This week, not much changed. The media voted again to see who the top 10 teams in each of the five SCHSL classifications are and largely, at least in the No. 1 spots, it remained the same from a week ago.

Hillcrest received one first-place vote in Class AAAAA, Spartanburg dropped out of the Top 10 in AAAAA surprisingly. And other teams shifted from last week's poll. In parentheses is the amount of No. 1 votes a team received. If a team moved in to a ranking, up or down, it is noted below. Teams that are ranked the same as last week will not have anything next to their name.

Class AAAAA

1. Dutch Fork (19)

2. Byrnes

3. Hillcrest (1)

4. Dorman

5. Sumter (Last week: 6th)

6. Summerville (Last week: 8th)

7. River Bluff (Last week: 10th)

8. Fort Dorchester (Last week: 5th)

9. White Knoll (Last week: NR, receiving votes)

10. Lexington (Last week: NR, receiving votes)

Others receiving votes: Spartanburg, TL Hanna, Gaffney West Ashley, Clover JL Mann, Chapin

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Class AAAA

1. South Pointe (17)

2. Northwestern (3)

3. AC Flora

4. South Florence

5. West Florence

6. Catawba Ridge (Last week: 7th)

7. Indian Land (Last week: 9th)

8. Hartsville (Last week: 6th)

9. James Island (Last week: 8th)

10. Ridge View

Others receiving votes: Westside, Irmo, Lancaster, Wilson, Greenville, York, Myrtle Beach

Class AAA

1. Daniel (19)

2. Dillon (1)

3. Powdersville

4. Clinton (Last week: 5th)

5. Gilbert (Last week: 6th)

6. Beaufort (Last week: 8th)

7. Camden (Last week: 4th)

8. Hanahan (Last week: 9th)

9. Belton-Honea Path (Last week: 10th)

10. Seneca (Last week: 7th)

Others receiving votes: Loris, Philip Simmons, Chester, Union County, Aynor, Manning, Marlboro County, Emerald, Woodruff

Class AA

1. Saluda (15)

2. Oceanside Collegiate (2, Last week: 4th)

3. Barnwell (3)

4. Abbeville (Last week: 2nd, two first-place votes)

5. Wade Hampton (Last week: 6th)

6. Buford (Last week: 7th)

7. Woodland (Last week: 8th)

8. Marion (Last week: 9th)

9. Gray Collegiate (Last week: NR, receiving votes)

10. Fairfield Central (Last week: 5th)

Others receiving votes: Andrews, Pelion, Lake Marion, Strom Thurmond, Academic Magnet, Andrew Jackson, Silver Bluff, Cheraw

Class A

1. St. Joseph’s (15)

2. Bamberg-Ehrhardt (2, Last week: 3rd)

3. Johnsonville (1, Last week: 4th)

4. Whale Branch (Last week: 2nd)

5. Lewisville (1)

6. Christ Church

7. Lake View (1, Last week: 10th)

8. Baptist Hill

9. Southside Christian

10. Lamar (Last week: 7th)

Others receiving votes: Calhoun County, McBee, Latta, Estill, Hunter-Kinard-Tyler, Denmark-Olar

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The redistricting process for the city of Charleston is well underway, and Tuesday night the City Council and the public will review potential renderings for the new districts.

Some Johns Islanders are advocating for Johns Island to be all one district, and for the first time in Charleston’s history, there is a potential it could be.

Peter Rubino, a resident of Johns Island, says the original draft from the city split Johns Island into three districts.

Through email campaigns and spreading awareness, he and other advocates were able to get it down to two districts, and after tonight, hopefully, one.

“If you don’t speak up, then you’re not going to get what you need,” Rubino said.

He said having all of Johns Island in one district would give Johns Islanders a real say in their future, and true influence in city decisions.

He said he wants the person who represents Johns Island to live on Johns Island, with the hope that the shared experiences of the island will lead to more impactful decision making.

“We want someone who’s going to live here, and understands the issues, what the desires are of the people who live here and have to put up with the traffic and the growth and all of those things. Because if you don’t live here, you don’t see all those things that are going on,” Rubino said.

Tuesday night, he, along with other advocates, plan to attend the City Council Meeting to continue the fight for one district.

The city of Charleston’s Chief Innovation Officer Tracy Mckee said two scenarios will be presented tonight.

She said the first one prioritizes minimizing change, but splits Johns Island into two districts.

“In that scenario, Johns Island has two representatives, but each of those representatives also represent parts of West Ashley as well as James Island,” McKee said.

