Ellen Lewis Fountain, Martinez, GA

Martinez, GA—Ellen Lewis Fountain went to meet her Lord and Savior, on May 29, 2016 at Trinity Hospital of Augusta, following a long illness. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 pm on Thursday, June 2, 2016, at Bellevue Memorial Gardens, Grovetown, GA, with Trinity Hospice Chaplain Tom Kolliokoski officiating. Ellen was very much adored, […]

The Importance of Work

The Importance of Work

I want to continue my theme that most of life’s issues are “non-respecter of person issues. When I reflect on creation, one of the things we often don’t think about is that one of the first things God did after creating man was to give him a job: “Then the Lord God took the man […]

Adult Learning Center in Johnston Damaged

Adult Learning Center in Johnston Damaged

The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office was notified Friday, May 27, of damage to property at the Adult Learning Center in Johnston.  According to the ECSO report, unknown persons have been taking mail out of the center’s mailbox located at the driveway of the center.  Mail was found strewn about the lawn of the school.  Additionally, […]

Mrs. Lenolia Whitt Rowland Rainsford – Edgefield, SC

Mrs. Lenolia Whitt Rowland Rainsford, 91, wife of the late John Rainsford, Jr., entered into rest on Monday, May 30, 2016 at Edgefield County Hospital. Her graveside service will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 in St. Mary’s Catholic Church Cemetery, Edgefield, SC with Rev. Andy Hunter officiating. Mrs. Rainsford was a […]

Strom Thurmond High School, 2016 Graduates

Strom Thurmond High School, 2016 Graduates

Congratulations to: Leo James Antuna, Christopher Paul Armstrong, Malcolm Jamal Axen, Dalton Ellis Bagshaw, Derek Arthur Barnhart, Joshua Davis Barton, Titus Cordell Bean, Quianna Renee Berry, Aleshia Moquita Blacks, Aliya Porscha Blacks, Jermiah Christopher Blocker, Samuel Jackson Blythe, Brittney Elizabeth Boatwright, Marquis Anthony Brooks, Caitlyn Brice Brown, Keati DeVarje Buchanan, Aaliyah Shavon Buckhanon, Shuron Al-Keim […]

Statewide deer harvest decreases in 2015

Statewide deer harvest decreases in 2015

Results of the 2015 Deer Hunter Survey conducted by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources indicate that the statewide harvest of deer decreased about 4 percent last season, not surprising given the poor hunting conditions last fall. An estimated 111,035 bucks and 83,995 does made up a total harvest of 195,030, according to Charles Ruth, […]

Welcome the Stranger (Continued)

Welcome the Stranger (Continued)

Readers who follow the news will recognize that we as a society have been of several minds about what to do about refugees in America. To some, political refugees might be terrorists – that is, hidden among several thousand refugees from Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries might be individuals who are sham refugees; they […]

Privacy and Government

Privacy and Government

Now that both political parties have settled (or almost surely settled) on their respective Presidential candidates, the debates setting out each party’s agenda are expected to begin in earnest. One issue that hasn’t yet made it to center stage involves privacy and government. If you are a follower of political issues, you will remember not […]

Discouragement

Discouragement

I want to continue my theme that most of life’s issues are “non-respecter of person issues. One afternoon this week I travelled down an incomplete road. Indeed, this time three years ago, this road did not even exist – except in my head! Back then, when it was still just in my head, the road […]