BLYTHEWOOD – Columbia lawyer Tom Hall, a former owner of a popular barbecue restaurant in Blythewood and other venues in Ridgeway, died Saturday night about 11:30 p.m. when the pickup truck he was driving crashed when it went off McCord’s Ferry Road and burned near Bluff Road, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Hall, […]

BLYTHEWOOD – A faded Coca-Cola sign featuring the words ‘Hagood’s Gulf’ sat high above Blythewood’s only full service gas station for 14 years after the station switched from Gulf to BP. Like the sign, little changed during the 32 years John Hagood ran the station before selling it and retiring in 2004. Hagood died in […]

WINNSBORO – Since 1990, schools, churches, civic organizations, and community groups across the nation, including in Fairfield County, have used the energy and momentum surrounding the Super Bowl to help feed the hungry.  As team members of the Souper Bowl of Caring, county residents have raised funds and held food drives to benefit our local […]

LAKE CITY – A Winnsboro artist and four other artists were invited last December by the Lake City Alliance to produce Plein air paintings during the ‘Shop Lake City’ Christmas holiday celebration – an annual event for Lake City, SC. The artists were told they could paint anywhere in the city they chose so long […]

FAIRFIELD COUNTY – For Terri Daughtry, inspiration for writing has always been a fleeting thing. But when inspiration would strike, she rushed to get the idea down on paper – or napkins, or the back of a receipt, or whatever she could find – before it was gone. As she wrote each precious note, she […]

WINNSBORO – The Fairfield County branch of the NAACP held its second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at Blackjack Baptist Church in Winnsboro on Monday. Fairfield County’s branch president Jennifer M.H. Jenkins opened with remarks, followed with an invocation by Rev. Dr. Robert Scotland, pastor of Shiloh First Presbyterian Church. Guest speakers were […]

RIDGEWAY – When a windstorm that swept through Blythewood and Fairfield County on Jan. 9 took out a large tree on Means Street in Ridgeway, it fell just short of the historic Ridgeway school’s brick archway that stands in the town’s park. Though the tips of the tree’s limbs were all over the archway, the […]

RIDGEWAY – The First Baptist Church of Ridgeway has announced that Stephen Forrester has been named the church’s new pastor. Forrester, his wife Lauren and their five children (ages 3 mo. – 9 years) were previously with the Sanctuary Baptist Church in Greenville where he had served two and a half years as associate pastor. […]