4-H Wildlife Food Plot Project Competition

4-H Wildlife Food Plot Project Competition

Clemson Extension Agency along with 4-H, Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA), and QDMA’s youth component, The Rack Pack, are sponsoring the 4-H Wildlife Food Plot Project, a state-wide competition for ages 5-19.  Formerly known as 4-H FACE (Food and Cover Establishment) Project, this competition will be based on participant’s planting of a food plot as […]

Feeding Summer Hummingbirds Provides Entertainment and Beauty

Feeding Summer Hummingbirds Provides Entertainment and Beauty

Hummingbirds, which artist John J. Audubon called “glittering fragments of the rainbow,” are once again darting around flowers and feeders in South Carolina, say state natural resources officials. “Hummingbirds are as fascinating to study as they are beautiful to watch,” said Lex Glover, wildlife technician with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Columbia. […]

Edgefield Majors Play in State Tournament [UPDATED]

Edgefield Majors Play in State Tournament [UPDATED]

Edgefield Majors composed of 11-12 year olds from Edgefield County have represented our communities well this summer. On July 5 they began the District 3 Tournament in Iva coming home as winners. To do this they beat Johnston 6-1, then lost to home team Iva 1-4. They came back to demolish Clinton 19-0, then defeated […]

Sheriff’s Office Reports Drug Raid

Sheriff’s Office Reports Drug Raid

The Advertiser received the following release from the Sheriff’s office on Monday, July 22, that on July 18, the Edgefield County Sheriff’s office along with officers from the Edgefield, Johnston and Trenton Police Departments, the Aiken County Sheriff’s office and the State Law Enforcement Divison conducted narcotics raids and warrants sweeps in the county. A […]

Nude Moped Rider Arrested

Nude Moped Rider Arrested

Deputies with the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 54-year-old man shortly after midnight July 23 for riding his moped naked through the town of Edgefield.  According to a report filed with the ECSO, deputies were notified by the Edgefield Police Department to be on the lookout for the nude motorist.  The man was subsequently […]

Rose Mathis Morgan

DURHAM, N.C. – Mrs. Rose M. Morgan, 86, a long-time resident of Durham, died Sunday evening, July 7, 2013. She was born May 27, 1927. Her loving husband of 52 years, Walter Edgar Morgan, preceded her in death. She is survived by their four children Steve (Robin) Morgan of Eden, Joan (Steve) Ferguson of Durham, […]

Edgefield County Mass Choir Performs

Edgefield County Mass Choir Performs

The singing of praise and singing of the gospel were resounding at the Strom Thurmond High School gym on Saturday, July 20. The Edgefield County Mass Choir put on an outstanding performance. They sang gospel songs such as “Stand By Me,” “Rise Above It All,” and “Tell Me Who Built the Arc.” One of the […]

Officials Thanked for Help with Movie

Dear Editor: Kate Lowish, along with the entire Edgefield Community Development Association, would like to sincerely thank Chief Ronnie Carter and his associates and David Coleman and his staff for helping us make the Drive In Movie Night on the Edgefield Square showing of The Flintstones, sponsored by the ECDA and the Edgefield Quarry a wonderful success.  […]

Clemson to be Abuzz with Beekeepers

Clemson to be Abuzz with Beekeepers

CLEMSON, S.C. – Apiarists from across the Palmetto State will make a beeline to Clemson University this month for all the buzz in beekeeping. The South Carolina Beekeepers Association holds its summer beekeeping conference at the Hendrix Student Center July 25-27, offering training and information on methods to improve production and fight common diseases and […]