Supporting public policy to fight cancer on the Hill

Supporting public policy to fight cancer from Edgefield to Capitol Hill Last week, I traveled to Washington, D.C., with more than 700 of my fellow American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteers from across the country to urge Congress to support lifesaving policies that help people prevent and better treat cancer. I called […]

Peggy Hart – Asheville, NC

Peggy Hart, 75, of Asheville, died Friday, September 16, at the Elizabeth House in Flat Rock. Peggy was born in Johnston, SC, to Claude Walker Hart, Jr., and Mattie Lou Hart. She lived in Johnston through high school, after which she attended Winthrop University. After graduating from Winthrop, she further obtained a Master of Social […]

Judith P Grubbs – NORTH AUGUSTA, SC

NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. – Funeral Services for Mrs. Judith Prescott Grubbs, 68, who entered into rest September 17, 2016, will be conducted Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock from the Posey Funeral Chapel. Dr. Eleazer Benenhaley and Dr. Paul W. Noe officiating. Interment will be  in Sweetwater Baptist Church Cemetery. Mrs. Grubbs was a native of […]

Heritage Jubilee Coming September 24th

Heritage Jubilee Coming September 24th

Heritage Jubilee 2016 T-Shirts being modeled by Parker Students Landon and Reece Joyner are available at Town Hall and Seawright Cleaners.  Short sleeves are $10 and long sleeves are $15.   This year’s Heritage Jubilee is fast approaching. The co-chairs of the festival, Richard Kelly and Keith Coleman, have organized what sounds like a fun […]

Sean Burch Rides as Gentleman in Fundraiser

Sean Burch Rides as Gentleman in Fundraiser

Edgefield’s Sean Burch is preparing for a bike ride on Sunday, September 25, along with tens of thousands of distinguished gentlefolk in hundreds of cities worldwide, to raise funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer research and suicide prevention.  These riders will, according to their Web site, don their cravats, tweak their mustaches, […]

Inaugural Fox Creek Cross Country Run

Inaugural Fox Creek Cross Country Run

In scorching heat, Fox Creek held its first home meet in 2 years. The new course is run on trails, gravel, and pavement making for a challenging race. The Predator boys team scored a victory over new Region 3 rival Eau Claire and perennial nemesis Wardlaw Academy. Although Wardlaw’s Hammond Manly easily won the race, […]

A Historical Perspective of September 11, 2001

A Historical Perspective of September 11, 2001

I started this week with a cup of coffee at 6 AM Monday Morning watching CNN’s election coverage.  There was a portion of an interview with Hillary Clinton I felt was very honest.  The reporter asked, “Are words like destroy and defeat honest words when it comes to the war we face with ISIS?”  Hillary’s […]

9/11 Brought Us Together As a Nation

9/11 Brought Us Together As a Nation

One of the worst things about this year’s political season is just how divided we have become as a nation. I’m not either a psychologist or a political scientist, so I cannot really say for sure why that is; the analysis that makes the most sense to me is that we are suffering from a […]

A New Writer with a Trenton Emphasis

A New Writer with a Trenton Emphasis

Reader, don’t be startled by the photo of Mark Twain, AKA George McDaniel. Twain is not the new writer for the print edition, alluded to in the header– George is.  He has played Mark Twain in one-man shows for years, about 400 performances to be exact.  The Advertiser asked for the Twain impersonation photo of […]

Area Crime Reports

Area Crime Reports

Guns Stolen From Vehicle The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 3400 block of Hwy 19 in Trenton, Friday, Sept. 9, to find a vehicle that had been broken into.  According to the ECSO report, the owner of the vehicle discovered a window to the vehicle had been broken out by a starter which […]