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  Celebrating New Year's Eve in Charleston, SC  ~ Are you planning on celebrating the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 in Charleston?  If you are, do you have your plans together yet? If your answer is ";no";, then we can providea little bit of insight.  We've searched out some of the places...

Charleston First Night -- New Year's Eve Celebration ~ Those looking for a clean, wild party without any of the of the normal unpleasantries of your normal New Year's Eve parties will find the perfect celebration in First Night Charleston. Focusing on a variety of performance art and music, Firs...

Christmas is finally here! All of the planning, gift-finding, wrapping, baking, cleaning, etc is done, and it's time to sit back and enjoy this special day. We hope that each and every one of you have a wonderful and fun-filled Christmas this year.  We hope that there are tons of treasured memor...

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Did you know that Google receives more than 1 billion searches per day?  I had no clue it wold be that many and I have to admit that I do my fair share of searches.  Well, like every year, here is the list of the Top 10 Searches performed this year. I guess you could say that some of these were e...

Every year, Realtor Magazine and Remodeling put together a great report called Remodeling Cost vs Value Report, and the 2009 Report has now been released. As mentioned by the article, despite home price drops in many cities, remodeling projects are holding their own as a way for homeowners to ad...

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Wow!  Christmas is now only five (almost four) days away!  I think it sneaks up on me faster and faster every year! One thing that doesn't get a whole lot of focus around the holidays is being green.  Especially thinking about all of that wrapping paper, which is not recyclable, ending up on the ...

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Children ages 6 and under and their families are invited to the Old Village on Friday, Dec. 18 to enjoy the Mount Pleasant Recreation Department's annual Visit with Santa event. The excitement will begin at 12 p.m. at the G.M. Darby Building, located at 302 Pitt Street in the Old Village neighbor...