Story Published Serially in the Print Edition Billy Herron is the “new” author The Advertiser is introducing, his stories start this week. He really isn’t new in that readers, both enjoyed a series of Steven’s Creek fishing expeditions along with biological studies of the mud cats in that creek last spring – all from his […]
– By Jack Reece – A couple of weeks ago my editor sent me a memo indicating that she had received numerous requests to explain the yellow ribbons in town and asked that I research and publish an explanation. The short version is that a number of soldiers from the 122nd Engineer Battalion, headquartered in Edgefield, […]
OPINION: By G. Miller Thompson – If you have ten dollars in your pocket, you cannot purchase an item that costs twenty dollars. Seems simple right? This principle is called living within one’s means, or not spending more than you have. The idea is not complex, yet has perplexed the minds of many in Washington. […]
Alas! Hattie Watson’s Columns have run their course and her books have been published, two of them for readers to keep in their libraries. We have spent the late spring and early summer letting go that popular column, getting the news out about her new book, and feeling regret that we will not be reading […]
The Continuing Adventures of a Very Lucky Black and White Dog By Penny L. Hunt Chapter 3 – And Now There Are Two Last week: The sixth grade class at Whitman Academy began plotting ways to catch three puppies living in a pipe… The plan was brilliant! A can of the smelliest cat food anyone […]
September 12, 2012 The Continuing Adventures of a Very Lucky Black and White Dog By Penny L. Hunt Chapter 2 – Not Fast Enough! Wham! Bill kicked the ball hard shooting it like a bullet over the pitcher’s head and into the outfield where it whizzed past Rhett and smacked against the chain-link […]
September 5, 2012 Piper Tales The Continuing Adventures of a Very Lucky Black and White Dog By Penny L. Hunt Chapter 1 – Puppies In A Pipe No one saw the paint-worn, rusty pickup or the old man driving but sometime during the night, with its headlights out and motor idling low, it had crept […]
A Short Autobiography By Kim Walker I have been writing about donkeys, mules and K-9’s for over a year now for The Edgefield Advertiser. My column is entiltled DONKEY LORE. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, a beautiful horsey town in the Redwoods — Woodside, California, similar to Aiken, where there is horseback riding all […]
Bio of our regular Columnist/Correspondent Mary Anne Hair who writes the Johnston News for us each week in the print edition of The Edgefield Advertiser. — My roots go deep into Edgefield County. I grew up in the Roper’s Community in the Merriwether section of Edgefield County in the ancestral home built in the early […]
By Jack Reece The best thing about this business is getting to meet really special people. As is the case throughout our society some of the really special people represent the best attributes of mankind and others the worse. Last week I had the opportunity to visit with some of the best and now look […]