Judge Issues Permanent Injunction Against Griffin in BW Council Lawsuit BLYTHEWOOD – A woman who was hired by Blythewood Mayor Sloan Griffin last Nov. 7 as the Town’s Deputy Administrator, has been indicted for allegations of public corruption. After being hired by Griffin, Tiffany Cooks resigned before ever reporting for work after The Voice published […]
Winnsboro vet clinic to cut the ribbon March 28
March 20, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – Affordable vet services for pets in Fairfield County will be available soon – as soon, in fact, as the ribbon is cut on the town’s newly refurbished vet clinic on Friday, March 28. It’s long been the dream of former Director of the Fairfield Animal Shelter, Bob Innes – now associated with PETSInc. […]
FJWSS to break ground on connector line
March 20, 2025 By
FAIRFIELD COUNTY – A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Wednesday, March 26, at 2 p.m. for the start of construction of the Winnsboro Connector Line Project. This line is being paid for with a $10M SCIIP grant from the SC Rural Infrastructure Authority. When completed, the line will supplement some of the wastewater capacity needs […]
Blythewood claims program’s first state title
March 13, 2025 By
FLORENCE – Around this time three years ago, the Blythewood girls basketball team finished the season 0-19. On Friday night at the Florence Center, the Bengals won the 5A Division I state championship with a 62-56 victory over lower-state champion Summerville. “Their hard work has definitely paid off,” second-year head coach Emily McElveen-Schaeffer said. “That […]
Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office seeks information, suspect in armed robbery of Monticello EZ Mart
March 13, 2025 By
FAIRFIELD COUNTY – At approximately 8:50 p.m. on Sunday, March 9, Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a robbery at 3888 State Highway 215 South in Jenkinsville, a rural gas station known as Monticello EZ Mart, nicknamed “the tackle-box.” According to a news release from the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect wearing all […]
Three arrested in abandonment of puppies
March 13, 2025 By
FAIRFIELD COUNTY – Three people have been arrested for the death of two puppies who were left with another surviving puppy in a locked crate with no food and water. Jeremy Allen Cook, 35, and Anne Marie Whitaker, 32, both of Winnsboro, and Jessica Ann Broom, 19. of Ridgeway have been charged with Ill Treatment […]
Infant dies in crash on Hwy 321
March 13, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – A 10-month old baby girl was killed when the vehicle she was a passenger in overturned numerous times on US Hwy 321 at Devil’s Racetrack Road in Fairfield County, according to Fairfield County Coroner Chris Hill. The crash occurred at about 10 a.m., on March 6. The infant, identified by Hill as Honesty […]
Fairfield man dies in structure fire
March 6, 2025 By
FAIRFIELD COUNTY – According to Fairfield County Coroner Chris Hill, the county’s fire services was dispatched to Cool Branch Rd. in the Carlisle area around noon Wednesday, Feb. 26 for a structure fire in which they were told one individual was unaccounted for. Once on the scene, firefighters extinguished the fire and found the missing […]
Judge grants injunction against BW mayor
March 3, 2025 By
COLUMBIA – A ruling has been handed down in the Town of Blythewood lawsuit in which four members of the Blythewood Town Council – Mayor Pro Tem Donald Brock, Rich McKenrick, Andrea Fripp, and Erica Page – filed for a temporary and permanent injunction to stop Blythewood Mayor Sloan Griffin from enforcing his Executive Order […]
Gilbert appoints select councilmen to standing committees
February 20, 2025 By
WINNSBORO – Following adjournment of the Feb. 10 Fairfield County Council meeting, Clerk to Council Kimberly Roberts handed out to all council members a list of the 2025-26 appointees to council’s five standing committees. County Council Chairman Clarence Gilbert made the appointments – a chair and two members for each committee – as required by […]
