WINNSBORO – The Winnsboro Lions Club recently named its first honorary member, Julie Haynes, owner and manager of the Barn Express. “Mrs. Haynes not only allows us to meet at the Barn for our regular meetings, but she also allows us to hold our annual Rann Foster pancake fundraiser at the Barn,” Lion Paul Dove […]
Keeping It Clean
March 16, 2023 By
Palmetto Pride’s Sarah Lyles presented Fairfield County Public Works Director Jonathan Burroughs with a $25,000 Litter Crew Grant. The grant will fund the cost of a crew to pick up litter along county roads on most Saturdays throughout the year. This is the second year the Public Works Department has received the grant. According to […]
Letter: Burning Questions For Fairfield County
March 16, 2023 By
What were all the obstacles preventing Fairfield from being awarded the Scout Motors contract? Why haven’t we had any real economic development these past two years? What are we going to do to fix the aforementioned problems? When will we change the governance mentality that commits millions of dollars to monuments when we are short […]
Guest Editorial: You can’t have democracy without a free press
March 16, 2023 By
There’s a reason we need a free press. Democracy won’t work without it. The grand experiment in self-governance that is the United States is rooted in trust and confidence we all will work toward the greater good. But the nation’s founders had experience with kings and dictators and their expected benevolence — and what could […]
Guest Editorial: Activist Kevin Gray was larger than life, yet unassuming
March 16, 2023 By
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, Columbia lost one of its most unique individuals, Kevin Alexander Gray. And I lost one of my most cherished friends. Kevin was a soldier in the fight for equality. From the local, burning the Confederate Flag on the Statehouse grounds with the Reverend E. Slave in protest of its place of […]
June Gerald Polk
March 16, 2023 By
June Gerald Polk of Winnsboro passed away on Friday, March 10, 2023. Born in Winnsboro, she was the daughter of the late Joe Thomas Gerald and Stella Parker Gerald. She retired from Fairfield Memorial Hospital as Accounting Director with well over 25 years of service. She also served as clerk/treasurer of Rockton Baptist Church. June […]
