Since the beginning of August, Edgefield County has bad regular COVID-19 testing occurring throughout the county. Emergency Management Director Suzy Spurgeon provided a breakdown of the numbers from those testing sites for the Advertiser. On Aug. 15, 2020, COVID testing was held at the Edgefield campus of Piedmont Technical College. During that testing, 147 […]
EC Covid-19 Cases September Dear Everyone, The numbers here in Edgefield County Continue to look really good when it comes to the number of active cases which is holding in the low 20s. Unfortunately we have had three additional deaths (2 elderly and 1 middle age). Overall state-wide we have 10,624 active cases. Edgefield County has the […]
W. Thurmond Burnett David T. Burnett Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home PO Box 389 – 801 Columbia Rd. Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 Phone: 803-637-6536 Email: david@edgefieldmercantile.com Thomas Lewis Williams, 88, […]
Ms. Michelle Beauchaine-Bussey sent the photo of a Fairy Ring that she found in the school yard of McCormick County School park. She discovered it when she went to register her grandson for school. “I had never even seen a fairy ring and had only recently read of them on-line, so I am pleased as […]
W. Thurmond Burnett David T. Burnett Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home PO Box 389 – 801 Columbia Rd. Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 Phone: 803-637-6536 Email: david@edgefieldmercantile.com Christopher D. “Chris” Spiller, 53, […]
By Sigrid Fowler All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. If silence is a topic of biblical concern, so is sound. First to last, the Bible is […]
Blaney Pridgen All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. My wife and I recently visited the Gettysburg National Military Park and Amish country in Pennsylvania. I did not […]
Robert Scott All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser. When I was living in Edgefield County and inching toward the magic age when I could vote, one of the alleged […]
Brooker Strom playing crowd favorites at Park Row. By Arthur Northrop You are telling your age if you know what Green Stamps are and you most likely are a member of AARP. Brooker Strom, master burger chef, got his first guitar from his mother saving Green Stamps and her ordering it from a catalog. For those who are […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Sept. 10, 2020) — The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) has confirmed eight additional sightings of the non-native black and white tegus since the initial report from Lexington County in August.Five of the sightings were from Lexington and Richland counties, two from Berkeley County, and one from Greenville County. Of these, five […]