A local DUI crash prevention coalition has purchased equipment for area Highway Patrol officers in support of their efforts to keep Edgefield County’s roads safer. The Community Action for a Safer Edgefield coalition recently provided officers with Troop Two of the SC Highway Patrol with public safety checkpoint signs and LED road flares. The signs […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mr. Lee Terrell Mathis, Sr., 94, of Edgefield, husband of Katherine Hammond Mathis, died Wednesday December 19, 2012 at the Edgefield County Hospital. Funeral Services will be held Saturday December 22, 2012 at 11 A.M. at Peace Haven Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Mr. Mathis was a native of Edgefield, […]
Washington, DC–Congressman Jeff Duncan’s legislation, the “Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act,” (H.R. 3783) passed the U.S. Congress by a vote of 386-6, and now awaits the President’s signature to become law. “One of the ways we can honor those who lost their lives during the War on Terror is to be vigilant in […]
Charles Moss Duke Jr. attended elementary school in Johnston, S.C., where he lived with his mother, Willie Waters Duke, while his father, Charles Duke Sr., was in World War II. He had a twin brother, Billy, named for his mother, who became a doctor and remained in Lancaster where the family lived after they were […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office made 3 arrests and confiscated what is believed to be illegal drugs and alcohol from 2 different residences in separate raids conducted on Friday, Dec. 14. According to reports filed with the ECSO, in the first incident, two men were arrested on drug charges after deputies with the narcotics unit […]
Strom Thurmond graduate and star football player, Octavious Brown, signed to play football for Youngstown State last Wednesday morning at the high school library. Joining Octavious for the ceremony were his mother Ms. Endie Curry of Trenton and Head Coach Sawyer, Coach Collier and Athletic Director Coach Scott. Octavious recently completed his studies at Georgia […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of counterfeit money at McDonalds, Monday, Dec. 17. Upon arriving, an employee with the restaurant informed deputies that an unidentified black male attempted to pay for his purchase with a counterfeit fifty dollar bill. The bill was discovered to be a forgery by the use of […]
Keeley Marchant, an 8th grader at Merriwether Middle School, finished second in the National Punt, Pass & Kick competition this past weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Atlanta-Carolina pro football game. The Punt, Pass & Kick competition was established in 1961 and is the oldest NFL youth football program. Competitors are required to punt, […]
Former Squirrel Champion Bounces Back – The Red Hill Houndsmen Hunt Club hosted the SC State Championship Squirrel Hunt, Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Brunson Community Center. Dogs from across South Carolina and Georgia competed for the coveted title of State Champion, but this year’s title went to a local hunter. Bounce’s Crook, owned by […]
BELVEDERE, S.C. – Graveside services for Mrs. Frances Busbee Green, age 81, will be held Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 2 pm at Busbee Cemetery off Luke Bridge Road, Johnston, SC. The family will receive friends at the gravesite following the service. Bland Funeral Home, Johnston, is assisting the family with arrangements. Mrs. Green, a […]