The Strom Thurmond High School Symphonic Band received top honors at the South Carolina State Concert Festival. The band earned an overall rating of Superior by performing three prepared selections and a sightreading selection they have never seen. They are adjudicated by highly qualified instrumental music professionals from across the country. The band is given […]
A roundup of last week’s results from area schools’ spring sporting events. —- Baseball Fox Creek HS 5, Laurens Academy 1 Fox Creek roared into Sandlapper Tournament play last Saturday with a victory over Laurens Academy. Andrew Buist (4-1) pitched the win for the Predators and Quadre Castleberry stole three bases. Fox Creek 6, Barnwell […]
NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C. – Mrs. Loretta McCain Nathaniel, 51, of Dove Street, entered into rest April 10, 2012 at her residence. Memorial services will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, April 14, 2012 at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Clearwater with Ricky Williams officiating. Mrs. Nathaniel, a native of Edgefield County was one of […]
Patsy Cline is a Convincing Angel in the Show The first musical is coming to the William Bouknight Theatre at the Discovery Center in Edgefield next weekend, April 20, and it will rock the theatre as it has during rehearsals. Always, Patsy Cline will be a show to remember. And here is why. Debbie Fryer […]
Monday night, in an hour of reporting on the Strategic Plan for Edgefield County by Roger LeDuc, Edgefield County Alliance members heard another step in putting the plan out there for people and encouraging leadership in the community and county government to make it work. This plan was passed on by the County Council in […]
The Edgefield County Council unanimously passed the first reading of the 2012-2013 General Operating Budget at their regularly scheduled monthly meeting, Tuesday, April 3. The budget did receive two small amendments before its passage. One included amending the budget so that the county pays 100% of the recreation centers’ utility fees versus the 75% that […]
On Easter Sunday a Barnwell man, David Richard Fallaw, was killed after he was ejected from his motorcycle on Highway 23 West in Edgefield County on a stretch that is often known as Dead Man’s Curve. The 55 year old man was taken to Edgefield County Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:48 p.m. […]
One man was killed Thursday, April 5, in an accidental electrocution in a field off Bauknight Road according to the Edgefield County Coroner’s Office. Mauricio Martinez, 27, died when an irrigation pole he and fellow workers were trying to move hit a power line. Reports were that another worker was also injured in this accident, […]
BEECH ISLAND — Mr. Norwood Chresswell Williams, 81, of Hammond Road, died Sunday April 8, 2012 at his residence. A Memorial Service will be held Wednesday April 11, 2012 at 11 A.M. at All Saints Episcopal Church in Beech Island. The family will receive friends after the service at the church. Mr. Williams was born […]
Always a devoted group joins together at Spann Church, devoted to the old church and its history and mission. Some are members; some are friends. They were there on Good Friday evening to follow a service led by Pastor John Kneece. Kneece read from the Book of John, a new translation, and talked of who […]