RIDGEWAY – A pedestrian succumbed to injuries sustained in a crash on Highway 34 near Jewel Drive on Tuesday, April 1, at 2:24 p.m. according to Highway Patrol Corporal Nick Pye. A 2008 Dodge Sedan was traveling west on Highway 34 when it struck a pedestrian who was crossing Highway 34 north bound, Pye said. […]
Winnsboro mayoral election set for April 1
March 27, 2025 By
McMeekin challenged by Chatman John McMeekin It has been my honor to serve the citizens of the Town of Winnsboro and our community over my lifetime. I am married to Lanna McMeekin and we have a married daughter, a grandson, and another grandson on the way. Since I graduated from college, my life has been […]
Guest Editorial: No New Business, All New Drama
March 27, 2025 By
If you blinked during the March 24 Fairfield County Council meeting, you didn’t miss any new business or old business, or other business, for that matter. The agenda was followed, technically. But the real story wasn’t what was on it, it was what wasn’t. Item after item rolled by with “None” stamped across it like […]
Commercial rezoning hearing set for March 25
March 20, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Rezoning requests for three large-acre Blythewood 29016 properties will come before the Richland County Council for a public hearing on Tuesday, March 25. The first of three required votes on the rezoning will be taken at that meeting. Of the three required meetings, this March 25 meeting is the only one where the […]
Cooks indicted for public corruption
March 20, 2025 By
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 […]
