EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mr. A.H. Herron, 87, of Edgefield, died Sunday June 30, 2013 at University Hospital. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday July 2, 2013 at 11 A.M. at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home with visitation from 10 to 11 A.M. before the service at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Eastview Cemetery with […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mr. Richard Wayne Bledsoe, 54, of Wigfall St., died Friday at Aiken Regional Medical Center. A Memorial Service will be held Monday July 1, 2013 at 2 P.M. at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 P.M. before the service at the funeral home. Mr. Bledsoe […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to burglary call at a migrant camp on Mt. Calvary Road in Johnston, Wednesday, June 26. There, deputies discovered at least 8 different transient workers had had varying items stolen from their unlocked quarters while they had been at work. Among the items stolen were laptops, flat screen televisions, […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office’s Narcotics Unit as well as the ECSO SWAT Team executed a search warrant at a home on Blair Road in Modoc, SC (within Edgefield County), June 14. As a result of the search, a total of $7035 was seized from the location as well as multiple containers in which was […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – In observance of National Mosquito Control Awareness Week through June 29, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control suggests ways to help reduce the risk from the serious diseases mosquitoes can carry. “Mosquitoes can become infected with viruses like West Nile when they feed on infected birds,” said Linda J. Bell, […]
Have you ever felt the excitement of watching your bobber suddenly jiggle, then dive out of sight? Or feeling the tap-tap-tap of a bass as it tastes the worm on the end of your line? What’s that? You say you never learned to fish? If you are new to the sport of fishing, and not […]
Yes, there are birds in nests in the sign, but only in the a’s. The “a” allows for a two-story home. Is that the reason? Barn swallows, we guess, have inhabited these letters, from the looks of the nests. And they are in both signs, front and side, of the business establishment out on Hwy. […]
– By Robert Loar – Kenneth Hartkopf, Post Adjutant for American Legion Post 30 officiated as new officers were sworn in. At their monthly meeting on Thursday evening, outgoing Post Commander JoJo Doolittle passed the gavel to Robert Loar. Other new officers were: Preston Creech-Post Chaplain, Lenny Joiner-Treasurer, Alan Perano-First Vice Commander, and Ann Doolittle-Second […]
– by Tiffani Ireland – Edgefield County’s new Emergency Operations Center, located in the old Agricultural Building on Gray Street in Edgefield, is a far cry from the tiny, one room office space that used to house the county’s Emergency Management Agency. During The Advertiser’s recent tour of the new facility, guided by EMA Director […]
The Edgefield County School District announced today that the school board has given final approval for the purchase of a new district activity bus to be used primarily by the elementary and middle schools located in the Merriwether area of the county. Of particular importance for the Merriwether students, this bus will provide express transportation […]