Over 40,000 turkey hunters take to the woods annually in South Carolina with hopes of harvesting a wily gobbler, and the 2013 spring turkey season was no exception. With an estimated harvest of 19,211 birds, the spring turkey harvest was down about 11 percent from 2012 and down 25 percent from the record harvest established […]
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Saturday October 12, 2013, will be the Downtown Edgefield Fall Festival from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. sponsored by the ECDA. This all day event guarantees a wonderful time for all ages in a fall celebration with good, old fashioned family fun. There will be an All Day Fall Harvest and Artisans Market with vendors from all over, […]
Everyone enjoyed the water conservation skit performed by members of the Trenton Country Garden Club at the club’s October meeting held at the home of Dianne Yonce. Betty Jackson, Penny Hunt and Jan Burch used watering cans to demonstrate an easy way to conserve water. Rather than allowing water to run down the drain as […]
“Betty Ann Butler,” one of the stars of SUNNY DAY, the new musical by Leonard Todd, appeared at The Purple Fence in Edgefield, S. C., this past Saturday night, October 5, while the Mike Frost Band was taking a break. She sang “Sexy Southern Lady,” her big number from the show. A production of the […]
Congratulations Destiny Simpson! 3rd Grade – Pleasant Hill Elementary Destiny is the grand prize winner in the Edgefield Advertiser’s Piper Tales Birthday Cake Coloring Contest! Her creative and imaginative use of vivid colors embellished with sparkling jewels and sequins won the hearts of the judges! Piper and Miss Penny appreciate all the efforts of all the […]
The blacksmith shop on Jeter Street will be alive once again with smoke and with noises of the metal-meets-metal kind as Jamie von Stevens takes over the shop, very soon. Readers can learn more about her and how and when to visit the shop by reading an interview with her on page 5, section 2 […]
Motorists throughout the state need to be constantly aware of roaming white-tailed deer, according to a state deer biologist. Despite a persistent rumor, neither the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) nor any other state agency will compensate motorists for injuries or damages resulting from deer collisions. Besides practicing safe and defensive driving techniques, each […]
Almost 70 people gathered this past Sunday the 6th of October at the American Legion Building to sing “Happy Birthday” to J.L. Doolittle and his sister Naomi. They were born on the same day but it is J.L. who is 95 and Naomi who is 91. The celebrants were treated to an endless Bar-B-Que and […]
The 32nd Ridge Spring Harvest Festival is during this month, October 24-26 with the Community Service on the 12th and the Beauty Pageant on the 19th. The promoters of the festival went down memory lane to give insight into the first Harvest Festival, especially finding the photo of Sen. Thurmond who came and hung around […]