Edgefield County Council held a special called meeting Tuesday night, Nov. 10, to consider a resolution authorizing a Fee In Lieu Of Taxes agreement. The three Council members present, Genia Blackwell, Dean Campbell, and Albert Talbert, voted as one to pass the resolution. The agreement is being offered as an incentive to a company currently […]
– By Tiffani Ireland – The Edgefield County Water and Sewer Department came under scrutiny this week when a local broadcast media outlet reported that an Edgefield County water and sewer plant had released toxins into the Savannah River. The report, based on information provided to the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), claimed […]
Opinion – By Robert Scott – I attended two political meetings here locally over the past few days: the Edgefield County Delegation meeting held each November in Council Chambers, and a Presidential candidate rally over the weekend in Aiken. On one level the meetings were as different as they could be, but on another they […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mr. Gerald R. Taylor, Jr., widow of Marion T. Taylor, entered into rest on November 8, 2015, at Trinity Mission Health & Rehab of Edgefield surrounded by family members. Mr. Taylor was born November 15, 1930 in Norwalk, C.T., son of Gerald R. Taylor, Sr., and Helen MacLaren. Mr. Taylor was a native […]
The Wardlaw Academy Cross Country Team bested nine other Boys Class A teams from across South Carolina last Saturday in a 5,000 meter run along the Congaree River. The State Championship, hosted by Heathwood Hall, was run at 12:10 p.m. under an overcast sky with temperatures in the mid sixties. According to Head Coach […]
– By Tiffani Ireland – November 6, 2015 – United States of America Fencing Team member Ellen Geddes of Johnston won the gold medal in wheelchair fencing at the North American Cup, an international fencing event held in Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 18-20 of this year. Geddes beat the Canadian National Champion to win her […]
The Fall Meeting of the Edgefield County Historical Society will be held on Sunday afternoon November 8, 2015 at 3:30 pm at Holly Hill, the home of Tim & Julie Prince on Gray Street in Edgefield. Holly Hill is believed to be the oldest house in the Town of Edgefield and probably in Edgefield County. […]
Wardlaw Academy’s Hammond Manly is the SCISA Class A Cross Country State Champion for 2015. Hammond ran the 5000 meter state championship event along the Congaree River last Saturday, finishing in a blistering time of 16:52:19, very close to two minutes ahead of the second place runner from Beaufort Academy. The Patriot junior is the […]
The 2015 Palmetto Champions All-Star Football honorees and coaches were announced Sunday by the South Carolina Football Coaches Association. Strom Thurmond High’s Head Football Coach Antwaun Hillary was selected as AA Upper State Coach of the Year. Twenty-Five high school football players and 10 coaches will be honored at a banquet December 3 in Columbia.
CLEMSON, S.C. – November 5, 2015 — A month after historic rains flooded South Carolina, farmers remain washed out of fields during a critical period for harvesting and winter planting. Rainfall topped two inches in parts of the Upstate, Midlands and Pee Dee last week, according to the S.C. Climatology Office, and more rain is […]