Hearing Held Monday Evening in Edgefield The Edgefield Historic Preservation Association held a demonstration, July 8, 2015 outside a meeting of the Piedmont Technical College Foundation Board in Saluda, S.C. The purpose of the demonstration was to alert the board members of the importance of saving the historic Adams Cotton Warehouse (see article Advertiser July […]
Tryouts for a role in this much loved drama is Thursday 16th July, 2015, 7pm at the Discovery Center. All are welcome. The drama takes place in 1810 and portrays Edgefield’s legendary Becky Cotton who murdered her husband with an axe. The story is derived from the works of a travelling Parson/book peddler who immortalized […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Alva Holmes Jackson, age 94, passed away Monday, July 13, 2015. She was a loving faithful wife of fifty-eight years to the late Jesse Cromwell Jackson. Born November 11, 1920 in Edgefield, SC, Alva was the fifth of nine daughters of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mattilee Schenk Holmes. She was a graduate […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mrs. Ardatha Priester Schultz, 81, of Edgefield, wife of the late Marvin L. (Pete) Schultz, died Saturday July 11, 2015. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday July 14, 2015 at 10 A.M. at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home with burial in Sunset Gardens Memorial Park in Edgefield. Mrs. Schultz was born in Camden, S.C. […]
Aiken Electric Cooperative (AEC) Area Director, Todd Scoggins has been volunteering with Salkehatchie Summer Service Camp for over 12 years with his dad, seventeen-year veteran Gene Scoggins. Now his son, Benji Scoggins is embracing the family tradition. Also volunteering, for a second year, was AEC Crew Chief Chris Turner. Salkehatchie Summer Service Camp is a […]
Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: I just moved out of the County where I lived for 16 years. Have become weary of constantly having to call animal control about neighbor dogs coming in my yard, barking at me, pooping all over right next to my house; neighbors with 5 large dogs out in the road, […]
Scott Goyette who sent word to Michelle Simpkins to contact him in Costa Rica, where he is this week for a conference, if he is needed for press information. He is coming to Edgefield next week to give a motivational speech at W.E. Parker. The time and date is 5:00 (reception), and presentation is […]
The two women whose art will appear in the Aiken Artist Gallery of the Aiken Center for the Arts in July are both educators who now seek second careers as artists. Debbie Black is a recent retiree whose varied career in education ended this past June with her last days as an assistant principal at […]
On the weekend of June 20, 2015 Tim Worth of Edgefield, SC, travelled to Harkers Island, North Carolina, to compete in the “rig of six” working decoy competition hosted by the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum. In this competition rigs of six working decoys are floated in the sound and judged from the bank. Tim entered […]
Opinion – By Brian McCracken – I am a white, middle-class South Carolinian male raised and instilled with Republican values, and I support taking down the Confederate flag flying in front of the South Carolina State House. I am a former Civil War reenactor, an avid lover of history who can name each successive battle, […]