The Advertiser has learned that Greg Anderson has been appointed by Governor Henry McMaster to be Edgefield County’s new Probate Judge. Anderson will replace long-time judge Bobby Peeler who officially retired from the post July 15 after 26 years of holding the office. However, at the request of the governor, Peeler has continued to stay […]
Johnston, S.C. – Steven Barry Blizard, 68, of Calhoun St., husband of Elaine Prichard Blizard, died Wednesday August 2, 2017. A Memorial Service was held Sunday August 6, 2017 at 6 PM at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 5 to 6 PM before the service at the funeral home. Mr. Blizard […]
EDGEFIELD – Mrs. Teresa Yount Culver, age 46 of Edgefield, SC, passed away Monday, July 31, 2017 at the home of her parents on Jonesville-Lockhart Hwy. Union, S.C. Mrs. Culver was born in Augusta, GA., October 11, 1970, a daughter of Cecil and Jimmie Bates Yount. She was a graduate of Jonesville High School and […]
There was much excitement in and around Edgefield during the week of July 9-14. Members from the twenty Southern Baptist churches that make up the Edgefield Baptist Association engaged in a week of service and ministry. Over 140 missions volunteers came together to conduct ministry projects and repairs to local homes.This is the 8th year […]
Based on a desire for commonality among many churches, the Revised Common Lectionary is now in use throughout the English-speaking world. In the U.S., its sequence of Bible readings for each Sunday is followed not only in my own Episcopal Church but also in the Roman Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran and Missouri Synod, Presbyterian, United Methodist, […]
I have been following the letters and/or comments in the paper about the Streetscape proposals. Quite frankly, I and a number of folks that I talk with on Saturday a.m., while we are at the Saturday Market, seem to think that the overall plan is a totally waster of money. My question to the Town […]
A Family has helped to Hold the History Not one century, but two have passed since the founding of McKendree Methodist Church, up on Highway 378 between Highway 25 and Faulkner Mountain Road. This church was first called Sleepy Creek Church, known in name by a nearby creek. It was probably a mile or so […]
Rev. George L. Brightharp, Pastor of Mt. Canaan Baptist Church, was sure about one thing he wanted for the new sanctuary of the church, recently built and to be opened on July 30 in a special service. “The walls are white, the pulpit furniture is white, why not a white grand piano?” – and a […]
The SC Department of Transportation has confirmed for the Advertiser that the road closure on Woodlawn Road at Deep Step Road to Hwy 28 has been lifted. The road was re-opened July 21. The road had been closed since June 27 when an eighteen wheeler wrecked on the road causing gasoline and diesel fuels to […]
LEESVILLE – Pamela (Pam) English Jordan, age 67, of 318 Ridge Road, Leesville, S.C. passed away on July 5, 2017, at her home. A native of Johnston, S.C., Pam was a 1968 graduate of Strom Thurmond High School where she was an outstanding basketball player on two state championship teams. She is survived by her […]