Does your church, school, or organization want a fun way to foster community pride and win a $100 donation? Then participate in Edgefield Community Development Association’s Town Decorating Contest. Contact Becky Turner or Sharon Nunamaker for details at 803-637-3400. Each organization will have a light pole in downtown Edgefield to decorate for the competition. It will all be in a […]
The Southern Studies event of last weekend was a great success, according to the Tompkins Library director Tonya Browder. She noted that someone said, and many agreed: “Edgefield is one of the most hospitable places I have been,” noting that people were friendly wherever they went. The businesses in Edgefield were happy with the attendees […]
Mayor Paul Bartley installed the new police chief of Ridge Spring on September 9th. He is Jarrod Goldman form Wagner. Others in attendance were Capt. Mike Rushton and Sheriff Perry, both from Saluda County Sheriff’s Office.
Johnston Farmer’s & Artist’s Market every Thursday, from 4 – 6 p.m. in front of the Library/Warehouse on Calhoun Street. Edgefield Farmers Arts and Crafts Market: On the Town Square every Sat. 9:00 a.m.-1:00.For more info call Carolyn Piekielniak @ 637-6861 or 803-507-0278. Children’s Books Campaign: County Council Chairman Dean Campbell has designated the Friends of […]
Strom Thurmond Career and Technology Center faculty members Darla Steele and Jeremy Brooks have been named South Carolina Mid-State Region Outstanding Agricultural Education Teachers of the Year for 2013 by the South Carolina Association of Agricultural Educators. Darla who is in her fifth year as agricultural education instructor at the career and technology center was […]
OPINION: – By G. Miller Thompson – The Penal Code of the State of California (Section 597) states that “every person who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, drink, or shelter, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills any animal…and whoever…subjects any animal to the needless suffering, or inflicts unnecessary […]
The National Wild Turkey Federation has long served as a leader in upland wildlife conservation and an advocate for our country’s hunters. Now, it has plans to expand its Edgefield, S.C., campus, on which it will build a facility to help better fulfill its mission. The NWTF Hunting Heritage Center will be a destination for […]
AIKEN, S.C. – Funeral services for Mr. DeMarco Langford will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 12 noon, at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church with the Rev. Ernest Gordon, Pastor. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be 6-8pm Tuesday at the Funeral Home. He is survived by mother, Dorothy Walker; step-father, Robert […]
Late fall and winter bring “hard times” for small game species like bobwhite quail and rabbits, according to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. Natural food becomes scarce and resting and escape cover is thin in the fall and winter, according to Willie Simmons, Small Game Project Supervisor with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources […]