Raise the Minimum Wage

Raise the Minimum Wage

By: Robert Scott All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views  and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. I subscribe to the Episcopal Public Policy Network’s newsletter, and this week the top issue was not The […]

Veteran’s Memorial Park Takes Giant Step Forward

Veteran’s Memorial Park Takes Giant Step Forward

Members of Edgefield’s Hezzie Griffis Post 30 teamed with soldiers of the SCARNG to re-position the M60A3 Tank on its new pad last Monday morning.  The repositioning of the tank makes it possible for the Memorial Park committee to move forward with park development.  The next step is to move the flagpole donated to the […]

 Remembering World War One

 Remembering World War One

Researcher/writer for WWI Articles, LCDR Thomas Strother (ret.) USN The following is an overview of the material covered in the print edition of The Edgefield Advertiserfrom mid-April 2017 to date. This long term series included articles from the pages of this newspaper of 100 years ago. The Advertiseris hoping to publish on line (and when […]

From the Desk of Senator Massey

From the Desk of Senator Massey

Legislative Update: Week of 2/19/19-2/21/19 Last week was the 7th week of the 2019 legislative session. There are 11 weeks remaining in the regular session. Here are the highlights from Senate floor action from last week. MEDICAL HISTORY INFORMATION FOR ADOPTED CHILDREN – The Senate passed S. 181, a bill that would allow adopted children to learn of the […]

Tea Time in Edgefield

Tea Time in Edgefield

Phone calls to Edgefield Town Hall, personal contact and social media communication began by mid-January, after the Christmas andNew Year’s celebrations subsided.  “WHEN is this year’s Camellia Tea?” — “We are coming!”  And come they did on February 14 from Edisto Beach, Sullivan’s Island, Eutawville, Santee, Greenville, Charlotte, Charleston, Columbia, Greenwood, Aiken, North Augusta, Augusta, Batesburg to name […]

Lynn Talbert Godwin – Bluffton, SC

Lynn Talbert Godwin – Bluffton, 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 February 21, 2019     Lynn Talbert Godwin Bluffton, SC   Lynn Talbert Godwin, 70, of Bluffton, SC entered […]

Public Hearing Held on Comprehensive Land Use and Transportation Plan

Public Hearing Held on Comprehensive Land Use and Transportation Plan

The Edgefield County Steering Committee held a public hearing Feb. 12 at the County Council Chambers to discuss the Comprehensive Land Use and Transportation Plan.  Committee members Fay Adams, George Thornton, John Pettigrew, James Johnson, and Fab Burt were in attendance as well as nearly 2 dozen citizens to hear John Ford and Joh Vanderpluym […]

Retracing my Grandfather’s Footstep on the Western Front

Retracing my Grandfather’s Footstep on the Western Front

By Sarah Barnhill Sarah Rives Barnhill is the oldest grandchild of T.B. Greneker, Sr., and Gladys Rives Greneker, who lived at “Cherry Hill” on Wigfall St. for many years. Judge Greneker was a well-known figure in South Carolina legal and political circles, having served as a state senator and judge for the 13th Circuit.  Sarah […]

Johnston, S.C. – Mr. Thomas Burton Huey, Sr.

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 February 17, 2019 Thomas B. Huey, Sr. Johnston, S.C.   Mr. Thomas Burton Huey, Sr., 75, of Lanier Road, passed away […]

Johnston, SC – Myrtle Horne Beasley

Dateline: Johnston, SC Myrtle Horne Beasley, 103, formerly of Bryant Drive, Greenwood, widow of Carlis G. Beasley died Friday, February 15, 2019 at Edgefield County Health Care.   Born in Greenwood County, she was the daughter of the late Rev. Press Pickens “P.P.” Horne and Annie H. Horne.  Myrtle retired from Panola Mills. She was […]