Introducing Herron and This Old Motorhome

Introducing Herron and This Old Motorhome

Story Published Serially in the Print Edition Billy Herron is the “new” author The Advertiser is introducing, his stories start this week.  He really isn’t new in that readers, both enjoyed a series of Steven’s Creek fishing expeditions along with biological studies of the mud cats in that creek last spring – all from his […]

2016: What America Needs

Opinion – By G. Miller Thompson – We are nearly midway through President Obama’s second term.  Five days before the 2008 Election, Obama told supporters that he was ready to “fundamentally transform” America.  In the years since, the White House has certainly done its part to make this transformation occur.  As you probably guessed, I […]

Road-Salt Runoff Raises Concern for Streams, say Clemson Researchers

Road-Salt Runoff Raises Concern for Streams, say Clemson Researchers

CLEMSON, S.C. – Road-salt runoff has got to go somewhere. Clemson University environmental researchers raise concerns that the record amounts of salt crystals and brine used on icy roads this winter will wash into the freshwater and affect the food chain. Too much salt becomes an environmental stress and can be deadly to aquatic animals. […]

DYW of Edgefield County Selected in Pageant

DYW of Edgefield County Selected in Pageant

Congratulations to all of our beautiful young ladies who participated in the Distinguished Young Women of Edgefield County’s program Saturday night at STHS. North Edgefield County Nicole Jackson (left), and South Edgefield County Morgan Bookstaver  (middle) will… move on to the state program in Lexington in July. First Runner Up, Parker Wilkes (right). The Scholastic scholarships […]

The Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern Women

The Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern Women

AIKEN, S.C. – The Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern Women will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the Etherredge Center at the University of South Carolina Aiken. This event was created to honor the contributions of Southern women and is named after the women who lived in the Pickens-Salley House on the […]

Do You Know This Place?

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: I and writing in hopes you can help me identify a house and give me a current address, if one exists. My grandmother lived in Edgefield, when she was a small girl (probably sometime between 1917-1920). She “lived about two miles from town up on a high hill.” The […]

Sweetwater Baptist to Host Wild Game Supper

Sweetwater Baptist Church will host their 8th Annual Wild Game Supper, Saturday, March 8, starting at 5:00.  This year’s event will feature Hank Hough, Dan the Animal Man, and King’s Cause.  Hank Hough, of Kingdom Dog Ministries from Spring, Texas, will be showcased at the adults’ service.  He will use his black labs to teach […]

122nd Engineer Battalion to Hold Freedom Salute

122nd Engineer Battalion to Hold Freedom Salute

The 122nd Engineer Battalion, based out of Edgefield, SC has recently returned from their deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.  They will hold a Freedom Salute at Strom Thurmond High School’s Gymnasium, March 9, 2014 at 9:30 am.  It is opened to the public and everyone is invited to attend.    

Democratic Party to Hold Meeting March 8

Democratic Party to Hold Meeting March 8

On March 8, 2014, the second Saturday, the Democratic Party of Edgefield County will have a countywide meeting for all citizens who live in Edgefield County.  They will meet at Macedonia Baptist Church of Edgefield at 12:00 noon. In this meeting, each citizen will be given material for the coming elections for the year 2014.  […]

Rebecca Timmerman Gowan

Rebecca Timmerman Gowan NEWBERRY, S.C. – Rebecca Timmerman Gowan, 99, of 11349 S.C. Highway 121, Newberry, died Sunday, March 2, 2013 at Springfield Place, Newberry. She was born on December 15, 1914 in Kirksey, SC in Greenwood County, a daughter of the late J. Clifton and Lillia Jester Timmerman. She attended Kirksey schools and graduated from […]