Mr. Albert Byron Goss — Ridge Spring, SC

Ridge Spring, SC  – Graveside services for Mr. Albert Byron Goss, age 78, will be held Friday, February 2, 2018 at 2 pm at Sunset Gardens Memorial Cemetery.  The family will receive friends  Thursday, February 1, 2018,  from 6-8 pm at Bland Funeral Home, Johnston, SC. Mr. Goss, a resident of Ridge Spring, SC, died […]

Betty Whatley Satcher Jones — Edgefield, SC

Betty Whatley Jones, wife of the late Dr. G. Frank Jones, Jr., entered into rest on Tuesday January 23, 2018. Graveside Services will be held Saturday January 27, 2018 at 3 p.m. at Mount of Olives Cemetery in Johnston, SC. The family will receive friends after the service at the graveside. Mrs. Jones was born […]

Othello B. Cogburn — Edgefield, SC

Othello Balchin Cogburn, 107, wife of the late Benjamin R. Cogburn entered into rest Tuesday January 23, 2018 at Forest View Manor Assisted Living in McCormick, SC. Funeral Services will be held Saturday January 27,2018 at 12 Noon at Little Stevens Creek Baptist Church with burial in church cemetery. The family will receive friends from […]

Dorothy S. Padgett — Trenton, SC

Dorothy Seawright Padgett, 94, wife of the late Leonard Padgett, of Edgefield Rd. entered into rest Thursday January 18, 2018. Graveside Services will be held Saturday January 20, 2018 at 2 PM at Ebenezer Cemetery in Trenton, SC. The family will receive friends after the service at the graveside. Mrs. Padgett was born in Kansas […]

Francis Donald Allen Polatty — Trenton, SC

Trenton, SC — Memorial Services for Mr. Francis Donald Allen Polatty, age 60, will be held February 3, 2018 at 2 o’clock at B-L C.H. Church, Batesburg, SC.  The family will receive friends following the service in the church Fellowship Hall. Mr. Polatty died Thursday, January 18, 2018.  He was a son of the late Theodore […]

The Reverend Clyde Lambert Ireland — Columbia, SC

The Reverend Clyde Lambert Ireland of Columbia, SC, died peacefully January 16, 2018.  Clyde was born March 30, 1929 to Hallie and Clyde Ireland of Columbia, SC.  Clyde was ordained priest by the Ret. Reverend Alfred C. Cole in 1955.  He served in the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, the Diocese of Alabama, at the […]

Clarence W. “Billy” Dickert — Edgefield, SC

Clarence W. “Billy” Dickert, 82, husband of Betty Jane Lewis Dickert, of Parkman Rd. entered into rest Friday, January 12, 2018. Services will be held Thursday January 18, 2018 at 2 PM at Edgefield United Methodist Church, the family will receive friends after the service at the church. Mr. Dickert was born in Newberry, SC. […]

Samsung Coming to Urban Outfitters Building

Samsung Coming to Urban Outfitters Building

Will Williams, President/CEO of the Economic Development Partnership, told County Council at their monthly meeting, Jan. 9, that Samsung has leased the former Urban Outfitters building on Hwy 25 in Trenton.  This announcement came on the heels of Williams’ announcement to Council that Samsung is opening a manufacturing site in Newberry.  In sharing this information […]

Arrest Made for Recent Multiple Break-ins

Arrest Made for Recent Multiple Break-ins

Edgefield Police Chief Ronnie Carter confirmed to the Advertiser that an arrest has been made in the recent multiple break-ins that have occurred in Edgefield, seven of which happened Friday morning Jan. 5 and another around 4 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 6.  Jarvis Reynolds, 25, of Gary Hill Road, has been arrested and is being charges […]