PHOTO: National Geographic Kids Residents of Edgefield County and the surrounding areas are accustomed to hearing reports of bears and even cougars (a.k.a. mountain lions, a.k.a. pumas) roaming about, but a kangaroo? Yes, a kangaroo. The McCormick County Sheriff’s Office issued a notice Monday, May 14, advising residents of the marsupial’s sighting and warning citizens […]
Thurmond Burnett Phone: (803)637-6536 David T. Burnett Fax: (803)637-6006 Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home, Inc. Established 1902 801 Columbia Road Post Office Box 389 Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 www.edgefieldmercantilefh.com May 11, 2018 Alleen M. Miller Edgefield, SC Alleen Mathis Miller, 73, wife of Wayne Miller […]
Milledge Hall, 63, of Johnston, was killed Monday, May 7, in a shooting outside the Pool Room on Johnston. According to a spokesperson with the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect, whose name is not being released at this time, came to the Pool Room earlier in the day and had words with employees […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office is looking for 3 more suspects in connection with the theft ring first reported on by the Advertiser in our Apr. 16 edition. The ECSO has warrants for the arrest of Jacob (Jake) Folland, Cathrin Linares, and Christopher Basnight in connection to multiple thefts that have occurred in Edgefield […]
Mr. Milledge H. Hall, Jr. Johnston, SC Funeral Services for Mr. Milledge H. Hall, Jr. will be held Friday, May 11, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. at Bland Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 1:00-2:00 p.m. prior to the service. Burial will follow in Eastview Cemetery, Edgefield, SC. Mr. Hall died Tuesday, May 8, […]
Thurmond Burnett Phone: (803)637-6536 David T. Burnett Fax: (803)637-6006 Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home, Inc. Established 1902 801 Columbia Road Post Office Box 389 Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 www.edgefieldmercantilefh.com May 8, 2018 Robert E. (Bob) Dorn, Sr. Edgefield, S.C. Mr. Robert E. (Bob) Dorn, Sr., 92, of Edgefield, […]
CLEMENTS FUNERAL SERVICE, INC. (919) 286-1224 fax (919) 286-1226 OBITUARY NEWS STORY PUBLISH PAID ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2018 DOROTHY DALTON MATHIS RUMMEL Durham Dorothy Dalton Mathis Rummel, known and loved by many as “Dot,” “Pinky,” and “Dorothy,” went to be with Jesus on May 4, 2018, at home, surrounded by her loving […]
Photos by Henry Williams
Ethics as a word and as a concept are both derived from ancient Greece. The word is a close kin to the less common ethos, which roughly means character – as in character of a society or of a nation. The 1943 edition of Webster’s Dictionary on my bookshelf was inherited from my father, and […]
Last week I finished two weeks of editorials, where I discussed the Nazi holocaust and the fact that most American millennials are uneducated on the slaughter of innocent Jewish lives a mere 3 generations ago. http://www.edgefieldadvertiser.com/2018/04/more-on-the-holocaust-another-action-item/. Both weeks had action items for us as individuals: parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts or uncles, to help ensure […]