_ By Tiffani Ireland – Nearly a year ago, Enova Energy Group, a wood pellet processing company from Georgia, announced that it would be opening a processing plant in Edgefield County. That announcement, coupled with the request for property rezoning on Hwy 121, has led citizens to believe the plant is seeking to locate there […]
– By Tiffani Ireland – In a 2-1 vote at their regularly scheduled monthly meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 6, (Councilwoman Genia Blackwell was absent and Councilman Dorn left mid-meeting) Edgefield County Council passed a measure to lift the county-wide hiring freeze that has been in place since May 2011. Originally instituted to save County funds and […]
The William Miller Bouknight Theatre, home of the Edgefield County Theater Company, will close out their 2012-2013 season with the hilarious comedy, The Hallelujah Girls August 16-18 and August 23-25. Written by Jones, Hope, Wooten–the same writers who gave us The Dixie Swim Club, Christmas Belles and Dearly Departed, this show is sure to put a […]
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. through first Sat. in Sept. 9:00 a.m.-1:00.For more info call Carolyn Piekielniak @ 637-6861 or 803-507-0278. Planning Commission: Planning Commission will meet September 12, […]
Edgefield County, SC – Another sales tax on pretty much everything Edgefield County consumers purchase – one percent: “Nobody ever wants to pay more taxes, that’s a standard answer,” says Brian Dowler, an Edgefield County taxpayer. Read more: Edgefield County Considers Adding Tax – WJBF-TV ABC 6 Augusta-Aiken News, Weather, Sports.
Monday night Abby Davis, age 6, and Baylee Redman, age 9, both of Johnston, joined thousands of excited fans with their mothers, at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia to a sellout of the Justin Bieber concert. Abby and Baylee are pictured just before Bieber came on stage. It was a funfilled night for the […]
For Close of the Summer Reading Program The Edgefield County Library served hot dogs, drinks and chips in celebration of the ending of the Summer Reading Program. This was on Thursday afternoon as children came from all over the county to enjoy the refreshments. More was going on inside as library workers and board members […]
A fifteen-year-old Edgefield County girl was abducted Fri., Aug. 2, by her mother after the mother lost custody to the child’s paternal grandparents that same day. Reportedly, the child’s grandparents, with whom the child had resided for the past year, had sought and won an emergency temporary court order earlier on Friday placing the girl […]
WARD, S.C. – Funeral Services for Mrs. Virginia (Jen) Howell Salter, age 68, will be held Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at Dry Creek Baptist Church with burial to follow in Spann United Methodist Church Cemetery, Ward, SC. Mrs. Salter passed away Monday, August 5, 2013. She was a daughter of the late W. O. and Mae Underwood […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The International Academy of Trial Lawyers has inducted David E. Dukes, a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP’s Columbia office, as a Fellow. David is the son of Anne and Sonny Dukes of Johnston. The International Academy is comprised of lawyers representing both sides of the Bar: prosecutors and defense […]