Friends of the Library Sale: Seeking children’s books through the next three weeks for an April sale. Free Legal Clinics: SC Bar Pro Bono Program will sponsor on March 12 Wills, Estate and Probate Issues from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Edgefield County Hospital led by Jennifer P. Sumner. On April 16, the topic […]
March, 11, 2015 – An early morning house fire at 301 Country Club Road claimed the life of a mother and her two children; 24 year old Laterrious Watkins, 2 year old Aubrey McKie, and 1 year old Jacob McKie, Jr. The Edgefield County Coroner’s Office placed the time of deaths as 4:20 a.m. and […]
JOHNSTON, S.C. – Mr. Marvin T. (Inky) English, 88, of Johnston, S.C., passed away March 10, 2015. Funeral Services will be held Friday March 13, 2015 at 2 PM at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home with burial at Mt. of Olives Cemetery in Johnston, S.C. He was born in Anderson, S.C. on April 29, 1926, son of […]
JOHNSTON, S.C. – Mr. Robert L. “Buddy” Smith, Jr., 69, of Old Plank Road, husband of Frances Paul Smith died on March 10, 2015 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Thursday March 12, 2015 at 11:00 A.M. at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home with burial at Sunset Gardens Memorial Park in Edgefield. Mr. Smith […]
Ribbon cutting for the Merriwether Center on Sweetwater Rd. drew a crowd from the area that included officials: County Council members Chm. Blackwell, Ashcraft, Talbert and Campbell; Sweetwater Baptist minister Rev. Paul Noe who gave a prayer; Sen Massey, Rep. Hixon, Administrator Lynn Strom and her assistant Jennifer Gilley and Mayor Durham; Ambassador Cooper who […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – March 10, 2015 – Reflecting back a little over a year ago to the night of the 5th of January 2014, the local fire departments were dispatched to the shop of Log Creek Timber Company and Williams Brothers Farm. With great effort, the firefighters saved a portion of the shop and once […]
Second City/Town in S.C. “Literacy Blossoms in Edgefield” was in the headline of the story in The Edgefield Advertiser (March 4, 2015) which announced that Laurel Blossom has been endorsed by Edgefield Town Council as “Edgefield’s Poet Laureate.” Edgefield is the second town in the State of South Carolina to name a Poet Laureate for […]
RIDGE SPRING, S.C. – Harriet “Hattie” Lawton Watson, a long time resident of Ridge Spring died February 18, 2015, in Aiken, S.C. She was born July 17, 1919, in Richmond, Va. to Iverson Brookes and Gwendolyn McClellan Lawton and lived in Allendale, S.C. until her marriage to Philip Spigener Watson of Ridge Spring. She is […]
JOHNSTON – Mrs. Dolly Annette Halford, a member of Johnston ARP Presbyterian Church, entered into eternal rest Saturday March 7, 2015 at her residence. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, March 21, at 3 P.M. at Johnston Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Halford was born in Augusta, Ga. on St. Patrick’s Day and half Irish. She […]
Governor Nikki Haley has declared March 8-14 Severe Weather Week. In response, the Edgefield County Emergency Management Agency will conduct a severe weather drill for all three towns in Edgefield County; Edgefield, Johnston, and Trenton. These drills will occur on Monday, Mar. 9 at 12:00 and Wednesday, Mar. 11 at 9:00. Citizens are reminded that […]