TheLinkU Invitational outdoor games were a resounding success for players, coaches and fans. Charleston County purchased abandoned land in West Ashley to build a new magistrate court. Navy Yard Charleston’s waterfront Italian restaurant, Riva Mare, is now open.
We’re going to catch you up on these and other top stories from The Post and Courier for Monday, Sept. 28.
TheLinkU Invitational outdoor games were a resounding success for players, coaches and fans
The inaugural TheLinkU Invitational featured a tripleheader with teams from South Carolina, College of Charleston, The Citadel, Virginia and Vanderbilt, marking the first college basketball games of the 2026-27 season. Despite concerns about weather and court durability, the invitational proved successful with perfect conditions. Notable attendees included ESPN analyst Debbie Antonelli, comedian Nate Bargatze and former North Carolina coach Roy Williams.
Charleston County purchases abandoned land in West Ashley. Here’s what they plan to build.
Charleston County purchased a 1.52-acre plot at Ashley River and Old Parsonage roads for $1.5 million in July to build a new magistrate court. The property sits next to the recently opened St. Andrews fire station, which opened in January and houses both fire department and emergency medical services. The planned magistrate court will be the 15th built in the county.
Agnolotti to be served at Riva Mare on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, in North Charleston.
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Navy Yard Charleston’s waterfront Italian restaurant is now open. Here’s what to expect.
Riva Mare, a coastal Italian restaurant from the Indigo Road Hospitality Group, is now open at Navy Yard Charleston. The restaurant is the waterfront redevelopment project’s first full-service restaurant. The menu highlights fresh seafood, handmade pasta and seasonal ingredients.
A strange new building on Charleston’s Meeting Street has a very practical purpose
A temporary gray tension fabric building with two garage doors has been erected at 292 Meeting St. next to a historic house on property owned by Clemson University. The structure will house crews from the Charleston Fire Department’s Engine 102 and Engine 103 while their historic Central Station undergoes renovation and preservation work. The temporary arrangement includes apparatus and operational space in the Sprung Structures building, with the adjacent house providing crew living quarters, while the Central Station renovation advances through planning and design phases.
After 2 years of work, volunteers near completion of the longest living shoreline in SC
The Nature Conservancy is nearing completion of the longest contiguous oyster castle shoreline in South Carolina near Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort after two years of volunteer work. The 2,000-foot living shoreline uses oyster castles made of shell, concrete and limestone to stabilize the eroding coastline and attract oyster larvae. Volunteers have observed sediment building up behind the reef, new oysters covering the castles and marsh grass growing back, with the final volunteer event scheduled for Oct. 24.
This news briefing was created with the assistance of AI to summarize stories. The briefing was edited by a Post and Courier journalist before it was published.
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