Robert Behre
Robert Behre graduated from Dartmouth College in 1985 with a degree in English and spent five years writing for the Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont before moving to Charleston in 1990. He has covered city and county government for The Post and Courier and also has served as an assistant city editor. His weekly column on architecture and preservation began in 1996. The column looks at the people and decisions involved in saving old buildings, and designing new ones that people will want to save, all with an eye toward what gives the Lowcountry its unique sense of place.
Recent Stories
Receiver appointed for Navy Yard
Company still optimistic redevelopment will succeed
Circuit Judge Roger Young has appointed a receiver in the $23.8 million foreclosure suit against The Navy Yard at Noisette.
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Vote for change
'We still have to go all the way to Mount Pleasant to make something happen'
AWENDAW -- The mayoral race here between longtime incumbent William Alston and challenger Samuel Robinson had been portrayed as a battle over how this rural town should grow.
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Noisette property goes into receivership
Circuit Court Judge Roger Young has appointed a receiver in the $23.8 million foreclosure suit against The Navy Yard at Noisette.
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Smooth sailing for Billy Swails
Mt. Pleasant elects new mayor
MOUNT PLEASANT -- As Town Councilman Billy Swails handily won a three-way race to become this town's new mayor, he was embraced by former Mayor Harry Hallman, who talked Swails into running for the job earlier this year.
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Swails sails into Mount Pleasant mayor's office
As Town Councilman Billy Swails handily won a three-way race to become this town’s new mayor, he was embraced by former Mayor Harry Hallman, who talked Swails into running for the job earlier this year.
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Will coal tipple get help before it topples?
The opening of the Ravenel Bridge a few years back has obscured one of the odder historic sites in Charleston Harbor.
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Hanahan man dies in crash
A man being pursued by a Hanahan police car died Saturday morning after his truck veered off Yeamans Hall Road twice before hitting a tree, authorities said. Nathaniel Gibbs, 56, of Hanahan was taken to Trident Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Berkeley County Chief Deputy Cor...
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Who do you want in charge?
Voters in 11 Lowcountry cities and towns will head to the polls Tuesday to decide who should be in charge. While Mount Pleasant's three-way mayoral race has attracted the bulk of the attention, voters also will decide several other significant contests.
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Mt. Pleasant mayoral candidates similar, but have subtle differences
MOUNT PLEASANT -- It can be difficult sorting out how this town might change in the wake of Tuesday's three-way race for mayor.
The mayor's job doesn't carry much more authority than a Town Council seat. Unlike Charleston and North Charleston, where the mayor also is the city's full-time administrator, Mount Pleasant's mayor is a part-time post more akin to a county council chairman.
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