Barbara Ball, Author at The Voice of Blythewood & Fairfield County

Bridge Creek Teacher of the Year

Staff / February 19, 2026

Blythewood resident Susan Schmid was named 2026-2027 Teacher of the Year at Bridge Creek Elementary School last week. Schmid, pictured with her husband Marty, serves as the school’s Response to Intervention (RTI) Program Specialist.

Opinion

Kenny’s Corner: Who Are Those Buildings Really For?

Kenny Robertson / February 19, 2026

After my last column about the 27 vacant county buildings, someone left a comment that stuck with me. They didn’t argue about whether the buildings exist. They asked something sharper: Who are those buildings really for? One commenter said they closed their business, tore down a quarter-million-dollar building piece by piece, and moved their family

Opinion

The View from 95: A Lady of Yesterday in a World of Tomorrow

Jeanette Smith / February 19, 2026

My children are not like me. They understand electronics. That’s a good thing! They don’t go to church. That’s a bad thing. They eat food from foreign countries. That is a questionable thing. Maybe it will just take time for them to get more like me. After all, I turned into my mother when I

Obituaries

Ted Donovan Lybrand

Contributed / February 19, 2026

Ted Donovan Lybrand of Blythewood, passed away Thursday, February 12, 2026 after a long illness. He was born April 23, 1947 in Columbia, S.C. to Raymond Lybrand and Doris Eastman Lybrand. After joining the army, he received training in numerous sites before participating in intelligence operations in Vietnam, Taiwan, and Korea as part of the

Government

Is the Town of Blythewood hiding missteps in $20K Juneteenth funds?

Barbara Ball / February 12, 2026

BLYTHEWOOD – Town Councilman Donald Brock announced almost three months ago, during the Nov. 24 town council meeting, that, “$20,000 from last year’s Juneteenth event funding walked away, and it can’t be accounted for.” He was referring to H-tax (hospitality tax) funds that were appropriated in the FY 2024-25 town budget for Blythewood’s 2025 Juneteenth

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Author name: Staff

Bridge Creek Teacher of the Year

Kenny’s Corner: Who Are Those Buildings Really For?

The View from 95: A Lady of Yesterday in a World of Tomorrow

Ted Donovan Lybrand

Is the Town of Blythewood hiding missteps in $20K Juneteenth funds?