Dear Editor: In Saturday’s Augusta Chronicle there was a front-page article which noted that Georgia Power’s tax bill in Burke County had substantially increased due to the increasing value of the nuclear power plant there. The article further noted that Plant Vogtle now accounts for 67% of that county’s tax digest! The citizens of Burke […]
Dear Editor: I would like your readers to know we have a great asset in Edgefield. Please allow me to share my story with the readership. I have a concrete driveway and parking area. It was painted black and had begun to crack and peel. A local contractor, who will remain unnamed, assured me he […]
Dear Editor: I want to thank Dr. Gordineer and all of the staff at Edgefield County Hospital for the exceptionally good care I received while I was a patient thru last week. We are blessed to have a good community hospital. Thank you, Julia Verna Forrest Johnston
February 1, 2013 – Animal Shelter Update Coming At our upcoming February 5 County Council meeting, Administrator Lynn Strom will be giving the Council an update on the proposed Animal Shelter. As you may remember, a year or so ago the County Council agreed that we could save money and provide a better service to […]
Sportsmen were the original conservationists and remain the driving force in conservation today. By purchasing hunting and fishing licenses, paying a voluntarily imposed excise tax on all firearms, ammunition and other sporting equipment (Pittman–Robertson Act and Dingell-Johnson Act), and supporting conservation organizations, sportsmen pay for 80 percent or more of conservation efforts in this country. […]
Cayce, S.C. – An article entitled “Urgent: Big Ag group trying to ban raw milk sales in South Carolina – your help needed to stop this tyranny” by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer for naturalnews.com has generated hundreds of calls and e-mails to South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation (SCFB) from people who support the sale […]
Dear Editor: Recently, as I was having lunch at Pine Ridge, I looked across the room to see six ladies enjoying the fellowship of a day out together. As I thought about them, I realized that collectively they represent over 500 years of life here in Edgefield County. Whether as a teacher, town leader or provider of summer […]
On February 27, 2012, Mr. Dorn released a statement through the Edgefield Advertiser that he referred to as his announcement bid for reelection. The announcement stated, “Probably the most disconcerting issue in the county is that Edgefield County Council has turned a “blind eye” to the Northside’s great need for water. My solution to show […]
This special edition of the Edgefield County Chairman’s Update is a State of the County report to you. I committed to you that I would continue to communicate the County’s activities to you. This report seeks to do just that. First, nothing the County does is possible without the work of many people. From the […]
I just thought I would comment on the passing of Mrs. Rearden. From different articles I have read about her, she exemplifies an OUTSTANDING American and a GREAT Lady. The thing that caught my eye was her getting a drivers license in 1965. My father passed in late 1978 and the following summer I paid for my […]