Fatherhood, Part Two

Fatherhood, Part Two

This week I continue the theme that most of life’s issues are “non-respecter of person issues.”  In particular, I want to discuss being a dad vs. being a father. This is part-two of a four-part series on Fatherhood. I believe there is a vast difference between being a dad, and being a father. There are […]

Area Group Attended Ali Memorial Services

Area Group Attended Ali Memorial Services

The Augusta Boxing Academy team traveled from Augusta, Georgia, to Louisville, Ky., last week for the memorial events honoring Muhammad Ali.  Among them were 3 coaches and team members Orlando Hernton Jr., Desmond Lyons, Savannah Talbert, and Saliyah Talbert.  Orlando will be attending Morehouse College in the fall and Desmond is a student at Aiken […]

Salary Increases at Sheriff’s Office

Salary Increases at Sheriff’s Office

Edgefield County Council voted to approve salary increases for employees of the Sheriff’s Office in the final reading of the 2016-2017 budget at their monthly meeting, June 7.  (See coverage of County Council in the June 15 edition.)  The salary increases come after Council was approached by Sheriff Adelle Dobey who pointed out that the […]

Mrs. Annette D. Doolittle – Greenwood, SC

June 16, 2016 – Mrs. Annette Dickard Doolittle, 79, of Greenwood, wife of the late Strom F. Doolittle, died Wednesday. Funeral Services will be held Friday June 17, 2016 at 11 A.M. at Harris Baptist Church in Greenwood with burial at 1 P.M. at Eastview  Cemetery in Edgefield. The family will receive friends from 10 to […]

Volunteers needed to participate in DNR’s annual Summer Turkey Survey

Volunteers needed to participate in DNR’s  annual Summer Turkey Survey

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to help with its annual Summer Turkey Survey. Annually, since 1982, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources conducts a Summer Turkey Survey to estimate reproduction and recruitment of wild turkeys in South Carolina. The survey involves agency wildlife biologists, technicians and conservation officers, as well […]

Break-in at Dixie Bell Labor Camp

Break-in at Dixie Bell Labor Camp

  The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office was called to Holmes Pond Road, Monday, June 13, in reference to a break-in at a Dixie Bell labor camp located on the road.  Law enforcement was advised that at some point during the day someone had entered three rooms at the camp and stolen money and other items […]

Missing Woman Found

Missing Woman Found

An Edgefield County woman missing since, Saturday, June 11, was found alive and unharmed Wednesday morning, June 15.  According to an Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office report on the incident, the ECSO was called to a residence on Turkey Ridge Court Tuesday afternoon, June 14, by a male wishing to report his live-in girlfriend as missing.  […]

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

I recently thought of a clever speech concept that could be used by any of the three remaining candidates in the ’16 Presidential race. As I developed the idea, I visited one of the candidate’s “Official” websites and realized it was very difficult to communicate my idea to the campaign as compared to contributing my […]

Integrity

Integrity

One of my favorite politicians of a generation ago was Alan Simpson, the Republican Senator from Wyoming. Like all public figures, sometimes he said things and voted in a way that I wish were different, and at other times he seemed to me to be spot on. One statement of his that bears repeating in […]

Fatherhood, Part One

Fatherhood, Part One

I have the privilege of sitting on a porch my great-grandfather sat on as our republic prepared for WWI. The same porch my grandfather sat on as he lived through the depression and our republic prepared for WWII.  The same porch my father sat on as he worked through the issues of the Cold War. […]