BLYTHEWOOD – Chris Rao is a no-nonsense Italian New Yorker. How on earth did he end up in Blythewood? “It’s where I got off the bus,” he jokes – but he’s serious. He was going through a rough patch in a divorce he says, when he packed his bag and got on a bus going […]
Home Advantage Realty opens office in Blythewood
September 2, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The employees of one of Blythewood’s newest businesses, Home Advantage Realty, enjoyed double celebrations last week. The day after being named the Free Times’ ‘Best of Columbia’ in the category of Best Real Estate Agencies at ceremonies at the Columbia Museum of Art, they cut the ribbon for the grand opening of their […]
Frank’s car wash coming to Blythewood
August 19, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A Frank’s carwash has received conditional approval from the town’s Board of Architectural Review (BAR) for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the construction of a carwash facility in Blythewood. The carwash will be located at 109 Main Street, next door to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. The 2.62-acre site is currently vacant. The applicant, […]
Lack of job seekers threatens livelihood of many local businesses
August 19, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – “We made it through the pandemic shutdown. We made it through the months of carryout only. We built a patio to accommodate outdoor seating. We made it through limited seating. But this could end up closing our business,” said Carol Allen, owner of Laura’s Tea Room in Ridgeway. The “this” she is referring […]
Hospital property sale could happen
August 19, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – After going into executive session during its regular meeting on Aug. 9, to receive legal advice concerning the possible sale of the former Fairfield Memorial Hospital property and its existing leases, council members voted 7-0 to sell the property to the Eau Clair Health Care Cooperative for $1.3 million. Next week, council will […]
MUSC purchases Fairfield Providence ER, Providence NE
August 5, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – The Fairfield Providence Emergency Room awoke to a new name on Monday. It will now be called MUSC Health Fairfield Emergency and Imaging. The purchase of the Fairfield health care facility in June was part of a $75 million dollar deal in which the Medical University of South Carolina purchased four health care […]
Hometown haircuts for humans & hounds
August 5, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – When Missy Clementi was growing up in Blythewood, she says, there was just one stoplight. The town has grown so fast that she’s lost count of how many stoplights there are now. But she says her salon is still what it’s been for the last 13 years: a gathering place, a welcome mat, […]
Glover brings business home to RW
July 8, 2021 By
RIDGEWAY – Lavern Prioleau Glover has a theory about God-given gifts: When you follow your calling to put them to use, doors open in ways that will amaze you. When, after many years of treating her passion – interior design – as a side gig, she decided to make the leap and turn it into […]
Blythewood ‘makes right’ over wrong business license
July 1, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After town hall mistakenly issued a business license for a business located on property it was not zoned for, Town Administrator Carroll Williamson sought to stem the zoning/business license conundrum by allowing the business to continue operating for the duration of its five-month lease. “On June 4, 2021 the Town of Blythewood made […]
