WINNSBORO – Fairfield County Community Paramedic/EMS is joining forces with the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office, Winnsboro Public Safety and Fairfield Behavioral Health Services to implement a community outreach program that will serve as a resource in assisting overdose survivors. The COPE (Community Outreach by Paramedicine Education) program will provide intervention services to treat substance use […]
Trapp Family Reaches Out
August 12, 2021 By
The Andrew Trapp Outreach hosted an end of summer fundraiser and back-to school giveaway on Saturday, Aug. 7 at 12 p.m., complete with food, drinks and fun. All proceeds go to the Andrew Trapp Scholarship fund.
Back-2-School
August 12, 2021 By
RIDGEWAY – Ridgeway residents got ready for a return to school with the Ridgeway Back-2-School party at Belton Park. Food, fun, and school supplies were available to all attendees.
Fairfield County GOP
August 12, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – The Fairfield County GOP hosted Kizzie Smalls as speaker for the groups Aug. 3 monthly meeting at Cornwallis House Tea Co. Smalls, the 2nd Vice-Chair of the State GOP, spoke to the group about minority outreach. The group meets at 6:30 p.m., the first Monday of each month at Cornwallis. The next meeting […]
Jeep Rogers YMCA named one of Lowe’s 100 Hometowns Grant recipient
August 12, 2021 By
COLUMBIA – Lowe’s received more than 2,200 submissions to the 100 Hometowns program, which invited people across the country to nominate their hometown projects in need. The Jeep Rogers Family YMCA, located at 900 Lake Carolina Drive, is one of the 100 impact projects that are the cornerstone of 100 Hometowns, an initiative to celebrate Lowe’s Home Improvement’s centennial. “That […]
Tech Bytes: How to Launch the Power User Menu
August 12, 2021 By
If you’re a fan of keyboard shortcuts, then press and hold the Windows key and press X (hence the nickname “WinX” menu). The Power User menu will open. Here’s a list of what’s on the Power User menu by default, along with a shortcut key that you can use to launch that program from the […]
A chance meeting of doctor & patient 11 years later
August 5, 2021 By
WINNSBORO – When Fairfield County’s Interim County Administrator Brad Caulder received a phone call Tuesday morning to be at a ceremony at the Fairfield Providence Emergency Room where MUSC hospital officials were to celebrate MUSC’s purchase of the ER, he got in his car and drove over. Little did he expect for the event to […]
Shives honored with ‘Bill Shives Way’ signage
July 29, 2021 By
COLUMBIA – The Bill Shives family was honored on June 16 by Mayor Steve Benjamin, representing the City of Columbia, for their many years of service to countless families in the Midlands. The occasion was the unveiling of new street signage designating the corner of Colonial Drive and Standish Street as ‘Bill Shives Way.’ The […]
Moore finds peaceful retirement at historic Blythewood home
July 29, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After long, stressful shifts at the hospital, Dr. Bill Moore says he would head toward home and feel his blood pressure and stress level drop the moment he turned onto Muller Road for the last mile of his drive. His house, just a mile from the main road through Blythewood, a historic farmhouse […]
Farmer’s Market Donation
July 29, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Doko Meadows Park Foundation president Paul Moscati, second from left, presented a check for $20,000 to Mayor Bryan Franklin that will go toward a $375,000 loan from the town for projects in the park. Moscati said that future projects of the Foundation will be the farmers’ market, the spray ground, clock tower, an […]
