MORNING HEADLINES | Community leaders met Sunday at Marion Square to rededicate the Charleston Holocaust Memorial on its 25th anniversary.
The memorial, which has three new signs, honors victims and survivors who died in the Holocaust. Gardens next to the memorial are filled with daffodils. Each flower symbolizes remembrance and hope.
Eileen Chepenik, who chaired the committee to rededicate the memorial, told a reporter that she hoped new signage would educate those who visit.
“There’s a lot of denial out there, a lot of anti-semitisim, a lot of misinformation and just plain uninformed people. And we need people to be educated and informed to prevent future Holocausts from happening,” she said.
“As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, I feel so deeply connected to this memorial and to all it represents,” Charleston philanthropist Anita Zucker told a newspaper. “My parents, Rose and Carl Goldberg, endured unimaginable hardships. Their story is woven into the fabric of this community, and their memory lives on through this memorial, through their family, through our family and through each of us here today.”
In headlines over the weekend:
CP OPINION, Brack: Going down rabbit hole of Jefferson letter. :The title of the page on the Library of Congress website got my attention: ‘Thomas Jefferson to Brack, March 2, 1788, in French.’ … The one-page letter is splotchy, obviously written in ink, perhaps with a quill since fountain pens didn’t become popular until the 1800s. It’s hard to read in French.”
CP WEEK IN REVIEW: Meeting Street Scholarship Fund expands. South Carolina’s largest in-state college scholarship program is expanding to cover more than 45,000 students in Spartanburg County public schools thanks in part to a $40 million donation.
CP FOOD: Southern Charm star launches spritzer. Southern Charm’s Craig Conover has partnered with Spritz Society, an award-winning spritzer brand, to bring a new flavor to the line of low-alcohol, low-calorie wine spritzers.
ENVIRO: Report says state doing little to stop toxins put in rivers. A new report says the State is doing little to stop a toxic chemical being dumped into the Congaree and Cooper rivers from plastics factories.
- Group says private docks are choking Charleston’s waterways
- On balancing conservation and development on Cainhoy peninsula
Former Summerville mayor dies. Wiley Johnson, who served as the town’s mayor from 2016 to 2019, has died.
8 monkeys still on the loose. As of Saturday, eight of 43 monkeys that escaped earlier this month in Yemassee were still on the loose. The company’s CEO confirmed the escape was due to human error, not malice.
Susan Smith is up for parole 30 years after killing children. The Union County mother who killed her children 30 years ago is up for parole. She remains a national sensation. Her ex-husband says she should stay in prison.
S.C. gas prices dropping again. The average price per gallon dropped 9.5 cents over the last week with the price at $2.70 per gallon, according to GasBuddy.
Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy. The airline has struggled since its planned merger with JetBlue was blocked.
Charleston school board sued over monument at school. A heritage group is suing the school board over removal of a Robert E. Lee marker outside a Charleston school.
- Dorchester 2 finalizes goals. The district’s board has set its goals through 2028.
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