BLYTHEWOOD – The Hospitality Tax (H-Tax) and Accommodation Tax (A-Tax) Committee will hold a Town Hall meeting for for-profit businesses, non-profits churches and other groups who would like more information about the upcoming H-Tax and A-Tax application process to receive funding from the Town. “We are particularly interested in hearing from groups and individuals who […]
Whitaker continues to hide employee survey results
October 27, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – As Fairfield County Administrator Malik Whitaker is taking heat over the quiet suppression of a highly anticipated – and possibly explosive – employee survey, council discussion behind closed doors of an audit of county policies, as they pertain to employees, appears to have run afoul of South Carolina open meeting laws. Whitaker announced […]
High density zoning proposed for Northpoint Industrial Park
October 27, 2022 By
RICHLAND – As part of its year-and-a-half long effort to rezone all unincorporated properties in Richland County, the county’s planning staff has a new proposal for high density residential zoning that will spill into Blythewood 29016 if the plan is approved. At the end of the Oct. 3, 2022 planning commission meeting, the county planning […]
SC Ethics hearing held for R2’s McKie
October 27, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – Amelia McKie blamed a “misinterpretation” of state ethics law as to why she failed to declare school board pay on her state ethics filings during a recent State Ethics Commission hearing. McKie, a member of the Richland Two Board of Trustees and former board chairman, also complained that Gus Philpott, a Richland County […]
Winnsboro awarded $500K SC funding
October 27, 2022 By
WINNSBORO— Representative Annie McDaniel and Mayor John McMeekin announced Wednesday morning that a South Carolina State Budget Appropriation of $500,000 was granted to the Town of Winnsboro for downtown redevelopment. “The capital will be used to jumpstart the long-term goals of bringing a vibrant downtown back to Winnsboro,” McMeekin said. “The work can only occur […]
Blythewood Town Council nixes term limit ordinance
October 27, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – With three votes for and two abstentions, council voted Monday night to repeal an ordinance passed in 2014 that established term limits of two consecutive four-year terms on town council members and the mayor. Voting to repeal the ordinance were Councilman Eddie Baugman who has one more year to serve on his second […]
104 townhouses proposed for downtown Blythewood
October 20, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Great Southern Homes’ representative Ned Purcell appeared before the Blythewood Board of Architectural Review Monday night to request approval for a Certificate of Appropriateness for 104 townhouses to be constructed at 158 Langford Road across from Town Hall. The 12.55-acre parcel is zoned for the project that will consist of 1,500 to 1,700 […]
Amelia McKie goes before Ethics Commission
October 20, 2022 By
COLUMBIA – A Richland County school board trustee with a history of unpaid ethics fines is scheduled to appear before the State Ethics Commission this week. An agenda for Thursday’s meeting lists Amelia McKie as the defendant in a 2021 complaint filed by Richland County resident Frank “Gus” Philpott, a frequent critic of the Richland […]
Bell says wastewater treatment plant will only cost $18.5M
October 20, 2022 By
WINNSBORO – During the Oct. 10, 2022, Fairfield County Council meeting, Chairman Moses Bell declared that someone was spreading exaggerated claims about the cost of the county’s proposed wastewater treatment plant. Bell pushed back on estimates that the plant, which he proposes to take to the Broad River, will cost as much as $75 million. […]
Whitaker refuses to release employee survey results
October 20, 2022 By
Gilbert: Is the Nov. Election Holding Up The Survey Release? WINNSBORO – “It has been a little over a month since we asked for an employee engagement survey. Some of the employees say they have not seen or heard of a survey,” Councilman Clarence Gilbert wrote in a July 12, 2022, email to Fairfield County […]
