Ehrhardt News

Pictured here is young Andrew Nichols, age 5, who lives in the Hobcaw Point neighborhood of Mount Pleasant, showing off the results of his first ever fishing trip to a pond out in Ehrhardt, S.C. When asked, Andrew was very quick to point out that he bagged this nice bass a oeall by myself!a

Some residents of the small town of Ehrhardt in Bamberg County are upset because a 300-foot-tall cell phone tower was built recently near their houses.

With only four weeks left before their annual Christmas Food Program distribution on December 21 Enid Bishop, Director of the Cheeze and Cracker Box is asking the community for help.

A South Carolina mayor-elect says he'll serve in his new role and keep his job as police chief in another town despite an opinion by the state attorney general's office advising against it.

Ehrhardt Police Chief Jim Preacher has done something many people in this state may have never seen before: he's now the holder of two political offices.

A South Carolina police chief elected as mayor of a nearby town says he won't serve in both roles after all.

There's some question whether a newly elected mayor can accept his position. The controversy stems from the fact the man is already a police chief.

A South Carolina mayor-elect says he'll serve in his new role and keep his job as police chief in another town despite an opinion by the state attorney general's office advising against it.

The Ehrhardt Town Council unanimously passed a resolution in a special call meeting on October 26 to award contracts in three Divisions of work for the new water system.

The Town of Ehrhardt and Police Chief James 'Jim' A. Preacher has filed for a motion for dismissal of a civil lawsuit against them by a computer systems installer named Scott Mocan who was stunned by a Taser gun by Preacher during an altercation at Ehrhardt Town Hall on August 18.

Pick-up your copy of The Advertizer-Herald Dog attacks Ehrhardt boy Joyce M. Searson, Publisher A young boy was attacked by a dog in Ehrhardt Thursday afternoon.

A South Carolina man has sued a town and its police chief, saying he shot the man with a Taser in a dispute over equipment he had installed.

The Hardee's Restaurant on Heritage Highway in Denmark was the scene of an armed robbery on Sunday afternoon.

House District 90 Representative Bakari T. Sellers held a town hall meeting in the commons area at Bamberg- Ehrhardt High School Monday night with a crowd of approximately 60 people attending.

Mr. Henry Belk Cook, Jr., 78, of 703 Ireland Hills Drive in Walterboro, entered into his eternal rest Friday afternoon, September 11, 2009, in the Colleton Medical Center in Walterboro.

The Ehrhardt Town Council and Police Department moved to their new location, the old Ehrhardt Elementary School building, on August 17 and held their first meeting on Tuesday, August 18.

As Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman marched through the South Carolina Lowcountry toward Columbia in 1865, about 1,200 Confederates stood to challenge him at Rivers Bridge on the Salkehatchie River.

District One Superintendent Phyllis Schwarting said at Monday night's board meeting the district had 'received some more bad news' and would be receiving between a four and five percent budget cut.

Mr. Ralph Newton Mixon, 92, of Hampton, SC, died Tuesday morning, August 25, 2009, at his home.

Mrs. Julia Kathleen Harmon Copeland died August 22, 2009, at the Bamberg County Nursing Center.