Hearing Held Monday Evening in Edgefield The Edgefield Historic Preservation Association held a demonstration, July 8, 2015 outside a meeting of the Piedmont Technical College Foundation Board in Saluda, S.C. The purpose of the demonstration was to alert the board members of the importance of saving the historic Adams Cotton Warehouse (see article Advertiser July […]
The two women whose art will appear in the Aiken Artist Gallery of the Aiken Center for the Arts in July are both educators who now seek second careers as artists. Debbie Black is a recent retiree whose varied career in education ended this past June with her last days as an assistant principal at […]
On the weekend of June 20, 2015 Tim Worth of Edgefield, SC, travelled to Harkers Island, North Carolina, to compete in the “rig of six” working decoy competition hosted by the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum. In this competition rigs of six working decoys are floated in the sound and judged from the bank. Tim entered […]
An overflow crowd met with the former Arkansas Governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, the first such candidate to visit Edgefield County since Newt Gingrich in 2012. The local Republican Party hosted the event at The Edgefield General Store on Main Street. Guests were standing in line before the appointed hour of 9:00 […]
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. – July 2, 2015 – Dollar General will celebrate the opening of its new location at 2494 Edgefield Road in Trenton next Saturday, July 11 at 8 a.m. with free prizes and special deals. Dollar General will offer Trenton residents a convenient new place to shop for everyday essentials at low prices. Additionally, […]
A resident of Reynolds Drive in Trenton returned home Tuesday, June 30, 2015 to find several men allegedly trying to burglarize his home. According to an Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office report on the matter, the man returned home at about nine in the morning to see a red Ford Mustang with a tan top in […]
An Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office patrol car caught fire Saturday night, July 4, 2015 after it was involved in a single car accident on Stephens Road. According to a spokesperson with the ECSO, the deputy driving the vehicle was responding to another deputy’s call for assistance when he ran off the road and into a […]
Most everyone in Edgefield County knows Thurmond Burnett of Edgefield Mercantile, but most do not know he has a car that he’s restored? Perhaps some may have seen him drive by in one of the local parades or at The Edgefield Cruise-In where he will have it on display again, July 18. His car is […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A survey of South Carolina legislators shows there is enough support to remove the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds if all supporters cast a vote. The Post and Courier newspaper, the South Carolina Press Association and The Associated Press asked all lawmakers how they intend to vote. At least 33 senators […]
– By Tiffani Ireland – June, 30 2015 – As previously reported by The Advertiser, Palmetto Products Pipe Line, LLC, a Kinder Morgan company, plans to run a new pipe line through sections of Edgefield County as part of an expansion project by the company. The proposed pipe line would run from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Collins and […]