Auditor issues county clean opinion and material weakness

Audit Presented Late for Third Consecutive Year WINNSBORO – Fairfield County failed to follow “certain accounting, reporting, and reconciling procedures,” resulting in incomplete and inaccurate financial reporting, according to the 2023 audit. Mauldin & Jenkins, the Columbia financial firm that conducted the audit, issued a “material weakness” in the audit. The material weakness stems from […]

County hires auditor to appeal $1.4M IRS debt

WINNSBORO – Following an update given by the county’s Interim Administrator Clay Killian concerning the county’s $1.4 million in IRS fines and penalties, council members voted unanimously to appropriate $40,000 to enlist the county’s auditing firm, Mauldin & Jenkins, to assist the county in erasing some of those tax penalties and interest owed to the […]

Sheriff’s Office adds K-9 unit

AIRFIELD COUNTY – The arrival of a longtime expert at working with law enforcement’s dogs has led to the launch of a new K-9 program at the Fairfield County Sheriff’s office, with two dog handlers and their K-9 partners now operational and assisting with a variety of tasks. “It’s kind of unusual because we started […]

Letter: Fear Not- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

At Monday night’s county council meeting, the auditor pronounced the county’s audit as a “clean audit,” and we were told, for the third time in three years, that the next audit will be done on time. Meanwhile the patient (the county’s finances) has all the earmarks of being very fiscally sick. Truly, that clean audit […]

WDPS Chief Kevin Lawrence resigns

WINNSBORO – Winnsboro Town Administrator Jason Taylor announced Thursday afternoon, March 7, that Winnsboro Department of Public Safety Chief Kevin Lawrence had resigned his post effective March 6. Taylor gave no details as to why Lawrence resigned. Lawrence was hired as Interim chief in September of 2022, after the Town’s former Chief John Seibles retired. […]

Candidate Filing Notice: Fairfield County

Mill Village facing waterline repairs, boil notice advisory

WINNSBORO – The Town of Winnsboro experienced a break in a Mill Village water line on Poplar Street several weeks ago. Repairs of the waterline are set for next week. The area affected by the repairs will extend to all customers on both sides of Columbia Road from 2nd Street all the way to 11th […]

Man found dead Friday night on S. Zion in Winnsboro

WINNSBORO – Fairfield County Coroner Chris Hill has released the name of the individual killed in a hit and run in Winnsboro at about 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 1. Coroner Hill said Brian Kennedy, Sr., age 56, of Winnsboro, was found in an alley off of South Zion St. after being struck by an […]

Winnsboro bringing gas line to Ridgeway

RIDGEWAY – A quarter-million-dollar gas line project being undertaken by the Town of Winnsboro will bring natural gas to Ridgeway – and Winnsboro town hall wants to hear from residents and business owners who are interested in connecting to the new gas line. “This is a request that the town council of Ridgeway has made, […]

Celebrating Black History: Looking Back – Reaching Forward

BLYTHEWOOD – The annual Black History Month Celebration organized each year by the Blythewood Historical Society, lived up to its theme last Saturday – ‘Looking Back – Reaching Forward’ – with two locally and nationally recognized speakers who did just that. Jim Felder, a political and civil rights activist from Sumter, S.C. served as pallbearer […]

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