She said the second, which keeps Johns Island under one district, prioritizes compactness and communities of interest.

In that scenario, Johns Island has only one representative.

Regardless, Mckee says the City is doing its best to listen to the public and accommodate their desires.

“We have made a really good effort to get public opinion this time and bake that opinion into our plans as much as possible,” Mckee said.

As of now, Johns Island is a part of a larger district in West Ashley. Up until this redistricting, it did not have the population to be its own district.

Tuesday’s meeting is at 5 p.m. at the Charleston City Hall at 80 Broad Street. Rubino encourages those passionate about redistricting on Johns Island to sign up to speak.

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198 Competitors raced in the UKLA Noble Marine & Vaikobi Autumn ILCA 4, 6 and 7 Qualifier event at Hayling Island SC.

Six races were completed over the two days for each of the ILCA 4, 6 and 7 classes.

Winner of the ILCA 4 class overall was Noah Evans, second Leo Yates and third Archie Munro-Price (1st Under 16). First female was Kaitlyn Wyatt (9th overall).

Winner of the ILCA 6 (Radial) class overall was Daisy Collingridge, second Matilda Nicholls and third James Curtis (1st male &1st Under 19)

Winner of the ILCA 7 (Laser) class overall was Michael Beckett, second Sam Whaley and third Arthur Farley (1st under 19)

UKLA Noble Marine & Vaikobi ILCA 4 Qualifier 2 – Final Leaders (52 entries)

1st ILCA 4 Noah Evans – Royal Victoria YC 1 3 2 1 -8 1 – – 8 pts 2nd ILCA 4 Leo Yates – Island Barn SC -9 8 1 2 1 4 – – 16 pts 3rd ILCA 4 Archie Munro-Price – CCSC 5 1 5 -18 2 17 – – 30 pts 4th ILCA 4 Angus Beale – Corinthian Otters 7 5 6 -15 12 2 – – 32 pts 5th ILCA 4 Toby Smith – Rutland SC -28 13 4 10 3 7 – – 37 pts 6th ILCA 4 Tom Rawlings – Lyme Regis SC 16 -53 3 9 4 8 – – 40 pts 7th ILCA 4 Samson Cross – Shoreham -25 4 10 20 10 3 – – 47 pts 8th ILCA 4 Cameron Bignold-Kyles – RLymYC -53 12 7 7 18 6 – – 50 pts 9th ILCA 4 Kaitlyn Wyatt – Shoreham SC 20 7 22 5 -25 5 – – 59 pts 10th ILCA 4 Thomas Davey – Royal Harwich YC 13 17 -31 4 15 18 – – 67 pts

UKLA Noble Marine & Vaikobi ILCA 6 Qualifier 2 – Final Leaders (95 entries)

1st ILCA 6 Daisy Collingridge – Waldringfield SC 1 1 3 -9 1 1 – – 7 pts 2nd ILCA 6 Matilda Nicholls – Aldeburgh YC 2 -22 1 2 2 2 – – 9 pts 3rd ILCA 6 James Curtis – Bosham SC -41 5 8 6 6 7 – – 32 pts 4th ILCA 6 Jack Graham-Troll – Royal Lymington YC 7 3 2 -25 17 5 – – 34 pts 5th ILCA 6 Anya Haji-Michael – Redesmere SC -28 7 6 8 7 6 – – 34 pts 6th ILCA 6 Molly Sacker – TBA 3 -40 4 14 10.5 3 – – 34.5 pts 7th ILCA 6 Ben Elvin – Stokes Bay SC 21 10 (96 BFD) 1 4 4 – – 40 pts 8th ILCA 6 Chloe Elvin – Stokes Bay SC 12 9 -16 5 3 16 – – 45 pts 9th ILCA 6 Paige Caldecoat – CVT 9 -27 9 3 15 10 – – 46 pts 10th ILCA 6 Adriana Penruddocke – RBYC 6 13 -21 4 8 19 – – 50 pts

UKLA Noble Marine & Vaikobi ILCA 7 Qualifier 2 – Final Leaders (51 entries)

