Lynda Edwards
Senior Reporter and Editor at Post and Courier
The Post and Courier Senior Reporter &Editor, 4th Estate/Barlett&Steele/NABJ winner. Love film, art, history, science, law news, travel, passport&go-bag ready
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4 weeks ago |
postandcourier.com | Lynda Edwards
SUMMERVILLE — The tiny cemetery sits on a sliver of median right off traffic-jammed Main Street, an entrance and exit to a shopping center anchored by a Walmart Supercenter on one side and a Lowe's on the other. The earliest legible birth dates on the headstones are in the 1850s. Weather has erased words and dates on older stones. Traffic roars by the site, enclosed by a chain-link fence draped in lush purple wisteria.
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4 weeks ago |
postandcourier.com | Lynda Edwards
SUMMERVILLE — The tiny sharecroppers' family cemetery is on a sliver of median strip that juts off Summerville's traffic-jammed Main Street and into the Walmart Supercenter parking lot entrThe earliest birth dates on the headstones are in the 1850s. Weather has worn away words and dates on older stones, leaving mysteries. Traffic roars by on four sides of the historic headstones enclosed by a chain-link fence draped in lush purple wisteria.
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2 months ago |
postandcourier.com | Lynda Edwards
Maybe some discussions of burial grounds are somber and conducted in hushed tones—but not this one on James Island. More than 50 people crowded into a library conference room where shouts of “Amen” and happy applause punctuated the talk. Black Lowcountry burial grounds can be found just about anywhere in Charleston.
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2 months ago |
postandcourier.com | Lynda Edwards
The Dorchester County Sheriff issued an alert Saturday, February 9, 2025 for the public to be on the lookout for a suspect, Scott C. Mitchell. wanted in a double murder by Binghamton, New York police. Dorchester deputies responded to a call about a suspicious abandoned vehicle that was connected to Mitchell, according to a statement released by the sheriff's department. The 2011 gray Chevrolet Impala was left on the 1000 block of Short Cut Road in Dorchester.
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Jan 20, 2025 |
postandcourier.com | Lynda Edwards
When the Israeli government agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas, which began Jan 19 albeit a few hours, the news had a special impact on people in Charleston with loved ones in the line of fire. They sounded warily happy the deal promised the return of some hostages and a pause in the relentless war that has stretched on for 15 grueling months in the Gaza Strip. They also expressed worries that the prospect of lasting peace was so fragile they didn’t dare raise hopes too high.
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