A Great Asset in Edgefield

Dear Editor: I would like your readers to know we have a great asset in Edgefield.  Please allow me to share my story with the readership.  I have a concrete driveway and parking area.  It was painted black and had begun to crack and peel.  A local contractor, who will remain unnamed, assured me he […]

Department of Revenue Announces Program to Securely Process Tax Returns

Department of Revenue Announces Program to Securely Process Tax Returns

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 […]

Drought Committee Downgrades 26 Counties

Drought Committee Downgrades 26 Counties

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, […]

Essie Mae Washington Williams

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 […]

Juanita “Nita” Parrott Tompkins

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 […]

Public Invited to Attend Annual Pancake Supper

Public Invited to Attend Annual Pancake Supper

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 […]