Mike Harling and his father Jack Harling are pictured at Cut and Shoot City which is 20 miles north of Houston, Texas, where Mike lives and where Jack and Margaret Harling enjoyed visiting their son from June 25-July1. A few other highlights that Jack mentions were the Texas Gun Show and hearing the preaching of […]
Edgefield County residents, Nicole Jackson, Abbie Miller and Parker Wilkes, were among a select group of high school juniors and seniors from around the state who recently participated in the 2013 South Carolina Farm Bureau (SCFB) Youth Leadership Conference. The annual conference was held on the campus of Newberry College and featured a number of […]
Alas! Hattie Watson’s Columns have run their course and her books have been published, two of them for readers to keep in their libraries. We have spent the late spring and early summer letting go that popular column, getting the news out about her new book, and feeling regret that we will not be reading […]
Former Strom Thurmond High School golf sensation, Anne Marie Covar, shot a blistering 3 under par 33 on the front nine at Kiawah Island last week and held on through the back nine to qualify for the 2013 U. S. Women’s Championship. Anne Marie birdied number 7 and demolished number 9, a par 5 517-yard […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Mr. Ray Pickens Turner, 81, of Columbia, died Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Born in Edgefield, South Carolina, November 22, 1931, he was a son of the late Anna Faulkner and Sidney Turner. Ray was co-owner of Southern Builders and Realty, and spent 40 years of his professional life as a home builder […]
Dear Editor: Words can’t express the thanks and kindness and appreciation for all the hard work the Salkehatchie youth and adults did on my home. The children were so mannerly and worked so hard. We all were just like family. And a big thank-you goes out to Michelle, Vickie, George, Gene, Tot and for those […]
Spillway Gates at Dam to Be Opened July 11 – By Tiffani Ireland – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to open the flood gates at the three dams located on the Upper Savannah River – dams at Lake Hartwell, Lake Russell, and Lake Thurmond – July 10 and 11. According to a release […]
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. – Summer celebrations continue at the State Farmers Market in West Columbia with Peach Day at the Market July 13 at 11 a.m. in the North Shed. Each guest will receive a free peach while supplies last! The South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) and the South Carolina Peach Council are hosting […]
Former Edgefield County Council Chairman Willie Bright was recently honored for years of service on the Upper Savannah Council of Governments Board of Directors. Bright served as Board Chairman in Fiscal Years 2002-05.
David Sawyer of Saluda County was elected Chairman of the Upper Savannah Council of Governments Board of Directors during USCOG’s most recent board meeting June 24. It will be Sawyer’s second term as USCOG chairman; he was also Chairman in the 1980s. Sawyer will serve as Chairman during Fiscal Years 2014-2015. USCOG serves the counties of […]