The BP gas station on Hwy 25 in Edgefield was robbed a little after 8:00 Monday night, Nov. 24. According to Edgefield Chief of Police Ronnie Carter, two unidentified black males entered the store when the clerk was mopping for the night and ordered her to give them money. At least one of the robbers […]
JOHNSTON, S.C. – Funeral Services for Cleo Asbill Turner, age 85, will be held on Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 12 noon in Bland Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in Mt. of Olives Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday evening at the funeral home from 6-8 pm. Mrs. Turner died Monday, November 24, […]
Miss Wardlaw pageant was held Saturday, November 15. Pictured are: Wee Miss-Hannah Kelly; Miss Wardlaw -Hannah Abernathy; Junior Miss -Davis Wash; Young Miss- Ashland Yonce and Little Miss – Brianna McNeill.
The strange weather that kicked off the month of November with snow in Edgefield County, Nov. 1, and lingered with unseasonably cold temperatures throughout the month seems to be continuing still with Sunday night’s wind storm. While no tornado was reported, the Westside of the county experienced high winds that, according to Emergency Management Director […]
Read it in this week’s print edition. Be sure to pick up your copy at local convenience stores. November 6, 2014, the jury in the Edgefield County Criminal Court found two defendants “not guilty” in a case involving alleged burglary, kidnapping and armed robbery. Mr. A. Roger Lamb of Johnston was the victim in the case, […]
Dog Stolen on Hwy 191 The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a dog being stolen from a residence on Hwy 191 in Johnston, Saturday, Nov. 22. According to the ECSO report, the owner and his dog, which is described as a chocolate colored Labrador retriever, were outside in his yard when […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mrs. Anna Clare Seigler Gilchrist, 89, of Gilchrist Rd., wife of the late T.B. Gilchrist, died Friday November 21, 2014. Funeral Services will be held Monday November 24, 2014 at 2 P.M. at Rehoboth Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Gilchrist was born in Edgefield County and was a […]
MANSFIELD, OH – William Frederick “Bill” Turner, Sr. passed away on Friday, November 21, 2014 at Kindred Hospital, Mansfield, OH. He was 91. He was born on March 25, 1923 in Edgefield County, South Carolina to parents Frederick Stokes and Rubye M. (Ransom) Turner. On February 10, 1943, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps. He received training […]
A thirty-two year old Edgefield County man with down syndrome that went missing from his North Martintown Road home around 2:00 Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 19, was located by the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office shortly before nightfall Wednesday evening. The ECSO canine tracking team as well as other deputies from the ECSO, the SC Department of […]
JOHNSTON FARMER’S & ARTIST’S MARKET continues each Thursday from 4 – 6 p.m. There will not be a market Thanksgiving week. Thursday, December 4th, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. will be our ANNUAL HOLIDAY MARKET and will end the season. Fall Book Fair: W.E. Parker Elem. School will continue their Book Fair from 7:45 – […]