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 […]

  PTC New Apprenticeship Program with BMW  

   PTC New Apprenticeship Program with BMW   

  Did you know that it takes 12 hours for a series of robots to apply five coats of paint to a BMW vehicle and that, when completed, these layers add about 25 pounds to the vehicle? Folks who attended a special apprenticeship information session at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) on Feb. 22 learned this […]

Algebra Teachers and Sheriff’s Deputies

  Aftershocks from the Parkland, Florida, school shootings earlier this month continue to echo across the country. Surviving students from Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have shown themselves to be informed, articulate, and unwavering in their desire to tell their stories and to plead with those old enough to vote to do something, to […]

Our Local Libraries

GUEST EDITORIAL Our Local Libraries By Patricia Bryan   The Edgefield County public libraries operate as members of the Aiken-Bamberg-Barnwell-Edgefield  Regional Library System.  There is only one other multi-county system in South Carolina, Allendale-Hampton-Jasper.  Founded in 1957, the ABBE Regional Library System offers many advantages to its member counties and their citizens. All personnel operations […]

Harold L. Johnson – Summerville, 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 6, 2018   Harold L. Johnson Summerville, SC   Harold Lee Johnson, 91, husband of Frances […]

Greenwood Man Killed in Crash on Martintown Road

Greenwood Man Killed in Crash on Martintown Road

Greenwood Man Killed in Crash on Martintown Road Deidre Williams, 33, of Greenwood, died Friday afternoon in a one car accident on Martintown Road between Republican Road and Sportsmans Corner.  According to the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident occurred around 1:15 in the afternoon when Williams, who was traveling south on Martintown in a […]