Betty M. Chrisco

EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Betty Jean Mobley Chrisco, of Rabbit Trail, wife of Reverend Steve Chrisco, died Thursday, August 23, 2012 at University Hospital. Funeral Services will be held Sunday August 26, 2012 at 2 P.M. at the Edgefield Church of God with burial in Eastview Cemetery in Edgefield. Mrs. Chrisco was a native of Edgefield County […]

SCDHEC: Dam, Reservoir Owners and Operators Should Begin Lowering Water Levels

SCDHEC: Dam, Reservoir Owners and Operators Should Begin Lowering Water Levels

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Owners and operators of reservoirs throughout South Carolina should check their dams immediately, and during the next several days for possible problems caused by heavy rainfall, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control announced today. “Owners who have the ability to lower their reservoir’s water level should safely do so to […]

Tour Group Announcement

Tour Group Announcement

The Town of Edgefield would like you to help welcome 42 folks to Edgefield this Saturday, August 25th! Carolina Tours out of Columbia will be coming in this Saturday for a Ladies Mystery Tour! Stops include the Tompkins Library, shopping Downtown on the square, lunch at the Old Edgefield Grill, Oakley Park and a Mercy […]

Brenda Percival Williams

MODOC, S. C. – Mrs. Brenda P. Williams, 53, wife of Ben Williams Sr., died Thursday August 23, 2012 at the Edgefield County Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday August 25, 2012 at 2:00 P. M. at Red Oak Grove Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Williams was a native of Edgefield […]

From the Mountains of Austria to Edgefield’s Hickory Hill

From the Mountains of Austria to Edgefield’s Hickory Hill

Josef Kals is Austrian, and what’s more, he comes from the mountainous western part of the country, from a small farm of 15 cows (Simmental heifers he calls them).  Here in the south of the U.S. on Faulkner Mountain Rd. he is working on a farm of 500 cows, (Holsteins) – this is Hickory Hill […]

Import of Deer, Elk Parts into S.C. Limited by State Regulation

Import of Deer, Elk Parts into S.C. Limited by State Regulation

With big game seasons opening in many Western states, hunters traveling abroad are reminded not to import into South Carolina certain carcass parts from deer and elk harvested in states with chronic wasting disease. To protect the state’s extremely valuable white-tailed deer resource, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has maintained a regulation restricting […]

Area Associate Degree Nursing Students Honored

Area Associate Degree Nursing Students Honored

Recent graduates of Piedmont Technical College’s associate degree nursing program at the Greenwood campus were recognized in a pinning ceremony in August. The students and their hometowns are, front from left, Cynthia Bryan, Edgefield; Jennifer Dorn, Newberry; and Elizabeth Morris, Saluda. Back, Jessica Prince, Whitmire; Janice Sliter, Johnston; and Cyndel Wilson, Ridge Spring.

Helen M. Powell

LAURENS, S.C. – Helen Rebecca McDowell Powell, 86, of 331 Bethel Church Rd. and widow of Charles Pinckney “Pick” Powell, Jr., passed away at Laurens County Hospital, Thursday, August 23, 2012. Born in Edgefield, she was a daughter of the late Jesse Parker and Betty Glausier McDowell. A homemaker, Mrs. Powell was a member of […]