WINNSBORO – The proposed Teacher Village is still on summer break. Fairfield County Council has already passed two readings to award tax breaks to Gorelick Brothers, a North Carolina hedge fund, to build the proposed subdivision catering to Fairfield County teachers. But third reading remains on hold due to disagreements over inserting an indemnification clause, […]
Blythewood beagles tops at NC field trials
September 12, 2019 By
VALE, N.C. – The opening week of beagle field trial season was triple fun for Pat and Jan Robertson of Blythewood as they won three of the four male classes at a two-club event last week at Indian Beagle Club at Vale, N.C. Up The Creek Little John won both the Indian and Lure Beagle […]
Armed Robbery at Grand Central Truck Stop
September 11, 2019 By
FAIRFIELD COUNTY -Two individuals wearing masks and armed with a hammer and what the Fairfield County Sheriff’s office believes to be a machete robbed the Grand Central Truck Stop on SC 200 at the intersection of I-77. The robbery occurred on Aug. 31. One of the individuals returned on Sept. 9 with the large knife […]
R2 acknowledges WHS threat
September 10, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A Westwood High School student has been charged with multiple crimes after bringing weapons on campus Tuesday, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department reported. The 15-year-old student was overheard by another student threatening to “shoot up the school.” He later brought the weapons to the school, the sheriff department’s news release said. The student […]
Deaths of Winnsboro man, Columbia woman ruled murder/suicide
September 8, 2019 By
COLUMBIA – A Winnsboro man and a Columbia woman died of gunshot wounds between 6 and 7 a.m. today (Saturday). Anthony Kwahn Kennedy, 47 of Sandy Lane Extension, Winnsboro, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head an autopsy indicated. The incident occurred at 91 Summit Ridge Circle, Columbia, according to Richland County Cororner […]
County industrial property to go to RCPC
September 5, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Of the 1,300 acres that Richland County hopes to purchase and have rezoned for a Blythewood Industrial Park, almost 500 acres (two parcels) are in the county, not the Town of Blythewood, and the county will have jurisdiction over their re-zoning. The two parcels, located along Blythewood Road, west of Fairfield Electric Cooperative’s […]
Burger King opening in Winnsboro
September 5, 2019 By
WINNSBORO – A new Burger King is going up in Winnsboro and is expected to be open around Oct. 5. Located on the Bypass adjacent to KJ’s Food Mart, the 3,200 square-foot fast food restaurant will be the chain’s prototype store with a double drive-thru, according to Ben Wasser, Chief Operating Officer of Carolina Franchise […]
Eight candidates file for council, mayor seat
September 5, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Eight town residents have filed for elective office in the upcoming Nov. 5 municipal elections – three candidates for mayor and five candidates for two at-large town council seats. The filing period ended Tuesday at 5 p.m. Filing to run for the four-year term of mayor are: former Blythewood Mayor Keith Bailey and […]
The deed is done – Doko Depot is sold!
September 5, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Approximately seven years after council voted in August, 2012, to pursue an economic development project that was characterized as the site where a replica of the town’s original train depot would be built, it appears that the disposition of that replica, the Doko Depot spec building, which sits across from Town Hall, has […]
Bouknight charged for shooting into home
September 5, 2019 By
WINNSBORO – After eluding authorities for 10 days, a Winnsboro man has been arrested on charges stemming from a shooting incident that occurred on Saturday, Aug. 17 in the Popular Street area of Winnsboro. Charles Tyler Bouknight, 30, turned himself in to the Fairfield County Detention Center on Wednesday, Aug. 28, according to Sheriff Will […]
