WINNSBORO – Tiffany Harrison, Fairfield County’s Director of Economic Development since 2006, announced her resignation last week, effective July 2. Harrison has accepted the Executive Director position with the Midlands Education Business Alliance in Columbia, an organization that fosters work-ready educational needs. “It’s a great opportunity to support economic development from the workforce side,” Harrison […]
Training, Performance Root of Nuke Plant Damage
June 19, 2015 By
JENKINSVILLE – A 30-page report, issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) last week, classifies two findings associated with the accidental damage in February of the nuclear containment vessel under construction at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station as “non-cited violations,” calling both findings “of very low safety significance.” The report did, however, note a breakdown […]
B.A.R. Gives First OK to Office Building
June 18, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Town’s Architectural Consultant, Matt Davis, stepped out of that role on Monday evening during the Board of Architectural Review meeting to represent the applicants for a medical office to be located at 121 Blythewood Road, across from Companion Animal Hospital. Designed to be shared by two private medical practices, a pediatrician and […]
Public Resists Rezoning Efforts
June 18, 2015 By
Rimer Pond Road Residents Put Developer on the Spot BLYTHEWOOD – No minds were changed after a June 8 neighborhood meeting at Round Top Elementary School between 50 or so residents opposing a request for the commercial zoning of 5.23 acres on Rimer Pond Road (across from Blythewood Middle School) and two Richland County government […]
An Industrious Group –
April 2, 2015 By
S.C. Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt addressed Blythewood’s first Industry Appreciation Breakfast on Tuesday at The Manor. About 40 invited guests from area industries heard Hitt warn that when industry comes knocking, towns and counties must be ready if they are to attract the jobs. He also said companies locate in communities and look first […]
Blythewood Begins Zoning for Industry
April 2, 2015 By
Ordinance Passes First Reading BLYTHEWOOD – Town Council took the first step Monday evening in a newly energized effort to bring industry to Blythewood. It passed first reading on a Limited Industrial Two (LI-2) zoning district that will allow a wider variety and greater intensity of manufacturing uses than the Town’s current Limited Industrial District […]
Royal Greenery –
April 2, 2015 By
Royal Greens, Ridgeway’s new wholesale/retail hydroponic plant business, opened its doors at 200 E. Church St. last week to a huge crowd including Alex English, left, and his wife Vanessa of Blythewood and Fairfield County Councilman Marion Robinson, right. With them are manager of operations Chip Harriford, next to Robinson, and his son Scott. The […]
Great Greens: Father, Son Turn Factory into Food Op
January 29, 2015 By
RIDGEWAY – A hydroponic growing business, Royal Greens, is setting up shop in downtown Ridgeway where it will soon headquarter a national wholesale company supplying greens and other organically grown vegetables to the likes of US Foods, Sysco and Whole Foods. Director of Operations Chip Harriford, 52, said the hydroponic and, later, aquaponic components of […]
Big Grab Brings Big Bucks
September 11, 2014 By
On Shoestring Budget, Event Gives Local Merchants Shot in the Arm BLYTHEWOOD/FAIRFIELD – Friday and Saturday were good days for the shops, restaurants, service stations, hotels and other merchants in Blythewood, Winnsboro and Ridgeway. Long lines of cars and trucks began snaking into the towns early Friday for the annual Big Grab Yard Sale. The […]
Toys Are Us –
August 20, 2014 By
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley (third from right) and Bobby Hitt (second from left), S.C. Secretary of Commerce, stand with Interim Fairfield County Administrator Milton Pope (far left) and County Council members Kamau Marcharia, Dwayne Perry, David Brown, Carolyn Robinson, Chairman David Ferguson and Mary Lynn Kinley before a sampling of products to be manufactured in […]
