Sarah Cabri Tripp, Nurse Practitioner, is now serving in the medical community of this county, in Dr. Hugh Morgan’s office, Johnston. She has been there now for three months and says, “I love it here.” Sarah says her patients ask: ”You are not going to go anywhere are you?” Her answer is: “I am here […]
National Rural Health Day was celebrated on November 15 at the Edgefield County Hospital with a conference calling together leaders in rural health from over the state and many local members of the medical community and agencies in this county. Mr. Tony Keck of the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services gave the address […]
Strom Thurmond High travelled to North Charleston last Friday night and took the third round playoff game from Hanahan 27 to 10. This win sends the Rebels to the lower state championship game to be played at Strom Thurmond this Friday night. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The game at Hanahan started off just […]
LONG BEACH, CA – Former Edgefield resident Betty Mathis Whitlock, 74, died March 22 in Long Beach, California. This week her daughters placed a monument at Big Steven’s Creek Baptist Church, where Betty joins her kin in the Briggs and the Mathis burial site. Although Betty, her mother, Nell (Briggs) Alger, and her Grandmother, Mary […]
Strom Thurmond senior, McKenzie Talbert, has signed to play golf for Clemson University. McKenzie will be a member of the first Clemson Women’s Golf Team. Family, friends, school officials and coaches joined McKenzie as she made this landmark committment.
EDGEFIELD, S. C. – Mrs. Lillie M. Garrett Callaham, of Promised Land Road, entered into rest November 14, 2012. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Monday, November 19, 2012 at Mt. Olive Baptist Church with the Rev. Alex Pope, Jr., officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Callaham, a native of Edgefield […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office has recovered 4 of the 6 guns stolen in a recent burglary at a residence on Tennessee Walker Lane in Trenton. The burglary was reported on Oct. 11, 2012 after the homeowner returned home to find the firearms missing. There was no forced entry at the scene but evidence was […]
According to a report filed with the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday, Nov. 14, two counterfeit $100 bills were tendered on two different occasions at the McDonald’s on Augusta Road in Edgefield. Alledgedly, an employee with the establishment made two separate purchases at the location in which she paid for items each time with a […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Mark Homer Corley, 57, died November 15, 2012 after years of suffering from primary progressive multiple sclerosis. Graveside services will be held Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 2 PM at Greenlawn Memorial Park, with visitation following at the graveside. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family. Mark was the […]
By: Gerald Doolittle – St. Matthews, S.C. – Last week the Wardlaw Academy Patriots marched to the campus of Calhoun Academy to defend their SCISA 8-man Football Championship against the Cavaliers of St. John’s Christian Academy from Moncks Corner. After the dust had cleared from the battle the Patriots marched home with a 58-42 victory […]