The public is invited to a book signing on Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 3:00 p. m. for a new book, Our Ancestors, Our Stories, in the Lynch Building Annex of the Tompkins Library, Edgefield, SC. Our Ancestors, Our Stories chronicles the history of blacks in Edgefield and the journey of one historian and four […]
If you see or smell smoke near one of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ heritage preserves or wildlife management areas this spring and summer, it may be coming from a prescribed fire. Prescribed burns (also called controlled burns) are generally conducted in the dormant season, mostly in late winter and very early spring. But […]
A beautiful Sunday afternoon it was, with the new-green of leaves appearing on the trees and a wooded backdrop of dogwood in bloom, as Horn’s Creek Church was filled to capacity for a service of rededication and resolve – to bring back to its early, habitable shape the oldest (“believed to be” according to Historian […]
Livestock Stolen Three calves were stolen from a pasture on Country Club Road in Johnston between Saturday and Sunday, Apr. 5-6. According to a report filed with the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office, the owner of the calves stated that sometime between Saturday and Sunday, thieves cut the lock to his pasture and stole three black […]
So Much Fun! So Much Beauty! Are Johnston women more “in vogue” than others? (Are we setting up a challenge here?) At Saturday’s fashion show, the Johnston Woman’s Club hosting and Mercy Me! contributing the clothes, everyone had spring fashion in mind – coming from all parts of the county. And Johnston women were spotlighted […]
Fifty-nine year old Joseph E. Miller of North Augusta died Sunday, Apr. 13, in a single vehicle accident that occurred on Gregory Lake Road in Edgefield County at 4:05 in the afternoon. According to the SC Highway Patrol, Mr. Miller, who was riding a 2009 Yamaha motorcycle, was traveling West on Gregory Lake when he […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces a preliminary number of eleven persons killed on South Carolina roadways from Friday, April 11, at 6 p.m. until Sunday, April 13, at midnight. Interstates 2 US routes, SC roads and secondary roads 9 County roads 0 Seat belt used 3 Seat belt not […]
Edgefield County Water & Sewer Authority is one of thirty-seven SC public water systems that have been awarded the Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2012. Water fluoridation is the adjustment of fluoride in the drinking water supply to a level which safely and effectively reduces […]
An overturned dump truck tied up traffic on Hwy 23 West for over three hours Friday afternoon, Apr. 11. According to sources at the scene, after getting off route around three o’clock in the afternoon, an out-of-town truck pulling a horse trailer was trying to turn around at the site of Sandy Oaks Rodeo when […]
On Wednesday, April 2, Amman Hill’s mother, Yolanda Hill, a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army, came to his kindergarten class at W.E.Parker Elementary School to surprise him with her arrival home from her deployment which took her from him for over a year. While she was away, W. E. Parker Elementary had sent her […]