Suspect in Custody An attempt to serve a warrant Tuesday, May 29, led to a manhunt and eventual capture of the suspect. According to a spokesperson with the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office, deputies acting on information received went to a trailer in Trenton around nine in the morning Monday to serve a warrant […]
By Jay Bender Money laundering had its origins with crime syndicates. Former SLED chief Robert Stewart said that one of the dangers of South Carolina’s legalization of video poker was that it provided a state-wide network of money laundromats. A video poker operator would report receipts for a poker machine, pay the taxes on […]
Every Country Music fan, or after this year, American Idol fan, knows who Luke Bryan is. Luke Bryan is an award-winning Country Singer who in 2013, received the Academy of Country Music Awards, the Country Music Association Awards “Entertainer of the Year” award — and has sold over 7 million albums and 27 million singles worldwide. […]
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 May 24, 2018 Larry W. Lybrand Johnston, SC Larry William Lybrand, 73, husband of Jeannie Bledsoe […]
Larry Lybrand, 73, of Johnston, died May 22 a little after 4:00 p.m. at Augusta University Hospital as a result of injuries he received in a head-on collision on Hwy 121 that same day. According to the SC Highway Patrol, the crash occurred just before 3:00 in the afternoon when Lybrand, who was driving […]
BY: Tom Hallman, Issued by Clemson University Relations CLEMSON — Just as the weather warms, they pop their ugly heads out of hiding. But thank goodness they do, because now is the best time to find them so they can be destroyed. The flowers of cogongrass are in bloom now, helping the invasive weed resume […]
Communication in the Dark Dear Editor I’ve been a resident of Edgefield County over twenty years. We live on a paved road, have electricity and basic land line phone service. By the standards of the 1980’s, that’s not bad. What is not good is we are approaching the year 2020, and the technology of […]
Thanks Hospital’s Physical Therapy Department Dear Editor: I am writing to you to let you know what a great job the Edgefield County Hospital Physical Therapy Department is doing with the patients, I am one of them. The staff there consists of this fine team: Physical therapy staff and title: Brad Swiger- physical therapist, […]
Tommy Strother, LCDR (ret.)USN to Speak VA office of Edgefield County: Please join the Edgefield County Veterans Affairs Office, All of our County Veteran Service Originations, Veterans, Retirees, Widows, Families, and Friends. Memorial Day Ceremony on May 28, 2018, from 10:00-11:00 a.m. on the Edgefield Town Square in Edgefield, SC, between Crouch […]