COLUMBIA (Aug. 31, 2016) – Two teenage girls were arrested last week after an altercation aboard a school bus bound for Westwood High School. According to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, an argument broke out at approximately 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 23 between a brother and a sister on the bus as the bus approached the […]
Patriots Thump RWA
August 29, 2016 By
WINNSBORO (Aug. 29, 2016) – In their long awaited return to Ruff Field Friday, the Richard Winn Eagles failed to contain the Wardlaw Academy Patriots and dropped the game 44-13. The first quarter was seemingly all that went right for the Eagles. They scored on the very first drive of the game, with a 30-yard rushing […]
Blazers Topple Bengals
August 29, 2016 By
BLYTHEWOOD (Aug. 29, 2016) – The Blythewood Bengals (1-1) came into week two Friday night with a 12-game winning streak against rivals Ridge View (2-0). But the Bengals gave up 16 unanswered points in the fourth quarter including the game-winning field goal to fall to the Blazers 23-21. “Our guys played tremendous tonight, even though we […]
Griffins Notch Ugly Win Over Keenan
August 27, 2016 By
WINNSBORO (Aug. 27, 2016) – Things got a little sloppy late. Turnovers killed opportunities. Penalties piled up, and players were ejected. But Fairfield Central managed to dispose of the Keenan Raiders 27-0 Friday night at E.K. McLendon Stadium on the bypass. The performance gave Griffins’ head coach Demetrius Davis heartburn, especially looking down the barrel of […]
Lights Out: Rams Rout Redhawks
August 27, 2016 By
BLYTHEWOOD (Aug. 27, 2016) – The lights went out at Richland District 2 Stadium early in the first quarter Friday night as Westwood began to battle with Westside. Three out of the four light stands relit after about a 20-minute delay, but the Redhawks stayed in the dark. The Rams put up 21 points on the […]
County Opens Vet Services for Bid
August 25, 2016 By
WINNSBORO – Fairfield County is putting its veterinary services out for bid. “We’ve always used Dr. Robert Chappell,” Davis Anderson, Deputy County Administrator, said. “But we wanted to have an official contract and give anyone who wanted to put in for it to opportunity to do so.” The County is seeking a vet to provide […]
Witness in Dog Dragging Receives $1,500 Reward
August 25, 2016 By
WINNSBORO (Aug. 25, 2016) – The July sentencing of Billy Ray Huskey, the man who dragged a dog almost to death behind a pickup truck last December, was not the end of the horrific story that gripped Fairfield County for the better part of the first half of this year. The story finished bittersweet for the […]
Voice Ad Designer ‘Best in Show’
August 25, 2016 By
BLYTHEWOOD/FAIRFIELD (Aug. 25, 2016) – Ashley Ghere, the graphic designer for The Voice who makes our advertisers look their very best, was honored for her work this month with 14 PALMY Awards from the S.C. Press Association. Ghere took home four first-place awards in the weekly under 8,500 circulation division, including the Best in Show Award […]
Brothers Dedicate 40 Years to Coaching Youth
August 25, 2016 By
WINNSBORO (Aug. 25, 2016) – Coaching is the kind of thing that gets into your blood. Not unlike the ministry, one is ‘called’ to do it. Forty years ago, brothers Chuck and Steve Raley answered that call, and the two have been coaching football, baseball and basketball at Drawdy Park ever since. Next month, Fairfield County’s […]
‘Peddlers’ May Soon Need License
August 25, 2016 By
Manor Tweaks Fees, Chamber OK’d for Grant BLYTHEWOOD (Aug. 25, 2016) – Town Council Monday night kicked around the possibility of enacting a special license for peddlers doing business inside the Town limits. Jim Meggs, the Town’s attorney, said the license would actually cover what he called “itinerate merchants” rather than peddlers. Peddlers, he said, refers […]
