With the continual increase in gas prices everyone is trying to conserve fuel and reduce the bite on their wallets. Nationally, the current average for a gallon of Regular Unleaded is $3.75. In South Carolina, with our lower taxes on fuel, we are only paying, on average, $3.46/gl. That is better than other states, but […]
Johnston High School Football Team won the state championship in 1933. They did it again in 1937 and again in 1959. There is no Johnston High School since 1961, but the athletic prowess spawned in Johnston continues at Strom Thurmond High School, the Edgefield County public high school that last won the state championship in […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Betty Jean Mobley Chrisco, of Rabbit Trail, wife of Reverend Steve Chrisco, died Thursday, August 23, 2012 at University Hospital. Funeral Services will be held Sunday August 26, 2012 at 2 P.M. at the Edgefield Church of God with burial in Eastview Cemetery in Edgefield. Mrs. Chrisco was a native of Edgefield County […]
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In July, Women in Unity held their annual Youth Explosion with the help of many in the county including the Strom Thurmond High School Cheerleaders.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Owners and operators of reservoirs throughout South Carolina should check their dams immediately, and during the next several days for possible problems caused by heavy rainfall, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control announced today. “Owners who have the ability to lower their reservoir’s water level should safely do so to […]
The Town of Edgefield would like you to help welcome 42 folks to Edgefield this Saturday, August 25th! Carolina Tours out of Columbia will be coming in this Saturday for a Ladies Mystery Tour! Stops include the Tompkins Library, shopping Downtown on the square, lunch at the Old Edgefield Grill, Oakley Park and a Mercy […]
MODOC, S. C. – Mrs. Brenda P. Williams, 53, wife of Ben Williams Sr., died Thursday August 23, 2012 at the Edgefield County Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday August 25, 2012 at 2:00 P. M. at Red Oak Grove Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Williams was a native of Edgefield […]
Josef Kals is Austrian, and what’s more, he comes from the mountainous western part of the country, from a small farm of 15 cows (Simmental heifers he calls them). Here in the south of the U.S. on Faulkner Mountain Rd. he is working on a farm of 500 cows, (Holsteins) – this is Hickory Hill […]
With big game seasons opening in many Western states, hunters traveling abroad are reminded not to import into South Carolina certain carcass parts from deer and elk harvested in states with chronic wasting disease. To protect the state’s extremely valuable white-tailed deer resource, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has maintained a regulation restricting […]