Fifth Year Athletic Program Has a Solid Foundation – Under the guidance of Wrestling Coach Leroy Collier the Strom Thurmond Wrestling Team has evolved into a mature athletic organization. Rebel Wrestling has proven very competitive in its fifth season of existence. At Region matches last Friday the team qualified 8 wrestlers to advance to the […]
BBQ Chicken Sale: Johnston Pentecostal Holiness Church will have a BBQ chicken plate sale on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 11 a.m. Cost is $7 for a half BBQ chicken, potato salad, cole slaw and bread. Black History Series: Lectures will be held at Macedonia Community Center at 10 a.m. each Saturday in February. The program […]
By Advertiser Staff A Once-a-Year Event – How to make a meeting of reports interesting? First the setting, then the food, and to have brief and “meaty” reports so the audience may stay aware. Of course certain personalities can add humor and spice which is always welcomed. It all happened on Tuesday evening, January 29, […]
Columbia, S.C. – Four new members have been elected to the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands’ council for a two-year term: Reed Brown, Vice President, Brown Packing Co., Inc., Gaffney; Hammond Edwards, Vice President, Senior Commercial Lender, TD Bank, Columbia; Zandra Johnson, Attorney, Smith Moore Leatherwood […]
China Remains the Biggest Variable – ORANGEBURG, S.C. — If the cure for high prices is high prices, it certainly worked on cotton. South Carolina’s cotton growers have seen prices drop from $2 per pound about three years ago to around 80 cents per pound today. Meanwhile, worldwide cotton production has jumped significantly during the […]
“A very good program.” That is how Edgefield Mayor Ken Durham described the Montessori program at Douglas Elementary in a recent interview with The Advertiser. Mr. Durham’s 4-year-old grandson is in the school’s 3-5 year old class, and Mr. Durham said he was “just amazed at the things he has picked up out there.” Douglas […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Ernest Williams AKA Haneef El-Amin Popcorn, entered into rest January 26, 2013. Funeral service was held from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, January 29, at G. L. Brightharp & Sons Mortuary Chapel with the Rev. G. L. Brightharp officiating. Interment was in Springfield Baptist Church Cemetery. Survivors include his siblings, Sammie (Dorothy) Scurry, Roosevelt, […]
The Camellia Tea, sponsored by the Edgefield Camellia Club, will be held on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at Magnolia Dale in downtown Edgefield from 3:00 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. This event is open to the public; admission is free. Magnolia Dale is located at the intersection of Norris and Bacon Streets, across the street from […]
The SC Department of Transportation is making repairs to the bridge in Modoc on Highway 23 at the Edgefield/McCormick County line. However, those repairs are considered minor and should be completed within the week. According to Tommy Parker with SCDOT in McCormick County, an accident that occurred at the bridge back in December necessitated repairs […]
Sportsmen were the original conservationists and remain the driving force in conservation today. By purchasing hunting and fishing licenses, paying a voluntarily imposed excise tax on all firearms, ammunition and other sporting equipment (Pittman–Robertson Act and Dingell-Johnson Act), and supporting conservation organizations, sportsmen pay for 80 percent or more of conservation efforts in this country. […]