Edgefield County 19th in State to Receive Award  

Edgefield County 19th in State to Receive Award   

  Edgefield County has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for it comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR). According to GFOA, “the Certificate of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and […]

Strom Thurmond High Students Hold Walking-Out-of-Class Protest

Strom Thurmond High Students Hold Walking-Out-of-Class Protest

  The following information was given in response to The Edgefield Advertiser’s question to Edgefield County School officials today, Wednesday, March 14: How did Strom Thurmond High School students respond to the national movement to demonstrate in a 17-minute protest against recent gun violence in a Florida school? In response it was noted that “approximately […]

Mrs. Sally H. White – Edgefield, SC

Thurmond Burnett          Phone: (803)637-6536 David T. Burnett                        Fax: (803)637-6006   Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home, Inc. Established 1902 801 Columbia Road Post Office Box 389 Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 www.edgefieldmercantilefh.com March 11, 2018 Mrs. Sally H. White Edgefield, SC   Sally Howell White, 63, wife […]

Blandena T. Wall – Edgefield, SC

Thurmond Burnett          Phone: (803)637-6536 David T. Burnett               Fax: (803)637-6006 Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home, Inc. Established 1902 801 Columbia Road Post Office Box 389 Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 www.edgefieldmercantilefh.com March 11, 2018 Blandena T. Wall Edgefield, SC Blandena Timmerman Wall, 88, wife of the late W. Virgil Wall, Sr., […]

Strom Thurmond High School Hall of Fame Announced

Strom Thurmond High School Hall of Fame Announced

By: Strom Thurmond High School Athletic Department March 6, 2018   In the 56 years of Strom Thurmond High School’s Athletics, its teams have won 7 State Championships, 6 State Runners-up, and dozens of region championships. Strom Thurmond Athletes have won numerous individual awards such as All-State awards and All-Region awards. Strom Thurmond coaches have […]

Columbia – John Albert Timmerman

Columbia – John Albert Timmerman

Columbia – John Albert Timmerman, Sr., 92, went to be with his Lord and Savior Thursday, March 8, 2018. John was born October 15, 1925, in Edgefield, SC, the son of William Ryght Timmerman and Mamie Cheatham Timmerman. A farm boy by birth, but a ball player by desire, he attended Clemson College where he […]

Church and State

Here we are in the midst of another legislative session, with reasonable and nonsensical proposed laws vying with one another for our elected representatives’ attention. In reviewing columns written during past legislative sessions, I reread one with this same title from three years ago. It is more appropriate now than it was then, and drew […]

Johnston Announces “Music in the Park”

Johnston Announces “Music in the Park”

The Mass Choir, pictured as they performed for their 5th Anniversary event, will be one of the performance groups for Music in the Park, Johnston.   Mims Park in front of Johnston Elementary School is the setting for a program of Music in the Park-Spring 2018, sponsored by Johnston Development Corporation.  The dates for this […]

Dollar General Coming to Merriwether Area

Dollar General Coming to Merriwether Area

Another Dollar General will soon being opening its doors in Edgefield County; this time on the corner of Martintown Road and Woodlawn Road in the Merriwether section of the county.  The Building & Planning Department confirmed the retailer is coming to its new home on 25 Woodlawn Road but said that there is no set […]

STAR Grants to Edgefield County Teachers

STAR Grants to Edgefield County Teachers

Savannah River Remediation (SRR) President and Project Manager Tom Foster (right) awarded educational grants of up to $1,000 to two Edgefield County elementary school teachers at a reception on February 27, 2018. Eleven SRR Students/Teachers Achieving Results (STAR) grants totaling nearly $10,000 were awarded to elementary teachers from Aiken, Columbia, Richmond, and Edgefield Counties to […]