The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to help with its annual Summer Turkey Survey. Annually, since 1982, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources conducts a Summer Turkey Survey to estimate reproduction and recruitment of wild turkeys in South Carolina. The survey involves agency wildlife biologists, technicians and conservation officers, as well […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office was called to Holmes Pond Road, Monday, June 13, in reference to a break-in at a Dixie Bell labor camp located on the road. Law enforcement was advised that at some point during the day someone had entered three rooms at the camp and stolen money and other items […]
An Edgefield County woman missing since, Saturday, June 11, was found alive and unharmed Wednesday morning, June 15. According to an Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office report on the incident, the ECSO was called to a residence on Turkey Ridge Court Tuesday afternoon, June 14, by a male wishing to report his live-in girlfriend as missing. […]
I recently thought of a clever speech concept that could be used by any of the three remaining candidates in the ’16 Presidential race. As I developed the idea, I visited one of the candidate’s “Official” websites and realized it was very difficult to communicate my idea to the campaign as compared to contributing my […]
One of my favorite politicians of a generation ago was Alan Simpson, the Republican Senator from Wyoming. Like all public figures, sometimes he said things and voted in a way that I wish were different, and at other times he seemed to me to be spot on. One statement of his that bears repeating in […]
I have the privilege of sitting on a porch my great-grandfather sat on as our republic prepared for WWI. The same porch my grandfather sat on as he lived through the depression and our republic prepared for WWII. The same porch my father sat on as he worked through the issues of the Cold War. […]
Antioch Sponsors Soul Surfer, “A Perfect Night on the Square” The ECDA was extremely pleased with the turn out for our June Movie-on-the-Square. “We had over 150 individuals gathered around the square, participating in all the festivities and then watching Soul Surfer. Folks were sitting in chairs and spread out on blankets. It was a postcard […]
Edgefield County Republican Primary Senate Races Massey 1411 Pettigrew 1122 Solicitor Hubbard 1408 Lively 735 Wedekind 238
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to three separate calls involving snakes over the weekend. In two of those instances, snakes were reported being seen on or around the victims’ homes. In one of those two calls, to a home on Youngblood Road in Trenton, Friday, June 10, the homeowner reported seeing a 6 foot […]
Music and Dance Coming from the Ridge Lots of local talent, coming from the Ridge prjmarily, will be spreading their song and dance throughout the day at the 46th Annual Ridge Peach Festival in Trenton, S.C. starting at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. As noted in additional stories inn the Advertiser print edition, Brooker Strom and […]