WINNSBORO – Trail Life USA and American Heritage Girls, a pair of Christian-based youth programs with aspects similar to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, are kicking off in Winnsboro with an information meeting Tuesday. “Trail Life’s going to offer a lot of great outdoor activities – everything from camping, hiking, community service projects, to sporting […]
Lions host spaghetti dinner
September 22, 2022 By
The Winnsboro Lions Club’s fall spaghetti supper fundraiser at the Winnsboro Woman’s Club on Sept. 15 saw about 125 supporters enjoying homemade spaghetti meals. Club president Bobbie Dove noted that proceeds would enable the club to underwrite eye exams and eyeglasses for eight local citizens who meet the criteria for assistance. She also expressed appreciation […]
Tuff Ryders support community team
September 22, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Tuff Ryders Truck Club held a fish fry fundraiser on Saturday from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. to support Beast Mode Team beside Element Electronics in Winnsboro. Beast Mode is an AAU basketball team.
Birds of a Feather
September 22, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Heirloom Fine Art Gallery hosted a birds themed exhibition last week. Gallery Director at McMaster Gallery at the University of South Carolina Olga Yukhno, pictured left, with gallery owner Barbara Yongue.
An uncommon sisterhood of friends
September 15, 2022 By
FAIRFIELD COUNTY – They’ve been best friends since first grade. They graduated high school together, then went to nursing school together and all became nurses. The five Fairfield women, Barbara (Johnson) Wylie, Mary (McGraw) Frink, Ivy (Williams) Randolph, Lillie (Pearson) Adams, Australia (Ashford) Sloss Hollins, now all age 70, sat down with The Voice last […]
Come for the 5k, stay for the party
September 15, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The 2022 Superhero 5K Family Fun Day will be held Saturday, Sept. 17 at Doko Meadows Park. The 5K Run/Walk starts at 8 a.m., followed by a 100 meter Kids Dash at 10 a.m. A Superhero costume contest for adults, children and dogs will be held at 11 a.m. Then there’s free lunch […]
The Big Grab is on!
September 8, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD/FAIRFIELD/RIDGEWAY– Shops, restaurants, service stations, hotels and other merchants in Blythewood, Winnsboro and Ridgeway are stocked and ready for the invasion that will happen this weekend, Sept. 9 and 10, when the annual 50- mile Big Grab yard sale descends on the three towns and everything in between. Already businesses and residents along the sale […]
In Memory
September 8, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – Fairfield County Council held a ribbon cutting at the County’s new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Plaza on Aug. 31 located on the grounds of the new Fairfield County Government Complex. The plaza features a fountain and bronze sculpture by artist Stann Watts of Atlas Bronze Casting. Speakers for the event were Fairfield […]
Fairfield educator’s legacy will ‘Keep Going’ with scholarship CofC endowment
September 1, 2022 By
CHARLESTON – A love of teaching brought Lt. Colonel Hubert “Herb” Rentz Jr. and College of Charleston alumna Elizabeth “Beth” Reid together, and that shared love is their legacy. “Beth played such an important role in education,” Rentz says of his wife who passed away in 2017 the age of 58. “She is still missed by […]
Whitewater, recreation coming… just up the road
September 1, 2022 By
Excerpted with permission from articles by Tobie Nell Perkins (Lancaster News) and Brian Garner (Chester News & Reporter) GREAT FALLS – For more than a century, the Town of Great Falls has been without its namesake landmark – the Great Falls of the Catawba. The 50-foot waterfall ran dry after its source of water, two […]
