Robert Behre

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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

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009

Circuit Judge Roger Young has appointed a receiver in the $23.8 million foreclosure suit against The Navy Yard at Noisette. Read MoreRead More

Vote for change

'We still have to go all the way to Mount Pleasant to make something happen'

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
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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. Read MoreRead More

Noisette property goes into receivership

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

Circuit Court Judge Roger Young has appointed a receiver in the $23.8 million foreclosure suit against The Navy Yard at Noisette. Read MoreRead More

Smooth sailing for Billy Swails

Mt. Pleasant elects new mayor

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
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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. Read MoreRead More

Swails sails into Mount Pleasant mayor's office

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
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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. Read MoreRead More

Will coal tipple get help before it topples?

Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
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The opening of the Ravenel Bridge a few years back has obscured one of the odder historic sites in Charleston Harbor. Read MoreRead More

Hanahan man dies in crash

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009

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... Read MoreRead More

Who do you want in charge?

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009

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. Read MoreRead More

Mt. Pleasant mayoral candidates similar, but have subtle differences

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009
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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. Read MoreRead More

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