WINNSBORO – Funeral services for Mrs. Anne Walker Haynes, 78, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 9, 2016 at Greenbrier United Methodist Church conducted by the Rev. Athon Arant. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service in the church. Mrs. Haynes died […]
Blythewood Builds –
April 7, 2016 By
Blythewood 29016 is the second hottest area for new home construction in the Midlands with contractors building in at least five subdivisions according to a recent report in The State. With 507 building permits, Blythewood is second only behind the Town of Lexington with 1,007 permits. Above, construction work has begun on The Pointe, a […]
BHS Golf Tourney Honors Fallen Bengal
April 7, 2016 By
BLYTHEWOOD (April 7, 2017) – As the Blythewood boys’ golf season heads into its final turn on the fairway, the Bengals make their way toward the 2016 clubhouse with their annual home tournament. This year’s tournament, however, will be a bittersweet affair, as the team has renamed their Bengal Invitational to honor one of their own […]
Zoning Hearing Scrubbed
April 7, 2016 By
County ‘Confused’ Over Notice BLYTHEWOOD (April 7, 2016) – Residents in the rural Abney Hills neighborhood of Blythewood called The Voice this week asking for help in obtaining meeting packets and other information from Richland County Planning and Zoning regarding a hearing set for Wednesday, April 6 at the Richland County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) […]
Invitational a Learning Experience for Bengals
April 6, 2016 By
BLYTHEWOOD (April 6, 2016) – The Bengals baseball team may have finished 1-2 in the sixth South Carolina Diamond Invitational last weekend, but head coach Barry Mizzell said his young team got a lot of good experience out of the tournament. “This helped us a lot,” Mizzell said. “We’ve got a young, inexperienced team and playing […]
BHS Boys Double Down on Redhawks
April 6, 2016 By
BHS-4, WHS-2 March 5, at BHS Singles Brendan Gillan (B) d. Julian Narboni (W) 6-0, 6-0; Colin Miles (B) d. Kaleb Phelps (W) 7-5, 3-6, 1-0; Steven Massey (W) d. Reed Broderick (B) 64-6, 7-5, 1-0; Ryan Hiller (W) d. Mason Marshall (B) 4-6, 6-3, 1-0; Ben Cutlip (B) d. Jalen Ryan (W) 6-2, 6-0. […]
Bengals Blast Redhawks
April 6, 2016 By
BLYTHEWOOD (April 6, 2016) – Westwood’s afternoon at the Blythewood baseball stadium wasn’t as strong as head coach Jonathan Burroughs wanted Tuesday. Starting pitcher Matthew Oxendine never found his strike zone, and the three other Redhawk relievers couldn’t stop the bleeding in a 5-inning mercy rule, 12-0 loss to the Bengals. “We just didn’t pitch well […]
Swinging Away –
April 6, 2016 By
WINNSBORO (April 6, 2016) — Fairfield Central’s Moesha Boyd watches as her fly ball drops into center field during Tuesday’s region showdown with Columbia High School. The Lady Griffins hammered the Lady Capitals, 15-2. Fairfield Central hosts Great Falls Friday at 5:30 p.m. in a non-region game, then host the Lady Bulldogs of Newberry Tuesday […]
McManus Hurls No-No in Five
April 6, 2016 By
WINNSBORO (April 6, 2016) – Stanley McManus was breathing rarefied air Tuesday night. In a run-shortened five-inning affair, the Fairfield Central junior hurled a no-hitter against the Columbia Capitals, striking out 14 of 15 batters in the 16-1 Griffin win. “I think 10 (strikeouts) is pretty good,” Griffins head coach Scotty Dean said on McManus. “I […]
Close Call in Ridgeway
April 6, 2016 By
Election Comes Down to the Wire RIDGEWAY (April 6, 2016) – The race to fill out the remaining two years on former Town Councilman Russ Brown’s seat turned into a genuine nail-biter Tuesday night, with only three votes separating the victor from the vanquished. The three-way race for the two four-year seats, meanwhile, were split between […]
