The Edgefield County Hospital was expressing great hospitality on Thursday at lunchtime. Staff gathered to cook and serve a hearty meal for the community at large. This included, among the county agencies, EMS, the media community, the hospital staff (and that is about 150), Fire Department, medical offices, nursing home, and county officials. One new […]
The Strom Thurmond Rebels football team lost Friday’s home playoff game against Myrtle Beach, 21-16. The Wardlaw Patriots football team lost Friday’s neutral playoff game against King Academy, 58-20.
Dear Editor, This year in South Carolina it is estimated that 27,260 people will be diagnosed with cancer. For them, the cuts to cancer research that took place as a result of the sequester are very real. Because of these cuts, 1,000 fewer people were able to enroll in potentially lifesaving clinical trials this past […]
Need to do some early holiday shopping? Why not purchase some creative and handmade crafts from local students. Piedmont Technical College pottery students will host their annual Christmas Show and Sale. The exhibit and sale will feature work designed and made by students enrolled in the Professional Clay certificate program at the college’s Center for […]
Wardlaw Academy is very proud to announce that on Thursday, November 7, at the Fall Head of School State Conference, Laurie Robinson was named the South Carolina Independent School Association Executive Administrative Assistant of the Year. Mrs. Robinson is a dedicated and valued member of the Wardlaw Academy Administrative Staff. She was recommended to receive […]
As The Advertiser was going to press Tuesday, we learned from a family member of the victim in this incident that around 7:30 that morning a Merriwether woman was in the back of her house getting ready for work and heard a knock on her back door. The relative related that the woman looked out […]
The Edgefield County Historical Society held its Fall Meeting on Sunday afternoon, November 10, 2013 at Magnolia Dale. The subject of the meeting was Edgefield County’s Blocker Family and was occasioned by the acquisition by the Society of three wonderful portraits of early Blocker Family members. The portraits were of John Blocker, Sr. (1749-1814), the […]
The 2013 Tour of Churches in downtown Edgefield, hosted by the Edgefield County Historical Society, will take place on December the 1st, starting at the Catholic Church at 3:00 p.m. This popular annual event depicts the story of the birth of Christ with youth from each of the churches participating. It begins at St. Mary’s […]
Virgil Huston of Trenton has had three of his poems published in this month’s edition of Blue Streak: A Journal of Military Poetry, a publication of Military Experience and the Arts (MEA), a non-profit, volunteer run organization whose primary mission, according to their Web site, is to work with veterans and their families to publish […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office responded to a burglary at a residence on Freeland Drive, North Augusta (within Edgefield County), Tuesday, Nov. 19. According to a report filed by the ECSO, the victim in this incident returned to his address to find that thieves had gained entry into his home by kicking in a side […]