1st ILCA 7 Michael Beckett – Solva SC -3 1 1 1 1 1 – – 5 pts 2nd ILCA 7 Sam Whaley – Swanage SC 1 -8 2 3 4 3 – – 13 pts 3rd ILCA 7 Arthur Farley – BHYC 2 -12 3 4 2 6 – – 17 pts 4th ILCA 7 Sebastian Kempe – Royal Bermuda YC 4 4 -52 2 6 7 – – 23 pts 5th ILCA 7 James Percival-Cooke – Norfolk Broads YC 7 6 6 -8 3 2 – – 24 pts 6th ILCA 7 Jacob Farren-Price – Warsash SC -15 2 5 10 5 8 – – 30 pts 7th ILCA 7 Norman Struthers – Stokes Bay SC 5 -10 4 5 7 10 – – 31 pts 8th ILCA 7 James Foster – Poole YC 6 7 8 9 -10 5 – – 35 pts 9th ILCA 7 Finley Dickinson – Hayling Island SC 23 3 7 11 11 -52 – – 55 pts 10th ILCA 7 Luke Anstey – Frensham Pond SC 10 11 13 14 8 -52 – – 56 pts

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - A couple on James Island thought they were well on their way to renovating their back deck after hiring a Lowcountry contractor. But after the contractor took their money, they say the work never got done.

Don Geddes and his wife have lived on James Island for more than two decades. They recently revamped their front steps and in September of last year decided they wanted to pull the trigger on renovating their back deck as well. They wanted a certain material and Geddes says Travis Tardiff of Tardiff Builders initially came recommended by the company that makes the material.

“The deposit was 50 percent of the job,” Geddes says. “The job was $15,000 and we wrote him a check for $7,500. And that’s the last time I saw him.”

Geddes says Tardiff started out by emailing them updates.

“I wrote him that check in September,” Geddes says. “We would get emails that told us where we were in the process. He said some of the material had come in, and then he said the material had come in but not the railing.”

The last email though came in March when Geddes says Tardiff dissolved the contract.

“He said the money orders are in the mail – but we never got that,” Geddes says.

Geddes also found, out after the fact, that Tardiff’s contracting license with the state expired months before even taking on the job.

Attempts to reach Tardiff through multiple forms failed. The email account listed was not accurate and bounced back. Some of the phone numbers listed were out of service. One phone number made it to voicemail, but it was full. The address for the business listed is now occupied by another company.

At this point, Geddes has filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and says his next step is to take the matter to small claims court.

“We also need some kind of emotional closure to this – because it was a violation in a way for us,” Geddes says. “But doing the interviews with the new people are more exciting because I’m going to be counting on these people to do the work they promised to do.”

If you are in a similar situation, you should contact the S.C. Department of Consumer Affairs and the Better Business Bureau.

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JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - People who live on James Island are rallying together and encouraging an email campaign against a development off of Folly Road and Grimball Road Extension.

The development would build 68 townhomes, 5 workforce units and commercial space. It would also allow for filling in 0.23 acres of freshwater non-tidal forested wetlands.

Greg Payton lives on Donnie Road, right off of Grimball Extension. His family has lived in the home and community for more than 100 years. The proposed development would back up to his home. He says he is worried about a lot of things, including stormwater runoff and traffic.

“They want to fill in the wetlands, and they’re going to have to cut down some trees, so if it rains, where is the water going to go? It’s going to come on our families, it’s going to be in our backyards and we’re going to be flooded under,” Payton says.

He also has concerns about how the amount of people moving in would affect traffic and the livability of his neighborhood.

“I say each unit is two cars, that’s 140, where are they going?” Payton asks “People have to go to work in the morning, how long will it take for people to come down Grimball Road Extension?”

He says he wants to attend a public hearing about the plans.

“We want to make sure that if they are going to build something, that they do it correctly,” Payton says.

The applicant developers are requesting to fill a little less than a quarter of an acre of wetlands. That filling would not have “a substantial adverse impact,” according to an Army Corps of Engineers initial study. The study found the filling would have ‘no effect’ on any federally endangered or threatened species.

The applicant is asking to fill .2 acres to construct a commercial parking lot and the other .03 to install a stormwater drainage structure, according to a June 24th, 2022, Army Corps of Engineers’ notice.

The report says the applicant will preserve the remaining .75 acres of wetlands to compensate for any impacts.

The Army Corps of Engineers is taking comments on the project through Monday, July 11. Operators of the ‘Save James Island’ Facebook page are encouraging people who are opposed to sending an email reading in part:

“I oppose the filling of any wetlands (no matter how ‘small’)…this historic area is plagued by flooding and drainage issues, and the preservation of natural wetlands and trees are our best and least-costly defense. Pleas hold a public hearing so the Army Corps of Engineers has ALL of the information, including the voice of the people who live here.”

The applicant appeared before Charleston City Technical Review Committee in April and is working to resolve some of the comments before coming back with a revised plan for the development.

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