State Winners — Smokey Bear poster contest

State Winners — Smokey Bear poster contest

Ben Collar (3rd grade) and Grace Viseth (4th grade) each won first place in the state (for their grade levels) in the Garden Club of South Carolina Youth Symposium, Smokey Bear poster contest. Students across the state were asked to draw and accurately color a poster of Smokey Bear or Woodsy Owl. Ben and Grace […]

Adra Forrester — Marietta, GA

Adra Forrester, 91 of Marietta, GA, born in Monroe, LA, passed peacefully on the early morning of April 18, 2017 at the Wellstar Tranquility Hospice facility, after a brief bout with a lung infection. Mrs. Forrester attended Louisiana Tech, where she earned a degree in English. She married her husband Maj. William R. Forrester, Jr. […]

Distinguished Young Woman of Edgefield

Distinguished Young Woman of Edgefield

Winners, Distinguished Young Woman North & South Edgefield Mary Ashlyn Goforth, Distinguished Young Woman of North Edgefield County and Gracie Herrin, Distinguished Young Woman of South Edgefield County.

Special Election to Be Held to Fill Empty Council Seat

Special Election to Be Held to Fill Empty Council Seat

Edgefield County Council has an empty seat to fill as a result of the recent death of Councilwoman Betty Butler.  Due to the amount of time remaining in Mrs. Butler’s term, which ends in December, a special election will be held to fill the post.  Filing for the position opened March 31 and will close […]

Kathryn R. Day — Trenton, SC

Kathryn Rebecca Day, 99, died Sunday April 16, 2017. Graveside services will be held Thursday April 20, 2017 at 11 AM at Ebenezer Cemetery in Trenton, SC. The family will receive friends after the service. Miss Day was born in Trenton, SC and was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was a U.S. Navy […]

Lottery Tuition Assistance

Lottery Tuition Assistance

It’s been well reported in recent years that a college education, or, at a minimum, some career-specific training after high school is going to become mandatory for the kinds of jobs that pay a livable wage. To a large extent, this is already the case, and study after study indicates that this trend is only […]

World War I Anniversary Celebration – UPDATED

World War I Anniversary Celebration – UPDATED

The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917.  The Advertiser is bringing to its print edition a series of vignettes and pertinent material from old Advertisers to give its readership an understanding of what our area in S.C. was like before the War and during.  Thomas Strother, whose roots are in Edgefield, […]

The New Medical Office Building on the Rise

The New Medical Office Building on the Rise

  Recently, March 31, The Edgefield County Hospital invited the press to view the beginnings of the new medical building going up on their campus and to speak with representatives of two companies in charge of the planning and construction –Spratlin & Son Construction and McMillan•Pazdan• Smith Architecture. Greeting the press also were Hospital CEO […]

Make America Safe Again

Make America Safe Again

Now that the Trump administration and Congress have shown they can’t work together to craft a new health care act, they are about to take on an even more difficult task: crafting a federal budget that 50% plus  1  members of the House of Representatives can agree on. The aspect of the federal budget likely […]

Alice W. Robinson — Edgefield, SC

  Alice Walker Robinson, 95, wife of the late V. L. Robinson, died Wednesday April 12, 2017. Funeral services will be held Saturday April 15, 2017 at 2 PM at Edgefield First Baptist Church with burial in Sunset Gardens Memorial Cemetery in Edgefield, SC. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 PM at […]