Turkey Season in Full Swing
How has your turkey season been thus far? Submit your pictures to news@edgefieldadvertiser.com and we may publish them here. Please include the hunter’s name and the bird’s details. —
Edgefield Native Is Part of Successful Programs
Welvin Simpkins, a native of Edgefield, SC, has completed his 3rd year coaching at South Pointe High School in Rock Hill, SC. This was the 1st year he got a chance to coach the position he truly loves and the position that he excelled at the most while at Strom Thurmond; wide receiver. Previous years […]
Top Honors for Strom Thurmond Symphonic Band
The Strom Thurmond High School Symphonic Band received top honors at the South Carolina State Concert Festival. The band earned an overall rating of Superior by performing three prepared selections and a sightreading selection they have never seen. They are adjudicated by highly qualified instrumental music professionals from across the country. The band is given […]
Spring Sports Report – 4/11/12
A roundup of last week’s results from area schools’ spring sporting events. —- Baseball Fox Creek HS 5, Laurens Academy 1 Fox Creek roared into Sandlapper Tournament play last Saturday with a victory over Laurens Academy. Andrew Buist (4-1) pitched the win for the Predators and Quadre Castleberry stole three bases. Fox Creek 6, Barnwell […]
Loretta McCain Nathaniel
NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C. – Mrs. Loretta McCain Nathaniel, 51, of Dove Street, entered into rest April 10, 2012 at her residence. Memorial services will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, April 14, 2012 at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Clearwater with Ricky Williams officiating. Mrs. Nathaniel, a native of Edgefield County was one of […]
“It was God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”
Patsy Cline is a Convincing Angel in the Show The first musical is coming to the William Bouknight Theatre at the Discovery Center in Edgefield next weekend, April 20, and it will rock the theatre as it has during rehearsals. Always, Patsy Cline will be a show to remember. And here is why. Debbie Fryer […]
LeDuc Addresses Alliance With the Strategic Plan
Monday night, in an hour of reporting on the Strategic Plan for Edgefield County by Roger LeDuc, Edgefield County Alliance members heard another step in putting the plan out there for people and encouraging leadership in the community and county government to make it work. This plan was passed on by the County Council in […]
County Council Passes First Reading of Budget
The Edgefield County Council unanimously passed the first reading of the 2012-2013 General Operating Budget at their regularly scheduled monthly meeting, Tuesday, April 3. The budget did receive two small amendments before its passage. One included amending the budget so that the county pays 100% of the recreation centers’ utility fees versus the 75% that […]
Motorcyclist Killed
On Easter Sunday a Barnwell man, David Richard Fallaw, was killed after he was ejected from his motorcycle on Highway 23 West in Edgefield County on a stretch that is often known as Dead Man’s Curve. The 55 year old man was taken to Edgefield County Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:48 p.m. […]
Man Killed in Accidental Electrocution
One man was killed Thursday, April 5, in an accidental electrocution in a field off Bauknight Road according to the Edgefield County Coroner’s Office. Mauricio Martinez, 27, died when an irrigation pole he and fellow workers were trying to move hit a power line. Reports were that another worker was also injured in this accident, […]