BLYTHEWOOD – Following the traditions of their church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Sants (Mormons), nearly 100 students from Blythewood and surrounding areas participated last week in a trek, simulating a trip on foot that members of the church made across the country in 1848 to reach the Utah Valley. The students pushed/pulled hand […]
AG+Art on tour this weekend
June 22, 2017 By
WINNSBORO- Last year it was ‘dinner in the street,’ on Tuesday evening it was dinner at Ruff Hall to kick off Fairfield County’s Ag + Art Tour which is part of the nation’s largest free self-guided farm tour that will be held this weekend, June 24-25. Ingredients for the farm-to-table dinner were provided by the […]
Fireworks and music set for park, July 3
June 22, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Town of Blythewood has a big bash planned in the park for this year’s Independence Day celebration. “It’s going to be on Monday, July 3 this year,” Mayor J. Michael Ross told The Voice. “And it’s going to be big. It will be the first event since the construction of our new […]
Blythewood beauties looking for new titles this week
June 22, 2017 By
BLYTHEWOOD- Elizabeth (Liza) Hunter, Miss Blythewood Teen, and Briana Davidson, Miss Blythewood, will be setting their crowns for the Miss South Carolina Teen and Miss South Carolina titles this week at Township Auditorium in Columbia, June 20 – June 24. Both beauties have spent the year appearing at events in Blythewood in preparation for the […]
FCHS Elite Ladies presented
June 15, 2017 By
The Fairfield Central High School Elite Ladies held their second annual Cotillion Ball on Saturday, May 20 at the school. Shequettia Ruff was crowned Miss Senior Cotillion Ball and received a $750 scholarship for selling the most ads and sponsorships. Other members of the Court were Martha Gibson, Miss Cotillion 2017; Sierra-Bryanna Worthy, 1st runner […]
Books on wheels
June 15, 2017 By
The Fairfield County Library has revived the Bookmobile after 10 years. For those who like books brought to their doorstep, contact the Bookmobile librarian John McCutchen at 635-4971. Library Director Eric Robinson and friends pick out a few good books for summer reading. From left: Caroline Talbert, Charlie Bonds, Deyonta Sampson (in the fire fighter […]
Bravo!
June 8, 2017 By
Martha Jones, president of Bravo Blythewood, and Jean Bell Baum, present a $1,000 scholarship in the name of the late Blythewood artist William Carl Bell to Blythewood High School senior Brooke Boone, who plans to study art at Anderson College.
Looking Sharpe
May 25, 2017 By
Blythewood’s gospel-singing Sharpes (Vance & Jeannie) will perform a free concert in Drawdy Park Sunday evening, from 6 – 8 p.m. The Church of the Nazarene’s Children’s Department will sell barbeque sandwiches and other goodies to raise funds for their missions. The church is located at 650 North Street in Winnsboro.
Happy Birthday
May 25, 2017 By
Army veteran Sidney Squirewell of Ridgeway had some help turning 99 last week when friends Tom Connor, left, Don Prioleau, Squirewell, Henry Dixon and Squirewell’s son, Herbert Squirewell, treated him to lunch and a birthday cake at Laura’s Tea Room in Ridgeway.
Pollinating the Park
May 25, 2017 By
A crowd of more than 1,600 converged on Doko Meadows for the Butterfly Festival on Saturday. Two young visitors receive pollen from one of the festival’s main attractions, Meadow the Monarch. For more photos of the event, see page 12.
