A man on whom the Johnston Police Department has a warrant for attempted murder was spotted by a citizen Friday afternoon, Oct. 5, near Edisto Street in Johnston. The JPD and the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene where a perimeter was established and the canine unit deployed. However, the man was not […]
A fire on Old Plank Road in Johnston Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 2, damaged the former location of the animal shelter All God’s Creatures and current home of Grant and Denise Holcombe. According to Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Casey, the fire appears to have started in the kitchen and was possibly electrical in nature. Although […]
The month long investigation by the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office that resulted in the rescue of numerous animals from a residence on Holmes Pond Road has ended in a guilty plea of ill treatment of animals. Callie Abel, owner of the seized animals, entered her plea last week and officially brought this chapter in the […]
The HSUS, Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office and Humane Society of Charlotte Work Together to Save Animals JOHNSTON, S.C. (Sept. 11, 2012) – The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society of Charlotte were called in by the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office to assist in the rescue of approximately 250 animals from a Johnston, […]
Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office and HSUS Make the Rescue – The call to the media was to follow Edgefield County’s Sheriff Adell Dobey, his officers and members of the Humane Society of the U.S. to a place – hidden to the press at the time – and more would be revealed when we got there. […]
Mac McQuown was “holding court” at Jim Satcher Ford in Johnston, Wednesday afternoon, June 20, and he was surrounded by many interested people who wanted to know about this journey he is taking. Already he has walked over a thousand miles as a way to bring awareness to the wounded veterans and their needs, as […]
He has been driving a truck for 35 years, a total of 3.1 million miles, enough to have gone around the world 140 time, and has never had a wreck, never gotten a ticket or points off his license! That is enough to make any man eligible for an award. That is one reason the […]
The first order of business conducted during the May 2012 Johnston Town Council Meeting was to express the town’s gratitude for the services rendered by volunteer firemen. Mayor Andy Livingston presented monetary awards to the volunteers that had achieved a score of 70 or above on the state proficiency criteria that are representative of percentage […]
It was a beautiful day for the Johnston Peach Blossom Festival. Although the peach blossoms came early this year and showed gloriously in late February and early March, they appeared only in print or in paintings. However, peaches were actually being shipped from the packing sheds. Proof of this was a long truck loaded with […]
The event in Johnston on Friday, the WJBF Hometown Tour, brought visitors and citizens out for the afternoon. The day started with a luncheon, followed by tours that took WJBF out to the J. W. Yonce Peach Packing Shed. Later, around 5:00, the TV crew gathered at the large parking lot next to the “Welcome […]