– Demetrius Leysath Headed for Hickory – Demetrius Leysath signed to play for Lenoir Rhyne last Wednesday at Strom Thurmond High School. Demetrius is the son of David and Twilla Leysath and the family makes its home in Trenton.
Strom Thurmond Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Bo Rouse, has been named Region 5 AAA Coach of the Year. Rouse’s Rebels finish as the number 1 seed in the region with a regular season record of 18 and 7 (8-2 region). Coach Rouse had his 100th win earlier in the regular season.
Security safeguard measure implemented to aid in the prevention of tax fraud COLUMBIA – New for 2013, the SC Department of Revenue (DOR) has implemented a security safeguard measure to help prevent fraud-related individual income tax filings. Through the security program, income tax returns filed in 2013 will be processed by means of a new […]
COLUMBIA – The S.C. Drought Response Committee, meeting via conference call on Jan. 31, downgraded the drought status one level for 26 counties. Twelve counties were downgraded to moderate including: Oconee, Pickens, Anderson, Abbeville, McCormick, Greenwood, Edgefield, Saluda, Newberry, Lexington, Aiken and Barnwell. Fourteen counties were downgraded to incipient including: Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee, York, Laurens, […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Funeral services for Dr. Essie Mae Washington -Williams were held Saturday, Feb. 9, at Brookland Baptist Church, West Columbia, with entombment in Celestial Memorial Gardens. Dr. Essie Mae Washington-Williams passed away, at the age of 87, on Sunday, February 3, 2013. She was born in Aiken, South Carolina, on October 12, 1925 […]
Dear Editor: I want to thank Dr. Gordineer and all of the staff at Edgefield County Hospital for the exceptionally good care I received while I was a patient thru last week. We are blessed to have a good community hospital. Thank you, Julia Verna Forrest Johnston
By Tiffani Ireland – A bill to clarify the deer baiting law in South Carolina passed from the House of Representatives’ Wildlife sub-committee Jan. 30 in a 3-1 vote. It then went to the full committee where it passed in a 15-1 vote. Since SC lawmakers are not in session this week, the bill is […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Funeral service for Juanita Parrott Tompkins, 99, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at Dunbar Funeral Home, Dutch Fork Chapel, Irmo, with burial 3:00 p.m. Wednesday afternoon in Welsh Neck Baptist Church Cemetery, in Society Hill. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, February […]
The Episcopal Church of the Ridge will be hosting the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on February 12th from 6 – 7:30 pm at the Trinity Episcopal Church Parish Hall in Edgefield. Admission is $3 per person and “carry-out” plates will be available. Please come and join us. Mardi Gras (French for “Fat Tuesday”) is the […]
February 10, 2013 – Students of the Strom Thurmond Career Center FFA Association spent their Saturday on the Horry Georgetown Technical College campus in Georgetown South Carolina participating in the South Carolina FFA State Wildlife Management Career Development Competition. Students in the Wildlife Career Development Event, earn the opportunity to demonstrate their technical and management […]