Get ready for the annual Trenton Flyers Candy Drop. Kids and the young at heart are invited to join the Trenton Flyers Association Saturday October 27 at the Edgefield County Airport, Yonce Field, in Trenton, for a special Halloween treat. Planes will be on display at 11:30 a.m. and candy will drop from the sky […]
Every Thursday afternoon in front of the Library on Calhoun Street from 4 – 6 p.m. You will find delicious fresh turnips (tops & roots). Also yellow squash, cucumbers, peppers, green & speckled butterbeans shelled & unshelled, tomatoes and okra (remember these will be gone after the first frost) as well as sweet potatoes, boiled peanuts, green peanuts, […]
Food Ministry: Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Food Bank Ministry is sponsoring its annual Thanksgiving Holiday Food Drive. Please donate canned goods and non-perishable food to the following locations: FairPrice Food Center, Edgefield Senior Citizens Council and Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. For more info call 637-1287 or 637- 6473. Needed: African Americans with sugar diabetes to […]
NWTF Banquet: Come show your Team NWTF spirit at NWTF’s Hunting Heritage Banquet & Tailgate Party! November 15 at Old Kendall Mill Kick off at 6 p.m. Dinner at 7:30 p.m. Get your tickets at Turkey Shoppe on Main on the Edgefield square. NWTF Turkey Burn: The NWTF is hosting a turkey cooking contest on the Edgefield […]
Caroline Bland (pictured) plays the role of another gender in the Devil in Petticoats, the story about the 19th century Edgefield murderess, Becky Cotton. Here he/she is taking aim at someone. The show starts Thursday, October 18th, at 8:00 p.m. at William M. Bouknight Theatre in the Discover Center in Edgefield.
Needed: African Americans with sugar diabetes to participate in a research focus group conducted by Dr.Ida Spruill from the Medical University of South Carolina. The focus group will last 90 minutes and be conducted in your local community. You will receive lunch and compensation. If interested, call 1-866-551-3010. Farmers’ and Artists’ Market: Johnston Farmers’ and […]
The Edgefield County Theatre Company will hold auditions for its Christmas production, “Christmas Belles” by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. The show will be presented in December at the theatre, 405 Main Street in Edgefield. The play is directed by Tony Baughman To accommodate interest in “Christmas Belles,” the theatre will hold THREE […]
Farmers’ and Artists’ Market: Johnston Farmers’ and Artists’ Market is held from 4-6 p.m. each Thursday. If interested in being a vendor call 275-4097. Yard Sale: Trinity Community Church, 403 Mims St., Edgefield, Saturday, Sept. 29, 7 a.m. until… Fish, Hot Dogs, and French Fries will be sold Youth Sunday: Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church […]
The Strom Thurmond High School FFA has announced their Fall Plant Sale, to be Saturday, September 29, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Pansies, snapdragons, ornamental kale, herb baskets and more will be on show for sale at the greenhouses behind the Strom Thurmond football field.
Tricia Glenn, who holds Becky Cotton’s 19th century nightgown in a photograph published with this story, has written a play about Edgefield’s iconic murderess, and according to Glenn her act of murder on her husband is what precipitated the eventual name given to Edgefield – “Bloody Edgefield” –for it was the first of numerous murders, […]