Strom Thurmond High School announced that it has hired Christopher R. Zylstra as its new varsity baseball coach. In a statement released today, the school indicated that Coach Zylstra is from Wyoming, Michigan and has just graduated from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education with an emphasis in […]
JOHNSTON, S.C. – Graveside services for Ellerbe Orin “Sonny” Dukes will be held at 5:00 P. M. on Saturday, July 21, at Spann Cemetery in Ward, South Carolina. Mr. Dukes died at Edisto Island on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Born in Augusta, Georgia, on November 5, 1931, he was the son of the late Ellerbe […]
Resigned to the inevitable may best describe the sentiments of many in attendance at Tuesday night’s, July 17, public hearing held by the SC Department of Transportation to discuss the widening project of Highway 25. (This was at Mount Canaan fellowship hall on Highway 25, South, out of Trenton.) This project, which is composed of […]
Farmers’ and Artists’ Market: Johnston Farmers’ and Artists’ Market is held from 4-6 p.m. each Thursday. If interested in being a vendor call 275-4097. Meet the Players: Thursday night, July 19, from 6-7 p.m. Meet The Players on the town square will be held for the 11 and 12 year old All-Star team which will […]
Tammy Renee Boatwright, whose murder trial was set to begin Tuesday, July 17 for the 2011 shooting of Don Robert Boyd, Jr., accepted a plea bargain for the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. With this plea, the judge sentenced Boatwright to 15 years in prison and suspended that to 5 years in prison and 5 […]
PLUMB BRANCH, S.C. – Mrs. Betty Faye White Wells, 81, of Plum Branch, wife of W.T. Wells, died Monday July 16, 2012 at the Hospice House in Greenwood. Funeral Services will be held Thursday July 19, 2012 at 11 A.M. at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Plum Branch with burial in Plum Branch Cemetery. […]
Submitted by PTC. Edgefield, S.C. – After a nationwide search, Piedmont Technical College has hired Thomas Koole of New York’s Hudson Valley to assume the program coordinator position at the Pottery Center in Edgefield. After a hiatus this summer during the search, the Pottery Center will be open for the upcoming fall 2012 semester, and classes […]
EDGEFIELD, S.C. –Wardlaw Academy Shooting Team members Kevin Freeland and Ben Dodson were recently awarded a trip to the Cabela’s CLUB Whittington Adventure at the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, N.M. They will be accompanied by their fathers, Allen Freeland and Brian Dodson. The National Wild Turkey Federation recommended the Wardlaw Shooting Team for the […]
Congratulations to the Edgefield Xtreme fast-pitch softball team. They are the Champions of the USSSA Mid-Summer Blast that was held in Aiken this past weekend. This was a 1-day event and the girls had to play 7 games that started at 9:30 Saturday morning and didn’t end until 10:30 that night. Xtreme won the championship […]
Police officers go to work every day not knowing the different dangers they may face, but on Thursday, July 12, officers with the Edgefield City Police Department were met with two unlikely foes; a donkey and a goat. The show down did turn ugly as measures were taken to ensure the unlikely duo would not […]