EDGEFIELD, S.C. – March 10, 2015 – Reflecting back a little over a year ago to the night of the 5th of January 2014, the local fire departments were dispatched to the shop of Log Creek Timber Company and Williams Brothers Farm. With great effort, the firefighters saved a portion of the shop and once […]
Second City/Town in S.C. “Literacy Blossoms in Edgefield” was in the headline of the story in The Edgefield Advertiser (March 4, 2015) which announced that Laurel Blossom has been endorsed by Edgefield Town Council as “Edgefield’s Poet Laureate.” Edgefield is the second town in the State of South Carolina to name a Poet Laureate for […]
RIDGE SPRING, S.C. – Harriet “Hattie” Lawton Watson, a long time resident of Ridge Spring died February 18, 2015, in Aiken, S.C. She was born July 17, 1919, in Richmond, Va. to Iverson Brookes and Gwendolyn McClellan Lawton and lived in Allendale, S.C. until her marriage to Philip Spigener Watson of Ridge Spring. She is […]
JOHNSTON – Mrs. Dolly Annette Halford, a member of Johnston ARP Presbyterian Church, entered into eternal rest Saturday March 7, 2015 at her residence. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, March 21, at 3 P.M. at Johnston Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Halford was born in Augusta, Ga. on St. Patrick’s Day and half Irish. She […]
Governor Nikki Haley has declared March 8-14 Severe Weather Week. In response, the Edgefield County Emergency Management Agency will conduct a severe weather drill for all three towns in Edgefield County; Edgefield, Johnston, and Trenton. These drills will occur on Monday, Mar. 9 at 12:00 and Wednesday, Mar. 11 at 9:00. Citizens are reminded that […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mrs. Sara Bryan Greene, 82, of Edgefield, wife of the late Rev. Marion Greene, went home to be with her Lord, at her residence, on March 4, 2015 with her family by her side. Funeral Services will be held Friday March 6, 2015 at 3 P.M. at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home with […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Naomi “Ooty” Doolittle Percival, 92, of Edgefield, died Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at her home. A private service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Red Oak Grove Cemetery with the Rev. Preston Creech officiating. Mrs. Percival was a born in Edgefield. She was the daughter of the late Henry Lee and […]
Opinion – By Robert Scott – This past week the biggest political news story was the battle between Republicans and Democrats in Washington over funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The arguments seem to boil down to this. From Republicans: President Obama has usurped powers reserved for Congress in the United States Constitution, in […]
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Virginia Thomason Brunson Mann, 92, widow of former U.S. Congressman James Robert Mann, died at home after a long illness on February 19, 2015. Mrs. Mann was born in Edgefield, SC, on May 5, 1922, the daughter of the late Artemas Lowe Brunson and Virginia Thomason Brunson. She grew up in Charleston, […]
CLEMSON, S.C. – February’s frigid temperatures could make spring and summer tiring seasons for South Carolina peach growers. Crop losses due to freezing temperatures likely will be minimal, said Gregory Reighard, a pomology professor at Clemson University, speaking at a peach grower update meeting in Edgefield this month. But the cold snap could condense the […]