BLYTHEWOOD – A request for an expansion of The Pointe at Blythewood, a low income apartment complex that opened last year on Main Street, across from Blythewood Consignment, will be heard by Town Council Monday evening during its regular monthly meeting. Council will also hear from a developer who is proposing a second senior living […]
Lawsuit filed against Councilman and County
February 22, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Former Fairfield County Recreation Director, Lori Schaeffer, has filed a lawsuit against County Councilman Douglas Pauley and Fairfield County. The complaint, filed with the Fairfield County Clerk of Court on Feb. 12, 2018, alleges that Pauley illegally interfered with Schaeffer’s employment and was involved in her termination last fall such that he either […]
Tanner: County at risk as more EMS employees exit
February 22, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Fairfield County was facing a critical personnel shortage in its emergency services department a year and a half ago, with paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMT’s) chasing better pay in neighboring counties. But a salary increase passed by Fairfield County Council in November, 2016 stopped the bleeding – that is, until Richland County […]
Rimer Pond continues to fight Commercial
February 22, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Residents in the Rimer Pond Road area will be headed to Richland County Council Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. to once again fight commercial zoning on Rimer Pond Road. Neighborhood Commercial (NC) zoning is requested by Columbia resident Hugh Palmer for 5.23 acres his family owns at the intersection of Rimer Pond […]
Update on SCE&G lawsuit
February 15, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Last week attorneys for South Carolina Electric and Gas Company (SCE&G) argued in the Sixth Circuit Judicial Court for a change of venue for the lawsuit filed against them by Fairfield County. Attorneys for Fairfield County argued that the trial should remain in the county where the incident (the abandonment of reactors two […]
Resident returns to rezoned land
February 15, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Recognizing extenuating circumstances, Council voted 7 – 0 on the second of three readings to amend the Fairfield County Land Management Ordinance No. 599 in order to rezone a .036-acre property on Bishop Squirewell Road in Ridgeway from R-1 (Single Family Residential District) to RD-1 (Rural Residential District.) The property was recently purchased […]
Rimer Pond faces an uphill battle
February 15, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Almost 200 residents in the Rimer Pond Road, LongCreek Plantation and Eagles Glen neighborhoods showed up, many wearing red in solidarity, at the Windermere Club last week to express to their County Council representative the myriad reasons they do not want commercial zoning on Rimer Pond Road. Columbia resident Hugh Palmer has requested […]
Appointment to CMCOG causes stir
February 15, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – The County Council meeting got off to an uneasy start Monday evening when Shirley Green, the second of three speakers during the first public comment session, suggested that an appointment was “about to take place that will raise eyebrows…because of an unethical situation of a council person appointing his landlord to the Central […]
County goes after opioid costs
February 15, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – After receiving legal advice in executive session Monday evening regarding potential opioid litigation on behalf of Fairfield County, Council returned to public session and voted to join a lawsuit being brought by Savage, Royall & Sheheen L.L.P of Camden. “This firm is filing suits on behalf of a number of counties to recover […]
Davis sworn in
February 15, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Newly elected Fairfield School District school board member Darreyl Davis is sworn into office by Fairfield County Clerk of Court Judy Bonds during ceremonies at the Court House last week. Holding the Bible is Davis’ wife, Tamika.
