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  • We need support for the Charleston County Meeting

    We need support for the Charleston County Meeting

    PLEASE attend Charleston County Council meeting and speak in support of the Lowcountry Open Land Trust’s application to receive greenbelt funds to purchase the 17-acre parcel immediately adjacent to the Angel Oak for use as a public park. We have worked so hard to save the Angel Oak and this Tuesday it is imperative that [...]

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  • City of Charleston Council Meeting

    City of Charleston Council Meeting

    WHEN : Tuesday, November 22nd @ 5 pm WHERE : Council Chambers, City Hall, 80 Broad Street Please come speak out for the Angel Oak at this City Council meeting! Charleston City Council member Kathleen Wilson has placed a discussion of the Angel Oak Planned Unit Development (PUD) on council’s November 22nd agenda. This is a perfect opportunity for [...]

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  • Let City Council know you care about Angel Oak!

    Let City Council know you care about Angel Oak!

    You can make a big difference in just 5 minutes. That’s all it takes to learn the issues and send a letter, fax or email to the City of Charleston. 1) Go to http://capwiz.com/scccl/issues/alert/?alertid=57055911 and click on all the discussion points you want added to your letter to the City of Charleston. (you will also get a [...]

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  • Charleston’s Angels: Fundraiser and Film Preview

    Charleston’s Angels: Fundraiser and Film Preview

    The TreeSpirit Project and Save The Angel Oak team up to offer a special evening of art and activism at the Terrace Theater on November 3, 2011 at 7pm. View the Charleston-based segment filmed at the Angel Oak last May—which made Charleston TV news headlines. That event brought naked people to pose with the ancient Angel Oak to [...]

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  • Angel Oak won’t benefit from purchase

    Angel Oak won’t benefit from purchase

    BY SAMANTHA J. SIEGEL Tuesday, August 16, 2011 The public certainly has their eyes on the controversial Angel Oak Village Development. We are thrilled that the Charleston County Council Finance Committee rejected the City’s proposal to buy the already protected ‘conservation area’ from the developer at their meeting Thursday night. We should all be very grateful that City [...]

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  • Angel Oak at Bonnaroo

    Angel Oak at Bonnaroo

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  • Warren Peper interviews Samantha Siegel

    Warren Peper interviews Samantha Siegel

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  • Angel Oak Development Alert: City proposes to pay more than $500,000 of public funds to private Developer.

    Angel Oak Development Alert: City proposes to pay more than $500,000 of public funds to private Developer.

    Angel Oak Development Alert: Please come to this Tuesday’s City Council meeting! Please come to the Charleston City Council meeting, tomorrow, 5pm, Tuesday, 3/22 @ Stiles Point Elementary School. 883-A Mikell Drive, Charleston, SC 29412.[Get Driving Directions] (843) 762-2767. Controversies surrounding the ancient Angel Oak will be reappearing on City Council’s agenda this Tuesday night. The agenda includes [...]

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  • Important Public Meeting on March 3rd, 2011!

    Important Public Meeting on March 3rd, 2011!

    This meeting will affect the Angel Oak Village Development 3/10, 5pm, Charleston A public meeting that will affect the Angel Oak Village Development!  We need strength in numbers–please plan to attend. The City of Charleston CCDRB meeting will be held at 5:00 p.m., on THURSDAY March 10 in the Meeting Room, Third Floor at 75 Calhoun St (Charleston [...]

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  • Info about the Angel Oak Tree

    Info about the Angel Oak Tree

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  • Don’t bypass Design Board

    Don’t bypass Design Board

    Don’t bypass Design Board Tuesday, November 16, 2010 When other cities were tearing down aging inner-city buildings and erecting towering new ones, Charleston resisted. It often was more difficult to adapt old buildings for new uses, but Charleston continues to prosper because of those extra efforts. Similarly, since 1999, Charleston has benefited from the work of the [...]

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  • Speak out onbid to changezoning rules

    Speak out onbid to changezoning rules

    Speak out onbid to changezoning rules BY SAMANTHA J. SIEGEL Tuesday, November 16, 2010 On Wednesday, the city of Charleston Planning Commission will host a public meeting on a proposed amendment to the city’s Zoning Ordinance that will affect development in Charleston forever. The ordinance would give developers a chance to move through the permit process [...]

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  • a public meeting that will affect the Angel Oak Village Development

    a public meeting that will affect the Angel Oak Village Development

    On Wednesday, November 17, The City of Charleston Planning Commission will host a public meeting that will present an amendment to the City’s Zoning Ordinance that will affect the Angel Oak Village Development. The proposed ordinance would give developers a chance to move through the permit process faster by changing the role of the Commercial [...]

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  • Encounter with Angel Oak leads to conservation path

    Encounter with Angel Oak leads to conservation path

    Having lived in several states and held numerous jobs and with a college degree at least several years away, Samantha Siegel was confused about her future in the mid-1990s. But one meeting with Johns Island’s ancient Angel Oak changed everything. “I came to the Angel Oak and I was reborn,” said Siegel, now 28, who after seeing [...]

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  • A Queen’s Prayer for the Angel Oak : Gullah/Geechee TV Nayshun Nyews with Queen Quet Ep 35 Parts 1-3

    A Queen’s Prayer for the Angel Oak : Gullah/Geechee TV Nayshun Nyews with Queen Quet Ep 35 Parts 1-3

    Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation interviews Lorna Young Hattler, founder of “Save the Angel Oak” (www.savetheangeloak.org) on this episode. The Angel Oak is hundreds of years old and stands as the home tree of Gullah/Geechees. It is located on John’s Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation and is being threatened by destructionment. Part 1: Part [...]

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