The Edgefield County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting on Saturday, December 3 at Jackie’s Sports Apparel & More located at 608 Railroad Avenue in Johnston, SC. Jacqueline Cummings and her family welcome this new business to Edgefield County, just in time for the Christmas season. Her store carries sports apparel for the whole […]
Nearly forty years after its creation, a life-size sculpture of Senator Strom Thurmond is being installed at Strom Thurmond High School. The artwork is referred to as a “bas-relief” which is a sculptural technique that uses chiseling so that the sculpted material is raised above the background plane. It was originally made for the Strom […]
The new Youth Poet Laureate, Jenny Boylston of Trenton, was featured on the Poet Laureate float in Sunday’s Edgefield Christmas Parade. Director of the parade, Calvin Henderson, reported in the media that there were 80 entries that showed up out of 100, even in the rain and chill, to make a great hour-long parade. “The Night […]
Theft at Local Nursing Home The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a stolen golf cart at Forest View Manor in McCormick (Edgefield County), Nov. 28. According to an ECSO report on the incident, the golf cart was last known to have been on the property on Nov. 25. The golf cart […]
Economic Development Partnership President and CEO, Will Williams, confirmed for the Advertiser, Thursday, Dec. 1, that Parkdale Mills #20, located on Rabbit Trail Road in Edgefield, has ended its operations in Edgefield County. In a statement to the Advertiser, Williams said that the company announced to employees their intended closure Nov. 15 and that the […]
The third suspect in the armed robbery that occurred Nov.11 at Sportsman’s Corner has been captured. According to a spokesperson with the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office who spoke to the Advertiser, Rashwan Hairstom was caught in Greensboro, NC, by the Greensboro Police Department, Tuesday, Nov. 29. The two other suspects in this crime, Khalid Edward […]
By: Gerald Doolittle Last Saturday was a rewarding day for the Wardlaw Academy Patriots as they won a hard fought football game over the Holly Hill Academy Raiders 30-22 to claim the SCISA 8-Man Division One State Championship and finish the season at 11-3. The Patriots took advantage of a 37 yard punt return and […]
Brad Covar recently ended twenty-four years of service to Edgefield County as a school board member. He also spent eight of those years presiding as the board’s chairman. The entirety of the experiences of serving as a school board member impacted Covar in numerous ways. “I developed a huge appreciation for teachers and I realized […]
King Academy, through Helen Mims of Edgefield (a teacher at the Academy), requested some of the old Edgefield Advertiser copies available to the public for various needs. With the request, the staff learned that something artistic would be happening with the papers. And it did. Below one reads in the “Knight […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to a break-in at Sweetwater Baptist Church, Monday, Nov. 14. According to the ECSO report on the incident, unknown suspects gained entry into the church’s gym by using a side rear door. Once inside, they took from a closet a black Carvin sound system with two speakers valued at […]