WINNSBORO – Fairfield County Director of Veterans Affairs Albertha Woodard was selected as a “Women Making History” award winner by the Order of the Eastern Star, a fraternal organization that consists of a woman’s auxiliary to Freemasonry that promotes charity, truth, and loving kindness.
Summer Nights Are Here
May 29, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – FlashBack The Party Band brought the energy and the hits to the May Summer Concert in downtown Winnsboro on Saturday. The free event featured food for sale from KG’s Soul Food and alcoholic beverages, sold by Sarah-N-Geo’s. Summer Nights concert series will continue on June 28 with a performance from DJ Irv.
Fairfield High Alumni Association hosts car & truck show
May 29, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – The Fairfield High School Alumni Association Car and Truck Club proudly hosted its first annual Car Show on Saturday, May 17 drawing crowds of car enthusiasts to Congress Street in downtown Winnsboro. “It was an exciting day of automotive competition and community celebration,” said the show’s emcee Donald Prioleau. From 2 p.m. to […]
Karen Howard Murphy
May 29, 2025 By
Karen Howard Murphy, 78, passed away peacefully on May 12, 2025. She was born on February 14, 1947, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and spent her adult life in Winnsboro, South Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; Ochlocknee, Georgia; Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; and Shelby, North Carolina. Karen was a loving wife to Milton Edward Murphy, Jr., […]
Park safety on BW council agenda for Thursday, May 29
May 28, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The opening salvo at Tuesday night’s town council meeting was prompted by a two-page agenda heavy with major issues, including park security, budget review, a curfew for the town, and park safety rules and regulations. Discussion and final vote on the town’s massive land development code, and a public hearing on an ordinance […]
Sheriff Lott talks tough about shootouts, fighting
May 22, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Almost a hundred members of the community gathered at Doko Manor Monday evening to hear Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott update them on the arrests of seven 18 to 23-year-olds involved in a recent shootout in downtown Blythewood. He also talked about recent trends in which hundreds of teens swarming nighttime Doko Park […]
