “Berry Creative” School Campaign (Limehouse Produce).
• Seanachai now serving food (Post & Courier).

SOUTHERN CHARM

• Review: Southern Charm returns with season two and the claws are coming back out (Post & Courier).
  • Southern Charm Recap: It’s all about Queen Patricia (Charleston City Paper).
  • Southern Charm recap: Two seasons, two christenings and one Lady Gaga tweet (Lowcountry Current).
  • Southern Charm Recap 3/16/15: Season 2 Episode 1 Premiere “Return to Neverland” (Celebrity Laundry).
  • Southern Wisdom: Patricia’s Words to Live By (Bravo).

ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

• Save 15% on Family Circle Cup Tickets (Charleston City Paper).
• The inaugural Charleston Kidney Walk will be held Saturday (Kidney.org).
• Wounded Warriors softball team brings ‘no quit’ message to Citadel game (Post & Courier).
• Local designer hopes Fashion Week will springboard her collection (ABC News 4).
• Charleston Pour House expands floor space, among other improvements (Post & Courier).
• Comedian Brian Regan Returns to the PAC on 11/19 (HCS).
• Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars at Magnolia Plantation for fundraiser concert (Post & Courier).
• Voodoo Debuts Themed Concert Parties this Thursday (HCS).
• As fitness influences fashion, some challenge wearing yoga pants outside of the studio or home (Post & Courier).
• The 12th Annual Charleston Antiques Show Begins This Week (HCS).

POLITICS

• Bill aims to keep sharia law from making inroads in South Carolina (Post & Courier).
• After much debate, House passes $6.9B budget (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Democrats plan to counter Gov. Haley’s anti-union rhetoric ahead of Boeing vote (Post & Courier).
• Quintin’s Close-Ups: Thomasena Stokes-Marshall (HCS).
• Nikki Haley: No endorsement ‘anytime soon’ in presidential race (Post & Courier).
• Machinists seeking union election at SC’s Boeing plant (ABC News 4).
• College presidents urged to mobilize supporters to lobby for borrowing plan (Post & Courier).
• Jeb Bush, Nikki Haley visit battered women’s shelter (Post & Courier).
• Hillary Clinton taps longtime Clyburn aide to run South Carolina campaign (Post & Courier).

MISC

• Boeing delivers first S.C.-built 787-9 (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Charleston School of Law offers buyouts to faculty members (Post & Courier).
• Letters released, but former SC State prez says he’s not been paid (ABC News 4).
• Business Journal again named best newspaper in South Carolina (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• 3 cars worth more than $225K stolen from local dealerships (ABC News 4).
• Silver Airways starts serving Charleston Thursday; new pilots wanted (Post & Courier).
• AOL co-founder to invest $100,000 in Charleston startup in pitch competition (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Doctor testifies on ‘signs of abuse’ in mother’s murder trial (ABC News 4).
• Carnival to add 4 sailings from Charleston on Sunshine in 2016 (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• S.C. jobless rate held steady at 6.6% in January (Post & Courier).
• SCE&G seeks state OK of new nuclear construction schedule, higher costs (Charleston Regional Business Journal).
• Inmate’s death at Lee Correctional under SLED investigation (Live 5 News).
• Girl, 15, struck and killed by 2 vehicles in Darlington (ABC News 4).
  • Counselors on-site at Darlington County schools after teen student struck, killed by 2 vehicles (Live 5 News).
• Report: Woman dies following head-on collision in Summerville (Live 5 News).
• Amphibious personnel carrier rolls up on Sullivan’s Island (Post & Courier).
• Cops: Hanahan man arrested on child pornography charges (Live 5 News).
• Family asks for help finding missing Ohio woman last seen in Upstate (Live 5 News).

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