Tim the Tool Turkey Is Injured

Tim the Tool Turkey Is Injured

We are sad to say that Tim the Tool Turkey was injured in a minor car accident. It appears that someone may have accidentally backed into him. We’ll keep you posted on his condition, we are hopeful that he’ll make a full recovery. Sincerely, Lorrie Miller Crouch ACE Hardware

From the Mayor’s Desk – Shag Shoes

From the Mayor’s Desk – Shag Shoes

Dear Edgefield! Find your Shag Shoes and come to the Town Square Saturday for a night of Summer Time Fun, sponsored by Edgefield Community Development Association!  I would like to personally invite everyone to our Beach Blast this Saturday, August 13th.  The band will be Shag Attack, featuring one of Edgefield’s very own, Jimbo Durham. […]

Thoughts About the Conventions, Part One

Thoughts About the Conventions, Part One

I am sitting at the Cleveland Airport, about to go home. The ‪#‎RNCinCLE convention has been over for 90 hours. After having the privilege to participate in it, I have yet to comment much on it. I took the weekend to think about it, and decided this morning not to do my weekly column for […]

Prejudice, 2016 Style

Prejudice, 2016 Style

Those of us who grew up in Edgefield County in the 20th Century know what prejudice is. When we grew up, it was all around us – some of us recipients, some caught up in it, and others thinking that we ourselves were somehow not involved – but, of course, we were. Racial prejudice is […]

Mr. Richard L. “Ricky” Crawford – Trenton, SC

Richard Linwood “Ricky” Crawford, 67 husband of Ethel Hammond Crawford, died July 31, 2016. Graveside Services will be held Friday August 5, 2016 at 10 AM at Sunset Gardens Memorial Cemetery in Edgefield. Mr. Crawford was a native of Edgefield County and was the son of the late Richard L. and Mary Worsham Crawford, Sr. […]

Mr. John Crosson Howard – Monetta, SC

Mr. John Crosson Howard entered the loving embrace of his Eternal Father on August 4, 2016.  He was 90 years old. A lifelong resident of Monetta, “John C.” was known by his neighbors as a generous, enterprising and faithful man who loved to laugh, loved his church and, most of all, loved his family and […]

Mrs. Willie Mae Swearingen – Edgefield, SC

Willie Mae Bussey  Swearingen, 94, wife of the late John S. Swearingen, died Sunday August 7, 2016. Graveside Services will be held Tuesday August 9, 2016 at 11 AM at Eastview Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 9:30 to 10:30 AM before the service at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home. Mrs. Swearingen was a native […]

Ms. Viola J. Percival – Shalimar, FL

Ms. Viola J. Percival, 92 of Hawthorn House, a retirement village in Shalimar, Fl. Died July 29, 2016. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday August 2, 2016 at 11:00 AM at Red Oak Grove Baptist Church in Edgefield County with burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Percival was born in Chicago, ILL. But moved away when […]

Ms. Chris Sizemore – Ocala, FL

Ms. Christine “Chris” Costner Sizemore, 89, subject of the movie “Three Faces of Eve”, widow of Don G. Sizemore, died peacefully in her sleep, Sunday, July 24, 2016, at Sylvia’s House Hospice in Ocala, FL. Born April 4, 1927, in Edgefield, SC, she was a daughter of the late Doctor Acie and Zuline Hastings Costner.  She […]